SUMMARY

• 12+ years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Experienced in Leading/Managing QA Teams, writing Test plans, designing manual Test cases and Test scripts, reports, KPI’s etc. to support quality deliverables.
• AGILE, WATERFALL and ITIL methodologies.
• Experience in performing different types of testing such as Integration testing, Performance testing, Functional testing, Negative testing, Positive testing, System testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Expertise in Testing tools such as UFT (QTP), Quality Center (QC), ALM, Service Test, Winrunner, IBM Rational Suite (RQM), HP Business Process Testing software, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and Team Foundation Studio (TFS).
• Expertise in Oracle 9i, TeraData, DB2i, LUW and SQL Server MS Access databases.
• Expertise in Performance testing using Loadrunner including scripting, running tests, analysis, isolating performance bottlenecks and reporting to results to the manager and all stakeholders.
• Experience in blackbox and whitebox testing technologies on Client/Server and Web applications for different types of business applications.
• Expertise in design and execution of stress/load benchmark tests.
• Experience in performance testing .NET, JAVA, C# and Web based applications.
• Expertise in TIBCO Messaging rendezvous and FIX protocol in financial domain.
• Expertise in Datastage Sequences, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Bigdata (Hadoop, Hbase, Hive).
• Expertise in Test - Driven Development process (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Mobile testing expertise on iOS, Android and Windows.
• Familiarity with Blockchain technology, distributed ledger and cryptocurrencies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Service Test 11.2, LoadRunner 10.X, QuickTestPro (QTP)/

UFT, WinRunner, MTM, IBM Rational, Junit, SOAP:

Test Cycle Management Tools: ALM/Quality Center 11, JIRA, IBM Rational Suite (RQM), TFS, Confluence

RDBMS: Teradata 12.0, Oracle9i, MS SQL Server, DB2i, LUW, ACCESS

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, PVCS Tracker, Bugzilla, TeamTrack, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows 9x-2K, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX (Solaris), Windows XP, Vista

Web Browser: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

ETL tools: Ab Initio, DataStage and Informatica.

Web Servers: APACHE, IIS, Weblogic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Greater Chicagoland, IL

Solution Architect (QA)

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in all phases (POC, Discovery, Design, and Delivery) for a database migration/coexistence project which required all migration and coexistence of all master data from legacy DB2i database to Db2 LUW.
• Responsible for planning and implementing all QA activities from discovery phase to delivery phase including production support such as Test strategy, resource allocation, Test planning (at both sprint and project level) for System testing, regression, UAT and the overall management of a multi-project QA team.
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) for sprint planning, maintaining user stories, features, epics, QA tasking, resource allocation, velocity planning/tracking, dashboards and grooming.
• Used Microsoft test manager (MTM) for test case creation, execution and logging bugs.
• Designed and tested an Angular based database comparison tool.
• Was involved in performance test planning and reporting using Jmeter and API testing with Postman.

Environment: AS400, Mainframe, Db2i, LUW, TFS, MTM, Angular, Java, SQL, Urbancode, Confluence, Test Complete, Postman, Jenkins, JMeter.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading/managing the QA team comprising both onshore and offshore testers for the Hyperion Budgeting and Forecasting project.
• Test estimation, budgeting, resource allocation, Onshore-Offshore coordination, requirement analysis, Test plans, Test strategy, test execution and defect management for System testing as well as UAT.
• Supported all stages of SDLC using HP Quality Center (ALM).
• Owned all Quality related tasks/items for the Hyperion Project which includes, coordinating with product owners, business partners, third party developers, Project Managers, and all the other stakeholders.
• Risk identification, risk mitigation plan, Reporting daily results/progress and other standardized reports to management, KPI, root cause analysis, escalations etc.

Environment: Hyperion, Quality Center, ALM, Test Management, Web Testing, Oracle Cloud, SmartView.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all testing activities for the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s eGrants portal.
• Implementing/supporting SDLC activities utilizing Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
• Creating and maintaining test data across multiple environments.

Environment: TFS, MTM, Test Management, SCRUM, .Net, UAT

Confidential

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in all stages of SDLC for the ‘Federal Employee Program’ (FEP) MyBlue web portal.
• Was the main point of contact for the Test team and was involved in coordinating with change managers, business partners, developers, testers and all the other stakeholders during user story analysis, Test Planning, Execution and release phases.
• Creation of QA deliverables including requirements traceability matrix, test plans, test scripts, test cases, defect tracking and standardized reports such as root­ cause analysis report, progress report, KPI’s etc.
• Provided Subject Matter Expert level knowledge on QA best practices, softwares and tools.
• Creating and maintaining test data across multiple environments.
• Implementing SDLC support activities utilizing HP ALM.
• Used SOAPUI for testing Web Services in XML format.
• Mobile testing on iOS and Android devices.
• Work closely with cross­ functional organizations, project teams, directors and other stakeholders to develop work estimates, project schedules to ultimately deliver a high quality product.

Environment: HP ALM/QC, Test Management, Web testing, Mobile testing, ClearQuest, Rally, SOAP UI, Webservices, SCRUM, .Net, Java, UAT

Confidential

QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the testing efforts across multiple locations and ensured appropriate conditions for testing to meet the project deadlines.
• Created and tested real time/batch EDI claims.
• Involved in creation, test and validation of claims in all stages of the Claims lifecycle.
• Supervised a large onshore-offshore model based test team for multiple mainframe based projects that utilized Agile SDLC.
• Created, validated and performed testing for 837 transactions on a daily basis using tools like Edifecs Specbuilder, Ultraedit etc.
• Was involved various stages of the multimillion dollar ICD 09- ICD 10 conversion project.
• Utilized HP ALM/QC for all stages of software testing lifecycle on HIX systems.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract validate data and perform backend testing.
• Involved in redesign and testing of the organization’s Claim Adjudication system to comply with the HIPAA ANSI 5010.
• Used SOAP UI to validate XML messages for testing a Web Service based claims application.
• Daily activities/responsibilities included for smoke testing, functional testing, system testing, UAT and regression testing in multiple environments.