PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of IT/QA Testing experience with Confidential . 
• Extensive experience in Quality Analysis, Business Analysis, Database testing and Big data testing. Strong experience in eliciting, analyzing, and documenting testing critical artifacts.
• Critical and analytical thinker with business acumen and technical aptitude
• Excellent written, communication, interpersonal, multi - task skills, proven QA Team Lead/Test Lead and team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
• Extensive testing experience and application/technology knowledge in several areas including Web, Database testing, Client/Server and mainframes.
• Extensive experience in Systems testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Manual testing, Automated testing, Big Data testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.
• Specialized in development of Project Estimations, Forecasting, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Data and Defects Management.
• Expertise in leading multiple projects as well as leading onshore/offshore team resources.
• Provide comprehensive software QA solutions using various testing tools and methodologies.
• Successfully implemented multiple releases into Production environment with extensive and effective testing of multiple projects.
• Extensive experience in working with 3rd party Vendors from resource procurement and management perspective.
• Expertise in the process of testing and participation in both Waterfall and Agile environments in the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong knowledge and working experience on FS domain- Home Loans, Insurance and Tax.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and STLC and Agile scrum methodology.
• Expert in baking domain. Have created flow diagram for more than 150 application in Confidential . Created multiple decks for domain improvement for the resources.
• Good Experience as a trainer. Training provided on I-series/As400, SQL, testing process, Finance domain.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: DOS, OS400, Windows 2000, 2003 and 2007, XP Professional, Unix

Database: DB2, SQL Server, Hadoop, Tera Data

Software Product: AS 400,Pega, Java, Unix, Hive, Impala

Testing Tools: QC, QTP, QzTest, TOSCA, Version one

Packages: Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, Power-Point)

Programming Language: VBA, HTML, SQL

Modeling Tools: UML, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.
• The company operates globally - 160,000 associates’ worldwide serving clients in more than 150 countries and operations to meet the needs of these global customers.
• In U.S. it operates in 22 states in addition to District of Columbia. Confidential 's global headquarter is located in Charlotte NC.

Confidential

Big Data QA Test Lead

• Managed the testing resources (team size: 11) in onshore and offshore locations.
• Lead the preparation and execution of Test plans for multiple projects/releases.
• Performed extensive testing on big data Cloudera platform.
• Worked on Autosys,Unix, hadoop, Hive, Impala and shell scripting for big data testing. Leading the team for the same.
• Performing and leading the testing activity on data lineage.
• Performed and lead the testing effort on multi data base testing like SQL server, Tera data and hadoop.
• Coordinated and led the reporting and tracking of defects in the application thru Application Lifecycle Management tool and tracking the defect till closure.
• Strong experience in defect root cause analysis and present defect metric to the client for improvement.
• Expertise in Agile process actively supports team for the process improvement .
• Leading the test data preparation activities using various tools for testing purpose.
• Participated actively in the meetings & tele-conferences periodically with Users, Business Analyst team, Development team and QA team members.
• Automating testing activities on hadoop by shell scripting and through TOSCA tool.
• Actively participates in process improvement.

Environment: HP Quality Center Windows 7, MS office, SharePoint, Hadoop, Hive and Unix, Impala, Tera data, Autosys, SQL server, TOAD, Version one, Wiki, Web based application. MS VISIO and TOSCA automation tool.

Confidential QA Test Lead

• Managed the testing resources (team size: 7) in onshore and offshore locations.
• Led the preparation and execution of Test plans for multiple projects/releases.
• Led the automation process of test scripts successfully in UFT and TOSCA.
• Coordinated and led the reporting and tracking of defects in the application thru Application Lifecycle Management tool and tracking the defect till closure.
• Managed the team’s estimation and forecasting activities as well as time entry process.
• Led the test data preparation activities using various tools for testing purpose.
• Participated actively in the meetings & tele-conferences periodically with Users, Business Analyst team, Development team and QA team members.
• Perform functional and Regression analysis..
• Coordinate work with other developers and designers on the team which may be cross-location. This may involve off-hour conference calls. Identifying the technical cause and potential impact of errors and implement coding or configuration changes.
• Closely working with Line of Business and Development team to embed the newly identified requirements into the system.
• Attending scrum and retrospective meetings.
• Active contributor on providing feedback and suggestion to improve the process on Agile.
• Creating stories for the enhancements suggested by testing team.
• Mentor and guide offshore team and provide clarification for the queries.
• Create and drive proficiency tests for the application and domain knowledge.
• Create and report the release metrics to the client with details analysis of the defects logged during the release.
• Suggest the development team for the missed requirements or enhancements.
• Track the proficiency for the entire project.
• Active member of Innovation team in the project.

