PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Manual Testing Experience.
• 5 years of LEAD EXPERIENCE for QA testing teams including Onshore, Offshore and Third party teams.
• Provide test leadership of the QA and testing of multiple projects.
• Experience working with large distributed conversion team in BMOHarris Bank and American Express client
• Experience working in testing projects in different domain levels Banking, Financial Services and Retail.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle SDLC and software testing lifecycle STLC using traditional waterfall model, agile iterative model.
• Strong experience with all types of testing including functional, system integration, regression, user acceptance testing, data integration and performance testing etc.
• Strong testing background with over 7 year's hands-on experience with HP Quality Center tool.
• Solid knowledge of data warehousing concepts and experience in SQL Server.
• Capability in managing the testing projects right from requirement analysis, development of test strategies, estimation, scheduling, tracking and UAT support.
• Have strong Test Management, Defect Management and Project Management skills.
• Have Business Intelligence experience with SSRS Reporting Services and SSIS Integration Services .
• Ability to create test metrics and reporting to senior management, and PMO executives.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications Project, Excel, Word, Presentation, Visio .
• Excellent Team player with strong Analytical and Logical skills, Good communications skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TOOLS:

Test Management: HP ALM/Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager, JIRA, BugZilla,

Test Automation:Quick Test Pro, Coded UI, Selenium Webdriver, IBM Rational tools.

Project Management: MS Project 2010, SharePoint2010, Clarity

Database: Putty, Toad, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, RDBMS

Configuration: Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio

Languages: Java, JavaScript, CSS, UNIX, SQL, XML

Technologies: Business Intelligence, SSRS, SSIS,Datawarehouse testing, Mainframe Testing, ETL, Cloud Platform, SaaS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onsite QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide vision of the Quality Assurance function for the project at hand.
• Work with users to identify and document BI requirements and solutions.
• Develop and implement reports and queries to drive business processes.
• Ensure that the Quality Assurance team adapts to changing technologies and development approaches.
• Design and develop solutions for enterprise and departmental business intelligence BI , data warehousing and reporting procedures.
• Create test plans for the project including schedule, strategy, risk mitigation strategy and resource leveling.
• Develop and reports key performance statistics.
• Seek better solutions via process improvement.
• Work with QA engineers and project teams to mentor them in the area of testing best practices and methodologies.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and direction to selected QA team s .

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating Testing Strategy and review with project teams/business and gain the approval.
• Create the Test Plan document and assist the PM for the test schedules, execution cycles etc.
• Involve in test execution for all types of testing: functional, system integration, user acceptance, regression, data integration and performance testing.
• Lead the Offshore testing teams and automation teams for the test planning, test execution and defect management activities.
• Work with users to identify and document BI requirements and solutions.
• Conceptual understanding of test coverage, test cases/scripts, test design, and automation techniques.
• Develop and implement reports and queries to drive business processes.
• Execute SQL queries, generate reports based on the business requirements.
• Have Daily status call with offshore team to make sure the team completes the given task timely and properly.
• Conduct daily defect triage meetings with the development team/third party teams for the issue troubleshooting and defect closure.
• Generate test metrics and publish to the senior management teams, QA managers and business.

Confidential

Manual QA Lead

Environment: HP Quality Center, Mainframe Testing, SQL,UNIX.

Responsibilities:

• Create Test Plans that document detailing a systematic approach to testing a system.
• Lead quality assurance testing and analysis on projects to ensure that the application systems function properly and according to business standards and end-user requirements.
• Participate in walkthrough meetings on the development, or changes within software application systems.
• Develop test plans, test conditions, and test cases used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and product knowledge to ensure they function properly.
• Translate business requirements into testing scenarios to enable testers to effective validate software.
• Interact with Subject Matter Experts SMEs and development teams to identify and refine test requirements.
• Re-test problems to ensure the resolution. Create supporting documentations when problems are resolved.
• Interface with project stakeholders to ensure project quality and customer satisfaction.
• Provide work estimates, in terms of time, and resources.
• Participate in discussions and initiatives in process improvement.

