SUMMARY

• Having nearly 10 years of hand on with Quality Assurance and over all 20 years of IT experience, passionate, energetic and dedicated to give more than 100% commitment to all tasks assigned to me. Positive attitude, Integrity, an ethically correct approach to work and well - developed communication skills is what I bring to the table. I enjoy working in a team environment and work well under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC: Agile with SCRUM/Sprints, Iterative, Waterfall

Test Planning: Scoping, estimates, strategy, plans, presentation, coordination.

Risk Management: Identify Risks and plan best case approach for risk mitigation.

Test Case Management: managing test cases with/without requirement meetings.

Defect Management: Tracking, reporting and defect triage/management meetings.

Test Execution: Webapps, SOAP/RESTful API’S databases, network, security, data center, hardware and infrastructure.

Release Management: plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams.

Mobile Applications: Native, web and hybrid applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Build, manage, mentor and inspire the high-performance QA team.
• Developed QA budgets, hired, facilitated training and supervised QA Engineers.
• Played key role in the establishment of Automation and Functional testing areas, created test strategies, Test Plans, Dashboards etc.
• Designed and developed robust and QA strategies.
• Provide daily, program status report to the executive management with appropriate around KPI’s/metrics.
• Execute test plans and create test reports to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
• Monitor program performance after implementation to prevent reoccurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
• Delegating test execution task to the testing team.
• Spearhead all quality assurance efforts, including the development and implementation of quality assurance program.
• Defined QA policies, quality improvements processes, best practices. Held Overall responsibility to plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams.
• Mentoring new Team members and knowledge management activities.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination.
• Risks and mitigation plans.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Driving Quality around various aspects of data migration from legacy Compass DB to Microsoft Dynamix AX
• Designing Test plan / Test Strategy for the overall project
• Collating inputs from business leads from Finance and Supply Chain Management verticals, to design the test scenarios for UAT, System Testing, configuration testing and integration testing phases
• Ensuring security roles are mapped as expected, to the respective resources within the organization
• Formulating test scenarios to ensure test coverage from regression testing and integration testing stand points.
• Delegation of tasks to SMEs to validate the migrated data for accuracy, in lower environments
• Understanding the in-scope reports to design test coverage for the same
• Ownership of UAT readiness tasks (Training, Test Case Suite prep)
• Ensuring accuracy of data extracted from Compass DB by doing adhoc validations of the migrated data.
• Reporting the progress on the work packages owned on a weekly basis.
• Bug tracking in JIRA.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• People management / Resource Planning.
• Creation of test plans, strategies, test coverage, test case/script documents
• Coordinating of test script creation, reviews, execution and sign off. Coordination of software releases & calling out any potential risks / dependencies between different projects / timelines
• Staff mentoring during testing phases.
• Reporting, daily/weekly/monthly to key stake holders such as Project/Test Manager’s, Business Sponsor’s etc.
• Management of software defects/issues.
• Coordinating Finance testing. Involved in performing test planning activities. Performed manual testing and reviewed the test effectiveness. Worked closely with Business analysts and developers to solve the issues.
• Performed Smoke, UI, Functional, Regression testing and Exploratory Testing. Study and Analysis of Test requirement specifications.
• Analyzing Test Scenarios and Developing Test Cases for manual and automated testing. Co-ordination of Test activities between different pricing vendors.
• Updating Test Results in Quality Center for automated testing.Re- Scripting the Manual Test Scripts, verifying web-based applications. Utilized Quality Center to maintain defect repository, test cases, test plan and requirements.
• Involved in Iteration Planning meetings and made estimations for the respective user stories.
• Involved in daily stand up, weekly QA meetings and Scrums.
• Coordinating UAT training / testing, reviewing UAT test cases/scripts prepared by the business testers and obtaining UAT sign-off from business users
• Coordinating and ensuring a seamless hand shake between on-site and off-shore QA teams
• Coordinating QA efforts during production deployments