­­­­­­­­­­­­­­SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of IT experience in various capacities.
• Project Management/Project Lead/Scrum Master experience.
• Strong experience with Scrum methodology and well versed in working on user stories.
• Strong background in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Development Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Extreme.
• Strong Experience in conducting Manual Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Case in Agile environment
• Experience in reviewing various project related documents including Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Technical Design Documents, etc.
• Experience in developing detailed project plans
• Experience in strategic product and project planning
• Able to lead project teams involving various functional areas
• Experience working in a GxP environment for Computer Systems Validation (CSV).
• Experienced in working with CMMI Level 5 organizations and also experienced in working on major enterprise projects in an Onsite/Offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Siebel
• Test Director 8.0
• Quality Center 8.0
• Quick Test pro 8.2
• Load Runner 8.0
• PVCS Tracker
• SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NC

Project Manager

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for planning and budgeting of mid and large projects/components in the IT organization. The responsibilities included conducting planning sessions to determine the work break down structures, resource allocations, activities and budgets.
• Manage projects, including development and maintenance of timelines, tracking of deliverables, and identification of out of scope customer requests.
• Projects involved complete software lifecycle, from requirements analysis to product delivery, onsite verification and deployment.
• Prepare project timelines that contain all activities, resources and costs to accomplish key milestone dates for integration into the project schedule, providing updates on progress against project objectives, milestones, timelines and metrics
• Establish and maintain effective communication and collaboration with functional area peers, working proactively to ensure team unity
• Manage client expectations and monitor level of satisfaction to maintain and develop customer relationships
• Analyze, clarify and communicate detailed topical development programs with clients
• Determine proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs, studying requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review and approval; enter and monitor tracking data; coordinate requirements with contributors; contribute proposal status information to review meetings; transmit proposals
• Gather proposal information by identifying sources of information; coordinate submissions and collections

Confidential

Validation Lead/Sr BA

Role & Responsibilities

• Proficient in MS Office products - Excel, Word, Power Point.
• Gathering and testing of business requirements by working with the end users. Creation of the User Requirements (URS), Functional Specifications (FS) and Design Documents (DS).
• Design, prepare, execute, and analyze installation qualifications (IQ), operational qualifications (OQ), and performance qualifications (PQ) for PLA systems.
• Create Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Schedules and Test Scripts from requirements
• Efficient in using MS Visio for Business Process Modeling, Use Cases diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
• Participated in Project related meetings - Test Status meetings and Defect Summary/StatusWorked extensively with offshore/global teams during System testing and UAT.
• Perform functional testing of software to find errors and confirm applications meet business requirements.
• Lead structured discussions with SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes
• Played a major role in designing, developing, and implementing strategic solutions as a part of customer relationship management Document, evaluate and research test results.
• Analyzed the PLA report that interacts with the LIMS software
• Trained test teams/business teams on functionality and navigation throughout the application.

Environment: s: HPALM, SQL, Oracle, Citrix, Sharepoint, MS Office.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum meetings including - Daily Scrum, Scrum Planning, Sprint Commitment, Backlog Grooming, Bug Triage meetings as a Scrum Master
• Worked closely with end users in prioritizing the new features
• Worked with the project team in grooming the high level features into user stories
• Developed an iteration plan and the overall release plan
• Successfully released and closed the project
• Provided post implementation support
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet deadlines
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental)
• Worked closely with all stakeholders to understand their needs and complete projects successfully.
• Facilitate internal and external kick-off teleconferences with project staff and client representatives
• Monitor and facilitate day-to-day interactions with project core and ad hoc team members
• Work with offshore and onshore testing team and prioritize testing activities.QA/BA Lead
• Create Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Schedules and Test Scripts from requirements and use cases using Agile testing tools
• Participated extensively in requirements gathering meetings, worked closely with BA/Product Owner (PO) in documenting requirements and use cases.
• Developed testing scenarios and conducted integration testing in all areas.
• Participated in Project related meetings - Test Status meetings and Defect Summary/StatusWorked extensively with offshore/global teams during System testing and UAT
• Maintain documentations for all support activities including product development and enhancements
• Work with support team to provide product support and assistance to customers. Extensive participation in conducting UAT and training.
• Provide product trainings and demos to team members and customers.
• Work with support team to evaluate complex customer problem, identify root causes and derive resolutions.
• Guide support team in addressing customer problems within established response time.

