SUMMARY

• Resourceful and dynamic QA Manager with 10+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance for enterprise wide applications pertaining to Banking and Finance domains coupled with an extensive understanding of testing methodologies.
• Working as a QA Manager for the client Confidential, Columbus, Ohio.
• Experience in Information Technology with emphasis in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in the areas of ETL Testing, Database / Data warehouse Testing, Functional & black box testing of Client/Server and GUI applications.
• Proven time management, effective communication, decision making, leadership and planning skills with the ability to learn quickly and multi - task in a fast paced environment
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with flexibility, deeply rooted work ethics & proven ability to work as part of a diverse team.
• Onsite working experience Confidential client location ( Confidential ) as a Project Manager,Test Manager, QA Lead and coordinated the project using Onsite-Offshore model.
• Experience in Defect management, test management, test data management, change management processes
• Specialized in Quality Assurance Test Process and Methodologies in Data warehouse and ETL based Applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing: ETL Testing, Integration Testing, Database/Data-warehouse Testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and Web testing

ETL tools: Ab Initio, SQL server DTS Packages,Informatica

Operating Systems: Unix, MS-DOS, Windows 2000/XP, Windows Vista

Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Oracle Server, Teradata

Testing Tools: QTP

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, Microsoft Product Studio, Clear case

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Lead/Test Manager

Environment: /Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle SQL Developer, UNIX, Quality Center, Clear Case

Responsibilities:

• Managing the 8 member QA team Confidential onshore client location
• Coordinate and manage the project effort, projections, resourcing and the billing details.
• Lead and Coordinated the Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Execution Effort for Functional, Integration, System, Regression and End-to-End Workflow for all testing activities from offshore.
• Managing the team of 18 members Confidential offshore.
• Project management and Relationship management. Coordinated with the Client team on regurlar basis for proper communication on the requirements and deliverables.
• Mentoring the team and the test leads on a regular basis.
• Involved in Complete Design and Execution of Test cases. Execution of AbInitio Graphs.
• Co-ordinate with onsite and offshore teams to complete all the test activities on time
• Identify business flows & creating test scenarios, facilitating test environments, creating test strategy for end to end testing
• Involved in documenting the QA Testing best Practices based and testing methodologies
• Generating the defect detailed report using Quality Center (Test Director). Confidential
• Providing constant technical support to the team.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: /Tools: HP Quality Centre, Toad, Putty, Informatica8.5, Teradata, Oracle,Unix

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ETL testing and reconciliation of the warehouse and contribution towards analyzing and identifying Data Quality issues in this project
• Responsible for the Test strategy, Test Approach, plan and Regression Testing strategy
• Involved in verifying and validating Informatica mappings and business logic.
• Involved in execution and managing data testing against production systems.
• Daily Status Call with Client.
• Defect logging, tracking and defect Management
• Interact with developers, architects, functional analysts and business stakeholders to resolve defects.

Confidential

QA LEAD/Business System Analyst

Environment: /Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle SQL Developer, UNIX, Quality Center, Clear Case

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Coordinated the Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Execution Effort for Functional, Integration, System, Regression and End-to-End Workflow testing with the Business and Technical teams
• Created test documentation and scripts, executing quality control analysis and reviewing software documentation
• Involved in Complete Design and Execution of Test cases. Execution of AbInitio Graphs, Stored Procedures and DTS packages
• Co-ordinate with offshore team to complete all the test activities on time
• Identify business flows & creating test scenarios, facilitating test environments, creating test strategy for multi track end to end testing
• Preparing End-to-End test strategy to validate data flow through the different systems and ensure interface interaction/coverage
• Involved in documenting the QA Testing best Practices based and testing methodologies
• Generating the defect detailed report using Quality Center (Test Director) for the project stakeholders and the project Management
• Assist users in User Acceptance Testing

Confidential

QA lead/Project Engineer

Environment: /Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, UNIX, Quality Center, Clear Case, Erwin Data Models

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in planning test activities, creating test documentation and scripts, executing quality control analysis and reviewing software documentation
• Involved in Complete Design and Execution of Test cases. Execution of AbInitio Graphs, Stored Procedures and DTS packages
• Coordination with the onshore team in Test execution and planning
• Preparing End-to-End test strategy to validate data flow through the different systems and ensure interface interaction/ coverage
• Involved in documenting the QA Testing best Practices based and testing methodologies
• Responsible for Test case execution, validation and defect tracking through Quality Center
• Generating the defect detailed report using Quality Center (Test Director) for the project stakeholders and the project Management
• Training the new QA members and leading them in the Test execution process

Confidential

Project Engineer

Environment: /Tools: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, UNIX, Quality Center, Clear CaseErwin Data Models

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Complete Design and Execution of Test cases
• Execution of AbInitio Graphs for data loads, Defect Tracking and Reporting, Regression Testing
• Defect Tracking and Reporting
• Preparing Consolidated Execution Status Report
• Working closely with onsite team in resolving issue

Confidential

Test Engineer/Project Engineer

Environment: Windbg, product Studio, Regmon, Windows Vista/XP/2000

Responsibilities:

• Testing the Application compatibility on new Operating system (Windows Vista)
• Involved in Special Testing of Office 12 and Visual Studio 2005 Beta Builds
• Creation and execution of Test Cases, Debugging, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Component Testing, defect tracking and reporting using Bug tracking tool
• Work allocation to the team and handling them effectively
• Providing Support and Maintenance to the issues reported
• Bug Reporting and Triaging
• Knowledge transfer to rookies as and when needed
• Designing the KT (technical and non-technical) session schedules and mentoring the new team members of the project about the product and work culture

Confidential

Project Engineer

Environment: Windbg, product Studio, Regmon, Windows Vista/XP/2000

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and updates, in NT, 2000, XP application software and maintenance of system security
• Troubleshooting and configuring different mail clients such as Lotus Notes and MS Outlook
• Maintaining of Windows NT and 2000 servers running on Microsoft Environment
• Setting up network, user accounts and Establishing LAN connectivity
• Maintaining of NAV serves and Patch driving
• Coordinating with the Network team and server management team in maintaining the exchange server Confidential our location
• Taking Backup in Tape device and maintaining the backup server