PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experience as a Lead Quality Assurance Specialist Software Engineer in understanding of Business Process Flows, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Demonstrated experience with SDLC processes (waterfall, Agile, Kanban Board, and associated processes).
• Proficient as Software QA engineer in Mobile, DevOps, Big data Hadoop and Automation Testing in Client/Server,
• Web - based, ETL/BI Data warehouse, Product and Project based Applications in a rapid development environment utilizing best QA practices -
• Identify, analyze, and report defects with full evidence, such as functionality errors, inconsistencies in software program functions, and system usability issues.
• Organize and facilitate release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and Confidential planning, Demos and Agile-Scrum related meetings.
• Experience in driving DevOps initiatives across the program from QA perspective, being responsible for implementing continuous integration at various stages of the product or project life cycle.
• Work with Apache Cloudera/Horton Works and AWS Instances - Map Reduce, HDFS, PIG, HIVE, SQOOP, Zookeeper, Kafka, Flume NOSQL, Casandra and Linux.
• Cloud Architecture, SaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels & Onsite/Offshore Model.
• Learning new things and accomplishing challenging goals in a fast moving, dynamic environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Define-test strategies and approach, QA review and test process, designing test scenarios and test scripts, including understanding various testing techniques and tools, and technology impacts
• Work closely with internal/cross functional teams (QA Manager, QA team, Development, BA, Project Management, etc...) to help issues get resolved in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Performed Sanity, System, Confidential Iteration, Interface, API Integration,
• Mobile App (iOS & Android), WebUI, Regression, User Acceptance (UAT), ETL, Big Data Hadoop, Selenium Automation and end-to-end testing.
• Tested Prepaid and Postpaid Apps on iOS, Android & Boost Phone via Crashlytic/Jenkins.
• Tested Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Web apps (HTML/CSS/JS 'code'), Web page components and content for those web pages.
• Used Jira Kanban board for Rapid View: Filters include Clone Test Case from
• Jira Backlog Iteration Stories of VML QA & Confidential QA; Execution Statuses include Invalid, Blocked and Verified/Closed.
• Extensively used Jira Components; Boards in Project, Backlog, Active Sprints, Releases, Reports, Issues, Components and Confluence.
• Develop Test scenarios and preparing and executing test scripts across a range of technologies at SQUAD / POD level in a Continuous Integration Testing.
• Application Technology - WebUI, Jira Kanban, Mobile Testing, manage test Automation stream.
• Used the Sauce labs and Browser Sack for Cross-Browser and Parallel testing.
• Written automation scripts for Regression test cases and executes using Selenium.
• Maintained and updated the Manual Test case, Test Scripts and Test Data as per the evolving requirement.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkin tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

QA Specialist/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Sr. QA Lead Engineer/Analyst in Agile environment with 2 (two) weeks Confidential .
• Actively participating in project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, Confidential /release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices.
• Participate in design and specification reviews, and use this information to design test plans.
• Turn requirements into test plans, turn user stories into acceptance criteria, and turn test plans into repeatable automated tests.
• Collaborate with teams to prevent issues, and effectively identifying and documenting any issues.
• Worked effectively with Development & Business teams to define user Stories, Estimated Point, revising Acceptance Criteria, Design Documents, Mockup Screens, Wire Fames in Jira Kanban board.
• Used TFS, MTM, Quality Center/ALM, Jira for Test mapping and Test execution of the project.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression ( Confidential wise and Release) testing, Integration testing,
• UI and Web API, Database testing, System testing, UAT, End-to-End Testing, Acceptance and Continuous Integration testing.
• Recommended DevOps process to Reduce writing and rewriting of use cases (write once, use for all test types like API testing, Testing SQL & No SQL, Mobile, Load testing, Win Apps, Citrix, Database Testing, Security…), consistent environment when you run the tests towards Velocity with Quality.
• Familiar with CI (Unified Testing Strategy) environment; Code check-in GitHub, Kick-off build - JENKINS, Selenium WebDriver, IDE, Grid parallel execution in multiple platforms, POM, TestNG.
• Tested Web, AEM and Apps with IOS, Android mobile - Prepaid/Postpaid and Web UI End to End.
• Tested Big Data Hadoop hive datasets and worked with Eco systems such as Flume, Pig, Sqoop, ETL, HDFS, MapReduce jobs in a Cloudera and AWS environment.
• Worked on AWS, Cloudera environments and BI tools (Cognos, Tableau) and Cloud Architectures HaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Testing Business Cognos Reports to ensure Security access to reports (Hierarchy login access), Reports Navigation, Data Validation, Data Verification, Look & Feel, Report Header verbiage, Report Column labels and Report Alignment as per the business/stake holder specifications.
• Project tracking, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects management and Dashboard view using Quality Center/ALM.
• Working closely with QA Automation (Selenium/SOAP UI) engineers to identify test cases conducive to automation.
• Proactively participate in maintaining team standards and best practices.