Environment: J2EE,.NET, XML, Quality Center 11.0, SQL, Subversion, JIRA, TRAC, Oracle, CaliberRM, Agile/Scrum, Precision, VersionOne

Configuration Management/QA Analyst

Role & Responsibilities -

• Set up and enforce software configuration control/Change Management and software development environments including program source control to ensure reliable archives and source code integrity.
• Develop and direct software test plans for quality assurance.
• Perform unit/module testing of software to find errors and confirm applications meet specifications
• Create, update and prioritize automation scripts.
• Provide product content to Technical Writers.
• Work with offshore and onshore testing team and prioritize testing activities.
• Document, evaluate and research test results.
• Analyze and communicate test results to project team.

Environment: Serena Team Track, Serena PVCS Professional Suite, Serena Dimension CM, Subversion, ITIL

Confidential, Austin, TX

Test Lead/Software Test Analyst

Role & Responsibilities -

• Perform estimation efforts on projects and track progress.
• Conduct a wide range of quality-control tests and analysis to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements.
• Draft and revise test plans and scripts with consideration to end-to-end system flows.
• Execute test scripts according to application requirements documentation.
• Log defects, identify course of action and perform preliminary root cause analysis.
• Document, evaluate and research test results.
• Analyze and communicate test results to project team.
• Coordinate multiple testers and testing activities within a project.
• Retest software fixes to ensure the issues are resolved.
• Document evolution of testing procedures for future replication.
• Create test data to thoroughly test positive and negative program logic.
• Used QTP for GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing
• Identify, recommend and implement process improvements to enhance testing strategies.
• Analyze requirements and design aspects of projects.

Environment: Ariba, QADirector, QTP, SQL, Oracle, Quality Center

Confidential, CA

QA Lead Analyst

Role & Responsibilities -

• Leading the effort to analyze functional specifications and business process models and develop comprehensive functional test plans.
• Provide direction and assistance to the UAT team to ensure effective planning and execution of the UAT phase of the project.
• Assisting the QA Project Manager in developing Project Plans and Statements of Work for the Functional Testing aspects of the project.
• Developing and executing test plans, test cases and test scripts per approved Statements of Work.
• Identifying and logging defects and effectively reporting those defects to the development team.
• Working with the QA Automation Lead to develop and implement an automated testing strategy.
• Effectively managing and communicating status of the Functional Testing phase of the project and ensuring timely and quality delivery of all Functional Testing deliverables.
• Assisting with the management day-to-day client interaction in regards to UAT, regression and Functional Testing.
• Worked on VmWare - Cloud base software for hosting/testing pension/health plan software for Writers Guild and Screen Actors guild of America.

Environment: J2EE, QADirector 5.2, TrackRecord 6.2.2, SQL,VMWare

QA Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Wrote Test Scripts in Test Director for Functional & Regression testing.
• Executed functionality, regression test cases for Commercial eLoanTRAC application.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement documents (BRD), Software Requirement specification (SRS) and Release Notes.
• Reported and verified bugs in Perforce.
• Prepared weekly status reports and participated in weekly software/project meetings.
• Took part in the preparation of Project Plan
• Planned and conducted UAT sessions
• Designed and maintained requirements traceability matrix

Environment: Java, Perforce, Test Director 8.0, SQL

QA Lead

Role & Responsibilities -

• Develop the System Test plan.
• Develop the System test cases
• Interact with the Dev team during the planning phase for clarifications on the design documents.
• Maintained the Regression Test sets.
• Perform System Testing to check the functionalities and business requirements.
• Interact with the Dev team and HP in troubleshooting issues found during testing.
• Coordinate with the business users to check for any additional testing requirements.
• Coordinated with the Offshore test resources.
• Utilized Winrunner and QTP scripts to create test data.
• Coordinated with the Performance test team to perform load and performance testing on the AIX platform.
• Analyzed the performance testing logs to check for full table scans and any other performance bottlenecks.
• Provided training to freshly hired testers regarding RIO AIX and Wintel applications and familiarized them with the testing procedures to be followed.

Environment: Siebel, Test Director 8.0, Quality Center 8.0, Quick Test pro 8.2, Load Runner 8.0, PVCS Tracker, SQL