PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A qualified PG in Business Administration with 13 years’ experience in multifaceted roles like Sr. BSA / QA Manager in Banking sector specifically Credit cards, Payments & Banking projects. Professional experience include functional expertise of financial applications which includes Vision PLUS (Issuer processing Credit card system), SAP(Financial), Payment system, BSA/AML, Credit card Network processing system, Master/Visa simulators, and Database applications with expertise to carry out testing projects in various environment such as Mainframe, DB2, Java and Mobile banking.
• Project Experience include performing multifaceted roles. Worked as Project manager, Scrum master, Senior Business Analyst and QA Lead in various projects.
• Proficient in working both Agile Methodology and Waterfall Model Projects. Experience include playing Scrum Master Role as part of Project Management.
• Participate in requirement analysis and involve in creation of BRD, Requirement catalog, Functional design flows, Functional use cases, working with business team to materialize the design/redesigning business processes.
• Experience include creation functional Visio flows, preparing Presentation and creation of Business Process modelling diagrams for existing workflows.
• Proficient Knowledge in Test methodology, Involved in QA Project proposals, Test Strategy creation & walkthrough, QA Estimation, Budgeting, Resource Onboarding, Metrics derivation, Project Margin, Project Mid Term Health Check report, Defect Management, Client Approvals and Project Closure Presentation with Exit Summary reports.
• Project Experience includes working in both in Waterfall and Agile Methodology projects for various applications which involves Mainframe, SAP, DB2, SQL, Web applications and Mobile Application
• Proficient knowledge in preparation of Test Strategy, Test Scope, Test Conditions, Test Cases, Test Execution plan, Test Data preparation, Defect Management and Client co - ordination.
• Proficient knowledge in Banking Domain which includes Credit\Debit card business, Authorization System (Magnetic stripe & EMV authorizations), Retail Banking, Payments, Capital market and Insurance Applications.
• Project Experience includes working in client locations, managing teams for various Geographic Locations which includes playing different roles in projects such as QA Manager, Defect Manager, Business analyst and Project Manager.
• Determine Project scope, creation of Project Plan and laisse with Business team with finalization of Requirement and work with development team to ensure all critical requirements are vetted out.
• Conduct discussion with stake holder to finalize the requirement and prepare requirement catalog document.
• Creation of Use Case document with all possible business flow documentation.
• Creation of Functional flow diagrams and UML diagrams on business data flow.
• Transform business processes, IT processes/systems by analyzing current-state/future-state and identify gaps
• Project planning, scoping, effort estimation, tracking Client communication & presentation
• Oversee end to end project management from conceptualization and visualization to budgeting, resource & task scheduling and final execution of projects
• Interact with and guide team members to ensure smooth progress of project work
• Interacting with customer as well as team for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of Test scope
• Experience include preparation and Review of Test Strategy, Effort Estimation, Project timeline diagrams, creation of Project Mid Term Health Check report, Project status dashboard, Project Capacity Tracker, Defect Management, Interface co-ordination, preparation of Test Closure and Exit Summary reports.
• Experience include leading of end to end testing program which involve creation of Test Planning document(Test Scenario, Test Cases, RTM, Test Data Creation, ALM QA Tracking) and Execution for in System Testing, System Integration Testing, Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Develop services and product strategies closely aligned with business strategy, develop roadmaps and ensure implementation
• Own E2E product development/enhancements and implementation based on business vision and strategy
• Act as single-point-of-contact and serve as primary liaison between business, operations, vendor partners and IT teams
• Conduct and manage JAD, workshops, immersion sessions with business, operations, legal, risk and compliance, vendor partners and IT stakeholders
• Manage timelines, mitigate risks through regular status meetings, reports, deliverables review and milestones tracking
• Manage multiple external/internal stakeholder integrations in line with project schedule.
• Gather, analyze and document business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, JIRA user stories
• Create exceptional quality deliverables including requirements documents, business design and architecture, process flows, Functional Usercases, Business Process Modelling documentation, Risk migration strategy, review test strategy and test plans, support QA and manage UAT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. BSA / Project Manager

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Project Manager

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Confidential

QA Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead

Confidential, Dallas, TX

First Data

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project Experience include performing multifaceted roles. Worked as Project manager, Scrum master, Senior Business Analyst and QA Lead in various projects.
• Proficient in working both Agile Methodology and Waterfall Model Projects. Experience include playing Scrum Master Role as part of Project Management.
• Participate in requirement analysis and involve in creation of BRD, Requirement catalog, Functional design flows, Functional use cases, working with business team to materialize the design/redesigning business processes.
• Experience include creation functional Visio flows, preparing Presentation and creation of Business Process modelling diagrams for existing workflows.
• Proficient Knowledge in Test methodology, Involved in QA Project proposals, Test Strategy creation & walkthrough, QA Estimation, Budgeting, Resource Onboarding, Metrics derivation, Project Margin, Project Mid Term Health Check report, Defect Management, Client Approvals and Project Closure Presentation with Exit Summary reports.
• Project Experience includes working in both in Waterfall and Agile Methodology projects for various applications which involves Mainframe, SAP, DB2, SQL, Web applications and Mobile Application
• Proficient knowledge in preparation of Test Strategy, Test Scope, Test Conditions, Test Cases, Test Execution plan, Test Data preparation, Defect Management and Client co - ordination.
• Proficient knowledge in Banking Domain which includes Credit\Debit card business, Authorization System (Magnetic stripe & EMV authorizations), Retail Banking, Payments, Capital market and Insurance Applications.
• Project Experience includes working in client locations, managing teams for various Geographic Locations which includes playing different roles in projects such as QA Manager, Defect Manager, Business analyst and Project Manager.
• Determine Project scope, creation of Project Plan and laisse with Business team with finalization of Requirement and work with development team to ensure all critical requirements are vetted out.
• Conduct discussion with stake holder to finalize the requirement and prepare requirement catalog document.
• Creation of Use Case document with all possible business flow documentation.
• Creation of Functional flow diagrams and UML diagrams on business data flow.
• Transform business processes, IT processes/systems by analyzing current-state/future-state and identify gaps
• Project planning, scoping, effort estimation, tracking Client communication & presentation
• Oversee end to end project management from conceptualization and visualization to budgeting, resource & task scheduling and final execution of projects
• Interact with and guide team members to ensure smooth progress of project work
• Interacting with customer as well as team for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of Test scope
• Experience include preparation and Review of Test Strategy, Effort Estimation, Project timeline diagrams, creation of Project Mid Term Health Check report, Project status dashboard, Project Capacity Tracker, Defect Management, Interface co-ordination, preparation of Test Closure and Exit Summary reports.
• Experience include leading of end to end testing program which involve creation of Test Planning document(Test Scenario, Test Cases, RTM, Test Data Creation, ALM QA Tracking) and Execution for in System Testing, System Integration Testing, Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Develop services and product strategies closely aligned with business strategy, develop roadmaps and ensure implementation
• Own E2E product development/enhancements and implementation based on business vision and strategy
• Act as single-point-of-contact and serve as primary liaison between business, operations, vendor partners and IT teams
• Conduct and manage JAD, workshops, immersion sessions with business, operations, legal, risk and compliance, vendor partners and IT stakeholders
• Manage timelines, mitigate risks through regular status meetings, reports, deliverables review and milestones tracking
• Manage multiple external/internal stakeholder integrations in line with project schedule.