SUMMARY:

• Project experience in HealthCare, Life Sciences, Banking Software, ATM Banking, Investment Banking, Web Applications, Siebel - CRM Product, BPM - Pega PRPC, and MDM - Master Database Management.
• Successfully completed projects at Cognizant, IBM, DSL Software, HCL Perot Systems and Confidential .
• Presently working as Program/Engagement Manager in TATA Americas
• IBM Accredited Senior IT Specialist (Delivery excellence, solutions, Best Practices, Accelerators & Innovations)
• Project / Program Management / Engagement Manager / QA Manager (managed up to 65 member teams constituting Managers & Leads), Delivery, Escalation Management, Quality Assurance, Consulting, Customer & Stakeholder Management and Solution Architect.
• Established MDM testing & QA CoE by defining appropriate templates, implementing best practices & re-useable QA artefact in span of 6 to 12 months, Designed Automation Utility Tools achieving 75% of ROI.
• Extensive experience in Pre-sales, Business development and setting up of large Testing CoEs. Executed multiple winning RFP’s/RFI’s in Financial, Healthcare & Retail sectors. Achieved Soft targets in revenue growth of the practice.
• Extensive experience in Project Management, Test Management, Define & Implement the QA/Test Process, Scheduling, and Test Activities, Implemented best practices and process to achieve highest quality in short durations.
• Experience in independently Leading Teams, Managing Projects an contributing to delivery on a timely basis
• Proficient in providing robust solutions for onsite offshore models across the globe
• Good communication skills, Interpersonal skills, Self-motivated, quick learner, team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional areas: Retail Banking, ATM Banking, Investment Banking, Credit & Risk Management, HealthCare, Life sciences

Testing tools: HP-ALM (Quality Centre), QTP, Rational Test Manager, Rational Manual Tester, Clear-Quest, Bugzilla.

Proj & Config Mgmt tools: WinCVS, Clear-Case, MS Project 2007 & 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

QA Engagement Manager & QA Solution Architect

• Achieved a stringent time line with robust strategy and plan for successful implementation accommodating all sources
• Successfully delivered projects from Requirement gathering to Production Support
• Implemented Automation of Key areas identified overcome timeline issue
• Implemented Best practices to overcome issues between onshore - offshore
• Identified Resources with appropriate skills to perform the implementation successfully

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

QA PM and Solution Architect

• Achieved a stringent time line with robust strategy and plan for successful implementation accommodating all sources
• Established SIF layout to elaborate the differences and compare each source on common demographic attributes
• Defined the approach to consolidate different sources with different file formats into a gold copy of Master Data
• Common delimiter was identified to overcome issues with conflicting rules of ETL process for different sources.
• End to End execution Utility tool was designed and implemented to achieve maximum ROI on implementation and QA process.
• Implemented Automation Key areas were identified for automation to overcome timeline issue.
• Implemented Best practices to overcome issues between onshore - offshore

Confidential, AZ

QA Manager

• Provide QA solution for a successful implementation of the required system.
• Established program delivery framework for large and complex program of $5M revenue annually and successfully delivered with an overall 52% profitability.
• Progressively optimized the resource base to dramatically increasing profitability.
• Implemented a complete new system for the risk based assessment of the CSURs (Customer Users), by rating and Under-writing analysts for constant monitor the customer state from credit history by implementing BPM tool (PEGA - PRPC).
• Reduced human involvement in business process management. Automated business process management reminders,agreement renewals, rating updates, re-underwriting reporting & notifications
• Functional Automation
• Pre-production was set up with the new system parallel to existing system to monitor for a stipulated duration
• Achieved immediate maximum ROI on Implementation process and business

Confidential

Test Manager

• Project schedules, Review project documentations & Manage project risks.
• Maintain project Forecast, Hourly utilization, and Resolve time-tracking issues.
• Track & Follow-up issues and problems to escalation for immediate action and to analyse risk.
• Prepare the Project status reports to track the daily targets, reports in various requirements to the higher management tounderstand the project health.
• Organized and facilitated status meetings for project summary status updates, DR trending repots, and statistical metrics
• Review Test Plan, Test Strategy, and Analyze Risk involved in Productivity, & Strategy.
• To lead Team size of 18 members.

Confidential

Associate Project Manager/Test Manager

• Managed project schedules, Review project documentations & Manage project risks.
• Prepare project Forecast, utilization, and Resolve time-tracking issues.
• Discuss the views of Testing Perspective over application in the Extended Team Meetings and manage different team’s co-ordination.
• Track & Follow-up issues and problems to escalation for immediate action and to analyse risk.
• Provide the reports in various requirements to the higher management to understand the project health.
• Organize and facilitate Status meetings.
• Prepare project summary status updates, DR trending repots, and statistical metrics.
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy, and Analyze Risk involved in Productivity, & Strategy.
• Managed Team size of 18 - 37 members.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Review project documentations & Manage project risks.
• Track & Follow-up issues and problems to escalation for immediate action and to analyse risk.
• Prepare project summary status updates, DR trending reports, and statistical metrics.
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy, and Analyse Risk involved in Productivity, & Strategy.
• Created Test plan, Test Scenarios, Test Conditions, & Test cases.
• Executed the test cases, Analyse the Test Result and log defects in defect tracking tool.
• Prepared daily execution status.
• Managed Team size of 8 members.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Created Test plan, Test Scenarios, Test Conditions, & Test cases.
• Involved in Preparation of Test conditions and uploading them to Quality Centre.
• Executed the test case and reported the defects in Defect tracking tool.
• Attended status calls to escalate open issues.
• Prepared daily execution status.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Created Test Scenarios, Test Conditions, & Test cases.
• Executed the test case and reported the defects in Defect tracking tool.
• Prepared daily execution status.