SUMMARY:

• A highly capable Senior SDET professional, with 12 years of experience, who enjoys working on tight deadlines, teamwork, and collaboration. Rich experience in building automation framework, CI/CD and Project Management. Extending on a regular basis to learn on relevant technologies and technical upskill. Able at leading teams on tight deadlines and diverse application tech stack.
• Key s in last 2 years:
• Automated the complete life cycle of Mortgage loan origination and funding process within 2 months using Selenium - Webdriver using TestNG framework.
• 100% automated Pricing Engine API resulting in saving 95% QA efforts using restAssured and JMeter
• Played the role of Scrum Master and Product Owner for over a year along with Senior SDET role.
• ISTQB, PSM Certified Software Quality Assurance Lead Analyst with 11+ years of experience in Functional and Automated testing with major projects in Banking & Financial services under core Agile driven framework.
• Exposure to Hybrid Framework involving Selenium Web-driver, Test script Generation using TestNG with Page object Model design pattern, Allure reports, GIT, Apache POI for Excel driven data, Maven build tool and language used is Java.
• Worked on API automation using JMeter for REST API using Java and integrated it with CICD pipeline.
• Worked on CICD implementation of both UI and API automation using Jenkins.
• Experienced in relational database concepts and ETL testing using different databases.
• Extensive QA Test Lead experience in test planning, strategy design, estimation, metrics reporting, Client coordination under different SDLC phases.
• Skilled in performing different types of testing like GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing Integration Testing, System Testing, Black Box Testing, Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing and UAT Testing
• Worked in JIRA, HP Quality center/ALM tool for test management, defect management and Reporting.
• Strong experience in working with Client Partners and geographically distributed teams.
• Over the years have honed the ability to lead complex projects and mentor team members at both domain and technical.
• Good problem solving/bug fixing abilities with strong oral and written communication skills, and able to prioritize workload to handle multiple tasks.
• Competencies include business impact analysis, risk assessment, test management and root cause analysis.
• Ability to learn new technologies, tools and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Java, Basics of Shell scripting

Automation Tools: Selenium Web-Driver with TestNG, JMeter, Rest-Assured

Build Tool:: Maven

Reports: Extent Reports

CI/CD enabler: Jenkins

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase

Test Cases Design Tool: Agile Requirement Designer (ARD), ALM

Version Control: GIT

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Project Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Other tools: Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior SDET/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis, gathering requirements and specifications, identifying resources and Implementation of the project.
• Implement and maintain Web and API automation using Selenium Web-driver, Rest-Assured and JMeter.
• Have extensive exposure working in Agile driven environment.
• Test cases creation and maintenance using Agile Requirement Designer (ARD)
• Worked on both Data-driven and Page-object Model driven testing framework.
• Successfully automated rest services using JMeter and integrated that with CICD pipeline.
• Automate different process like automated metrics generation and CICD implementation.
• Created Test-data for both upstream and downstream data flow with the coordination of different teams.
• Actively Participate in requirement gathering with stakeholders to create backlogs and plan QA activities right from sprint 0.
• Strategize QA automation tools and best practices as collaborative effort with the team.
• Lead the team to be self-sufficient and upskill from Manual testing to Automation testing.To Credit
• Tech-enablement of the team towards automation of API which has more than 90% of business logic; using JMeter
• Successfully enabled offshore functional resources to automation as part of QA transformation in 3 months. Deeply appreciated by technology team for the quick turn-around.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior SDET/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained a data driven automation tool using Selenium WebDriver using TestNG.
• Review test results, issues and defects related to business functionality using Jenkins.
• Lead the team to adopt the QA best practices in Agile environment.
• Automated test data generation for a Lending Pricing engine, saving weeks of effort to test the 12000+ use cases.
• Self-enabled in Java, Shell-Scripting, SQL, Jenkins for CI/CD and TestNG reporting.
• Worked on both Data-driven and Page-object Model driven testing framework.
• Enabled the existing automation scripts to execute in multiple browsers. Used Selenium Grid to execute parallel tests in multiple browsers - IE, Chrome, Firefox.
• Migrated to use GIT for regular check-in and be in sync with the dev code base.
• Successfully implemented the Auto-test generation automation of more than 12000+ cases which reduced the efforts of running automation from 3 weeks to 1 day.
• Along with the developers, successfully implemented CICD in the project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior SDET/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Steered in the organizational move from Waterfall to Agile and effectively built the team from sprint 0, to have the POC of few automation tools that best fits UI and API testing.
• Maintained reusable library of methods and page objects in the configuration file using properties involved in different types of testing like, functional, regression and smoke, browser compatibility etc.
• Automated Database validation involving complex DB queries.
• Closely coordination with the product owner and developers to bring the best value out of QA.
• Involved in the firm-wide Tech enablement for the Manual testers to move to automation and have a skilled team across different teams.
• Tested web services using Soap UI and Rest Client plugin by consuming WSDL and WADL files and validated against the response from database and inserted assertions.
• Actively participated in the deployment cycle with the dev and product owners.
• Achieved maximum code coverage testing for better quality of application.
• Quickly adapted to the agile methodology and identify right tools to build automation framework.

Confidential

QA automation and Functional Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built and lead a team of 7 associates and built automaton framework for DWH, API and reports testing.
• Went above and beyond the roles of responsibility to create a trust in the offshore model when there was no onshore QA resource.
• Worked on QTP for UI automation.
• Worked on BO Reports which uses Hyperion and DWH testing.
• Upskilled the team to write complex queries and understand the DB better from a business perspective to test better having multiple sessions to explain the complex DWH system.
• Involved with team to build DWH-BO report comparison using VB Script.
• Efficiently coordinated the defect management using ALM tool and generated different metrics for the business team to have visibility into the outcome of the critical project.
• Perform API testing using SOAP UI.
• Successfully upskilled to learn Java and UNIX bash scripting to start implementing automation in upcoming projects.
• Learnt and upskilled in various domains of the project and adopted and implemented the SDLC processes.
• Involved in requirement gathering, Test Plan, Test cases preparation and review with the Business and Dev team.
• Since with project was DWH based, learnt various DWH concepts and SQL queries.
• Learnt UNIX Shell scripting to run batch jobs and build utilities to automate tasks which consume time for data collection and data insertion.
• Trained self to coordinate with different teams to understand the upstream and downstream of the project.
• Coordination with teams helped in better data preparation and work with other senior QA automation engineers to build an end-to-end automation for testing the data flow.