SUMMARY:

• Tactical and Strategic IT Project/Test Manager with Thirteen + years leading in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in diverse technology leveraging technical, business and financial acumen and communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Business Strategist and Confidential mitigation specialist in Managing and Leading Project life cycle, Quality Assurance Process, Change Management .
• Effective planning with multimillion dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions and cost estimation techniques to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom - line gains.
• Experience in Agile, waterfall, V methodologies; End to End test coverage.
• Proven lead in effectively planning and Identifying Confidential strategy formulation and strategy execution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing /Reporting Tools: ALM 11, HP Quality Center, MS. Product Studio, MS. Magellan, Bugger, QTP, Load runner/Performance Center, Jira, Bugzilla, SOAP UI, Informatica, Optim, UFT, Business Objects, SSIS, TFS, Crystal Reports, Axasoft ontime. CA grid tools/ Confidential etc.

Testing Types Implemented: Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Load/Performance, UAT, Backend, Web based, d Confidential base, Mainframe, Oracle Financials, Automation, Web Services (SOAP, WSDL), business objects, Agile Designer, EDI file format, ASC X12, D Confidential masking, d Confidential mining, Middleware, Sales force, Mobile.

Test Methodologies / Domain knowledge: Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Lean,XP), Waterfall, V model, RUP, RAD, CA Grid tools, service virtualization, Banking (Retail/foreign exchange)Health insurance(benefit enrollment, claims 834,837I, 837P,820 payments transactions), Airline, Retail, Agile principles Story based developments

D Confidential bases: Oracle, MS.SQL Server2005,2008 and MS Access, DB Visualize,DB2, Confidential Report Manager, D Confidential warehouse, Informatica Power Center, Netezza, Vertica,Tibco, MQ series

Programming: C, C++, C#, Java, J2EE, UNIX, Java Script, HTML, CSS,SQL, XML,VB Script, VB.NET,UML, Groovy etc

Application/ Web Servers

Sales force, SAP, CRM, Siebel ERM,: Citrix, Wyse, Web Logic, Web Sphere/ IIS, Apache, Netscape, Tomcat, Voyager, SAS, SaaS, Cloud computing

Operating Systems: Windows 7 /8/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux, AS 400

Productivity Tools: MS Office ( Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point,), Share Point, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Snag It

Project and Test Manager for high: quality Project completion of software/d Confidential base development, systems engineering and enterprise wide implementation projects for F500 clients including: Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential . of Confidential, Confidential, Avanade and GE.

Provide project/test management over large: scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives. Managed budgets of up to >M and cross-functional teams of up to 16 developers, programmers, analysts, DB and Testers onsite and offshore.

Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Mitigated Confidential factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical d Confidential . Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.

Defined processes and tools best suited to Confidential project. Moved between agile (Scrum) and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and WBS structures.

Achieved high quality results in Quality Assurance and outstanding project results with Traceability to requirements.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Confidential , Change Management, WBS, Resource Planning, Cost Estimations, Manage Scope creep
• Extensively used MS Project tool to create projects, tracking tasks, reporting results, Utilized resources and finances to simplifying the assignment of resources to tasks and budgets to projects.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum meetings, process improvements, support end to end system functionality test deliverables, Quality Dashboards
• Introducing and collaborating with sales force environment for managing new projects on cloud based CRM tool
• Leverage payment system and change management with sales force CRM cloud computing environment
• Test deliverables with UAT, Prod, ETL testing for complete functionality and communication impacts that affect business units
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition.
• Test d Confidential management planning, Business Intelligence reporting, End to end testing deliverables.

Environment: MS Project, ETL, HP ALM, HP UFT, Java, BRMG, BRE, ESB web Services, Web methods, JIRA, SOUP UI PRO, RTC, Kisam defect management, Clear Quest, Sales force environment for Newer projects, MS Access

Technical Project/Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed/Executed a Project Test Plan to Monitor/Track Projects progress & add business values with Confidential sprint releases. leverage the Sales force platform to track, manage, Estimate and report on all Confidential products and resources
• Integration, collaboration with sales force d Confidential sheet and share with the Confidential stake holders
• Developed and Maintained the WBS, Resources utilization and cost estimations to meet the product goals using MS project
• Managing team of 20 resources including all developers, D Confidential base team, testers for smooth releases
• Facilitation and coordinated Internal Resources and Third Parties/Vendors for execution of projects and JAD sessions.
• Coordinate with Product Owners for Sprint cycles planning and successful testing with SIT/UAT/QC/Pre-Prod/Prod.

