SUMMARY

• Have 14+ years of IT industry experience in Leading the Development and Manual/Functional Testing projects.
• Have 7+ years of experience working as QA/Project Manager/Lead managing large, medium and small projects with emphasis on improving efficiency, productivity, and organizational consistency with a demonstrated track record of successfully managing small to large projects from start to finish.
• Experience to work with geographically and culturally diverse teams.
• Expertise in full life cycle of project in Waterfall and Agile Methodology.
• Have lead projects implementations from kick - off/initiation until closure and sign-off, owning and understanding project objectives and making sure they map to business objectives, hosting meetings, managing customer requirements/expectations, triggering/Executing change management.
• Have started and implemented the QA process, procedures, best practices and built a QA team from scratch in Sempra. Effectively manage multiple projects in various stages at the same time. Prepared and facilitated the implementation of the Project Plan, work breakdown structure.
• Experience in Resource planning and scheduling.
• Experience in Budget maintenance and cost controlling.
• Proactively identified risks and mitigation plans for projects and handles project escalations.
• Managed changing project environments, resource demands, project priorities and other project challenges.
• Extensive experience working with UAT team to support their testing needs.
• Collaborated with Business teams to perform successful transition of work/tasks to QA team.
• Successfully increased the company’s profit margin by increasing the team size and transitioning the work to offshore teams.
• Facilitated and coordinated with offshore team to implement the QA processes, performed KT sessions and increased the quality of work.
• Collaborated with and facilitated interactions between Quality, Development and Business groups to help set and meet timelines while maintaining compliance.
• Works closely with program managers to coordinate activities to make sure that client’s timelines are met.
• Taken initiative and implemented Regression Suite (500+ test scripts), supported automation of this suite to improve productivity and quality. This helped increase the company’s profit by signing a 3 year contract with client.
• Experience on Data Center Migration project (400+ applications) from CA to NV.
• Have used tools like Quality Center, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Mainframe.
• Experience in Project Management, Planning, Estimating, Defect Management and Reporting.
• Managed and coordinated efforts of team members involved and overseeing all cycles of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) from Requirement analysis through Implementation.
• Involved in communication with Program Manager, Stakeholders, Developers and QA members throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Experience in the design discussions, resource planning, testing and status meetings for the projects.
• Expertise in Smoke testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing, Unit testing.
• Domain expertise in Energy Utilities.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Extensive knowledge on IBM- Mainframes Applications using COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA/Test Manager/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing team of around 10+ resources as a QA/Test Manager in an Onshore/Offshore model
• Managing Data Center Migration project (400+ applications) from CA to NV
• Responsible for developing Test Strategies, Estimations, Test plans, Resource plans and discussions with management, budgeting, reviews, co-ordination, reporting, mentoring
• Responsible for Requirements gathering and impact analysis for the existing system
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Team
• Responsible for end to end project deliverables and support for multiple projects
• Responsible to lead projects implementations from kick-off/initiation until closure and sign-off, owning and understanding project objectives and making sure they map to business objectives, hosting meetings, managing customer requirements/expectations, triggering/Executing change management
• Implemented the QA process, procedures, best practices and built a QA team from scratch in Sempra. Effectively manage multiple projects in various stages at the same time. Prepared and facilitated the implementation of the Project Plan, work breakdown structure
• Responsible for Resource planning and scheduling
• Responsible for Budget maintenance, cost control and project invoicing
• Collaborated with Business teams to perform successful transition of work/tasks to QA team
• Successfully increased the company’s profit margin by increasing the team size and transitioning the work to offshore teams
• Facilitate and coordinate with offshore team to implement the QA processes, perform KT sessions and increase the quality of work
• Facilitate interactions between Quality, Development and Business groups to help set and meet timelines while maintaining compliance
• Work closely with program managers to coordinate activities to make sure that client’s timelines are met
• Taken initiative and implemented Regression Suite (500+ test scripts), supported automation of this suite to improve productivity and quality. This helped increase the company’s profit by signing a 3 year contract with client
• Responsible for Defect Tracking using Micro Focus ALM tool
• Responsible for Defect Management and triage calls with Business and IT Teams
• Working inAgile as well as Waterfall approachfor gathering requirementsand development of product
• Expertise in Smoke testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing
• Responsible to provided technical direction and reviewed the artifacts from the team members
• Responsible to mentor candidates, provide trainings
• Responsible for Status Reporting to stake holders
• Responsible to guide team on automation ideas
• Responsible for Test Designing, Execution, Reviews and Deliverables

Confidential

Project/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing team of around 7+ resources as a Project Lead in an Onshore/Offshore model
• Responsible for developing Estimations, Test plans, Resource plans and discussions with management, budgeting, reviews, co-ordination, reporting, mentoring
• Responsible for Requirements gathering and impact analysis for the existing system
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Team
• Responsible for end to end project deliverables and support for multiple projects
• Responsible to lead projects implementations from kick-off/initiation until closure and sign-off, owning and understanding project objectives and making sure they map to business objectives, hosting meetings, managing customer requirements/expectations, triggering/Executing change management
• Responsible for Resource planning and scheduling
• Responsible for Budget maintenance, cost control and project invoicing
• Facilitate interactions between Quality, Development and Business groups to help set and meet timelines while maintaining compliance
• Work closely with program managers to coordinate activities to make sure that client’s timelines are met
• Responsible for Defect Tracking using Micro Focus ALM tool
• Responsible for Defect Management and triage calls with Business and QA Teams
• Working inWaterfall approachfor gathering requirementsand development of product
• Responsible to provided technical direction and reviewed the artifacts from the team members
• Responsible to mentor candidates, provide trainings
• Responsible for Status Reporting to stake holders
• Responsible to guide team on automation ideas
• Responsible for Test Designing, Execution, Reviews and Deliverables
• Developed COBOL programs for new requirements and code changes for existing programs written with technologies like COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS
• Worked in SDLC software development approach for gathering requirement and developing product
• Created Unit Test Documents and performed unit testing
• Supported Testing team in resolving defects

Confidential

Programmer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a lead programmer analyst performing analysis, providing efficient coding recommendations, documenting flows, specs and test plans, implementing coding solutions, testing, debugging, production implementations, workflow development, risk management, and post-implementation review
• Involved in writing detailed Functional document and technical document, identify integration points and review technical specifications created by other developers with the team and across interfacing teams
• Developed business modules in Cobol/IMS DB/DB2 programs
• Coordinated with Testing Teams to understand their testing strategies and supported them wherever required
• Worked on SPUFI tools for verifying the data in DB2 database due to the new logical partition build