OBJECTIVE:

I would like to be part of a successful organization and help build, grow and sustain the technical excellence through industry leading testing strategy, standards, approach and delivery. To utilize my proven quality assurance expertise to benefit the organization with informed decision making and an understanding of technical capacity, to help with the successful delivery of system projects and changes on time under budget

SUMMARY:

• Experienced Quality assurance and testing professional with over 11 years of experience in Quality Assurance and testing in various industries, with specialization in Retail and Financial sectors.
• Experienced in the complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements gathering to migration to production.
• In - depth experience in all phases of Software Testing Lifecycle with specialized expertise in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and ETL, leading and executing Automation testing. Worked extensively with business and IT users directly, in preparing and supporting user acceptance testing.
• Active member of QA control board and helped in creating testing strategy documents, Detailed Test Plan, Master Test Plan, Test Summary document, RACI, RCA and risk based testing documents
• Expertise in developing Test Estimations, Test Plans, Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures, Analysing Test Results and Test documentation and Test Metrics.
• Experienced in various Testing methodologies and proven experience leading global Testing teams, for projects of various sizes.
• Experienced in testing different types of system architectural designs for global cross-application solutions.
• Hands on experience on Retail System (JDA Demand and Fulfilment, Sterling Order management, Point of Sale), Banking domain(Agile methodology) as a programmer and tester
• Proven track record assembling, motivating, guiding and helping testing teams deliver several complex testing cycles for various projects on time.
• Proven and recognized for building excellent partnership with business users, vendors, developers and other IT teams to deliver the IT solutions to meet the business requirements in a strategic way.
• Proven ability to adapt to rapidly changing system requirements and ability to operate at both strategic and tactical level, along with the ability to successfully balance multiple competing priorities.
• Experience includes leadership in multicultural and multinational environments.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral. Highly Energetic, motivated, quality driven, self-starter and dynamic decision maker
• Expertise in black box, Manual Testing and Automation Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 7, Windows NT, 2000, XP,DOS,UNIX, Mainframe

Languages: C, C++,SQL,PL/SQL,Java,VBHTML,XML, JCL,COBOL

Middleware: EDI, ETL (Informatica, WebMethods)

QA tools: HP ALM 11.0 HP QC, QTP, Rally 2.0, Jira

Project Management Tools: Excel, Power Point, Visio and Project

RDBMS: MS SQL Server,Oracle,DB2

Other Tools: Remedy,Change management, Problem and Incident Management, Winrunner, SOAP, Sharepoint, Mainframe, Xpeditor, Abend-Aid,CICS,SQL Navigator, Teradata SQL Assistant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential 

Senior QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading onshore and offsite teams in various projects/maintenance / enhancement efforts.Member of QA control board and prepared various testing methodology documents.
• Subject matter expert and have conducted various training sessions onsite and offshore.
• Worked closely with automation team on planning and strategizing test scripts for automation in demand module for inventory planning and executing automation test scripts through QTP.
• Lead various project efforts through the entire life cycle.
• Responsible for preparing Master and Detailed test plan, Test Scenario creation, Test script review, lead defect triage sessions, weekly and daily status and test summary report for projected audience.
• Work on supporting UAT team as a test lead and also supported client testing with various vendor organization.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading testing team on shore and off shore for SAP Based applications in Agile Methodology.
• Worked on leading automation team and executing and signoff of automation scripts.
• Prepared extensive Daily status reports, Test Plan, Automation reports,RTM.
• Worked on creating and executing the Test Scenarios for all SAP Financial module.
• Extensively work with business in providing support with Acceptance testing.
• Conducted Scrum calls and participated in Scrum activities.
• Extensive knowledge in HP ALM 11.0,Ran Queries for Reports from QC and MS Access,
• Involved in Planning, for Unit, Integration and UAT, regression and automation testing.
• Developed Test Strategy, Plan, Reports for PMO, Conducted Training Sessions and meetings with Functional Teams and Development Teams.
• Proficient in Rally and utilizied Rally for tasking and other scrum related activities

Confidential 

Business System Consultant (QA Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Testing Anti Money Laundering applications.
• Successfully participated in supporting team for CIBOS and Portal Application migrations.
• Worked with Agile Methodology and active participant of SCRUM.
• Extensively worked on JIRA and Salesforce in defect triaging and worked with testing team to fix and track the test cases. Worked on Automating manual scripts using QTP.
• Worked with salesforce-ICloud cipher testing, Sales force side UI testing, Sales force clients, validated validation rules, objects, custom objects testing, reports, dashboards.
• Worked on ETL testing between salesforce Informatica and reporting tool.
• Worked with Sales force PMO tool kit for creating and handling cases and change requests.
• Worked with various team testing for integration testing with SPOQ, POQ and CID for iCatch AML.
• Worked as a QA Analyst in various projects (Custom Address, Client merge, Research Subscription)for testing Sales force for IBCM.

Confidential 

Programmer /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coding, testing and implementing support issue resolutions.
• Worked on stabilizing JDA Manugistics and Lowe’s Supply chain planning application and enhance the performance of SCP.
• Worked on various levels of testing in JDA demand and forecast model.
• Successfully coordinated team of testers to perform CIT and SIT in logistics supply chain project
• Proactively approach all issues, provide root cause analysis and long-term resolution to issues, successfully worked with cross functional team to resolve issues
• Extensively worked on quality center in defect triaging, create test cases, defects, track, analyze and worked as a Technical lead with testing team to fix and track the test cases.
• Used SDLC and Waterfall methodology.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, developing, testing and implementing maintenance issues of high complexity.
• Worked directly with the business users to define requirements and design solutions to maintenance and support issues complexity.
• Worked on complex SQL queries for data analysis and testing.
• Has written and tested Unix shell scripts, working knowledge of JDA Manugistics
• Hands on experience with XMLl and web based, Mainframe data testing using FILE-AID,ABEND-AID, SYNCSORT, XPEDITOR and knowledge of ENDEVOR
• Effective team player. Has worked as a Team lead and delivered solutions effectively with offshore team.
• Project Coordinator for Import PO Management System project in 2008.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a tech lead and participated in analyzing and designing as per business requirements.
• Worked as a manual tester and participated in Integrated testing, Regression testing.