SUMMARY:

• 18 years of overall IT experience
• 14 years of Test Engineering expertise spanning across technologies such as Selenium, WebDriver, Silktest, SmartBear TestComplete,HP UFT
• Mobile Test Automation using Appium, Calabash, Espresso and Confidential
• 5 years of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment experience
• Seasoned Quality Engineering consultant helping companies scale test automation efforts
• Successfully works with people within and across organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve conflicts and create consistent practices
• Role involves identifying gaps in quality, providing recommendations and helping them gain significant returns on their investment in quality
• Continuous Test Automation Setup using Jenkins, Maven, Cobertura, TestNG etc
• Test Automation Strategy and Implementation
• Quality Engineering best processes and practices implementation
• Metrics for Code Coverage, Defect Efficiency, Test Betterment and Testcase Efficiency
• Test Management Dashboards for Stakeholders
• Implementation of best practices from world renowned minds such as James Bacj, Cem Kaner, Martin Fowler and others
• Experience using Selenium, WebDriver, Appium, Calabash, SmartBear Testcomplete
• Code Coverage using Cobertura, Jenkins and TestNG
• Test Automation and Quality Engineering Dashboards built using Java
• Experience using Java, Ruby for Test Automation Implementation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Head - Quality Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Global QE Practice Head
• Test Consulting for large enterprises on Test Automation and Continuous Delivery
• Lead Test Automation Implementation for customers across the US
• Build, train and manage test automation leadership
• Hybrid Framework design using Selenium, Java for multiple clients
• Mobile Automation using Confidential, Espresso and Appium

Confidential

Associate Director - Quality Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Managing the Quality Engineering Unit of 400 people
• Introducing new Test Approaches, Techniques to the Unit
• Mentoring of PM’s across the organization on Project Management practices
• Practice Manager for Testing and Test Automation
• Solution selling to prospects
• Setting up Testing Center of Excellence for customers
• Participation in technical presales calls, proposal preparation and reviews
• Head of Test Innovation and Testing Center of Excellence
• Identify Testing Roadmap for the organization

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 50 members
• Managed multiple projects that were executed in India, Dubai and in the US
• Increased 2-member team to 10 members in a span of one year
• Responsible for establishing consistent testing practices using standard tools across multiple projects while adhering to the customer’s quality processes.
• Responsible for creating master test plans, test strategy, managing environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules
• Lead Test Automation consulting initiatives and helped customer achieve maximum ROI
• Lead process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues
• Responsible for Test Automation and Performance
• Contributed to presales, requirements gathering and proposal writing.
• Identified and deployed process improvements and standards for key practices in requirements management, metrics management, software engineering and testing.
• Presented Webinars on automation best practices and Agile project management
• Trained team members on Exploratory and Rapid Testing Approaches
• Participated in Domestic and International Testing Conferences

Confidential

Onsite/Offshore Test Manager / Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience managing multiple projects as Test Manager in India and abroad
• Responsible for establishing consistent testing practices using standard tools across multiple projects while adhering to the customer’s quality processes.
• Responsible for creating master test plans, managing environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules
• Lead process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues
• Responsible for Test Automation
• Created test automation scheduling interface to help customers who had no experience in running automation scripts
• Contributed to presales, requirements gathering and proposal writing.
• Identified and deployed process improvements and standards for key practices in requirements management, metrics management and testing.
• Adhered to the CMMi practices of the organization
• Participated in QSIT Testing Conferences
• Short term onsite stint as Test Consultant in Sweden and long term as Project Manager in the UK

Confidential

Tester/Test Lead/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in CMMI trainings for staged representation.
• Supported the implementation of generic and specific goals and practices to increase the organization’s level of process maturity per the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework.

Test Manager / Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed teams to provide testing artifacts, standards and support to customers
• Test lead on a large project establishing structured QA and QC processes, tools, and test environments to test the product across various Windows, UNIX and Linux flavors
• Responsible for creating master test plans, managing environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules
• Coordinated test planning efforts
• Tested the application on Windows, UNIX and Linux Flavors
• Used Silktest over a period of 6 months for Test Automation
• Test lead and test participant on many standard Windows 2000 desktop platform (OS) releases
• Provided software testing consulting services to customers
• Developed testing processes and test procedures
• Tested platform updates, hot fixes and application upgrades

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested Java Compatibility Kit and API’s manually.
• Worked on Silktest for 3 months.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• PHP Developer and Tester

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Software Trainer
• System study, analysis & specifications and preparation of documentation
• Designing and developing the software as per the requirements
• Code Review
• Involved in Java programming
• Unit testing