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Services is a property preservation firm that services foreclosed home in the mortgage industry.
• Worked as a QA Analyst/Engineer in requirement gathering, Functional, Technical specifications, Identify, analyze, and report defects with full evidence.
• Worked in an AGILE environment Confidential Plans, User Story, Stand up meetings, Acceptance Criteria, Confidential Label in Jira and estimation points for the story.
• Work closely with QA Automation Engineers to identify test cases conducive to automation.
• Involved UAT, System Testing, Data validation and Verification testing, Integration testing and End to End testing; Pre - production and post-production activities.
• Manages Quality Center/ALM Testing tool for all testing activities and Defect Management.
• Testing of Web Services (Restful API, WADL, JSON, SOAP, WSDL, XML, HTML, Methods, Groovy scripting) via SoapUI Pro, MYSQL, API testing, Selenium Web Driver for a Java and
• .Net web based system that services thousands of Mortgage banking clients, REO Property Preservation and Field Service industry vendors, and internal customer users.

Confidential, CA

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a UAT QA Lead/Analyst - Performed Integration, End to End testing, Validation & Verification testing as per the End Client functional requirements.
• Analyze and prioritize defects and recommend solutions and document and escalate any unresolved problems or issues with full evidence, such as functionality errors, inconsistencies in software program functions, file outputs, user interface forms, content, and system usability issues.
• Assist in training and mentoring the team and best practices.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Tested Online Applications, Interface & Batch Processing, BI Analytics, Email Campaign Templates,
• Loan Processing, user eligible discounts, Claim processing and many more applications in a very fast faced environment.
• Developed/executed automation script for functional testing.
• Written Test Plan, Test Cases, Automation Test Scripts, Test Matrices and Defect management.
• Performed Data validation using SQL Queries. Ensure day - to-day deadlines and long-term milestones are met. Worked in Onsite / Offshore model.

Confidential, New Albany, OH

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Project teams to identify test requirements.
• Project size estimates for various projects developed and coordinate testing activities including Test Plan,
• Test Case, Test Execution, Defect Management, Test analysis, and coordination of test resources.
• Coordinated testing tasks and activities with project teams and IT staff.
• Setup test cases (including automated scripts), run tests, and document testing results, including defects and quality metrics.
• Tested ETL maps and validated target data in Data Marts for conversion and integration process.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing offshore/onsite teams.
• Tested Citi Maestro application system (Internal Loan Application for the existing and new customers)Lender Gateway Interface,
• Password protection for direct link, Archive Payment Histories etc application which were developed in Java, PHP, PERL, REXX, Mainframe, MYSQL, DB2, connectivity (ODBC.
• INI, JDBC), web sphere application server 6.0, Browsers ( Confidential, Fire fox).

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Lead prioritize multiple projects like Confidential AdWords and Gmail/ Confidential Mail applications adhering to aggressive release schedules.
• Managing offshore/onsite testing team. Conducted team meetings to coordinate and resolve issues provided in overall direction.
• Training off - shore Confidential team, and monitor their test activities.
• Performed Webservices testing. Interaction with product, development teams to understand the functional specifications.
• Designed test cases for Confidential AdWords application includes proxy setting and i18N and Gmail features for different Browsers on Mac, Linux and Windows.
• Performed Exploratory /Adhoc, Functional and Acceptance (User & Basic) and regression testing.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Technical QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements development, software code reviews, configuration and change control, and Go/No - Go decisions.
• Identified Gap Analysis with Business, IT PM s and SME s review Test Cycle Builds.
• Performed Progression testing, Regression Testing, Boundary Testing, End to End Testing and Cross Functional Testing.
• Work with the QA and Project Managers to set and evaluate milestone criteria to ensure released products are on schedule with high quality.
• Record, report, and Quality center, track defects to accurately depict the status of the system.
• Assign tasks to QA Lead Analysts (offshore & onshore), review all defect items entered for projects, early morning or late night validation when new releases are being deployed into production.
• Performed backend data validation in source, target and warehouse tables includes dictionary columns mapping, count & effective issues and source-target mappings.
• Validate source and target data, and tested warehouse tables.
• Executed SQL Queries to validate the data integration between the various Database tables.