CAREER SUMMARY

• Experienced QA professional with 15+ years of experience in Software Testing Test and Automation; architecting testing solutions for complex enterprise - level software applications.
• Strong overall experience in SDLC, STLC, Test Planning, Test Automation, Defect Management, and Test Management.
• Self-motivated, Good Team Player, Possess leadership, good communication and effective interpersonal skills.

EXPERTISE SUMMARY

• Extensive working experience with structured Iterative, Waterfall, and Agile SCRUM Methodology.
• Experience in System Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing and UAT.
• Experience in developing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test cases, Test Environment set up, executing the Test cases, testing user Documentation and defect reporting.
• Experience in testing Salesforce, SAP, Confidential, Java, .NET, Power builder, Mainframes, and AS400 applications. Experience in testing Web and Desktop applications in UNIX and Windows Environment.

QA AUTOMATION

• 5+ years of hands- on experience in designing automation frameworks (Action, Function Driven, Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frame work) and Automating functional and regression scripts using HP QTP/UFT.
• Experience in using Selenium (Selenium WebDriver with Selenium Grid) with Java for automating functional and regression scripts in agile environment.
• Experience working with SoapUI for testing APIs with REST services: web service inspection, invoking, mocking, and functional testing.
• Experience with Automation Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment(CI/CD) process and Tools such as Jira and Jenkins
• Experience in establishing automation team from the scratch, that is setting up best practices, creating folder structure, results reporting formats and setting up automation lab using Virtual Machines(VMs).

QA LEADERSHIP

• 5 + years of experience in managing and coordinating onsite-offshore QA teams, both Manual and Automation. Experience in building competent teams, built new team of 5+ QA analysts by reviewing resumes, interviewing and decision making in hiring. Evaluated individual performances and administered yearly appraisals.
• Experience in managing QA projects, preparing department budgets, Defining and prioritizing tasks, planning and scheduling resources, tracking progress, prepare status reports, mentoring and provide training and managing overall team workload. Collaborated with Senior Management on trends, issues and statistics of team workload.
• Developed and Implemented QA processes & procedures to reduce production defects leakage. Proactively evaluated the risks and provided impact analysis along with alternate solutions to mitigate risks to influence go / no go decisions.

TECHNICAL SKILL

Testing Tools: ALM, UFT, Selenium, SoapUI, Coded UI, SAP TAO, MTM, TFS, Jira, Jenkins, TestNG, Cucumber

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java script

Scripting Languages: VB Scripting, Shell Scripting, Python

Databases: Mysql, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead manual and automation efforts, resource planning, allocation, defect triage and production support. Implemented selenium keyword driven automation framework with Jenkins (CI) integration.

Confidential, NJ

SAP Test Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• SAP Test Automation: Led 3-member automation team, Implemented best automation practices. Developed scripts from the scratch that included Data Driven frame work, setting up the folder structure, and results reporting format. Set up the VMs for automation lab. Automated scripts using SAP TAO and UFT.
• Confidential Project: Managed and coordinated 10+ member team of manual test team, involved in setting up QA process, created test work flows, and developed reporting formats. Supported UAT test planning efforts. Participated in agile scrum planning workshops and daily scrum meetings. Used MTM, and TFS.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led 4-member test team, managed and led testing activities and efforts for global project. Developed detailed test strategies, detailed test plans, and schedules. Extensively involved in Requirement Analysis meetings and led testing efforts. Set team priorities, mentored and motivated team. Automated functional test cases using visual studio Coded UI.

Confidential, Dresher, PA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved from the requirement gathering phase for this new initiative.
• Provided project timelines, level of efforts, and resource planning.
• Managed a 3-member team which included manual and automation teams, managed both activities in agile environment used selenium Webdriver with Selenium Grid to automate functional and regression scripts.
• Performed cross browser testing using Confidential .
• Led test planning, test preparation, test execution, test reporting and defect management.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated 100 + legacy Applications Automation effort, working with SMEs and Manual teams. Managed Onsite and Offshore Automation Team. Prepared and Established the coding standards and best practices to be followed. Provided project timelines, level of efforts, detailed status reports, and risk assessments to all project stakeholders. Automation Project Planning, Effort Estimation and driving the automation activities. Used ALM, QTP and SoapUI .

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed Onsite and Offshore Automation Teams. Handled Automation requests from Manual Team, performed ROI and planned Automation activities. Analyzed test cases to be automated, evaluated and did Proof of Concept. Prepared and established coding standards and best practices to be followed for QTP/UFT scripts.

Confidential, Chesterbrook, PA

Sr Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automated Regression scripts using QTP, developed automation frame work, automation strategy, coding standards, automation process, and automation metrics.

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed test strategies, plans and efficient testing practices. Provided technical guidance to test team to ensure activities were performed as per the strategy and plan. Maintained metrics and reported to Senior Management.

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

Onsite QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided second level support for offshore team for resolving issues.
• Followed-up on poor customer satisfaction surveys, analyze the reason & take corrective action.
• Prepared weekly and monthly metrics for review. Provided resources utilization report. Prepared a report on weekly/monthly basis for the issues and listing the improvement areas. Interacted with client on a regular basis for critical issues resolutions and project updates.

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business, Functional and Technical review meetings. Performed Functional Testing, System, Regression, Smoke Testing.