• ISTQB/BCS Certified Software Test Lead with 7 years of experience in software testing using traditional and AGILE methodologies. • Have hands-on experience in Manual Testing, Mainframes, Web services, and Database Testing. • 5 years as a QA Lead and managing teams up to 12 members in size, worked in capacity of Test Lead for Manual / functional testing POC for an independent module. • Experienced QA Lead for on-shore and off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance appraisals. • Quality experience in Software Testing Life Cycle involving requirement gathering, design, execution and testing as per client specifications. • Expertise in HP ALM defect management tool. • Skilled in managing relationships with clients. An ardent analyst, with a flair for adapting quickly to dynamic business environments. • Worked closely with development engineers as needed and documented found issues in HP ALM. • Tested JAVA applications using agile-to-agile methodology and logged in defects in HP ALM. • Performed UAT and provided customer support by recreating customer-found problems. • Reported new problems found, debugged and provided detailed information to development teams. • Utilized SQL to create scripts and extract data used in system data validation, preparing functional documentation according to required software features. • Completed regression testing for all phases of the software development lifecycle. • Facilitated use of standard testing documentation, test planning strategies and defect management tools including the successful implementation of HP ALM corporate-wide. • Reviewed testing execution and ensured project testing deadlines and milestones were met utilizing various reporting on HP ALM. Prepared Dashboard Reports and produced QA reporting decks for project stakeholders.