summary of qualifications

. Over ** years of professional experience in the Information Technology

industry with 13 years of experience as Quality Lead and Senior Business

Analyst

. Worked in Waterfall, and Agile software development methodologies.

. Expertise in development and design of test strategy, test plan, and test

cases based on requirements

. Experience in manual and automated testing procedures using tools such as

Test Director, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, and WinRunner

. Experience in functionality, black box, white box, system, Integration,

regression, user acceptance testing, and Automation testing

. Worked in Mainframe and Client Server, mid-range and web-based

environments

. Well versed in RDBMS principles and adept at writing and tuning SQL

queries and PLSQL constructs

. Extensive experience with mainframe technologies like COBOL, DB2, VSAM,

and JCL, MS Query, SQL Server with real time exposure to business systems

like Insurance, Healthcare, and Finance

. Performed business and functional requirements analysis towards preparing

the test strategy (Methodology and Framework)

. Hands on experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC)

. Strong decision-making and interpersonal skills with result oriented

dedication towards goals

Technical Skills

Testing Tools : Mercury Test Director/HP Quality Center(ALM), Quick Test

Professional, Win Runner, Compuware CARS, JIRA

Databases : DB2, Oracle 8i/9i/11g, MS Access, MS - SQL Server

7.0/2000/2005

Languages : COBOL, C, C++

Operating Systems : Windows9x, Windows NT/2000, UNIX, MVS, OS/390,

z/OS

Mainframe Tools : VSAM, JCL, CICS, Endeavor, SPUFI, BMC, QMF,

File Aid, Changeman

Utilities/Tools : FTP, DTS, TOAD 8.6.1, MS Visio, MS

Project, MS Office Suite, MS Query

Software Engineering : Waterfall, AGILE SCRUM

Domain : Insurance, Healthcare, Finance, and Retail

Systems : Insurance Annuities - VRPS (Vantage Repetitive Payout System)

Healthcar

MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System),

JDA Manugistics

professional experience

Reimagine Consulting August 2014-

Feb '17

Lead QA Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

. Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, and

the Sprint Retrospective

. Determined the Sprint scope by working to establish acceptance

criteria for User Stories, estimating the level of complexity within

each User Story, and detailing a preliminary set of tasks for each

User Story

. Created high level test strategy for the whole release based on user

stories and acceptance criteria

. Discussed and decided number of testing types needed for each

iteration

. Estimated time for each user story test case creation and execution

. Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep

product relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were

agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing

. Effectively tracked teams(onsite and offshore) progress

Virtue Group LLC May2007-

August 2014

Lead QA Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Led Business and Technical teams through the life cycle to ensure that

the application was thoroughly tested

. Represented QA team(onsite/offshore) in project meetings and

recommended enhancements to development and test practices at the

project level

. Performed resource planning and task allocation for QA team both

onsite and offshore

. Designed and documented test strategy and test plan for smoke,

functional, system, and UAT testing using Microsoft Office Suite based

on the Business and Technical Requirements that included defining

areas to be tested, different interfaces to be tested with,

identifying and outlining dependencies, risks, constraints, and

assumptions for the project

. Prepared mitigation plan for risks

. Experience in defining Test Automation roadmaps and setting-up

organizational level short time and long time Automation goals.

. Coordinated and guided the offshore teams to educate on QTP Automation

Framework, QTP Scripts Development Plan and implementation

. Product Owner for Defect management tool and queue.

. Proficient in all aspects of Defect management such as Defect

creation, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard tools like

Quality Center/Test Director, BugTracker, JIRA

. Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on the Test plan

. Prepared/Identified Test Bed/Data for all phases of Testing

. Reviewed Test Execution

. Collected Test Metrics on a weekly basis and tracked project progress

of both onsite and offshore teams

. Prepared weekly Status/Progress reports, and Defect Reports that were

presented to management

. Supported SIT/UAT testing by executing queries in the backend using MS

Query to identify data

. Involved in walkthroughs, peer to peer reviews, and post project

lessons learnt activities

. Supported quality documentation for the project by uploading the test

plans, project timelines,

. technical/functional specifications, and approval documents to

Teamsite, which served as the common project repository and change

management tool

Cognizant Technology Solution

August 2004 - May 2007

Senior Business Analyst/Senior Testing Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Held Kick-Off meetings with business, testing team and IT/AD to

understand the scope of the project

. Used MS Project to determine time lines of assignments, percentage

completion of projects, and number of hours work

. Responsible for decision-making, prioritizing, delegation, and

integration of all development and testing activities

. Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement document, and

software development plan for the conversion process

. Created use cases, process flow, data flow by conducting interviews,

requirement workshops, and brainstorming sessions using MS Visio and

Rational tools

. Analyzed, designed, formulated the functional specifications and

guided the development of entire data conversion process

. Prepared data mapping document for the different conversions

. Designed and documented test strategy and test plan for smoke,

functional, regression, and parallel testing using Microsoft Office

Suite

. Used Test Director and MS Excel to track and report defects and other

graphs and statistics

. Involved in the day-to-day activities of the project

o Test scenario, test cases preparation and test execution review

o Gathered statistics and prepared metrics

o Coordinated testing effort with downstream Prepared status

reports, OMMs (One Minute Meeting), and tracked issues and risks

o Supported UAT testing by executing queries in the backend using

DB2 to identify data, approving transactions online through CICS

o Updated the project plan at regular intervals to track project

progress

. Supported quality documentation for the project by uploading the test

plans, project timelines, technical/functional specifications, and

approval documents to Calligo, which served as the common project

repository and change management tool

. Presented PowerPoint presentations to showcase all enhancements,

system changes, testing approach and statistics

Syntel, Inc

April 2003 - Jan 2004

Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Monitored batch jobs through OPCE Scheduler

. Resolved batch or CICS Abends on mainframe

. Gathered functional requirements for the application through client

meetings

. Performed coding in COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, unit testing, and

supported system and UAT testing

. Created logical and physical data

. Prepared technical design documents

. Maintained Abend log

. Developed REXX tools for performing various functions

. Extensively worked on optimizing DB2 queries and performance tuning

. Performed active research to assist and solve production support

issues

Satyam Computers Services Limited

Sept 2000 - April 2003

Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Developed applications using PL/SQL, and DB2

. Developed REXX tools to perform various mainframe activities

. Created tables, assigned constraints, and used various COBOL internal

stored procedures and triggers to complete physical database model

. Coded programs in COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM

. Ran JCL to execute the programs

. Populated tables and views using SQL data definition, data

manipulation, and data control languages

. Prepared technical design documents

. Monitored batch jobs through OPCE Scheduler

. Resolved batch or CICS Abends on mainframe

. Gathered functional requirements for the application through client

meetings

education & certifications

Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Orissa, India - 2000

AHM - 250 : HealthCare Management - An Introduction

LOMA - 273 : Basic Annuity Principles

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