QA Manager

• Nov 2021 - Present

Senior Manager- Testing Center of Excellence

• Jul 2021 - Nov 2021

Manager-Testing Center of Excellence

• May 2018 - Jul 2021

• Responsible for building and leading the transformation of 50+ associates from individual contributors to connected, Agile teams working in unison under the umbrella of Northwell Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Ensemble platform• Implemented testing best practices, techniques, tools and solution accelerators to improve efficiency and effectiveness of testing • Established mechanism to monitor KPIs trends through automated dashboard• Instrumental in defining Test Automation roadmaps and setting-up organizational level short term and long-term Automation goal• Streamlined continuous improvement process through developing peer review templates and monitor findings of review process• Promoted culture of continuous learning through cross functional training, organizing Knowledge sharing sessions and periodic review of Skills Matrix• Developed department strategies for talent management, employee career plan and feedback

Test Manager at MassMutual Financial Services

• Dec 2014 - Apr 2018

• Managing Quality Assurance activities of multiple projects in Investment Management and Accounting domain. Experienced in ETL Source to Target Testing• Leading team involved in implementing and maintaining Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid, BDD frameworks using Selenium, UFT, Junit, and Cucumber.• Accountable for Test Planning, Requirement (Functional and non-functional) analysis and ambiguity review, knowledge management, scheduling, budget tracking and control.• Define the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Use cases, Test Requirements and test cases with participation from project team and business users.• Review and approval of key Quality Assurance deliverables for every phases of SDLC.• Provide technical solutions to the projects for various tools and third party applications used for trade processing and accounting activities. Example- Infogix Recon tool, BBH Infomediary Data Aggregator tool, TWS job scheduling tool, Eagle Navigator for Securities Accounting. • Analyze and identify test data of different proprietary and Industry standard trade messages and file formats. (SWIFT messages, EagleML, BBH IFF file formats) for ETL Source to Target Testing.• Measuring various key performance indicators to quantify the benefits of services provided to the customer.• Ensure that the defect tracking processes and tools are established and the team is trained.• Define defect management plan for the projects and program and conduct defect triage.• Monitor and measure the benefits of engagement through metrics based reporting with KPIs, and present it to project stakeholders, MassMutual executive leadership, executive sponsors, Cognizant Managers and supervisors.• Implementation and streamlining of Quality Assurance process to align the Software Testing Methodology with the software development Methodology for MassMutual.• Resource management, Risk management, Quality Assurance consulting.

Test Lead at TJX Companies Inc.

• Sep 2012 - Dec 2014

Worked as Test Lead of Retail Supply Chain, Planning & Allocation, EDI-ASN domain projects.• Estimation of the Project • Interaction with business from client organization in understanding the requirements and obtaining Project signoffs. • Analysis of System Requirement and clarifying doubts of the project peers.• Preparation of Test Cases and Test Scenarios for Functional and integration testing.• Analyzing and preparing test data using EDI transaction sets. • Environment check-out i.e. setting up environment before execution.• Performing Functional, Integration, Regression testing.• Testing various EDI reports created using Cognos Reporting tool.• Reporting Defects and preparing daily execution status report of the team.• Providing test data to UAT team for validation.

Technical Test Lead at Aetna Inc

• Jul 2006 - Aug 2012

Test Lead and hands on experience in Mainframe platform of Healthcare domain projects.• Estimation and preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy.• Analysis of System Requirement and Business Requirement.• Preparation of Test Cases and Test Scenarios for Functional and integration testing.• Preparation of Test JCLs during execution.• Reporting Defects and preparing daily execution status report of the team.• Performing Functional, Integration, Regression and User acceptance testing.• Preparation of Business Components in QC for automation testing.• Execution of automated test scripts through QC and QTP.• Evaluating the scope for automation for testing efforts.• Conceptualizing and developing tools to reduce manual effort in different testing life cycles.• Development and enhancement of project portal for structured knowledge sharing for fresher and other peers.