SUMMARY:

• 12 yrs. of Experience in Online, Retail, Insurance, Publishing and Financial domain.
• 6 yrs. of native and hydride mobile app testing hands on experience.
• Hold 4 yrs. Bachelor’s Degree in engineering.
• Defined new methodology to QA teams for testing mobile and tablet versions.
• Vendor management and coordination.
• Building Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum style development/testing methods.
• Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle Process and Software Test Life Cycle process.
• Experienced in Manual and Automated testing with Black Box, Grey Box and white box testing using Appium, Selenium, QTP and freeware tools.
• Familiarity with industry standard Bugs reporting practices and defect tracking cycles like JIRA, Bugzilla, Version One, Quality Center, Clear Quest and Fogbugz.
• Involved in Performance and load testing using tools like Load runner, Jmeter, Microsoft WAS, http load, http perf, Yslow, Firebug etc.
• Good testing knowledge of Backend API and verifying json responses.
• Good knowledge in non - functional testing like Security/Penetration testing, Accessibility testing, Search engine optimization testing, Interruption testing, Internationalization and localization testing
• Experience in Version Control Tools like Git, SVN, CVS, Perforce, StarTeam and Clear case.
• Involved in requirement gathering, requirement analysis, test planning, prototyping and proof of concept, resource planning and execution of project.
• Strong database knowledge of Oracle, SQL Server

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Mac, WINDOWS 95/98/2000/XP, UNIX

Tools: Appium, Load runner, Jmeter, http load, MSWAS, Selenium, TestNG, YQA, Xcode.

Others: Git, JIRA, CVS, SVN, Bugzilla, JIRA, Test Manager, Fogbugz, Quality center, Test director, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, X-mind and many Freeware tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Architect Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and Plan for manual and automated testing of Apple, Android native and web applications. I ensure that offshore and onshore testing resources understand current priorities and are completing and reporting on their testing efforts. Execute and write functional automation scripts using Appium. Keep stakeholders informed of testing status, and provide assessment of deployment readiness.
• Coordinate crowd - sourced testing activities with Applause (uTest) project manager. Involved in coordinating UAT tests with internal and external sources. Building teams at onsite and offshore and mentoring QA resources. Involved in conducting s and facilitating QA and cross-functional meetings. Playing the role of Scrum master for Android project and backfilling for QE Manager from past 3 months.

Confidential

Senior Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planed, coordinated, and implemented functional, system, integration, and user acceptance testing. Partnered with business users, business analysts, and project managers on system requirements and usage scenarios. Worked closely with developers to design and implement test plans, which includes paired work sitting side - by-side with a developer or business analyst.
• Managed and setup all test environments, test data, etc. Investigated and tracked production issues. Documented issue updates and resolutions.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was leading mobile testing team in DowJones. Team is responsible for testing various native applications of Dowjones on different mobile devices. Testing is done on iOS, Android and blackberry platforms. Mobile applications tested here are WSJ mobile app., Barron’s mobile app, WSJ Live mobile app, WSJ Universal app etc. Our team is responsible for end-to-end testing of all mobile applications in Dowjones. We follow agile methodology.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• I was leading the team of mobile testers for Pweb mobile app testers. The team was responsible for testing native application on iOS and Android. This project was very crucial for ING as this was their first mobile app.
• Our team was responsible for end to end testing of the application which includes functional and non functional testing. Team used emulator as well as actual devices for of app. before it was launched in respective markets. Team used several open source tools for performing functional and non - functional testing. To name a few it was C-smart, C-Smartpro, M-Jammer etc. I was also involved in setting up the offshore team in India for mobile testing.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• The application was about slavery and anti slavery. Researchers, teachers, and students of various Grades mainly use this application. This product was accessed by any libraries who are subscribed for this product from Cengage.

Confidential

Quality Engineer lead

Responsibilities:

• I was part of Media team, which consist of products like Yahoo Cricket, Yahoo News, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo India Home page and many micro sites. Yahoo was one of the few early companies to develop native applications on Mobile and I got an opportunity to work on Apple, Android and Blackberry apps. Started following agile from few days after joining there and with its great success saw it rolling to all the projects. At Yahoo QE was involved from day 1 on most of the projects, which provided much valuable feedback and resulted for better user experience and great functionality. Worked on various operating systems like Free BSD, Ubuntu, Mac OS and Windows. I worked mainly on functional testing but also involved in non-functional testing like Security,
• Usability, Internationalization and localization. I was Involved in User Interface Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, End-2-End Testing, Defect validation testing. I was fully Involved in developing framework for Selenium and writing automated test scripts for Web applications. Also did Load and performance testing on client and server side using tools like Apache jMeter, MS WAS, http load etc.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and executing test cases based on product specifications. Performing black box, functional and regression testing. I was logging and tracking software defects in the bug tracking.
• Coordinating with client/onsite team regarding business requirement and testing. Also performing the load test with the help of Loadrunner 8.0 and finding out bottleneck by generated results and reports of load runner.