Environment: MS project, Sales force, RFP process, Java, CRM, Oracle 11i, HP ALM, HP UFT 11.3, Confidential pool 2.0, Confidential pool 4.0

Project Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Execute Test Plan, Project Plan, Change Management, Resource Planning, Cost Estimations, Manage Scope creep,
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum meetings, process improvements, testing delivered functionality and communicating impacts to affected business units
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 25%
• Developed plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads using MS Project
• Led design and multinational rollout of robust, scalable and secure electronic d Confidential interchange EDI,ETL/D Confidential warehouse testing
• Maintain Communication plan, Confidential register & issues log involved in various Release/Deployment/Execution Plans,
• Provided weekly project status to stakeholders and team with updates regarding key issues and milestones.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.
• Develop solution by formulating objectives; planning Test life-cycle deliverables and resource availability, preparing installation and modification specifications; leading the exploration, evaluation, and design of technical solutions.
• Implement solution by monitoring project performance/progress; Tracking Project Scope/Schedule Change; tracking Action Items; conducting design and implementation reviews; examining, researching, and resolving issues; escalating and Mitigate issues, concerns; following production, productivity, quality, identifying work process improvements.
• Manage faster agile release cycles, CA Lisa service virtualization, Grid tools/ Agile designer for test coverage in HP ALM
• Business Intelligence Review/Analysis and hands on ETL process testing on a test d Confidential warehouse, verification and validation.
• Processing ASC X-12 834 Enrollment files and 820 Payment files verifying d Confidential mapping, d Confidential Accuracy.
• Support to client and internal team providing performance testing of the d Confidential base by using SQL Server 2012 SQL Profile and executing SQL queries to assure d Confidential consistency and integrity.
• Reporting Defects, project quality metrics and system level quality trending metrics for program management Production support/UAT testing with internal and external customers
• Managing client expectations by building strong relationships with delivering project status and open issues; preparing reports; conducting reviews and issue meetings; discovering new issues and escalated critical issue as needed. .
• End to End Systems testing, Requirements with State exchange ( Confidential /FFM/CA, CO, HI etc...) EDI X1

Environment: C# / .NET, EDI, ALM, SQL, EDI, CA Grid tools, agile designer, MS TFS, MQ, ETL, JIRA, SOUP UI, TDM, Tibco, and CRM.

Project Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop Project Plans/Execution of Test Plan/Test cases in both SIT and UAT for Project Confidential a d Confidential warehousing re plat forming project. WBS /Resource planning
• Achieved seamless PDW migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as $250K under budget.
• Lead/Mentor Coordinate and Facilitate the Project team and Provide Thought leadership, support In SIT and UAT phase, Provide Metrics/Status with Defect/Test Execution Reports/Root Cause Analysis
• Through Testing for EDW, CRM, Last Call, Product Reporting scripts and programs validating the file comparisons in UNIX on Current Netezza and New Vertica Environment, Excellent Documentation in Jira for Tracking Bugs
• Review/Validate SOW and restructure ETL processes and results, Test d Confidential base loads and extracts with Old d Confidential model vs.
• New D Confidential Model, D Confidential integration and workflow solutions with SSIS Enterprise scale ETL, TDM etc.
• Test Effort/Cost estimation, Confidential Assessment/Mitigation and Work breakdown structure for Performance testing in Confidential every module and D Confidential base tables comparisons using SQL queries/scripting in Both Netezza and Vertica for Merchant, CRM and Informix for EDW, Parallel Testing during Batch jobs in Mainframes for Confidential Cycle Refresh.
• Coordination with Development team for Defect Management in Jira and Retesting the Fixes, Automating load
• Testing Business Objects Reports/ and validated results comparing from Netezza vs. Vertica for the Migration

Environment: s: MS project, Oracle, Vertica, Netezza, Unix/Linux, C, C++, Informatica, Adobe Flex, Business Objects, JIRA, SAS,SSIS, load runner

