Result oriented executive with more than sixteen years of experience in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle with responsibilities including Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing in Client - Server and Web-based n-tier Architecture across multiple business domains. Last 6 year in leadership role like Project Manager, Project Coordinator for Off Shore Team, SME and QA Team Lead.

Demonstrated expertise in:

• Five plus years experience Managing Projects.
• Team management and customer interaction skills
• Experience in Agile & Pair Programming methodologies.
• Three years plus experience with Off-Shore Development model.
• Strong Technical background over fifteen years in role of Software Engineer.
• Used Project Management Tool like Jira, Microsoft Project and Microsoft TFS.
• Have experience with project in BizTalk and SharePoint.
• Experience in writing SQLqueries on tools like TOAD and SQL Server Management Studio. Worked extensively on data validation testing.
• Experience of data validation testing and designing data validation strategy for big releases.
• Strong in analyzing Data Model diagrams and design data validation test cases based on the model, data flow and business logic.
• Experience of developing UI automation scripts using QTP (Quick Test Pro)and MS Test Manager.
• Experience working with applications based on Flash & Silverlight technology.
• Experience in Performance Testingusing HP Load Runner of web applications using HTTP, AMF and web services protocol. Tested SOAP and Restful Web Services with Load Runner. Good experience in load testing with Jmeter tool.
• Expertise in problem solving and tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking tools like Test Director/Quality Center, JIRA.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Professional Experience:

Confidential, (Lake Oswego, OR) .

Project Manager - QA

Phoenix -

Web tools set used in Hospital to expedite the Revenue Cycle by streamline the work flow with fully configurable business rules, thus helping them in becoming financially viable.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for managing day to day QA team activities like workload balancing, conducting daily Scrums/Stand ups, conduction QA sprint plan meetings, developing QA plans and QA Status reporting.
• Extensive use of Microsoft TFS for managing stories backlog, documenting Test Plan and Bug tracking.
• Use of MS Test Manager 2010 for Test case management and UI Automation.
• Component Integration testing.
• End to End testing from requirement analysis to user acceptance.
• Achieved business knowledge in Healthcare domain.
• Extensive use of MS SQL for writing validation scripts.
• BizTalk policy testing using XML messages.

Technology -

C# .Net, Silverlight, Entity Framework, BizTalk, MS SQL Server and IIS

Test/Level of testing -

Functional, Regression, Integration, System and Performance testing.

Testing Tools -

Test Complete, SQL Server Management Studio, MSTest Manager 2010

Confidential, (Portland,OR) .

Project Manager - QA

UI Automation -

This automation project was undertaken to create efficiencies in regression test execution of various applications. All the core functionalities were identified and automation test scripts were created to cover them for various locales.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Involved in automation test framework design, test architecture, planning test environment, choosing test tools.
• Closely worked with Business process lead (BPLs) to identify core functional test scenarios for each application.
• Conducted tool evaluation and prepared a demo of automation scripts and presented it to project stakeholders (QA Manager, Project Manager).
• Designed scalable and reusable automation framework on MS Visual Studio 2008.
• Created automation test scripts using QTP.
• Implemented industry standard best practices in automation test scripts like validating the data accuracy of each webpage under test, testing of various languages (localization), created logs, capturing snapshots for each failure, etc.
• Designed own reporting framework to provide detailed test report for automation test scripts. Reduced the test execution time by 80% which saved lot of manual effort.

Technology -

C# .Net

Test/Level of testing -

Automation testing of functional test cases

Testing Tools -

QTP, MS Visual Studio 2008

Website Technical Support -

Supported few website for expert level of technical support in Microsoft technologies.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Key responsible to keep the website up and running. On call 24-7.
• Managed a team of three Developers and two QA for fixing production issues.
• Performance Testing using HP Load Runner of web applications using HTTP, AMF and web services protocol. Tested SOAP and Restful Web Services with Load Runner
• Streamlined the use of agile methodology in production support.

