Experience Summary:

• 10 years of experience in Information Technology, End to End Test Management, Technical and Risk Analysis of business and functional requirements, Creating testing documents like Test Strategy and Test Plan, System and Regression Testing using manual and automation scripts, documenting process flow and generating test reports.
• Domain experience includes Banking and Financial Services, Retail and Healthcare.
• Worked as End to End Test Manager, QA/Project Lead for the clients Fifth Third Bank, American Express, Wells Fargo Bank Target Corp.
• Expert in Requirement analysis, Risk assessment, System and Regression Testing, Quality Assurance, creating Test Strategy and Test Plan.
• Expert in working in onshore/offshore model, working with multiple teams multiple vendors, managing QA teams and project deliveries.
• Well versed in SDLC, Waterfall and Agile Testing methodologies, product development cycles and processes involved in developing and executing Test scripts, software Deployment/Release processes.
• High interpersonal skills and ability to Lead a team, work individually and as a team member.
• Expertise in developing automated solutions for repetitive tasks using QTP, Selenium and Macros in MS Excel.
• Expertise in using HP Quality Center for creating new project, adding new users, loading requirements, test cases, executing test cases, logging defects and defect tracking the defects to closure.
• Experience of working as End to End Test Manager and QA Lead for new product launch projects launching a new Credit Card product and a new Prepaid Card product for the US market.
• Experience of working as developer and test lead for Mainframe testing projects using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, CLIST and REXX.
• Experience of working as developer for Web application development projects using Microsoft Active Server Pages, SQL Server, XML, HTML, VBScript and JavaScript.

Technical Skills:

Testing/Dev Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, QTP, Selenium, SOAP, DB2 tools SPUFI, FILEAID, Softech and Platinum , AQT, TOAD, CA7, Expeditor and Strobe.

Architectures: J2EE, Dot Net and Mainframes

Languages: MS Active Server Pages, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, JCL, CICS, CLIST and REXX.

Version Control Systems: MS VSS, Clear Case, Endevor

RDBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access, DB2 Tools SPUFI, Softech, Platinum, QMF

Technologies: Web Sevices, SOAP, SERVLETS, ASP, JSP, JDBC, MQ Series and Mainframe.

Methodologies Open Sources:Object Oriented Analysis And Design, Test Driven Development.

Documentation Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MPP

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participating in project concept design meetings with business team as QA representative.
• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Developing test strategy, test plan and requirement risk assessment documents.
• Create testing effort estimates for new projects.
• Create QA project understanding and data flow documents in MS Visio.
• Create QA test plan covering end to end testing and track tasks in MPP.
• Working with offshore and transitioning the project requirements and testing needs.
• Utilizing waterfall and/or agile Testing methodologies as per project need.
• Identifying the test data needs for the project and creating test data.
• Creating new project in HP Quality center and uploading requirements.
• Developing test cases ensuring complete test coverage.
• Writing the automation scripts by using QTP for qualified test cases.
• Uploading all test cases in HP Quality center and generating coverage reports.

• Smoke testing the environments for new builds.
• Work with offshore testing team as QA lead and onsite single point of contact during system and regression testing.
• Logging and tracking defects to closure in HP Quality Center.
• Using SQL to validate test results in back end DB2, SQL Server Oracle db.
• Using mainframe to validate/process test data in CICS panels and mainframe files.
• Creating daily test status report and running daily defect review meetings.
• Evaluate new change requests and adjust testing time and effort accordingly.
• Use HP Quality Center Dashboard to generate test report and graphs.
• Creating the final system test report for project stakeholders.

• Doing certification for deployment in production and training environment.
• Managing and updating the regression suite for future releases.
• Generating QA management reports

Skills Used: HP Quality Center, Waterfall and/or Agile testing methodologies QTP, Selenium, SOAP UI, AQT, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, MS-Access, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, IBM Mainframes, CICS, MS Office, MS Visio, MPP.

Confidential

Role: Programmer and QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Creating Technical design documents.
• Prepared test documents for Design- Unit test plan, System test plan, and Transition plan.
• Involved in test data setup activities creating test data in DB2 and mainframe files as per project needs.
• Performed the design and code reviews.
• Involved in the development of new CICS programs that are using VSAM files and DB2.
• Coordinating the integration team.
• Reviewed test cases and results done by other team members.
• Testing the applications in mainframe environment.
• Involved in production support activities and monitoring batch jobs.
• Resolving job abends and technical issues.
• Coordinated Unit, Assembly, SIT and UAT execution and ensuring on time completion as per plan.
• Involved in monitoring defects and track them to closure.

