Lead Qa Consultant Resume
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Basking, RidgE
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.