SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and talented IT Quality Assurance Specialist with more than 13 years of experience in Test Management, QA methodologies, HP Tools and Mobil/Web Automation using Selenium.
• Hands on Lead with proven ability to build teams, develop test strategies, direct and improve quality programs and provide business value testing applications across Finance, Banking and Telecom domains.
• Expertise in different forms of Manual and Automation testing.
• Known as an organized, collaborative and competitive individual who works well under pressure, enjoys challenges and is results driven.
• Over 13 years of experience in the Quality Assurance domain.
• 10+ years of experience in Team development, managing QA teams in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies with exposure to BDD.
• 8+ years of Automation experience to set up automation frameworks by analyzing business needs, application functionality and the manual test cases.
• Good Knowledge working with Cucumber, Selenium, Maven, Jenkins and TestNG
• Experienced in Manual and Automated Testing using Testing tools; UFT, ALM, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, and Jira
• Experience in Integration testing using SOA and SoapUI.
• 7+ years of manual testing experience comprising of System, Functional, UAT and Database Testing.
• 2 years of Mobile Apps manual testing experience.
• Developed Mobile Automation framework with Seetest in integration with QTP for a banking application to support Android and IOS platforms.
• Good Experience in Risk Management, Resource Management, Project Management, People Management and Project budget estimations.
• Excellent communication skills in interacting with Business, providing detailed status and raising any risks involved during every phase of testing.
• Experience in developing Data driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frame Works
• Good understanding of applications in Telecom, Banking & Financial domains.
• Worked with different version control systems like Sharepoint, Box, SVN to manage the scripts developed.
• Strong skills in performing Backend testing using Toad and SQLPro and worked with Oracle, SQLServer and Netezza Databases.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Test Management
• Manual/Automated Testing
• QA Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT 11.5, Seetest, Perfecto Mobil, QTP 11, ALM, Quality Center, SharePoint, SVN, Box, PVCS, BLT, JIRA, Toad, SOAP UI, Doors, Resultspace, DVO, Selenium, SOA, Terminal emulator

Methodologies & Standards: Waterfall Model, Scrum, ATDD, CMMI

Programming Languages and Scripting: JAVA, C, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java Script, VB Script, HTML, XML

Database: Oracle 9.0, Oracle 10g,MS Access, Netezza

Applications: Quantum, Ensemble, SOLAR, TBS, CRM, Store, AST, EMT, Shares, RAPIDS, RIB, SBIB, OAO, Mainframes

WORK EXPERIENCE:

QA Specialist

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategy for UAT, Data Migration and Parallel testing of Quantum Implementation
• Coached a team of 6 members to implement QA best practices during each phase of testing.
• Tracked additional scope of work for requirement changes and budgeted the effort involved.
• Worked with clients to determine additional needs and resource requirements.
• Managed testing life cycle using ALM 12 and developed automation framework using UFT 11.5
• Had daily status calls with the team and set up internal milestones to track the project progress.
• Performed defect management involving the business, development and testing teams.
• Used Defect metrics to evaluate the code quality.
• Discussed project status on a weekly basis with the stakeholders and inform them about the risks involved and the mitigation plan to overcome the risks.
• Provide sign offs once the exit criteria have been met during each phase of testing.

Skills: UFT 11.5, Quantum, ALM12, Box, SharePoint, VB Script

Test Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business and development teams to discuss the requirements.
• Developed test scripts using Selenium webdriver, TestNG and Cucumber framework.
• Developed test scenarios needed to test the feature of the application.
• Followed Agile approach to support the continuous delivery model.
• Configured a continuous integration environment using Jenkins to run automated tests using Maven build on a daily basis.
• Used ClearCase for source code management and ClearQuest to log the defects.
• Discussed project status on a weekly basis with the stakeholders and informed them about the risks involved and the mitigation plan to overcome the risks.

Skills: Java, Clearcase, Clearquest Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, BDD, Agile

Automation QA Specialist

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed a test strategy and performed Manual testing for Mobile Apps on multiple devices with different configurations.
• Performed Browser testing for the Mobile version of the web applications on multiple devices.
• Mentored the team to develop a Hybrid Framework to reap the benefits of automation eliminating the dependency on Automation code using QTP 11
• Coached a team of 4 members to implement best coding practices and write modular reusable code.
• Used Seetest for Mobile Automation and integrated it with the Hybrid Framework
• Oversaw the testing activities for both Manual and Automation testing.
• Used SOA to perform API testing.
• Used Terminal Emulator to automate Mainframe screens.
• Sent weekly status reports to the client. Discussed the risks and dependencies with the client on a weekly basis.
• Coordinated with the offshore team to track daily progress and resolve outstanding issues.

Skills: QTP 11, ALM11, Seetest, SVN, Oracle, Mainframes, VB Script, SOA, Terminal Emulator.

TEAM LEAD

Confidential, Merrimack, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Write functional test cases in Quality center and execute them for every release.
• Used Quality center to log the defects and implement the Defect Life Cycle.
• Send Test Execution Status and Defect Status Reports.
• Developed a Monthly Simulation tool for automating the monthly simulation process and generating the reports.
• Developed NZ PL/SQL store procedures to generate simulated data used for risk analysis and integrating them into the Monthly Simulation tool.
• Used Aginity to validate the data in the Netezza database.
• Validate the risk analysis numbers before sending it to business users.

Skills: PL/SQL, Oracle, Netezza, Aginity, Quality Center, SVN

ETL Team Lead

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Review the Data migration requirements with the business.
• Performed ETL testing using Informatica DVO by adding tests to test the data transformation.
• Verify the data integrity for the data moved between the commissioning applications by using expressions and single table constraints
• Created SQL Views to customize table lookup for a combination of tables.
• Generated reports for all the tests conducted with their results.
• Send execution status and defect status reports to the client on a regular basis.

Skills: SQL, Informatica, DVO, Oracle

TEST LEAD

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Used Scrum model to streamline the quality assurance activities across SDLC
• Participated in Confidential planning with the business and the development team
• Participated in design sessions to test the functionality of Stories.
• Used JIRA to log the defects and implement the Defect Life Cycle.
• Developed SQL store procedures to set up test data environment.
• Tested the interfaces with SOAP UI
• Used Selenium RC to develop automated scripts.

Skills: Java, Selenium, Oracle, PL/SQL, Doors, Quality Center, Resultspace, JIRA, SOAP UI, Scrum Methodology, Selenium

AUTOMATION LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the ARTV3 Framework in QTP for Online Store.
• Created an Automated Regression suite using ARTV3 in QTP.
• Enhanced the ARTV3 Framework to support multiple browsers and multiple environments.
• Executed the Automated Regression suite to perform smoke test after every environment build.
• Executed the Automated Regression suite at the end of progression testing and during the production launch.
• Wrote functional test cases from stories created by Business for each cycle.
• Followed the Iterative approach for test case execution.
• Generated automated execution and defect status reports.
• Used eMT to populate the content and pricing for online store.

Skills: Oracle, QTP, Quality Center, Excel, SVN, CMMI

Tester/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements and designed the architecture of the tool.
• Status reports of usage requests and usage creation were sent to the client on a daily basis.
• Run the automated regression suite during each release.
• Send execution status and defect status reports to the client on a regular basis.
• Created Automated Test Scripts for regression testing using Mercury Quick Test Pro.

Skills: Java, JSP, Servlets, SQL, Oracle, Win Runner, CMMI