PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT professional with 20 years of rich experience in Test Management, Project Management and Delivery of projects.
• Expert in QA processes and extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Strong mentoring capabilities and background of setting up QA teams from scratch as well as mentoring and expanding existing QA teams for more efficient QA delivery
• Handled QA teams to lead both Manual and Automation test efforts
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A self - starter and hands-on manager always willing to work-on-the-floor with the team as required.
• interactions and creating opportunities
• A listed contributor to a published book on Agile Software Delivery (iBook, Kindle, Paperback): ‘The black book of agile project delivery using distributed teams’

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test and Defect Management Tools:  Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager, SpiraTest, Clarify, Weblime, Test Track Pro, ClearQuest, Bugzilla, TFS, StarTeam, JIRA

Automation Test Tools:  QTP (familiar), VSTS WebTest, SilkTest, Rational Purify, Fiddler

Testing Types:  Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT, Performance, Stress, database testing

Project Management Tools: MS Project, TFS

Programming Languages:  Familiar with C, C++

Database:  SQL Server, Teradata

Version Control Tools:  Clearcase, Sablime, CVS, VSS, TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Manager 

Chicago,IL

Responsibilities :

• Provide expert QA oversight of HealthFitness vendor developing next generation Health and Fitness solutions
• Liaising with HealthFitenss C-Team, PMO, Product Managers and Vendor’s C-Team, PMO & QA Director to ensure the implementation of efficient QA processes to ensure product quality to the highest level.
• Provide guidance and help HealthFitness business SMEs to implement and execute User Acceptance Testing

Confidential

Consultant

Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities :

• Managing and leading QA team for Medicare part C and Part D CMS compliance project.
• Interaction with BAs, SMEs and other stakeholders to understand the requirements
• Test plan reviews and guidance to the QA team
• Delivery tracking for the QA project

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Franklin, TN

Responsibilities :

• Managing and leading a QA team for test case creation
• Ensuring co - ordination between onsite and offshore QA teams
• Executing QA project encompassing multiple Juvo platform modules
• Interaction with Product owners, SMEs and other stakeholders
• Test plan reviews and guidance to the QA team
• Delivery tracking for the QA projects

Confidential

Consultant

Nashville, TN

Responsibilities :

• Managing and leading a 10 member QA team for Quarterly releases.
• Ensuring co - ordination between onsite and offshore QA teams
• Tracking project for timely and efficient delivery
• Interaction with Product owners, SMEs and other stakeholders
• Test plan reviews and guidance to the QA team
• Evaluating QA team members for performance and mentoring as required.

Confidential

Consultant

Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Regression testing for OCR releases and Monthly Release regression for modules Confidential
• Executing Automated test cases from Jenkins
• Validating test cases using B2B client, EDI Send/Receive, Confidential Gateway, REST services.
• Worked on Confidential and Confidential as part of Confidential regression

Confidential

Consultant

Franklin, TN

Responsibilities:

• Managing and leading a QA team for Confidential
• Ensuring co - ordination between onsite and offshore QA teams
• Interaction with Product owners, SMEs and other stakeholders
• Test plan reviews and guidance to the QA team
• Delivery tracking for the QA projects

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Nahsville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the BI head to create BI framework documents
• Plan for client proposals and the approach strategy

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Brentwood, TN

Responsibilities:

• Managing and leading the QA team for ONCHIT certification related activities
• Writing QA scripts based on the ONCHIT certification criteria and GAP analysis
• Test plan preparation and test execution for Confidential
• Review of business documents (BRD) and SRS to ensure adherence to Confidential guidelines
• Participating in production testing and coordination for the same

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Brentwood, TN

Responsibilities:

• QA Process Management & Test Activities co - ordination
• Guiding QA engineers and participating in functional test plan creation and test execution
• Review test plans
• Interacting with client for UAT and UAT build release management
• UAT issues prioritization and resolution
• Test Automation using VSTS WebTest

Confidential ,Quality Assurance Manager

Brentwood, TN

Responsibilities:

• Project Management and co - ordination of on-site and off-shore project teams comprising of SMEs, Developers and QA engineers.
• Interacting with the business users and documenting the business rules for Claims Adjudication module of the system.
• Comparative analysis for client s classic claims system and the new implementation called PIPES.
• Guiding QA engineers and participating in functional test plan creation and test execution

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Managing the off - shore team of developers for the product development
• Interactions with the client for Requirements Specifications.
• Implementing QA processes.
• Functional Test plan creation and test execution

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of test engineers for product testing
• Interactions with the client for Requirements Specifications.
• Implementing QA processes.
• High level test plan design
• Review of test cases.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading the test team for QA qualification of Major releases, Dot releases and customer patches.
• Reviewing PRD and functional specs and giving QA team feedback to the concerned teams.
• Creating test strategy and project plan.
• Guiding team members to prepare high level test plan and detailed test cases.
• Reviewing test plans.
• Tracking progress of text execution and taking proactive measures for timely completion.

Confidential

San Jose, CA.

Lead - Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• High level test plan design.
• Guiding the team members for Detailed Test plan design.
• Planning & co - ordination for the execution of test cycles.
• Functional testing of fault management module of nPO Manager.
• Providing inputs to the Automation team for automating some functional areas.

Confidential

Manager - Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• High level test plan design.
• Guiding the team members for Detailed Test plan design.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and import MIBs in the spectrum database using Cabletron s custom MIBtools.
• Create GUI using Cabletron s custom GUI creation tool.
• Write special triggers using the Spectrum Inference Handler API (IHAPI).