Skills Used: JIRA, Mainframe, DB2, VSAM, FILEAID, JCL, COBOL, CICS, REXX, VBScript, MS Office, MS Visio, MPP.

Confidential

Role: E2E Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participating in project concept design meetings with business team as QA representative.
• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Developing test strategy, test plan and requirement risk assessment documents.
• Create testing effort estimates for new projects.
• Create QA project understanding and data flow documents in MS Visio.
• Create QA test plan covering end to end testing and track tasks in MPP.
• Working with offshore and transitioning the project requirements and testing needs.
• Identifying the test data needs for the project and creating test data.
• Creating new project in HP Quality center and uploading requirements.
• Developing test cases ensuring complete test coverage.
• Uploading all test cases in HP Quality center and generating coverage reports.
• Smoke testing the environments for new builds.
• Work with multiple teams as QA single point of contact during system and regression testing.
• Logging and tracking defects to closure in HP Quality Center.
• Using mainframe to validate/process test data in CICS panels and mainframe files.
• Creating daily test status report and running daily defect review meetings.
• Evaluate new change requests and adjust testing time and effort accordingly.
• Use HP Quality Center Dashboard to generate test report and graphs.
• Creating the final system test report for project stakeholders.

• Doing certification for deployment in production and training environment.
• Managing and updating the regression suite for future releases.
• Generating QA management reports

Skills Used: HP Quality Center, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, MS Office, MS Visio, MPP.

Confidential

Role: Project Lead/ QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Involved in test data setup activities creating test data in DB2 and mainframe files as per project needs.
• Built Cobol, Rexx programs and JCL jobs to Extract, Transform and load the data from mainframe production DB2 database to test and training DB2 database tables.
• Involved in scheduling and monitoring mainframe jobs.
• Involved in analyzing CA7 scheduled jobs for potential delays and resolving the scheduling issues.
• Involved in resolving job abends and technical issues.
• Done Construction and unit testing of new application programs.
• Performed design and code reviews for other team members.
• Reviewed test cases and results done by other team members.
• Testing the applications in mainframe environment.
• Involved in production support activities and monitoring batch jobs.
• Coordinated Unit, Assembly, SIT and UAT execution and ensuring on time completion as per plan.
• performance tuning and optimization of applications.
• Logging and tracking defects to closure in HP Quality Center.
• Generating daily and weekly status reports for senior management.

Skills Used: HP Quality Center, Mainframe, DB2, VSAM, FILEAID, JCL, COBOL, CICS, REXX, VBScript, MS Office, MS Visio, CA7, Control-M, DB2 Tools SPUFI, Softech, Platinum, QMF , Oracle, Toad, NED/Endeavor, FTP.

Confidential

Role: Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Involved in test data setup activities creating test data in DB2 and mainframe files as per project needs.
• Built new Cobol, Rexx programs and JCL jobs.
• Done Construction and unit testing of new application programs.
• Involved in scheduling and monitoring mainframe jobs.
• Involved in analyzing CA7 scheduled jobs for potential delays and resolving the scheduling issues.
• Involved in resolving job abends and technical issues.
• Performed design and code reviews for other team members.
• Reviewed test cases and results done by other team members.
• Testing the applications in mainframe environment.
• Involved in production support activities and monitoring batch jobs.
• Logging and tracking defects to closure in HP Quality Center.
• Generating daily and weekly status reports for senior management.

Skills Used: HP Quality Center, Mainframe, DB2, VSAM, FILEAID, JCL, COBOL, CICS, REXX, VBScript, MS Office, MS Visio, CA7, DB2 Tools SPUFI, QMF , NED/Endeavor.

Confidential

Role: Developer/ Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing existing application and creating work flow.
• Analyzing and understanding business and functional requirements.
• Creating Technical design documents for new and changing modules.
• Developing new modules using Microsoft web technologies.
• Prepared test documents for Design- Unit test plan, System test plan, and UAT.
• Involved in test data setup activities creating test data in MS-Access and SQL Server DB as per project needs.
• Performed the design and code reviews.
• Involved in the development of new programs that are using Active Server Pages, HTML, XML and SQL Server.
• Reviewed test cases and results done by other team members.
• Testing the web applications.
• Involved in production support activities.
• Coordinated Unit, Assembly, SIT and UAT execution and ensuring on time test completion as per plan.
• Involved in opening and monitoring defects and track them to closure.

Skills Used: HTML, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, VBScript, MS Office, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access, MS Interdev.