SUMMARY

• Certified in Scrum Master and CSTM Certified Software Testing Professional and having overall 12 years of QA experience that includes Test Leading, Client Interfacing and Team Management
• Proven track record in leading complex multi million testing engagements using globally distributed teams leveraging Onshore, Near Shore and Offshore models.
• Experience in working largest Healthcare, Banking and Retail projects.
• Understanding dependencies for delivering projects and facilitate discussions to assess critical paths.
• Establish key milestones and drive progress to accomplish milestones in a timely manner
• Adept in Test Plan and Process Improvement. Expert in providing tailored solutions to the project needs and introducing Value Adds to improve quality at an optimized cost
• Implemented Metrics at Project and Engagement level to track projects and proactively gauge the upcoming risks to be addressed for project success
• Experience in process management and improvement, risk management, root cause analysis and best practices
• Proficient in Testing Techniques, Test Methodologies and types of testing like Functional, System, Integration, Automated Regression, End to End, User Acceptance Testing, Database Testing using tools like ALM (Quality Centre), QTP, Compuware Test partner, Parasoft SOA test Tool and SOAPUI Tool, QA Hyperstation and Rational Clear Quest
• Hands on experience in all phases of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) right from initiation to closure that involves Estimations, Planning, Scheduling, Execution, Delivery, Reporting and Closure
• Expertise in Mainframe, Web, Web Services, Client server, Automation and Data base testing
• Having knowledge on Hadoop (Map Reduce, PIG, HIVE, HBASE, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie)
• Excellent Communication, Leadership, Team building, Technical & Analytical Skills with proven abilities in resolving complex software issues
• Advising clients on Testing best practice, load, performance, security, code - coverage, ad-hoc, installation, acceptance, sanity, browser and operating system compatibility and document testing for web based and Client Server applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, MVS (Mainframe)

Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, JAVA, C, COBOL, FoxPro, JCL

Database: SQL Server 2000, DB2

Testing Skills: Functional, System, Regression, Integration, UAT, Database

Tools: HP Quality Centre, QTP, Compuware Test partner, Parasoft SOA test Tool and SOAPUI Tool, QA Hyperstation, FILE- AID, FILE- Manager and Rational Clear Quest

Others: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Team Concert, File Master, CA7, Platinum, JCL, VSAM, EZTRIEVE, REXX, SPUFI, ISPF & Endevor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Onshore Test Lead /Offshore Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Resource planning, project forecasts, project estimations etc for all sprints
• Responsible for managing the project schedules including key deliverables, milestones, dependencies and resource allocation
• Participate in all the BRD/FRD reviews and understand the requirements and provide the walk-thru to offshore team on the requirements
• Prepare the effective Test Plans and Test strategies for the successful completion of all the projects
• Identify all the Partner systems(upstream/downstream) which are getting impacted and coordinate with them for E2E testing
• Host /Participate all the Status meeting with Business/ Ad and Project Leads and provide the Status, discuss the risks/issues of all the ongoing projects timely basis
• Identify the risks/issues and work with respective stakeholder to prepare the mitigation plan
• Work on any kind of delays in Planed Schedule and work on identifying the impact on QA and communicate the same effectively with Client.
• Responsible for all the QA deliverables on Schedule with Quality
• Experience with developing, testing artifacts in iterative delivery method
• Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management.
• Process management and improvement, risk management, root cause analysis and best practices.
• Documented and implement Test Plans to be followed for project releases covering System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Support
• Drive the Test Readiness in terms of Environment, Resources, Test Scripts and Test Data
• Gathered indicative metrics to proactively identify risks and take corrective measures
• Managed different testing tracks for the integrated solution helping team members / track leads estimate and plan their tracks efficiently
• Coordinated with cross functional teams to resolves issues and ensure progress in testing
• Reviewed all projects deliverables to ensure it meets the desired quality before it is shipped to the customer
• Represented QA in all hands meeting to update the Program Office on project milestones, project needs and present weekly execution statistics, metrics, defect trend, risk scorecard

Confidential, California

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Estimates, Planning and tracking multiple concurrent releases
• Developed and implemented Test Strategies, Test Plans, Project Work Plans / Schedules for project releases.
• Measure the weekly progress of projects by metrics and take remedial action the status
• Review Test Scenarios, Test Cases and ensure Quality and Test coverage
• Helped this regional bank streamline business processes by developing, installing and configuring Hadoop ecosystem components that moved data from individual servers to HDFS
• Capable of processing large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data and supporting systems application architecture.
• Able to assess business rules, collaborate with stakeholders and perform source-to-target data mapping, design and review.
• Installed and configured MapReduce, HIVE and the HDFS
• Created HBase tables to load large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data coming from UNIX, NoSQL and a variety of portfolios.
• Supported code/design analysis, strategy development and project planning.
• Created reports for the BI team using Sqoop to export data into HDFS and Hive.
• Developed multiple MapReduce jobs in Java for data cleaning and preprocessing.
• Provide directions and hands on help to the testing team.
• Organize and drive defects meetings and coordinate with cross functional teams for issue resolution pertaining to releases.
• Monitor risks and suggest mitigation plans.

Confidential:

Offshore Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing input data sets (PS or VSAM) with all required data setups for testing
• Executing JCL jobs to test the requirement
• Performed Impact Analysis on JCL Jobs & Programs (DB2 Queries) for optimization
• Project status update to senior management
• Estimated and Review the level of Efforts for the requirements
• Participate in release readiness calls and defect calls
• Identify and raise risks to release management
• Responsible for post release activities
• Automated Client Profile application using Hyperstation

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Execution of batch Jobs using JCL.
• Work allocation and tracking for team members.
• Test script creation and review.
• Test Data Creation and review.
• Defect Management.
• Generating test metrics and reports.