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SUMMARY

QA leader with master’s in chemical engineering and 12 years’ software testing experience looking to contribute expertise to pharmaceutical industry. Track record of successful delivery, strategic vision, and ability to inspire.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Testing Principles - Expert at functional, unit, integration, regression, black box, white box, GUI, back-end, browser compatibility, performance, and user acceptance testing. Highly skilled at designing testing approaches that balance business needs, resource constraints, and quality of deliverables.
Project Steering - Solid experience in Agile planning, managing backlog, running scrum meetings, defect triage, and ensuring acceptance criteria are met.
Interpersonal Engagement - Maintain excellent relationships with project management, QA staff, the business, and developers, to delegate tasks and report on progress. Always know the status of everything and able to support real-time decision making.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VSTS/TFS
Quality Center
WinRunner
QuickTestPro
Test Director
LoadRunner
Rational Clear Quest
Clear Case
Test Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | New York, NY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Lead team of 12 quality assurance and business analysts on a multimillion dollar finance project in planning and executing of application testing.
Facilitate resolution of road blocks.
Ensure execution of QA deliverables and guide team members on agile standards and best practices using TFS/VSTS testing tool.
Work closely with team members to analyze velocity of each sprint by assigning right story points for each user story and bug along with generating daily burndown charts.
Work on designing an User story by creating mock ups and participate in User story grooming sessions and Sprint planning meetings.
Create Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test cases, end to end regression test cases and defects.
Interact regularly with management and product owners on project status, testing status, priority setting, and sprint timeframe.
Establish and review QA sign off criteria, software build, and test process with scrum team.
Work with business users to identify UAT scenarios and scripts and conduct trainings for UAT users.
Review customer feedback to accommodate evolving requirements and support UAT test efforts.
Lead issue triage meetings with scrum team to plan defect fixes for sprints by reviewing defect priority and severity with product owner.
Assist in developing automation test scripts using Ranorex.
Experienced in functional testing, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, white box testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing, and load/ performance testing, Component Testing on Windows, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Assist project manager in creating go-live project plan, business readiness score card, and deployment plan.

Confidential | New York, NY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Led a QA team of 15+ persons both onsite and offshore, including mentoring, managing workload priorities, measuring staff performance and promoting professional development.
Developed, collected and analyzed quality metrics about products and projects.
Ensured that teams followed processes throughout SDLC and provided reports to managers.
Contributed QA part of the consolidated project plans.
Conducted daily meetings with QA team to track QA task progress, mitigate risks, took corrective actions, resolved issues and escalated as needed.
Provided project status report to management on regular basis.
Developed and implemented test plans adjusting test strategy to the unique requirements of each product release.
Maintained traceability matrix and manual tests in Quality Center.
Coordinated execution of GUI, functional, integration, system, usability, installation, upgrade, documentation, stress, load, performance, recovery, end-to-end, UAT, and regression tests.
Delegated work on daily basis, reviewed task progress.
Owned weekly status and issue triage meetings.

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