SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and talented IT Quality Assurance Specialist with more than 13 years of experience in Test Management, QA methodologies, HP Tools and Mobil/Web Automation using Selenium. Hands on Lead with proven ability to build teams, develop test strategies, direct and improve quality programs and provide business value testing applications across Finance, Banking and Telecom domains. Expertise in different forms of Manual and Automation testing. Known as an organized, collaborative and competitive individual who works well under pressure, enjoys challenges and is results driven.
• Over 13 years of experience in the Quality Assurance domain.
• 10+ years of experience in Team development, managing QA teams in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies with exposure to BDD.
• 8+ years of Automation experience to set up automation frameworks by analyzing business needs, application functionality and the manual test cases.
• Good Knowledge working with Cucumber, Selenium, Maven, Jenkins and TestNG
• Experienced in Manual and Automated Testing using Testing tools; UFT, ALM, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, and Jira
• Experience in Integration testing using SOA and SoapUI.
• 7+ years of manual testing experience comprising of System, Functional, UAT and Database Testing.
• 2 years of Mobile Apps manual testing experience.
• Developed Mobile Automation framework with Seetest in integration with QTP for a banking application to support Android and IOS platforms.
• Good Experience in Risk Management, Resource Management, Project Management, People Management and Project budget estimations.
• Excellent communication skills in interacting with Business, providing detailed status and raising any risks involved during every phase of testing.
• Experience in developing Data driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frame Works
• Good understanding of applications in Telecom, Banking & Financial domains.
• Worked with different version control systems like Sharepoint, Box, SVN to manage the scripts developed.
• Strong skills in performing Backend testing using Toad and SQLPro and worked with Oracle, SQLServer and Netezza Databases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT 11.5, Seetest, Perfecto Mobil, QTP 11, ALM, Quality Center, SharePoint, SVN, Box, PVCS, BLT, JIRA, Toad, SOAP UI, Doors, Resultspace, DVO, Selenium, SOA, Terminal emulator

Methodologies & Standards: Waterfall Model, Scrum, ATDD, CMMI

Programming Languages and Scripting: JAVA, C, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java Script, VB Script, HTML, XML

Database: Oracle 9.0, Oracle 10g,MS Access, Netezza

Applications: Quantum, Ensemble, SOLAR, TBS, CRM, Store, AST, EMT, Shares, RAPIDS, RIB, SBIB, OAO, Mainframes

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington D.C

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategy for UAT, Data Migration and Parallel testing of Quantum Implementation
• Coached a team of 6 members to implement QA best practices during each phase of testing.
• Tracked additional scope of work for requirement changes and budgeted the effort involved.
• Worked with clients to determine additional needs and resource requirements.
• Managed testing life cycle using ALM 12 and developed automation framework using UFT 11.5
• Had daily status calls with the team and set up internal milestones to track the project progress.
• Performed defect management involving the business, development and testing teams.
• Used Defect metrics to evaluate the code quality.
• Discussed project status on a weekly basis with the stakeholders and inform them about the risks involved and the mitigation plan to overcome the risks.
• Provide sign offs once the exit criteria have been met during each phase of testing.

Skills: UFT 11.5, Quantum, ALM12, Box, SharePoint, VB Script

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business and development teams to discuss the requirements.
• Developed test scripts using Selenium webdriver, TestNG and Cucumber framework.
• Developed test scenarios needed to test the feature of the application.
• Followed Agile approach to support the continuous delivery model.
• Configured a continuous integration environment using Jenkins to run automated tests using Maven build on a daily basis.
• Used ClearCase for source code management and ClearQuest to log the defects.
• Discussed project status on a weekly basis with the stakeholders and informed them about the risks involved and the mitigation plan to overcome the risks.

