SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience in Application development, Software Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, Project and Process Management with significant involvement in different phases of SDLC.
• Experienced in Coding, Business Analysis, Data Analysis and QA testing of software systems in Mainframe, Web based and Client/Server applications using testing tools
• 2+ years of experience in IBM Sterling Commerce Order Management.
• Experienced in Planning, Estimating, Tracking and reporting progress, mitigating risks, and resolving issues.
• Experienced in leading multiple project teams, implementing QA processes, developing test strategies, Metrics and Measurements.
• Experienced in preparing QA artifacts like Test strategy, System Test Plans, Test Case Design, Requirements traceability Matrix, status reports etc.
• Experienced in Smoke Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in leading multiple project teams in building and supporting mainframe based applications, analyzing PeopleSoft based applications and building Java based applications.
• Experienced in Finance, Retail and Manufacturing domains.
• Experienced in training, leading, mentoring and managing offshore teams across multiple countries(USA,INDIA and CHINA)
• Well versed in Waterfall and Agile software development methodology approaches
• Experienced in successfully running big club having diverse club membership background.
• Held executive leadership positions including Treasurer (2010) and Vice President of Education (2011) for Confidential CIC Toastmaster Club of over 40 members
• Experienced in 24/7 production support of mission critical mainframe applications
• Experienced in migration and conversion of mainframe applications
• Experienced in building successful working relationship with multiple vendor environment
• Experienced in creating value propositions to customers through regular value adds to application/s

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: OS/390, Windows,Z/OS

Languages: MVS MVS COBOL,JCL,IMS DC,FILE AID,CICS,PeopleSoft FSCM 8.4, 8.9,IBM Sterling Commerce Order Management and Java

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB,SQL Server

Other Tools: MPP,NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF, Change man, SDF - II, FILE-AID, SPUFI, Test Director, HP Quality Centre,PAC2000,PICCT,PACBASE, FOCUS, STROBE, PANVALET, INTERTEST, EZTrieve, Advantage Plex,CA7 Scheduler,ZEKE, ABEND-AID,ACI Money Transfer System, ACI MTS, Vector Connexion, EDI,ALM,Power BI

Middleware: MQSeries,ESB

Office Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Test Manager

Environment: Agile,Web applications, ALM, Item Processing Platform Modernization, and Lockbox upgrade, Infrastructure Patch Upgrades, Manual Testing,Automation Testing, Datawarehouse, Privileged Access Management, Power BI and MTS.

Responsibilities:

• Manage End to End QE engagement for multimillion dollar projects
• Build, manage, lead and mentor the QA and testing team for unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
• Test management, Test Processes & Methodologies, Test Estimation, Vendor management
• Manage the resources within the team to ensure projects are allocated appropriately, objectives are being met, and consistency maintained.
• Work closely and collaboratively with technology heads of development and architecture teams to establish the process for clear and efficient operations and communications related to overall QA and testing processes.
• Work with the technology, operations, and product solutions teams to define and implement best- practice Quality Assurance processes, procedures, and toolsets enterprise-wide.
• Work with project team members to ensure business requirements and / or feature documents are clear, concise, traceable, and testable.
• Maintain and execute regression test scripts. Define test data requirements where necessary. Audits systems and business test plans and results
• Test Data Management
• Test Environment Management
• Coordinate with Quality Center Administration
• Coverage for CIT, SIT, Performance Testing, Security, UAT & Production Certification
• Test Estimation - Obtain, Track and Manage
• Testing Schedule & Timeline
• Coordinate Testing Activities with Non-QE Test Teams
• App. Dev team coordination

