SUMMARY

Information Technology Professional with a total of 15 years of experience as a Project Manager, Quality Manager, Project Coordinator, UAT Test Lead, Senior BA/QA and Software Developer in specific areas of expertise including Software Development, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Project Management areas in various Technologies including Microsoft .NET, Java, Unix, Ab initio, EDI, Legacy Systems and Distributed computing environments.

Experience includes various domains like Financial/Banking, Insurance, Transportation/Logistics, Retail - Footwear Apparel, Service Providers Government projects.

STRENGTHS

TECHNOLOGY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA/Test Manager

• Provided Technical, UAT / Regression Testing Support for the implementation of Basel II, Basel 2.5, Basel III and other regulatory requirements for the Bank.
• Managed the Project based on Agile methodology and technically supported the UAT environment' s Pre validation Processes that includes Data Quality and Data Profiling using automated scripts developed in UNIX to detect Data Quality and Data Feeds formatting issues and promoted the feeds to a queue for further Processing and Release integration.
• Managed the Data Feeds Receipt and Testing Processes for each monthly minor release cycle and each quarterly major release cycle. Ensured Data Feeds arrived as per scheduled window and notified responsible parties if feeds had not arrived by the scheduled date
• Worked on a multi-functional team to manage the regulatory-related system releases. Communicated the issues to responsible parties, so that the issues could be fixed with rapid turn-around and the fixes provided were thoroughly validated prior to the start of a Production implementation cycle
• Implemented critical communication and process improvements immediately upon taking over the role, resulting in improved team communication reduced frustrations , improvement in monthly cycle on-time start dates, and fewer regulatory changes being removed/de-scoped from a release.
• Maintained the Project status dashboard with real-time status and Red-Amber-Green alerts, ensuring all members of team Technology, Risk Management, Requirement Analysts, and Change Control Teams could access and understand the Project progress/status at any time, including areas of risk.
• Extensively used the HP Quality Center's Test Suite right from Requirements Analysis/Gathering phase to UAT Strategy/Planning, Scenarios, Execution Defect Reporting.
• Worked with the Impact Analysis Team that primarily focused on Basel Changes Requirements impact and performed the Triage/Data Analysis on the Risk weighted numbers reported to the regulatory.
• Handled the Business User calls to review various Finance/Risk Reports and coordinated the Release approvals/signoffs.
• Coordinated in tight timeframes with significant Team Sizes across different countries/time zones and escalated issues and making issues/status very clear in a very fast pace environment
• Identified the Process improvements that could be automated and got them implemented
• Managed on-shore and off-shore Testing Teams and Processes

Confidential

Sr BA/QA

• Analyzed and generated the Business/Functional Requirement Documents and generation of the Business Use Cases
• Performed the Data Analysis using MS Excel Pivot/Lookup tables/ Access Data base and cross referencing the Report data for Audit purposes and presented the numbers to the UAT users.
• Managed the Traceability Matrix by mapping the Business Requirements Vs. approved Test Scenarios/Test Scripts by evaluating the correctness, consistency, completeness and Business/Testing Requirements.
• Generated the Test artifacts for UAT/Regression Test phases for presentation to Business Users.

Confidential

Sr QA ANALYST

• Analyzed the Requirement Specifications including the Business/Functional/High Level/Detailed Design Documents and Software Requirements Specifications.
• Set up the Test Strategy and generated the Master System Test Plans for the System Test and UAT environments.
• Managed Controlled the Traceability Matrix by mapping the Business Requirements Vs. approved Test Scenarios Test Scripts by evaluating the correctness, consistency, completeness and Business/Testing Requirements.
• Created, Tracked and Monitored the Daily Defect Status Reports DSR and escalated the issues, reported the actual project statuses to the Management
• Coordinated with various cross functional teams including the Development, Testing, Business Users and PMO.
• Managed the System Test and UAT environments including the Sanity, UI , DB, Regression Testing.
• Provided the Production support for daily Service Calls quickly resolved the issues in various environments including SIT,UAT and Production parallel

Confidential

Associate Project Manager

• Led, directed and managed the Quality Assurance department and ensured Quality Assurance standards across all the projects.
• Adhered to the best practices, standards and procedures in maintaining and assuring Quality evaluated and implemented the quality assurance practices in compliance to company's best practices and successfully established and implemented the Quality Management System within the organization. Set up the Test Strategy and generated the Master System Test Plans for the UAT environment for their Point Of Sale systems.
• Reviewed the Project artifacts including the Project Test deliverables/artifacts, reviewed the Daily Defect Reports, Issues tracking and escalation.
• Managed on-shore and off-shore Testing Teams and Processes

Confidential

Dublin, Ireland

• Monitored Project Methodology, Project Quality and Risk Management and applied quality tools, methodologies and procedures in ensuring quality products to customers.
• Coordinated with various cross functional teams including the Development, Testing, Business Users and PMO.
• Set up the Test Strategy and generated the Master System Test Plans for the UAT environment.
• Reviewed the Project artifacts including the Project Test Plans, Requirements Analysis of Business/Functional/High Level/Detailed Design Documents and Software Requirements Specifications Reviewed the System Test Scenarios, System Test Scripts and co coordinated the Business User Approvals/Signoffs.
• Managed on-shore and off-shore Testing Teams and Processes

Confidential

• Reviewed Logical and Physical designs documents/work flows.
• Created UAT Test Plan/Scenarios/Test scripts for the Business End Users
• Conducted walk-through of UAT Test Plans
• Worked closely with the Test Analyst in creation of Test Scenarios/Scripts/reviewed and approve UAT Test scripts/cases
• Assessed the project progress, escalate issues, and coordinate technical decisions

Confidential

• Sr Mainframe developer, worked on the Project's Region Code expansion in the Development team in COBOL/DB2, CICS on MVS operating system. The Unit and Integration Testing of various modules was performed.