Program Test Lead Resume
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Columbus, OhiO
SUMMARY:
- Harichandana is a Quality Assurance Manager/lead with 10 years of hands on experience in Software Quality Assurance and development. She has managed QA team and processes for large programs at Confidential and Nationwide. Her earlier background as a Developer and Business Analysts has shaped her to be a very effective QA leader who is cognizant about all the phases of Software development and Testing Strategy that has helped Confidential and Nationwide to execute every effective testing teams and processes. Harichandana is an employee of Tata Consultancy Services
- Experienced Quality Assurance Lead with hands on experience in all phases of Software Quality Assurance
- Around 10 Years of experience in Testing, Quality assurance, Requirement Analysis and Development
- Strong P&C Domain Knowledge in Insurance Policy Admin, Mortgage and Data projects
- Experience in Planning, Estimations and Execution of QA and BA activities
- Expertise in defining Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Reports
- Experience in Tracking project risks, issues and dependencies - communicate with relevant stakeholders for resolution/escalations
- Experience includes working in Agile and Waterfall methodologies and managing multiple projects
- Effective in coordinating with multiple project teams, defect tracking to closure, reporting, reviewing and analyzing test result using Quality Center and Star Team
- Experience in both Automation and Manual testing
- Experience in tools such as but not limited to HP Quality Center, Star team, HP Quick Test Professional, Crystal Reports, SQL, Ruby Cucumber
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Insurance and Banking Domain Knowledge | QA Strategy |QA Planning | Estimation | Test Data identification and Management | Execution | Metrics Reporting and Issue Management | Lean/Agile/Waterfall/Iterative | Performance Management, Coaching & Mentoring
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Columbus, Ohio
Program Test lead
Responsibilities:- Develops the overall Master Test Strategy/plan and presents to project and business leaders
- Plans and ensures all stages of testing are on time and within budget
- Manage risks and dependencies
- Oversees the defect management process and defect reporting
- Supports the creation and management of risk scores and the Testing Risk Book
- Manage end-to-end testing with Nationwide dependency teams and any testing done with Telematics vendors
- Provides support for User Acceptance testing (UAT)
- Accountable for creation and reporting of comprehensive Overall Testing Status to project stakeholders
- Attend gate reviews, and release reviews
- Onboarding of Project test leads, and defining roles and responsibility
- Create and maintain lessons learnt and best practices
- Mentor and Coach the team
QA Lead
Confidential, San Antonio, Texas
Responsibilities:- Develop Project/Release Test strategy
- Project/Release Test Planning and estimating
- Software testing requirements gathering and Impact Analysis - JAD Sessions
- Creating the dependency matrix across projects to track change movement
- Preparation of Integration test plan, System Test Plan Creation using HP Quality Center, QC)
- Test plan and Test Case Creation and Review
- Test Data Creation
- Manage Test Execution including Regression testing, Functional testing and automation testing
- Conducting defect meeting and escalating issues as needed
- Validating the integration to downstream and upstream applications
- Defect Reporting and Root cause analysis for defects using Star Team
- Responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
Business Analyst
Confidential, San Antonio, Texas
Responsibilities:- Requirement Gathering and Documentation and Gap Analysis
- Creating Requirement Management artifacts like Functional Specification, Work flow and Process flow, Use Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
- Organizing and leading Joint Application Design sessions (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP).
- Preparation of Business Scenarios and Test Scenarios developing Use case diagram, Flow Charts and Sequence diagrams using Microsoft Visio
- Organizing and leading, requirement review, walkthrough to Development and Testing teams
Developer
Confidential, San Antonio, Texas
Responsibilities:- Development of application business logic using Q++ and C++ and SQL codes per requirements
- Involved in preparation of design strategy documents for all the impacted methods and for new functionality.
- Prepare the Low-level design for server components and Business Task Manager Framework (BTM).
- Development of uniform rule contexts and attribute subroutines using the INFREX (Rules Engine)
- Involved in the development of Unit Test plan, execution of Unit testing and defect fixing
