SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of QA and Development Experience
• Highly successful and dynamic leader recognized by peers as excellent mentor, team player and a good manager.
• Self - motivated, Result Oriented Team Player with strong interpersonal and leadership skills and consistently promoted to positions of increased responsibility.
• Good experience in building, training and managing local and offshore teams (Bangalore, India, St.Petersburg, Russia).
• Provide metrics to different teams across the organizations which can lead to improve the quality of the products.
• Coordinating the teams between Chicago Area, Los Angeles, Arizona, Canada, and Australia for all the integration projects.
• Experience in Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Sprint planning) and Waterfall model.
• Experience in Project Management and Project Planning.
• Experience with different Project management tools - JIRA/GreenHopper, Rally, MS Project, RTS.
• Experience in writing the test plans, test cases, user scenarios.
• Experience in handling the customer reported issues and working with customers directly and visiting their sites.
• Experience in different Bug tracking tools - JIRA, Rally, Clear Quest, ITS, Bugzilla,
• Experience with building the virtual machines using VMWare and using them for English and Internationalization (Kanji/German) testing.
• Good experience in automation, API Testing and building automation frameworks - Selenium (WebDriver) with Cucumber and JUnit frameworks, MS Automation UI Specflow framework, Silk test with XML Data driven framework. Familiar with QTP’s Data driven framework.
• Experience with Jenkins/continuous Integration.
• Experience with SOAP UI and Groovy scripting (used for data driven and db connections).
• Experience in API testing using JAVA from JBuilder/Eclipse and C# from Visual Studio.
• Experience in Performance testing using Silkperformer and familiar with Load Runner.
• Experience with different Source control tools - MS TFS, Perforce, Clear Case.
• Performed various roles like

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: JIRA Greenhopper, Rally, MS Project, RTS (internal tool)

General Reporting: MS Excel, Word and Power Point.

Source Control: MS TFS, Perforce, Clear case.

Reporting: Firbeck Scrivo .NET reporting, Crystal Reports.

Testing Tools: Functional Selenium (Web Driver and RC), Silktest, QTP, Microsoft Automation UI API, SOAP UI.

Performance Silk Performer, Load runner

Test Frameworks Junit, NUnit, Cucumber (cukes.info) and XML Data driven.

Bug Tracking JIRA, Rally, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, ITS (internal tool)

Code Coverage NCover

Continuous Integration: Jenkins

Programming Languages: C#, JAVA, and C++

Web Client Scripting and Library: XML, JavaScript, VB Script, ASP, perl, PHP and HTML

Design and Development Tools: Visual Studio 2005 to latest, Eclipse, JBuilder, MS UI Spy, VISIO.

Database: Oracle 10/11g and MS SQL Server 2005/2008, and MS Access 2007.

Operating System: Windows (Clients- 7/Vista/XP and Servers 2003/2008), Sun Solaris 9.0/10, Linux RHEL 5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidentia . Rolling Meadows, IL |

Sr. Manager QA|

• Define and improved the QA processes, guide team towards detailed test plans and clear executions with emphasis on working closely with development teams and deliver the results on time.
• Lead and expanded the team from 5 to 15 which includes Automation and Functional testers involved in testing web apps, mobile web apps, and thick clients.
• Coordinating the teams between Chicago Area, Los Angeles, Arizona, Canada, and Australia for all the integration projects (ex: TicketMaster Resale and TM+)
• Working closely with Project Managers, Product Managers, and Development Manager, and Stakeholders to improve the Process and help improve Agile/Scrum in the company. Also work closely with individual members to get things done on time and follow the process.
• Introduced the concept of Center of Excellence (COE) and helped motivating the team in different fields and also setting up challenging goals for individual members to improve the performance and career.
• Resource Planning/Resource allocation, Work Delegation, Project Scoping, Project Status Reporting (on time), Test Planning, and Test Strategy are performed successfully. Also involved in Budget planning for the training, software tools/licenses and resources.
• Extensively using JIRA/Greenhopper for Project management, Defect Tracking and Test Management.
• Expert in implementing Agile process across the teams and defined/designed the work flows for JIRA items like Epics/Stories, Tasks, Defects, and Test Cases.
• Introduced/Implemented open source Automation tools in the company - Selenium (Web Driver), Junit and Cucumber frameworks.
• Introduced/Implemented NCover to help measure the code coverage, test coverage and automation coverage.
• Introduced DynaTrace to monitor and find the bottlenecks in performance across all the web applications, and mobile web apps.
• Introduced/Implemented SOAP UI with groovy scripting to test Rest web services.
• Introduced/Implemented Continuous integration with Jenkins and Selenium/SOAP UI tests.
• Passionate to automation and programming, build multiple frameworks which includes Selenium (Web Driver) for web apps, mobile web apps and C# based xml driven framework to test Web Services and later used SOAP UI with groovy scripting for web services testing.
• Compiled Android simulators for testing mobile web apps with automation tools.

Confidential. San Ramon, CA |

QA Manager/QA Automation Architect |

• Managing onsite and offshore, automation and System test groups.
• Architect and develop the automation frameworks for Selenium and also with Silktest using XML based framework.
• Work with HP QTP for the evaluation for one of the thick client product.
• As an individual contributor, using selenium (Web Driver) started automating Web Based application based on WAF from Extended JS.
• Handling customer issues and working with support/Development team for resolution. Work with Product management to scope and define feature roadmaps.
• Resource planning, budget planning (for testing tools) and adhere to it on approval. Project planning, tracking, and delivering quality products on time.
• Identify resource gaps in project execution and mitigate it by working with off shore teams and creating a Virual machines lab (using VMWare) with the help of IT team.
• Visit customer's sites to build relationship and facilitate Beta trials, collect customer feedback, product expectations & requirements.
• Used JIRA for Project management and Defect Tracking.

Symyx Technologies, San Ramon, CA| Advisory Software Test Engineer/QA (Automation) Lead/QA Manager | Oct ’07 - Apr ‘10

Thick .NET

Confidential

• Involved in API and GUI Testing of the product.
• Developed an API Engine (which is Data Driven) to run the tests using XML and C#. Wrote API test code to perform unit, Regression test and integration test.
• Participated in the reviews and written Testware design spec’s and Test cases.
• Using Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET for the API tests and using SilkTest for GUI Testing.
• While working in this project, I have also developed some Java code to run against Core Interface 1.2 using J-Builder 6.0.
• Leads the Automation teams in the company. Managed the offshore teans in St.Petersburg (Russia) and started building a team in India.
• Used RTS/ITS and Rally for Project management, defect tracking and test management. Using Clear Quest as the bug reporting system.