SUMMARY:

• More than 10+ years of diverse experience as a QA lead, QA Analyst, Onsite coordinator and UAT coordinator for Financial, Insurance and Retail clients.
• Outstanding leadership abilities. Prior track record of setting up, coordinating and directing all phases of project based efforts while managing, motivating and leading onshore - offshore project teams. Supervised team of 4- 12 in handling all planning, budgeting, scheduling and delivery of IT projects rollouts.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and results driven environment with tight deadlines. Excellent in organizational, multitasking and prioritizing skills.
• Experience in using Java/J2EE in Web Testing in different application.
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automating applications
• Experience in using Eclipse IDE- Cucumber Test Automation.
• Manage / execute end-to-end Internal UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Perform gap analysis against test cases, business workflows, and business / functional requirements.
• Responsible for facilitating Test environment and test data during UAT, QA and Automation.
• More than 8 years of experience in delivering projects, leading teams, working on client facing engagements.
• More than 8 years’ experience managing onsite/offshore delivery model.
• Test Organization management including staffing,, motivating team building, supervising, assessing teams and individual’s performance.
• Involved in preparing testing tools such as Estimation tool, Capacity planner, Effort estimator, RSI. Preparing reports such as effort variance, schedule variance, PPI, SCM issues. Created a framework (metrics, process, checklist, and so on) that measured a Project against quality goals; Project Closure report.
• Experience in various Automation Tools, with QTP and QC tools, leading test Automation Projects, end to end experience in test Automation initiatives, Functional / Regression test Automation, concept design, framework definition, with leading a team
• Define, update and communicate Master Test Calendar to PMO.
• Analysis on the various reasons for SLA breach in the project and work towards achieving 90% on time index across all systems.
• Worked for US clients like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, E* Confidential, Confidential, Confidential .
• Worked for UK clients like Confidential, Confidential .
• Test Project Management and delivery Management, test planning (release, iteration) estimation, resource allocation, identification of roles and responsibilities and communicating test program status to management.
• Test Process management entailing process definition, documentation and constantly review and improve process to make it faster, integrated, repeatable and reliable.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP, Winrunner, Eclipse IDE, Maven, GIT. Web Technologies: XML, HTML, CSS, Java, Struts

Database Tools: TOAD, SQL Advantage, PL/SQL Developer.

Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Caliber, Microsoft Project Plan, Rational Clear Quest.

Operating System:: UNIX, Windows XP, OS/390

Exposure to Languages: Java and Shell scripting.

Front Office Trading Tools: Long View Trading system (LVTS), Charles River IMS (CRD), Bloomberg

Execution Management Tools: Triton, Newport Instinet, FX Connect, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Redi Plus

Mainframe Technologies: TSO/ISPF, CICS, OS/390, AS/400, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Develop feature files (automation test scripts in cucumber) and execute those aligning fixtures.
• Writing Test Scenarios based on Stories.
• Functional Test Automation by using Selenium.
• Mentor and lead QA resources for Market Data team.
• Production checkout of Market Data related projects with other exchanges such as S & P, CBOT, Dow Jones, PUMA etc.
• Conduct Defect Triage meetings. Sending Daily and weekly testing status reports.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using JIRA.
• Work with Development team and implement ATDD approach using Cucumber automation framework.

Confidential, LA, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop Project plan, assign resources, scheduling, budget adjustments and manage QA support by taking overall responsibility for one or more testing areas in terms of plans, Revenue, Profitability and Cost Management.
• Test Plan development, Test case Development, Test execution, Defect reporting and conducting defects Triage meetings.
• Designs, executes, monitors, and troubleshoots HP QTP automated tests in a variety of situations and conditions.
• Manage / execute end-to-end Internal UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and client testing.
• Perform gap analysis against test cases, business workflows, and business / functional requirements
• Responsible for facilitating Test environment and test data during UAT, QA and Automation.
• Managed third party providers, off-shore resources or other teams responsible for implementation activities, such as QA, configuration, connectivity, data mapping, etc.
• Conduct Defect Triage meetings. Circulate Daily, Weekly and Monthly testing status reports.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center.

Environment: Charles River IMS (CRD); Java / J2EE, JBoss, Net Beans, FIX 4.2, Bloomberg.

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Typical tasks involved investigating reconciliation breaks, Confidential booking and ledger queries, job failures and general queries and problem ownership through to completion. Writing SQL queries for analysis and testing purpose.
• Support the entire test and process, getting involved early in the product development cycle and managing through product launch -Analyze and design comprehensive test plan and test implementation strategies.
• Worked in FIX Orders Messaging connectivity tests
• Developing test data using CRD and LVTS as order management systems.
• Lead client facilitation meetings to gather requirements (Inception phase), there after Analysis & Design of test architecture ensuring successful deployment and maintenance.
• Interacted with DBAs, Developers, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers during testing and isolated bottlenecks at different levels.
• Testing Confidential algorithms, pre and post Confidential compliance rules.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center.

Environment: .NET, Windows Server 2005, SQL Server 2005, FIX 4.2. Java / J2EE, JBoss, Net Beans, Fix engine Appia, Eagle PACE, PACE Restriction system, CRD, LVTS, MUREX and Actuate Reports.

Confidential, San Jose

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with the client, gathering requirements from business and writing requirements.
• Leading QA team during production deployments from offshore.
• Execute Perl and shell scripts for test data preparation and facilitate testing.
• Closely monitored offshore progress in line with Project and QA Plans.
• Timely escalation of issues to the relevant team for immediate action.
• Closely monitored team during performance of Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of the application.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center.
• Prepared daily status reports and published for all the audience involved in the project.
• Attended weekly project meetings with core team
• Sign off the QA releases
• Team Management. Resource and Task planning
• Testing Confidential algorithms, pre and post Confidential compliance rules.
• Perform Solution Design Reviews, Attending Construction Peer Reviews.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Emphasizes customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of new templates, process and procedures for testing services.
• Administration of Test Director for Test Execution reporting and defect tracking.
• Executing and managing QTP scripts while performing regression testing.
• Online job execution / Batch job execution.
• Anticipate potential software problems by creating exhaustive test scenarios that ensure comprehensive testing.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, CICS, OS/390, AS/400, DB2.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Batch Jobs execution, monitoring and troubleshooting in QA environments.
• Writing Test Plans, Test cases for complex trading systems. Defect analysis and monitoring.
• Test data Management, Defect management, Estimation of Test cases and efforts,
• Capture effort spend, Escalation of Issues, negotiation with customers.
• Team Lead for offshore operation; Responsible for deliverables, managing the team, status reports, knowledge transfer.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform Test Automation using QTP 9.0
• Understood QTP Automation framework and folder structure.
• Responsible for developing QTP scripts based on manual test cases.
• Raised defects using QC and kept track of them.
• As an Analyst my job provided me to gain a holistic view of Business function along with experience in a global context. The defects that were monitored or reported by me were function of a client's business needs and the prevailing level of service agreements, subject to Clients requirements and Priorities.
• Handled Metrics for SQA activates for PQI Audit.

Environment: J2EE, Struts, Weblogic 1.4, Tomcat, Oracle 8i.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases to ensure relevance to requirement specifications
• Track the status of all issues by preparing open issue reports for weekly team meetings to ensure issues are addressed and closed
• Responsible for developing test scripts using Win Runner and involved in regression testing by executing the automation test scripts.
• Analyzed user requirement document and developed test plans, which included the objectives, testing strategies, test environment and others.
• Managing QA environment and set-up.
• Participated in bug tracking and reporting.
• Investigated and documented software & Output faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, VB Script, JavaScript, SQL.Server, XML, IIS, People Soft.