SUMMARY

• Over 18 years of experience in software Quality Assurance of enterprise web based, CRM, ERP, client/server and financial applications
• Team leader, visionary and expert in working with onshore/offshore model, Project Management
• Proficient in Stress & Performance testing and application optimization, tuning, LoadRunner, Performance Center, HP ALM, UFT and monitoring tools
• Experience in implementation of STLC, SDLC ( Agile, RUP, waterfall )and CMM
• Excellent writing skills in test plans, test cases, release notes, reports and other documentation
• Extensive knowledge of e - business, Financial, Insurance, Banking, and other applications
• Good understanding of programming languages, software design and development
• Excellent analytical, communicational and interpersonal skills
• Leadership, Visionary, Budgeting, Team building, Process and Quality improvement
• Automated GUI testing using HP ALM, QTP, Quality Center, Selenium, Cucumber and HP LoadRunner
• Good knowledge of Financial, Insurance, Trading, Banking and e-Business applications
• Implementation of methodologies, QA processes and environment from stretch, ETL
• Project, program, release, resource management, time allocation, meeting deadlines
• Test Plan, Test Case, Release notes, Use cases, Bug tracking and Cloud Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Tools: WinRunner, Loadrunner, Performance Center, Quality Center(ALM), QTP/UFT, SiteScope, Selenium and GeenHat and Cucumber

Operating System: Windows Server, XP, UNIX-AIX, HP, Solaris, Mac, Linux

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, Excel, SQL, Scripting (Perl, shell, Python), Websites, SOAP, XML, .Net, J2EE, HTML, VBScripting, ASP, JSP, C#

Management: MS Project, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process, CMM, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall

Web Technologies: WebSphere, IHS, IIS, JRun, Apache, TomCat, WebLogic, JBoss, PeopleSoft, SAP, Kana, TCP/IP, FIX, Cloud Computing

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC

QA Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible all phase of software testing life cycle (STLC) from inception to post transition
• Effectively communicated test results, milestones, to technical and non-technical members
• Drove prioritization and decision making process by acting as a liaison between QA and Business
• Involved in all phases of testing, gathered business requirement and ensured timely delivery of assigned projects around the globe
• Responsible for book of work for Legal IT domain, escalation point for all the PMs for all the testing related tasks and cloud migration strategy
• Proposed ways to enhance the testing process with new tools, strategies or techniques for Performance and Automation testing
• Coordinated with onshore-offshore development, QA teams to manage testing tasks and resources
• Evaluated current process, recommended, implemented cost cutting majors and created offshore team
• Created, reviewed and approved test plan, test strategy and test scenarios for diverse applications
• Responsible for implementing Automation and Performance testing strategy to improve end to end testing coverage
• Implemented automation in Agile STLC shift left to improve end to end testing coverage
• Drove end to end testing efforts for large horizontal applications in RISK and regulatory domain such as: CCAR, Legal IT, Legal Entity, Trade Surveillance, Patrina, FileNet and Dodd-Frank.
• Implemented automation testing strategies GUI and non GUI in STLC
• Created and supported UAT test plan, strategies, test cases and executed UAT test cases
• Created and maintained project schedules, project plans, Gantt charts, specifications, deadlines, defect triage meetings, root cause analysis, RAID logs
• Researched and proposed ways to enhance the testing process with new tools, strategies or techniques for Performance and automation testing
• Coordinated with onshore/offshore development, QA teams to manage testing tasks and resources
• Work with business stakeholders, product management, project manager and engineering team to determine test planning and requirements
• Expanded, modified and restructured team, allocated resources to the projects managed onshore and offshore team simultaneously
• Utilized automation tools such as HP ALM, UFT, Cucumber, Selenium, Jira and HP LoadRunner for automation testing
• Created workload model, test strategies, data plan, scenarios, execution, reporting, analysis and tuning for performance testing Cloud base testing
• Identified, acquired and implemented test automation solutions to achieve maximum test coverage in minimal time intervals for functional regression testing
• Responsible for end to end Manual, Automation, Performance, Mobile and UAT testing

