SUMMARY

• Experienced QA Lead with a passion for the work and a proven record of delivering high - quality software.
• 12 plus years of experience as Test Lead/Manager and overall experience of 18 plus years in the IT industry.
• Experience in the areas of Testing Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence (DWBI), Master Data Management (MDM) and Master Data Governance (MDG).
• Worked as ETL Tester/Reports Tester (QA), Business Analyst, Data Analyst and QA Test Lead/Test Manager, Project Manager in various BIDW, MDM/MDG and Migration projects.
• Experience in Utilities, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare, Banking & Financial domains. Awareness of Cloud and UI technologies.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum & SDLC methodologies, Involvement in daily scrum standup meetings and Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Review and Retrospective meetings.
• Experience in leading/managing large testing teams, preparation of Master Test Plans and Test Strategies, providing Testing Efforts and Estimates, Test Design and Test Execution activities in offshore/onsite model.
• Experience in design of System Testing (ST), Integration/Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test scenarios and test cases, facilitating test defect and status meetings, experience in Test Management tools like HP ALM Quality Center for monitoring and tracking defects, Test Metrics and Status Reporting.
• Involved in Test Automation using Jupiter and Platinum tool setup, data comparisons between source & target layers and in building regression test suite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database: IBM DB2, Oracle 11, SQL Server, Teradata, S4/HANA, Big SQL,Snowflake

MDM/MDG Tools: SAP MDG9.0, Informatica MDM 10.1 and IBM WCC 9.0

Data Warehouse Tools: Business Objects ToolsBOXIR2/6.5/5.1 and Web Intelligence, Microstrategy 10.4, Informatica 10.1.

Functional/Automation Test Tools: Quality Center 8.x/9.x/10.x/11.5, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Platinum Tool, Jupiter Tool, Autosys, etc.

Other Tools/Platforms: Clarity, JIRA, Confluence, TFS, SharePoint/BOX,MS Project, AWS Cloud, DevOps, etc.

Languages: SQL, C, HTML, JavaScript, JAVA

Database Utilities: TOAD, Advanced Query Technique (AQT)

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/XP, UNIX

Domains: Retail, BFS, Utilities, Insurance, Media & Communications, Healthcare and Life Sciences

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Test Lead and as an interface between the Development team, UAT and Business in all Test Coordination activities in onsite/offshore model.
• Responsible for delivery for Test Strategy, Efforts Estimation and Test Planning activities.
• Involvement in validations of Tables/Views migrated data and delta data by comparison between Teradata and Snowflake QA databases using Cognizant automation tools during System Integration testing.
• Involvement in validations of Microstrategy reports validation using Integrity Manager and between Teradata and Snowflake web reports.
• Involvement in Performance testing of Microstrategy Teradata and Snowflake web reports for benchmarking of critical reports.
• Running the production validation queries on daily basis and providing the Prod count mismatch/data mismatch issues to Customer for their analysis and issue resolution.
• Coordination with DBA/Server Admin teams for resolution of any disk space issues, taking backup of test logs, etc.
• Review of Offshore test deliverables daily before delivering to Customer and providing Support during UAT.

Confidential, Atlanta

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Test Lead as an interface between the Development team, Client QA, UAT and Business in all Test Coordination activities.
• Involvement in test execution, defect management and managing the ALM quality center for the project. Test data and Test environment setup.
• Providing UAT and Prod queries results to business on daily basis for their analysis and issue resolution.
• Running the Autosys jobs for loading the data from source to Compass DI hub during QA and UAT execution and coordination with all the stakeholders.
• Facilitates daily stand up calls and responsible for sending daily and weekly status reports to project team and customer.
• Responsible for creation of prod migration requests/tickets/approvals for movement of code from lower environments to Prod and all other prod migration activities until closure.

Confidential, Nashville

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall delivery of Quality Engineering testing artifacts leading a team size of nine resources in Agile testing process and Methodology.
• Responsible for preparation and delivery of Test Strategy with test approach, deliverables, BOSS process flow, Roles and Responsibilities, etc.
• Involved in testing data ingestion of various source systems data to Data lake storage in Azure for structured and un-structured data.
• Involvement in Agile User Stories grooming sessions, Sprint Planning and Retrospection sessions and Daily sprint stand up calls to discuss about the Sprint deliverables, risks, issues, etc.
• Review of user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios and scripts and escalate any issues upfront to the team.
• Providing Quality metrics and status reporting to Customer at the end of sprint/release.
• Work towards focus areas like Process Standardization, Test Automation, Regression Test Suite and Domain data QA noledge.
• Collaborating with System Analysts, Development Team and UAT business teams at various stages of Agile methodology for delivery of testing artifacts with quality and on time for each sprint.

Confidential, Cleveland

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• As Onsite Test Lead, responsible for quality delivery of all the testing artifacts related to data testing during Integration testing and End to End testing from source to consumption and downstream layers.
• Responsible for updations to end-to-end test strategy, running the sourcing and consumption mainframe jobs and validating the output files as per requirements and mapping documents.
• Coordinate with different downstreams like, GL, NXG, MDM, EDW, CIX, etc during testing.
• Coordination with functional team, offshore data testing team, development team and project teams in day-to-day testing activities including data preparation.
• Involvement in test execution, test automation using platinum tool, defect management using ALM quality center, defect triage calls and sending status reports.

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• As Onsite Test Lead, responsible for quality delivery of all the testing artifacts related to Functional testing of MDG and integration testing at SAP PACE program level.
• Responsible for providing estimations and overall resourcing and management, Preparation of System Test Plan and Functional Risk Assessment documents.
• Utilized HP Quality Center 11.5 for requirements traceability, test case & defect management and test execution in test lab.
• Responsible for providing guidance to the offshore QA team regarding MDG testing of workflows, business rules, security, etc. for Customer, Vendor, Finance and Material business objects as per the User requirement specification document.
• Responsible for monitoring the execution progress, resolving business related queries, governance, ensuring dat meets the compliance for project team.
• Responsible for delivery of Functional Test Summary report and approvals of testing artifacts from QC Vera perspective.

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• As offshore Test Manager, responsible for quality delivery of all the testing artifacts related to Integration Testing including estimations and resource loading.
• Preparation of Test Strategy and Test Plan and Interaction with Tibco/Mulesoft service teams for integration testing support activities.
• Used HP Quality Center 11.5 for requirements traceability, test case & defect management and test execution in test lab.
• Responsible for sending status reports to all the project stakeholders and providing guidance to the QA team regarding testing of MDM Match/Merge rules and Survivorship rules as per the business requirements.

Confidential, Phoenix

BIDW Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Various BIDW projects in Confidential .As Test Manager, Responsible for delivery of BIDW Test Strategy and Test Plan and provide inputs for End-to-End Test Strategy, align on the key test deliverables.
• Responsible for hand on sessions with vendors on Test Conditions, Test data and Test planning and to provide estimations for the ETL & Reports testing, resource management and Coordination with offshore team for daily deliverables.
• Interaction with various stakeholders - Dev teams, Business team, Source System teams, etc who are geographically spread across different locations and time zones.
• Use HP Quality Center 11 for requirements traceability, test case & defect management and test execution in test lab.