• Quality Assurance (QA) Test lead with morethan 11 years of total experience in IT systems and applications. I have also worked in the roles of Quality Assurance (QA) Tester and as a System Analyst.
• 3+ years experience as QA Test Lead in addition to 5+ years as QA Test Analyst/ Tester having core expertise in designing, devising test plan/ strategy, creation of the test scenarios, coordination and the overall execution of all levels of testing such asSystem, Integration, User Acceptance and Implementation testing.
• Experience with Backend Testing and Test Data creation / Test result validation by running SQL queries
• 4+ years experience in Test Management tools-IBM Rational ClearQuest, TRAC and HP Quality center.
• Experience in different types of testing such asperformance, exploratory testingfor projects on different platforms likeJ2EE, Windows, UNIX, Websphere and Mainframe and SOA based technologies.
• Experience withSelenium Automationusing WebDriver and Server.
• Experience withHP QTP Automationusing VB Script and Descriptive Programming.
• Team Player/ Leader- Acted as a liaison between Test Team, Technical and Business Analyst team.
• Experience in handling / mentoring / training test teams
• Manage workload through HP Service Manager Requests, Change and Tasks
• Worked on documentation, Communication and Process improvements.
• Experience working in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Worked in Complex, Dynamic, Onsite-Offsite teams with projects environments using Agile/ SCRUM / Waterfall methodologies.
• Among the business verticals, I have worked in manufacturing, Retail, Finance and Insurance.

Technical Skills:

Hardware:IBM 3090, OS390Operating Systems:

MVS/ESA, MS Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Servers - Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Unix AIX, HPUX, Linux

Languages:

COBOL, Java - jdk 1.3, J2ME, ADSO, Client Sided Scripting like HTML, DHTML and JavaScript. Server Sided Scripting like ASP, Servlet, and JSP

Databases:

IDMS/R, DB2 10.x, Oracle 7.1 with Forms 3.0, MS Access, SQL, PostGres

other Skills:

JCL, CICS, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, VSAM, EZYTRIEVE, BMC

Servers:

WebSphere 6.1, JBoss 5.0, Apache, MS-IIS 6.0, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Tomcat

METHODOLOGIES:

SCRUM - AGILE Methodologies, Change/ Problem/ Incident Management, Method/1

TEST TOOLS:

WinRunner, Test Director, IBM Rational Clearquest, HP Quality Center, Trac, Testlink, QTP, Selenium

TOOLS AND Utilities:

Adsalive, Xpediter, File Aid, MF Revolve, CA-7, QMF, $avers, Jobtrac, Changeman , Control-M, Control D, BLDISS, ISSTAT, EJES, BMCDB2, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager, Filenet, Sharepoint., Lotus Notes, Splunk

Education:

B.E (Electronics)

Certifications:

• Completed 35 hours of project management training through a PMP workshop for PMP certification
• Dale Carnegie Course Effective Communication and Human Relations - Nov 07
• Java Proficiency Certificate Certificate on extensive Professional training on Java mapped to SL275 (SCJP) exam and J2ME, which is mapped to J2ME Certification August 05
• Certificate in WinRunner/ Test Director Course June 05

Workshop:

• “Towards Excellence through Self-Renewal” - December 08

Forum:

• Introduction to Kepner Tregoe Decision Making process
• Attended training on Acceptance Test Driven Development.

Employment History:

Employment #1:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL 01/06 till date

