RICHA TYAGI

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Introduction

An ISTQB Certified, practiced and professional Senior Test Lead having 8 + years of experience, with broad ranging experience delivering effectively to time and budget on a variety of complex, large-scale, often web-fronted projects in various Retail and Banking projects. Enthusiastic, adaptive and capable, rapidly acquiring new skills: a self-motivated self-starter.

Capable of supervising and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams follow both Agile and waterfall model.

Strong exposure in Requirements Analysis, Project Methodologies, Program/Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Data Analysis, Data migration projects, Impact Analysis, Risk Analysis, Change Management, Team Development, Relationship Building and Management having Risk Assessment and Vendor Management.

Expertise in establishing end to end Quality Assurance process in the Project.

Extensive experience in analysis of project plan, scope, approach, Risk analysis and testing metrics reporting.

Extensive experience in DataMart and data ware house testing.

Well versed with CMMI level 5 activities and audits

Strong exposure in Agile and waterfall projects Process Modelling and Process Improvements

System Testing, Regression Testing & Integration Testing

Team Management /Estimation Review/ Peer Reviews

Overall Skills

Domain - Publishing, Healthcare & Retail.

Testing Types - Functional, System, System Integration, Web services and database Testing

Test Models - Waterfall, V Model, Agile

Estimation Models - Time & Material, Fixed Price

Test Management Skills - Estimations, Testing Budget, Test planning, Test strategies, Risks / Issue

Management, Resourcing, Stakeholder Management

Tools - Quality Centre, Microsoft Project Professional

Experience

Role: Senior Test lead

oClient: Lash Group-AmerisourceBergen, USA; Employer: HCL Technologies Ltd (Jul’15 – Till Date)

oResponsibilities:

Acting as Senior test lead for the Projects leading & managing Functional, Non-Functional and environment provisioning teams (peak team size – 40)

Engaging with Senior Testing and Programme stakeholders to understand Testing requirements across multiple applications in the architecture

Engaging different application teams across architecture for end to end Programme test delivery

Defining Programme test strategy and building overall Programme test plan with help from individual application test teams

Developing Programme test estimates for functional, non-functional and environments teams

Managing testing budget and finances across different teams and throughout delivery timelines

Ensuring timely delivery of all the phases of the project

Stakeholder management & support to UAT teams in test planning

Review of Master test plans, ensuring functional test plans, test scenarios, test cases & end of test reports are created as per agreed scope within defined delivery timelines

Role: Test Lead

oClient: Lash Group-AmerisourceBergen, ; Employer: HCL Technologies Ltd (Sep’10 – Jul’15)

oResponsibilities:

Documenting Master Test Plans, Functional Test Plans for impacted applications

Review of test scenarios, test cases & end of test reports

Day to day planning of tests for offshore delivery teams and ensuring on time delivery as per plans

Support to offshore teams in test execution on critical path deliverables

Independently handled end to end test lifecycle from conceptualization to planning and execution

Co-ordinate with third party vendors for supporting the testing for SSIS like data feeds, Drop ship distribution. SSRS - Sales rep alignment, Biz talk - PDMI

Technical facilitator for the offshore team for conducting quality assurance on the Lash applications Patient Plus, Portals and support systems EDC, Stream serve, Right Fax, Console admin and web configuration

Guide the team in assessment for setting up an Independent testing Organization

Quality assurance for SSIS distribution data feed, SSRS reporting, Biz talk for PDMI, CRM, Re-launches, spin ups and data migrations

Liaising with business Project Managers, Program Test Managers, Business Analysts, Development teams, testing teams, and Infrastructure teams at different stages of the project.

Review of test deliverables to ensure that all deliverables meeting the business requirements and defined as per quality standards.

Involved into project meetings with client on regular basis to report any risks/ issues to the client, their impact and mitigating actions.

Responsible for End to End Test management of the projects from estimations, test planning till delivery.

Responsible for handling Onshore and offshore testing teams for System/ SIT/ Regression, UAT.

Performing Gap Analysis/Risk Analysis of projects at different stages to identify gaps, their reasons and mitigating actions.

Coordinating with testing team on regular basis to ensure quality work is delivered as per schedule.

Preparation of quality metrics’ like Requirements Coverage, Resource Productivity, Schedule Variance, Effort Variance, Defect Density.

Role: Senior Test Analyst

oClient: Readers Digest, USA Employer: HCL Technology Ltd (Sep’09 to Sep’10)

oResponsibilities:

Functional test plan creation, Test scenario, test case, RTM and test data preparation

Test execution, Regression testing, defect capture on quality centre, defect management through daily defect triage calls

Review of test deliverables to ensure that all deliverables meeting the business requirements and defined as per quality standards.

Involved into project meetings with client on regular basis to report any risks/ issues to the client, their impact and mitigating actions.

System Testing\Regression Testing, GUI testing & Functional Testing

Defect Logging, Reporting & Defect Tracking.

Co-ordination with onsite team members & client.

Working on SOAP UI

Role: Test Analyst

oClient: Pearson Education, USA Employer: HCL Technology Ltd (Oct’07 to Sep’09)

oResponsibilities:

Functional test plan creation, Test scenario, test case, RTM and test data preparation

Requirement understanding and analysis

Involved into project meetings with client on regular basis to report any issues to the client, their impact and mitigating actions.

GUI testing\Functional Testing & Integration Testing

Defect Logging, reporting and tracking

Awards

Infinity- O2 League, 2015 ( Being Outstanding for consecutive 2 years -2014, 2015)

Testing Star Award in 2009, Readers Digest for Testing and delivering Sweepstakes Project for RDAi

Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contribution to Lash Group (April, 2014)

Strengths

Quick learner and ability to take on new functional areas

Pro-active approach to delivery

Absolute Ownership in the role assumed

Continuous self-assessment and identifying improvement areas

Professional Courses / Certificates

ISTQB Foundation Certification (2008)

Educational Qualification

Bachelor Of Technology in Electrical and Electronics, College of engineering Roorkee, India, 2007

Visa Status

H1B

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