PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience primarily in IT industry in both Financial and Pharmaceutical industries.
• 5 years as a Quality Assurance lead managing a team of testers during Design, Development and Deployment of Test Strategies, Test Planning, Testing Methodologies.
• Over 3 years experience in managerial role managing a team of resources in both US and UK.
• Experience working on projects through the various phase of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in both Agile (Scrum) and waterfall environments.
• Extensive experience in the financial industry wif specialization in credit cards.
• Experience in working wif business users analyzing and defining project scope.
• Proven skills in conflict resolution, negotiation strategies, team building & management and strong leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills combined wif interpersonal and conflict resolution skills and strong analytical skills wif excellent facilitation skills.
• Experience in coordination wif offshore teams and assigning tasks based on priority of work.
• Participated in requirement analysis, reviews, working sessions to better understand the requirements and system design.
• Expert in development of project status report and communicating status to senior managements.
• Experience planning, scheduling and conducting project status meetings.
• Experience identifying project task/activities, prioritizing the identified tasks, assigning responsibilities to team members and managing deliverables timeline.
• Expert in identifying project risks, prioritizing risks and developing risk mitigation strategies.
• Extensively involved in the validation efforts at various industries though out the System development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Knowledgeable and experienced wif 21 CFR Part 11 Electronic Records/Electronic Signatures compliance requirements.
• In - depth noledge in Defect Management Life Cycle.
• Created Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Change Control Processes.
• Developed System Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test cases/scripts, trace matrices and documentation.
• Experience in Functional, System Integration, Regression, End to End-User Acceptance testing.
• Continuous coordination wif the “Release Management” team while the product was deployed.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Windows Xp
• Windows-NT
• Windows2000
• Windows CE( COMPAQ Handheld-iPAQ)
• UNIX
• MS DOS
• MS Project
• PL/SQL
• Easytrieve Plus
• Focus
• MVS JCL
• VSE JCL
• Oracle 7.x/8.x/ 9.i
• SQL Server
• DB2
• Quality Center 8.2/9.2
• Test Director 7.6
• Rational Clear Quest
• Visual Basic
• and Developer/2000
• VB Script
• HTML
• Visual Inter Dev
• Net Dynamics 5
• IIS
• Weblogic Server
• Documentum 4.3
• Toad
• MS Query

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

QA Risk Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Expert in identifying project risks, prioritizing risks and developing risk mitigation strategies.
• Reviewed requirements to assure dat they can be used to write a comprehensive Test Strategy.
• Reviewed Design documents to assure the system(s) impact are properly assessed.
• Write Test Strategies and reviewed wif stakeholders - obtain signoff.
• Ensured the type of testing (i.e. Functional, Performance, Security, E2E, UAT, BVT, Regression, and PVT) meet documented testing standards.
• Reviewed Test Results and provided feedback in a timely fashion where discrepancies exist.
• Advised on the removal of features from release relative to testing completion and operational risk.
• Ensured adherence to Testing Processes and Standards.
• Analyzed if target regression needed to be executed beyond the standard baseline regression.
• Coordinate regression testing wif regression team.
• Identify test suits (test library) updates for corresponding vertical (portfolio segments).
• Performed analysis of relative success of current strategic suite.
• Created Pre-Pro Project Quality Score Care and Risk Report.
• Utilize Quality Center/ Rational Test Suite to keep track of issues and deferrer defects.
• Interacted wif senior management in key business areas impacted by strategy changes.

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of Test Plans, Cases, Scripts and identification of the validation documentation deliverables to meet the GMP standards.
• Utilize Microsoft Project to create timelines for deliverables.
• Conducted test script walkthroughs to ensure testing coverage is adequate and test scenarios specify the correct expected results.
• Performed Regression Testing of each module of the code after performing functional / System testing.
• Coordinate wif offshore Quality Assurance (QA) teams and assigning tasks based on priority of work.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Compliance Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervised all IT compliance related processes at ACR.
• Utilize Microsoft Project to create timelines for deliverables.
• Generated Pre and Post Approval Reports for final sign off.
• Involved in the Execution of Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ) documentation to validate functionality.
• Involved in the preparation of Test Plans, Cases, Scripts and identification of the validation documentation deliverables to meet the GMP standards.
• Prepared Traceability Matrics at each phase of test preparation to make sure all the functional and Design requirements are coved under test scenarios.
• Conducted test script walkthroughs to ensure testing coverage is adequate and test scenarios specify the correct expected results.
• Performed Regression Testing of each module of the code after performing functional / System testing.

Confidential, New Jersey

Quality Assurance Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the test results for all of ALK’s GPS graphical data in an Agile Scrum IT environment. Made sure the GPS receivers/devices were set to output and GPS software. Support communication, and real-time logging to “ Confidential Live mobile devices”, PDAs and other mobile devices.

Sr.QA / QC Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Insight: The “Insight” project was designed to aid the Confidential Sales Force Team to provide solutions when calling on doctors, scheduling call to call to doctors, schedule programs for doctors, maintaining customer data, performance data, formularies data, factoids data, generate license, DEA data., etc.
• The application also provided: estimates and graphs of competitor products and various types of reports dat could be generated.

Confidential, Blue Bell, PA

Quality Assurance Business Systems User Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring projects enhancements and other data changes met both user requirements and IS standards.
• Worked closely wif the development team to define data from inception through the user acceptance, quality assurance (QA) testing, integration implementation, and provided post-release support.

Confidential, New Jersey

Quality Assurance Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work wif MCPs’ business customers, vendors, managers, and technical staff at all levels during the development of requirements.
• Provided ongoing quality assurance support in an environment driven by legal requirements, business needs, analysis and trouble-shooting of both data and user issues.
• Responsible include analyzing all testing and testing reports for each application integrated wif MCP’s existing systems.