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Performance Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led, delivered and implemented a quality assurance strategies to transform over 100 financial applications (TPAT) to the cloud ( AWS Cloud) from QA and performance perspective
• Evaluated software requirements, interacted with vendors, negotiated licenses, hardware, vendor resources and other requirement in cost effective manner
• Reviewed, approved test strategies and Test Plans for various Performance Testing engagements
• Implemented, reviewed quality, delivery metrics that measure the benefits for the QA group and track the quality of products and services,
• Architected, built Quality Center and S&P base environment successfully and restructured centralized testing area
• Managed onshore- offshore teams, managed strategic vendors dispersed around the glove
• Ensure test infrastructure, test data and tools for project teams are provided in a timely manner
• Led the development of best practices for software verification and validation test strategies, conducted the development of system testing documentation, significant utilization of HP suites of products
• Created ETL Testing Strategy to validate: production validation, metadata, data completeness, incremental ETL and GUI navigation and performance testing
• Delivered all testing projects, operations of applications in multiple LOBs and partnered with development and application managers on integrating Quality Management into the overall SDLC, QALC process
• Used and supported industry standard products such as HP (ALM, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Performance Center), Monitoring tools for simulation solutions.
• Analyzed business requirements and other project-related documentation (NFR) to create workload model, test strategies, plans and etc.
• Created workload models, data and performed load, stress, baseline, endurance, capacity and resiliency testing
• Managed individuals and groups workload, project milestones and critical deliverable
• Effectively communicated test results to the senior management, other project managers, technical and non-technical members
• Performed comprehensive analysis of environments under test using industry standard profiling and monitoring tools such as: Logs, DytaTrace, Wily Introscope, SiteScope, NMON, VMSTAT, Perfmon, Nimsoft, OpTier, Geneos, Volumetrics, appdyamics
• Proposed and implemented LoadRunner scripts dynamic to reflect real user activities
• Provided training and guidance to junior performance and automation engineers

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Performance-Automation Testing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and implemented successful testing tools, environment, scripts, performance scenarios and current practices used for Performance Testing
• Provided leadership to over 20 team members onshore and offshore including budgeting, reviews and hiring
• Architected quality center base environment and created centralized testing area, version upgrade, patch deployment and data migration
• Proposed, implemented LoadRunner environment and created script changes to make them dynamic to reflect real user activities
• Tested application in AWS cloud and simulated various load conditions in cloud
• Successfully led, delivered multiple simultaneous projects within tight deadline using Agile methodology
• Created work load model to mimic the production user behavior in performance environment
• Worked with the support group to reproduce production problems and identify gaps in the regression test suite
• Researched and proposed ways to enhance the testing process with new tools, strategies or techniques for Performance testing
• Implemented tools, NMON, vmstat, SiteScope and Deep Diagnostics to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
• Coordinated with onshore/offshore development, QA teams to manage testing tasks and resources
• Served as a primary resource for all QA and Performance related tasks for multiple applications
• Work with business stakeholders, product management, project manager and engineering team to determine test planning and requirements
• Created environment documentation, coordinated tasks with middleware, help-desk support and networking teams
• Worked in a fast-paced and dynamic Agile environment with frequent software updates coinciding with major project releases
• Planned, implemented testing Apple iPad and Android based mobile device testing for the digital subscription
• Led the development of best practices for software verification and validation of test strategies, conducted the development of system testing documentation
• Identified, acquired and implemented Performance Testing solutions to achieve maximum test coverage in minimal time intervals

Confidential, New York, NY

Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Constructed and enforced new Performance Testing processes and standards
• Coordinated with onshore/offshore development and QA teams to manage testing Tasks
• Played vital role in creating offshore automation testing team
• Successfully led, delivered multiple simultaneous projects within tight deadlines using Agile methodology
• Analyzed business requirements and other project-related documentation to create test strategies, plans and automated testing scenarios/scripts.
• Managed individuals, groups workload, project milestones and critical deliverable dates
• Worked with the support group to reproduce production problems and identify gaps in the regression test suite
• Worked with developers to utilize and extend custom test harnesses for applications
• Researched and proposed way to enhance the testing process with new tools, strategies or techniques
• Provided technical and strategic leadership to the QA team
• Reviewed test scenarios and test cases ensuring 100% end-to-end functional coverage
• Served as a primary resource for manual, automated and Performance Testing
• Worked with business stakeholders, project manager and engineering team to determine test planning and requirements

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. QA-Testing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created center of excellence enterprise wise for all testing needs
• Delivered all testing projects, operations of applications in multiple LOBs and partnered with development and application managers on integrating Quality Management into the overall SDLC, STLC process
• Managed and supported industry standard products such as QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Performance Center, Monitoring tools for simulation solutions.
• Analyzed business requirements and other project-related documentation to create test strategies, plans and etc. Managed individuals and groups workload, project milestones and critical deliverable dates