SUMMARY:

• Solution oriented, deadline driven, flexible to adopt the business priority QA professional with the passion for topnotch quality products.
• Years of dedicated career leading onsite - offshore QA teams designing test strategy, testing and delivering quality applications while meeting aggressive timeline and business goals.
• A team player that engages on issues and creatively finds common ground.
• Skilled in planning and implementing QA processes and tools for testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within the SDLC.
• Strength leading design and execution of automated and manual testing to quickly identify and resolve risks and issues.
• Provide management, leadership and technical guidance to test engineers, and manage the working relationship with internal clients and external vendors.
• Experience in managing the distributed QA team (onsite-offshore model) supporting multiple SCRUM development tracks simultaneously.
• Collaborate with agile project teams from requirements through test execution using tools such as JIRA.
• Experienced in designing test strategy, test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with products and development team members in fixing the defects.
• Lead and coach the team structuring appropriate training and development and eliminating road blocks to team performance.
• Ensure a fun, dynamic work environment & build merit-based culture which appeals to the top talent in the field.
• Systematic testing by automation with continuous measurement, evaluation, and improvement of strategy.
• Identify and address client needs while contributing to business vision development and manage implementation efforts with complex projects.
• Software testing on diversified platforms, such as web applications on different browsers, iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android.
• Extremely dedicated, self-motivated, proactive, accountable, results-oriented, hands-on team player with attention to detail and dutiful respect for compliance to QA and SDLC processes, and motivating the team to perform the same way.
• Quantify efficiency and effectiveness by quality initiatives using precise metrics and KPI.

TECHNOLOGY P ROFICIENCY:

Test Tools & Technologies: Selenium, Galen, Mocha, Cucumber, Redwood HQ, Karate, WebdriverIO, Zephyr, HP Quality Center (QC) 10 and ALM, Quick Test Professional 10.0 (QTP), Rally, JIRA, Confluence, iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Android Studio, iOS, Linux, JSON, MS Office, uDeploy, SOASTA, Apache, Tomcat, SoapUI

Other Technologies: Atlassian Products (JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, BitBucket (Stash), Bamboo, SourceTree), Jenkins, ETL, Informatica, AWS (AIM, EC2, Route 53, S3), Content Management System (CMS), Documentum, D2, WebPublisher, SAP (MM/IM/WM)

Development & Test Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, XD, TDD, BDD, Agile, Waterfall

Languages: JavaScript, Java, .NET, HTML, XML, Shell, SQL, DQL, JQL

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, No-SQL Database (MongoDB)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Test Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of BDD style API test framework using Karate for Confidential business unit. This framework is business user friendly and capable of end-to-end testing by passing data from one service call to the next.
• Implementation of Confidential (Assistive Technology Testing) framework using WAVE plug-in and Sikuli.
• Coordination with offshore and client stake holders to keep them focused on deliverables and informed of progress respectively.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Improved QA collaboration to share knowledge on automation/testing best practices, new technologies and their application (DEMO), mitigate challenges, and so on.
• Implement Scrum methodology for inhouse test tool (Prueba) development and enhancements
• Designed and rolled out QA SOP across all quality engineers both onsite and offshore
• Metrics and KPI to quantify team’s effectiveness and efficiency
• Designed and implemented invoice and time-off tracking systems using JIRA for offshore team.

Sr. QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the test effort on all aspects of Confidential ’s professional portal - www.medscape.com.
• Successfully led end to end QA efforts for multiple projects with project management, risk management, and time management skills through the following activities: Requirements Peer Review, Functional Specifications Examination, QA Man Power Estimates, Resource Allocation, Timeline Tracking, Test Planning, Test cases Creation, Test execution, test report/metrics, post-implementation review.
• Reduced manual testing time across multiple projects by collaborating with QA Automation Team with more than 70% test coverage automated by end of project cycle.
• Preparing the test plan and documenting test cases by analyzing the technical specification and business requirements
• Contributed to Agile development projects by providing in-depth system knowledge during requirements analysis phases, enabling rapid requirement adjustments before Development and QA efforts started.
• Designed and redefined Production Support Workflows to streamline resolutions of production issues and defects with coordination from business and technology departments.

Lead QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led test effort to support Confidential ’s venture with Boots (a UK based company) to launch www.boots. Confidential .com.
• Performed Business Analyst functions to create business requirements document (BRD) and functional specifications document through interviewing with Business Owners to clarify application features for the project team.
• Conducted and implemented UAT Processes between internal and external project team members during SDLC cycle to ensure end user acceptance tests performed and accepted before software released to Production.
• Wrote SQL and DQL to extract and update data Oracle database and Documentum respectively.
• Performed Documentum Administration jobs, such as, Transformation of objects (rendition creation), created/updated user profiles, change Site Configuration, start/Stop SIP/Incremental publishing, kick off publishing for specific life-cycle

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Validated the migration of contents and properties from legacy CMS to Documentum. Verified the meta-data migration based upon the mapping document and Data Dictionary.
• Test and certified end to end content publishing from DCTM to portal.
• Created, executed, maintained and updated test cases/plans using HP/Mercury Quality Center.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the test plan and documenting test cases by analyzing the technical specification and business requirements
• Write and execute SQL queries to extract test case specific data from database.
• Request promotions to test environments, verify the promotion, execute the test, save results, report defects, verify and close defects and regression test.
• Enhanced the procedure of documenting test cases and their statuses resultant a comprehensive test execution report at any stage of the test execution.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business logics to generate effective and efficient test cases and data.
• Confidential was used for defect management.
• Wrote/enhanced shell scripts to automate repeated tasks such as resetting database for consecutive test runs, to load database dump, to compare data between the systems, and so on. Installed, updated, deleted batch jobs in AutoSys. Executed and monitored jobs statuses.