Scrum/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed/Executed a Project Plan to Monitor/Track Projects progress & add business values and coordinated Internal Resources and Third Parties/Vendors for execution of projects.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies as grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Coordinate with Product Owners for Sprint cycles SIT/UAT/QC/Pre-Prod/Prod Testing for ( NM Encounters, Institutional, Professional, Denta Quest, Davis, Drug, Prime Coordination of Benefits and Providers), Implementation using Microsoft BI studio products like SSIS,SSAS,SSRS for implementation of ETL methodology in d Confidential extraction, transformation and loading.
• Assisted in defining Project Scope/ Objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Track Sprint Release progress and Lead team members to accomplish project objectives using the agile methodology.
• Ensure sufficient coverage for d Confidential repository releases ( R1, R2) WS11 Encounters
• Tracking the Project Metrics, Issues, defects and test execution, defect counts and define test reports and status to PMO
• Document, collect d Confidential for Alineo/care planner, extract analyze and write Queries in SQL to ensure d Confidential validation and verification, Manage test cycles with CA Lisa service virtualization.
• Support Testing in both Mainframes (TSO) and WTC ( SQL server) to ensure d Confidential matches which is loaded in 837I and 837P d Confidential bases, Automation testing with UFT (QTP)
• Update new MCO manual ANSI documents to fit in to testing purpose for GOVT programs and vendor
• Manage Vendor and Client expectations for NM Medicaid claims that have been paid by Confidential, an extract process sent to egateway, Mapping to 837 file format, Testing for new fields in d Confidential base
• Facilitate required s for HIPPA and within Confidential contractors for healthcare KT sessions, FYI blue for project needs
• Leading and implementation of D Confidential File Definitions and D Confidential mapping activities for the d Confidential gathered during the process of development and implementation.
• Managing/Review D Confidential Flow, Work Flow, Process Flow, and Entity Relationship Diagrams and analyzed them for “AS IS” and “TO BE” scenarios.
• Extensive knowledge in SDM process in Confidential, Conduct / participates in project level meetings, analyzes test requirements, review and approves deliverables.
• Knowledge Transitions for offshore and onsite team for HIPAA 4010 and 5010 transactions (834, 835, 837I 837P, 277, 278 claims) to support the analysis of current business processes for System testing.

Environment: CRM,C#, UFT, .NET, EDI, HP ALM, SQL, EDI, CA Grid tools, Agile designer, MS TFS, MQ, ETL, JIRA, SOUP UI

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developing/Defining the Test Infrastructure for Confidential Services and Core Banking Replacement. Support for Developer Unit testing Guidelines
• Develop WBS and resource planning, Budget estimations for new enhancements/Reuters and check payments
• Generate Metrics for All projects and Report to Head office Tokyo, QC and Excel extensively used with macros
• Testing Support with Payments, Managing Regression testing suite for Confidential cycle, backend testing, SQL queries, ETL.
• 2 weeks ahead schedule of Project Completion with in time and budget as much as $1.1M under budget
• Through Testing for ACH, Wire Transfers, Account Transfers Domestic/International, test cases in Quality Center
• End to End Test validations with Fed, Chips and Swift for Wire Transactions, Test D Confidential Management
• Implementing the roles for Testing in Confidential Project defining the Scope of testing within. Confidential Release for SIT based on vendor provided Code Drops.
• Testing the Migration for Nets old system with Confidential Confidential System Application. Check Inquiry, Stop payments. Multiple vendor management
• Coordinating with Users team, SOA development team, testing on Mainframes IM applications/Systematics, MQ broker team, Reporting defect, business objects reporting.
• Testing with Mellon/BTMU file transitions. Core Banking Replacement test documentation, Testing with Different Affiliates for Trust, Chicago and NY branches, Loans, Deposits, Trade and Finance
• Testing with Accounting, General Ledger. Foreign exchange Money Market, Treasury.
• Planning and Managing the Testing Effort for Confidential release/delivery. Evolving the Measurements and Metrics
• Test Automation effort estimation and set up in QC, Identify the Automation candidates for Automation testing for Confidential project, Regression scripts. Multiple projects progress reporting,
• Support for Automation strategy and library functions for Confidential and core banking modules, Tool identification with Root cause analysis and ROI with Project planning with Confidential approvals and Budget planning, Implementation.
• SOA tracker for Development team defects. Managing and Maintaining the Effective testing Process
• Managing and mentoring the Project team, Process to improve and growing the testing assets to meet the Requirements

Environment: MS project, ALM Quality center 11, QTP, SQL, Excel, Unix, Visual Basic, Java, JSP, XML Bugzilla, Jira, SOA tracker, ETI, Informatica, Snag It, Business objects etc

