SUMMARY

• QA Lead/IT Project Co - ordinator with a proven/track record of delivery, sales, strong strategic vision and demonstrated ability to inspire/mentor teams, looking for challenging position.
• I can utilize my skills for the benefit of the firm by implementing latest QA programs for maintaining data quality standards to ensure that the organization meets the legal compliance and clients’ needs.
• A highly qualified quality assurance lead with close to 9.5 years of experience in various domains such as Operating Systems, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare, E-learning and Media and Entertainment
• Experience using query tools for MS SQL Server to validate reports and troubleshoot data quality issues.
• Experience in HP Quality Center Test Steps design, Requirement Mapping to Tests, Executing Tests Manually, Defect Logging and Defect Reporting
• Expertise in developing and testing SQL Queries
• Experience in Data Analysis and Data Validation.
• Has expertise in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, and Defect Management.
• Experience in Batch Testing
• Experience in all phases of SDLC and STLC.
• Posses’ excellent analytical, communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, WTT (Windows Test Technologies),UFT, Toad

Database: SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 8 both On-site and Offshore.
• Involved in Business Requirement gathering, estimation to identify and define Quality processes to be followed as per organization and Business Requirement, Estimated efforts required for Quality Assurance.
• Involved in developing a detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts using Quality Center.
• Developed and executed various manual testing scenarios, test cases, test scripts and exceptionally documented the process to perform functional testing of the application
• Responsible for the analysis of business requirements, design documents
• Managed test cases and created RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and tracked Defects using HPQC.
• Reported and tracked defects using HP Quality Center
• Responsible for reporting and escalating data issues arising from the project or daily support.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Confidential Office Suite 2010, MS Visio 2003, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, Toad, UFT.

Confidential, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 18 resources, both on-site and offshore processing to deliver high quality product
• Project management and single point contact to business and operations team with a responsibility of overall delivery.
• Team management and metrics collection
• Complex test strategies are designed and implemented.
• Weekly and Monthly status reporting to the PMO
• Provide functional guidance for Test Planning, Test case design and Execution
• Participate in SRS review and status meetings
• Buy-in at all levels to build ownership in projects for maximum overall performance.
• Interacted with multiple domain experts (Accounting and Administration) and client’s technical teams.
• Administered, reviewed and Managed Defects using the Quality Center Tool.
• Coordinate and establish Test data for validating systems integration with external interfaces for all environments as applicable for each iteration
• Involved in test Estimates and Metrics collection in each and every phase.
• Enhanced and Reviewed manual regression suite with all stakeholders in order to document end to end scenarios.
• Worked closely with automation team in planning, review and automation of the regression suite.
• Coordination with Offshore Team for setting up daily work priorities, including query resolution.
• Knowledge Transition and Training Team Members for Project specific requirements.
• Keep track of the changes and addition to the requirements.

Environment: SQL, QTP, Quality Center, Toad and Confidential Project planning and Office tools

Confidential, FL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7 Sprint teams.
• SOA testing
• Direct interaction with the client on the status of the testing.
• Preparing Test Design Strategy
• Identification of appropriate automation tools to test services in SOA
• Test Team Data Management.
• Test Case review
• Working with the BA’s on managing change requests
• Working with the IV&V team on delivering quality product to the customer.
• Executing and Analyzing the Code Quality Metrics using the tools NCover and NDepend.
• Updating the customer on the QMO details of the teams on a weekly basis.
• Sharing the product metrics to the customer.
• Presentation on the testing Activities to the Higher Management.
• Creating RFPs
• Generating status reports using QC and other Test Management activities
• Knowledge of Enterprise tester and Enterprise Architect for test execution and Requirements mapping activities.

Environment: Quality Center, Confidential Project planning and Office tools, Enterprise Architect, Enteprise Tester, Scrum do.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Test Plan preparation
• Test case preparation
• Black Box test execution
• Regression Testing
• Bug Fix Verification
• Defect Tracking
• Batch Testing

Environment: UNIX, SQL, Quality Center and Confidential Project planning and Office tools.

Confidential

PEGA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review of FSD.
• Designing of test conditions and test cases as per FSD
• Test Case execution
• Preparation of Status report
• Estimation of Test case execution and Test case Preparation.
• Defect review and coordination with developers.
• Assigning the work to the respective team members and ensure that is done on estimated time.
• Creation of test metrics.

Environment: PEGA PRPC, SQL, TOAD, Unix, Quality Center and Confidential Project planning and Office tools.

Confidential, Redmond

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in client deliverable of maintaining their Product after release.
• This includes finding potential/known threats/problems, triaging the problems, proposing solutions, fixing problem and testing.
• Automating the manual work in testing so as to improve productivity.
• Domain Expertise in the area of OS and Networking obtained. Network and Systems Monitoring and Management.
• Gathered good knowledge in DHCP, DNS, DC, TS, and Automations in VB script.
• Responsibility as a client interface to a team size of 5-10 software engineers.
• This involved interfacing during telecons, reviewing their plans for past and present weeks, reviewing the deliverables before they are sent to the client, enforcing process adherence by members for any deliverables.
• Involved in process formation with management for client related work.
• Study and Understanding various Components of the product (Windows)
• Worked in design of the shared lab tool.
• Managing a pool of 3000+ machines.
• E2E migration of various components.
• Inventory management.
• Guideline Checks and Certification of automations for other team members.
• Bug Analysis, Test Case development, Test Case execution
• Manual and Automated Testing of the components for different releases of patches/upgrades
• Successfully set up & implemented the process for testing
• Co-ordination with client - requirement engineers, Business Analysts and the development team.
• Ensure defects are logged correctly and tracked till closure
• Automation of tests
• Preparing monthly review reports and sending it to the client.
• Triaging
• Reporting (Mails and report generation)
• Worked as lead with a 5 member team for automating the manual test cases and making them available to the various clients\vendors of Confidential .

Environment: .Net Framework 4.0, Sharepoint, Virtual Server 2007, Hyper - V, Confidential SQL Server 2008

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manual test case execution
• Preparation of test plan and test cases
• Automation of test cases using VB Script.

Environment: Bugzilla,Java, Selenium