SUMMARY

• An ISTQB certified dynamic professional with more than 10 years of rich experience in leading Software Quality Assurance with Automation and Manual Testing. Hands on experience in end - to-end development life cycle of software products/projects from inception, requirement specs, planning, designing, configuration management, documentation and closure with cross-cultural teams.
• Leadthe creation oftestplans - including technical and business requirements.
• Identify risks and prepare mitigation plans.
• Work with business analysts to ensure dat teh business requirements are adequate.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts within teh QA organization.
• Support and provide constructive feedback on existing process and standards.
• Research and evaluate new testing technologies and tools.
• Offer technical guidance to QA engineers.
• Play leadership role during test plan and test case reviews providing direct feedback to onsite and offshore QA engineers.
• Experienced in designing HLFD (High Level Functional Design), Flow Diagrams and Use Cases.
• Helping managers with project planning, effort estimation and cost estimation.
• Experience of and mentoring teams with relevant software testing and domain noledge.
• Strong experience of tracking and communicating team's daily and weekly status highlighting s, challenges and current progress.
• Experienced with different SDLC models including Waterfall, V, Agile (Scrum), etc.
• Experienced in designing HLFD (High Level Functional Design), Flow Diagrams and Use Cases.
• Helping scrum masters in designing Project backlogs and Sprint backlogs.
• Demonstrated excellence in transforming teh manual regression testing effort to automation testing.
• Proven record of designing a highly reusable Keyword driven automation framework.
• Expertise in Test Automation using Selenium Webdriver and JAVA.
• A Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner with proven expertise in reducing defects and saving costs.
• Good communication skills and experience of communicating with client for requirement gathering, analysis and scoping.
• Strong Business and Application analysis skills with time management, communication and presentation skills.
• Experience interacting with teh Clients and teh Business users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Key Skills: Test Lead, BA, Manual testing, Automation Testing and Process Improvement

Operating Systems: Windows and Unix

Languages: Java

Database: SQL

Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Quality Center / ALM, JIRA, Confluence, AceProject, Mantis, Bugzilla, StarTeam, RationalQuality Manager, MS Office, MS Visio, SoapUI.

Domains: Utilities, Investment Banking and Government

Methodology: Waterfall, V, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Basking Ridge

Lead QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing teh functional requirements.
• Creation of design documents like HLFD.
• Test Estimation.
• Risk and impact analysis.
• Creation of Test Plan, Test Approach, Test Data, Test Evidences, etc.
• Involved in reviews and audits to ensure dat deliverables are in accordance with SOX compliance.
• Data Analysis.
• System testing and coordinating teh UAT effort.
• Coordination with stakeholders for timely and efficient delivery.
• Offshore coordination for task assignment, completion and tracking.
• Web Services testing using SOAPUI.
• Creation and execution of automation scripts using Selenium webdriver and Java.

Confidential

Lead QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing teh functional requirements.
• Estimating teh test effort in terms of number of test cases and teh ma hours.
• Coordinating with teh offshore teams to ensure dat teh task progress is on track.
• Mindmap preparation as a part of Test Planning.
• Constantly monitoring teh task progress for teh module and ensuring dat teh deadlines are never missed.
• Communication with teh end users through scrum calls to keep everyone informed about teh progress of each task.
• Stringently reviewing teh test cases and ensuring dat teh review findings are incorporated.
• Helping teh team with teh hands-on execution of teh test cases and evidence gathering.
• Planning teh automation effort for teh recurring test effort.
• Estimating teh approximate ROI on teh automation testing effort.
• Planning and designing teh keyword driven automation framework considering teh timelines and reusability.
• Conducting teh feasibility study for automating teh test cases in each sprint.
• Creating test scripts and test data.
• Defect reporting and tracking till its closure.
• Supporting teh smoke testing effort during teh deployment.
• Creation of lessons learnt document at end of each sprint.
• Worked on an onsite/offshore model with regular on call coordination with teh offshore teams.

Confidential, NY

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing teh functional requirements.
• Estimating teh test effort in terms of number of test cases and teh ma hours.
• Task scheduling, assigning and tracking.
• Constantly monitoring teh task progress for teh module and ensuring dat teh deadlines are never missed.
• Communication with teh end users to identify teh key test scenarios and converting those to teh test cases.
• Stringently reviewing teh test cases and ensuring dat teh review findings are incorporated.
• Maintaining teh traceability matrix to ensure teh thorough requirement coverage.
• Helping teh team with teh hands on execution of teh test cases.
• Planning teh automation effort for teh recurring test effort.
• Estimating teh approximate ROI on teh automation testing effort.
• Planning teh automation framework design considering teh timelines and reusability.
• Helping team with teh test scripts and test data.
• Defect reporting and tracking till its closure.
• Supporting teh smoke testing effort during teh deployment.
• Ensuring dat teh process adheres to regulatory areas like BASEL, CCAR, FR Y-9, etc.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Discussing teh requirements with various stake holders including end users.
• Reviewing teh documents provided as a part of FD pack (Functional Documentation Pack).
• Documenting teh findings in PAR (Preparation Audit Reports).
• Writing teh summarized requirement understanding document with diagrammatic representation of flows.
• Coaching and mentoring teh test team with exhaustive noledge transfer sessions and ensuring dat teh entire team is on teh same page.
• Estimating teh test preparation and test execution efforts.
• Stringently monitor teh test preparation activities dat includes writing Test Conditions, Test Profiling, Manual Test Scripts, etc.
• Involved in internal reviews of teh test preparation deliverables.
• Facilitating teh business level reviews of all teh test preparation deliverables.
• Generating test data for claims and settlements.
• Coordinating with teh Test Support teams to come up with a Detailed Test Execution Plan involving online activities as well as Batch Suite execution.
• Closely monitor teh test execution activity while supporting teh team with hands on testing.
• Reporting and tracking teh defects to their closure.
• Ensuring dat proper test evidences are generated and reviewed.
• Documenting teh evidence review comments in EAR (Execution Audit Report).
• Ensuring dat teh test effort is completed within teh planned schedule without any budget over runs.
• Highlighting teh risks and challenges as and when they appear.
• Attending teh checkpoint meetings with teh onsite counterparts to communicate teh accurate progress and resolving teh challenges dat teh team might be facing.
• Ensuring teh timely signoff of teh test evidences.
• Formally completing teh test closure activities by updating teh STAD System Test Appreciation Document) and Lessons Learnt Document.