SUMMARY

• 10 years of progressive experience in Information Technology with emphasis on leading testing teams (Onsite and Offshore), Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, System Testing on Core banking applications, Trading applications, Web and Client/Server based applications.
• Strong knowledge of theQABest Practices, Software Development Life Cycle, Methodology, Testing Standards, Test Processes, and Test Methods to validate and ensure the quality of software throughtesting.
• Extensive experience in designing Test Plans, Test Scenarios & Test Cases, generating, maintaining and analyzing tests.(Test Director, HP Quality Center & HP ALM)
• Solid experience in Test Estimation, Capacity Planner, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Testing Methodology, Execution Planner, Test Report and Defect Management.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Expertise in definingQAStrategy, Estimates and future roadmaps with onsite & offshore working model.
• Expertise inQAMethodologies like waterfall, V model and Agile with scrum methodologies with good understanding of STLC.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Black Box, Functional, Regression, System Integration, E2E, Ad - hoc, Cross Browser, Compatibility and Regression testing.
• Strong working experience in MobileTesting - iOS devices (IPhone, IPad) and Android devices (Samsung, Tablets) and as well as Device Anywhere.
• Strong knowledge in FIS core banking applications - Online Banking, CSR, Admin, Teller, RDC (Remote Deposit Application), General Ledger testing.
• Experience in ETL batch testing using Data Stage, OBIEE Reports, and Data base validations (Staging, Semantic & History tables)
• Monitoring test progress throughout the project release cycle, providing test results and detailed status reports.
• Defect Management: Defect logging, Replication, Triaging, Verification, Closing, Metrics reporting
• Team Management: Managing team, offshore - onshore coordination, interaction with cross functional team, multiple vendors, stakeholders & management
• Responsible for Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Executing, Monitoring, Controlling, Improving, Reporting and Closing of testing efforts along with cross functional Team Manager.
• People Management: Allocate resource, Monitor, Mentor and Manage the team
• Hands on working experience in writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Provided training for other team members, coordinating onsite and offshore team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Tools: ALM, Quality Center, Test Director

Testing Concepts: Quality Gate, Entry and Exit Criteria, Smoke, Functional test, System Test, SITUAT, Regression, end-to-end and, Sanity Testing, Unit Testing, Enterprise integration Testing, Security Testing, Traceability MatrixTest Planning, Test Estimation, Defect Management

CMS Tools: SharePoint

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 2000/NT 4.0/95/98/XP, Windows 7, Linux

Databases: MS SQL Server, TOAD, Oracle and Access

PMIS Tools: Clarity, MS Project and VISIO

Methodologies: Waterfall, VModel, Agile methodology (Scrum)

Others: Data Stage, Unix - WinSCP & Putty, IPhones, IPad, Samsung Devices and Tablets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and executing test plans (MTP & DTP), test cases for different releases.
• Requirements understanding and estimates test effort, defines test schedule.
• Manage test delivery and ensure the test process is followed as per the Test Approach / Test plan
• Attending Requirement Walkthrough meetings and Functional Overview meetings with Business and vendor team.
• Conducting walk-through of Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases to Clients and Business.
• App installation/uninstallation and maintaining software upgrade in mobile devices.
• Perform mobile testing on both IOS devices and Android devices.
• Ensuring all tests within the plans is executed completely and test results are recorded.
• Executing test cases and tracking the results in Quality Center 10.0 and HP ALM
• Analyzing and reviewing the defects identified by testers and maintain the same in Quality Center 10.0 and HP ALM.
• Determines the risk based approach testing whenever budget/time constraint arises.
• Coordination with stake holders, developers, BAs to assist in clarification of technical issues
• Mentored junior team members on testing methodologies and application work flow.
• Defect identification, tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Actively involved in user sign off process for defect fixes and enhancements in off cycle releases
• Escalation of critical issues to Business for resolution.
• Participated in Weekly team meetings and walk through to discuss status report and schedule task
• Coordination and support to UAT Team for Test Data preparation and Execution.
• Requirements traceability and test set maintenance in Quality Center 10.0 and HP ALM.
• Daily and Weekly status reporting to Client.
• Test summary report preparation for every release and provides QA Signoff.
• Conducts retrospection sessions and plan for future improvements.
• Coordination with onshore and offshore team on regular basis for all phases of testing.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the team in all testing phases.
• Requirement analysis based on the business requirement document.
• Created Test Strategy, Test Plan documents and Execution activities based on the requirements and applications.
• Verified traceability of Test Conditions to Test Cases
• Provided Test Estimates for various phases of the project
• Preparing the Test Metrics for Senior Management.
• Preparing Weekly Status Reports and present to QA Manager.
• Preparing Project Metrics every fortnight.
• Creating test closure report.
• Tracking project issues, risk and constraints
• Taking corrective actions as and when required.
• Monitoring the progress of all individuals in the team and identify plans for their technical advancement
• Maintaining deliverables in high quality by producing Weekly Dash board Metrics, DSR, WSR and Execution status report.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Software Engineer, I have created maintained and executed test plan, test cases for different releases.
• Requirements understanding and estimates test effort, defines test schedule.
• Creating test cases and maintaining in Test Director.
• Analyzing and reviewing the defects identified by testers and maintain the same in Test Director.
• Release installation in QA Servers and QA test bed maintenance (Linux environment)
• Security test cases creation and execution using WEBSCRAB.
• Weekly status reporting to QA Manager.
• Test summary report preparation for every release.
• Coordination with development team for defect fixes.
• Conducts retrospection sessions and plan for future improvements.
• Coordination and support for automation execution of regression test scripts for all releases.
• Coaching and mentoring team members as needed.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements understanding, creating, maintaining and executing test cases for projects.
• Test cases execution and results maintenance in Test Director.
• Defects identification and logged in Test Director.
• Execution status reporting to QA Lead.