SUMMARY

• Dynamic, Process oriented & Hands - On QA Manager to use my skills to the benefit of the organization, leverage experience from my track record of delivering optimized high quality software solutions.
• 17+ years of progressive IT Experience with full SDLC from requirement phase to production release, highly successful in creating vision, strategies, identifying opportunities and effectively directing and delivering all aspects of software lifecycle.
• 10+ years of QA Manager & Lead experience in Entertainment, Broadcast, Media and Medical Devices, HealthCare, Security and Banking domains.
• Expertize in QA management & Hands-on with Functional testing, System Integration testing, Automation testing, White box testing, End to End testing, Stress & Load testing, A/B testing, Security testing, UAT and Embedded device testing.
• Experience in QA Management to assess Effort Estimation, Cost, Schedule, QA resources, and test lab requirements within budgetary guidelines.
• Experience in analyzing risks and coming up with mitigation plans, handling multiple concurrent projects, team building, mentoring & retaining talents, setup goals, milestones, performance appraisals, collecting metrics and realigning priorities.
• Expertize in setting up QA teams, QA process, QA test labs & environments, Automation Framework, automated build deployment process, QA certification process, entry and exit criteria, Go or No GO criteria and Continuous Integration.
• Hands on Experience with defining test strategies, test plans, test cases creation, traceability matrix, regression testing, automation testing and test report generation.
• Hands on experience in testing under Multi-platforms, Multi-clusters, Multi­technologies, AWS, Cloud, and embedded devices.
• Excellent collaboration skills with senior leadership team, cross functional team, Product owners, Scrum masters and offshore teams.
• Excellent process knowledge on ISO 9001:2000, FDA-QSR, FDA (GMP), cGMP, HL7, HIPAA, CMM Level 5, Agile, Water Fall and V-Model.
• Detail-oriented, a self-starter, self-motivated, a quick learner, always eager to learn something new, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Big Data / Hadoop: Hadoop 1.x, 2.x (CDH4,CDH5.3,HDP2.2.8,HDP2.5.3) HDFS, MR, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Impala, Flume, Scala, Kafka, Zookeeper, Yarn, Hue, CM, Ambari, Tableau, AWS

Languages: Core Java, Java Script, SQL, NoSQL, HTML, XML, JSON, REST, C#. NET

NoSQL, DBMS: HBase 0.96, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008, DB2

Process & Project Tools: GIT, Eclipse, SVN, TFS, Surround SCM, Visual Studio 2010, MS Project, Gantt Chart, Kanban Board, Rally, Confluence, JIRA

Reporting Tools: Tableau, ETL, OLTP, ODI, OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0

Testing Tools: TDD, Quality Center 10.0, Spira Team, Junit, TestNG, VS Team Suite 2005, Win Runner 7.6, Silk Test, CA Lisa, Jenkins. SOAP UI, QTP, Selenium, Load Runner

BugTracking Tools: JIRA, ClearQuest, TestTrack Pro, Bugzilla, VSS Team Explorer.

Medical Devices & HealthCare: FDA 21 CFR 820 (QSR), 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 9001:2000, 13485 (Medical Device Quality Management System), IEC 61217,62274, IEC 62304 CAPA, HIPAA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

