SUMMARY

• He is a Software QA/Testing Professional with 13+ Years of experience in I.T. with specialization in Software Testing, QA Project/Program Management, Agile, Pre Sales in Banking, Insurance, Retirement and Pharma Domain.
• He has extensive experience in working as a QA/ Test Lead, Pega/Siebel/Oracle On Demand Testing SME with Hands on Testing Experience, test Team Member in testing projects spanning across Pega PRPC, Siebel, SFDC, and Oracle On Demand, CTI/IVR, Ecommerce Applications, Web Services Testing, Automation and Mobile Testing.
• More than 5 Years of Experience working in Agile Software Development Model using Scrum Methodology having strong hands on understanding of Agile. Played the Role of Scrum Master for 8 Sprints(8 Months)
• Extensive Experience working with ALM 11.0, Rally
• Actively Involved in Test Strategy, Test Case,Test Data Preparation and Test Execution
• Have lead Projects related to Ecommerce Application testing(Prudential.com,mcafee.com)
• Established Regression/Functional Automation framework, Continuous Integration and Dev Ops at various projects with UFT, Selenium, Jenkins/Build Forge
• Strong Experience in Building Team from Scratch starting from hiring up to training and steady state
• Hold the Overall QA Ownership of Certain Areas taking care of final Sign off
• Strong Experience in Leading the Testing Team/UAT Team while mentoring team members as needed while being a Hands On Test Lead/Manager
• Proficient in QA Consulting while building industry standard QA processes within an Organization
• Experience in designing Test Plans, Test Strategy, guiding/preparing Test Scenario as well as Test Cases/Scripts
• Actively driving/participating business development initiatives for current organization while handling Proposals independently including presenting to the customers On Premise and remotely

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Mercury Quality Center/ALM 11, Clear quest, Bugzilla, JIRA, Version One, Rally

Tools: /Application: Pega PRPC 5.4 - 7.1,Siebel,SFDC,Oracle On Demand and EBS, Perfecto Mobile, CTI/IVR Testing, UFT, Perfecto, Soap UI, Jenkins, KOFAX, File Net

Automation Tools: Selenium, UFT

Database: MS-SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle,DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the entire engagement and delivery
• Requirement Analysis and helping the offshore team to understand the need, Test Strategy Preparation, Test Case Review
• Design and Execute Test Cases
• Playing the Role of Team Member/Test Lead in all Agile Projects
• Customer and offshore co-ordination while working closely with customer Managers, Directors and AVPs
• Prepare Estimation
• Daily, Weekly status reporting and monthly QA Metrics Reporting
• Host Defect Triage and Status Meetings
• Defect analysis and management
• Co-ordination with other practices within Wipro, Client departments and addressing customer issues/escalations
• Driving different client reporting and other engagement related calls
• Providing Hands On Testing support as and when needed from Onsite
• Driving the future business development related aspects within the project
• Work Allocation for Monthly Releases
• Monitoring performance and Conducting Appraisals for the team members
• Established Continuous Integration and Dev Ops
• Providing QA Consulting/Program Management support from Wipro Side
• Prepare and Present the Current and Future State for Automation
• Understanding client goals through multiple executive level discussions and preparing plan accordingly for future movements
• Driving the Test Strategy, Operating Procedure preparation
• Establish Regression Automation, Continuous Integration and Dev Ops Initiatives across LOB
• Lead the automation team in various automation initiatives

Confidential

Onsite Test Lead, QA Consulting Lead/Testing SME

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 2 Months Long KT from incumbent Vendor from all aspects from planning through completion and moving to steady state of delivery after the departure of incumbent vendor
• Building the team from scratch at Onsite and Offshore
• Managing the entire engagement and delivery
• Playing the Role of Team Member/Scrum Master in all Agile Projects
• Requirement Analysis and helping the offshore team to understand the need, Test Strategy Preparation, Test Case Review
• Design and Execute Test Cases
• Host Defect Triage and Status Calls
• Customer and offshore co-ordination while working closely with customer Managers, Directors and AVPs
• Providing Hands On Testing support as and when needed from Onsite
• Driving the future business development related aspects within the project
• Work Allocation for Monthly Releases
• Requirement Analysis and helping the offshore team to understand the need, Test Strategy Preparation, Test Case Review
• Provide Estimation
• Daily, Weekly status reporting and monthly QA Metrics Reporting
• Defect analysis and management
• Established Continuous Integration and Dev Ops
• Providing QA Consulting/Program Management support from Confidential Side
• Building the team from scratch at onsite and offshore
• Prepare and Present the Current and Future State for Automation
• Understanding client goals through multiple executive level discussions and preparing plan accordingly for future movements
• Driving the Test Strategy, Operating Procedure preparation
• Establish Regression Automation, Continuous Integration and Dev Ops Initiatives across LOB
• Lead the automation team in various automation initiatives
• Lead the team in refining and establishing one common Framework across LOB and train Functional Team to Run automation scripts

Confidential

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating and taking the knowledge transfer from Client BAs
• Requirement Analysis
• Test Strategy Preparation
• Guiding Test Case preparation
• Training Team members on technical & non technical topics
• Estimation
• Work allocation
• Status reporting,
• Defect analysis,
• Test case reviewing, test case execution