OBJECTIVE & SUMMARY:

• I am looking for career opportunities to leverage my extensive experiences in the various phases of the Software Development and Testing Life Cycle in the Banking and Insurance Industries.
• Experience in Testing and Development projects
• Experience in Information Technology for over ten (10+) year
• Complete understanding of Software Development Life Cycle including Quality Assurance, Manual and Automation Testing life cycle.
• Innovative Business Professional with expertise in analyzing Business requirements and transforming into technical solutions.
• Experience in creation of Test Plans, Test scripts and Test Cases for Testing including Risk Management and Business Continuity Strategies.
• Expertise in System and Integration testing, Regression Testing and end - to-end testing.
• Proficient in usage of HP Quality Center and HP Quick Test Professional tool for creating, executing scripts and managing defects
• Knowledge in HP Quick Test Professional tool for creating and executing VB scripts for Automation testing.
• Worked on Project estimation specific to Testing
• Organized reports on Testing deliverables and Project Metrics
• Involved in Project Management activities
• Determined to resolve any critical issue and ensured a flawless communication flow between the teams.
• Excellent communication, Interpersonal and analytical skills
• Motivated individual to work as team and continuously provided positive results to the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe and Open Systems:

Hardware: IBM ES/9000, Pentium based Servers and PC C++, C, COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, HTML, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual Basic script

Database: DB2, Oracle

Platforms: DOS, Windows, MVS, UNIX, HP Quality Center 9.2, HP Quick Test Professional (UFT 11.5)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a Team of around 30 plus members to develop and perform testing activities for the product being developed.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence of the developed product to the Business Requirement Document.
• Establish cohesive coordination between Client, Onshore and Offshore team.
• Monitor the delivery schedule and ensure timely delivery of the product.
• Develop Test Plans, Test Scripts, Risk Management and Business Continuity Strategies.
• Prepare cohesive and analytical reports to communicate the progress of the deliverables to senior management and the Client.
• Escalate and resolve any critical issues identified during the progress of the deliverable.
• Prepare project metrics for quality assurance.
• Ensure high motivation of team members by recognizing and rewarding their achievements
• Providing career counseling and guidance to team members. Identify star performers and groom them for career progression.
• Conduct performance appraisal for team members.
• Perform System and Integration testing of the various applications in mainframe environment
• To perform estimation for the project.
• To conduct Test Plan and script walkthrough for obtaining the approval.
• To prepare and condition the data for testing.
• To conduct thorough testing of the applications in silos and then integrating with the core applications to perform end-to-end testing.
• Executing scripts through Mercury Quality center and updating the results
• Testing Interfaces and data flow from online applications to Intermediate systems and then to batch processing systems.
• To ensure that balance details are updated in all the intermediate systems and the Posting Engines accurately.
• To verify the updates in the front-end applications and the reports.
• To document and submit the defects to the development team through Mercury Quality center and follow-up for the closure of the defects.
• To participate in defect meetings to update the complexity of the defect.

Tool: HP Quality Center 9.2

Technology: Mainframe, On-line applications

Operating System: MVS, Win 98

Confidential

Software Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed software applications in a number of projects mainly in Mainframe, VB and Oracle.
• Also responsible for quality assurance of developed applications and processes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To analyze the impact of the project
• Liaise with Quality Assurance team and supporting SQA activities
• Involved in Coding and Testing activities
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Results
• Involved in Code and Test reviews
• System Test Support

Hardware: ES/3278

Software: C V1.52, IBM, VSAM, Endevor, Insync

Operating System: MVS, Win 98

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involve in knowledge transfer to the members entering into the project
• Maintain News Bulletin which contains information from client as well as common issues.
• Liaise with Quality Assurance Team and supporting SQA
• Involved in Coding and Testing activities
• Conducted Reviews
• Preparation of Unit test plan and Unit Test Results

Hardware: ES/3278

Software: COBOL, VSAM, Expeditor, File-Aid

Operating System: MVS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Preparing Design Specification for the utility
• Involved in Coding
• Preparing Unit Test Summary and Unit Test Plan
• Unit Testing and documentation of the results

Hardware: Pentium Processor

Software: Excel, C

Operating Systems: Linux

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirements
• Design and development of Euro Planning and tracking
• Preparing Design Specifications for the tool
• Coding
• Technical and Peer reviews
• Preparing Unit Test Summary and Unit Test Plan
• Unit Testing

Hardware: Pentium based servers and PC

Software: MS Access, VB 6.0, Excel, MS Word

Operating System: Windows NT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of in-house tool to generate PL/SQL scripts
• Preparing Design specification for Custom PL/SQL scripts
• Generating PL/SQL scripts using the tool
• Coding PL/SQL scripts for special complex conversions
• Technical and Peer reviews
• Preparing Unit Test Summary and Unit test plan
• Unit Testing
• Configuration Control
• Maintaining Project Metrics

Hardware: Pentium based Servers and PC

Software: Oracle 8, PL/SQL 3.3, VB 6.0

Operating System s: Windows NT, UNIX

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of guidelines for impact analysis and code renovation
• Analysis of database field expansion
• Preparation of traceability matrix for impacted applications
• Code renovation of the impacted applications
• Reviews of code renovation.
• Testing the renovated application

Hardware: PENTIUM based Server and PC

Software: PL/SQL; VB; VC++; Crystal reports

Operating Systems: Windows NT