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Winnipeg, Canada Area

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Daily Co-ordination with the offshore team and provided guidance in terms of expectations. • Prepared test plans for business requirements/Jira’s and rate and product changes and had them executed according to the plan.• Chaired test artifacts review meetings with the business/Analysts/Dev to ensure quality.• Planned the testing of each face and Test artifact (Test plan, Test Data) were ready in advance.• Chaired brain storming sessions for Complex Jira’s.• Defects were raised in JIRA and participated in Defect triage's with the offshore team.• Extensively used HPQC for Test Management. • Properly planned regression test by readying the Test cases and the test data. Chaired meetings for planning and to ensure the progress.• Created Traceability metrics to ensure the test coverage is 100%.• Suggested corrective measures to process improvement. Demonstrated a new method for QA effort estimation and test summary to the management.• Changed the test design process and concentrated more on test plan metrics to ensure coverage.• Implemented JIRA communication over email for all team communications. This ensured that the details of a defect stay inside the Jira than in email inboxes.• Provided effort estimation for work requests and defect prioritization meetings.• Coordinated and participated in regression/end to end testing and assistance to UAT Testing.• Used Automation scripts (Ranorex) for creating the test data.• Risks were identified and communicated to the leadership along with a mitigation plan.• Extensively used SQL to validate the results from the back end.• Extensive exposure in testing the Guide wire application specifically on rating and product changes.• Very good exposure with Policy Center, Claim center, Billing center apps within Guide wire.• Extensive experience in testing the different interfaces for Guide wire application which includes (ESB, CSIO, People soft, MVR, Clue, EDW, Blue rack and ECM).

Challenging Experience with wide exposure to different areas of testing and management.Worked as System Test lead handling the QA team for the IBM project, Catamaran Health care solution. The team was sized more than 15. Major responsibilities---------------------------Capacity PlanningEffort EstimationWork Load ManagementTask Management.Status Reporting.Test coverage metrics.Creation and execution of System Test plans/Cases.Formal review Test cases/Test Results.RCA and provided corrective actions.Defect management and conducted defect triage's to track the progress of the defects.Client point of contact.Mentoring and training of new resourcesActive participation in the scrum Meetings. Achievements--------------------Automated the repeated testing tasks which resulted in reducing the test effort to an average of 30% for every by monthly release.Created a regression suit (using QTP) for the Aviva Project which reduced the test effort of End to End testing to an average of 60%.Successfully did the internal project Audit which has helped the project to be in line with the defined process.Assisted the management team in preparing for the project audit. The documents were in place at the time of external CMM Audit and earned top ranking from the internal/External audit teams.Created knowledge management documents which helped the new resources to gain the application knowledge.Conducted brain storming sessions on complex work requests which helped the team to reduced the effort during test execution.Created a Clarification Log application using VBA, which has reduced the turnaround time to clarify the queries of the offshore team.

Melbourne Area, Australia, Bangalore, India

Gained Industry wide exposure in System/System Integration and End to End Testing. The major high light is the on-site exposure in Australia which provided me an opportunity to work with the business stake holders. Transitioning the project from onshore to offshore was another major task.My major responsibility includes the System/System Integration/End to End Testing of Custody (CCS)/GFE applications. Created the Master/Detailed Test plans, Entry/Exit criteria, Test Summary report and Conditional Acceptance Memo for Custody/GFE applications.Other responsibility includes,Creation and execution of software test cases in HP Quality Center.Formal review of the Test cases and the Test Results.Assisted the security testing team on performing Security testing. Walk through of the test scenarios/Test Results to the business.Fine tuning of the QTP regression suit.Control-M job monitoring and data validation.Archival database Testing.Achievements--------------------Accelerated average QA testing turn-around time by 25% or more by automating the repeated tasks which allowed the company to accept more testing work without increasing the resources.Designed and developed a tool to create the Test data which reduced the test data preparation effort for the Swift Mandatory release by 22%.Identified the reusable test cases and tagged them in the HP Quality center which reduced the testing effort by 15%.

Bengaluru Area, India

Stag Software is one of the pioneers in Software Testing head-quartered in Bangalore with offices at Chennai, Tokyo, USA, and UK. I have worked with two different projects while with Stag Software. Mobiapps- A Vehicle tracking system. The technology used was GSM and GPRS. Ryder cup- A Work flow management Software. This was executed at the client location at iPass.Major responsibilities,Set up the test Lab for the testing of M track Application.Involved in the hands on testing, daily meetings and System Testing.Created and executed test cases for the Mobiapps device using the GSM/GPRS Technology.Identified software bugs & interacted with developers to resolve issuesIdentified and executed different reports to track the vehicle.

Bengaluru Area, India

B2k Corp Private Limited provides technical support services and other outsourced software services to different business areas. It was acquired by Allsec Technologies Limited on December 2005. As a functional Tester my responsibility includes, Key point of Contact for any client communications.Assisted in Effort Estimation for different testing tasks.Functional Test case document creation, Execution and reporting of defects.Responsible for the status tracking and reporting to the test lead.Took the project training from the client and trained the team members.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, First Class

Computer Applications

Diploma In Advanced Software Technology, Computer Science, A

Diploma in Advanced Software Technology