SUMMARY:

• Software professional with over 17 years of experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Application System Design and Development of large complex IT projects with strong exposure to all phases of SDLC, SDP, SDM, Agile, Scrum and industry related methodologies.
• Extensive experience in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements, quality assurance, application design, GUI development and application maintenance.
• Significant hands on experience in diversified areas of unit, system, integration, regression testing and defect tracking.
• Possess strong skills in application development using Oracle tools and web technologies.
• Proficient with business intelligence technologies and methods.
• Industry expertise in automotive, automotive finance, automotive consumer information marketing, utility, and manufacturing.
• Experienced in working with multi - functional global teams.
• Strong communication, leadership and team building skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Development Tools: Cognos, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Tableau, TOAD, SQL Station, Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle XE, PostgresSQL, Visual Interdev, MacroMedia Dreamweaver, Oracle Reports 6i, Crystal Reports, Active Reports, PowerBuilder

Databases / DB Tools: Oracle 7.x, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, Teradata 14.02, MS-Access

Methodologies / Techniques: SDLC, SDP, SDM, Scrum, Agile Methodology

Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris), Linux, MS-Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP)

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, PSP, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic 6.0

Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director, Mercury Performance Center, HP Quality Center

Others: Borland CaliberRM, SharePoint, ERWIN, PVCS, Visual Source Safe,, Visio, Microsoft Office, iRise, TeamForge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Consultant/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing QA estimates based on business requirements and adhering to established schedules.
• Reviewed and analyzed business requirements and design specifications to understand the process and developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test strategies.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs in Quality Center.
• Responsible for validation of target data that is loaded using Datastage into the Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
• Validated data at various stages of the data flow, at the source and target after the Mappings are run by the Datastage developer team.
• Hands on experience in collecting several metrics and came up with corrective measures to be presented to senior management.
• Provided weekly status report to the Project Manager and discussed issues related to quality and deadlines.
• Led QA team throughout the testing life cycle such as functional, regression, system, data validation and interface testing to achieve project goals.
• Effectively communicated with Development team, Technical Support and Business Support in order to resolve the issues.

Environment: Cognos 10x, Oracle, SQL Developer, Visio, HP Quality Center, CaliberRM, SharePoint.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions with the Business stakeholders and Application SMEs to capture/analyze business requirements.
• Analyzed current (as-is) process flows and designed future (to-be) process flows.
• Prepared business requirements, functional requirements, use case specifications, test plans, test cases, test summary reports and defect tracking reports.
• Participated in requirement reviews, design reviews and test deliverable reviews.
• Executed the test cases according to the business needs and involved in system testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Environment: J2EE, Business Objects, Oracle, SQL Developer, Visio, MS Project, HP Quality Center, SharePoint.

Confidential

Project Leader/Lead Business Analyst/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated project management responsibilities in planning, estimating time lines, status reporting and project monitoring to ensure on-time product delivery with high quality.
• Led the development and testing teams in migration of complex reporting system from an older platform to the latest versions of software and hardware.
• Assessed data conversion tactics, validated the data and developed a detailed data refresh processes for continued improvements in data consistency between the outdated system and the new environment.
• Coordinated project delivery activities with project management across the organization.
• Supported project managers in managing the project risks throughout the project life cycle and in toll gate reviews.
• Conducted workshops, JAD sessions with the Business users and Application SMEs to capture/analyze business requirements.
• Prepared project plans, business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, use cases, report specifications, RTM, project logs, test strategy, test plans, test cases, test summary reports, defect tracking reports, user documents, tollgate presentations and several other SDP deliverables.
• Participated in sprint planning meetings and helped the Scrum Master in prioritizing the tasks and the product backlog.
• Participated in requirement reviews, design reviews, code reviews, test deliverable reviews and mentored the team members.
• Monitored System testing, Functional testing, Integration, Regression and Performance /Stress testing to ensure that application is developed according to the business requirements.
• Verified and assessed entry and exit criteria at System, Integration and UAT phase.
• Evaluated the defects in TeamForge bug tracking system and maintained the defect reporting log.
• Managed QA processes methodologies - including Test Plan creation, execution and reporting.
• Led offshore teams in quality audits, software testing, technical documentation and application deployments.
• Played a coordinator and an integrator role in an integrated environment.
• Involved in creating the Testing standards guide for the projects team.
• Involved in IT service requests and Rough Order Magnitude estimate responses.
• Played the role of SDP coach for the global Project group.
• Effectively managed multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Mentored new Business Analysts, Test Analysts on internal and client processes.
• Created and supported SharePoint project and team sites for the global Project group.

Environment: J2EE, Cognos 10x, MicroStrategy 9x, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, Teradata 14.02, TOAD, PVCS, Visio, MS Project, Mercury Performance Center, SharePoint, TeamForge

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from the customers and analyzed them.
• Prepared the business and functional requirement specifications.
• Developed new ETL packages and worked on functional enhancements.
• Participated in design reviews, code reviews and mentored the team members.
• Prepared system design documents, unit and system test plans and test cases.
• Executed the test cases according to the business needs.
• Involved in system testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Resolved production support issues.
• Helped the team in creating new service requests and in the daily loads of the warehouse data.
• Provided technical support, database related support, version control and scheduling support for users at various levels.
• Worked on daily uploads of production data and verified the content of the web pages for correctness.
• Converted some of the ASP applications to JSP technology and manually tested the applications for the functionality verification.
• Involved in user acceptance testing for server upgrades.

Environment: Oracle 9i, ASP, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, MacroMedia Dreamweaver

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for the VIN browse system and parts & service applications.
• Designed the UI for VIN verification system, VIN browse system and Parts & Service system.
• Involved in the development of the UI and back end business logic for all the above systems.
• Prepared unit test plan, test cases and executed the white box testing as required.
• Interfaced with the testing group and conducted system testing, black box testing, and provided to the customer on these applications.

Environment: Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, PSP, HTML, DHTML, Dynamic SQL, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Reports 6i, Crystal Reports, Active Reports, SQL Station, Visual Interdev, Visual Source Safe, Adobe Photoshop

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed various reports used for reporting energy trading activity.
• Developed the UI for downloading the data and the data manipulation scripts.
• Performed unit testing on various reports for data, consistency and presentation.

Environment: Oracle 8.x, SQL Station, PL/SQL, Oracle Reports 3.0, Visual Basic, MS-Access 97

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, designed and developed the Information System.
• Involved in the development of Personnel Management System.
• Supported the Total Productivity Support System.

Environment: Oracle 7.x, Visual Basic 5.0, PowerBuilder 5.0, MS-Access, Crystal Reports