SUMMARY

• Possess over 13 years of IT experience and close to 7 years in managing teams. Rich experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously. Expertise in testing, developing mainframes & SAS applications.
• Strong experience on Tableau for Report Development and Framework Manager Modeling.
• Deeply involved as SME in executing several testing projects/visualization projects successfully and front ended the teams all through. Certified professional in QTP & expertise in using Parasoft, itko lisa, soap ui tools. Also, complied with on all internal & external Audits such as TL9000 and got accolades for my contribution towards the same. Have sound knowledge on SCRUM - Agile Methodologies
• Solid experience on implementing the HIPAA requirements and to ensure compliance with company requirements
• Good experience on translating regulatory requirements into practical and actionable elementsQA Manager
• Oversight for all test planning, documentation and execution of functional, systems, end to end, and regression tests to uncover defects and improve the overall quality of the software
• Generate QA reports that clearly communicate QA results, concerns and project status with an emphasis on project risk, including defect rates
• Interface with business and project teams to understand and resolve any quality issues that are discovered during any phase of the project life cycle
• Review Business Requirements for gaps, traceability and testability
• Provide business and technical guidance to QA team in the analysis, design and execution of effective change management and complex projects
• Ensure that key performance indicators are met by measuring progress against quality objectives
• Define and perform non-functional tests, facilitate system integration testing
• Identify performance gaps in QA transformation and implement repeatable, sustainable processes to increase operational efficiencies.
• Experience in deriving test strategy for service level testing the Web services, TIBCO, DW & implementing automation for these services in the project
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as a part of a team as well as independently.
• Quick learner organized and highly motivated as well as a keen interest in the emerging technologies
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience in defining andimplementing test frameworks, processes and tools
• Experience of Business knowledge inManufacturing, Auto Insurance, Credit, Telecom, BankingScrum Master
• Organized Sprint Planning meetings, enforced good acceptance criteria for user stories, proper decomposition of user stories in to tasks, Conducted Sprint Review Meetings, Organize Sprint Retrospectives with theScrumTeam, conducted dailyscrummeetings.
• Expertise in handling and managing agile ceremonies and successfully transitioning teams from waterfall to agile model
• Experience in coaching team facing challenges inscrumenvironment.
• Assisted product owners in creation and maintenance of product backlog
• Proven track record of optimizingscrumteam's performance and increasing velocity
• Proficient with burn down charts forscrumand iterations and maintaining risk radiators
• Proficient in doing iteration and release planning, metrics reporting along with using effective ways for story pointing, iteration tasking, standups, retrospectives, etc
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle
• Ensure the team abides by theSCRUMrules and guidelines.
• Create and maintain project plans and schedules under direct supervision of PMO staff
• Identify, record, and maintain project risks under guidance of PMO staff
• Managing multiple projects using industry best practices and following Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodologies that create outstanding results and reduce costs
• Design disaster recovery and contingency plans for data back-up and recovery
• Responsible for the risk analysis process against corporate functional areas to identify points of vulnerability and recommends disaster avoidance and reduction strategies
• Plan and manage all release activities
• Communicate release plan and details to key partners and vendors and ensure schedule alignment.
• Closely work with PM’s and QA Leads to review Requirements/Specifications, estimate tasks, and size project releases
• Strong experience on data migration activities
• Design and developstrategies and best practices for QA Transformation adoption across a large complex program
• Participate in scheduling of target dates for testing deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet datesQA Lead & Automation Lead
• Have been in client facing roles for multiple projects providing solutions for major engagements across Europe and US
• Lead automation POC’s with automation tools like UFT, TOSCA and Selenium
• Coordinate with Development and DevOps team to discuss technical approach and tools used for QA and Testing
• Expert in Conducting Systems, Integration, Functional, User-Acceptance Testing, White box Testing, Black box testing and improvement of QA Process
• Strong experience on JIRA, SharePoint, JAVA, Clear Sky, Oracle, SQL
• Experience on Cloud Systems testing
• Experience on Mobile testing (iOS, Android,), System Integration testing, Functional testing, User acceptance testing.Mainframes Test Lead
• In-depth knowledge of IBM mainframe COBOL, Querying DB2, and programming.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Traceability Matrix and Test Environments.
• Tools worked on includesDB2 Platinum Products, CA7, DB2-File Aid, IMS-File Aid, QMF, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, FILE AID, Xpeditor, Panvalet, Connect Direct, DB2 Connect, ChangeMan, Mercury Quality Center, FTP, JCL Utilities, FTP
• Coordinate testing activities for COBOL, CICS and batch programs on both the mainframe and distributed platforms
• Experience with writing requirements, testing and defect documentation tools, such as HP Quality CenterTableau Developer / Admin
• Extensive knowledge in various reporting objects like Facts, Attributes, Hierarchies, filters, Calculated fields, Parameters
• Advanced SQL knowledge, ability to dissect SQL code to QA reports and troubleshoot errors
• Sound knowledge of RDBMS, DB design, data warehousing / data marts
• Participate in the development, and support for business users to gather reports requirement
• Sound knowledge on Tableau architecture, design and development
• Good experience in working with Tableau Desktop/Server
• Good exposure of data analysis, modeling and designing
• Technical knowledge of Business Intelligence products and related technologies
• Installation, configuration, patching and upgrading of Tableau tool across development, test and production domains
• Provide data visualizations that will allow business users to draw meaningful insight
• Experience defining and documenting best practices for Tableau report development.
• Experience in building Data Warehouses, report development using Enterprise Data Warehouses
• Experience developing dashboards, charts, pivots in Tableau Desktop 9.3 or higher using calculations, parameters

