SUMMARY:

• An Automation & Performance Architect and Confidential Techno Functional expert with extensive proficiency in Testing possessing 14+ years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Software Testing/Quality Assurance. Proficient in all phases of SDLC and Experience in testing of Standalone, Client Server, Web based and Client applications, Webservices and Mainframe applications using Manual testing techniques and Automation tools.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), SAFe Agilist (SA) & Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Excels in Domain knowledge to implement automation approach from the inception of the application development. The expertise experience in several vertical domains like Insurance, Health Care, Logistics, Automotive, Retail, Capital Markets, etc., helps in achieving the business needs of Automation at the clients’ satisfactory level.
• As Automation Associate Manager has proven leadership skills and good exposure in different levels of testing and conversant with Quality procedures while testing. Demonstrated strengths in communicating with all levels within organization and possesses excellent interpersonal, presentation, written and oral communication skills and significant obsession to quality.
• Area of expertise includes Leadership Skills, Conflict Management Skills, Team building, Passion towards Problem Solving and Solution Provider (Technical & Interpersonal), Manual testing, White box testing, Automation testing, Performance testing, Webservice testing and Web design.
• Recent Remarkable Achievements:
• Robotic and auto triggered execution of Test suites (Functional, Smoke and Regression) including Reporting of test results once the email hits the mailbox.
• This made Testing available 24/7, Testers need not be around or working on machine to accomplish the activity.
• Developed Intranet Site for the Team and Management using HTML, CSS, Java and PHP with which the following managerial and testing activities are accomplished in the project.
• Automated and e - notified tasks allocation to the team.
• Resource allocation and Shift management per team availability is done.
• Capability to execute Automation, Smoke and Regression test suites from the site.
• Serves as Confidential Repository where the Performance test artifacts, Web and Web Services Automation scripts, instructions on execution process etc are maintained.
• Training assets on testing as QTP materials, soapUI etc are made available to the team.
• Collated information available on site serving as Confidential best book to all team members and project management.
• Excellent proficiency in Manual testing, White box testing, Automation testing, Performance testing, Webservice testing and Web design.
• Expert in Design and Developing Automation Frameworks with any Automation in the Market.
• Excellent proficiency in VB scripting, JAVA scripting, Python, Web design (HTML & CSS), Excel Macro & SQL, Shell & Bash.
• Excellent proficiency in the Test Automation tools - UFT/QTP & TEST Complete.
• Excellent proficiency in open source Automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber & WATIR.
• Excellent proficiency in the Webservice and Load Test tools - soapUI & Load Runner, load UI.
• Good proficiency in other Automation Tools like Sahi, RFT and Silk Test.
• Creating Scripts using VUGen.
• Design Manual and Goal Oriented Scenarios & SLA using Controller.
• Performance/ Load Testing using Load Runner & Performance Center.
• Load Test for Web Applications and WebServices.
• Monitors Application Performance using New Relic & AppDynamics.
• Developed Load Runner scripts for Test Data Creation.
• Good proficiency in open source Load Test tools like Jmeter.
• Excellent proficiency in the Performance Monitoring tools - NTop, HappyApps, New Relic & AppDynamics.
• Designed and implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI & CD) using AWS Cloud resources, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Ansible.
• Developed cloud environments to optimize performance in diverse engineering organizations.
• Management of build farm environment and workflow management and administration using Jenkins, GIT, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence and various target build.
• Responsible for the identification of appropriate Automation tool for the project.
• Responsible for Automation Approach analysis, Process implementation, Designing Automation Framework according to Project needs, identifying the next steps in automation and guiding the team to implement the same.
• Excellent proficiency in designing different automation Frameworks like Linear, Modular, Data Driven and Keyword Driven, Hybrid Driven Frameworks and in house iTap framework.
• Worked extensively on the Test and Configuration management tools - Quality Center, TD and VSS.
• Capable of providing value added solutions on business-critical situations while automation.
• Responsible for successful implementation of the Proof of Concept on Automation projects for several clients across different vertical domains.
• Establish clear Roadmap on Script Reusability & Leveraging the Automation Suite for Functional, Integration & Regression Testing and ease of use of scripts.
• Possess functional knowledge in multiple applications or client implementations sufficient to lead testing for cross-functional initiatives affecting those areas.
• Excellent proficiency in Automating Salesforce application.
• Responsible for the preparation of Procedural Instruction Documents on script execution.
• Enforces the practice of the Automation Suite Versioning and its maintenance.
• Ability to thoroughly analyze systems functional requirements and break them down into test requirements/test objectives and test conditions using techniques like state transition diagrams, decision tables, functional analysis etc.
• Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of the requirements
• Around 14 years of experience in the areas of IT Consulting, Client Relationship Management, Business Development, Change Management, Software Project Management and Operations Management.
• Excellent experience in Project Planning, Estimation, Requirement Gathering, Functional Analysis, Automation Architecture-Design and Configuration Management.
• Responsible for Project Tracking, Resource management, Metrics data collection, Resource management, effort estimations and capacity planning.
• Effective leadership and Communication skills. Was handling team of 45 members in Confidential and coordinating with 15 members at onsite.
• Proficient in partnering with IT group in implementing automation approach for Smoke & Sanity Testing.
• Responsible for ensuring the Quality Project Deliverables within the committed timelines and also accountable for review of deliverables from the Team.
• Responsible for identifying the training opportunities amongst the team, executing the training plan and building SMEs within the team.
• Ability to lead team possessing negotiation and problem resolution abilities and also Confidential good team player with excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in Confidential team.
• Proficient in Consulting, Creating Automation Awareness based on complete project analysis.
• Identify the right automation tool depends on client requirement and budget needs.
• Always make sure to provide the best ROI to the customer.
• Excels in preparing road map design for automation for all the modules of the project.
• Emphasizes on the right steps to be taken in the project to the customer.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, technical support and help them baseline the requirement specifications.
• Good Experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of the application to be Regression tested.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and UNIX, iOS, Android

