SUMMARY:

• Senior QA Project Lead with an exposure to cutting edge technology where I can effectively utilize 9 Years of experience in testing, certifying, supporting, improving and delivering secure and innovative applications, software's and solutions that have driven revenue and profitability.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum, Water Fall and Iterative Model.
• Subject Matter Expert in banking & financial and Life & Insurance Domain.
• Experience in Validation, Acceptance, Conformance, Compatibility, Functional, Integration, Regression, GUI, Back - end, Smoke and BPM Testing.
• Experience in the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) life cycle from requirements gathering to releasing to production.
• Experience in all phases of Software Testing Lifecycle with expertise in the Integration and Functional, User Interface, Regression testing and Smoke Testing.
• Experience in Creating test strategy, test plan, matrix and QA project estimates.
• Application and Software testing in multitier infrastructures; including concepts of black box, negative, boundary, scalability, stress, functional, system, integration, E2E, regression, Penetration and UAT.
• Experience in analyzing business specification documents, developing test plans, Requirement Traceability Matrix and defining test cases.
• Experience analyzing test results and communicating via Bug tracking systems.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting Tools like HP Quality Center/APPM.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong problem solving skills and a result oriented attitude.
• Keen attention to detail/accuracy and ability to function in a stressful environment.
• Ideas exhibiting a “can do” attitude and seeing problems “solvable.”
• Extensively involved in testing Client/Server and Web applications.
• Experience in Windows operating systems.
• Good knowledge in Six Sigma, SEI-CMM, ISO standards.
• Experience as QA Analyst, Business Tester and onsite/offshore coordination.
• Strong working knowledge on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in scrum, requirements gathering, testing status, defect tracking and test strategy/Plan meetings with BA, Users, Product Managers and Developers with presentation of PPT, Spreadsheets and graphs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Verticals: Banking & Finance and Life & Insurance

Operating System: Windows 95/97/2000/NT/Vista/Citrix and UNIX

Database: Sybase and DB2

Defect Tracking: HP QC/ALM, MKS (version control), APPM, and Clear Quest

Automation Tools: QTP 11.5 /UFT

Tools: & Software:Version control: VSS, MKS Integrity Client. Other tools: APPM, Service Now ticket management, Rapid SQL 7.6.1, Putty, Confidential compare Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Soap UI and BPM Share Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Senior QA Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed QA Project Road Map.
• Coordinate the day to day activities of Functional, Automation, Performance, UAT, BPM Migration test phases with emphasis on collaboration with Business stake holders, Dev team, Release Team and Support team to deliver project on time.
• Create a cross team testing calendar (by business day) to expose the required test activities on a daily/weekly projection. This will serve as a road map in test planning to ensure data, environments, resources and tools are available proactively.
• Developed Project Plan & Strategy, Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Estimation.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements with end-users and product specialists.
• Established Test Environment and Test Data set up for both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Involved in Development of Test automation framework and Developed automation suite for regression testing
• Allocate and set up offshore team as per the Onsite/project requirement.
• Work as QA lead and scrum master.
• Manage and maintain Test environment, Installation, HW/SW resource requirements at offshore, database connectivity between onsite and offshore on high priority.
• Understand and involve in extensive interaction with onsite counterpart on BRS/SRS - prepared and provided by client/onsite cordinator.
• Create knowledge transition plan for offshore team, implement and measure effectiveness on regular intervals.
• Review of Manual Test scenarios and Test cases prepared by Offshore and Onshore teams and get approvals from the Business teams Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to other team members.
• Performed Functional and Penetration testing of the product using black box testing.
• Ensure adherence to testing best practices and database testing (Store procedure testing, performance and data validation testing).
• Collaborate with other Finance test teams on ensure test coverage between organizations meets expectations and expose gaps expeditiously.
• Performed E2E & Integration testing.
• Debug and investigate defects to determine root cause as well as manage expectations for daily metrics of test execution and defect.
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Signed of the projects and Involved in the production release process then support to production support teams.
• Managing automation work with coordination of offshore team members and represent savings to customers.

Environment: sFunctional Testing, UAT, BPM Migration Testing and Web services Testing..Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services/Soap UI,BPM, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Senior QA Project Lead cum Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed QA Project Road Map for CCAR and Dodd Frank Act Stress test to implement in the efficient way.
• Coordinate the day to day activities of SIT and UAT test phases with emphasis on collaboration with Business stake holders, Dev team, Release Team and Support team to deliver project on time.
• Create a cross team testing calendar (by business day) to expose the required test activities on a daily/weekly projection. This will serve as a road map in test planning to ensure data, environments, resources and tools are available proactively.
• Developed Project Plan & Strategy, Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Estimation.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements with end-users and product specialists.
• Established Test Environment and Test Data set up for both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Involved in Development of Test automation framework and Developed automation suite for regression testing
• Allocate and set up offshore team as per the Onsite/project requirement.
• Work as QA lead and scrum master.
• Manage and maintain Test environment, Installation, HW/SW resource requirements at offshore, database connectivity between onsite and offshore on high priority.
• Understand and involve in extensive interaction with onsite counterpart on BRS/SRS - prepared and provided by client/onsite cordinator.
• Create knowledge transition plan for offshore team, implement and measure effectiveness on regular intervals.
• Review of Manual Test scenarios and Test cases prepared by Offshore and Onshore teams and get approvals from the Business teams Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to other team members.
• Performed Functional and Penetration testing of the product using black box testing.
• Ensure adherence to testing best practices and database testing (Store procedure testing, performance and data validation testing).
• Collaborate with other Finance test teams on ensure test coverage between organizations meets expectations and expose gaps expeditiously.
• Performed E2E & Integration testing.
• Debug and investigate defects to determine root cause as well as manage expectations for daily metrics of test execution and defect.
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Signed of the projects and Involved in the production release process then support to production support teams.
• Managing automation work with coordination of offshore team members and represent savings to customers.

