SUMMARY:

• Over 11 years of experience spread across all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with primary focus on Quality Assurance.
• Experience involves developing Enterprise Applications, orchestrating in - house tools:, building Automation Frameworks, Quality Assurance, Security Testing, Feature Testing, Customer Support, DevOps and IT infrastructure management.
• Recently worked as a Lead Quality Engineer for a start-up playing different roles ranging from leading the QA team, building automation frameworks, manual testing security testing and more.
• Highly passionate about assuring the quality of the products that I work for Quality Assurance Engineer especially the security facets.
• Have an innate ability to get a quick grasp on things and learn the tricks of trade swiftly.
• Bearer of couple of reputed certifications in the field of Software Security.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work with QA analysts and Developers to ensure that all aspects of the system have proper testing coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality.
• Comply with the system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC) by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
• May coach, lead and mentor other team members.
• Provide testing management for ongoing projects and future initiatives.
• Deliver effective and efficient testing solution by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time and adhering to development and quality standards.
• Analyze the testing needs and develop testing strategy and plans.
• Automate the regression test cases using Selenium Test Ng framework, Maven and Git repository.
• Have used page object model to handle all object xpaths in effective way.
• Execute the test suite for every release, analyse the test results and report the defects.
• Have used Jira for reporting the redefects.
• Review and approve test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures such as database impacts, software scenarios or usability.
• Have built new framework for Visual automation using galen framework.
• Have used Android SDK packages to automate mobile test cases for android devices.
• Have also done POC for WebdriverIO with javascripting and cucumber gherkin language.
• Ensure application documentation is complete and maintained/updated in timely fashion.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Requirement gathering and Analysis using Technical/Functional Specification Documents
• Defined Testing Process and strictly following the process until testing is certified for the test phases.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts, Traceability matrix according to Business and Functional Requirements.
• Worked closely with the QA Manager to complete automation testing & System testing activities, established processes and improve both testing quality and efficiency.
• Identifying and preparing test data for Manual and Mobile Testing.
• Implemented Data Driven Test Script using Selenium Grid, Selenium RC and Selenium IDE.
• Depending upon the requirements gathered test data from the oracle data base and created the test scenarios.
• Designed Automation Framework for business process testing (BPT).
• Validated the created manual business components as per the Business scenarios and updated the comments to improve the business components quality.
• Automated the manual business components with using Quick test professional tool
• Created the application areas for Object repositories, recovery scenarios and library files.
• Validated the Business process tests which created by Subject matter experts and filled with valid test data
• Responsible for submitting and preparing performance defect reports.
• Assisted with the product development as part of agile methodology, by participating in the Planning/ Retrospective/ ShowAndTell / Scrum meetings/Defect Triage and providing regular feedback and status on the process/ Tasks/ Requirements..
• Have tested on Confidential Bold and Torch Mobile as tested on Play book tablet.
• Performed Automated Regression Testing suite by executing Automated Test set as a batch by using Quality Center.
• Performed Environment Verification steps on Server and verified Integration Layer contents using UNIX commands.
• Analysing the test results with respect to the customer required manual business scenarios.

Environment: QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL 11, QUALITY CENTER 10, Business process testing, Selenium Grid, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE, Windows 7/XP and SQL.

Qa lead

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Work with QA analysts and Developers to ensure that all aspects of the system have proper testing coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality.
• Comply with the system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC) by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
• May coach, lead and mentor other team members.
• Provide testing management for ongoing projects and future initiatives.
• Deliver effective and efficient testing solution by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time and adhering to development and quality standards.
• Analyze the testing needs and develop testing strategy and plans.
• Automate the regression test cases using Selenium Test Ng framework, Maven and Git repository.
• Have used page object model to handle all object xpaths in effective way.
• Execute the test suite for every release, analyse the test results and report the defects.
• Have used Jira for reporting the redefects.
• Review and approve test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures such as database impacts, software scenarios or usability.
• Have built new framework for Visual automation using galen framework.
• Have used Android SDK packages to automate mobile test cases for android devices.
• Have also done POC for WebdriverIO with javascripting and cucumber gherkin language.
• Ensure application documentation is complete and maintained/updated in timely fashion.

PROJECT LEAD

Confidential

Tools: AutoHotKey, PSTools, Sikuli, Quality Control

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in threat modelling for new products.
• Developed several Automation Frameworks to aid the testing process.
• Performed penetration testing and Application security testing for all the products under the Agents portfolio
• Made use of security tools in a dedicated security lab to find vulnerabilities in the product.
• Performed functionality testing.
• Constantly reported bugs and recommended product enhancements to the stake holders.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Tools: AutoHotKey, PSTools, Sikuli, Quality Control

Languages/Scripts: C, C++, Perl, Batch

Responsibilities:

• Played a major part in the pilot project of Agile Software Development for SRM project.
• Actively involved in implementing "Security as a process in SDLC phases" for SRM components.
• Instrumental in developing a secure Configuration Service component for SRM project.
• Simulation Framework was designed and developed with great attention to provide data integrity, security and availability as it was used to closely represent the real world data.
• Was required to have core knowledge of SAN environment including its working and physical units.
• Was solely responsible in creating an effective Randomizer component which played a major role in generating data close to reality for testing.
• Acquired knowledge about using an array of tools in a short period of time, like AutoHotKey, PSTools, Perl Scripting.
• Was solely responsible for the GUI part of the automation framework using the Confidential tool.