PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior software QA Lead with 12+ years of experience in both Insurance and Trade Finance domain
• Has been a part of Implementing Guidewire Policy Center and Billing center for Auto and Property for multiple provinces and providing support on the maintenance
• Extensive experience on the Billing and Rating on Auto and Property Insurance and have good knowledge on Auto and Property Insurance domain
• Worked on various pay plans and pay modes with various accounting transactions for the Billing system
• Sound Knowledge on Agile Methodologies and all other Life cycle models
• Proven leadership by implementing the QA and QC process and by leading Manual test teams, prioritizing testing tasks and scheduling tasks in accordance with project delivery guidelines and methodology
• Extensive experience in preparing QA estimates, Test strategy, Test plans, Test requirements (Traceability and coverage matrix)
• Hands on Experience on Defect Management process and managing Triaging of E2E defects
• Actively involved in all phases of testing lifecycle (System, SIT and UAT)
• Worked with the end users to create user acceptance test strategies and test scenarios to verify that the system performs the business functions as required
• Experienced in test management tools like JIRA, Quality Center (including administration) for Requirements, Planning and Design & Execution, Defect management, Generating reports and traceability
• Experience in handling the responsibility to report the Testing Status (Status report, Incident report) to Senior Management.
• Managing QA professionals including test leads and senior QA’s (mix of both onsite and offshore)
• 6 years of experience on Trade Finance domain
• Worked on onsite and offshore data model
• Have strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills and ability to master new technologies quickly.
• Proactive and enthusiastic about solving complex problems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: Oracle 10g, SQL server and MS Access

Language: C, C++, Java, UA, Guidewire

Test Management Tools: Quality Center v 11.0, Test Director, JIRA

Operating system: WINDOWS 98/2000/XP, SERVER 2008, Unix

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, JSP and Dream Weaver

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Consultant

Environment: GuidewireDuration

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Rating algorithms of the legacy system and validating it against the Guidewire system.
• Understanding the mapping documents and validating the system tables
• Test creation and execution on the pre - rating variables, premium and transactional validations.
• Testing the Bulk Rating tool to compare the premiums on the existing system and the Guidewire system.
• Estimating the tasks
• Preparing and Reviewing Test scenarios, Test plans and Test cases
• Coordinating with the Business and development teams and getting the work delivered on time
• Collaborate with Senior Program & Project managers to track, follow-up & report daily status.
• Reporting and Validating the Defects using JIRA defect tracking tool
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss the defects
• Performing the Integration and Sanity testing
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings

Confidential

Implementation Lead

Environment: Java, Oracle, Clear Quest v 8.0

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Coordinating the QA team
• Preparing and Reviewing Test scenarios, Test plans and Test cases
• Coordinating with the Business and development teams and getting the work delivered on time
• Collaborate with Senior Program & Project managers to track, follow-up & report daily status.
• Executing the Test cases
• Reporting and Validating the Defects
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss the defects
• Performing the Integration and Sanity testing
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings
• Work closely with various Businesses to provide final sign-off before PROD release.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: UA, Oracle, Quality Center v 11.0

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Coordinating the QA team (Manual and Automation teams)
• Preparing and Reviewing Test scenarios, Test plans and Test cases
• Coordinating with the SQA’s (both onsite and offshore) and getting the work delivered on time
• Collaborate with Senior Program & Project managers to track, follow-up & report daily status.
• Executing the Test cases
• Reporting and Validating the Defects
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss the defects
• Performing the Integration and Sanity testing
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings
• Managing Quality Center activities
• Working closely with 5 component test teams to define iteration deliverables for progressive integration testing.
• Work closely with various Business to provide final sign-off before PROD release.

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: Java, Oracle 9i

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Coordinating the SQA team
• Preparing and validating Test Plan and Test cases
• Executing the Test cases
• Reporting and Validating the Defects
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss the defects
• Performing the Integration and Sanity testing
• Updating the Testing status and attending the Status calls of the onsite counterparts
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings

Confidential

Senior Tester

Environment: Power Builder 7.0, Java and Oracle 9i

Responsibilities:

• Worked with onsite counterparts in understanding the client requirements
• Developed the Functional Design Specification of the new requirement
• Developed the Mockup designs, Web page definitions and Use case Designs
• Preparing the Test plan, Run plan
• Executing the Test cases and conditions
• Reporting the defects and Validating the Defects
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss about the defects
• Performing Regression and Sanity testing
• Updating the testing status to senior members
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings

Confidential

Test Analyst

Environment: Cobol and Oracle 8i

Responsibilities:

• Worked with onsite counterparts in understanding the client requirements
• Coordinating with the Development, Network and Environment team
• Setting up the SIT and UAT Environment
• Preparing the Test plan, Run plan
• Executing the Test cases and conditions
• Reporting the defects and Validating the Defects
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss about the defects
• Performing Regression and Sanity testing
• Updating the testing status to senior members
• Coordination with the UAT team
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings both for SIT and UAT

Confidential

Test Analyst

Environment: JSP, MS Access, Dream Weaver

Responsibilities:

• Worked with onsite counterparts in understanding the client requirements
• Prepared the BRD and FSD
• Developed the Application
• Coordinating with the development team to discuss about the defects
• Performing unit testing
• Updating the Development and testing status to senior members
• Actively involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings