SUMMARY

• Project Test Manager with over 20 years of experience in directing full life cycle projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from evaluation, conception to completion.
• Setting budgets and agreeing on project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Lead Test Team of over 20 resources
• Partner and collaborate with Test Team (s) to deliver testing services for CST Product Line including improving overall test maturity, coverage, implementing governance, establishing standard test process, increasing automation footprint and establishing an offshore team
• Manage test activities with downstream IT Test Managers for assigned domain
• Liaise with the stakeholders in various locations, IT Test Managers, Business Test Manager, Project Managers, Development Managers, BA Leads, & other IT teams as needed for all testing activities
• Managing teams to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Holding regular internal and external meetings on progress. Schedule and track meetings for each project.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Proven ability to achieve results in very high pressure environments and to keep teams motivated. Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; able to work under pressure and consistently meet deadlines.
• Liaising with outside IT consultants and other third party contractors to ensure projects completed on time.
• Responsibility to oversee, track and monitor the delivery of the assigned project portfolio
• Prepare accurate testing forecast, project resource allocation and utilization
• Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan and test entry/exit criteria to ensure that they are met before promotion to the next test/project phase
• Close management and tracking of defects/bugs towards a swift resolution
• Provide effective monitoring and reporting of test progress to stakeholders + line manager on a periodic basis
• Handle any delivery related escalations pertaining to their verticals
• Ensure cross leveraging of knowledge across complex projects, units and locations
• Accountability for coaching and mentoring of junior team members and coordinate internal knowledge sharing sessions
• Get into the detail and actively manage team deliverables
• Engage with offshore vendor management
• Solid Project Management in managing and delivering large and complex test programs as well as implementing a test strategy in a multifaceted environment
• Knowledge of financial products & transactions
• Expertise of managing Data Warehousing Projects

Confidential

Project Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating a Project Plan of detailed task and resources.
• Creating a detailed SIT Plan.
• Reviewing BPD
• Reviewing the RTM
• Review test scenarios and scripts for each requirement.
• Each scenario could have 1:1 or 1: M test scripts.
• E.g. in HR module there are 3 processes/ scenarios Hire, Rehire, Separation.
• Manage the E2E process i.e. BPD RTM Test Scenarios Test Scripts Preparation Test Execution Defect Management Executive Management reporting.
• Leading and managing a team of onshore as well as offshore testers.
• Proactive risk mitigation, quality, and issue resolution.
• Assisted in creating the UAT test plan as well as testing with the client.
• Creating a Project plan of detailed task resources.
• Creating the Test Plan.
• Participating in requirements gathering sessions.
• Reviewing designs.
• Leading and managing a team of 11 offshore testers.
• Creating Milestones, deliverables and dependencies.
• Leading in the preparation and execution of script development, test data preparation, incident reporting.
• Managing creation of test scenarios.
• Managing development of test scripts.
• Managing execution of scripts.
• Managing overall validation documentation.
• Proactive risk mitigation, quality, and issue resolution.
• Assisted in UAT testing with the client.
• Responsible as the Test Lead for the complete System Integration Test Planning and Execution for Light Hub (1.0) as well as Base Hub (1.5).
• Co - ordinated with Onshore as well as the off shore team.
• Interacted with Sr. Management
• Co-ordinated with Management from the Phase Level all the way to the Project Level as well as all the different LOBs(Lines Of Business) as well as the different DCs i.e. DC1 thru DC10.

Confidential

Project Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and executing testing efforts of system releases, bug fixes and enhancements, including documentation and reporting.
• Strong understanding of Systems Development Lifecycle.
• Day to Day activities include:
• Strategic test planning and development.
• Manage onsite and offshore QA resources, including time management.
• Create tasks for the resources.
• Review business requirements documents and technical design docs.
• Translate business requirements into test plans and scripts.
• Execute test scripts.
• Report metrics.
• Issue resolution.
• Ensure teams are sticking to the work plan, project schedule and budget.
• Perform deliverable reviews.
• Perform weekly status meetings with test teams.
• Validate alignment of resources to work efforts on each team. Manage/coordinate the team efforts across projects.
• Communicate status with project management.
• Regular Interaction with project managers, business analyst and clients. Attend meetings on code changes, business requirement changes etc.
• Write comprehensive test plan and also manage test project plan.
• Help create the project schedule in relation to test efforts. Create test schedule: Test execution coordination/planning per release.
• Develop and update testing documentation in an efficient and timely manner according to departmental standards and procedures.
• Manage and drive functional and Integration testing efforts
• Test data preparation based on business requirements / test cases.
• Use automated testing tools for regression testing.
• Experience leading multiple resources on projects.
• Experience working on multiple projects concurrently.
• Exposure to different types of testing.
• Experience with Quality Center & Defect Management for test and defect management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Good communication skills - coordination with End Clients / Business Analysts / Development Teams.
• Perform all QA and Production releases.
• Experience with onshore/ offshore testing model.

Environment: MS Office, Confluence, Unix, DB, SQL Informatica, CTRL-M, Test Management ALM (HP Quality Center), SharePoint, Automation (HP QTP)