Cloud Platforms: AWS Cloud & Microsoft Azure

CI & CD Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Git, Bamboo & Teamcity

Markup & Scripting languages: HTML & CSS, VB Script, JAVA Script, Python, Shell & Bash

Test Automation tools: HP (UFT/QTP/Win Runner), Selenium, Cucumber, Test Complete and SoapUI

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner (11.0/ 11.5), Load UI.

Monitoring & Alerting Tools: NTop, HappyApps, New Relic & AppDynamics, Nagios & AWS Cloud Watch.

Web service Testing tool: soapUI

Test Management & Bug: HP Quality Center (9.2/9.0/8.2), Performance Center 11.0, Test Director (8.0), Bugzilla (3.4/3.0) & JIRA.

Data Bases: MySQL, MS SQL Server 2005, IBM DB2, Oracle (8i/9i/10g/11g).

Web Servers: Apache, Web Logic Server, Web Sphere 5.0, Tomcat & XAMPP.

Packages: Microsoft office Suite, Visual Studio 2008, MS Project.

Others: HTTP, Toad, SQL*Plus.

CRM: Salesforce

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Automation & Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Gathering automation requirements & preparing project Estimation (Resource Plan, Time).
• Defining the pass and fail standards, writing test cases, etc.
• Develop and execute automated test cases using Selenium.
• Develop and execute automated test cases using UFT/QTP.
• Defect tracking using Quality center, Bugzilla & JIRA.
• Involved in writing Test scenarios, test cases & review, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing and Regression Testing.
• Provide functional and technical support to the team.
• Create Automation Scripts for Test Data creation and Regression Testing for Salesforce application.
• Performed Positive & Negative testing through Automation.
• Preparing Performance Test plan.
• Creating Scripts using VUGen.
• Design Manual and Goal Oriented Scenarios & SLA using Controller.
• Performance/ Load Testing using Load Runner & Performance Center.
• Load Test for Web Applications and WebServices.
• Monitors Application Performance using New Relic & AppDynamics.
• Developed Load Runner scripts for Test Data Creation.
• Webservice Testing Using soapUI tool.
• Tracking the Test Results, Defect Analysis and Defects Reporting.
• Participated in Defect review meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification.
• Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion before or On-Schedule.
• Effectively involved in SQA Activities like automation scripts Review Process & Defect Prevention activities.
• Provides technical assistance and cross training to team members, and assistance to users for generation of adhoc reports.
• Responsible for the processes like Delivery management, Team Management, Timesheet management and document Repository management
• Conducted Training on Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, soapUI & Selenium.

Environment: Windows 7, HTML, Java, J2EE, ASP, ASP.net, DotNetFramework 2.0, Selenium, UFT/Quick Test Professional 10.0, .Net Add-ins, Extra Personal Client 6.7, ODBC, WebServicesAddin, soapUI, Jaws, JRE, Tortoise, OIM, OAM, Oracle Web logic Server.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Automation Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identify the Requirements, Team, designing Entry & Exit criteria and developing the Framework.
• Gathering automation requirements & preparing project Estimation (Resource Plan, Time).
• Developing Intranet site for the Management from reporting perspective and Team from functional and technical perspective.
• Prepares project Estimation (Resource Plan, Time) and Performance & Automation Test plan.
• Identify the risks & bottlenecks and come up with the strategic approach.
• Assigning tasks and monitoring the progress.
• Interacting with Business Analysts and Developers regarding requirement updates on day to day necessity.
• Conducting Functional, Integration, End-to-End, Regression, and Smoke Testing tasks.
• Ensure Timely completion of assigned testing jobs before the production date of every release.
• Involved in Scrum meeting daily to ensure the project progress.
• Maintain version control on all the activities
• Provide functional and technical support to the team.
• Preparing Performance Test plan.
• Creating Scripts using VUGen.
• Design Manual and Goal Oriented Scenarios & SLA using Controller.
• Performance/ Load Testing using Load Runner & Performance Center.
• Load Test for Web Applications and WebServices.
• Monitors Application Performance using New Relic & AppDynamics.
• Developed Load Runner scripts for Test Data Creation.
• Webservice Testing Using soapUI tool.
• Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion
• Creating defect reports in Quality Center, Bugzilla & JIRA and track them to resolution.
• Ensure validation of test data, validate test files contents and capture of test evidence files and document test results
• Responsible for performance reviews and identifying areas of improvement, training opportunities, training plans, and building SME’s within the team
• Involved in SQA Automation Scripts Activities and Review Process and Defect Prevention activities
• Responsible for delivery, team, timesheet, and repository management
• Conducted Training on Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, SOAP UI, and Selenium