Client: Confidential,

Job Title: QA Test Lead / QA Analyst Job Description

• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts in understanding business requirements and converted those requirements into functional, system, performance and UAT test specifications/scenarios.
• Ensured adequate and comprehensive testing is planned and completed for the various levels of testing within a project.
• Designed test plans and executed test scripts/cases for various web based applications on J2EE platform, SOA technologies and non web based applications on host Mainframe.
• Job duties also included coordination, building team/ resource augmentation, procurement of other resources such as test environments, test data, test ids.
• Created test summary report on the defects logged and resolved in IBM Rational ClearQuest, TRAC and HP Quality center.
• Assigned testing tasks to team and perform end to end testing.
• Generated Return on Investment (ROI) by Developing Test Automation scripts to test a whole range of Test ids using Selenium
• Gathered requirements to develop, automate, monitor and support Control-M schedules for job execution.
• Responsible for the function coordination with diverse teams onsite and offshore.
• Trained and mentored testers on Testing and Defect Management processes
• Lead, maintain and transition Strategic and Tactical projects Efforts like Resource Forecasting that helped with forecasting work and hour estimations for upcoming projects.
• Provide leadership to team on Change, Problem and Incident Management processes on day to day basis.
• Diagnose and trouble-shoot security, connection, and related data information issues of created ID’s, data, and web-based applications.
• Manage workload through HP Service Manager Requests, Change and Tasks

Employment #2:

Confidential,Maharashtra, India 07/02 09/02 Accenture Windsor, CT, USA 09/02 02/04

Client: Confidential,
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer /Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst

Job Description

• Analyzed business and system requirements, including impact analyses on existing systems to develop test case, test strategy, test plan
• Tested new and/or existing COBOL/DB2 programs as per technical specifications.
• Provided systems expertise input, including system dependencies and grouping of items for a release
• Collaborated with Subject Matter Experts to develop technical specifications, implement business solutions and resolve problems.
• Provided system software support for the client’s COBOL/DB2/JCL/CICS applications and components which adhered to the client’s technical architecture and other system standards with help of Savers (ABEND solving tool) and INFOPAC and OPC job scheduler.
• Monitored tickets through Peregrine and ensure timely closure of the same adhering to the Service Level Agreements.
• Planned and coordinated all aspects of test effort to provide client with the test estimates and schedules.
• Coordinated with offshore and work with them as a team.
• Communicated with various groups such as Printing Group, OPC and DBA from the client’s side and helped expedite certain tasks not attainable from offshore.
• Accepted requests from the Product Group - manipulated/ formatted data using QMF (a GUI based DB2 query tool)/EZYTRIEVE and present it in form of a file or report.

Employment #3:

Confidential, Maharashtra, India 05/00 10/00, 02/01 07/02 Syntel UK Ltd Brighton, UK 10/00 02/01

Client: Confidential,

Job Title: Programmer Analyst Job Description

• Analyzed business and system requirements of UCRS system, including impact analyses on existing systems, to develop systems specifications
• Built new COBOL and/or modified existing COBOL/ DB2/CICS programs using tools like Changeman and File-Aid to meet systems and design specifications including program/module design, coding and unit/system testing and review. Debugged modified COBOL programs using Expediter.
• Created jobs using JCL (Job Control Language) to run the above programs.
• Resolved query resolutions for the team members.
• Identified, developed and provided test related training needs to the team and provided feedback on testability of business requirements.
• Designed, built (code development, testing - unit, system, UAT), monitored and control the test execution and defect resolution and implementation.
• Prepared system test data and verified system test results including regression checks.
• Provided testing strategy, tool expertise and direction by coaching throughout the project lifecycle on testing methodology.
• Performed Disaster Recovery tests at onsite using tools like JOBTRAC.
• Maintained a log of the entire course of the test.

Employment #4:
Confidential, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 01/98 10/99
Client: Confidential,
Job Title: Software Engineer

Job Description

• Built new COBOL and/or modify existing COBOL, IDMS/R and ADSO programs to meet systems and design specifications including program coding, and unit testing. Debugged modified ADSO,IDMS/R programs using ADSALIVE.
• Actively participated in a team as a part of an indigenous Y2K team for making the system century compliant.
• Responsible for identifying, coding and testing of non-compliant programs
• Developed and maintained systems documentation such as description of application operations and methodology documentation.

Employment #5:
Confidential, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 03/94 12/97
Job Title: Hardware Engineer

Job Description

• Build and service/ Test microprocessor based emulators