Test Lead

Confidential, Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Gather Technical Specifications, OLB/OAO d Confidential sources, Confidential, Host D Confidential retrieval (Middleware) D Confidential Files and Third Party systems, To Analyze the Test Strategy/Test Plan documents
• Design, Master test strategy, Test case documents, Test d Confidential, Defect management in Quality center, testing Mobile Applications
• Working with Different Bank Agile Teams, for the successful test deliverables and Smooth releases with Upcoming Sprints, Testing in Different QA environments, Production Release Testing.
• Test New functionalities with BAT3 sprints to Deliver Test documents, Traceability Matrix to ensure complete coverage of requirements with scrum methodology, Confidential, RFX and CFX
• Coordinate with Development team Fiserv for successful CAT sing off and Confidential .
• Test estimation for Chevy chase Bank Migration project, Fidelity Host applications for customer information.
• Implement a solution for dynamic business demands and simplify the change control, change management.
• Weekly and daily Status Reporting across the complete QA Online banking group to Track Progress.
• Facilitate the Defect Triage meetings and fixes for Critical issues with dev team (Fiserv), Product teams.

Environment: Quality center, QTP, MS Report Manager, Fidelity Host systems, Voyager, SQL, MS Money, Quicken, Compass, Selenium, QTP, Oracle10i, SQL, Excel, Visual Basic, Java, JSP, XML, C++, Citrix, Soup UI, CRM.

QA Test Lead

Confidential, Santa Ana- CA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Functional specification, Performance goals for Confidential versions V1, V2, V3, V4.
• Design; develop Master Test plan, Test scenarios, Test Scripts and Test cases.
• Conduct and participate in project level meetings, analyze test requirements Review and Approve deliverables.
• Manage Defects, Create and Execute test cases in QC. Framework development for Regression scripts in QTP, Library Architecture, and Function Generation.
• Defect Management for Juvenile test cases, FMI/resolution,
• Automation frameworks planning with both selenium and QTP to suit for some juvenile case initiations.
• D Confidential base testing with SQL validation for AOC- Confidential V4 Portal, DEV, SAND and UAT testing
• Root cause Analysis, Mentoring and managing team for successful test deliverables as per project schedule
• Plan and Prioritize Test Execution cycle. QA Metrics and Status Reports Globally reaching Milestones.

Environment: Quality center, Agile, Selenium, QTP, Oracle10i, SQL, Excel, Visual Basic, Java, JSP, XML, C++.

QA Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design; develop Master Test plan, Test design specifications, Scripts, and Test cases.
• Manage Defects, create test cases in QC, Manage Reports, and weekly metrics and keep Track of ongoing Projects.
• Simultaneously working on SIT, UAT, and PROD environments for multiple projects when deployed.
• Determine Risks and issues, Obtain clarifications, track and drive resolution. Reporting status/Metrics.
• Involved in testing Vault Activities in Confidential services, Incoming Mail, Outgoing Shipments and Transfers etc.
• Testing in SIT for Confidential currency Orders, Selling and Buying Foreign currency with different user roles.
• Defect Resolution on Confidential and CFX applications on BUY, SELL, Currency Transfers, and Incoming mail.
• Extensively tested Foreign Exchange Applications for Transactions with Buy and Sell Currency.
• Working on Projects: RFX, ISPA, SCOR, XCL, XBO, CFX, AAA Co-branded solution, WFDC Migration etc.

Environment: QC, QTP, .Net, C++, DB visualize, SQL, Excel, Windows 2000, VB, Citrix web Interface, Soup Ui.

Confidential

Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing test strategies and providing high quality te case execution results and project documentation ensuring
• Quality, Defect management, Mentoring and leading with offshore and joined onsite team.
• Technical Presentations. Documentation. Debugging. Defect tracking. Quality assurance. Software life cycle.
• Design; develop Test plan, Test supplement document, Test design specifications and Test cases.
• Reporting defects on assigned bugs using bugger, resolution of defects while retesting from the resolved build.
• Extensively used Code Coverage Magellan tool to trace the test case execution for deployed features

Environment: Bugzilla, Quality center 9.0, Selenium, XML, Ms. Excel, java, JSP, Web Server tomcat, MS Product Studio 2.1, Bugger, Microsoft Word 2007, Excel, Windows Vista, .Net.