EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 13+ years of overall IT experience with 9+ years of experience and expertise in Software Quality Assurance and Test Management activities across various business domains
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certified having 2 years of experience in project management involving scrum teams
• 8 years of experience as a Test Lead, managing onshore and offshore
• In - Depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall etc.)
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum and other scrum events and enforced Scrum principles within the team for effective feature delivery
• Worked closely with the Product Owner and the Development Team and helped in removing obstacles to ensure timely and smooth delivery resulting in customer satisfaction
• Participated in project planning and lead the project through various releases to ensure on time delivery within scope and budget.
• Participated extensively in requirements gathering/analysis, project planning/scheduling, test scripts creation, test execution, defect tracking, management and reporting
• Strong experience in reviewing requirements and design documents and developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Traceability Matrix and Test cases
• Experienced in test data set up for different kinds of testing
• Extensive experience in performing different types of testing including System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Database Testing
• Testing of mobile native apps and mobile web applications using iOS and Android devices
• Experienced in backend testing, with proficiency in writing SQL queries using TOAD and validating data from backend with UI data
• Strong experience in using defect tracking tools like HP ALM, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Bugzilla
• Outstanding analytical, decision-making, problem solving and management skills
• Excellent Communication skills with ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Excellent Client co-ordination skill and have experience working with cross functional teams - developers, BAs, project managers, product management and other stake holders

TECHNICAL ACUMEN:

Testing Tools: HP ALM 11,HP Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner, Test Director, Selenium WebDriver

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM 11,HP Quality Center 10.0, IBM Rational Clear Quest v 6.0,JIRA, Bugzilla

Other Tools: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Clear Case, Microsoft Access, Dreamweaver, VSS, BEA WebLogic 8.1, WINSCP, Putty

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, SQL, PL / SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000 / XP

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, VBScript, Java Script.

DOMAIN EXPERIENCE:

• Insurance Products
• HealthCare Services
• Banking and Financial Services

ASSIGNMENTS:

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Work closely with Product Owners coordinating product backlog grooming and story creation and estimation.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint timeline.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Track and manage burndown metrics, velocity and task breakdown.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.

Confidential, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the development team for Greenhouse project involving around 8-10 interfacing systems
• Manage project scopes, budgets, schedules and deliverables throughout all phases of the project
• Prepare Project Plan based on project requirements and timelines
• Highlight risks and mitigations
• Manage onshore and the offshore teams (8-10 members) in Agile environment
• Coordinate with different stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of functionalities within each of the iterations
• Allocate and utilize all resources in an efficient manner
• Monitor and tracking of defects to ensure resolution within SLAs
• Drive daily/weekly status meetings and ensuring the team is always updated with the project risks/dependencies

Confidential, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirement by going through business requirement documents and other related project documents and translating the same to test scenarios
• Prepare Test Plan, Traceability matrix document based on specific project requirements
• Highlight risks and mitigations
• Managing onshore and the offshore teams (5-8 members)
• Coordination with different stakeholders to ensure the availability of test environment and test data.
• Perform Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, Smoke Testing, backend testing by writing SQL queries and Automation testing
• Conduct iOS and Android devices testing
• Identifying the defects and logging them appropriately to HP ALM, IBM Rational Clear Quest
• Conduct defect triage meetings during execution with all the stakeholders and updating them about the risks/issues of the project.
• Providing support for various QA activities during UAT.
• Performing causal analysis of the defects detected during different phases of testing.

Confidential, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirement by going through business requirement documents and other related project documents and translating the same to test scenarios
• Prepare Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, Test Execution Plan, End to End Schedule and related project artefacts
• Preparing testing estimates, defining test strategy
• Highlight risks and mitigations
• Managing onshore and the offshore teams (10 members)
• Coordination with different stakeholders to ensure the availability of test environment and test data.
• Developing test scripts and reviewing test scripts written by team members
• Perform Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing
• Conduct native mobile apps as well as mobile web applications testing using iOS and Android devices
• Identifying the defects and logging them appropriately to Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest
• Conduct defect triage meetings during execution with all the stakeholders and updating them about the risks/issues of the project.
• Providing support for various QA activities during UAT.
• Performing causal analysis of the defects detected during different phases of testing.
• Identify resource allocations and constraints

