Clients Include: State of CA, Disney, Wells FargoPartner with QA Manager/Leads across various Business units to develop a one QA strategy for the Digital transformation teamDeveloped and implemented Test plans, Test strategies, Test Data management plans for platform upgrade and data migration.Responsible for creating Test cases, Test scripts, Test scenarios, Defect tracking and resolution and Test automation.Create and document tasks, User stories, Program increments in JIRA and track progress in a Scrum model.Lead daily Scrum calls and manage backlogs using Kanban boards.Partner with management teams to create a Change management plan and establish key metrics for success.Develop and implement QA governance model based on Metrics, measurements and Continuous process improvement.Work with senior management, leads to build a collaborative and cohesive team environment focused on successful alignment and commitment to organization goals.

Designed Test strategies, Test approach and plans based on Project level Business Requirements, Technical specifications, End to End Business Processes to ensure Total test coverage and set clear quality goals and objectives.Clients include SCDHHS, Valuemomentum and Disney InteractiveManaged QA effort for Sapiens Policy Pro, Duck Creek, and Guidewire insurance solutions integration and deployments at major insurance carriers.Developed Test strategies, Plans, Test automation plans and Defect Management plans and executed day to day operations for large upgrade, implementation and data migration projects.Enabled test automation to support CI/CD pipelines for daily deployment and migration testing.Reduced testing costs by over 25% through test automation, cloud infrastructure, SMART regression, and smoke testing.• Managed testing and QA efforts for complex insurance ERP systems.• Managed budgets, resources, and timelines to deliver high-quality code for multiple projects.Established quality metrics to monitor build and release quality, reporting to various stakeholders.Led organizational change management, continuous process improvements, and program maturity initiatives to enhance people, process, and technology competencies.

Create and manage QA Modernization roadmap for QA and Testing, Performance engineering, Test Data Management, Defect Management, QA Metrics and Governance and Change Management.Designed and implemented Test Strategies for New Business, Claims, Billing, Technology upgrades and Policy System State rollouts to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the IT Teams.Designed and implemented Test Automation frameworks to support Micro Services architecture, Component integration, End to End testing and UAT to reduce test cycle time and improve efficiency.Created and managed project and Test plans for QA/Testing effort based on the Business requirements, Use cases, technical delivery and Release objectives.Created and published Test Summary, Defect Reports and weekly Project and Release status reports.Collaborated with IT and Business teams to actively lead Risk management effort, determine and execute mitigation strategies for any blockers, issues or risks.Led regular knowledge transfer sessions with IT and Business teams to train and mentor teams to create awareness and improve adoption of QA practices and tools.Led Change management effort across various QA teams within the organization to create a culture of shared understanding, standardize use of HP ALM, Defect Management process, Test design and automation practices and Test Data management.Created and presented the Monthly Program status to executive management, Senior Managers, and Project leads.Developed and implemented QA/Testing metrics governance, Quality Score based on Gartner recommendations.

• Developed Test strategy for SIT, CIT and UAT and managed the implementation.• Created Project Plans for managing the testing effort and tracked progress.• Tracked Tasks, Resource assignments and created financial cost plans in CA Clarity.• Implemented Monitor and control mechanism for the project.• Managed both Onsite and Offshore resources by reviewing and approving their deliverables.• Managed resources by timely requesting resources, on boarding resources, task assignments, approving time and resource ramp down.• Conducted Weekly testing status meeting to provide status on testing effort, discuss open issues/risks and mitigation strategies with project team.• Generated testing metrics report and distributed to the project teams.• Moderated Defect triage meetings to discuss defects found, assigning severity to facilitate Defect resolution.• Used Quality Center to manage testing effort and to track Defect resolution.• Facilitated defect risk negotiation with IT and business teams and ensured timely delivery with desired quality.• Worked closely with PMO and Delivery management group to drive delivery timelines by publishing Testing metrics on a daily basis.• Represented testing team in the Manager’s meetings and provided solutions as needed.• Created testing teams, empowered the leads and motivated the leads to drive results

• Led testing effort in the Project life cycle from Initiation to delivery and close out phases.• Facilitated Design workshops, requirements session with the Business analysts, Design reviews with the System Architects and Application engineers to develop good working relationship and provide support by using applicable verification and validation techniques.• Coordinated with the Program Managers, Project Managers and Delivery Managers to develop Schedule, Activity Sequencing, Activity Resource and duration estimates.• Collaborated with QA Architects and Tech leads to develop effective Test Approach and Test strategies for delivering cutting edge Testing Solutions to achieve projects quality goals.• Developed and implement Quality Assurance processes, define the Quality metrics and selection of Quality Control methodologies.• Implementation of QA Best Practices.• Identified and drove opportunities for automated testing and provide support for developing QTP scripts and Performance Testing efforts.• Worked closely with the Tech leads to develop the Test harnesses, coordinate Unit test planning and provide support as needed.• Worked closely with Business Analyst in reviewing requirements, developing test conditions, Ambiguity resolution, test data, Use cases and Storyboarding..• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Conditions, Test Cases and Test Scripts.• Coordinated with the Tech Lead and Business analysts in Defect triage and resolution..• Provided the Release management with the Quality Metrics and Test execution and Defect data in timely manner.• Managed Testing effort using HP Quality Center.• Facilitated QA status meetings and collaborate with other QA Project leads in the practice center to develop mitigation strategies and processes leading to Continuous Process Improvement.• Participated in QA Practice center initiatives for Estimating, Evaluating deliverable, QA Artifacts and Quality Center Standards.