Environment: Functional Testing, Penetration testing, Regulatory Report Testing, Automation Testing, Data Masking Testing, Interface Testing, BPM and Web services Testing. .Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services/Soap UI,BPM, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the day to day activities of SIT and UAT test phases with emphasis on collaboration with Business stake holders, Dev team, Release Team and Support team to deliver project on time.
• Developed Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Estimation.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements with end-users and product specialists.
• Established Test Environment and Test Data set up for both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Involved in Development of Test automation framework and Developed automation suite for regression testing
• Allocate and set up offshore team as per the Onsite/project requirement.
• Manage and maintain Test environment, Installation, HW/SW resource requirements at offshore, database connectivity between onsite and offshore on high priority.
• Understand and involve in extensive interaction with onsite counterpart on BRS/SRS - prepared and provided by client/onsite cordinator.
• Create knowledge transition plan for offshore team, implement and measure effectiveness on regular intervals.
• Review of Manual Test scenarios and Test cases prepared by Offshore and Onshore teams and get approvals from the Business teams Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to other team members.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Performed database testing (Store procedure testing, performance and data validation testing).
• Performed E2E & Integration testing.
• Debug and investigate defects to determine root cause.
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Signed of the projects and Involved in the production release process.
• Managing automation work with coordination of offshore team members and represent savings to customers.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

QA Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Estimation.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements with end-users and product specialists.
• Allocate and set up offshore team as per the Onsite/project requirement.
• Manage and maintain Test environment, Installation, HW/SW resource requirements at offshore, database connectivity between onsite and offshore on high priority.
• Understand and involve in extensive interaction with onsite counterpart on BRS/SRS - prepared and provided by client/onsite cordinator.
• Create knowledge transition plan for offshore team, implement and measure effectiveness on regular intervals.
• Reviewed the test cases with offshore team members and signed-of the test cases.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to other team members.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Performed database testing (Store procedure testing, performance and data validation testing).
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Debug and investigate defects to determine root cause.
• Performed E2E & Integration testing.
• Signed of the projects and Involved in the production release process.

Environment: Functional Testing, Data Migration Testing using SQL Queries, Test Data Generation. .Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases and Testing Estimation.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements with end-users and product specialists.
• Prepare Test estimation and test strategy .
• Allocate and set up offshore team as per the Onsite/project requirement.
• Manage and maintain Test environment, Installation, HW/SW resource requirements at offshore, database connectivity between onsite and offshore on high priority.
• Understand and involve in extensive interaction with onsite counterpart on BRS/SRS prepared and provided by client/onsite cordinator.
• Create knowledge transition plan for new offshore team member, implement and measure effectiveness on regular intervals.
• Prepartion and reviewing of test cases.
• Reviewing and signing of the test cases with client.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Performed database testing (Nightly Jobs and store procedure testing).
• Performed E2E & Integration testing.
• Debug and investigate defects to determine root cause.
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.

Environment: s:Functional Testing, E2E and Regression Testing .Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and gathered business requirements and functional specifications.
• Prepared test cases and reviewed with on-site coordinators.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to team members.
• QA representation in Design walkthroughs.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Database testing (data migration and data validity testing).
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Prepared weekly status reports, held follow-up meetings on complex outstanding issues and QA dashboards.
• Involved in internal and external auditing.

Environment: Functional Testing, Data Migration Testing using SQL Queries, Test Data Generation . .Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential

QA Project Team senior Member

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and gathered business requirements and functional specifications.
• Prepared test cases and reviewed with on-site coordinators.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to team members.
• QA representation in Design walkthroughs.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Database testing (data migration and data validity testing).
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Prepared weekly status reports, held follow-up meetings on complex outstanding issues and QA dashboards.
• Involved in internal and external auditing.

Environment: Functional Testing, Data Migration Testing using SQL Queries, Test Data Generation. .Net, VB, Spring, Hibernate, Java script, XML, XSL, Web Services, JAVA, Sybase, Windows XP, JAXB, Rapid SQL, Visual Studio .NET, PUTTY, OPAS, MKS Integrity, Confidential Compare, RAD, WAS, Jboss.

Confidential

QA Project Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and gathered business requirements and functional specifications.
• Prepared test cases and reviewed with on-site coordinators.
• Allocated and supervised tasks to team members.
• QA representation in Design walkthroughs.
• Performed functional testing of the product using black box testing.
• Database testing (data migration and data validity testing).
• Planned and executed regression test cycles and UAT with end-users.
• Prepared weekly status reports, held follow-up meetings on complex outstanding issues and QA dashboards.
• Involved in internal and external auditing.