Kulvinder Kaur

About Kulvinder Kaur

A Quality Assurance, Systems Analysis, and Agile Development Leader offers proven success in directing the entire software development lifecycle, ISO 9001 compliance, and SEI-CMMI processes. Expertise spans diverse types of testing, specifically fault injection, integration, Black Box and White Box, regression, IVR, 508 Compliance, API, REST, Web Service and SaaS testing across industry sectors, including financial, telecommunications, supply chain management, publishing, CRM, and billing applications. Selected areas of expertise include:*Building world-class teams around the Agile delivery model in a dispersed Matrix Management model.*Leading multimillion-dollar application testing projects involving multiple vendors and stakeholders.*Supporting sales and business development efforts, working diligently to gain client trust in proposed solutions.*Implementing radical changes in quality assurance processes that led to decreased production defect leakage by as much as 60%.*Providing astute budget management and one-on-one employee development.*Recognized through multiple professional awards and offers proficiency in several tools, programming languages, quality assurance applications, and operating systems.*Extensive experience in building, leading and co-coordinating global teams *Excellent analytical, problem solving, project management, interpersonal, technical and communication skills. Specialties: Project management, Software Quality Assurance, Process Improvement, Financial markets, Retail Wealth Management, Budgeting and Accounting, Large team management, Offshore resource management

Experience

1. Software Test Manager for Meps Project

   Westat

   Jul 2015 — Present

   Develop and oversee the testing plans for projects to ensure compliance with quality standards and end-user requirements;Establish and enforce standard test processes and deliverables (including defect management and quality metric reporting) for large scale data collection project;Participate in requirements gathering, specification reviews and product design to build quality in early; Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all testing process and methodology, lead others in incorporating manual and automation testing industry best practices, techniques and methodology into existing software testing process;Assign duties and monitor quality of work; Ensure the best practices and processes are followed;Manage testers to deliver testing life cycle activities and deliverables, on time, and on budget with high quality; Work collaboratively with the project management, development and business analysis teams throughout the software development life-cycle; Manage the scope of alpha, beta and production testing (smoke, functional, automation, regression, load and performance) within the context of each release/delivery for all front end and back end systems; Manage, own, and train on the testing tools required to meet testing goals within the software development life-cycle and release schedule.

Education

• I.E.T.E

  Bachelors

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Financial Markets
• Management
• User Acceptance Testing
• Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Applications
• Agile Methodologies
• Javascript
• C#
• Quality Assurance
• Product Management
• Java
• Software Development
• Leadership
• Integration
• Qtp
• Client Representation
• Unix
• Project Management
• Analysis
• Jira
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Strategy
• Software Project Management
• Test Cases
• Requirements Gathering
• Oracle
• Performance Testing
• Telecommunications
• Offshore Resource Management
• Sharepoint
• Databases
• Quality Center
• Sdlc
• Business Requirements
• System Testing
• Manual Testing
• Xml
• Sql
• Test Management