Cognos Qa Lead/onsite Coordinator Resume
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SUMMARY:
- An ISTQB Certified QA Lead with 8 Years of Expertise in Software Quality Assurance.
- Expertise in setting up Test Center of Excellence & Test Shared Services Utilities.
- Expertise in working as Automation & ETL Test Architect, QA Lead and Individual contributor.
- Excellent Vendor management skills. Skilled expertise in managing both Onsite and Offshore resources.
- Expertise in Direct Interaction with Clients, leading large scale projects, managing multiple teams and coordination in Onshore Offshore Model.
- Hand on experience in Robotic Process Automation(RPA) with Open Span 7.1 across different platforms and successful implementation of Automated products in Production environment.
- Hand on experience in Regression & Functional Test Automation with Selenium Webdriver with Cucumber & Gherkin.
- Excellent in Building Automation frameworks (Behavior - Driven, Data Driven)
- Good experience in Performance Testing Reporting tools: Business Objects, BI, Crystal Reports, and Cognos Reports 10 & 11 (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Cubes, Dimensions)
- Having experience in Insurance Underwriting and Claims Applications, Debit and credit card Testing.
- Having hand on experience in Agile Methodology (Scrum & Kanban), waterfall, Iterative.
- Having hand on experience JIRA, HP ALM (Quality Center), Rally, PMF.
- Hand on experience in ETL/DW Testing with Data stage 11 and Informatica tool with different platforms.
- Expertise in performing variety of test to measure system performance including load test, performance test, capacity test, soak (duration) test.
- Hand on Experience in Preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents. FTE Efforts estimation. Involved in all end to end STLC and SDLC phases.
- Expertise in handling Capital & Maintenance large scale Projects and Migration Projects.
- Hand on Experience in Conducting Product Demo to Clients.
- Hand on Experience in Pega Testing, Web services Testing using Soap UI, SAP Testing.
- Demonstrated abilities in deriving scenarios and test cases based on business requirements and technical specifications.
- Proficient in writing SQL Queries involving complex join conditions. Donedatabase Testing, data integrity validation.
- Strong Domain expertise in BFSI, Health Care, e-Commerce, Retail industry,Travel Domain(Hotels & Resorts) and expert on Quality Assurance and Project Management.
- Experience in leading, planning, estimation, execution and tracking of Large Scale testing projects.
- Expert in CMMI Level Audits and complete QA Process (ADM & PCI Compliance).
- Experience in mentoring and executing Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery best practices
- Expert in Risk Analysis and Contingency Plans.
SKILL:
- Test Plan & Test Strategy
- Test Management
- Quality Assurance
- Mobile Apps Testing
- Web services Testing
- Pega testing
- SQL/Oracle
- Oracle RAC
- Automation testing (Robotic and Regression)
- Functional & Integration Testing
- ETL Testing
- Performance Testing
- Requirement Analysis
- Waterfall Model
- Agile (Scrum & Kanban)
- TestNG
- Excel Macros
- ITSM & Service Now
- System & UAT Testing
- Process Improvement
- PMF
- ALM(QC)
- JIRA
- QTP
- Java
- Putty
- New Relic
- Macess & Xceleys
- Data Stage
- Cognos 10.2, 11
- Life Cycle Manager
- Application Manager
- BFSI & Healthcare Domain e-commerce Domain
- Cloud Testing
- Cucumber & Gherkin
- WinSCP
- Motio CI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Arizona
Cognos QA Lead/Onsite Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Perform detailed analysis on the requirement and create User stories in rally
- Effective Coordination between clients and offshore team, ensured deliverables are accurately reached on daily basis.
- Responsible for Test Planning, Test Estimation, development of test, create test data and conducting Cognos functional (Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Cubes, Dimensions) & Automation test on software system and creating result analysis report
- Handling 12 Members Team (in offshore)
- Responsible for Planning, development of Regression Automation Scripts for hotel management applications, test, create test data and conducting performance test on software system and creating performance analysis report.
