SUMMARY

• Dynamic IT Professionalwith over 12 years of experience in in Testing of ETL/DWH BI, and RDBMS projects with good functional knowledge encompasses Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing and Retail domains.
• Rich testing experience on various OLAP tools (Cognos/BO), ETL tools (Informatica/SSIS), Databases (Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Expertise in putting up comprehensive strategy and planning of small, medium and large scale projects.
• Knowledge of Big Data Hadoop HDFS..
• Excellent team player, self - starter and good at Multi-Tasking, with demonstrated Leadership/Managerial skills and process oriented and with ability to handle deadlines for multiple projects in fast paced environment
• Strong expertise inIT/Software Project Lifecycle, Quality Assurance, Testing, Project Management Processes, Program Management, Process Improvement.
• Solid analytical skills, exceptionally strong problem solving, decision making,andpeople managementskills. Determined, self-starter, quick learner with strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to manage the positive and productive client relationship
• Instrumental in enhancing QA team’s visibility and improved relationship with business units by instituting test scenario& Test case walk-through process involving project business teams
• Hands on experience in analyzing business requirements, functional requirements and developing documentation for entire QA cycle including QA Test Plans, Project Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Case creation and Review, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Requirement Traceability matrix, Test Data, Black box, Gray Box testing, Defect Management reports & matrices
• Expertise in setting up and Implementing cost effective Onsite/Offshore Model between Client and Vendor.
• Experience in handling multiple concurrent teams with averaging a peak size of 10-15 team members collectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: ORACLE, SQL Server, Netezza, Teradata

ETL & OLAP Tools: Informatica, SSIS, Cognos, Business Objects and SSRS

Concepts& Methodologies: Relational Database, Data Warehouse, Data Migration,Data Mining, Business Intelligence

Test Tools: HP QC/ALM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Team Lead

Confidential, Schaumburg

Responsibilities:

• Transition from Different Vendor about the project and Preparation of SMTD
• Planning, Monitoring & Control, Execution
• Defining test scope, time lines, risk assessment, issue escalations & ensuring on time delivery
• Test Management
• Customer Experience Testing, Risk based testing, impact analysis, Creation of Test Strategy/ Plan.
• Communication Management
• Status reporting, Escalations, handling the business severity calls, test artifacts made available in HP Quality Center, test co- ordination and environment set up coordination and chasing environment issues
• Quality Control and Assurance
• Defect management, defining entry / exit criteria for each stage in E2E testing
• Risk Management
• Risk assessment, prioritizing, highlighting risks to all the stake holders, escalations
• Project Change Control Management
• Documenting business requirement changes from product line, getting sign-off from the stake holders, discussing churns with platform teams, test teams and documenting the changes.
• Key Contributions
• Ensured quality delivery with zero defect slippage to live
• Took the responsibility of prioritizing the business severity defects on discussion with clients

QA Team Lead

Confidential, Wisconsin

Responsibilities:

• Master Test plan Preparation.
• Estimated the number of test cases and actual efforts needed to perform Data Validation.
• Reviewed and prepared the data requirement and test cases & complex SQL scripts for validation.
• Prepared traceability matrix to ensure the test coverage.
• Performing test execution, raising defects and liasing with development to fix and retest.
• Running batch jobs in Mainframe/Unix and debugging.
• Attending technical calls with Business, Development team and performing timely updates on test activities to maintain and enhance on the applications.
• Selecting team members, allocating daily task, mentoring on their career goals, assisting managers by providing inputs for appraisal.
• Reviewing and delivering the quality deliverables.
• Preparing final test report, Sign-off email, defect metrics & status emails.
• Maintained all process related document like Requirement Change Tracker, Test Design Tracker, Peer review template, Defect vs Test case mapping, and Test execution flow document.

QA Team Lead

Confidential, Beaverton

Responsibilities:

• Played role of Hands on QA Lead mainly Involved in Resource Planning, Project Planning discussions, Scope Management and Delivery responsibility, Test Planning.
• Held responsibility for estimating/forecasting, resourcing, process/deliverable quality reviews, test design, test environment set up, test plan/script creation, test execution and implementation of large and complex projects spanning multiple applications and multiple releases using Manual and Automation Testing, HP - ALM,HP/Mercury Quality Center
• Directed the QA team in implementing, maintaining, rolling-out, and enforcing a formal, consistent and well-defined/standardized test processes for all test phases across the enterprise including:
• Test planning processes and guidelines across the enterprise
• Test execution, tracking, and defect management processes and guidelines consistently across the enterprise
• Adherence to defined SLAs by the support teams
• Execution of SQL queries part of Database validation
• Regression and Automation test execution in each test phase with set targets and governance guidelines
• Formal entrance and exit gates and ensured stakeholder sign-off occurs before the start of each testing phase.
• Used Quality Center & HP ALM extensively throughout the project lifecycle from release planning to test planning test plan creation, test execution, progress reporting.

QA Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implement and enforced a testing methodology for the project.
• Develop Test Strategies for Functional testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Develop Test Plans for Functional testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Analyzed requirements documentation and create test cases for Functional testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Participate in Gap Analysis of Requirements.
• Create and monitor the Testing project schedule within the overall Project Plan.
• Create the Resource Allocation Plan.
• Monitor the testing budget within the overall project budget and modify schedules and resources accordingly.
• Conduct software testing training as deemed necessary, for project resources.
• Manage the test teams. Allocate tasks to testers to ensure project deadlines are met and monitor progress on daily basis.
• Coordinate testing at multiple sites and with multiple teams.

QA Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include creating Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Test cases using Business Requirements and System Requirements, Change Requests and Issues etc.
• Involved in verification & validation of the system.
• Managed the Test cases using QA test management tool.
• Performed Manual/Automated GUI Testing. Functional (Black Box) testing, Performed Regression which includes Positive and Negative testing, Production Checkout testing, Boundary testing, Browser compatibility testing and Usability testing for the GUI screens, System Testing, User Guide Testing.
• Managed the Defects using Bug tracker defect tracking tool
• Identified critical test cases and provided guidance to identify the test cases based on the requirements provided by the Analysis and Architecture team.
• Involved in review meetings, status reporting, resolving issues and provided feedback for System Requirement specification, High level and Low level documents before the documents was base lined.
• Led the QA team for Production releases.
• Co-ordinated with QA Team for Planning, Knowledge Transfer, Test cases identification and execution, training with the business environment, business process and various techniques.
• Identified process gaps, advised on gaps in project in testing activities and test procedures.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development and implementation of Test cases, Test data, Test scripts and documented Test plan and prerequisites.
• Initially performed manual testing of each unit and then each build.
• Involved in performing various kinds of testing like Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing etc.
• Debugged the test scripts, performed regression tests, verifying the test results and reported the defects
• Run the regression Suite of different test cases to verify the new functionality of the application did not create any bugs in other parts of the application.