SUMMARY

• Over 13 years of experience in Software Testing includes Test Effort Estimation, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Reporting and Closure using both Manual and Automation approach in different domains like Banking and Financial Services, Advertising & Media and Health Care.
• Deft in handling project management activities which include planning, design, scope management, estimation, resource administration, etc
• A result driven professional with strong client centric skills and an agile approach to testing delivery, proven ability to support multiple projects with medium to high complexity.
• Adept at understanding and determining client requirements, project scheduling and technology planning along with excellent team leading capabilities. Team based management style and excellent interpersonal / communication skills.
• Organization & horizontal level contributions like Resourcing, Process Compliance Audits, and Software Testing Training. Team building activities such as Team outings, Fun activities, Associate Birthday Celebrations and Team Lunch.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Win 7/XP/2000/NT/98/95,Mac Tiger

Testing Tool: HP QTP,Rational Robot

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Jira,Bugzilla, Test Director, PTR, ETracker

Test Management Tools: ALM,HP Quality Center, TFS, AQI tool

Version Control Tool: Rational Clear Case, Cognizant 2.0, Prolite

ERP: SAP SD 4.7, ECC6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Manager

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Communication Manager
• Global Payment Utility
• Document Manager
• Offer Manager
• Wallet API Services (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Citi Pay, Android Pay)

Environment: Windows 7, Java, JSP, Mainframe - CICS, DB2, Oracle, TIBCO, MQ Series, Cognos, Informatica, HP UFT, ALM, SOAP UI, and SharePoint.

• Test Effort Estimation & Review, approval of SoW
• Sprint planning and assign tasks to the team.
• Review of User Stories
• Prepare Program level Master Test Plan document.
• Analyze BRD’s and prepare Testability Assessments
• Analyze and review NFR’s
• Participate in SDLC stage gate review audits and follow up on audit results.
• Develop the traceability matrix between test requirements and test cases.
• Lead both the Manual testing and UI Automation testing tracks
• Review the BSD’s and develops Functional Test Scenarios.
• Test Script Development, Review and Execution.
• Understanding Enterprise Automation Framework and leverage in GPD ESB program for automating using HP UFT & Web Services Testing using SOAP UI respectively.
• Test management & Bug tracking using ALM
• Publish daily, weekly and monthly metrics and status reporting.
• Resourcing based on the QS requirements
• Weekly team meetings with QS core group to have a check point on the release.
• Business walk through on Test Plan, Test Data, and Test Cases & Test logs.
• Periodic Performance reviews of the team and provide the timely feedback.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination

Test Manager

Confidential, NC

Environment: Win XP, ASP.net, Mainframe-CICS, Mainframe-TSO/ISPF, DB2, SQL Server, QTP 11.0, ALM, TFS, AQI, TAF, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Requirement review meetings with Business, Developer, SME and QA Analysts.
• Test Effort Estimation & Sprint Planning.
• Review of User Stories
• Prepare Release level Test Plan document.
• Developed the traceability matrix between test requirements and test cases.
• Lead both the Manual testing track on Mainframe part and Automation testing track on front end (.Net based applications)
• Test Script Development, Review and Execution.
• Understanding TAF Framework and leverage in Loans for automating using QTP.
• Development & Execution the test scripts with QTP 11.
• Identifying and development of reusable functions.
• Functionality testing and Regression testing using QTP 11.
• Test management & Bug tracking using ALM.
• AQI (Application Quality Index)Dashboard preparation for status reporting
• Publish daily, weekly and monthly test execution metrics and status reporting.
• Support Business team in UAT
• Lead and mentor the onsite and offshore QA team.
• Resourcing based on the TCoE requirements (Internal & External Recruitment)
• Weekly team meetings with TCoE core group to have a check point on the release.
• Mitigate the risks in weekly Ever Green report with the help of contingency plans.
• Business walk through on Test Plan, Test Data, and Test Cases & Test logs.
• Periodic Performance reviews of the team and provide the timely feedback.
• Facilitate the trainings and knowledge sharing sessions among the teams to gain more knowledge on the module/project.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination

