SUMMARY:

• Over 1 2 years of IT industry experience in Quality Assurance in the End - to-End Integration and System Testing of Commercial and Enterprise applications, including Cloud implementations ,
• Over 8 years of experience leading large offshore testing teams that has 10 + direct reports
• ASQ.org certified software quality engineer with the knowledge of full Software Development and Quality Life Cycle (SDLC) with experience in Agile/Scrum, Rational and Waterfall development methodologies.
• E xperience in managing the Testing/Development t eam during Sprint s.
• Experience in Cloud Implementations of large scale applications
• Experience in Hospitality , Healthcare , Education and Financial Industries.
• Experience with SaaS based Applications
• Extensive experience in the building and management of Multi-Server test.
• Proficient in Manual and Automated testing frameworks design.
• Expertise in multiple testing tools including JIRA, HP ALM, HP Unified Functional, ALM, BDD/Cucumber/Selenium testing Web Services with SOAP UI, UFT- API, XML, JSON, REST.
• In-depth experience in test planning, test case creation, test automation and test execution.
• Extensive experience in System, Integration, Mobile, Regression, User Acceptance, Performance, Smoke, Stress and Load Testing of GUI, Middle-tier and Back-end applications.
• Experience in Relational DBMS like Oracle and SQL Server and writing complex SQL queries plus ETL/Data Warehousing/BIG Data/Hadoop.
• Excellent inter-personnel and verbal/written communication skills
• Current designing, implementing and executing Test Automation Architecture for functional/regression testing using
• Over 5 years performance testing experience with HP Tools Loadrunner and open source tools.
• Proven ability to oversee day-to-day project activities; assign tasks to quality assurance analysts; manage day-to-day project issues, including defect tracking and other project-related matters.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, SOAP UI, UFT/ Quick Test Pro 14.1 with VB Scripting, Winrunner>QTP Migration, Load Runner, QC.

Architecture/Tools: MS.NET, J2EE/ Oracle, ETL/Data Warehousing/BIG Data/Hadoop, IBM/ Websphere, Informix/4GL, A IX and Mainframe, MS SQL Server, Informix. SQL Query, SQLBase, TOAD, MS Access, UML, WinSQL, Netezza, Hadoop, Big Data, Tableau, ETL, iOS, Android, QuerySurge.

Applications Tested: Educational, Investment Portfolios, Trading, Healthcare, Patient Management/Clinical, Financial Insurance, Property Management/Hotel/Restaurants, Revenue/Reservations, Accounting, Financial, Banking and manufacturing related ERP/CRM, Soarian Financial, Siebel/CRM, SAP/ERP, Knowledge Pathway/Educational, Info-Image/Office Management, Peoplesoft, Kronos, Lab Test Medical Applications, HL7, HIPAA. Micros/Opera for Property Management, Global Point of sale,, Food and Beverage Cost Control, Educational Testing Reporting.

Apps Used: Confluence, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Siebel, Team Track, Jenkins, Bamboo, Crystal Report, MS Project, VISIO, Select Enterprises, SVN.

Defect Tracking Systems: JIRA, PVCS Tracker, ALM/Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software QA Automation Engineer

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Complete Agile Model and managed the test Development and QA team s.
• Followed all four Scrum events - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective .
• Actively participate in Sprint Planning with Product Owner and Scrum Master and prioritize the backlog towards successful 3 Weeks Sprint s.
• Worked on 2-month cycle product increments thereby deploying features and fixes in the cloud rapidly
• Automating the new features in the same release increment thereby keeping the Automation repository up to date
• Study and suggest Open Source tools and successfully implemented to improve Testing Methodology
• Understand the impediments and coordinate and resolve them to make the team successful
• Perform Resource Management to the projects and tasks so they are completed on time . Worked with Offshore teams on Migration of Delphi Applications to Dotnet platform. Performed parallel testing and complete migration coordination.
• Prepared detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Identify and plan for Critical Paths for successful Sprint
• Mentor new resources and get them to be part of the project and have them contributing to the projects rapidly
• Contribute towards the Requirements in meetings with Business Analyst , Product Management and Stakeholders
• Identifying the gaps in Requirements during Development and QA
• Simultaneous planning for Automation in each Sprint and automate the new features rapidly
• Responsible for the Support issues that need Development involvement
• Participate in Executive Management Meetings (includes all Stakeholders) to understand the customer needs and provide feedback and feasibility from implementation point of view
• Prepare high level Test Strategy for every Sprint
• Plan, design and implement test automation framework. Writing automated test scripts for JReport on a Delphi/Oracle Web applications.
• Setup environment with BDD/Cucumber and Selenium/Java with continuous integration with Bamboo.
• Automated a suite of JReports using UFT 11.52. The test design applications generate Jreports for test results. Application written in Delphi, Weblogic and Java/Oracle developers tools.
• Analysis and testing of changes and enhancements to USMLE Clinical Skills Exams, BUGs testing including test estimation, planning and execution for multiple releases and environment in a monthly Sprint cycle.
• Train coops and junior testers in test automation, scripting and tests results evaluation and reporting.

