Contributes to diverse business and technical roles throughout a rapid career progression operating across SDLC. Manages BigData CoE to address responsibilities and projects including Ingestion & Extraction Frameworks, Cloud hosted platforms, Transformation Engine, and major consolidation programs for internal business clients.

Role: QA Manager• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan & Test Scenarios to test Ingestion Framework in distributed Big Data Hadoop environment.• Reviewed test scenarios & performed validation on Taxonomy, Disaster recovery, High availability (HA), HDFS Snap-shot & TDE encryption for Enterprise Data Lake (EDL).• Performed Functional & Non-Functional testing based on User stories.• Reviewed end to end test cases for User Acceptance testing and obtained sign-off. • On boarding, enabling Agile delivery and Ingested source (Canadian & International Banking and Global Banking & Markets) Data & Metadata into Data Lake as a part of Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting (RDARR) program.• Participated in the design meetings & provided design recommendation based on testing.• Created the tool to generate & validate the metadata xmls for Data providers.• Tested in-house Next Generation (GenX) framework built on Spark & Scala.• Developed Known Error Database (KEDB) for Ingestion Framework which increased the productivity by 15%.• Performed validation of Data, Lineage & Metadata.• Assisted Project teams & LOBs in Metadata creation, Ingestion of various source files (CSV, Fixed Length, SAS Delimited version & COBOL) and error troubleshooting.• Aided implementation team in deployment of Ingestion Framework V1.0 & 2.0 on DEV, UAT & PROD.• Weekly Status & Defect dashboard to senior management & Program team.• Daily Huddle, Test Coordination & Follow-up with Retail & Non-Retail Credit Program teams and Vendor.• Oversaw QA's work, test execution & completion, defect management, triage and test coordination in Agile environment. • Recommend and implement ways to streamline and automate processes for efficiency gain and process improvement.• Ensuring Quality measures are followed by conducting Review & Analysis meetings.• Involved in SCRUM, CAB & Management meetings.

Role : QA Team Lead• Managed team of 15 for System testing of AT&T Wholesale applications.• Worked on Test Planning, Designing and Execution scheduling using AT&T ITUP standards. Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan and executed Test cases in QC & Rally.• Presented QA team results in front of the management & requirement team for the approvals. • Implemented & Lead automation of Test suite using QTP saves 4 man days (~50% effort saving) for every major & minor release.• Implemented serialization & extraction cron job (shell script) for ETL project saves 2 man days (~25% efficiency gain).• Review, Walk-through, RCA meetings for the escaping defects, Lesson Learnt and tracking quality KPIs.• Looking in to scoping, resourcing, estimation, capacity tracking, communication and people aspect of the team. • Track projects and be part of Capacity Planning for resource utilization to an optimum level.• Evolved in Management, iCOM and Status Reporting, Daily Huddle & Scrum meetings, Lean Matrix etc. • As Lead interacted with client, managed risk and issues ensuring quality and timely delivery.

Role : Senior Subject Matter Expert & Offshore Coordinator• Responsible for Functional, System and Regression Testing. • Involved in all Client & Onshore Interactions.• Analyzing business requirements, planning and managing end to end testing.• Design, develop, maintain and execute Test scripts & Test cases• Involved in Design of Test Plan and Test Execution schedules.• Walkthrough the Business Test Cases and Test Plan with the Team prior to execution.• Review and Baseline the Test Plans with Requirement & Technical oversight teams.• Manage Traceability Matrix to trace Business & Functional requirements.• Created test data to validate various test scenarios and conditions• Monitoring Test execution, Status Reporting, giving KT sessions & mentoring new joiners.• Hosted daily triage meetings with Business to prioritize the defects and provided daily defect & status reports to the management team.• Worked closely with the COM Manager and the Dev. team to ensure the deliveries on time.• Travelled site for requirement gathering and coordinating with offshore team in Test Planning.

Project deals with online payments, user management, balance & transaction reporting. The project was on Wholesale Banking and Payment Solutions. Role : Programmer Analyst• Responsible for Functional & System Testing. Prepared Test-cases, Test plan and RTM.• Requirement analysis and designing of test cases. Mapped the test case with requirements for Tractability.• Successfully executed all the test cases during the test cycles of all releases. Defect finding and reporting through C2.• Maintaining test documentation.• Migration for the ABN AMRO-RBS Split, Environment setup for ABN AMRO.• Coordinating with the onsite team.

Investment Banking Project, initiative from the Retail Structured Products platform and the Marketing teams wants to streamline and improve upon their existing processes with respect to pre-trade approvals for structured products.Role : Programmer Analyst• Testing: Unit and Functional testing.• Requirement study and Analysis.• GUI Design and development.• Maintenance and Feature enhancements of the Application.• Involved in Deployment and release of the Application.• Design Document Preparations.• Acquiring System Specific Knowledge and Documentation.• Coding and Defect Fixing.