SUMMARY

• Over 15+ years of QA experience with focus on large diversified projects, including manual/automation requirement analysis, project planning, scheduling, test plan/test creation, test execution, defect tracking, and reporting. 10+ years of managing various test teams of Testing deliverables and Test Leads. 5+ years of Project Management experience acting as a test liaison between Project delivery & Test Teams.
• Fluent expertise with Agile - TDD/ Agile Devops software development teams
• Cross-functional team testing strategy, analysis of existing test strategy, gap analysis, and working across teams to mature test integration strategies
• Lead the QE team in developing and implementing best practices
• Collaborate closely with development teams to deliver software releases with an ever-increasing level of quality
• You will ensure that product teams are informed in all phases of product development, with the perspective of the customer while partnering with product development leadership to drive the process & tooling
• Experienced with Review meetings to identify Ambiguities in functional requirements.
• Experience in working with Windows, Client - Server, Web based as well as Mainframe related applications.
• Experienced in applying the SDLC & STLC process involved with implementing IT solutions
• Proven track record of delivering projects on time
• Conduct project meetings, project tracking and analysis
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborate with client on rollout coordination, prioritization and task management
• Ensure all project objectives are clearly documented, approved and delivered to meet customer requirements
• Communicate timely project status to all stakeholders
• Manage project risk, develop mitigation plans and escalate decisions and unresolved issues
• Experienced in various types of testing including Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing,, Unit Testing, Integrated Testing, System Testing, and Regression Testing of Standalone, Web Based and Client-Server applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Project Manager/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collect, Analysing & Documenting Client Business Requirements.
• Understand the business functionality, business requirements and technical Specifications of the applications
• Communicate Requirements and Design changes to offshore and assign priorities
• Test Management activities like Test Strategy, Test Plan documentations and coordination of testing activities
• Confirm data requirements with various application teams
• Estimating the total efforts that would be required to complete the enhancement or fixes
• Perform test coordination activities like coordinating Test Design and Test Execution
• Tested on Mainframe Online/Batch TSO, CICS applications
• Automated Test Scenarios thru Tosca tool for Web applications & Mainframe Screens
• Able to automate API calls & verify the responses and able to integrate with Jenkins
• Attend weekly status meetings
• Being the End to End Test Manager, coordinate with different testing teams for various testing activities
• Document /Analyse test results and get defects retested
• Executing Test scripts into HP Application Lifecycle Management and recording the result
• Logging the defects into HP Application Lifecycle Management
• Get sign offs on test deliverables from various application teams

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with client to gather the enhancement requirements.
• Perform the analysis of the business requirement based on the experience in the domain and client's system.
• Provide the technical and business process improvement based on the best practices and his experience.
• Prepare the high level and the low-level design of the application and its components.
• Perform test coordination activities like coordinating test design and test execution.
• Prepare Test Plan and Execution plan
• Executing test scripts into Quality Centre and recording the result
• Logging the defects into HP Quality Centre
• Report testing activities status to all stake holders

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding & Analysis of Requirements
• Analysed Test Requirements and business requirements and worked on test plans in accordance with project plans and business goals
• Planned and designed test cases based on the requirements and supervised the team to meet the targeted timelines and goals
• Ensured quality checks (including peer reviews and external reviews of deliverables) are always met
• Ensured QA process compliance is always met
• Updating the status in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Centre
• Report testing activities status to the project manager
• Analysing the root cause of critical issues
• Participate in business requirement meetings and designed UI for various Functionalities
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow

Confidential

QA Onsite Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed system/business requirements and design documents and documented test requirements
• Developed test strategy for the entire program & developed test plans for several projects
• Documented Requirements Test Matrix, Test Specifications and designed test cases as needed for several milestones
• Worked on time estimates, resource allocations both human and hardware on regularly
• Analyzed several requirement gaps and part of troubleshooting exercises to resolve environmental and application issues to unblock the engineers to meet project timelines
• Provided career planning, career goals, objectives and annual reviews for direct reports
• Mentored team members on QA process, general QA concepts and on Geneva Application - Payments, Dunning, Bill Processing and WLB Platform
• Coordinated with onsite and offshore members on regular basis for smooth hand-offs and for on-time deliverables for several projects and with quality compliance
• Monitored and tracked project deliverables and represented the QA team in project meetings and client calls and handled escalations TEMPeffectively
• Executed Smoke testing, Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance testing, End to End testing Sanity testing and Cross browser testing
• Interacted several customers on regular basis, in addressing production issues and in providing functional usage to customers during adoption phase
• Managed projects from the QA perspective, which followed Agile methodology
• Managed defect tracking and triaged meetings from QA perspective