OBJECTIVE

• To work in pragmatic way in an organization where me can show my talent and enhance my skills to meet company goals and objective with full integrity and zest

SUMMARY

• Tenured professional with over 12 years in IT and ITES industry, possessing experience in meticulous execution of complex transitions from Business requirement stage till UAT and Live Run.
• Extensive domain exposure in Investment Banking, Risk Management, Wealth Management, Retail Banking, Securities Trading and Settlement, Asset Servicing, Risk Management, AP, AR, GL and OM
• Extensive exposure on Onsite and Offshore delivery Model Projects
• Good Exposure in Test Management Practices of Estimation models, WBS Planning, Project Management and tracking, Process defining and delivery and auditing processes
• Competent liaison between Management, Client and Test team resources
• Good exposure in Managing and Leading Mid - Size teams
• Good exposure on Agile SCRUM and Waterfall development and testing projects
• Extensive exposure on Web and Web Services, ETL applications testing
• Good exposure in Managing and tracking multiple projects and provide daily reporting to the clients
• Good exposure in Conducting the Defect triage and Project status calls and Agile stand up meetings
• Extensive exposure in creating Test Strategy, Test Plans, execution planning and Test case planning and regression suite identification, defect management test reporting
• Good exposure In automation test model identification
• Good exposure in working with business users and end client and co-ordinate with development teams on business requirement understanding and work with project team at QA life cycle
• Good exposure in HP ALM, Quality centre,
• Good exposure in provide analysis and support for different geographical clients and middle layer management
• Extensive exposure in Testing Methodologies which includes Functional, System Integration, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing
• Good Exposure in handle the different interfaces and layers of users in terms of production support and Manage and lead testing activities
• Other Areas of Expertise: Operations, Client Servicing, Strategic Planning and Team Management.
• Strong communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a high learning acumen to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skills set to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 FI, HR, Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite and EAGLE

Applications: MS Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Power Point and Acrobat

Management Tools: JIRA, Quality Center and Hexawise

SDLC Methods: Waterfall, Agile

Testing: Integration, Functional, Regression and Performance testing

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS - Access, Sybase

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000/NT/XP, Vista

Trainings: SAP R/3 FI, HR, Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite and EAGLE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior Process Lead

Environment: EAGLE, MS-Office, JIRA, SQL, Power Center 9.0.1, Quality Center, Unix and Autosys.

Responsibilities:

• Functional Testing Lead working with a team of 6 On-site and 8 Off-shore team members tracking and managing Testing activities in Sprints
• Provide estimations and resource planning during the Scrum planning meetings
• Single point of Contact for Test Management and support activities
• Perform Configuration Management and Test Management activities
• Participate in Business Requirement and Functional and Technical Design reviews
• Participate in Project Strategy and execution planning activities
• Provide Work Break Structures, Feasibility Estimate and Business Case Estimates
• Provide Daily status and weekly status reports
• Preparation of Test Data and Test Approach, WBS, Traceability matrix
• Prepare and Review Test Approach, Test Scenario’s, Test Cases and Test Data requirements with Business Users prior to execution
• Actively participate in Test execution and provide the Daily status in Scrum meeting
• Provide support to the offshore team during execution
• Defect Management using HP QC and JIRA and conduct defect review meetings
• Participate in Integration and regression testing of applications in different life cycle scenarios
• Active participation with automation teams and counterparts in preparing automated regression suites
• Conduct team level training on domain and client specific tools like MindMap, Hexawise and Jira
• Conduct the team trainings and daily meetings and work optimization meetings to achieve the sprint timelines

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Process Lead

Environment: MS Office, Remedy, Java, SQL, Web applications, Power Center 9.0.1, Quality Center, Unix and Autosys, DAVAST.

Responsibilities:

• Analysed business requirements and participated in business requirement walk through and design walk through meetings
• Prepared Test Strategy Document and Test Case Document, Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the requirements with their respective test cases in HP Quality Centre
• Designed and developed detailed Test Plans and Test cases which specify testing overview and testing approach depending on the Business and Technical Requirements.
• Execute test cases and log defects identified in HP QC
• Tracked and managed defects using HP Quality Centre
• Extensively used SQL server query statements to verify the data integrity and validation between the front end values with the backend database values of the application.
• Prepared test status reports during test execution process.
• Document Test Results and Test Evaluation Summary.
• Attending daily meetings and stand up to discuss the work status with business and developers.
• Defect management - Conducting daily defect status calls with client & development team to ensure on time defect resolution

Confidential

Process Lead

Environment: SAP, MS-Office, SQL, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, understanding and estimation
• Develop Master Test Strategy, Test Plan documents.
• Coordinate between teams to develop system-integration/regression/End-to-End Test Cases, Test Data requirement documents.
• Conduct and participate in various Testing deliverables review with business and other IT functional groups and other stakeholders and incorporating feedback towards improvements of these artifacts.
• Execute test cases and log defects identified in HP QC
• Arrange Triage meetings, Issue/Defect discussion with all stakeholders and Test status reporting
• Created Performance Plans and co-ordinate with performance teams to facilitate performance test execution and sharing of performance test results/benchmarks with business.
• Assist business during UAT phase with Test Planning, Test Environment and Data set up, Test Case identification and Execution.
• Ensure QA/testing process improvements are documented and incorporated in the quality assurance process. Ensure that these improvements get translated to appropriate guidelines/checklists.

Confidential

Process Lead/SME

Environment: Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite, MS-Office

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, understanding and estimation
• Develop Master Test Strategy documents.
• Prepare Test Scenario’s, Test Cases and Test Data per requirement
• Execute test cases and capture defects.
• Conduct and participate in various Testing deliverables review with business and other IT functional groups and other stakeholders and incorporating feedback towards improvements of these artifacts.
• Arrange Triage meetings, Issue/Defect discussion with all stakeholders and Test status reporting
• Assist business during UAT phase with Test Planning, Test Environment and Data set up, Test Case identification and Execution.
• Ensure QA/testing process improvements are documented and incorporated in the quality assurance process. Ensure that these improvements get translated to appropriate guidelines/checklists.