Professional Summary:

Over **.* years of accomplished Senior Project Lead in Testing & Quality Assurance with extensive experience in multiple technologies and domains including Health Care/ Payroll & HR / Banking / Finance / Investment Management business with emphasis on Test Strategy, Test Management, Automation and Test Execution.

Expertise in managing mid-sized project teams coordinating with teams spread across globally.

Worked across multiple cross-functional teams to execute full system, interface and end-to-end testing.

Extensive experienced in handling projects in the areas of Functional, Integration, Regression and Acceptance Testing.

Experienced in preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, Change Request Proposals documents.

Leading experience in all phases of process and program testing from business and systems analysis through test case development and execution.

Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile development models, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), logging and tracking defects in all the phases with major responsibilities.

Experienced in preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, metrics, estimations, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Experienced in creating the Environments, Virtual Directories, Application pools, interfaces with HL7 and updating the latest patch.

Experience in ETL/Manual testing on Windows/Linux Environment.

Skilled at developing and streamlining processes to increase efficiency and improve overall quality and performance.

Wide exposure to Test Management tool such as Jira, Quality Centre, TFS and Test Director.

Experience of testing UI, SSRS reports, databases using TOAD, SQL developer, SQL Server, mainframe and multi-language based applications.

Expertise in Security/Penetration testing for web application using burp suite tool, fiddler tool.

Proficient in performance testing and environment sizing using Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate).

Experience in working with Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver using Java.

Proficient in preparing and executing automation scripts using QTP.

Knowledge of health information and health care services regulatory environment including HIPAA, Medicaid/Medicare. Familiarity with HIPAA EDI 4010 and 5010 with ICD-9 and ICD-10, analysis & compliance experience.

Good exposure to Microsoft Test Manager, Process implementation, Process improvement and Recruitment process.

Core Competencies:

Automation (Selenium, QTP, Performance)

Project Planning, Execution & Matrix

Preparing Project related docs

Agile: Scrum Master

DB – Oracle SQL,DB2, TOAD, ETL

Defect Management tools – Jira, Quality Center, TFS…

technical background:

Operating system Windows NT/98, 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP,Win 7

RDMS Oracle database, TOAD, SQL Server 2008/2005

Automation

(Functional & Performance) QTP 11.0, Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate), Python 2.7

Defect Management Tool JIRA, QC 11.0, Spira, TFS, Test Director

Security Testing Fiddler, Burp Suite

Source Safe Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0, TortoiseSVN

Web Servers IIS 7.0

Certifications : Scrum Master Accredited Certification, QTP, Quality Center from HP

Professional Experience

Client

INDEPENDENCE BLUE CROSS Oct ’12– Till Date

Technologies

Windows 7, asp.Net, Servers IIS 7, TOAD, SQL Server 2008,

Testing Tools

HL7, Jira, Quality Centre, Selenium, Visual Studio2010, SVN.

Role

Senior Project Lead

Description: IBC is the leading health insurance organization in southeastern Pennsylvania. IBC serve more than 9.5 million people in 24 states and the District of Columbia, including 2.5 million in the region. Pioneering new ways to reward doctors, hospitals, and other health care professionals for coordinated, quality care and supporting programs and events that promote wellness

Roles and responsibilities:

Leading a team of eight, Participate in Project Estimations and Proposal creations.

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriverQC.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Build domain knowledge on the application and manage training plans.

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Assign Daily assignment and status report for each release

Knowledge transferring to QA Team and embraced teamwork

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing Agile methodology.

Delivery Coordinator and Scrum master.

Composed and sent test reports on a day-to-day basis for customer approval.

Client

Epichomecare Mar ’11– Oct ‘12

Technologies

Windows XP, asp.Net, Servers IIS 7, TOAD, SQL Server 2008,

Testing Tools

HL7, Jira, Quality Centre, Selenium, Visual Studio2010, SVN.

Role

Senior Project Lead

Description: Epic homecare is a leading provider of pediatric skilled nursing, therapy, and autism services, as well as spectrum of adult home healthcare services, including skilled nursing, therapy, personal care, and behavioral health nursing.

By maintaining a precise focus on quality care and extraordinary service, Epic homecare continues to grow and serve more patients across the United States.

Roles and responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepare the analysis documents.

Conducting everyday stand up meetings, Interaction with team members, managers, EPIC team, SME

Ensuring the proper workflow of the system by testing the software and the necessary hardware.

Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriverQC.

Diagnose the problem and follow up with the defect tracking process.

Reporting and documenting the testing process.

Overall support in the implementation of the new EPIC application for the Hospital.

Experienced Epic Quality Assurance Analyst, supported day to day quality assurance activities involving EPIC, provided support for a large implementation project involving EPIC.