QA Manager Consultant

Environment: Java, Java & Shell Script, Web Services, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, CDH5.3, HDP2.5.3 HDFS, Hive, Sqoop, Impala, Flume, Kafka, Oozie, HBase, Oracle, Pig, Hadoop Security, AWS, CA Lisa, Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Reviewed Business Requirements and System Requirement Specifications, Derived QA Test Plan, Test Cases, Test cases review for 100% coverage, lead test execution and generated test & bug reports.
• Lead & managed multiple QA Teams on manual and Automation testing for VDCS, VDDS and DAP projects.
• Lead & Managed QA team on Validating multiple data sources ingestion, data quality validation, data processing validation, data distribution validation and report analysis validation in Big Data ECO system.
• Involved from the inception of Big Data migration projects till production release on many projects under VDCS, VDDS and DAP: Migration from Legacy apps to Big data, CDH4.6 to CDH5.3 upgrade, CDH4.6 to HDP2.2.8 migration and HDP2.2.8 to HDP2.5.3 upgrade, Migrating data from MSDC to Cloud AWS.
• Built big data QA teams: Interviewed & hired qualified candidates, built offshore team, provided training on new technologies, mentored & motivated teams, maintained professional relationship, implemented QA process, collaborated with cross functional teams, senior management teams, PO, and scrum masters.
• Strong working experience with Hadoop Architecture: HDFS, MR, Kafka, Flume, Sqoop, Hive, Impala, Hadoop Security (keytab), Job Tracker, Task Tracker, Name Node, Data Node, Hue, Ambari, Zook Keeper.
• Hands on and Lead experience in data ingestion process using Flume/Sqoop/kafka and storage into HDFS, querying using Hive, Impala, scheduling oozie workflows, debugging workflows and analyzing task tracker logs to find root cause in Map Reduce jobs for data processing errors, executing jobs in AWS for data delivery, validating UDM models, Validating tokenization of personal information in AWS cloud.
• Hands on & Lead experience in deploying builds in Hadoop clusters & AWS, Automated build deployment.
• Experience in optimizing test efforts of Dev Integration, sub system, system integration testing, end-to-end and performance test scenarios using onsite and offshore teams.
• Supported test delivery and production issues for any business critical off cycle release projects and making sure that project is delivered on time with quality.
• Experience in selecting right QA automation tools/candidates, driving POCs and adapt to industry challenged software’s without compromising company polices & quality with minimal costs.
• Ability to identify risks and working with all the enterprise teams to mitigate risks and resolve issues ontime
• Lead & Managed QA defect review meetings, offshore calls, collaborated with onsite cross functional team to resolve any impediment for offshore teams.

Confidential, CA

Senior Quality Engineering Lead IV/Manager

Environment: Java, Web Services, SOAP UI, XML, JSON, Rally, Confluence, SQL Server, TFS, ClearQuest, SilkTest, QualityCenter, HIPAA, ISO 9001:2000, IEC 61217, IEC 62274, IEC 62304, 21 CFR Part 11, QA Automation.

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Quality Engineering Lead/Manager, successfully lead and managed multiple concurrent Proton Projects VC1.0, VC2.0, Pro Beam and BI Projects in parallel.
• Started with VC1.0 project in SQE group and within 6 months taken responsibility for three projects and BI.
• Provided input to Senior Management/ Port-Folio meeting on SQE Budgets, Schedule, QA Resources, test lab requirements and forecasting.
• Created QA Vision, Road Map, Verification and Validation strategies, QA V&V Test plans, Clinical Validation plans, QA automation plans for VC1.0, VC2.0 and PTC projects.
• Driven QA functional streams from requirement phase till clinical release for multiple concurrent projects.
• Developed QA teams with positive outlook: Interviewed and hired resources, mentored and trained resources, motivated resources, preformed quarterly & yearly performance reviews.
• Built Offshore teams from ground up: Training on SOPs, Work Instructions, Mentored Offshore QA teams to create test cases in QC, Installation of builds in different environments, Verification test cases review & execution, Verification (regression) test cases automation, tractability matrix against SyRS, defect fix verification, QA (V&V) Summary Report, Part 11 Implementation for Electronic signature.
• Managed Clinical Validation team: Defined Validation plans, Validation entry criteria, Validation protocols review, Validation test execution results review, Managed Safety testing and Clinical validation test execution at multiple hospital sites located in Japan, Germany, San Diego and Littleton.
• Hands-On V&V experience in IQ, OQ, PQ of Class II and Class III medical devices, safety and IEC testing.
• Managed task Assignment to onsite and offshore QA (V&V) teams and tracking the tasks till its completion on multiple ongoing projects.
• Defect triage through review and determining defect priority and assigning to team member for fixing it.
• Worked on Agile Scrum methodology with various sprint activities such as product backlog addition, sprint planning, user stories for QA team, assigning resources to user story, impediment resolution, retrospective.
• Executed & delivered V&V using FDA standards and involved in 510K clearance in various projects.

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Lead

Environment: C#.Net, SQL Server, MS Project, TFS, TestTrack Pro, Confluence, Rally

Responsibilities:

• Defined V&V process at Confidential with the help of cross functional team.
• Customized & Implemented defect tracking system (Team Track) based on FDA requirements.
• Incorporated safety Risk Management into defect tracking system.
• Developed a well-defined Test Plan, Test Strategies, Test Cases and Test data.
• Lead teams of Manual (Black box) and Unit Testing (White box).
• Developed Test Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the Requirements.
• Involved in Test bed setup in different platforms such as LINUX and Windows with different sets of hardware which are running on Embedded XP Pro
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and Developed Automation scripts using Win Runner 7.6 for Functional Automation testing.
• Executed V&V (Verification and Validation) using FDA standards