Environment: Windows 7, HTML, Java, J2EE, ASP, ASP.net, DotNetFramework 2.0, Quick Test Professional 10.0, .Net Add-ins, Extra Personal Client 6.7, ODBC, WebServicesAddin, soapUI, Jaws, JRE, Tortoise, OIM, OAM, Oracle Web logic Server.

Confidential

Automation Associate Manager & Senior Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Being SPOC (Single Point Of Contact)- Involved in proposals, and provide automation solutions for multiple domains HealthCare, Telecom, Insurance, Retail & Automotive
• Identify and Demo Appropriate Automation tool for Existing/ New upcoming project.
• Gathering automation requirements & preparing project Estimation (Resource Plan, Time)
• Interacting with clients, understanding and fulfilling their requirement
• Involved in the enhancement, Design of Framework to increase quality of automation framework Next Generation
• Provide functional and technical support to the team
• Using Automation Tools Selenium, Silk Test, RFT, Sahi & Test Complete to develop automation scripts for various customers and domains according to the requirements.
• Cross browser testing using TEST Complete.
• Act as Confidential central coordination point of contact for multiple projects in Automation support activities.
• Effectively involved in SQA Activities like automation scripts Review Process & Defect Prevention activities.
• Works with line managers in software engineering practice, providing Confidential broad perspective of the improvement effort and helping them set expectations.
• Responsible for the processes like Delivery management, Team Management, Timesheet management and document Repository management
• Provide support, guidance to the functional team when facing technical issues and in the execution of the regression test cases during every deployment.
• Conducted Training in Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.

Confidential

Senior Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Effective Usage of iTap Framework ( Confidential ’s Framework)
• Performed Positive & Negative testing through Automation.
• TEST-DATA Creation for all Confidential projects.
• Preparation and maintaining the Scripts in iTap for future reference.
• Involved in Test Case Review, GUI Testing, Integration Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Tracking the Test Results, Defect Analysis and Defects Reporting.
• Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria and defining the pass and fail standards.
• Participated in Defect review meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification.
• Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion before or On-Schedule.
• Setting Key Responsibility Areas (KRA) for the team and responsible for review and appraisal of the team’s performance.
• Responsible for identifying the areas of improvement for the team, identifying the training opportunities, executing the training plan and building SMEs within the Team.

Environment: Pentium 3Ghz, Windows XP, DotNetFramework 2.0, Quick Test Professional 9.2,9.5 10.0, .Net Add-ins, Terminal Emulator Addin, Extra Personal Client 6.7, ODBC, WebServicesAddin, Toad, Putty

Confidential

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Automation technique in the Confidential world.
• Creating QTP Scripts for Test Data preparation and Regression Testing.
• Performed Positive & Negative testing through Automation.
• TEST-DATA Creation for all Confidential projects.
• Performs Unit, System, Integration, and Regression on the IBM Mainframe Terminal Emulator & Web based services as based on the written test steps and test scenarios and reporting defects in Quality Center.
• Running on IBM Mainframe Terminal Emulator using QTP 10.0 tool for Test Data preparation and maintaining the Scripts in TD for future reference.
• Involved in Test Case Review, GUI Testing, Integration Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Tracking the Test Results, Defect Analysis and Defects Reporting.
• Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria and defining the pass and fail standards.
• Participated in Defect review meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification.
• Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion before or On-Schedule.
• Setting Key Responsibility Areas (KRA) for the team and responsible for review and appraisal of the team’s performance.
• Responsible for identifying the areas of improvement for the team, identifying the training opportunities, executing the training plan and building SMEs within the Team.
• Leading the team effectively from onsite and has an opportunity to work directly with the clients and is commended on the quality of the work put in.
• Successfully implemented the White Box Testing method in Automation Suite and trained the team.

Environment: QTP 8.2,9.0,9.2,10.0, IBMMainframe,TerminalEmulator,ASP.NetDatabasesIMS&DB2,IIS, MS Visual Studio .Net 2005, MS SQLServer 2005, .Net Add-ins

Confidential

Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual and Automated testing using Win Runner 8.0, QTP 8.2 and Test Director.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Developed, executed and documented highly complex test plans and test cases for Business related application running on multi-tiered platforms.
• Involved in writing Test cases, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing and Regression Testing.
• Tracking the test results and Defects Reporting.
• Participated in the test environment setup and in ensuring that the facilities, test tools and scripts are in place to successfully perform the required testing effort.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the expected results.

Environment: Windows XP, Astra QT, Quick Test Professional 5.5, 8.2, Win runner, HTML, Oracle, MySql, MS Visual Studio .Net 2005, Internet Information Server, DotNetFramework 2.0