SUMMARY:

• A proven leader with over 13 plus years of extensive onsite and offshore experience.
• Very effective in planning, and organizational skills to proactively manage day to day Manual and Automation testing activities for successful execution and delivery of a project
• Successful track of managing large testing teams
• Driving Center Of Excellence group for various testing services
• Deep technical expertise at driving automation & manual projects through the entire software test lifecycle, from inception to launch, while creating realistic schedules, proactively setting customer expectations & risk management
• Web Service or API testing tools like Fiddler and Postman.
• Key areas of expertise include technical leadership, project management, requirements study, test plan creation, system testing, software quality assurance, defect prevention, formal reviews of requirements, test artifacts and support
• Tracking Project Activities likes Planning, Scripting and Execution using MS TFS.
• Test Execution Tracking and Review using MS MTM
• Able to create, review, track, and maintain accurate & complete project schedules, involving team members in onsite - offshore model
• Ability to mentor individual team member and identify the areas of improvements to improve the project deliverable quality.
• Experience in participating appraisal program and setting up KRAs for the team.
• Experience in identifying learning needs and planning programs.
• Experience in understanding project resource needs and raising HRRFs.
• Ability to manage risks with people, process and technology
• Always been a core member of the interview panel and contributed the best in bringing in the right talented resources.
• Has solid understanding of delivery methodologies, quality process, Software configuration management process, software manual and automation testing process.
• Experience in working with internal and external auditors.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules and milestones
• Track and report project progress and status. Initiate escalation of issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution.
• Preparing Senior Management Review (SMR) reports and participating in meetings.
• Managing Project External and Internal audits
• Responsible for reviewing of test artifacts like test plans, test scenarios, test cases etc.
• Implemented effective process of Defect Tracking and reporting to improve communication and reduce delay.
• Define and manage dashboards using organizational templates.
• Define and Implement QA process for clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: MS Project 2007, MS Visio 2007/2003/2000 , Workday

Testing Tools: Load Runner 8.0, Selenium

DB MS: SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access

Test Management Tools: Bugzilla, HP Quality Centre, MTM, Test Director & Rally

Scripting: Java Script

Technologies: .Net

Other Business Tools: MS Office 2007, MS Outlook, Win CVS

Test Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, V Model

Domains: Insurance, Health, Mortgage, Banking, Cash Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Quality Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Point of Contact for all testing activities related to LOS and Wholesale Portal at offshore.
• Leading a Team of 22 offshore Engineers
• Conduct weekly test status meeting during Integration/System/UAT testing and analyze issues if any and set the priorities.
• Track and report project progress and status. Initiate escalation of issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution.
• Liaison between onsite development team and offshore project team.
• Attending the regular client calls on requirements, status of the project and defects with the clients and on-site managers.
• Conducting Functional walkthrough for new change requests
• Identifying scenarios for automation
• Review the Requirements, RTM, Test Cases, and various reports prepared by Test Engineers.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing daily and weekly status calls
• Day to day tracking of scheduled tasks
• Ensuring that defined testing process is followed and there are no communication gaps between onsite and offshore team
• Identify the Metrics as per Project Management Requirement and prepare summary reports.
• Worked with business analysts to clarify ambiguities
• Conducted requirements hands off meeting with all stakeholders
• Facilitated project defect triage meetings. Provided senior management with defect management metrics.
• Adherence to process defined and facing audits
• Making sure no N/C were reported during Internal and external audits.
• Participated in identifying the Test Cases which needs to be automated
• Performing peer reviews for Test scenarios and Test cases

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that defined testing process is followed and there are no communication gaps between onsite and offshore team
• Responsible for the collection of metrics and prepare summary reports
• Plan periodic motivation sessions and open house sessions for the team to come up with any professional/personal issues.
• Prepared Metrics as per Project Management Requirement and update the status to Client
• Submitted Weekly Offshore Test Status reports with Progress vs Completion
• Provided test estimates for various phases of the project.
• Worked with business analysts to clarify ambiguities
• Facilitated project defect triage meetings. Provided senior management with defect management metrics.
• Ensure Test Phase exit criteria are met
• Performing peer reviews for Test scenarios and Test cases and uploading the same into SharePoint.
• Day to day tracking of scheduled tasks.
• Adhering to process defined and facing audits

Confidential

Associate Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review of test cases, executing the test cases and updating the test cases for new builds.
• Involved in different types of testing viz., Functional, Regression and Testing.
• Involved in status review meeting with onsite team.
• Participate in defect assertion meeting and discuss the severity of defects with the Test Lead and On-Site QA Managers.
• Updating the status to Offshore Management Team.

Associate Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delegation of batch files for execution to the testing team.
• Independently handling team of three.
• Coordination with Onsite manager
• Checking of Executed batch files in Moonstone Application

Associate Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test cases, executing the test cases and updating the test cases for new builds.
• Involved in status review meeting with client/Onsite team.