SUMMARY

• Software Professional with diversified experience in Quality Analysis & Automation across varied domainsTeam builder with strong leadership qualities and a take - charge attitude, excellent analytical and problem solving techniques; and a team player with strong communication and presentation skills.
• Leadership expertise for leading, mentoring, motivating & developing local and remote teams
• Team builder, having built several QA teams from scratch
• Exceptional understanding of all phases of QA life cycle, QA processes & Agile/Scrum
• Strong background of functional black - box, gray-box & Integration testing
• Experience with various QA Automation tools
• Experience in interacting with different clients (USA, Japan, Philippines and UK based) to get requirements of the project. Experience in executing test cases to the functionality of the application against the requirements manually.
• Experience in leading automation team.
• 7+ years of working experience in HP Quality Centre v10.0.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Visual Basic 6.0, C, C+ +, XML, SQL, PL/SQL Agile Methodoly,OOPS, Quick Test Professional v10,HP Quality Centre v10, Microsoft Visual Studio Bug Tracker,XENU Link Checker,WebLink Validator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Lead and Technical delivery manager.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the proper release schedule creation, maintenance, and monitoring for project maintenance and capital project efforts (large scale enhancements and new software implementations, etc.). As part of this process I am accountable for facilitating environment management to ensure that concurrent efforts do not cause unnecessary risks or issues that may impact the overall ability to meet deliverables.
• Send daily and weekly reports to project stakeholders and BT clients specifically.
• Run and Lead sanity efforts and Incident management.
• Interact with clients on daily basis to provide reports and status of the release. Discuss issues and resolutions provided.
• Arrange retrospect meeting for each release.
• Managine a full-time department of over 50 of test/development resources. The skills maintained by these resources include business programming, process, IT system, and integration expertise.

Confidential

QA Manager and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating the creation and communication of comprehensive test planning which includes time and cost estimation. Additionally responsible for providing
• time estimates for test architecture design, test case scripting, test execution, defect remediation, and coordination of user acceptance testing with internal business teams and external customers.
• Responsible for the creation and distribution of quality control standards, processes, and procedures to support program and project deliverables.
• Provide routine and ad-hoc status reports to program and/or project stakeholders. These reports Include overall effort milestones, defect (bug) trends and analysis, testing metrics, and risk/issue reporting.
• Facilitating the creation and presentation of official Process Quality Assurance and Product Quality Control assessments to project teams, business stakeholders, IT delivery managers, shared services support teams, and executive program and project sponsors as needed.
• Facilitate regular checkpoint meetings with business and IT delivery managers to communicate process lessons learned in effort to maintain confidence in Quality standards.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, .NET Remoting, MS SQL 2008, Win NT

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the releases to staging environment for each release. Facilitate environment management to ensure that concurrent efforts do not cause unnecessary risks or issues that may impact the overall ability to meet deliverables.
• Arrange and manage the scope and planning meeting for each release before it comes to POD.
• Manage the deployment related schedules of the releases. Meet with business and UAT team and POD/Staging validation teams to gather the test plans and decide the dates and milestones for each release
• Manage and host the daily meeting calls with Dev, PMs, business and all stakeholders to discuss daily issues in the ongoing release.
• Use agile methodologies for managing defects in the release.
• Discuss the defects with dev and Business on daily basis for status, priority, severity and other changes if needed.

Environment: POD (Staging) environments for iCare and iWeb.

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the Release and Integration process.
• Co-ordinate with Customer Support staff to provide internal and customer support for product qualification, problem reports etc.
• Work as QA Lead for iCare ATT Launch project
• Overall testing and release activity of project
• Lead the QA effort to test high priority production and time-critical issues and get the RCA from the team providing the resolutions
• Lead the team developing a Test Framework in QTP for Regression testing
• Work with PMs and BAs to understand feature specs and create test plans and test case documentation, also provide feedback into the product definition process
• Production support

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Formulate Test Strategy, Test planning, development, & execution
• Define, implement, and refine best practices for software testing using Agile processes
• Work closely with Engineering, Operations and Product Management to ensure product quality
• Supervise & mentor a team of QA engineers to ensure delivery against QA departments' goals and objectives, both local and remote
• Also lead the Automation Qa Teams to provide product direction and to assist in test cases automation and execution using QTP .
• Participate in scrum meetings with Dev, PM, Onsite leads
• Use agile methodologies for planning and execution
• Perform smoke test when the project initial build is deployed into QA environment. Log the defects in QC and keep track of it. Perform Regression testing and retest the defects which are fixed in different RFCs
• QA signoffs, release planning, QA offshore handover

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, .NET Remoting, MS SQL 2008, Win NT

Confidential

Manual Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the client daily in a call to get updates of the project on daily basis and discuss the tasks to be completed each day.
• Prepare test LOE. Prepare test request forms and other pre testing test planning documents. Create test cases and get the test cases sign-offs from business
• Upload the test cases in Quality centre after the sign off is approved and completed
• Perform smoke test when the project initial build is deployed into QA environment.Perform critical path testing when the initial build is deployed and smoke testing is passed
• Perform system, regression, black box, stress, compatibility, cross browser testing.
• Defect logging, reporting, tracking using HP quality centre.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, .NET Remoting, MS SQL 2008, Win NT