Conversion Test Manager

Confidential, NC

Environment: Win XP, Java, JSP, TIBCO, Mainframe, TFS, ALM

Responsibilities:

• Create Master Test Plan and Track testing progress.
• Resource Allocation and Status Tracking.
• Plan and follow the Dress Rehearsal schedule.
• Represent and Organize the ADS team meetings.
• Lead the ADS, ETS and SME teams to deliver the deliverables with in the schedule.
• Work closely with the team on day to day basis to achieve time sensitive conversion deadlines.
• Validate data and field mapping are working as expected.
• Validate the data flow from up and down stream applications as expected.
• Participate and execute in Integrated Testing Dress Rehearsal to validate the converted components are working fine with Branch Banking & Trust Company components.
• Certifying the SIT test builds to move to UAT.
• Test Design, Execution and Bug tracking using TFS.
• Prepare and Publish test summary report to all the project stake holders.
• Develop and Maintenance of testing artifacts with Share Point Portal.

QA Lead

Confidential, NC

Environment: Win XP, ASP.net, SQL Server, QTP 10.0, QC 10.0

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and developing Test Requirement Specification document.
• Test Script development and Execution.
• Data Migration testing from Legacy to Rewrite.
• Smoke test to validate the test environment/build for test readiness.
• Patch and Tech refresh testing in Production Fix Envt.
• Identify and create test data for Test Cases.
• Development & Execution the test scripts with QTP 10.
• Functionality testing and Regression testing using QTP 10.
• Bug Tracking using Quality Center 10.
• Dashboard preparation for daily status tracking and reporting.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination.

QA Lead

Confidential, TX

Environment: Windows XP, Java, JSP, TIBCO, JMeter, SOAP UI, QTP 10.0, QC, CRAFT, and

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and developing Test Requirement Specification document.
• Review the existing process and recommend improvements
• Understanding the ICC PQA application and build the KT repository
• Effort Estimation & Master Test Plan Preparation
• Identify Test Conditions & Prepare Test Data
• Develop and Review Test Scripts
• Test Execution and Reporting
• Defect Triages with Dev and business teams
• Prepare Test Summary Report
• Bug Tracking using Quality Center 10.
• Dashboard preparation for daily status tracking and reporting.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination.

UAT Lead

Confidential, CA

Environnent: Win XP, VAX, VMS, QC 9.2, Citrix

Responsibilities:

• Requirement review meeting with Source System & Surround System teams to define the testing scope on the impacted systems with the Change Request or Enhancements.
• Review BSD & TSD documents and Prepare Test Strategy document.
• Coordinating the test data flow from Source System to Target System.
• Developed the traceability matrix between Test Requirements and Test Cases.
• Perform environment readiness check for UAT Testing
• Prepared test data for UAT testing
• Coordinate and track UAT execution progress
• Daily reporting and publish metrics to Project Manager
• Identify risks in execution and develop contingency plans
• Defect Triage and Reporting
• Used Quality Center for reporting, tracking, and storing the test cases.
• Securing approvals from the Business Owners for Testing Completion.

QA Lead

Confidential

Environment: Win XP, JavaScript, Java Swing, JSP, Oracle 9i, 10g, IBM Web Sphere, QTP 9.2, TD, SAP EEC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• QA ownership of multiple applications in NYT Ad Portal like R4 (Classified ads), R3 (Display Ads), ATP, A2K, R1 (Transient Ads), and R5, Delegated Admin, LMS (Logo Management System, SAP Portal.
• Responsible to gather Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Use Cases
• Create Specific Test Scenarios for Business Rules.
• Identify and create test data for Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Understanding the existing NYT Ad Portal application.
• Identifying the impacted areas for the bug fixes and developing Test Cases.
• Analyzing the impact on the application with enhancements.
• Feasibility analysis of the application for automation.
• Framework setup with QTP 9.2
• Development & Execution the test scripts with QTP 9.2.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination