Abhishek Kumar Verma Email & Phone Number

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading a team of 16 people delivering business critical ETL and analytical solutions developed using Python, Hadoop, AWS, Cognos and Informatica, and a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Estimate efforts required for a project, outline delivery plans in agreement with onshore stakeholders, align resources to each project, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure timely and quality delivery• Scheduling… Show more • Leading a team of 16 people delivering business critical ETL and analytical solutions developed using Python, Hadoop, AWS, Cognos and Informatica, and a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Estimate efforts required for a project, outline delivery plans in agreement with onshore stakeholders, align resources to each project, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure timely and quality delivery• Scheduling and allocating work, providing technical leadership and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives• Translating business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and design documents• Creating data model by collaborating with senior developer(s) for different ETL solutions• Preparing test strategy & test plan in collaboration with the QA lead and ensuring less than 4% defect leakage to Prod• Acting as a scrum master; managing sprints in JIRA by creating stories and tasks for the team, running sprints and reporting metrics to leadership resulting in improved team productivity• Responsible for all performance management activities including goal setting, ongoing performance communication, employee engagement, development, review, and mentoring Show less

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading a team of 10 people delivering reporting & analytical solutions developed using Informatica and Cognos, and a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Estimating efforts required for a project, outlining delivery plans in agreement with onshore stakeholders, aligning resources to each project, identifying and mitigating risks, and ensuring timely and quality delivery• Scheduling and allocating work… Show more • Leading a team of 10 people delivering reporting & analytical solutions developed using Informatica and Cognos, and a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Estimating efforts required for a project, outlining delivery plans in agreement with onshore stakeholders, aligning resources to each project, identifying and mitigating risks, and ensuring timely and quality delivery• Scheduling and allocating work, providing technical leadership and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives• Translating business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements• Preparing test strategy & test plan in collaboration with the QA lead• Acting as a scrum master; managing sprints in JIRA by creating stories and tasks for the team, running sprints and reporting metrics to leadership resulting in improved team productivity• Creating/updating data model to show additional data/metrics on the mobile app• Responsible for all performance management activities including goal setting, ongoing performance communication, employee engagement, development, review, and mentoring Show less

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• In addition to my QA lead responsibilities, I started leading an additional team of 3 people developing a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Scheduling enhancements or new features needed into releases and prioritizing them in agreement with product owner• Translating business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and app design• Acting as a scrum master; managing sprints… Show more • In addition to my QA lead responsibilities, I started leading an additional team of 3 people developing a cross-platform mobile app, Alight Ops Monitor, enabling business users to view operational health metrics on the go• Scheduling enhancements or new features needed into releases and prioritizing them in agreement with product owner• Translating business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and app design• Acting as a scrum master; managing sprints in JIRA by creating stories and tasks for the team, running sprints and reporting metrics to leadership resulting in improved team productivity• Creating/updating data model to show additional data/metrics on the mobile app• Contributing in development of complex ETL pieces for the mobile app using Informatica, Python and AWS Services like S3, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB & Lambda• Contributing in developing Cognos reports in one of the major Cognos upgrades for a client from 7.5 to 10.2 Show less

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Lead a team of 5 QAs and managed testing activities for multiple projects simultaneously• Responsible for providing estimations, preparing test strategy & test plan in collaboration with the onshore test lead, allocating work to the team and ensuring quality & timely delivery of work. • Ensuring that the testing work progresses as per the time line and anticipating any risks to the project deadline.• Shuffling resources and plan in case there is a risk to the project deadline due… Show more • Lead a team of 5 QAs and managed testing activities for multiple projects simultaneously• Responsible for providing estimations, preparing test strategy & test plan in collaboration with the onshore test lead, allocating work to the team and ensuring quality & timely delivery of work. • Ensuring that the testing work progresses as per the time line and anticipating any risks to the project deadline.• Shuffling resources and plan in case there is a risk to the project deadline due to unscheduled changes in requirements.• Mentoring the team on ETL testing, SQL and domain knowledge• Identifying repetitive testing activities that can be automated, thus saving testing efforts and hours• Automated various testing activities using Selenium like executing queries on database, measuring performance of Cognos reports and comparing 2 text files• Responsible for developing the data pipeline for a mobile app using Informatica, Python and AWS Services like S3, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB & Lambda Show less

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

As a Senior Test Engineer I was still working on the same product, Executive Workforce Analytics but took on some additional responsibilities.• Started mentoring new hires and people in the QA team.• Became a Subject matter expert in terms of domain knowledge.• Started working more and more in client implementations. I even acted as an Offshore QA lead during one of the client implementations.• Started working on automating our testing activities like Performance testing, Cognos… Show more As a Senior Test Engineer I was still working on the same product, Executive Workforce Analytics but took on some additional responsibilities.• Started mentoring new hires and people in the QA team.• Became a Subject matter expert in terms of domain knowledge.• Started working more and more in client implementations. I even acted as an Offshore QA lead during one of the client implementations.• Started working on automating our testing activities like Performance testing, Cognos report testing, ETL testing. I used QTP for automation.• Started allocating work and managing Test engineers in the team. Show less

Gurgaon, India

As a Test Engineer I was a part of a team working on developing a Base product, Executive Workforce Analytics.• Responsible for designing & executing test cases for testing (ETL testing) the data flow in the data warehouse using the ETL design document.• Responsible for designing & executing test cases for testing Cognos based reports built on top of the data warehouse. This included testing functionality, data, GUI as well as security.• Responsible for executing test scripts in HP… Show more As a Test Engineer I was a part of a team working on developing a Base product, Executive Workforce Analytics.• Responsible for designing & executing test cases for testing (ETL testing) the data flow in the data warehouse using the ETL design document.• Responsible for designing & executing test cases for testing Cognos based reports built on top of the data warehouse. This included testing functionality, data, GUI as well as security.• Responsible for executing test scripts in HP Quality Center, logging defects and tracking them to closure.• Responsible for giving training on the product to new hires.• Worked on several client implementations of the product as well. Show less

• Led the creation and execution of detailed test scripts to test multiple functional modules for an Educational ERP, Education Management Tool• Performed web testing of different modules of the ERP package including functional, blackbox and performance testing• Logged defects in defect tracker and ensured timely resolution of the defects • Drove the testing effort for a critical in-house HR application and collaborated with multiple stakeholders to ensure near zero post production… Show more • Led the creation and execution of detailed test scripts to test multiple functional modules for an Educational ERP, Education Management Tool• Performed web testing of different modules of the ERP package including functional, blackbox and performance testing• Logged defects in defect tracker and ensured timely resolution of the defects • Drove the testing effort for a critical in-house HR application and collaborated with multiple stakeholders to ensure near zero post production defects Show less

B.Tech, Information Technology

12Th, Science