Confidential

Test Manager/Business Analyst

Environment: Agile,Web applications, ALM, SQL Server, Automation Testing

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with onsite and offshore team, train them on testing various applications
• Create UAT and SIT Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Instances, Test cases, Tractability matrix, Data Setups, Data Mining and upload test plans and execute them in ALM
• Meet with various business partners to collect business requirements for application changes
• Involve in identifying business critical internal and external information and knowledge, its usage, availability and the needs of the various cross commits that may require such information or knowledge
• Involve in recognizing areas for improvement in business processes and developed systems requirement documents that can be easily translated into a systems specification by programmer analysts.
• Work on multiple projects, under aggressive deadlines
• Implement Test process and methodologies in the project
• Maintain long term relationship with clients and vendors
• Estimate and review estimation for project
• Meet with SMEs to finalize the business requirements and convert them to technology requirements
• Create Test Management Strategy Plan and Testing scope documents by working with QA Team members
• Write detailed technical design documents and technical Specifications
• Lead in person joint application design sessions for projects
• Meet with different cross commits to make sure that the requirement is understood properly and follow up with them for proper closure of each phase of the project.
• Manage the tasks by delegating the work to offshore teams and ensure that delivery meet the customer’s expectation through regular onsite and offshore coordination
• Status reporting to the Management
• Provides advice, guidance, encouragement and constructive feedback.
• Plans, evaluates, and improves the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output.
• Team Members Performance Appraisal

Confidential

Test Lead/Business Analyst/Manager

Environment: Agile,PeopleSoft 8.4 and 8.9,Java,MVS COBOL, DB2, JCL, NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF, Zeke, Endeavor, SDF-II, FILE-AID,CICS, SPUFI, EZTrieve, HP Quality Centre, Datawarehouse, IBM Sterling Order Management DOM,SOM,COM,Automation Testing

Responsibilities:

• Build and Coordinate with onsite and offshore team on different tracks Mainframe, PeopleSoft and Java and bring them to same page on project execution from different geography - India, China and US
• Create UAT and SIT Test Strategy, Plan, Test Instances, Data Setups, Data Mining and upload test plans and execute them in HP QC
• Meet with various business partners to collect business requirements for future state of application
• Meet with various SMEs to finalize the business requirements and convert them to technology requirements
• Perform and Train team members on current state impact analysis in Mainframe and PeopleSoft.
• Contribute and Ensure that the BRD, BSD, HLD, Test Management Strategy Plan are delivered as per Confidential ’s standard
• Perform Data Analysis involving multiple tables
• Create SQL queries to identify, select and develop test data and execute SQL queries to perform database verification testing.
• Estimate and review estimation for various tracks per phases of project
• Implement Test process and methodologies in the project
• Coordinate with Sr. Technical Architect and Contribute to the creation of future state Data Model
• Create Test Management Strategy Plan and Testing scope documents by working with QA Team members
• Work on multiple projects, under aggressive deadlines
• Contribute to the creation of SOW and CR for various phases of the project
• Meet with different cross commits to make sure that the requirement is understood properly and follow up with them for proper closure of each phase of the project.
• Manage the tasks by delegating the work to offshore teams and ensure the cost, scope and schedule meet the customer’s expectation through onsite and offshore coordination
• Status reporting to the Test, Technology Management and other stakeholders
• Plans, evaluates, and improves the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output.
• Ensures internal SLAs are met.
• Team Members Performance Appraisal
• Ensure Customer delightment through consistent and rapid problem solving and quality deliverables on time.
• Co-ordinate with the team and business to resolve bottlenecks at different levels

Confidential

Project Manager / Technology Lead

Environment: MVS COBOL, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, JCL, NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF, Change man, SDF-II, FILE-AID,CICS, SPUFI,PICCT,PAC2000,EZTrieve, Quality Center, Datawarehouse, ACI Money Transfer System, Vector: Connexion, EDI

Responsibilities:

