SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in working as a QA Lead and Manager.
• 5+ years of Leadership, Onsite/Offshore, and Project Management Experience.
• Over 5 years of QA experience in Banking and Financial sector with proficiency in functional, User Interface, negative, regression, system integration (SIT), acceptance (UAT), browser compatibility, database and automation testing.
• Strong in - depth work experience on Black Box Testing, Back-end testing and Automation testing using QTP 11.
• Skilled in tracking and managing the quality assurance metrics for the project, test planning, writing test strategy, test approach, testing timeline estimation, analyzing the risk for the requirements and chalking out a test plan.
• Strong understanding of the quality assurance methodology and SDLC models.
• Excellent team handling skills.
• Strong in-depth work experience on Black Box Testing, Back-end testing and Automation testing using QTP 11.
• Skilled in tracking and managing the quality assurance metrics for the project, test planning, writing test strategy, test approach, testing timeline estimation, analyzing the risk for the requirements and chalking out a test plan.
• Excellent team handling skills.
• Rich experience of using test management tools like Mercury Quality Centre, version control tool such as VSS
• Functional,, Integration, Regression, Performance, UAT, Smoke, End To End, AT, White Box, Black Box Testing of Web, B2B and Client/Server and Mainframe Applications.
• Experienced in Developing Test Plans, Traceability Matrix, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Results and Reports etc.
• Knowledge in Software Engineering covering Business Requirements, Software Development Process, Software Maintenance, Program Walk-through, Peer Review, Debugging, Quality Assurance & Testing, with exposure to CMM (Capability Maturity Model) standards.
• Communicated effectively with project team members, stakeholders as Onsite co-coordinator.
• Provided defect and test status reports to the project management team and customer periodically
• Database query Language: SQL, PL/SQL
• Good understanding ofSoftware Lifecycle MethodologylikeWaterfall, Incremental & Iterative, Agile-Scrum, quality assurance methodology, Continuous Integration
• Development experience of six months on Mainframe.
• Well equipped with the domain prospective of Banking/Financial Sector with adherence to STLC and SDLC.
• Extensive knowledge in Documentation along with Industrial Standards for test planning, defect prevention and metrics (for project related activities).
• Sound Knowledge of Mainframe development and testing, RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) backend testing.
• Knowledge on QTP and Silk Automation
• Liaise with developers, Clients, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Sound analytical and presentation skills which have helped recognition on a public forum and events (includes both unit level and cultural level initiatives)
• Direct client interaction, offshore management from onsite for more than 6 years

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, C, C++, OOPS

DATABASE: DB2, Oracle 10G, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 , Oracle 9i, MS Access

Tech. /Application Software: QTP, QC, SQL PLUS, EXTRA Personal Client, Rational Clear quest, MS Office 97/2000/XP, Informatica

Platforms: MAINFRAMES, UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP 9.0/11

Languages: Basic SQL, HTML

Microsoft Office: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver CO

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements, and attend use case/requirements walkthroughs for the development of specifications to create detailed test plans.
• Configure test environment, create test data in various environments (QA, Preprod), develop functional and regression manual test cases. Participates in the test case walkthroughs and collects signoff from the Project and Business & Dev team before the start of each release.
• Participates in the QA Kickoff meeting for every cycle.
• Responsible for test execution along with the entire team.
• Providing data to the business.
• Development of SQL-queries for database and backend testing.
• Uses Clear Quest for repository, reporting and tracking bugs, and providing updates on resolved bugs. Escalates issues to developers and verifies fixes.
• Responsible for sending daily status report to the client and attends daily defect report meetings and present bugs raised by the QA team to Business, Project & Dev team.
• Attends weekly status report meeting and presents progress/team updates to Schwab’s QA Manager.
• Creates production test cases and participates in the prod test case walkthroughs for every release.
• Estimates the scope of testing in the production environment and identifies the data and responsible for getting signoff on the scope and data from Business.
• Participates in the production deployment of the release and is responsible for testing in production environment along with the Business.
• Responsible for closing all the bugs verified in the release.

Confidential, Denver CO

Responsibilities:

• QA Lead for the project & manages a group of 15 team members
• Analyze business requirements and testing of functionalities so that the output is correct.
• Review the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and co-ordinate the other planning activities
• Test the backend functionality.
• Testing the outputs produced in the mainframes screens.
• Look into SPUFI for errors
• Generating the output files and placing the corresponding files to NAS Location.
• Assisted in End-to-end testing and coordinated with other applications.
• Testing the Reports generated by the mainframe jobs
• Participate on daily calls with business
• Got many appreciation mails including mail of Project Director from Schwab.
• Worked on Agile methodology using Pega.

Confidential, Denver CO

Responsibilities:

• QA Lead for the project.
• Analyze business requirements and testing of functionalities so that the output is correct.
• Review the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and co-ordinate the other planning activities
• Test the backend functionality.
• Testing the outputs produced in the mainframes screens.
• Generating the output files and placing the corresponding files to NAS Location.
• Assisted in End-to-end testing while the data was to be loaded in dot net.
• Testing the Reports generated by the mainframe jobs
• Participate on daily calls with business
• Got many appreciation mails including mail of Project Director from Schwab.
• Found out good number of Bugs. Got appreciation for the same.

Confidential, Denver CO

Responsibilities:

• Only point of contact from offshore for the first release.
• Analyze business requirements and testing of functionalities so that the output is correct.
• Write the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and co-ordinate the other planning activities
• Test the backend functionality.
• Testing the outputs produced in the mainframes screens.
• Generating the output files and placing the corresponding files to NAS Location.
• Assisted in End-to-end testing while the data was to be loaded in dot net.
• Testing the Reports generated by the mainframe jobs
• Got many appreciation mails including mail of Project Director from Schwab.
• Found out good number of Bugs. Got appreciation for the same.

Confidential, Denver CO

Responsibilities:

• QA Lead from offshore to client location for the project.
• Analyze business requirements and testing of functionalities so that the output is correct.
• Review the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and co-ordinate the other planning activities
• Board meeting with the clients
• Test the backend functionality.
• Testing the outputs produced in the mainframes screens.
• Generating the output files and placing the corresponding files to NAS Location.
• Assisted in End-to-end testing and coordinated with other applications.
• Testing the Reports generated by the mainframe jobs
• Participate on daily calls with business
• Give demo to clients for the application
• Got many appreciation mails including mail of Project Director from Schwab.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in functional testing and end to end testing of Pega application
• Requirement Analysis.
• Responsible for writing validation deliverables such as IQ/OQ, Test Plans, RTM and executing the OQ Test Cases.
• Maintain a test plan document to track the progress of all tasks performed during project lifecycle.
• Manage the complete testing of the project to ensure schedule adherence so as to meet the project timelines.
• Highlight the risk involved in the project during the project lifecycle and work with the project manager to mitigate the risk.
• Work in coordination with the offshore test manager and ensure that test management is done during the offshore time as well.
• Making Test Scenarios, Conditions.