Work on New Client Onboarding / BAU Clients as part of regular deliveries
Identify the scope of testing in the Sprint and guide the team members to accomplish Sprint goals
Review the test execution in the sprint
Responsible for defect free QA deliveries for the clients
Manage various QA environments to make sure they are ready for execution
Involved in improvements required in the current Automation framework to draw maximum output
Resolve Technical and Process related challenges faced by the team
Be part of the Agile ceremonies in the team (Backlog Grooming, Scrum Planning, Daily Standup, Retrospective, DEMO, Story Workshop)
Regularly do the capacity planning for the team and update key stakeholders
Take care of the hiring needs of the team
Implement best automation practices which helps improve the overall turnaround time of test validations
Managing 10+ third party contractors deployed on various Loyalty projects.
Manager - Testing
Idemia
2018.01 - 2019.07
Handling a team of 12 testers
Test Delivery management for multiple projects
Keeping track of progress of assigned projects till the closure of the projects
Keeping track of utilization of team members and assign them tasks accordingly
Implemented the Agile practices in the team (Backlog Grooming, Scrum Planning, Daily Standup, Retrospective, DEMO, Story Workshop)
Worked on Agile reports (Velocity Chart, Defect Burn Down Charts, etc.) Governing the Automation work done by the team which includes Automation strategy, decision on tool, SCM tool.
Test Specialist
TSYS Card Tech Limited
2010.02 - 2017.12
Delegating tasks to team members on daily basis
Keeping track of progress of assigned projects till the closure of the projects
Understanding the requirements by going through the User Stories, Specification Document and Technical Documents
Review the test cases and test execution and conducting Adhoc testing
IT APP Development/ Senior-Specialist Application Systems Analyst/Developer at Washington State UniversityIT APP Development/ Senior-Specialist Application Systems Analyst/Developer at Washington State University
Designed, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security AdministrationDesigned, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security Administration
Application Development Manager, Information Systems at BlueCross BlueShield of South CarolinaApplication Development Manager, Information Systems at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Manager of Application Development/Sr. Systems Engineer III at Daystar Development, Inc. / Resolution Technologies, Inc.Manager of Application Development/Sr. Systems Engineer III at Daystar Development, Inc. / Resolution Technologies, Inc.