10+ years of experience as IT Quality Assurance Lead/Analyst. Experienced in testing for various business domains as Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Retail.Expert with testing tools as HP ALM (QC), JIRA. Well experienced in preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Estimation, Test schedule planning, Test Traceability Matrix, Status Reports, Test Approach Document, Closure reports.Experience in working in various geographical regions as UK, Europe, Canada, USA and India.Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Testing Methodologies.Working experience as a Project Lead of McDonald’s and Team Lead of various other projects for providing best testing solutions and implementing test strategies as per the project requirements.Experienced as Onsite coordinator in handling multiple projects and leading the cross vendor teams. Worked on project management activities, to check Optimization feasibility, estimating the optimization efforts and scheduling.Well versed with Waterfall and SCRUM/Agile Testing methodologies.Experienced in various phases of testing as Regression testing, System testing, Integration testing.Excellent written and oral communication skills with direct experience managing communications with senior leadership and various stake holders.Design and provide various QA reports as various stages of testing phases to senior management and stakeholders.Sound knowledge on SQL and experienced on Oracle database. Advanced skills to write complex SQL queriesWorked on many interfaces between technologies/application in JAVA, Mainframes etc. Expertise in retrieving and validating data coming through interfaces.Sound knowledge on Payment Processing and working knowledge on multiple gateway and processor companies.Experience in Field testing and Deploying the builds & packages in the live stores for various markets.Coordinating UAT sign-off activities.

Worked as an associate consultant.