SUMMARY

• Hands on 15 years of experience in leading and executing large complex Tier 1 testing engagements and programs for large organizations like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential Bank.
• Creditable experience in managing and delivering Automation of functional and regression suits using UFT, Selenium, Cucumber, Lisa and other toolsets for larger ROI.
• Strong business aptitude with ability to understand business processes and technical requirements.
• Pioneer in delivering In - sprint automation using a BDD approach and shift left the automation from regression to sprint level.
• Experience in managing all aspects of testing deliveries in Waterfall and Agile methodology including budgeting, planning, forecasting, estimation, test strategy, test plan, test data, test environments, CI/CD and DevOps.
• Experience in executing all types of testing including GUI, API, Performance, Capacity, Functional, UAT, Regression, Inflight, Recovery, Mainframe, Data-driven, Web method and Non-functional testing.
• Release management, Test Environments and Test Data Management.
• Onshore and offshore team coordination and management.
• Resource forecasting, demand management, allocations, and productivity optimization.
• Influential, thoughtful and collaborative leadership for successful delivery.
• Strong vendor, people, and stakeholder management.
• Crisp and clear in speaking and writing communication skills.
• Global work exposure at Canada, US, UK and South Africa.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: Windows 2000/NT, UNIX, iOS, MacOS, Android.

Tools: and Testing: Functional and non-functional testing, JIRA, Confluence, Perforce and QTP, Mainframe testing and Green hat, Selenium, Jenkins, Cucumber, LISA, HP ALM

Banking Domain: Payments, GPP, CLS, Currencies,Retail banking, Corporate Banking, ACH, ISO8583, EFT, Sanctions, Cash management, Contact Center, FX trades, Wire transfers, Payments, SWIFT and EDIFACT.

Others: VM ware, Blade logic, Service Now, Web view MQ, IBM TivoliandWeb method testing, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Docker/Container, PeopleSoft testing, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Consultant/QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Own Test Strategy and planning for the project.
• Interaction and coordination with Development, Design teams, project management and Business teams.
• Prepare Test scenarios, Test scripts and involved in Test execution.
• Usage of HP ALM for Test Management and Defect Tracking.
• UFT Automation regression suite execution.
• Coordinate with Business for UAT and Integration testing scope.
• Conduct webservice testing and Multiple device testing for application.
• Conduct Defect Triage meeting and ensure quick turnaround for defect fixes.
• Review testing artifacts.
• Provide timely and accurate progress to Management and stakeholders.
• Device testing on different devices and browsers.

QE Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading QE efforts in Agile (Scrum) methodology portfolio having 7-8 Scrum teams and single point of contact for Testing.
• Owning and implementing Test Strategy, Automation Test Strategy and Test Plans for larger programs and multiple projects.
• Led transformation efforts for Manual testing to Automation testing drive.
• Participation and contribute in technical, design, architecture and Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Work closely with Scrum Masters and Development leads to align deployments and builds.
• Act as Scrum Master for 2 scrum teams on need basis.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, collaborating with development team, product owner and contributing to product development by completing automation and manual testing tasks of each iteration.
• Identify Automation opportunities and implementation using Selenium, Cucumber and SoapUI.
• LISA Virtualization of SOAP and Rest webservices for third party systems.
• Lead API automation, BDD Automation using Cucumber and Selenium Automation efforts.
• Responsible for designing frameworks for different automation needs, leading automation executions, maintenance and new development of all applications.
• Release planning, vendor management, task assignment, coordination along with staff management, coaching and stakeholder communication to plan testing activities.
• Coordinating efforts for Test Environment readiness, impact analysis, change and hotfix builds and Integration testing.
• Conducting System, Integration and Production Verification testing.
• Shift left Automation testing from Regression to Sprint level.
• Implement Quality governance processes and engineering disciplines aligned with organization roadmap.
• Implement continuous Integration for Automation tests using DevOps tools like Jenkins and Docker/Container.
• Coach and Mentor teams, hiring, vendor management, stakeholder management and involvement into other organizational activities.

IT Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• End to End Program Test management for Tier 1 Strategic program for Confidential in Finance group.
• Understand the high level and detailed level requirements and clarify any issues/queries.
• Estimate, monitor and control testing budget for projects above 1MM CAD.
• Define Technology Test Strategy and approach
• Engagement with the vendor, business teams and key stakeholders.
• Review and approve business, performance and component test strategies.
• Identify resource forecast and prepare a resource model.
• Identify test data and test environment requirements.
• Review test scenarios and test cases.
• Identify testing risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions, and their mitigation
• Engage upstream and downstream systems for testing support.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Program manager for Infrastructure upgrade initiative.
• Working closely with Business, DBAs, Application teams for Test/Dev and Prod upgrade
• Preparing and aligning Project plan, Budget, Schedule, Scope, Test Strategy and Test plan.
• Preparing Test scenarios and checklist for Pre-upgrade, upgrade and post-upgrade testing of Databases.
• Production Test data profiling and securing. Production builds testing and readiness.
• Offshore and onshore tester coordination and management.
• Test automation and execution of regression Test tests.
• Monitoring and controlling overall budget, schedule and scope.

Program Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• End to End Test Manager for Tier 1 Services- CustD and FCL in Global Payments.
• Create and execute test plans, test data, test environment, scenarios and scripts for manual testing.
• Analyze and ensure business requirement test coverage based on QA standards.
• Test Data identification, Test Data profiling, and obfuscation for sensitive information.
• Test Data Strategy for SWIFT messages required for Functional and non-functional testing.
• Understanding test data requirements for payment feeds to be processed and secure live data.
• Automation using QTP and Greenhat for creating utilities and simulators for downstream and upstream systems.
• Test Data creation for MT type messages for SWIFT.
• Using Greenhat tester to generate the test data for input feeds in DB and MQ queues.
• Work with business analysis and development teams to understand business and technical requirements and/ or gaps.
• Occasionally interact with business subject matter experts as needed.
• Contribute to QA testing improvements based on prior and current experience

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for releasing deliverables as per the agreed acceptance criteria and quality standards
• Align resources and test execution across different teams.
• Conduct workshops with functional and IT teams to document test cases for integration and end-to-end test scenarios.
• Work closely with other work streams to identify dependencies.
• Consistently adhere to client security protocols: access, data, etc.
• Ensure all deliverables are of high quality and delivered on time.
• Functional and Automation Testing using QTP.
• Hands on with GH Tester to test FX and SWIFT messages for Capacity and Performance Testing.
• ETL Testing for SWIFT to EDIFACT conversions.
• Usage of SQL and Unix to test Web methods.

Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Testing of Internet Banking System for Retail Banking product division.
• Worked at Confidential (South Africa) with the business team for Internet Banking knowledge transfer.
• Testing for NACHA format transfers through FED.
• Testing for OFAC and sanctions as per OFAC List for EFT (Electronics fund transfers)
• Ensured execution of identified Test Cases and completion of Compatibility testing.
• Security, XSS, Pass mark and Functional testing