Environment .Net, XML, WebServices, WAS 6.1, SQL Server 2008, Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, FTP, QMF, SPUFI, Quality Center 9.0, and Quick Test Professional; Projects Zync from American Express - Lego Packs: The American Express Zync Card is a charge card offered by American Express that allows cardholders to customize the perks they want on the card. Merchant tool kit & Bonus point Tool: Project aimed at managing the merchants introducing promotions and offers via American Express site, allowing them to introduce offers and track the milestones achieved.ResponsibilitiesTechnical consultant for the entire application development.Lead offshore team of 8 test Analysts to maintain and deliver multiple concurrent releases of the project. Responsible for creation of all QA supporting documentation such as estimates, test strategies, test plans, test coverage, risk assessment, defect management, status reporting and approach documents.Responsible for the review of test JCL, control cards, flowcharts, and associated procedures delivered from offshore.Pioneered a generic data creation approach which produced volume test mainframe files of over 100M records, which was widely applied across the board to all the teams in T.C.o.E. (Testing Center of Excellence); Testing results documentation with coverage of performance oriented test results in different axes like CPU usage, execution time, graphs, etc.Reviewing weekly offshore tester's status reports and provides suggestions and resolutions to take necessary actions.Verified Test scripts and functions written by offshore testers across the various units of the business modules.Validating Functional and Integration test cases, test logs and traceability matrix. Adhering to architecture & portfolio standards and creating presentations for architecture data/process flow.Worked as a liaison between Client & vendor development team.

Began as a Software Trainee and got promoted to Programmer Analyst and then to Sr. Programmer within 2 years. Actively involved in Analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of projects. Responsibilities includes onsite-offshore coordination, mentoring and guiding team members and handling projects thru different stages of SDLC.