SUMMARY:
A challenging position, utilizes my technical skills, educational experience and accomplishments in the field of IT, where innovation is appreciated and growth is ensured.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 10+ years of Quality Assurance experience in planning, coordinating and performing White box Testing, Black box Testing, Grey box Testing, Validation Testing, Unit Testing, Functionality Testing and Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with large-scale applications with multiple interfaces.
• 3+ years of experience in Team leading for QA Projects.
• 7+ years of experience of working in waterfall methodology.
• 2+ years of experience of working in agile methodology.
• 4+years of experience in Internet Web testing and Client-Server Testing.
• 4+ years experience in System Testing on Web based and client Server application.
• 2+ years of experience in mainframe testing.
• 7+ years of experience in back end testing using TOAD and SQL developer
• 10+ years tested application on Mac, UNIX, windows 2000 and XP for performance and functionality.
• 1+ years of experience testing application in mobile platform / tablet platform.
• 3+years experience in developing test scripts and testing them with automated testing tools.
• 3+ years of experience in testing application using WinRunner, LoadRunner, QuickTest Pro and Test Director.
• 7+ years of experience in testing application using Quality Center.
• 2+ year of experience in testing application using Rational Tools like Robot, Test Manager, ClearQuest.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:

• Master of Science in Computer Science

SKILLS:
Operating System : Windows 2000/NT, MS-DOS, UNIX.
Testing Tools : Quality Center 8.0/9.0,9.2,10.0, TFS, Mercury Win-Runner 7.5/7.0,
Mercury -Quick test 7.2, Mercury -Test Director7.5/6.0/5.0, Mercury Load-Runner 5.0/6.0/7.0/7.5, QuickTest Pro 8.0/9.0, Rational Tools like rational robot, clearquest, requisite Pro, Test Manager
Configuration Tools : Visual Source Safe, LDAP, MQ-Workflow, Install shield V build
Development Tools : Visual Studio Environment, Visual InterDev6.0, Crystal Reports 8.5
Languages : Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, ASP, PHP, .Net, C-sharp, DHTML, Java, XML
Database : SQL Server 7.0 /2000/2005/2007, Oracle 10i, Access 2000, Siebel, Power Builder
Data Transformation : ETL, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
Microsoft Technologies : Active-x, COM/DCOM, MS-Exchange
Web Servers : Apache, IIS, Exposure to Oracle Web Application Server
Documentation Tools : MS-Project, MS Office Suite(Word, Excel, Power Point), Visio 2000
Application Servers : Web logic with ILOG rule

Confidential,New York, NY April 2012 – Current
Position: QA Practice Lead

Project:

The division is an operating company for a fortune 100 financial institutions with activity in payments, media, and publishing. The firm is currently performing new product development on its revolutionary mobile/tablet payment platform as well redesigning existing web platform.

Environment: .net, Java, Oracle, mobile applications (iphone/Android/Windows), tablet application (ipad), mobile web, mobile operating system, table, and Windows Operating System

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead QA Team for Testing for revolutionary payment platform on web, mobile web, mobile application and tablet application.
• Responsible for creating roadmaps, testing strategies, provide estimations, test plans.
• Responsible for analyzing present state structure and come up with a future-state plan/strategy.
• Responsible for building/managing a testing team from the ground up.
• Establishing a methodology along with tool selection (starting with mostly manual testing with intent on bringing in an automation framework as well) and then implementing the solution, providing the day to day management and client interfacing.
• Coordinate with QA Team and Complete QA Project on time.
• Coordinated as well as participated all testing efforts that include creation of test cases/test scripts and Execution of Functional Testing as well as Regression Testing under Agile/Scrum environment.
• Involved daily test activities through Scrum \\\'stand-up\\\' meetings
• Involved in daily session with Testing Team to evade the risks and bottlenecks by rapidly creating testing scripts in Agile/Scrum Development style.
• Participate in Sprint Planning meeting after each Sprint completion.
• Provide Test Summary report at end of each Sprint completion.
• Coordinate meeting with Product owner and Scrum master to go over detail level QA Progress in each Sprint.
• Participate Design review meeting.
• Participate Sprint review meeting to review completed and non-completed work.
• Participate Sprint Retrospective meeting after each Sprint completion.
• Work with Dev Team, Product Owner, System Analyst and Scrum Master as agile team and escalated any issues, clarification or concerns.
• Maintain all documents using SharePoint.
• Performed analysis on defects and work to improve quality.
• Developed, measured, and reported QA project plans with detail schedule and status with MS-Project 2007

