SUMMARY

• Having 12+ years of IT experience as a Test Manager at Onsite & Offshore - ETL Testing (data stage), Database Testing (Oracle 9i and Teradata) and Web Applications Testing developed using .Net, Java, SharePoint 2007 Oracle 9i.
• Good experience in Testing Co-ordination at Client Location, preparation of Estimates, Work orders, Testing Strategy, Test Plan, Test Completion Reports for ETL Testing, Defect Tracking & Metrics monitoring and accomplishing SIT/UAT Testing with excellent quality using HP Quality center 11 and HP Quality center 9.2.
• Enhancing test quality and effectiveness by working with development and business team to prevent problems and ensure that products can be tested effectively.
• Regulating and coordinating testing processes and standards across multiple and simultaneous projects for different departments of banking.
• Managing the test preparation phases to produce test effort, resource calculation, test data, test cases, test execution plans, and defect report life cycle flows.
• Manages global technical resources, including planning, estimating, and developing test cases compliance with the established engineering process.
• Takes full responsibility for all phases of testing and the management of testing activities for a complex project.
• Select project testing standards for all phases, influencing all parties, i.e. test leads, to confirm those standards and manage the client relationship with respect to all testing matters.
• Defining project scope, objectives, staffing, resources and deliverables. Developing project plans that identifies key issues, approaches and performance metrics.
• Planning and scheduling project timelines, milestones and formulating risk management plans towards mitigation.
• Experience in preparing test reports from Quality Center and prepared daily test status reports to communicate the test status with the team.
• Excellent communication skills and good team player with excellent technical and interpersonal skill, as well as handle the given problem individually.
• Worked for clients like Confidential - TCoE, RBS-Banking, Confidential, Best Buy, Unified Grocery-Retail, Renault Nissan - Manlog and Molina - Healthcare.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: HP ALM 11.0/HP QC 9.0, ETL (Data stage), Perfaware Automation Tool (Infosys)

Testing Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative and Agile

Content Management and Portal: SharePoint 2007

Languages: Vb.Net, JavaScript, C#

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Manager/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile & Iterative environment, with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes at any point of time during the release.
• Undertake project test estimating, planning & tracking, monitoring and reporting for the delivery of a test plan against the overall project plan.
• Responsible for designing, developing and implementing cost-effective methods of testing and troubleshooting systems.
• Co-coordinating with client business owners and collecting the requirements. Identifying, managing and recording risks and issues across the full testing life cycle.
• Defining and maintaining the testing strategy and various test plans. Estimate the cost of testing and resource planning.
• Defining and owning testing component project plans, fully understand all project and testing assumptions, dependencies and associated risks.
• Guiding the Client and other testing team about the testing principles and processes. Facilitating the Defect Triage meeting and perform follow ups on all the defects.
• Possess good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Mentoring the Team and Efforts Tracking. Involved in interaction with developers and business analyst.
• Skilled in Sanity, GUI, Integration, Regression and System Testing. Have a good knowledge of tool such as Quality Center.
• Experience in analyzing Business specification documents, implementing test strategy, developing test plans, defining test cases writing test scripts.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Sanity, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in defect tracking and bug reporting using Quality Center. Strong Database knowledge for backend testing using Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access.
• Preparation of test plan and monitoring SIT and Performing UAT.
• Production Test case preparation. UAT Planning and Defect Tracking. Executing SQL queries at Teradata Data Environment.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Possess good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Expert knowledge in creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Strategies. Defect Management to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements.
• Experience in preparing test reports from Quality Center and prepared daily test status reports to communicate the test status with the team.
• Analyze and understand testing requirements from business requirement document, technical requirement specs.
• Design and document Data warehouse (EDW) testing strategy covering the test cases for validating the data completeness and correctness, system performances of the ETL processes etc.
• Prepare test plan and work breakdown estimate. Prepare the test cases for Summary/Detail testing, functional testing, regression testing, performance testing and End to End testing.
• Schedule and monitor the test cases execution. Scheduling triage meetings to keep track and level of severity defects and communicating it Project Managers with Execution Score Card with defect Status.
• Log and publish the test results and raise the defects to the mantis defect/change management system.
• Validated the data in Confidential and analyzed Business concepts in depth and reporting the validation errors to ETL team.
• Ensures the quality of data in Confidential from Source with multiple business scenarios.
• Conducted Defect walk through with the development team for clear understanding for defects and to make it to closure.
• Responsible for providing the technical direction and guidance for the team members in handling test scripts and software environments.
• Creation of new queries based on requirements from users to ensure the data stored in database are reliable and reportable.
• Provided Testing sign off documents for various deployments on the project on an as needed basis.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Execution of Shell Script to transfer data from Source to DWH /Data mart.
• Responsible for creating projects in Quality Center / ALM and maintaining project folders and structures.
• Responsible for tracking defects in QC / ALM from validating the defect, assigning the defects to the development team and closing the defect after successful retesting.
• Verified Test cases scripts based on the functional specifications and maintained traceability with the requirements.
• Perform Data stage testing at DB level. Responsible for maintaining repository for testing activities for future use.
• Interact with the users to walk them through the functionality of the reports that they request before UAT.
• Created Test Plan and Test Strategy documents for the project.
• Prepare SQL queries and Execute to verify transformation of data.
• Preparation and Execution of Test cases for System Integration testing.
• Preparation and Execution of Test cases for PAT.
• Involved in Preparation of WBS.
• Interacted with French team to collect requirements
• Preparation of test plan, monitoring SIT and performing SIT.
• Executing SQL queries at Oracle Data Environment.