Highly self-motivated and self-directed with 16+ years of IT experience of which 9+ years in Recruitment & Bench Sales, 7+years of experience in Managing projects, leading teams for various IT Projects. AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Recruitment & Talent Acquisition • Bench Sales • Team building, Client & People Management • Testing & Managing IT Projects Recruitment and Bench sales Summary • Expertise in entire recruitment life-cycle from obtaining the job opening, researching the opening, sourcing the candidate, prescreening, technical interviews, client contact/feedback, negotiations, closing the hire and maintaining the candidate in the position for both contract and Permanent positions. • Recruiting US & Canadian Citizens, Green Card Holders, H4, L2, OPT EAD, GC EAD and H1B consultants as per the client requirement. • Did initial screening of the candidates to find out their visa status, current location, expected salary, did the communications skills check and also briefed about the client and the job description. • Responsible for checking references, negotiating terms and rates for each project, coordinating the interview process, extending offers, and closing candidates. • Head hunting and passive candidate search through referrals and networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Recruiting Blogs, and Recruiting Groups. • Recruiting via Internet job boards (Dice.com, Monster.com, and CareerBuilder), direct phone sourcing, vendor network, referrals and expanded Internet sourcing. • Expertise on End-End Lifecycle of Bench Sales. Summary of IT experience as Sr Quality Analyst / Sr Tester • Managing the QA team for End-to-end Testing. Activities include front-to-back process definition and e2e testing across front end online checkout. • Managing Regression test across EMEA, LA and NA regions. • Worked closely with senior client leadership and stake holders. • Prepared Project Test plan and drive it until successful go live on time. • Identifying and communicating the gaps in the requirement documents. • Discussing with process teams from client side and finalizing scope of testing. Understanding the complex functionality of different modules and preparing test scripts accordingly. • Reporting the functional gaps to Development team of the given module and raising the issues and concerns to the senior management. • Assisted client in explaining the designed functionality as required. • Understanding the complex functionality of different modules and preparing test scripts for System and Integration testing and executing them in a timely manner. Defect Logging and Retest the defects fixed. • Working closely with the Client to execute the scripts and to make sure the scripts are according the Business Requirements. • Performed String Testing & Integration Testing of Data Exchanges where TIBCO is used as middleware