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, BugZilla, JIRA, Rally

Tools: TFS, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, JUNIT, TestNG, SOAP UI Pro, ITKO LISA, Eclipse, Maven, Tableau, SPUFI, QMF, ADC, TFS

Versioning Tools: Clear Case, MS Visual Source, CVS, SVNLanguages Java, C, C++, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, JavaScript, CSS, Cobol, JCL, SAS, REXX, EASYTRIEVE

Databases: MS Access, MY SQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server 2008Workflow tools MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized Sprint Planning meetings, enforced good acceptance criteria for user stories, proper decomposition of user stories in to tasks, Conducted Sprint Review Meetings, Organize Sprint Retrospectives with theScrumTeam, conducted dailyscrummeetings.
• Expertise in handling and managing agile ceremonies and successfully transitioning teams from waterfall to agile model.
• Experience in coaching team facing challenges inscrumenvironment
• Assisted product owners in creation and maintenance of product backlog
• Proficient with burn down charts forscrumand iterations and maintaining risk radiators.
• Proficient in doing iteration and release planning, metrics reporting along with using effective ways for story pointing, iteration tasking, standups, retrospectives, etc.
• Experience in distributedscrumprojects involving multi-team coordination and planning.
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Managing project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary
• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business architecture team
• Involved in all stages of testing process, development of Test strategy, Test Plan, and resources planning
• Create/maintain Test Strategies and Test Plans according to Test Objectives and Organizational Test
• Policies
• Lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites based upon business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Create/maintain various testing artifacts and testing reports during the lifecycle of the project
• Responsible for testing secure, high availability, high performance enterprise applications, using Service Oriented Architecture principles
• Responsible for managing support for applications testing after software patching/upgrades
• Conduct and/or actively participate in meetings related to the multiple project/s, with clients and/or other contractors
• Provide guidance to test team members to test secure, high availability applications
• Advises and recommends organizational testing strategies, processes and methodologies
• Shares best practices, lessons learned and knowledge with the rest of the team
• Identifies implementation risks and analyses potential impacts on the enterprise and on the of scheduled objectives
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.

Confidential, PA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Leading the team in the preparation of Test Requirement and Test case documents
• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business architecture team
• Involved in all stages of testing process, development of Test strategy, Test Plan, and resources planning
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Involvement in preparation of Test Estimates for Implementation phase
• Make suggestions/contributions for the improvement of software testing/quality process
• Defining the testing types and scope for the project test execution
• Analyzing functional and design specifications, Identifying the business use cases for Automation & tracking of the Task assignments, Resource planning for different Testing Cycles
• Coordinate with the customer and technical community in offshore on daily basis to resolve the ongoing issues, so as to run the UAT process smoothly