Confidential, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirement by going through business requirement documents and other project related documents.
• Translate business requirements to test scenarios and mapping the respective test cases accordingly.
• Prepare Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, Test Execution Plan, End to End Schedule, Testing estimates, Test Strategy and related project artefacts
• Highlight risks and mitigations
• Mentoring the offshore team (6-10 members) to make sure they have understood the requirements properly
• Developing test scripts and reviewing test scripts written by team members
• Coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure the availability of test environment and test data.
• Perform System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Database Testing, Conversion Testing, Performance Testing for various projects
• Perform backend testing by writing SQL queries using TOAD
• Identifying the defects and logging them appropriately to Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest and JIRA
• Conduct defect triage meetings during execution with all the stakeholders and updating them about the risks/issues of the project.
• Providing support for various QA activities during UAT.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirement by going through functional specifications documents for the Oracle Apps application
• Translate business requirements to test scenarios and mapping the respective test cases (positive as well as negative) accordingly.
• Preparing the Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, Test Execution Plan, Test Strategy that helped in ensuring the mapping of all requirements on to the test deliverables at various stages.
• Coordination with all stakeholders to ensure the availability of test environment and test data.
• Perform Functional, System Integration Testing, End to End testing as well as Regression Testing
• Identifying the defects and logging them appropriately to Quality Center, Bugzilla
• Monitored testing resources to ensure project tasks are completed successfully and according to development specifications and deadlines.
• Increased QA team productivity through creation of robust and reusable test scripts utilizing HP Quality Center.
• Participated in project meetings and used leadership, analytical and problem solving skills to contribute to the quality of the product.
• Mentored team members in quality assurance procedures and processes and facilitated discussions on areas of improvement.

Confidential

Clear Quest Admin/Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• All sorts of administrative activities of Clear Quest like setting up of user profiles, departments, projects, resetting passwords and changing department groups.
• Development activities like defining process models with states and actions, creating forms and building queries and reports.
• Testing the work done in various environments like local, development to ensure proper running.
• Resolving the tickets as per the SLA.
• Directly interacting with clients in understanding the requirement and then developing the feature accordingly.
• Effectively giving inputs for further enhancement of the application.
• Took initiative in performing testing activities for various applications like Divmon Re-engineering and also Aprimo.
• Understanding the business requirement by going through functional specification documents and translating the business requirements to test scenarios and test scripts.
• Identifying the test scenarios and mapping the respective test cases (positive as well as negative) accordingly.
• Coordination with all stakeholders to ensure the availability of test environment and test data
• Perform System Integration Testing, End to End Testing.
• Use Clear Quest for repository, reporting and tracking bugs, and providing updates on resolved bugs.
• Mentor junior level testers in test standards and help them in understanding the requirements clearly

Confidential

Developer/Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Module Lead in the Price editing Tool of GEHC CPQ - Selectica Project.
• Interacting with the client in understanding the business requirements, doing a feasibility study and preparing the business requirement document.
• Analysing the details of the business requirements and providing estimation and schedule plan to the client.
• Developing feature set using JAVA/J2EE.
• Developing certain features that helped in enhancement of the system using BEA Weblogic Workshop.
• Interacting with client in understanding the business and then preparing the design accordingly.
• Testing the work done in various environments like local, development to ensure proper running.
• Communicating with offshore resource helping them to understand the actual client requirements.
• Effectively giving inputs for further enhancement of the application.
• Coordinate between Offshore team as well as with Onsite counterparts.
• Fixing the defects raised by users and maintaining the records using Mercury Test Director.
• Taking the initiative in developing certain features that helped in debugging the application more easily.
• Successfully led a team of 5 developers to complete feature set design, development and deployment.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Initially worked in the product team and gave demo support in several instances.
• Also helped in enhancement of the IIMS product by developing various features using JAVA/J2EE and Oracle.
• Took the ownership for integrating the Workflow System into IIMS product, which helped in further enhancement of the product.
• Worked for ING China project in times of crisis.
• Also handled the accounting module in KB Life project single handedly.
• Also worked for West Virginia project utilizing the Apollo Product.
• Communicating with offshore resource helping them to understand the actual client requirements.
• Mentoring team in technical and functional areas.
• Defining responsibilities, reviewing the work done for the deliverables.
• Preparing test cases to ensure thorough testing of each and every functionality.
• Testing the work done in various environments like local, development to ensure proper running.
• Fixing the defects raised to ensure smooth running of the application.