SUMMARY:

• 12 plus of years experienced with Agile software development process, Defect Management, Change Control/ Release Management process and managing relationships between strategic leadership, third party vendors/clients
• Strong planner, organizer and leader with exceptional Resource Management, Resource Allocation, Prioritization and Time Management skills.
• Strong communicator, good facilitator and team player managing teams up to 15 members with on - site/off-shore teams
• QA strategy, test-plan analysis, implementation and reporting
• Implemented Soarian Financial enterprise application.
• Built, structured and managed QA Functional and Dayend teams of sizes 1-15 towards building quality products in complex fast paced multi-platform environments like Financial and Health Care domains
• Experienced with both waterfall and Agile Methodologies; Experience with the use of agile approaches, including TDD, Test-Driven Development
• Experienced in analyzing Clinical work flows and involved with end user training and in user acceptance testing.
• Established, implemented and maintained standards quality across all phases of SDLC

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM, Test Partner, HP ALM 11, Microsoft Test Manager 2013, IBM WebSphere 6.1 & 7.1 Versions, Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Tomcat, Tibco

Automation tools: Silk,LoadRunner,Selenium

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows 2008/2012

Programming Language: J2EE, .NET,PL/SQL, C++, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, Java Script, XML, UML

Databases: Oracle 9i Forms, Reports and Crystal reports, MS SQL Databases, Data Warehousing tools, Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos, SQL Server 2008 and 2014.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Sr.QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created test strategy document to test and implement “Medi-Cal Institutional Format (UB-04/837I)”
• Worked closely with automation team to automate all the key workflows.
• Lead a team of testers on shore and off shore to test all Medical claim scenarios/work flows
• Created and implemented a revenue cycle setup which creates three claims at the same time based on charges
• Created a weekly testing status report and communicated with the upper level management.
• Identified and created test suites in MTM for Regression testing
• Lead an effort to design and test execution for Custom Attribute support feature, transfer to bad debt, bad debt to AR feature in 15.3 CU and tested in 15.3 environment.
• Wrote high level scenarios to test bulk jobs for performance testing and auditing features for new tabs, CMS-BOX1, Attachment Control Number
• Responsible for regression testing execution in 16.3 environment and work closely with Pune and Boston testing teams and update an existing test cases.
• Implemented DB Back end testing strategy for attachment control number for the claims.
• Responsible to test all electronics segments for PWK’s and CMS-Box1 for both professional and Institutional claims

Confidential, Malvern, PA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support large projects and teams in fast pace development environments, i.e. Agile development.
• Resource management of leading a team of test engineers for the testing of Soarian Financial product, both onsite and offshore (India)
• Responsible to create User Interface Architecture Improvements test strategy document.
• Responsible to create a test plan identifier, Test Items, risk issues, feature to be tested and feature not to be tested.
• Implemented a free form testing approach in the organization to test all UI’s which controls the drop down, radio buttons, paging control, and pop-up hyperlinks
• Worked closely with the automation team to guide and help to convert new manual test cases to automate
• Strategy to test all common component ICC control fields, Adaptability context to test each business function to test multiple fields.
• Interacted with scrum masters across all functional areas to identify the key UI’s and functions that require testing
• Arranged a testing session where we pulled all the resources including Analyst, senior programmers and business analyst to test all the UI’s
• Worked closely with the automation team to guide and help to convert new manual test cases to automate
• Involved in identifying key end to end System test work flows and worked closely with the automation team to automate the process.
• Implemented a process to upload Selenium automated packages on every scrum server to run the build verification test
• Strong experience in automating web application testing using selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.
• Strong experience in Java programming, Selenium WebDriver, Junit and TestNG
• Responsible for managing and coordinating test cycles, scheduling and testing, including end-to-end integration and UATfor multiple real time and batch application projects
• Helped the effort to lead the entire testing department to adopt the agile methodology.
• Worked closely with automation team to identify any element locator’s changes and an update existing automation scripts.
• Involved in identifying key end to end System test work flows
• Defined the roadmap identifying gaps and criteria to be applied for the implementation of sound Quality practices basedon an Agile / SCRUM methodology
• Encouraged my team members to have test design coverage for functional scenarios of the feature, mostly aroundrequirements, positive and negative scenarios
• Defining and documenting Master Test Plans. Reviewed Test Plans and made necessary updates after internalwalkthroughs to ensure coverage of test plan during the project lifecycle
• Understanding business requirements, application design and providing technical leadership for QA team and developing in-depth integration test suites along with risk based test approach
• Provide testing estimates including time, resources, environment and data needs
• Conducted bug triage meetings and coordinated defect statuses with the development teams R&D managers and scrummasters. Ensured all defects were documented properly and resolved by the development team
• Responsible to coordinate with the Configuration Management team to ensure all the bug solved defects in the daily builds
• During Integration testing time provided a daily testing status to the organization
• Handling multiple projects parallel, current engineering, hot fixes to the customers, TCR (The credentials repository) andDayend
• Work closely with QA engineers to ensure to follow the process to have a UAT for each and every story in scrum teams

