SUMMARY

• Successful, highly motivated, innovative, action - driven, results oriented, IT Advisory Services professional with accelerated career path and proven track record over 19+ years of experience in Information Technology supporting the Financial, Healthcare, Pharmacy, Publishing Industries, experienced in SaaS environment as well to deliver products and services with solid quality and on time delivery.
• A self-starter, leader, Strategic thinker, team player with excellent communication and strong abilities in relationship management inter-personal skills, with wide degree of creativity, quick learner, able to multi-task with minimal direction and excel in dynamic environments.
• I have worked on SOA Testing, Integration with Web, Mobile Devices, iPAD and POS Systems using SOAP UI, Fiddler, LISA testing tool, Altavo and web services add-ins in FF browser and Chrome. Also, worked on Confidential . I have worked on automation tools like QTP, Rational tools, See Test, Perfecto mobile, Eggplant, Cucumber.
• I would like to use automation tools extensively to cover regression testing.
• I have implemented Automation CoE, setup automation teams Who start working on early automation from requirement phase and concentrate on regression suite to cover testing for existing applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for major Migration, Conversion and integration project for DaVita Rx to complete functional, risk based testing, regression testing, web services, Automation in agile methodology.
• Reporting directly to the SQA Director on projects, QA status, budget, and resource management
• Working closely with Project Managers, Development Managers/Leads, Business Analysts, and Product Manager to identify and manage scope creeps via change management
• As part of Integration Project, was involved on daily bases to help the team to test Address standardization project using LISA web service testing tool.
• Possess expert level of understanding of WSDL, XSD, Schema, XML documents for Web Services Testing

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managing QA team which includes onshore and offshore vendors and testing done in agile methodology.
• Reporting directly to the SQA Director on projects, QA status, budget, and resource management
• Working closely with Project Managers, Development Managers/Leads, Business Analysts, and Product Manager to identify and manage scope creeps via change management
• Create center of excellence for automation, manage/mentor automation team, using QTP/QC and also worked in in house automaton tool build on Jenkins.

Mobile QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managing Mobile QA team which includes onshore and offshore vendors
• Reporting directly to the SQA Director on projects, QA status, budget, and resource management
• Working closely with Project Managers, Development Managers/Leads, Business Analysts, and Product Manager to identify and manage scope creeps via change management
• Provide overall QA resourcing allocations across different projects and timelines to ensure best utilization of skilled resources in conjunction with QA leads
• Created and Implemented a strategy to seamlessly perform integrated testing across the multiple applications and teams involved
• Researched, Created and Implemented testing methodologies, tools, templates and procedures to ensure no defects in Production
• Communicated status, issues, risks, release schedules to executive management on a weekly basis
• Managed project financials, performance appraisals, interview new hires, create on-boarding/off-boarding processes for smooth transitions
• Performs analysis of metric trends across groups to improve overall processes and defines best practices
• Using SeeTest automation tool to create scripts to test new applications features (early automation concept) and regression testing for mobile devices
• REST and SOAP services testing using SOAP UI and LISA tool.

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully manage a globally dispersed test team (1-2 onshore and 100+ offshore) across multiple applications with 8 offshore QA leads directly reporting
• Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and SQA Director on Program QA status, budget, and resource management
• Working closely with Project Managers, Development Leads, Business Analysts, and Product Manager to identify and manage scope creeps via change management
• Created and Implemented a strategy to seamlessly perform integrated testing across the multiple applications and teams involved
• Managed project financials, performance appraisals, interview new hires, create on-boarding/off-boarding processes for smooth transitions.
• Implemented CoE of Automation, using QTP tool, most of the applications were automated and as a result sprint cycle got reduced, as complete regression suite was automated.
• Build and Lead the managed services team to support the following testing activities - Functional Testing, Regression, Integration Testing, End to End testing, UAT and Test Automation.

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the VP of Technology
• Coordinated resource planning, release planning, Estimates and test status reporting.
• Working on with CMS and PHP workshop, Mobile devices like iPad, iPhone, Tablet devices …
• Did extensive API testing, on Amazon Cloud

QA Team Lead

• Successfully managed more than 25 consumer platform releases following end to end project lifecycles.
• Managed day-to-day work, timelines, and issues for QA team consisting of onshore, offshore and contract resources, with direct supervisory responsibility for 3-5 QA resources and 20 - 25 QA offshore resources.
• Project Management of multiple projects related to manual, automated and performance testing.
• Communicated status, issues, risks, release schedules to executive management.
• Mentored the testing team and guided them to follow standards and procedures followed in the QA team.
• Involved in the design reviews and requirement reviews with the key stakeholders of the project
• Created Test Plan and Test Scenario’s, based on which off shore QA resources write test cases and start test cases execution once testing life cycle starts.
• Closely worked with product managers, developers, and support teams to build software from initial requirements through deployment and maintenance
• Developed and maintained a repository of regression test cases
• As part of physician finder application and opinion polls features on WebMD homepage tested the Web Services using SOAP UI tool and Fiddler.
• Worked extensively in Quality Center, QTP, Test Director, WinRunner, ClearQuest,MS SharePoint, Oracle, SQL Server and also used Toad for Oracle and SQL Server, Web Link Validator tool, Fiddler, XML Validator, Soap API, UML Diagram, Agile process and Rallydev

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the verified builds deployed to QA Environment.
• Involved in development and implementation of Test cases and Test scripts and Involved in performing various kinds of testing like Unit Testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing.