SUMMARY:

• Looking for a challenging role which will provide a platform to prove my abilities and contribute towards building up my career.
• Overall, 11.5 Years of experience IT - QA.
• Provided domain and technical to the new joiners.
• Determine project estimates (Planning of testing efforts).
• Provide input to testing milestones and Monitor testing progress.
• Attend document reviews and project meetings.
• Prepare detailed test execution plan for Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, UAT Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Conduct review sessions and Finalize Test Plan and Strategy with Project Stakeholders.
• Experience working with iterative, waterfall, and Agile methodologies.
• Design and maintain test cases, test procedures, and test data for all testing functions.
• Expert in project management lifecycle skills, including defining workflows, defining business, functional, and technical requirements documents, detailed project planning, process and data mapping, defining key risks, testing, status monitoring, and issue management.
• Perform application and system testing functions including test data creation, functional, regression, and complete workflow testing and report test results.
• Create Code Quality Report and Weekly Dashboard.
• Manage defect triage process.
• Proven ability to liaise between business/implementation and technology teams and leverage tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Participate in production validation as required (Day/Overnight Installs).
• Ability to work on complex projects and/or multiple project testing efforts concurrently.
• Effectively balanced work on multiple projects, ensuring testing activities complete on time.
• Experience building and nurturing positive working relationships with clients with the intention to exceed client expectations
• Single Point of Contact for customer on the project deliverables and escalations.
• Prepare DSR (Daily Status Report) and WSR (Weekly Status Report).
• Prepare and publish project status reports as per the communication plan defined in test plan.
• Represent QA in Scrum meeting, Scrum or Scrums meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Project Refinement meeting, Product Backlog meeting, Daily Standup meeting and weekly status meetings.
• Preparing and presenting Project level metrics and updates for the Monthly Engagement Report.
• Coordinate between the Onshore and Offshore teams in terms of Work allocation, status reporting, daily progress and issues.
• Monitor project processes and recommend and implement process improvements, where necessary.
• Document UAT approach.
• Develop and manage the overall UAT test plan.
• Obtain signoff from UAT plan from leadership.
• Gather setup requirements for UAT.
• Coordinate and assist in the execution of UAT test cases.
• Load test cases in test tool for execution.
• Orient test participants on the UAT execution, problem reporting and resolution processes.Manages central reposit ory of UAT documents, scripts and materials.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

Environment: Mainframe, SQL Server, Oracle Mantas

QA Test Lead (Manual Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand functional and business requirement documents.
• Preparation and review of Test plan, Test Strategy and estimates.
• Schedule and walk through Test Approach, Test Plan with product/compliance managers.
• Follow-up for getting access to the servers, databases, applications that are required for testing.
• Daily/Weekly activity/project status call with Client Manager.
• Tracking the status of the project by using the Weekly status report.
• Project Metrics update. (Daily/Weekly/Monthly).
• Prepare, execute and review test cases in Smartsheet.
• Conduct Defect review meeting and find the fix date from developer and communicate to project team accordingly.

Confidential, Chicago

Environment: Mainframe, SQL Server, Oracle Mantas

QA Test Lead (Manual Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand functional and business requirement documents.
• Preparation and review of Test plan, Test Strategy and estimates.
• Schedule and walk-through Test Approach, Test Plan with product/compliance managers.
• Follow-up for getting access to the servers, databases, applications that are required for testing.
• Daily/Weekly activity/project status call with Client Manager.
• Tracking the status of the project by using the Weekly status report.
• Effective escalation of risk / issues to the project/Compliance managers.
• Project Metrics update. (Daily/Weekly/Monthly).
• Responsible for test deliverables.
• Prepare, execute and review test cases in Jira.
• Conduct Defect review meeting and find the fix date from developer and communicate to project team accordingly.
• Create and share probable cause report to project team and client Mangers.
• Maintaining test deliverable in share point and Jira.
• Preparation of post-test report and maintain test deliverables as per audit standards.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Environment: Mainframe, SQL Server, Oracle Mantas

QA Test Lead (Manual Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand functional and business requirement documents.
• Preparation and review of Test plan and estimates.
• Schedule and walk through Test Approach, Test Plan, RTM with product/compliance managers.
• Follow-up for getting access to the servers, databases, applications that are required for testing.
• Daily/Weekly activity/project status call with Client Manager.
• Tracking the status of the project by using the Weekly status report.
• Effective escalation of risk / issues to the project/Compliance managers.
• Project Metrics update.
• Responsible for test deliverables.
• Prepare and execute test cases in HP ALM Test plan and Test Lab Modules respectively.
• Conduct Defect review meeting and find the fix date from developer and communicate to project team accordingly.
• Create and share probable cause report to project team and client Mangers.
• Maintaining test deliverable in share point and HP ALM.