Running and modifying EPIC Integrated test scripts.

Creating the Environments, Virtual Directories, Application pools, interfaces with HL7 and updating the latest patch.

Preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Execution and Traceability Matrix.

Developing the Performance test suite by using Visual Studio 2010 and Fiddler.

Involved in the reviews of Test deliverables.

Involved in Functional, Integration, Interface testing using HL7 and Database testing.

Compose and send Test reports on a day-to-day basis for customer approval.

Updating daily and weekly metrics & handling daily status call.

Client

Bank of America - Merlin Platform Mar’08 – Mar’11

Technologies

HTML, Java/J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, EJB, XML, IBM WebSphere 6.0, C++, Unix, MS SQL Server, DB2, SQL

Testing Tools

Share Point, VSS, Quality Center, TOAD, BOSS and QTP.

Role

Team Lead

Description: Merlin Platform is a retail banking application which is used by Bank Associates at Banking Centers to setup various products like loans, deposits, cards etc. and to Perform Inquires and Services for both commercial and consumer type of customers.

The Primary responsibility of the Merlin Platform team is to support Bank test initiatives.

Base item testing – Testing of production defects fixes

Regression Testing – Testing of Existing features to make sure new changes are not adversely affecting by existing code.

Responsibilities:

Review of Artifact and clarifying the doubts by communicating with Bank SMEs.

Prepared Test Plan and Test Scripts for Individual Initiatives

Involved in Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Involved in Functionality Testing, Backward Compatibility & Regression Testing.

Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.

Running the jobs/Workflows for ETL process

Prepared and ran SQL queries to verify Dimensional.

Verifying the data in target database by ETL process.

Verified column mapping between source and target.

Preparing and Executing of Regression Scripts using QTP.

Preparing the considered Bug Report using Quality Center.

Updating daily and weekly metrics & handling daily status call.

Client

ADP - Pay @ work Mar ’06 – Mar ‘08

Technologies

Win XP, C# 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0, IIS 6, SQL Server 2005, TOAD, Python 2.7

Testing Tools

Jira, TFS, Quality Centre, Share Point, VSS

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Description: Pay@work is an application used to process payroll for small business. Various operations like Opening a pay period schedule, Creating payroll entries, request preview payroll, view preview results, process final payroll and viewing payroll reports can be performed using this application. It also maintains the details of hiring and termination of an employee. The data in this application is protected providing multiple levels of security and digital certificates. pay@work application is standalone as well as integrated with people@work, User Admin, ATA and Ezlm applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leading a team of Six, Participate in Project Estimations and Proposal creations.

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Capacity planning – resource on boarding process, resource availability, training, etc.

Hands on experience in Python scripting, python STL.

Used Python scripts to update content in the database and manupulate files.

Build domain knowledge on the application and manage training plans

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Assign Daily assignment and status report for each release

Knowledge transferring to QA Team and embraced teamwork

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution of SSRS Reports.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.

Cross-train on-site and off-shore team members

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing Agile methodology.

Delivery Coordinator and Scrum master.

Composed and sent test reports on a day-to-day basis for customer approval.

Received appreciations for delivering high quality deliverables and for introducing new concepts implemented as part of process improvement.

Client

ADP - People @ Work Mar ’06 – Mar ‘08

Technologies

Win XP, C# 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0, IIS 6, SQL Server 2005, TOAD

Testing Tools

TFS, Quality Centre, Share Point, VSS

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Description: People@Work is an application used to hire a person standalone as well as integrated with pay@work application. Various operations like allocation of company, Grade, designation, payroll type and status. It also maintains the details of hiring, transferring and termination of an employee. The data in this application is protected providing multiple levels of security and digital certificates. People@work application is standalone as well as integrated with Pay@work, User Admin, ATA and Ezlm applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participate in Project Estimations and Proposal creations.

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Build domain knowledge on the application and manage training plans

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Assign Daily assignment and status report for each release

Knowledge transferring to QA Team and embraced teamwork

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution of SSRS Reports.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.

Cross-train on-site and off-shore team members

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing Agile methodology.

Delivery Coordinator and Scrum master.

Composed and sent test reports on a day-to-day basis for customer approval.

Client

SEIC Aug ’03 – Mar‘06

Technologies

Windows XP, asp.Net, Servers IIS 7, SQL Server 2008

Testing Tools

Jira, Quality Centre, QTP, Visual Studio2010, SVN.

Role

Software Engineer

Description: SEI a leading global provider of asset management, investment processing and investment operations, solutions for institutional and personal wealth management.

The key objective of the project included testing of all the Crystal Reports converted to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports. It provides users the capability to generate multiple reports dynamically by creating SSRS templates

Roles and responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution of SSRS Reports.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

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