SUMMARY:

• Motivated Program Manager with over 4 years project/program management experience focusing on prioritization, planning, scheduling, scope management, business requirements, & change control.
• Over 12+ years of professional experience in Information Technology with both Software Development/Maintenance & Testing background emphasizing on Quality Assurance.
• Contributing to company's growth by means of business development, Client retention and securing strategic partnerships
• Excellent communicator and problem solver with demonstrated ability to foster a positive work environment.
• Result driven project management professional with a proven track record to deliver projects on time and taking initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction
• Strong team building and relationship management skills
• Highly analytical with "big picture" vision enabling exceptional ability to build productive relationships with teams & clients across all disciplines
• Self Starter, hardworking, enthusiastic & highly committed to the growth & success of the organization.
• Possess good work ethic & high - level of integrity
• Expertise in tools like Rational Team Test, Winrunner, Test director/Quality Center which were leveraged during various phase of testing.
• Experience in client/server, Web Based Application testing with complete knowledge on SDLC/STLC.
• Have been rated as an outstanding member for most of my tenure
• Have received multiple Feather In My Cap Awards
• Have contributed various white papers and Case Studies to Confidential internal portals.
• Have received commendations/appreciations in the “Techniche" - technical event organized by Optical Networks BU in Bangalore from the Senior Management for Contributing a White Paper on “RPR- Resilient Packet Ring”, “Key Aspects of Web Testing”, “Testing without documents”
• Solely worked on a mini project out of interest - “PC Based Home Appliance Controller”
• Have been presented with the “Circuit Breaker” award recognized at the Account level within Confidential .
• Paper on “HP - QC Best Practices” was among the notable entries in the HP Quality Center Best Practices Contest
• Have been awarded with the Performance Excellence Team award for the LEAN implementation within the project at the Confidential Corporate Level
• Have been awarded the Best Project Manager Award in the Retail Meet of Confidential
• Have been involved in various Project Proposals where eventually Confidential has won the deals - the recent being the BI Testing engagement
• Proposed and Implemented Orthogonal Array for development of System Test Cases in one of the complex programs for a Retail Customer resulting in an effort saving of 84% with approx. 885000 $ savings
• Conducted a POC using Confidential ’s TLA model in one of the projects which resulted in approx . 60% Test Design Effort Saving, approx. 50% schedule saving.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review and Analyze requirements, Estimate effort, timelines and resource needs
• Manage Builds and Releases
• Responsible for streamlining work processes in various teams that include quality control, human resource, communication management
• Identify Risks, Plan, Monitor and control testing activities
• Track and Monitor compliance to deliverables, timelines, business requirements
• Coordinate communication with all areas of the enterprise
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leadership Connect at all levels (including Director) and Program Governance - Conducted one on one session with the clients to assess client needs and expectations and ensure project delivery within deadline.
• Review and Analyze requirements, Estimate effort, timelines and resource needs
• Responsible for streamlining work processes in various teams that include quality control, human resource, communication management
• Identify Risks, Plan, Monitor and control testing activities
• Track and Monitor compliance to deliverables, timelines, business requirements
• Coordinated with team leaders to check the project status and deal with issues regarding project completion
• Coordinate communication with all areas of the enterprise
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator/Lead and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overall coordination of System testing from Onsite and Regression activities - Analysis, Planning, Execution and Reporting.
• Responsible for status reporting, client communication & coordinating with the project management team for timely completion and quality maintenance of projects
• Directed a team of 35 members, designed their schedule and allotted weekly tasks
• Risk Management and work towards Mitigation and Contingency Plan for smoother execution of the Project
• Maintain and track clarifications log
• Conduct Knowledge sharing sessions.
• Define and deliver Master Test Plan
• Involved in capturing and review of business requirements, Non-functional and Technical requirements including Change Requests
• Design of System Test Scenarios using Confidential 's Orthogonal Array tool resulting in an effort saving of 84%
• Review of System Test cases designed for the scenarios drafted
• Ensure Traceability through Quality Center for the Test Cases designed
• Formulating the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) using the Confidential CoDec tool and planning the System Test Cycles/Iterations accordingly.
• Test data and Defect Management including tracking and reporting

Confidential

Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identification and Design of Key Metrics document for Test Management and Test Execution within BI.
• Customization of the Master Test Plan Template for BI. Created a BI Master Test Plan Companion Document to aid the Test Leads in the creation of the Master Test Plan.
• Creation of a Standard Test Case Template using Quality Center fields.
• Creation of Sample Master Test Plan Document and Sample Test cases specific to BI for all Test Stages - Unit, Component Integration, System, System Integration and UAT.
• Creation of Metadata/Testing Glossary for BI.
• Reviewing project design documents and Master Test Plans for various projects within BI - Analytical Data Warehouse (ADW) and Enterprise data Warehouse (EDW) groups.
• Identification of Testing gaps using Test Maturity Model.
• Providing DW Testing Guidelines.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a Team of manual and automation testers
• Responsible for Manual testing including backend ETL batch jobs and creating/maintaining automation suite
• Participating in Requirement and Code Walkthroughs
• Key member in the Go-No-Go decision from QA perspective
• Develop Test Plan, Test cases for execution
• Coordinate automation of regression test scripts for future releases created using WinRunner
• Test Case Assignment for execution and defect tracking using Test Director Tool
• Analyze reports and graphs generated by the Test Director/Quality Center for all the types of testing carried out.
• Risk Identification and prioritization

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Translating requirements into Test Cases for Regression Testing
• Performing Manual testing on the application and further automating the test case by creating Test Scripts in SQA Basic using Rational Robot
• Test data setup using data pools in Rational Robot.
• Test Environment Set up for correct Profiles in the UFS application before proceeding with the testing.
• Executing the scripts by preparing Test Suites using Rational Test Manager.
• Defect identification and management using Rational Clear Quest.

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sustenance of the Connection Management, Performance management and Resource management Sub-systems of NMS.
• Feature delivery on request.
• Providing estimations and consultation for newer requirements.