Skills: Java, Clearcase, Clearquest Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, BDD, Agile

Automation QA Specialist - DCTS QA Automation

Responsibilities:

• Developed a test strategy and performed Manual testing for Mobile Apps on multiple devices with different configurations.
• Performed Browser testing for the Mobile version of the web applications on multiple devices.
• Mentored the team to develop a Hybrid Framework to reap the benefits of automation eliminating the dependency on Automation code using QTP 11
• Coached a team of 4 members to implement best coding practices and write modular reusable code.
• Used Seetest for Mobile Automation and integrated it with the Hybrid Framework
• Oversaw the testing activities for both Manual and Automation testing.
• Used SOA to perform API testing.
• Used Terminal Emulator to automate Mainframe screens.
• Sent weekly status reports to the client. Discussed the risks and dependencies with the client on a weekly basis.
• Coordinated with the offshore team to track daily progress and resolve outstanding issues.

Skills: QTP 11, ALM11, Seetest, SVN, Oracle, Mainframes, VB Script, SOA, Terminal Emulator.

TEAM LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Write functional test cases in Quality center and execute them for every release.
• Used Quality center to log the defects and implement the Defect Life Cycle.
• Send Test Execution Status and Defect Status Reports.
• Developed a Monthly Simulation tool for automating the monthly simulation process and generating the reports.
• Developed NZ PL/SQL store procedures to generate simulated data used for risk analysis and integrating them into the Monthly Simulation tool.
• Used Aginity to validate the data in the Netezza database.
• Validate the risk analysis numbers before sending it to business users.

Skills: PL/SQL, Oracle, Netezza, Aginity, Quality Center, SVN

ETL Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review the Data migration requirements with the business.
• Performed ETL testing using Informatica DVO by adding tests to test the data transformation.
• Verify the data integrity for the data moved between the commissioning applications by using expressions and single table constraints
• Created SQL Views to customize table lookup for a combination of tables.
• Generated reports for all the tests conducted with their results.
• Send execution status and defect status reports to the client on a regular basis.

Skills: SQL, Informatica, DVO, Oracle

TEST LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Used Scrum model to streamline the quality assurance activities across SDLC
• Participated in sprint planning with the business and the development team
• Participated in design sessions to test the functionality of Stories.
• Used JIRA to log the defects and implement the Defect Life Cycle.
• Developed SQL store procedures to set up test data environment.
• Tested the interfaces with SOAP UI
• Used Selenium RC to develop automated scripts.

Skills: Java, Selenium, Oracle, PL/SQL, Doors, Quality Center, Resultspace, JIRA, SOAP UI, Scrum Methodology, Selenium

AUTOMATION LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the ARTV3 Framework in QTP for Online Store.
• Created an Automated Regression suite using ARTV3 in QTP.
• Enhanced the ARTV3 Framework to support multiple browsers and multiple environments.
• Executed the Automated Regression suite to perform smoke test after every environment build.
• Executed the Automated Regression suite at the end of progression testing and during the production launch.
• Wrote functional test cases from stories created by Business for each cycle.
• Followed the Iterative approach for test case execution.
• Generated automated execution and defect status reports.
• Used eMT to populate the content and pricing for online store.

Skills: Oracle, QTP, Quality Center, Excel, SVN, CMMI

Tester/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements and designed the architecture of the tool.
• Status reports of usage requests and usage creation were sent to the client on a daily basis.
• Run the automated regression suite during each release.
• Send execution status and defect status reports to the client on a regular basis.
• Created Automated Test Scripts for regression testing using Mercury Quick Test Pro.

Skills: Java, JSP, Servlets, SQL, Oracle, Win Runner, CMMI

TEST ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Assist the testing team with defect resolution and escalations for the CRM application
• Regularly interact with the client to provide the status update.
• Generate reports from the AOL proprietary tool - BLT (Bug Logging and tracking)

Skills: BLT, Excel, CRM

TESTER/DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation framework using Winrunner
• Did Status Reporting Client-Manager on weekly basis about the automation progress
• Performed manual testing using Test Director

Skills: Oracle, Test Director, Win Runner

TEST ANALYST- Merger

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed test plans and test cases for Functional, Integration and System Testing
• Created Automated Test Scripts for regression testing using Win runner/Mercury Quick Test Pro
• Used Mercury Test Director to store the defect results and create defect reports