Professional Summary

• Positive self-motivated enthusiastic results driven professional with fifteen years of experience and history of successful execution of IT projects in Public, Private and Federal organizations under various sectors like Internet, Finance and Homeland Security. Proven abilities in organizing and delivering. Successful in leading global teams and implementing solutions worldwide.
• Specialties: Program Project Management, Requirements/Release Management, Resource Management, Integration Management, Web Content Management, Client Relationship Management, Contract Vendor Management, Process Redesign, SDLC, Water-Fall, Agile, Scrum, Planning and Scheduling, Systems Integration, eCommerce, Cloud Computing, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Team Building Team Leadership Certified Scrum Master.

Experience

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

• Responsible for the management of migration projects with Agile principles, lead project planning, working group sessions to map the scheduling and planning processes by gathering functional requirements from customers, building Agile sprints and backlogs, implementation plans, coordinating the project team tasks to accomplish the project goals and milestones.
• Ensuring teams are practicing Agile and assist with internal and external communication. Extensive report creation and management.
• Developed and executed project work plans. Maintain process documentation.
• Tracked schedules progress through the appropriate metrics and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identified critical issues with ease and ensured issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner.
• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of the project, scope, and change management issues.
• Supported daily stand up meetings, sprint and release planning meetings.
• Supported the management on the project and program lifecycle of the projects customer interaction, technical delivery, status reporting, and analytical solutions .
• Communicated across project execution teams in order to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Client interaction included daily contact across multiple teams and personnel including executive management.
• Created and implemented a communication plan, assigned tasks to team members.
• Coached and counseled team members of project team to accomplish goals, to meet target schedules and milestones, resolve and mitigate delivery issues, establish program metrics for measuring key performance criteria.
• Reviewed deliverables prepared by team and articulated status to leadership.
• Monitored and reported on project activities related to the program.
• Met with team members and customers to review program scope/progress and resolved project issues.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Analyzed business requirements and interacted with business analysts, developers to discuss the business requirements, technical questions etc for a high priority project called IR2. Involved in the complete testing life cycle.
• Analyzing requirements to created test scripts and review within QA team and again with other stakeholders like development, business analysis team etc.
• Planned, designed and implemented scheduled and ad-hoc autosys jobs for each build to run ETLs and reports generation for the team to validate.
• Create and maintain test data for testing the application using XMLspy and Rational Clear case.
• Executed test scripts from Quality Center and reported defects where necessary in Rational Clear Quest.
• Developed and maintained SQL scripts for test scenarios execution.
• Used SQL in Oracle 10G and 11G to verify the dataflow in the backend.
• Involved in functional testing, regression testing, integration testing and system testing for each build and release of the application.
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow in the back-end by executing SQL scripts.
• Generated Business Objects reports and tested the functionality.

Confidential

Senior QA Lead

• Managed and coordinated QA/BA resources to test the applications covering all supported platforms. Conducted defect analysis meetings, test plan reviews with developers, product and project managers. Participated in daily and weekly design, walkthrough and project review meetings. Track production issues, trouble shoot and work towards getting them resolved.
• Responsible for writing the specification document for the issues reported by the client, prioritizing them and appropriately escalating them to the development manager.
• Created test plans, test cases and bug reports. Used BLT, Mantis, and Rally software for bug tracking.
• Maintained test documents in internal servers, TCM, SVN and Quality Center.
• Orchestrated test scripts for functionality, API, positive negative, regression, integration, database, Load, Performance and Data-driven testing.
• Hands on testing of the web services using in-house tools, jmeter, SQL, UNIX.
• Coordinated cross-divisional work with teams based in the US, Dublin and India.
• Reviewed and analyzed the SDLC model and the related aspects to assess their appropriateness and the potential risks points with respect to projects under test like installing code in QA.
• Creating analysis and design artifacts in support of the creation of project deliverables
• Utilized appropriate project management tools to report QA status within the project's life cycle
• Developed test scripts using JMeter, QTP, Performance Center and in house tools.
• Attended Scrum meetings for sprint cycles in agile testing and tracked development of QA using Rally Software.
• Worked closely with Business teams on requirements, prioritization, discuss recommendations.
• Participated in meetings and projects with business owners, project managers, development team to upgrade applications and automate as needed to meet the goals of the business unit representing BA/QA analysis team.
• Generated reports on issues and shared with business managers, project managers etc
• Primary Contact for all the above mentioned for problem solving and issue resolution.
• Acting as a liaison between the above mentioned maintenance clients and the development team

Software QA Engineer

Confidential

• Led cross-functional teams for testing front end and backend components of eCommerce applications. Created and maintained test plans for backend tools. Primary point of contact for production issues and resolution. Reviewed QA documents within QA and development teams.
• Maintained QA environment by installing builds regularly.
• Coordinated with Business Analysis team at Amazon 3rd party on integration issues with SOAP.
• Provided support to the production issues and trouble shoot to stabilize application in production.
• Involved in testing eCommerce applications developed in jdk, JavaScript, html, xml, and servlets.
• Leveraged file and record extraction using FTP/Import/Export and UNIX Shell Scripts.
• Tracked bugs found

Software QA Engineer

Confidential

• Created and maintained test plans for online shopping applications with a platform designed to deliver end user services. The application provided dynamic shopping services embedded in AOL and Compuserve clients. Reported defects found and tracked them in subsequent QA cycles in Vantive bug tracking tool.
• Served as a Business Analyst / Quality assurance analyst on the shopping application. Responsibility included gathering requirements, gap analysis and system testing.
• Involved in testing eCommerce applications developed in jdk, JavaScript, html, xml, servlets
• Worked on integration with different clients as and when they are released
• Involved in internationalization of the project for supported clients.
• Utilized test scripts in tools like QA partner, Silk.

Confidential

Software QA engineer

• Created the test plans and test cases for a software package for HR Professionals derived from the EZaccess professional staffing software, as well as for the synchronization tool developed to fetch data from the client application and post into the Personic website.
• Utilized server side programs for oracle database access in web application
• Created test plans and test cases and executed test scripts for each cycle.
• Extensively used XML and SQL for executing test cases.
• Performed functional and regression tests and reported issues.

Confidential

QA Engineer

• Volunteered to test the functionality of an application designed to help high school students in the preparation for SAT testing.
• Reviewed the requirements docs.
• Created test cases based on the requirements
• Performed Manual black box testing.
• Used various browsers to test GUI of the application.
• Reported bugs found in custom tracking system.

Technical Skills