SUMMARY

• Twelve years of experience in software quality discipline with commercial business - oriented software applications. Versatile domains experience which includes 7 years of experience in Retail banking, Investment banking (Prime Brokerage/Trading and Regulatory Reporting, market risks) applications. Almost 1 year of experience in Health care domain - Confidential, 2+ year (in S & P Ratings -Capital) and almost 2 years in Insurance (Teachers Retirement System - NY city agency).
• Certified Scrum Master and SAFE 5.0 Agilist. Experienced in Managing and Coordinating the test team and take the responsibility for Requirement reviews, Requirement traceability matrix, analyze the design, Test plan, Project estimation, scope definition of a project and Co-ordination with onsite /offshore resources.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements Analysis, Design, Improve, Testing and Implementation.
• Well versed with End-to-End, Component testing, System Integration testing(SIT), Functional testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), Adhoc testing, smoke testing, Sanity testing, Data Security Testing, white/black box testing and Orthogonal Array Testing.
• Proficient in working in V-model, Waterfall, Agile testing methodologies.
• Experience in Automation testing using QTP/UFT, VB scripting and writing SQL queries.
• Expert in using Test Management and Bug Reporting tools such as Confidential, QA portal, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), Confidential, MTM, TFS. Azure and JIRA.
• Experience in Compliance and Cross Data Security Testing (JPM).
• Experience in analyzing, understanding the Designing Software Application, Preparing and Executing Test strategies for Stand-alone window-based application, Client/Server -Database applications, Web based Applications, Pega Applications and Mainframe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Confidential QC/ALM, Confidential QTP/UFT, JIRA, TFS, Confidential Test Manager, Confidential, Selenium trained, Visual Studio, Azure Devops, Java trained.

Database: Mainframe databases- Confidential DB2,SQL Server

Languages: HTML,VB Scripting

SDLC Methodologies: V Model, Waterfall model, Agile Methodology

Others: MS Office, Banking, Test Resource Estimation and Management, Handling PPDs, Putty/Unix, Toad.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handling multiple end to end SIT projects which are Pension verification, EFT failures, Benefits Terminations and Pension restoration.
• Co-ordinating with cross-vendor Development teams and Solution architect team.
• Mentoring, managing and coordinating QA resources from sprint teams, SIT team, automation and performance team. Provide estimates and roadmap to upper management and clients.
• Provide feature overview to power users and support User acceptance testing as and when required.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies such as PI planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review /Retrospective etc.
• Review/Create Test strategy for the scrum teams and SIT projects with the identified automation scope.
• Prepare and Provide governance reports for the senior leadership on a monthly basis.
• Playing role of Scrum Master whenever required.

Confidential

Functional Lead/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities includes and is not limited testing simplify application and validate the ratings generated by it. This includes validation of upstream data to generate the ratings.
• Come up with Test strategy for the Epic, before the stories are finalized and tracked on Confidential for the sprints.
• Responsible for the Agile team smooth functioning and conclusion of weekly tasks order.
• Identifying the automation candidate scripts and transition knowledge to automation team as well.
• Scheduling daily/weekly walkthrough with stakeholders and product owners to accept the stories, which are successfully developed and tested.

Confidential, New Jersey

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attending meetings with stakeholders and users in order to understand the new requirements for any new reports, which are on boarded, to the GCRS portal.
• Working on client specific tools/boxes such as Entitlement control (known as kops), UNIX server boxes to connect/run batches of reports. Validating GCRS reports with backend database using SQL.
• Assisting the automation/manual resources with regression suite maintenance (ALM) and automation scripts execution (QTP/UFT). Updating the automation scripts if required.
• Performing Security Testing (CDS-Cross data Security/contamination) for various reports as and when required.
• Validation of weekend releases in production after deployment, closure of ITSM (IT service management) tickets after attaching/reviewing for respective JIRA/project items/enhancements in the tickets.

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Working with BA’s to finalize requirement documents and approving it prior to QA.
• Working with my offshore with test execution by working on ALM, Web validation on front end and Rumba (Mainframe), DB2 etc as and when required.
• Creating/Registering members/ Confidential on QA environment, checking for their claims, refills and eligibility. Granting PA’s (prior authorization) to specific members on web QA as and when required. Suggest Design Changes and Process Improvements wherever possible.
• Identifying projects related to MOP (Mail order Pharmacy), DoD (Department of Defense enrolment), EHD (Exclusive home delivery) and allocating the right resources.

Older Projects: Below are the few older projects which I worked on during my initial phases of career.

Confidential

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• JPM TE(Teller Express) Application is a front end windows based application which is used on day to day basis by Chase Tellers for handling all major window transactions from Customers end, such as Deposit, Cash Pay, Multi Cash Pay, Payments, Buy/Sell from Vault, Foreign Exchange/Currency rates, Account transfer, Account Inquiry etc.