Project Team Lead

• Jan 2023 - Present

Quality Assurance Lead

• Apr 2022 - Jan 2023

Test Manager

• Jan 2017 - Apr 2022

• Managed planning, backlog grooming and Test driven development implementation• Customized Project management tool JIRA to drive daily stand up meetings referring to Scrum board, Sprint burn down chart.• Facilitated Review meetings, Retrospective and Sprint planning meetings, making sure key decisions are clear at the end of the discussions, making responsibility and deadlines clear• Conducted Agile practices sessions to coach the team members new to Agile and worked along with Product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints• Removed obstacles for the team by promptly escalating issues to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solutions• Partake in the initial project touch base calls during the analysis phase to understand the requirements and thereby estimate the work-flow approach which is most suitable. • Assess the testing effort and raise risks proactively when any issue may actually extend for long and pose a threat to project implementation timelines and align with clients accordingly.• Detect data integrity issues (if any) with the existing and proposed systems and recommend/implement solutions. Show less

Test Analyst

• Mar 2013 - Dec 2016

• Assess the testing effort and raise risks proactively when any issue may actually extend for long and pose a threat to project implementation timelines and align with clients accordingly.• Detect data integrity issues (if any) with the existing and proposed systems and recommend/implement solutions.• Design the test scenarios, Identify the Test environment and test data along with the Coordination of all application teams.• Conduct daily/weekly status meetings from and End-To-End project perspective and provide a periodic up-to date progress of development and testing activities.• Discussions with American Express personnel based on the System Requirements. Document the functionality, Design, operational, Technical issues and scope of work.• Identify re-engineering opportunities and create saves by implementing the opportunities in areas of automation and virtualization.• Prepare and publish the daily and weekly status reports based on the progress of the project, clearly depicting the RAG Status and issues/mitigation if the projects are in the Red/Amber Status.• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions to train new resources into the project and bring them up to speed with testing processes, various tools involved and functionality of applications.• Adhere to the Compliance by following the defined Start-up Process and perform Closure Audits at the end of each phase to provide a quality product. Show less

Tester

• Feb 2011 - Feb 2013

• Preparing Status reports, Exit report for project and communication with client on regular basis regarding issues/questions.• Design the test scenarios, Identify the Test environment and test data along with the Coordination of all application teams.• Attend weekly status meetings and tele-conference calls to update the progress of development and testing activities.• Requirement and system analysis.• Provide business and technology solutions for the system design.• To plan and control the overall SDLC of a software product.• Design and development during various stages ranging from functional specification, designing, modifying, deployment, migration, securing, optimizing and data refresh.• Coordinated the User acceptance testing by publishing regular progress reports and following up with the development teams on fixing defects.• Identify automation candidates among test scripts and create automation test scripts. Show less