- Task Allocation to Team members
- Requirement Traceability Preparation with ALM and Rally.
- Resource Planning and Effort Estimation for all types of requirements (Functional & Automation)
- Created, maintained and update ETL Test Scripts and Data validations.
- Created, maintained and update Automation Test Scripts using Selenium Webdriver & Cucumber
- Involved in Data warehouse testing and Cognos Migration testing (Analysis Studio, Report Studio, Query Studio)
- Involved in end to end Report Testing and Regression testing using the Iterative methodologies based on the Test Scenarios and detailed Test Cases.
- Effective and Timely Coordination with Offshore counterparts & Clients and sending the Daily Status Reports.
- Ensure Agile Kanban dashboard is updated correctly based on resource expected and actual hours.
- Test Summary Report Preparation.
- Root Cause Analysis document preparation
Software:
Platform: Windows 7.
Technology: Rally, HP ALM (Quality Center)
Database Tools: Oracle 11G
Other Tools: Cognos 10.2 & 11, Application Manager ( Cognos Data Manager), Lifecycle Manager, Datastage, Selenium Webdriver & Cucumber, ITSM, New Relic, Motio CI
Confidential, New Jersey
QA Lead/Onsite Coordinator/Testing Architect
Responsibilities:
- Built and Implemented enterprise-level Testing application suites and conducted analysis
- Onsite Coordination between clients and offshore team, ensured deliverables are accurately reached on daily basis.
- Responsible for Test Planning, Test Estimation, development of test, create test data and conducting functional & Automation test on software system and creating result analysis report
- Handling 8 Members Team (Two in Onsite and 6 in offshore)
- Responsible for Planning, development of Robotic Process Automation Scripts(RPA)with Openspan7.1, test, create test data and conducting performance test on software system and creating performance analysis report.
- Task Allocation to Team members
- Requirement Traceability Preparation with ALM and PMF.
- Resource Planning and Effort Estimation for all types of requirements (Functional & Performance)
- Created, maintained and update ETL Test Scripts and Data validations.
- Created, maintained and update Automation Test Scripts using Selenium Webdriver and Java & TestNG and Robotic Process Automation with Open span.
- Involved in Data warehouse testing and Cognos report testing (Query Studio)
- MOM Preparation and publishing
- Preparing and executing Pega Application test scripts.
- Involved in Mobile Applications Testing with Perfecto.
- Involved in end to end Functional Testing and Regression testing using the Iterative methodologies based on the Test Scenarios and detailed Test Cases.
- Effective and Timely Coordination with Offshore counterparts & Clients and sending the Daily Status Reports.
- Ensure Agile Scrum board is updated correctly based on resource expected and actual hours.
- Test Closure Document Preparation.
- Root Cause Analysis document preparation
Software:
Platform: Windows 7.
Technology: HP ALM, Rally, PMF
Database Tools: Oracle 11G, Sybase
Other Tools: Duck creek, Selenium Webdriver with Cucumber & Gherkin, Pega, SAP, Openspan, Datastage, Cognos, Jmeter,Perfecto
Confidential
Test Lead / Database & ETL Tester
Responsibilities:
- Analysis of Functional design documents in Jira Performed Functional and Database Testing and updated Test execution status
- Performed Integration Testing and End to End Testing to make sure complete modules are tested System Test cases and Test Scenario Design and Test Execution with Jira
- Conducted Weekly Conference calls with Clients regarding module status XML Testing
- Performed Regression & Retesting Defect life cycle performed with Jira Requirement Traceability Matrix Preparation to ensure all Requirements are tested.
- Review Report Preparation and publish to stake holders Reviewing Peer Test Scripts and Test Scenarios and raise review comments
Software:
Platform: Windows XP,Windows 7.
Technology: Web Based Application built on J2EE and XML
Database Tools: Oracle 11G,SQL.
Other Tools: QC,Jira,Putty,WinSCP