Confidential , NJ March 2010 – March 2012
Position: QA Lead

Project:
The objective of this project is to define a solution for the deployment of Point of Presence 1 (POP1) to support delivery against the key business drivers as follows:

• Enable replication of the Product reference data from its current Product Master Environment (PME) to a self-contained POP system using real-time deterministic replication
• Create a real-time synchronized, mirror copy of the Product reference data within the POP
• Create a data delivery fabric for the Product reference using data services layer which supports Request / Response style of interactions

Environment: Oracle, XML, SOAP, MQ Series, EMS, JAVA, TIBCO Business Works, UNIX and Windows Operating System.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead QA Team for Testing for Web Services of Equity, Mortgage Pools, Future & Options, US Listed Options, Fixed Income, CMOs Reference data, Party Data, Account Data via HTTP/EMS technology.
• Coordinate with QA Team and Complete QA Project on time.
• Coordinated all testing efforts that include creation of test cases/test scripts and Execution of Functional Testing as well as Regression Testing under Agile environment.
• Responsible for creation of test plan, Test Strategy and test summary in an Agile
• Involved daily test activities through Agile Scrum \\\'stand-up\\\' meetings
• Involved in daily session with Testing Team to evade the risks and bottlenecks by rapidly creating testing scripts in Agile Development style
• Responsible for (UAT) User Acceptance testing exclusively in an agile environment.
• Maintain Tracker Sheet that includes any risk/issues/clarifications using SharePoint.
• Performed analysis on defects and work to improve quality using Quality Center and JIRA.
• Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with QA team to discuss the issues arising while test preparation or test execution.
• Participated in meetings on a weekly basis with Development team to discuss the issues/clarifications arising while test preparation or test execution.
• Lead QA Team for Automation Testing for Web services testing and make sure Automation framework created based on requirements.
• Lead QA Team for Performance Testing for Web services testing and make sure Performance and Load Testing requirement covered.
• Developed, measured, and reported QA project plans with detail schedule and status with MS-Project 2007
• Helped management in resource allocation of QA and ensured efficient use of QA resources across all projects

Project:
Confidential,next generation strategic reference data repository for financial instrument (product) data. This initiative is necessary to ensure Company’s strategic repository can fully support all aspects of Company’s business including Front, Middle and Back Office applications.

Environment: Oracle, XML, ETL, MQ Series, Autosys, ASP, JAVA, UNIX and Windows Operating System.

My Job Responsibilities:

• Lead QA Team for Automation Testing for Equity, Mortgage Pools, Future & Options, US Listed Options, Fixed Income, CMOs feeds of different Vendor like Bloomberg, Reuters, etc using Inhouse Application called TCM.
• Coordinate with Management Team, BA Team to discuss issues of Automation QA Cycle and Overall Project.
• Coordinate with QA Team and Complete Automation QA Project on time.
• Maintain Tracker Sheet that includes status of each feed validation as well as regression functionality validity of each feed through Automation using Sharepoint.
• Performed analysis on defects and work to improve quality using Quality Center and JIRA.
• Developed of test strategies, plans and Traceability Matrix to meet all business requirements.
• Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with Implementation and Development team and QA team to discuss the issues arising while testing.
• Prepare all test data of each vendor’s feed based on mapping Specifications to perform Manually testing.
• Manually Testing of Equity, Mortgage Pools, Future & Options, US Listed Options, Fixed Income, CMOs feeds of different Vendors using UNIX and Oracle Toad.
• Performed Batch Jobs validation of different Vendor Data using AutoSys as well Manual.
• Performed Testing for Monthly Production Releases.

