SUMMARY

• An accomplished project lead/manager with extensive experience in project management, requirements definition, software testing, and quality assurance in a variety of industries, including insurance, financial services, supply chain, Internet, and e - Business. Managed the end to end delivery of multiple parallel projects.
• Responsibilities included scoping, requirements gathering, estimation, budgeting/forecasting, development of project plans, project briefs/presentations to senior management, reporting, quality assurance, governance & delivery methodology, controlled sign off & change management, testing scope & scheduling.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of motivating and developing team leaders and team players.
• Experienced using on-shore, off-shore, and mixed teams.
• Technical test lead for specialize testing project within Confidential insurance practice team, with an extensive experience of workingAPI testing, micro services testing, SOA testing, functional testing and test automation.
• Has a good experience as Business Analyst in Requirement elicitation, Requirement analysis, Requirement prioritization, Root cause analysis, product roadmap discussion, Uses cases, Risk assessment and in preparation of Functional specification documents.
• Test lead of Confidential project, managing 20 people at offshore- These include SOA testing team, functional testing team and backend test & production/QA support teams..
• Worked as Test lead for Estimations, Designing Test Plans, Test Execution in multiple enviorments and UAT phase of testing. Played a role of Defect Manager to ensure seamless progress of defect life cycle.
• Act as a liaison between Confidential, Management, Development & QA teams following different SDLC Methodologies (Waterfall, Verification & Validation & Agile).
• On hand experience in developing automation frameworks in JAVA, SOAP UI.
• Experience in coming up with proactive proposals(RFP etc), tool evaluation reports and POCs to gain new business.
• Collect and model data & metrics/KPI for audits, to define product roadmaps and identify gaps & improvement areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLET:

Tools: HP ALM SOAP UI - Basic & Pro CA LISA

Languages: SQL Java

Operating Systems: Windows (2000, XP, VISTA, 7) Unix

Test Management Tool: Rally

Microsoft Tools: MS Excel MS Powerpoint MS Word

Domain Expertise: Insurance (4.5 Years) OnLine Advertising (BFSI) (4 Years) Supply Chain Management (1 Year)

Trainings: Probing skills, Assertiveness and Consulting skills. SQL Queries. Java Leading Team.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Lead/Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 30 people, including functional testing, SOA testing and support teams (Production support and support in other higher environments) - Onshore SCRUM master for Confidential team.
• Increased team size from 6 to 30 through a combination of on-shore and off-shore recruitment.
• Moved team from traditional waterfall model to agile (Scrum) - Organized training & working session.
• Prepared test strategy for UI testing, SOA/Integration testing for each release cycle, wrote and review test cases, setup and change management process.
• Part of regression streamlines process - Developing regression test suite in SOAP UI for existing test cases (Have coverage of 100% in regression testing).
• Built team specific to JMS based testing - Was involved in initial POC for “Event validation” for Tibco business engine and Preprocessor using CA Lisa.
• Task allocation, task breakdown and assignment. Attended requirement design walkthroughs, conveyed same to team, collected queries and got clarifications-Baseline the requirement before test start.
• Monitor all support queries raised by other QC team /Agencies w.r.t our web services, resolve them or guide them to answers.
• Part of on boarding and transition team.
• Metric collection, SOA dashboard maintenance, forecasting and generating/reviewing billing reports.
• Developed utilities in JAVA to assist in deployment, production support and smoke validations.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 10 people, including functional testing for schedule payment project (SOA testing & UI Testing) and ETL testing teams.
• Developed Automation framework in JAVA for running Abinitio graphs and do ETL validations.
• Test automation using SOAPUI, script development using SOAPUI.
• Review project artifacts for client and internal audits.
• Project management activities like metric collection, QA audit preparation, conduct internal audits.

Confidential

Senior Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Opt server automation in JAVA, automated around 700 test cases for this functionality.
• Database testing, security and installation testing.
• Preparation of Test Plan (For functional test and Automation), estimation of task. Creation of test cases related user stories.
• Prepared load test framework in Java for SCS desktop application with reporting functionality.
• Participate in SCRUM meeting and calls with onsite team members.
• Production support and query resolution for customer data models.
• Preparation of training material and documentation for SCS product.

Confidential

Moudle Leader

Responsibilities:

• Planned and estimated for automation of SOA services available in the application, evaluated certain tools for the same.
• Wrote and Automated 500+ test cases for Confidential SOA services using SOAP UI Pro.
• Virtualization - SOAP UI Mocking of services.
• Creation of test cases,test execution and test reporting.
• Timely resonsible for upgrading and downgrading severity of defects.
• Identified scope and scenarios for Automation.
• Gap analysis to ensure 100% coverage.
• Point of Contact for Enhancements and Change Requests.

Confidential

Moudle Leader

Responsibilities:

• Understanding functional scenario covered for enhancement in player and developed test scenarios.
• Co-ordinate with “Product Management group” & developers to customize develop test plan and scenarios.
• Hands on experience on developing SOA Test suite in SOAP UI for Winamp plugins.
• Designed test cases for Interfaces like video player,Cd ripping and user plugins for Winamp player..
• Developed build installation and configuration script in JAVA.
• Migration testing from Oracle to MySQL database for Winamp portal.
• Maintain Traceability matrix to ensure all scenarios are covered for testing.
• Developed Test design Plan and test execution plan in every release.
• Played a role of Defect Manager and done Root Cause Analysis for slipped defects.
• Involved in beta testing and responsible for quick defect fixes.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential from, Mentored/Lead team of Fresh Graduates on product and testing required.
• Prepared Test Plan, estimated test related task, created and allocated task.
• UI Automation for production smoke suite for Confidential windows application in JAVA .
• Performed Database testing, Integration testing and Security testing (SQL Injection).
• Documented requirements in concurrence with business.
• Prioritizing requirements in Product Backlog.
• Collaborated with the development team and the ScrumMaster.
• Anchored daily Scrum meeting within 4 member team.
• Expedited processses to align within timebox.

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding new requirements & scope of the project.
• Worked as change control coordinator, took care of SOX for project audits.
• Developed an internal ticket tracking tool for Confidential product in JAVA using Telecomi API’s.
• Provided data fix for missing / corrupt data for business needs.
• Took batch support for production data fixes.
• Involved in Database Testingusing SQL Queries (DDL, DML & DCL).
• Analyze and combine data to create Business Requirement documents and rollout reports.