Executive Summary:

High-energy result oriented professional with 15 years of progressive experience starting from developer to senior project manager with many full life-cycle projects that include custom development; as well as customization of packaged products for web applications, b2b, application integrations, and client server applications for Finance, Media, chemical, And IT companies. Detail Oriented, poised and confident, methodical and patient, self-starter with strong problem solving skills

Professional Summary:

• Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
• Extensive experience in first audience, reporting on usability, playability and identifying any aspects which could be improved. My aim is assuring quality in the final product and for finding flaws in a before it goes public.
• My leadership capabilities are responsible for managing the testing resources, providing detailed feedback to all the stakeholders, and represents QA in production/design meetings.
• Proficiency in managing projects, collaborating with project teams and working as a technical project manager by delivering on time and budget.
• Expertise in remote team (offshore) management, providing leadership through mentoring, training, and evaluation of team members. Managed Offshore-Onsite model and good expertise in project scheduling, planning, estimating and resource management for offshore teams
• Strong technical background in Automation testing, Performance testing,systems architecture, database design, and network administration.
• Solid skills in writing proposals, biding projects, and winning contracts.
• Very good interpersonal skills with ability to make friends at different levels in the organization
• Experienced in collaborating and facilitating communication between end users, technology resources, and business users to ensure the delivery of required outcomes

Positions Held:
Confidential,NJ
Sr. QA Lead July 09- Current
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QA manager Jan 08 – Oct 08

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Project/QA Manager 2005 - 2008

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Technical Project Manager 2004 - 2005

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Senior Software Engineer 2000 - 2004

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Web designer

Confidential,Bombay, India
Senior Software Developer

Professional Experience:
Confidential,NJ, Sr. QA Engineer
This is a judiciary system currently running on Java J2EE. Working as a liaison between the business users and the ITO to convert the existing system from mainframe to web based applications.
Responsibilities Involved:

• Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the program plan with customer representatives, such as portfolio managers, and all affected program stakeholders.
• Accountable for management of scope for the program and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with customer representatives and affected stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
• Direct work planning and scheduling design work.
• Manage, and track the program progress against the program plan.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all program-related issues and resolution of issues.
• Coordinate all cycles of testing.
• Direct the QA team on test plan, automation testing, and manual testing.
• Coordinate production testing for all production issues
• Automated the entire functional testing.

Confidential,QA Manager

Project Scope: Microsoft .net, and DB2 for backend
This is web platform that is used by Financial Consultants and Client Associates to service accounts. namely Fund Transfers, Journal Entries, Check Issuance, Check Stop Payments, Client Change, and Problem Resolution. This system utilizes Microsoft .Net for the front-end and DB2/CICS for data and back-end processing.
Responsibilities Involved:

• Budgeting and forecasting for multiple projects. Estimating the projects and budgeting resources
• Interact with Product Team of BA’s and Business Users for analyzing requirements
• Liaison between business and technology to ensure smooth delivery of Projects
• Performed project oversight for independent review and analysis of an agency wide IT systems integration project. Applied project management knowledge and expertise to gauge system performance and assess risk. Provided stakeholders with project status and outlook for success, and recommend project improvements
• Created quality management plan, risk management plan and communications plan
• Created dashboards (scorecards) for weekly reporting of project statuses
• Managed development of the IT Portfolio application to manage all assets of the department
• Developed project charter and budget for IT Portfolio application
• Relationship management with key stakeholders from various business units
• Managed the off shore and internal test management team. Facilitated and developed test plan, test cases
• Understood the need for deployment plan as the deployment was very haphazard and made sure that it included timelines and responsibilities

Managed the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and had full responsibility for defining and managing the project including budget and milestones adhering to the six sigma rules Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent Confidential,Manager Projects/QA

Project Scope: Web application Technologies implemented; Java, Struts, Java Script, WebLogic server, eMeta, iPlanet web server, Oracle 9i
Budget & Resources: $250K development budget. 6 resources from Vendor, 2 resources from MHC.
Responsibilities Involved:

Managed activities in execute, monitor, and close phases of the project Setup Change Management and Risk Management processes

• Setup and managed build and deployment processes
• Creation of work estimates and risk/benefit analysis for on-time, "minimal defect" solution development & delivery. Assist in resource planning and management

Managed performance improvement initiative Facilitated technical and business meetings to resolve project issues

• Manage project team workload and monitor capacity to optimize resources across multiple projects
• Developed QA Strategy, Policies and Standards which are up to the CMM quality as our partners are CMM certified. I had to design a new model so that we could coordinate the efforts of on shore and off shore development and at the same time the quality is not affected.
• Ensure ongoing staff development to expand competence and skill set of team through in-house and external training activities

Confidential,, PA – Technical Manager
Technology: , Webmethods Integration Server, J2EE, Java, EJB, Oracle, EDI, ChemXML, XML, XSL, Struts, UNIX, Shell Script, IDEA, CVS
Responsibilities:

• Managed a projects for building a EDI Channel to existing B2B infrastructure for Fortune 100 client
• Responsible for project management such as schedule, budget and issues/risk management
• Responsible for defining technology architecture to support current and future requirements
• Independently working and involved with introduction of structured testing and tracking of development projects.
• Established test schedules (via Microsoft Projects), deliverables. Assigned tasks and coordinate all test activities with other Development Leads
• Identified project risks and developed contingency plans. Established QA test environments (for install, functional, interface and final release testing
• Specialized in the combination of web services for service-oriented Architecture
• Played a key role in setting up offshore development center and training resources in India

Confidential,Detroit, MI

Project Scope: 2 front end application.
Budget & Resources: $2M development budget. 40 team members
Responsibilities:

Managed all phases of the Project; Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing

• Created and managed several project deliverables; Project Charter, Request For Proposal, Statement Of Work, Software Requirements Specification, Work Breakdown Structure, Software Development Plan, Architecture Plan, Project Plans, Communication Plan, User Acceptance Test Plan, Use Cases, Test Cases, Issue Tracking Lists, Risk List, Service Level Agreements
• Coordinated data warehousing activities including Logical and Physical Data Model creation, Source to Stating, Staging to DWH ETL mappings, SQR to Informatica script conversions, Informatica work flow creation
• Coordinated performance and load testing with Mercury Performance Center-Load Runner
• Planned and coordinated building the infra-structure; Production, QA/Stg, and Development servers
• Managed User Acceptance Testing process. Managed defects with Mercury Test Director

Confidential,Ypsilanti, MI
Technology Mac (8.0), ASP (2.0), Java Script (1.2), Dreamweaver (2.0), Adobe Photoshop (5.0), Front Page (2000), Adobe Image Styler, and DHTML.

• Provided an e-commerce solution for their online room service
• Developed web site for Dining Service and was awarded for the same

Confidential,Bombay, India,

• Assisted in establishing center of excellence for Object Oriented software development
• Established a team of for off-shore development practice
• Established framework for improving quality of deliverables using standardized unit testing framework
• Enabled high degree of code reuse
• Participated in business and user training activities

EDUCATION:
Masters in Information Systems.