Environment : HP Quality Center Windows 7, MS office, SharePoint, UFT, TOSCA, QzTest IE9, SQL server, TOAD, Version one, Wiki, Web based application. Oracle, HTML

Confidential

Offshore Test Lead

• Perform Confidential testing and end to end testing for Pega application.
• Create Confidential test plan.
• Test data creation . Working closely with the Test Data management team.
• Run automation scripts to create test data.
• Coordinate with onshore and offshore resources.
• Closely working with Line of Business and Development team to embed the identified requirements into the system.
• Test and Supported LOB team to perform real time testing for long workings hours which includes weekends which was well appreciated by the client.
• Tracking Test scenarios provided by LOB to support letter pdf testing.
• Tracking the Defects to Closure.
• Implement continuous process improvement plans for the team.
• Conducting domain sessions on Mortgage which includes Origination, Fulfillment and Servicing.
• Creating documentation and flow diagrams for the applications.
• Create monthly reports for the client.

Environment : HP Quality Center, Windows 7, MS office, SharePoint, SQL server, PEGA PRPC web based application, Excel macro

Confidential

Quality Analyst

• Prepare execution plan and test data for assigned work.
• Perform functional and Regression analysis.
• Providing the forecast and estimations
• Tracking Test scenarios/Scripting status on the monthly initiatives.
• Perform smoke and Adhoc testing for new builds.
• Collaborate with business analysts to clarify application requirements for the initiative.
• Tracking the Defects to Closure.
• Follow procedures and standards set by the project
• Implement continuous process improvement plans for the team.
• Closely working with Line of Business and Development team to embed the newly identified requirements into the system.
• Perform analysis to improve the process within the team.
• Creating macros tools to help work faster.
• Conducting domain sessions for the new joiners and finance foundation training at FS level.
• Conducting domain sessions on Loan Origination and Fulfillment for the new joiners.
• Driving the Defect status calls to represent the testing issues and initiate escalations on time.
• Peer review of test cases and ensuring mapping to the requirement specification of the RTM.
• Provided Test summary report to management with a complete statistics of testing status.
• Conducting domain sessions on Mortgage which includes Origination, Fulfillment and Servicing.

Environment : HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS Visual Studio, Windows 7, MS Excel, SQL server, .Net web based application, PDF, Excel Macro.

Confidential

Tester/Quality Analyst

• Defining the project scope, test objective, test strategy and data requirements for the testing effort.
• Participating in Kick off, HLD and LLD Review calls.
• Providing the forecast and estimations
• Preparing the test plan for the initiatives
• Tracking Test scenarios/Scripting status on the monthly initiatives.
• Perform functional and Regression analysis.
• Collaborate with business analysts to clarify application requirements for the initiative.
• Coordinate work with other developers and designers on the team which may be cross-location. This may involve off-hour conference calls. Identifying the technical cause and potential impact of errors and implement coding or configuration changes.
• Closely working with Line of Business and Development team to embed the newly identified requirements into the system.
• Coordinating with the Development team to judge the impact on the applications.
• Prepare execution plan and test data for assigned work.
• Follow procedures and standards set by the project.
• Driving the Defect status calls to represent the testing issues and initiate escalations on time.
• Tracking the Defects to Closure
• Conducting technical trainings on AS400, SQL
• Mentored more than 150 new recruits into the Team.
• Conducting finance trainings on Core banking, Home Loans Credit cards etc at DU level across Confidential unit.

Environment : HP Quality Center, Windows XP, MS Excel, word, Power point, MS Access, Excel Macro, QTP, SQL server, IBM-I-series/As400, DB2, Informatica, Backend testing, MS VISIO