SUMMARY:

• Result focused and customer oriented QA Lead/Supervisor with professional expertise in designing, implementing and leading testing efforts for complex projects.
• Almost 6 years of IT experience in testing web based applications in both automated and manual testing environment.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Processes, QA Methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle - Agile and Waterfall.
• ASTQB certified tester.
• Proven ability to lead complex testing as well as other projects from initial conceptualization to implementation.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, black-box testing, smoke testing, regression testing, system testing.
• Lead the team to design, develop and execute Page Object Model(POM) Framework using Selenium Webdriver and programming languages to test web applications. Automation process resulted in reduction of regression testing time by 50% and deployment time by 60% for one of the projects.
• Strong experience with SauceLabs, Applitools and databases like MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Oracle.
• Performed web services testing using SOAP UI.
• Wrote and executed test plans and test cases, managed test schedules, deliver projects in timely fashion.
• Extensive experience in understanding Business and Functional requirements document. Coordinated with different teams to understand new system requirements and functional needs of the system.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to build professional relationships with peers and superiors, and work comfortably with both business and technical professionals.
• Highly organized, strong analytical and presentation abilities and exceptional with problem solving ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium, SauceLabs, Applitools, QualiSystems TestShell, SOAP UI, QTP 9.0, Appium

Development IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Languages: Java, C#

Databases: MY SQL, SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

SCM: GIT, Jenkins, Visual Studio, Test Manager, Subversion (SVN), Confluence, JIRA, Empirix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential:

QA Lead/ITS Analyst Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 6-members, coordinate resource allocations for various projects, create work assignments for team, identify issues, maintain timelines/milestones and responsible for performance management.
• Introduced the automation environment at ITS and leading, mentoring and training multiple analysts using Selenium Webdriver to test Java based Judicial applications and helping them in their professional development.
• Architect the testing automation framework, lay the strategy for implementation.
• Leading the project of converting the legacy application to a web-based application. Acting as a main Point of contact for the vendor and the various teams within ITS for this project.
• Established and documented various admin processes like Problem Management.
• Participate in all meetings for management decisions, release planning, planning and implementation of Disaster Recovery project role swaps.

Confidential

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading team of QA testers.
• Design, develop and implement the automated testing environment using Selenium and C# for web applications. Test cases are written using Microsoft Visual Studio (IDE). Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used for source control, reporting, requirement management and project management.
• Manage test timelines, deliverables, coordinating testing activities and providing estimation of work scheduling and test duration.
• Perform manual testing for native iOS App and in process of designing and developing automated testing for iOS App using Appium and Xcode.
• Responsible for making test plan, test scope, test strategy, resource planning, creating and tracking of test schedule.
• Designed and developed best practices for QA team.
• Perform cross browser testing and execute automated scripts using SauceLabs.
• Created automated test cases with integrated visual testing using Applitools.
• Review business requirements and provide feedback to the team and provide status reports and updates.
• Provide succinct and accurate test results and enter bugs into integrated bug tracking system TFS.
• Perform back end testing and generate SQL queries for data validation using SQL Server and Oracle database.
• Work jointly with Project Manager and development team to identify and to resolve issues.
• Provide daily status and attend stand up meetings.

Confidential

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed automated test scripts to test the functionality of the instruments used by the company in the lab environment. Creating these scripts not only help the engineers in running their testing by saving time as well as avoided human error. These scripts were created using QualiSystems TestShell.
• Developed automated test scripts for EMTA’s using TestShell which reduced testing time by 50%.
• Performed manual as well automated testing for testing the call features provided by different switches used by the company.
• Performed analysis and troubleshooting of a call using Empirix System.
• Configured eMTAs, routing engines used for call processing using BroadBand Access Control (BACC).
• Performed troubleshooting and reported bugs using JIRA.