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating and contributing to test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during all testing phases of the software development lifecycle, for new and existing software systems/products
• Creating and performing complex test execution. Leading the development of automation framework and performance tests
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to a small team
• Supervising and leading test management strategy. Influencing and improving UAT experience
• Supervising, mentoring, and developing staff members
• Identify and detail test conditions from design documents and service contracts
• Document and implement a SOA automation framework using the SOAPUI Pro/Load UI tool that can be maintained through subsequent releases
• Co-ordinate offshore team & Automate existing test scenarios with SOAPUI Pro and integrate with the HP QC
• Develop testing scenarios based on business requirements, functional and technical specifications.
• Liaises with Business Analysts, Developers and QA Team to determine testing regulations and plans to address business impact, potential problem occurrence and risk
• Manages a team that debugs software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply and maintain quality standards for company products.
• Oversees the development and execution of software test plans

Confidential

Mainframes Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business and architecture team
• Involved in all stages of testing process
• Development of Test strategy, TestPlan, Test Estimations and resources planning
• Responsible for tracking all the requirements with the test cases in HP QC
• Responsible for ensuring the completion of testing within specified time, effort and budget constraints
• Generated all the testing metrics based on the Quality Center data
• Worked with Business Analyst, Architect team and developers to resolve the issues quickly
• Involved in preparing the project plan for the team and allocated the work accordingly
• Involved in client weekly status meetings and escalated all the issues to respective task holders
• Responsible for monitoring overall testing progress and report status to project stakeholders
• Preparation of Mainframes Test Environment
• Deliver UAT exit report and UAT completion to stakeholders
• Provide recommendation to TCA manager for signoff of UAT exit

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business Use Cases for SOA Automation
• Analyzing the business requirement
• Responsible for ensuring the completion of testing activities within specified time and delivered with quality
• Responsible for allocating work to QAs and ensuring it is delivered with minimal compliances
• Ensured team is on track with Agile Methodologies and Agile process
• Review the test cases of various NGOE modules
• Auditing of Test results in Sprint basis and ensured all are deliverable with Quality
• Tracking and generating reports on Productivity and Defects triaging sprint basis and the pros and cons are identified set for Improvements and implementations in the Project
• Conducting weekly QA meetings to ensure that QA on goings are on right path and further reviewed fore enhancements
• Making sure of Process and product quality is par with Customer requirements and ensured whole QA team is followed rigorously
• Brain storming sessions and s are conducted every fortnightly and encouraged team for technical papers contribution to KM

Confidential

SOA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review system requirements and identify components for service testing
• Creation of test strategy and plans
• Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestone, activities and tasks are completed as scheduled
• Enhancements of virtual service images/models for testing purposes
• Creation of test scenarios for web services in SOATest
• Document process and procedure involving test assets and test scenarios
• Follow appropriate change control process of virtual assets and proper version control
• Participate in test case creation and test case execution when required to meet project timelines (primarily web service testing in SOATest)
• Lead and support the team in creating reusable test assets for manual/automated test scripts
• Prioritize and manage own work load in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency
• Responsible for testing webservices by using the PARASOFT tool

Confidential: CA

Webservices Testing & Automation

Responsibilities:

• Performed SOA / Web Service testing using PARASOFT Tool
• Involved in standalone OSM testing for release 7.0
• Responsible for designing the cartridges for various orchestration flows using SCE.
• End-to-End Integration Testing of Process Integration Packs (PIP).
• End-to-End Integration Testing of Order Life Cycle Management (Order to Activate)
• Involved in Integration testing between OSM & Objectel.
• Certifying different versions of Siebel communications applications like 7.5,7.7,7.8,8.0,8.1 with AIA COMMS-PIPs.
• End-to-End Integration Testing between Siebel and Oracle BRM.
• End to End Integration Testing between Siebel and Oracle OSM Testing Provisioning of Orders.
• Testing different checkpoints for validating the PIPs.
• Verifying the Test Order Orchestration Process (TOP). Validating the XMLfiles when order gets error.
• Creating Products, Pricelists, Service Bundles, Nested Service Bundles, Discounts, Subscriptions and One Time Charges
• Review of Test Plans, Internal and External Reviews. Testing Order Fallout Management
• Involved in Feature Integration Acceptance testing and System Integration testing

Confidential

Mainframes Tester

Responsibilities:

• Test Automation: Scripting the test cases in TCL/TK language & MYNAH Commands for testing the IMS/DC screens
• Batch Testing & Online Testing Carrying out different Batch & Online test cycles like partial and full regression, compatibility, sanity, platform for the product WFA/DI
• Responsible for preparing the PT STTS documents