PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A Project Management Elite program certified from Infosys with forward thinking, capable and committed senior lead with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co - ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a structured environment.
• Able to focus on any task at hand and to utilize existing test knowledge including agile methodology, experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes.
• Having good leadership, negotiation and communication skill and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third party test teams.
• Effective business communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams in multi-vendor projects.
• Managed large test teams of 25+ members in a Global Delivery Model.
• Strong focus on risk management from Inception stage of the project.
• Strong influencing and Communication skills.
• Flexible attitude and positive approach and ability to lead offshore testing teams.
• Experience of client facing roles and in constantly maintaining high levels of accuracy.
• Ability to learn different applications quickly with minimal documentation.
• An understanding & appreciation of the full development life cycle & how testing relates to it.
• Experience in translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test scenarios.
• Good experience in training new team member.
• Good experience in translating Business requirements to understandable IT systems requirements and Implementing CMM Methods & Procedures across the organization.
• Ability to support agile capability pattern projects.
• Around 11 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance Management.
• Proficient in System, Functional, Regression and UAT at client site for different applications.
• Interaction with business at client site for UAT.
• Gathering business requirement as BA and converting business requirement in to technical requirement.
• Experience in ETL, Data-warehouse and Database Testing with strong knowledge on SQL.
• Experience in Unit testing, Integration testing, GUI testing, functional testing, system testing, Black box and Product testing, Regression testing, End to End Testing, UAT and agile methodology.
• Strong analytical and QA/ testing skills, capacity for work and diagnostic ability, Gathering different kind of projects requirement.
• Proficient in designing, reviewing and documenting system test plans, defining test procedures, test strategies and creating test cases on the basis of product release features, client’s requirements and related technical documents.
• Experience in testing of Web based and Client/Server Applications.
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong IT industry experience in Banking & Finance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Annuity and Data ware House.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive and analytical skills.
• Experience in Business solutions like Basel II, ALM & KYC and also having experience of implementation of OFSAA ( Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications previously known as Reveleus in Confidential )
• Certified for AHIP part A, part B and Managed Care of health domain. Also certified LOMA 281 of Insurance.
• Expert in writing SQL queries to validate the data loaded in the target tables and business rules at different databases like Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Quality Center,HP ALM, Clear Quest, Clear Case, VSS, PL/SQL DeveloperTOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, ERWIN4.1, Win-Runner, MPP, Autosys SchedulerData Stage Designer and Director, Jazz and Basics of Ab-Initio

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL and Shell Scripting

Database Technologies: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Basic knowledge on Mainframe

Platforms: UNIX and Windows

OLAP: Hyperion Essbase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: Windows, Data Stage, Autosys Scheduler, SQL Developer, UNIX, Oracle, XML

Responsibilities:

• Participation in Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Participation in LLD and HLD discussion.
• Coordination with external vendors and conducting triage meeting
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test scripts for SIT and UAT for AIC.
• Preparation of Test Data and Business scenarios for UAT.
• Test execution for different releases and reporting in ALM, Daily status update.
• Executing Data Stage jobs and validation of business transformation rules for ODS and NODS tables.
• Work closely with Business and Developers and conduct triages.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries and XML validation.
• Tracking project through Jazz by creating Story, tasks and backlogs etc.
• Validating PROD fixes and preparation of Test Phase Summary Report.

Confidential

QA PM

Environment: Windows, UNIX, Oracle, XML

Responsibilities:

• Participation in Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Participation in LLD and HLD discussion
• Coordinating with three external vendors and conducting triage meeting
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test scripts for SIT and UAT for AIC.
• Preparation of Test Data and Business scenarios for UAT.
• Test execution for M3 release and reporting in Mercury QC, Daily status update.
• Work closely with Business and Developers and conduct triages.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries and XML validation.

Confidential

UAT Test Specialist and BA

Environment: Windows, Mainframes, SQL-Server,DB2

Responsibilities:

• Develop Requirements, Test strategy, Test Plan and Test scripts for UAT of MLR.
• Preparation of Test Data and Business scenarios for UAT.
• Query from database backend verification
• Verification of logic of rebate calculation.
• Test execution. Reporting in Mercury QC, Daily status update.
• Verification of fulfillment packages for different Pool and State
• Work closely with Business and Developers and conduct triages on daily basis.
• Production implementation with support during warranty period.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries.

Confidential

Project Lead and QA Manager

Environment: DB2, Mainframes, SQL, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert(SME) for EDW testing, Requirement Analysis, Understanding and effort estimation, Test Strategizing and Test Planning and reviewing all deliverables, Reviewing Test scripts and execution, Task assignment, planning and tracking, Issue resolution and Test status reporting, Client coordination and PQA Audit.
• Estimation for new projects and submission of new proposals for increased business.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries.
• Review test strategy and test plan document created out of requirement document.
• Offshore-Onsite coordination.
• Responsible for all the aspects related to the quality of the delivery including preparation of MSR and QMR for the project. This project was evaluated at CMMi Level5 by the SQA.
• Showcasing team’s domain and technical skill set to the client through monthly presentation to the client.

Confidential

Associate Consultant and Project Lead

Environment: Unix, Windows, Java, JSP, SQLServer2000, Oracle, DB2, AIX5.3, Web sphere and Tomcat Application Server.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the new functionalities from functional & requirement specification.
• Creation of Test Plan, Test scripts and review of those for the other team members.
• Functional, Integration and Regression testing.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries.
• Involved in testing the Data Warehouse product for internationalization (i18N) as part of Quality Assurance Team according to its functionality and suggesting enhancement features.
• Applying builds on the test environment.
• Identification of bugs and raising it to developers to fix.
• Updating status to all stake holders on daily basis.
• Coordination and management of testing activities in the testing team.
• Preparation of TRS and presenting to all stake holders after release.
• Conducting audit with SQA before releasing the product.
• Implementation of the product at client site.
• Testing of support patches for different client released from Global support team of Reveleus.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: Windows 2000, Visual Basic and ORACLE

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the whole requirement specification.
• Development of test scripts for system and regression testing.
• Prepared test cases for usability testing for all the modules.
• Test backend applications by writing SQL queries.
• Rigorous testing for all the modules and functionalities.
• Generation of defect reports and reporting it to development team for bug fixing.
• Weekly status update to all stake holders through presentation.
• Post deployment support and testing of support patches.