Tools: UFT 14.1, ALM, Selenium WebDriver 2, Cucumber, JIRA, Confluence SVN, Oracle database/SQL, JAVA, JReports, Adobe Reporting, Delphi, MS Office tools.

Senior QA/Automation Analyst

Confidential, Bala Cynwid, PA

Responsibilities:

• Built an automated test engine to ensure quality of a powerful Investment Portfolios Application for large US Banks and investment companies. The application was web based used on cross browsers. Evaluated multiple test automation tools i-e UFT, Telerik, Test Complete, Test Studio, Web Driver, Watir and presented the evaluation results to the Management to help select the best tool for the web-based investment application.
• Planned and designed automation framework with QTP Essential version 12.51.
• Designed scripts to convert existing Selenium IDE scripts to QTP Essential.
• Learned the Investment Trading, Finance and Portfolio management applications “ Confidential ” used by large Banks in USA.
• Apps and Crystal Reports enhancement, BUGs testing including test estimation, planning and execution for multiple releases and environment in a monthly Sprint cycle.
• Train junior/novice testers in test automation, scripting and tests results evaluation and reporting.

Senior IT Consultant

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Successful migration of a legacy 4GL/Informix application to a modern state of the art Cloud based Java architecture. Ensured smooth migration of existing functionalities and interfaces to the new application. Participated in test designing and directions, advised, guided with active monitoring of test results with consultants over a period of 3 years. Ensured that the interfaces and features match the requirements. Guided/helped the vendor QA Team in establishing and designing their test plans by providing them Test Templates and Models to successfully execute the application tests and provide traceability matrix.
• Designed test plan and architecture for mobile tools, iphone, ipad, tablet with iOS and Android operating system and MS Surface Pro.T ested Mobile Applications for Reservation system and Rewards on IPAD, Tablets on iOS and Android operating systems. This included test planning, application installation, testing and defect tracking on Mircros Opera/cloud based systems.
• Designed and developed data driven architecture for regression test automation for Opera, Property Management System. A Browser based application on Oracle Financial/Java. Using HP Unified Functional Quick Test Pro 11.52 platform scripted a suite of modular, data-driven automated test scripts for functional regression testing as well as automated daily night audit process. Developed Application Independent function libraries in UFT
• Managing the automated test scripts suite for regression and performance/stress testing using HP Unified Functional/QTP, Winrunner and Loadrunner Configured test environment and create strategy for product development and certification. Assure test data, schedule automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and tracking system updates.
• Analyzed business and system requirements, managed development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans and verify bug fixes in an Agile methodology for development of a J2EE/Oracle cloud based application with multi-threaded interfacing including Siebel CRM/ Informix/4GL Banqueting/Financial Applications.
• I nvolved in assessment of test automation effort. Writing reusable functions using Descriptive Programming
• Mentored fellow team members in test automation skills training with the automation tools UFT/Selenium.
• Quality Assurance processes definition for ETL and Reporting Data Warehousing projects for Revenue and Reporting with Netezza, Hadoop migration, Big Data, Tableau.
• Worked with Off-shore vendors and their teams to validate the tests and results to ensure that the requirements are met.
• Designed a test automation framework with Selenium IDE/Web Driver using Java API on multiple Browsers to automate database and Web applications.
• Produced a strategic automation work breakdown structure for each sprint cycles.
• Participated in SQARB (Software Quality Assurance review board) to identify various Automation process gaps and improvements. Raise and document risks related to the implementation of business requirements to Program Managers deal with all stakeholders. Involved in Scrum meetings and updates
• Worked closely with junior testers, providing them training, Review test Artifacts to meet deadlines.
• Responsible for functionality and data validation tests for a Accounting and Financial application for banqueting and hotel reservations. Supported the development team to resolve the problems associated with the application. Tested data flow with XML documents for Web Services/WSDL, REST, SOAP for the front end Display and UI.
• Designed and executed automated test scripts for Global Point of Sale System on Web and Mobile platforms, iOS, Android, and Microsoft Surface Pro.
• Wrote test plans and coordinated automated ETL testing effort for data migration and validation from OLTP to OLAP and Cognos' reports testing, with Hadoop and Tableau, IBM SaaS, Cloud applications for data warehousing.
• Worked to self-manage projects to budget/estimate and hit deadlines set forth by project leads/managers. Provided systems analysis support for production issues when needed.
• Make sure Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Tracking are performed regularly and contribute towards a successful Sprint .
• Manage individual Project related sub-teams for QA and monitor the performance
• Point of Contact for External Teams for Integration planning and execution

Applications-Tools: MARSHA, Reservations System, Central Integrated Banqueting System, Micros GPOS (Global Point of Sale Systems), Tableau, Hadoop, Big Data, ETL,Netezza,Cognos, UNIX/AIX, Informix, NGS, Quick Test Pro 11.5/12, WinRunner 9.2 /Test Director, HP UFT/Quality Center/ALM, ClearCase, JavaScript, UNIX C/Bash/Korn Shell Scripting, ClearQuest, iOS, Android, Selenium IDE/Web Driver with JAVA API. /WSDL, REST.