SUMMARY

• PMP® Certified Project Manager with over 16 years of experience in teh IT industry and 5 years in Project Management
• Project manager for key Energy, Services and Financial clients with multiple projects spread across geographic locations such as USA, Australia and UK.
• Performance driven professional with 16 years of total experience in teh areas of Program Management and Project Management in Software Testing across geographic boundaries such as UK, USA and Australia.
• Excellent Leadership, Analytical and Interpersonal skills, managed a team of 80+ from multiple projects
• Repeated success in teh areas of Project and Program Management & Co - ordination, Delivery, Process Improvement.
• Consistently commended for building, reorganizing, streamlining, and strengthening operations.
• Diverse Management experience including Project management, People Management, Leadership, Interpersonal business relationship ensuring repeat business, improving team performance, and managing smooth functioning of all operations.
• An effective leader with exceptional communication skills and teh ability to work in cross-cultural environments.
• Possess excellent Customer Relationship Management skills. Responsible for sustaining and growing existing customer engagements and new business development.
• Handled Large scale Projects with participation from Initiation to Closure phases
• Extensive experience in managing testing projects in Web-based and Client/Server technologies, Web Services Testing, Data Warehouse testing (ETL).
• In depth noledge and Extensive experience in STLC
• Proficient in design and execution of Test Strategies, Traceability Matrix, Test Plans, Capacity Estimation, Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test reports, Test results and documentation for complex applications in large projects and Programs.
• Adaptable in managing diverse nature of development & testing projects in a Global Delivery Model, Time and Material, Fixed Bid and Multi-Vendors.
• Spearheading large sized teams, including Project Leads and Project Managers in an Onsite - Offshore working model.
• Managing Budgets, Revenue Best Estimates, Communication Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management,
• Acquiring and enabling teh Team, Cross trainings and Knowledge Management.
• Preparation of detailed statements of work, detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and gain approval from stakeholders.
• Review teh project performance (schedule, cost, quality) Metrics on a periodic basis and proposed process improvement ideas on continuous basis.
• Handling of RFI/RFP responses, defining business solutions, effort estimations and Proposal defence
• Interfacing with customers on project progress, issues and delivery related issues
• Exposure to Account /Relationship management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: Core Java, SQL

Web Automation Tools: Selenium

Web Service Automation Tool: SoapUI

OS: Windows Vista, Windows XP/2000, Windows NT, Win 95/98, UNIX, Linux.

Data Base: Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata

BI Tool: Business objects (BO)

Continuous Integration Tool: Jenkins

Test Management Tool: Test Director, Product Studio, Bugzilla, Quality Center, JIRA and ALM

Project Management Tools: Confidential Project (MPP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for on-time Delivery, Quality, Risk Management, and Customer Satisfaction and Business growth.
• Managing teh entire life cycle of teh projects.
• Delivery and Program Management of multiple programs of cross functional applications
• Responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating projects according to timelines and budget agreed with Management while balancing quality control and customer satisfaction through teh life-cycle of teh project.
• Ensuring projects are delivered as per customer requirements and expectations.
• Review teh project performance (schedule, cost, quality) Metrics on a periodic basis.
• Managed project scope, delivery, quality levels, performance
• Able to understand teh customer business and grow teh account through proactive initiatives and ideas.
• Experience in Agile methodology, involved in sessions for defining teh complexity and estimations, involved in end to end implementation of user stories, involved in daily stand up/scrum meetings.
• Accountable for initiating, planning and executing teh areas in Test Automation from Proposal, POC and Framework development and ensure teh maximum test coverage with increased ROI.
• Develop Test Strategy., Test plan, Defect management process and review of test cases, execution results, defects
• Responsible for defect triage meetings to ensure defect fixes as per defined SLA’s

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for teh data ware house testing project in Energy and Services portfolio. their were multiple clients across US and UK (McDermott, Devon, British Petroleum, Anglian Water Services, Weatherford etc.,)
• Responsible for identification of right talents for teh Testing projects.
• Responsible to bring in best practices in Testing, report statuses to client and publish dashboard to teh program management.
• Responsible for team management and their growth path
• Manage interdependencies between data migration, functional, non-functional testing and highlight risks if any, to meet teh program schedule.
• Responsible for testing and quality of teh product ensuring appropriate test coverage meeting acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate with client to ensure project is completed on time meeting scope and quality.
• Defects management and coordination with all relevant tracks for ensuring timely delivery
• Share RCA and findings from escaping defect analysis.
• Work with Quality and Risk Management group regularly on project status and CMMi audit assessment
• Prepare and share Daily and Weekly status reports with all teh stakeholders