Technology -

C# .Net, MS SQL Server, Crystal Reports and IIS

Test/Level of testing -

Functional, Regression, Integration, System and Performance testing.

Testing Tools -

HP Load Runner, SQL Server Management Studio

Confidential, (Salem, OR) .

Sr. Software Engineer.

Laser Fiche Bulk Import -

Import process developed in VB.NET 3.5 Win forms, TIF files on CDs or portable drives were imported into Laser Fiche by calling the Laser Fiche APIs in VB.NET. There were complex business rule to get Laser Fiche template information querying the Oracle based AMANDA application system.

Role & Responsibilities -

• As a Technical Project Manager Responsible for requirement gathering and creating functional specification document.
• Estimation on time effort and resource planning.
• Responsible for managing development and testing effort.

Technology -

VB.Net 3.5, Laser Fiche, Oracle

Core Inventory (Adding new features and maintenance project) -

Web site used to maintain detail information about the building occupancy in Salem Downtown Area.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Due to resource constrain more into twin role Scrum master as well as a Product owner. Responsible for managing the priorities on backlog (New features and Bugs), sprint planning (two week sprint), conducting daily scrum/ stand ups meeting and publishing the burn down reports to the stack holders.
• Implementation of formalised process to use Microsoft TFS as both source control and project management tool.

Technology -

VB.Net 3.5, Microsoft SQL 2008 Crystal Reports

Reports for AMANDA and FullCourts -

Project to create customized Reports for Oracle based AMANDA and FullCourts systems which is used by the City of Salem as the Permit Management System and managing Justice Department's day to day activities.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for reports requirement gathering from business owners.
• Estimation on time effort and resource planning.
• Responsible for managing development and testing effort.

Technology -

Oracle, Crystal Reports

Confidential, (Portland, OR)

Project Manager.

ATAC -

Web siteforAdvance Technology Assistance Centre to manage their client. Reports help them to follow up with clients more efficiently. Developed using C# and ASP.net, with Oracle as the database on IIS Server.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for requirement gathering and signing off from business owners.
• Coordinating with the off shore team ADP India to come up with estimates and schedule. . And preparing project plan and assigning resources.
• Responsible coding in C# & ASP.Net and Oracle Packages.
• Manage the development effort and QA effort to deliver a quality release on time.

GMDID -

GM had its own way of referencing their clients and ADP used its own different way. This web site was developed to find client details from both environments by applying some matching rules. It was developed using C# and ASP.net, with Oracle as the database on IIS Server.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for requirement gathering and signing off from business owners.
• Coordinating with the off shore team ADP India to come up with estimates and schedule. . And preparing project plan and assigning resources.
• Responsible coding in C# & ASP.Net and Oracle Packages.
• Manage the development effort and QA effort to deliver a quality release on time.

Auto Email to eHelp Generation -

Thisprocess was developed using BizTalk to monitor an email account and when an email alert was received it would create eHelp (IT support management system) case using web service call.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Responsible for requirement gathering and signing off from business owners.
• Coordinating with the off shore team ADP India to come up with estimates and schedule.
• Involved in development of the required BizTalk piece.
• Manage the development effort and QA effort to deliver a quality release on time.

Technical Lead/SME

IMPACT (Maintenance Phase) -

Implementation Portal is used to track the entire implementation process from start to end at one place.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Was responsible to set priorities on the enhancement request.
• Agile methodology was used with the implementation of test-first approach using Nunit testing.
• Wrote requirements and obtained sign off from business owners.
• Coordinated with the off shore team ADP India to come up with estimates and schedule.
• Manage the development effort and QA effort to deliver a quality release on time following the ADP standard once a month release process.

IMPACT -

Implementation Portal is used to track the entire implementation process from start to end at one place.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Was involved from the requirement gathering and design phase.
• Designed the UI using CSS to maintain a standard look and feel throughout the Portal.
• Designed off Fa ade pattern based with strong Object Oriented Programming.
• Developed in ASP.net and VB.net with Oracle as the database and Hosted on IIS.
• O/R Mapper LLBL Pro Gen was used to communicate with the database.
• Gets data from DIS (legacy system) with the help of the import process developed as a windows service, moves data from Stage-In tables with applying business rules into actual IMPACT tables.
• For document storage Share point is used via web service interface.
• Reports were developed using Crystal reports.
• Interaction with external system Vision via web service interface.