• Work on Wire transfer, Global Fund Transfer, Integrated Payables, Receivables, ACH, Checks modules.
• Lead Confidential Merger deliverables and merge Confidential with Confidential successfully
• Work on Confidential to Confidential Fund Transfer conversion efforts
• Create BRD, Traceability Matrix, HLD, BSD, Test Strategy, System Test Plan, Regression Test Plan, Implementation Plan and Conversion plan
• Write detailed technical design documents and technical Specifications
• Manage the design deliverables of large and complex projects involving multiple interfaces
• Work with Business and Technology Managers/leads to implement conversions - Confidential Bank and Confidential Bank Conversions for Fund Transfer
• 24/7 production support of mission critical applications
• Maintain long term relationship with clients and vendors
• Create SQL queries to identify, select and develop test data and execute SQL queries to perform database verification testing.
• Report Project Status to different project stakeholders
• Provide support to both Business Partners and IT Team for tracking and closure of the defects in Quality Center
• Manage the deliverables, people, risk, issue, scope
• Schedule, cost and relationship for critical Wire Transfer and Payment Developments, Enhancements, Production support and Merger releases
• Awarded as Competent Communicator, Competent Leader and Advanced. Leader Bronze from Toastmaster International
• Created Innovative ideas for Banking and Capital Markets for non linear business growth
• Cleared Infosys Project Management Elite, Technology and Domain certifications
• Team Members Performance Appraisal
• Ensures internal SLAs are met.
• Contribute to the creation of SOW and CR for various phases of the project
• Meet with different cross commits to make sure that the requirement is understood properly and follow up with them for proper closure of each phase of the project.
• Plans, evaluates, and improves the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output.
• Manage the tasks by delegating the work to offshore teams and ensure the cost, scope and schedule meet the customer’s expectation through onsite and offshore coordination

Confidential, North America

Quality Assurance Lead

Environment: MVS COBOL, DB2, JCL, NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF, Change man, SDF, FILE-AID,SPUFI,PICCT,PAC2000,JAVA and HP Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Create and review Test strategy, Test plan and testing scope documents.
• Implement Test process and methodologies in the project
• Review system requirements and product specifications adherence to methodology and standards.
• Develop test cases to cover all the requirements and uploading it to HP Quality Center.
• Tested and validated various data elements in reports using SQL queries.
• Verify Java screens and validated the client data
• Database verification using SQL
• Provide test updates, results and status to stake holders.
• Manage Cost, scope, schedule and people for End to End Quality Assurance Testing of Data Management Consolidation into ONE source for better performance of Treasury Management Solutions
• CSQA Topper at Organization Level 93%

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: Advantage Plex,MS Visio

• Analyze business requirements in detail and prepare functional specification document
• Create new workflows to suite business requirements
• Peer review and Group review of Workflows, requirements
• Create testable requirements by breaking up the raw requirement.
• Co-ordination with the business and the development team
• Co-ordination with the testing team to maintain traceability between requirements and test script
• Training of new team members
• Work Estimation and scheduling

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: MVS COBOL, MVS COBOL programs generated using PACBASE, JCL.

• Understand different system functionality and talk with business to get the change requirement.
• Meet with technology partners and discuss the business requirement to come up with more understandable requirement for technology.
• Ensure the different technology partners comply to the Architectural standards in the project.
• Ensure that the design, code and test review is done in the project.
• Set up the environment for different phase of projects.
• Execute Change Management/Problem Management in the project.
• Meet with different cross commits to make sure that the requirement is understood properly and follow up with them for proper closure of the project.

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: MVS COBOL, MVS COBOL programs generated using PACBASE, JCL.

• Worked in Capital Markets, Brokerage, REITs, CERTs etc.
• Understand different system functionality and talk with business to get the change requirement.
• Meet with technology partners and discuss the business requirement to come up with more understandable requirement for technology.
• Ensure the different technology partners comply to the Architectural standards in the project.
• Ensure that the design, code and test review is done in the project.
• Set up the environment for different phase of projects.
• Execute Change Management/Problem Management in the project.
• Meet with different cross commits to make sure that the requirement is understood properly and follow up with them for proper closure of the project
• Team Members Performance Appraisal