Project:
Confidential,applies the science of social networking to the enterprise to create new business intelligence. This application enables and further empowers users to identify and provide deeper insight into client boards and senior executives leveraging and monetizing the Firm\\\'s relationship capital.

Environment: Oracle, XML, ETL, Autosys, ASP, JAVA, UNIX and Windows Operating System.

My Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business & User requirements and wrote Test plans, Test Scripts, Traceability Maxtrix and Reporting using Quality Center.
• Developed of test strategies, plans and Traceability Matrix to meet all business requirements.
• Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with Implementation and Development team and testing team to discuss the issues arising while testing.
• Performed Data validation of Enhancement Testing as well as Integration Testing using ETL Tool (Informatica)
• Performed UI validation of Enhancement Testing as well as Integration Testing.
• Performed XML data validation between Vendor Data to GRCI Application using XML Spy and Oracle Toad.
• Performed Batch Jobs validation of different Vendor Data using AutoSys as well Manual.
• Developed and Executed SQL queries in SQL server as well as Oracle Database to perform Back End Testing and Grey End Testing.

Confidential,West Trenton, NJ Sept 2008 – Feb 2010
Position: Sr. System Test Engineer

insurance company that provides insurance for Workers\\\' Compensation, Commercial Auto, Personal Auto, Home Owners, Renters, etc. Project is based on migration of Mainframe Applications (Account Payables (AP), Account Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL), and Asset Management) to PeopleSoft Financial Tools that includes PS AP, PS AR, and PS GL)

Environment: Oracle, SQL Server, XML, ETL, ESB, PeopleSoft, Xpression, MQ Series (RFHUtil), Windows Operating System, Main Frame System.

My Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business & User requirements and wrote Test plans, Test Scripts for testing different functionality of the application, Test Coverage using Quality Center.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Validation Testing, Integration Testing, Negative and Positive Testing.
• Responsible Agile development and testing in SCRUM framework.
• Created Traceability Matrix to check that all business requirements were met.
• Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with Business, Production Support, Implementation and Development team, to discuss the issues arising from the previous days testing (Functional/ Regression).
• Performed System testing for NJM\\\'s new financial system PeopleSoft/Oracle Financials which include following components: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Management.
• Performed System Conversion Testing of Existing Financial System (A/R and A/P on the mainframe and G/L from a third party package, SunGuard) to PeopleSoft Financials.
• Performed Data validation of System Conversion Testing as well as Integration Testing using ETL Tool (Informatica)
• Performed Data validation of System Conversion Testing as well as Integration Testing using ESB.
• Performed XML data validation between Transformation of ESB to PeopleSoft Financials using MQ Series (RFHUtil).
• Performed application programming interfaces (APIs) Testing for different interfaces among Financial System.
• Performed Check Printing Process using XML and third party tool Xpression..
• Performed Image Scanning Process using third party tool Kofax.
• Performed Image Capturing Process using third party tool Onbase.
• Performed Grey box testing of Enhancements of PeopleSoft Financials System.
• Developed and Executed SQL queries in SQL server as well as Oracle Database to perform Back End Testing.

Confidential,PA April 2008 – Sept 2008
Position: QA Lead

offered quality health care products and services designed specifically to meet the changing health care needs of customers. Project is based on their IVR system enhancements of Customer’s claims.

Environment: .net, Java, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, Windows Operating System,

My Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business & User requirements and wrote Test plans, Test Scripts, defect matrix and Reporting using Quality Center.
• Developed of test strategies, plans and Traceability Matrix to meet all business requirements.
• Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with Implementation and Development team and testing team to discuss the issues arising while testing.
• Lead QA Team for Enhancement of IVR Projects.
• Coordinate with Management Team, UAT to discuss issues of QA Cycle and Overall Project.
• Coordinate with QA Team and Complete QA Cycle on time.
• Performed analysis on defects and work to improve quality.
• Reviewed and Understood IVR Scripts based on Designed flow diagram of Business Process through VRU.
• Created Scripts in Quality Center for VRU testing based on Business Requirements.
• Performed Manual testing of VRU which included Call routing, Call monitoring.
• Positive and Negative testing of VRU based on Business Requirements.