Confidential

SIT/UAT Test Manager

Environment: HP ALM QC, JIRA, Bank TPSS, TPT System

Responsibilities:

• Interface directly with conversion workstream leads, Business and LOB stakeholders, and Partner teams

• Plan and lead the successful completion of Data Migration and Conversion Testing.
• Assist with development of an integrated test plan and testing schedule at the workstream and program level.
• Lead the creation of SIT and UAT test plans and Test Calendars with business approvals.Plan and coordinate the layout of the test phases and test cycles.
• Work with the business teams from the various workstreams through user acceptance testing and validation.
• Managing the third party testing teams FIS Fidelity Information System for the testing deliverables.
• Support the build and release management activities for the testing project.
• Escalate testing defect, problems, and issues to Project Manager and Lead Test Manager for timely resolution.
• Status Reporting to Senior Management team and to PMO/IMO teams.

Confidential

POS QA Lead

Environment: Point of Sales POS , Registers, IBM Controllers 4690, Self-Check-Outs SCO , Ticketmaster, UNIX.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with client business analysts, business users to document the testing scope and functional requirements for the POS testing.
• Responsible for the development and execution of test plans and test cases/scripts.
• CreateTest Strategy document in working closelywith PM, BA and technical leads to ensure the overall approach to SIT and UAT phases of testing.
• Log, retest and close defects in defect tracking system Quality Center.
• Provide direction and leadership to dedicated onshore and off-shore teams.
• Manage the integration tests, SIT, UAT, regression test executions with the testers and provide management reporting on the test results from the Quality Center.

Confidential

SIT/UAT Test Manager

Environment: ETL, DW, BI/BW, Mainframe, DB2, SQL, Toad, UNIX, QMF, IMS, CICS, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, FTP.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall test coordination of the testing projects.
• Develop testing strategies and testing plans, including, functional testing, non-functional testing, regression testing, negative testing, deployment testing, ETL job execution Control M testing, and error handling testing.
• Escalate testing defect, problems, and issues to Project Manager and Lead Test Manager for timely resolution.
• Leading the onshore and offshore team for delivery of the testing.
• Work with business to understand requirements.
• Identify the types of testing and test scenarios to validate capabilities.
• Define and mock-up test data needed to execute testing.
• Work with operations team to coordinate the build of the testing environment for the initiative.
• Develop comprehensive and reusable test cases.
• Facilitate UAT activities with the business team.
• Track defects and report on testing progress and results
• Review the Business Requirements documents and Design documents to develop, document, and execute comprehensive test cases for end-to-end testing of ETL.
• Write SQL to compare and reconcile source and target databases.
• Involved in big data cleaning for daily analyses, queries, and reports for internal analysis.
• Data cleaning to eliminate all data errors and help arriving decision making.
• Perform back-end testing of ETL and b/w the source and target using SQL queries.
• Utilize Quality Center for logging/tracking/resolving defects.

Confidential

Senior Associate QA

Environment: Mobile Simulator, Web Services, API

Responsibilities:

• Write and/or update test plans and test cases execute tests for web and mobile releases.
• Test functionality for each release and communicate issues to development team.
• Identify bugs, prioritize and track issues, and report test results to project / product managers.
• Identify problems in production environment and elevate issues as necessary.
• Monitor releases as well as playing an active role in researching post-release issues.

Confidential

Quality Member

Project Title: Oracle 11i Implementation - ERP Testing

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Oracle Applications Functionality testing on Order Management System OMS ,Warehouse Management System WMS modules and Payrolls.
• Direct and participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools usage.
• Thoroughly tests software to ensure proper operation and freedom from defects.
• Document all problems and work to resolve them. Report progress on problem resolution to management.
• Manage the overall test process for the ERP end-to-end implementation projects.

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance

Project Title: CEI America Jobs Site Web Testing

Environment: Quick Test Pro,ecommerce, HTML, Java, Mainframe, SQL, DB2,BugZilla,

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain existing QTP scripts.
• Experience in utilizing keyword-driven, data-driven, and hybrid framework approaches.
• Ability to create and update Object repositories and specify any object using DP Descriptive Programming .
• Analyze and contribute to further develop of test automation standards/procedures and maintain the adherence to these standards.
• Ability to analyze test results and debug errors during test runs and recommend corrective action.
• Document test results to assist in debugging or modification of test scripts.
• Monitor bug resolution efforts and track issues uncovered by test automation to successful resolution.
• Create system test plan and system test cases, test scenarios, test scripts. Creating manual scripts for performing functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Create and execute the SQL queries for the test validation in mainframe QMF tool.
• Performing system testing and defect reporting through BugZilla tool.
• Conducting the defect review meetings to analyze the defects cause and prevention methods.
• Test metrics collection and lessons learnt documentation.