Software Engineer III

Installation Calculator -

It was developed in VB 6.0 as an ActiveX Server with MS SQL 2000 as the database. It can be run as a COM from Sales driver or can also be run as a standalone application. With the help of business rules and input parameters, it calculates the onsite and remote installation days required for certain products. Reports were generated using MS Word.

PC Configurator -

It was developed like a COM in VB 6.0 as an ActiveX Server with MS SQL 2000 as the database and MS Visio as the UI, The User could draw a site plan in Visio with the pre define set of Icons in MS Visio. The Business rule engine would relate these icons into list of products which would be passed back to the parent calling program Sales driver.

Confidential, (Corvallis, OR)

Software Engineer/MS SQL Server Admin

Role & Responsibilities -

• Development ARS Perl script to extract data from the Remedy on Informix database and putting in on MS SQL Server used for IT billing and Recovery Process.
• Involved in migration the IT Billing and Recovery Process from MS SQL 6.5 to 7.0
• Is responsible for Billing Database administration on the MS SQL Server.
• Supported LABMATE 3.5 customised software developed in FOXPRO 2.6 for Windows, used in Standards and Calibration Lab.

Confidential, (Mountain View, CA) 9

Software Engineer

TechProX -

TechProX is a business-to-business web application, which assists recruiting agencies in managing their requisitions and candidates.

Role & Responsibilities -

• Development using Oracle Web Application Server v3.0 (PL/SQL cartridge) and Oracle v8.0.5 database.
• Developed PL/SQL packages and procedures using the Oracle Web Application Server Developer's Toolkit to create dynamic HTML web pages and forms.
• Javascript functions were developed for form validations.
• The application is hosted on a Sun Ultra 1 platform running Solaris v2.6 OS.

Confidential, (Thane (Mumbai), India) 9

Software Engineer/NT Sys Admin

Role & Responsibilities -

• Setup and Manage Windows NT v4.0 network.
• SPADE (Automobile Dealers Software), consisting of four modules; SAM Sales and Marketing, SIM Stock Inventor Maintenance, SAW Service and Workshop, SUM Accounts Maintenance. Developed using Visual Basic v5.0 with MS SQL Server v6.5 as the back end on Windows NT. Events were programmed as per the design logic, appropriate SQL Queries were passed to the database and record sets were created and modified according to the business logic. Connectivity between Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server was established using Remote Data Object (RDO). Developed reports using Crystal Reports.

Confidential, (Navi Mumbai, India) 8

Software Engineer

BankPlus Systems (Bank Automation Systems) -

This system is developed for co-operative banks using Microsoft Visual Basic v5.0 with back end as SQL Server v6.5 on Windows NT v4.0. Developed and implemented Cash and Lockers module in the system. Developed SQL Server Stored Procedures which were invoked by the front end. Connectivity between Visual Basic and SQL Server is established using Remote Data Access Object (RDO). The reporting module of this application was developed using Crystal Reports.

TRIPS (Transportation Management Systems) -

This system was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic v5.0 with Microsoft Access on Windows 95. The system recorded the trips for a particular customer and generated their bills. Payments made by the customer would be adjusted against the unpaid bills and calculated the outstanding. Designed and developed Payment Received and Adjustment module in the system.Connectivity between Visual Basic and MS Access was established using Data Access Object (DAO).

Confidential, (Thane, India) 7

Software Engineer

Order Processing Systems -

This system was developed to maintain the stock of a company by the entry of issues and returns. Using FoxPro v2.5 on DOS v6.22 reports were generated by Item, Customer and Order.

Payroll Systems -

This system covers employee's monthly payments, PF and ESIC, TDS and other statutory elements. It gives reports like Pay slip and Salary Register.