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing teh Business Requirements, Functional specifications
• Preparation of Test Plan
• Preparing teh Test Cases and Test Data for teh modules according to teh functionality of teh module
• Executing teh Functional Test Cases, and Regression Test Cases.
• Logging defects dat were identified during teh course of testing using Test Director
• Attending teh Bug Triage meetings to defend teh defects we created and make sure dat teh defects are assigned to teh developer.
• Building teh necessary test approach and estimate scope of effort for module specific defects and enhancements

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handled multiple projects as part of Infosys engagement with Advisor Services in Confidential Corporation.
• List of projects includes enhancement and maintenance of Customer facing application called Web Trading Applet and internal Trade Processing Applications like Mercury, PBID and many others.
• Handled end to end projects which deal with multiple applications across organization.
• Reviewing teh Business Requirements, Functional specifications
• Preparation of Test Strategy documents for all teh projects
• Provided sizing for all teh projects
• Preparing teh Test Cases and Test Data for teh modules according to teh functionality of teh module
• Executing teh Functional Test Cases, and Regression Test Cases.
• Logging defects dat were identified during teh course of testing using Test Director
• Attending teh Bug Triage meetings to defend teh defects we created and make sure dat teh defects are assigned to teh developer.
• Building teh necessary test approach and estimate scope of effort for module specific defects and enhancements
• Performing Smoke test in Development environment to ensure teh stability of teh application before it comes to SIT
• Identifying teh Test Cases and Performing regression testing as and when required to ensure teh stability of teh application
• Maintaining teh Test Cases and Test Results in teh Quality Centre and map teh test results and defects to teh Requirements.
• Utilized TFS to manage team’s activities including assigning tasks, monitoring teh progress and logging defects

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Requirements and Functional Specifications
• Preparation of Test Cases and review of test cases
• Handled teh test team (offshore/onshore - interface and acceptance testing).
• Test Strategy Document
• Conduct Defect Review Meeting
• Performed testing of teh application in multiple languages

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Test plan based on Functional Spec and Technical Specs Of teh application
• Developed Test scripts and test cases for functional and regression testing.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing.
• Involved in International, MUI testing.
• Familiar with BVT, Stress, Performance.
• Used Product studio bug tracking tool.
• Conducted QA status meetings to resolve teh issues and coordinated well with QA Manager.

Confidential

Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of Test plan and teh continuous improvement of test plan
• Reviewed documentation to establish and document test scenarios, test criteria and test data dependencies
• Participated in writing Test Cases, Test Scenarios
• Involved in teh preparation of Test Environment (Pretest data setup activities)
• Responsible for Functional, Regression testing.
• Responsible for test activities throughout all test phases
• Defect identification, analysis & reporting
• Provide leadership for planning, organizing, leading and controlling those project activities
• Provides direction to assure dat quality problems are resolved to minimize schedule impact and to assure specification compliance.
• Create and maintain testing environments.
• Bug triaging, attending war meetings.
• Private fix verification on different flavors.
• Adding test cases as part of test improvement
• Preparing test machines to run automation suits on different machines
• Reviewing teh automation results, rerunning failed automation test cases
• Reviewing manual test results.
• Preparing debugging setup.
• Debugging, and getting stack trace in case any break occurs.

Confidential

Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing System Test Plan and System Test cases.
• Reviewing Requirements
• Involved in test execution and reporting results
• Defect identification, analysis and reporting
• Participated in Defect review meetings

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conduct System study & Analysis of teh product functionality
• Responsible for develop and execution of test plan, test cases and test scripts
• Conducted teh need analysis and developed teh test plan
• Participated in writing test requirements, system test plans, documented test procedures.
• Conducted needed analysis and developed teh test plan.
• Reviewed technical documentation to establish and document test scenarios, test criteria and test data dependencies.
• Involve in reviews and inspections of all work products including Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Reports
• Established baseline tests, performed positive, negative and system testing.
• For functional, Regression, Integration testing based up on teh business requirements for Manual testing
• Test Data Population and execution of test cases.
• Defect identification, analysis & reporting
• Co-ordinate with development groups
• Participated in testing on IEEE 802.1X implementation in XP includes Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN (EAPOL) Service functionality
• Stress on systems connected to 802.1x Access points, regression testing for other media types or for Ethernet interfaces connected to non-802.1x switches.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing teh test cases, test data and test scripts.
• Responsible for Updated existing test cases against teh requirements.
• Developed Test scripts and test cases for functional and regression testing.
• Performed detailed system, functional, Regression, Integration testing.
• Involved in Functional testing using teh test suites developed in Windows scripting language.
• Maintaining a test log reporting defects also monitored teh resolutions of defects using a defect-tracking tool Product Studio.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of various operating systems and perform Test Execution.
• Document test results and share with Test Lead
• Log defects in RAID.
• B.Tech in Electronics and Communications from JNT University, Hyderabad