PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10 years of experience with Confidential in Testing and Development.
• Firm knowledge of different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology and V - Model.
• Experience in managing healthcare projects for 10 years.
• Experience in managing Automation tools and services
• Experience in working with business and gathering the requirements
• Experience in gathering use cases from business users and translate them into end-to-end scenarios
• Good experience in testing Web applications.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan & Test Strategy document as per the lean IT standards
• Good Knowledge in Integration testing, System Testing, Regression and Automation testing
• Experience in preparing detailed Test Plan, Test Strategy and End to End plan
• Strong experience in plan and execute the different test phases- SIT, UAT, Automation and Regression
• Experience in preparing Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for SIT/UAT test phases
• Experience in working with outside vendors and evaluating technical solutions
• Good experience in defect tracking management and defect matrix
• Experience in coordinating and managing work for onshore and offshore resources
• Strong experience in interacting with business users to analyze the requirements
• Good experience in the test scripts execution and identify the defects
• Interact and coordinate with the onshore team, offshore team, client leads and dev leads for the quality work deliverables to the client
• Support release activities during implementation and participate in completing production/business check outs
• Coordinate and manage test planning, preparation and execution
• Experience in identify the test environment and test data needs
• Experience in java development and production support

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Windows, OS

RDBMS Technologies: SQL Server

Web Technologies: Java,Java Script, XML,HTML

Testing - Manual: Web portals, Front end, Back end, API, SOAP UI

Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, qTest

Testing - Automation: Selenium

IDE/Developer Tool: Eclipse

Configuration Management Tools: Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Harvest

Test Management Tools: Quality Centre (QC), RQM, HP ALM, qTest

Defect Management Tool: Clear Quest, JIRA, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

IT QA test lead

Responsibilities:

• Create Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Sign Off documents and get approvals from Senior Leadership for Implementation
• Gathering use cases from business users and translate them into end-to-end scenarios.
• Participate in BRD and BTRD discussions with Business and SA team
• Coordinate and manage test planning, preparation and execution
• Responsible for Co-coordinating with Various downstream systems for Integration testing needs.
• Work Closely with Senior Leadership of Business and IT and escalate issues on time to reduce risk for the overall delivery for the project.
• Provide the mitigation plan for the risks identified for the release.
• Support release activities during implementation and participate in completing Production/Business checkouts
• Create status reports and provide to client leadership team on daily basis
• Conduct and co-ordinate Triage calls for defects and work on prioritizing the defects with IT and Business teams
• Plan and estimate the work based on the man hours and carry out the planning to execute the work from offshore and help the offshore team for day-to-day activities
• Track the status of IT projects in different workstream’s and update to Model office team (Business Testers) on readiness
• Playing the program level data coordination role-as part of this role I’m making sure the different files required for parallel processing are successfully loaded by coordinating with different workstream’s (Historical/Daily Eligibility data, PA, Claims, Lock in, etc.)
• Working with different workstreams and identify the dedicated environment for Model office testing
• Coordinate with CVS partners and establish the connections needed to support parallel process

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements with Client and Business Analyst’s.
• Utilize rational quality Management (RQM) to create and execute test cases.
• Mapping the requirements in the tool as Test cases to cover the overall functionality.
• Configuring the Test Environments to execute the Test Cases.
• Performing Product, Integration, Functional and Regression testing.
• Involved in taking many class room sessions for Associates.
• Experience in preparing the release analysis sheet.
• Use SQL queries to retrieve data from production.
• Experience Test data management tool Optim for test data activities.
• Monitoring Status of defects and escalating issues regarding the same, performing Root Cause Analysis.
• Working closely with the Business Analysts and Clients.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Defect Co-ordinator/Senior tester

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the quality and timelines of the deliverables and facilitating the quality review process
• Coordinate with the Offshore Team and Review the test deliverables submitted by offshore.
• Host Daily Standups, Scrum, Retrospective and Planning meetings
• Host Go/No-Go meetings for release implementations.
• Involved in sprint planning with business analysts, developers and project management for agile methodology.
• Resolving bottle neck issues for the successful execution and delivery of a release.
• Estimating effort, determining the resource requirements and hiring the required resources for the project and interacting with offshore and onsite Management.
• Review the checklist, lessons learnt and best practices documents.
• Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes
• Project billing and Timesheet management.
• Establishing Quality Management processes and monitoring Quality assurance and Quality control activities.
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards and templates defined by the organization.
• Prepared metrics for the project and gave support to the UAT team.
• Formalized the change management process for test environments and Fully Automated Functional Checkouts.
• Reporting project status to Clients and Confidential Senior Management.
• Prepared metrics for the project and gave support to the UAT team.
• Business requirement analysis and discussion with stakeholders to come up with new business solutions

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 4 years of hands-on experience in Software Process Engineering, designing and building various Application usingJava/J2EE Technology & open-source technologies.
• Worked on software planning, requirement analysis, designing and building enterprise applications for manual and automation process.
• Worked on software development methodologies like Waterfall, Agile development and Rapid Application Development.
• Experience in using Front End Technologies: JSP, java script
• Worked on identifying defects, problems, suggesting and determining the extent of programming required and performance tuning of the applications.
• Experience in Requirement gathering & analysis, designing UML - for developing application specific Object model, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams & State diagrams.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming concepts.
• Analysis, design, and development of Application based on J2EE/JEE using Struts, Spring and Hibernate.
• Developed various reusable Helper and Utility classes which are used across different modules of the application.