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master of a development team with 8 developers, an analyst and a tester
• Responsible for managing sprint back log user stories (Requirements), Meeting with Product owners and R&D managers to prioritizing sprint back log based on customer needs. Involve in release management meetings.
• Facilitate Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives and coordinated communication with team various stake holders (End users, product owner, developers’ analyst testers and management.
• Facilitate daily scrum meeting to go over updates and manage any barriers for assigned tasks.
• Coordinate with other scrum team for steal-thread development.
• Maintain Sprint Backlog. And daily status meeting to go over the updates from the team members.
• Extreme programming skills in Java and SQL Server DBA 2008 R2.& 2012
• Using Jira working with an issue for bug tracking.
• Manage escalations to management and facilitating sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Sprint Review is a meeting for the team to present to management customers, users, and the product owner the product increment that is has built during the sprint.
• Attended sprint retrospective, what went well and what didn’t work.
• Responsible to maintained action items list to work during the next sprint.
• Involved in Sprint planning and UI design meetings for Mass deployment.
• Experience in working with developers, testers and business users from onshore and offshore.
• Responsible for maintenance of quality check points for mass deployment software.
• Lead a project for scrum server for 3.4 releases on 64 bit machine to install Web sphere 7.1 Version and SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 servers and clear case.
• Responsible for addressing build and apply issues for all Siemens enterprise application customers

Confidential, Malvern, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple releases for SF crystal reports. Backend SQL Server 2000 & 2005
• Defining Test Methodology and Strategy on multiple projects with different platforms to clarify major tasks and challenges of the test lifecycle processes based on the existing corporate QA policies
• Responsible for managing and coordinating test cycles, scheduling and testing, including end-to-end integration and UAT for multiple real time and batch application projects
• Defining and documenting Master Test Plans. Reviewing Test Plans and make necessary updates after internal walkthroughs to ensure coverage of test plan during the project lifecycle
• Understanding business requirements, application design and providing technical leadership for QA team and developing in-depth integration test suites along with risk based test approach
• Liaison and coordinate test by implementing/assisting document test scripts for end-to-end scenarios
• Identifying and adapting the existing general system standards, rules of system testing and communicating QA guidelines and standards to the development and business teams
• Worked with R&D Performance team to monitor the performance of new software release using Perfmon, and SQL Server Profiler.
• Responsible for monitoring Day End activities. Supervising Entry level staff and interns to monitor dayend by using tools Data Warehouse and DSS Scheduler.
• Mentoring new employees and interns to understand complex designs & patterns.
• Routinely performed Smoke tests for previous version of software to validate environment for extensive testing.
• Assisting other Project Managers in the identification of risks and risk mitigation to ensure a tested application and quality deliverables are produced
• Providing support and expertise during project lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation of quality in Test environment and enabling collaboration between dev. and test teams from offshore

Confidential, Wayne,PA

Sunior Oracle Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Oracle 9i Forms, Reports and Discoverer, which included generating numerous complex reports for various client requirements
• Wrote complex PL/SQL scripts to convert data from legacy systems
• Performed step by step procedure consistently to register scripts in Concurrent Manager Program allowing user to access program by logging onto Oracle Application.
• Created Database Objects to write control files to load data from spreadsheet into specific tables by utilizing SQL Loader.