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CHETTIAR

13 years of increasing responsibility in software quality assurance and testing with a proven track record of delivery, strong strategic vision and demonstrated ability to inspire/mentor/manage QA teams and its activities in the geographically dispersed companies
Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements with effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams. Delivered projects under high pressure and stringent timelines, outstanding ability to manage impact analysis, risk analysis, cost and effort estimation. Rich experience in Waterfall, Spiral and Agile methodologies. Managed team strength of 40 plus offshore, near shore and onsite . Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent travel, meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the clients organization.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Industries: Banking, Health Care, Media Entertainment, Insurance
Databases: Oracle8.0, MS Access, MS SQL
Languages/ Technologies and tools used: Java, J2EE, ERP, HTML, JDBC, JavaScript, JSP, VB, VB Script, .net, Web logic, Web sphere, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Jira, Rational Quality Manager, Clear Quest, WinRunner, Web logic, Web sphere.
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT

ENGAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Confidential

SR QA Consultant

Global test manager and POC for the Test Data Management TDM team for the application 'Consumer Experience Desktop' CED involving multiple modules Softphone testing, IVR testing, Claims Overpayment Recovery. Responsible for day to day tracking of the testing efforts of TCoE projects executed from near shore and offshore with team strength of 40 . Creating daily defect metrics and dashboards, host the status call on the same which involves 15 different departments with an audience of 100 . Responsible for tracking testing progress, controlling fixed bid costs, Risk Based Testing RBT approaches and strategies. Part of 'Go-No Go decision' team for providing testing approvals and signoffs. Tracking 'Performance Index Factor' of TCoE and elevate performance where necessary.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsible for creating test strategies, cost Estimation for POS projects, planning for mainframe migration projects, and acting as an integration lead for the SAP project- Mosaic. Implemented best practices /process and provided organization wide test strategy, implemented scientific method of effort estimation techniques.

Confidential

Role : Senior Manager - QA

Responsibilities

Ramped up the testing functional and automation QTP TCoE team at onsite and offshore, delivered effort estimation and planning for the Agile methodology, provided the test Strategy for the overall project, determined milestone deliverables, communicate changes to schedule, Determines impact of schedule changes on quality objectives, Coordinates schedule with dependent groups, determine effective quality metrics, Establish quality criteria / release criteria, synchronize schedules, set expectations and establish service level agreements SLA , Escalate issues with internal tools, recognize any changes necessary to existing processes and take a lead role locally in ensuring that the changes are made and adequately communicated to other users, map quality measurements to Customer satisfaction goal, accountable for Setting up the QA environment in coordination with customer infrastructure teams.

Confidential

Project : Star Basel II Data warehouse Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

Onsite coordinator /Assistant Manager of QA. Worked closely with Client for test strategy, planning, interaction on various issues of enhancement, maintenance and support of Data ware house project run on Informatica ETL, created Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Executing the same, bug detection assigning the bugs, tracking the bugs to closure in Quality Center 8.0, supported the Development Team to Fix the Bug by providing the necessary details of Bug and its Scenario, focused mainly on Month end processes Created Mock data and test scenarios for Aggregation and Reconciliation in SIT .Responsible for Front to Back Testing, Reverse engineering testing, Top Down testing, Bottom up testing, smoke testing and Security testing in. Got appreciation twice from senior management for the coordination and successful testing of Adjustments module, FX conversions, Data aggregation and Data reconciliation.