PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IBM SOA Certified Associate.
• Sr SOA Test Architect with 16+ years’ experience in Software testing extensively on SOA backbone.
• Experienced and expertise in Managing on - site off shore team.
• Managing team with agile methodology, involved in requirement clarification, status update, project allocation, ROI calculation, estimation and knowledge development.
• Involved in new proposals and initiating new business developments for SOA projects across NA.
• Proficient in develop SOA Test Frame Work For Web Services Testing using Soap Tools (soapUI, iTKO LISA, HP Service Test)
• 5 years’ extensive experience as Virtualization Specialist using iTKO LISA tool.
• Technical paper presentation to different clients as part of new business initiation.
• Experienced in effort estimations, ROI calculation, writing white papers technical papers.
• Creating Virtual Services for WS, MQ, JMS, DB and other protocols.
• Hands on Experience on writing Custom Enhancement to ITKO by creating custom filters, virtualization parsers and assertions
• Custom JSON Path Step
• Expertise on iTKO LISA, soapUI, soapUI-Pro, SOA Test, HP Service Test, QC, ant, JUNIT, Code Coverage tools (Cobertura).
• Exposer and hands on using QTP (BPT, and in-house framework), Selenium.
• Expertise on TIBCO, IBM MQ, JMS, ESB and other middle layer testing.
• Expertise on Test Planning, scheduling & tracking and Risk Management
• Adherence to Quality norms, metrics collection & reporting
• People management skills involving competency building, motivating team and very good team player
• Experience in EAI, ESB, SOA, WSDL, SOAP, Oracle, Business Process Management (BPM) Testing SOA based applications with automated test scripts using soapUI, soapUI-Pro, iTKO LISA, SOATest (Para soft), JUNIT.
• Good knowledge on LINUX EL3 and EL4.
• Experienced with both Service and product processes.
• Expert on Application Installation Testing both on Windows and Linux.
• Exposure to the complete Software development life cycle using Object-oriented and waterfall development approach like SCRUM, RUP and waterfall.
• Experience on defect tracking system (QC, StarTeam) to report defects.
• Experienced on QC admin, analyze outstanding defects and defect reporting.
• Proficient in installing and configuring application servers like Web Logic, Web Sphere, Run, And web servers like Tomcat and setting up testing environment in windows and Linux.
• Strong troubleshooting experience in both client and back end components.
• Involved in evaluating/screening new resource and providing feedback and building up new teams at client side.
• Develop business by participating in response to SOA RFPs, RFIs, War room, bid defense & campaigns with all technical & commercial features, customer presentations & visits.
• Provide business plans, projections and market view to stakeholders such as business head, sales & marketing, capability development and delivery units.
• Effectuating pre-planned sales strategies after reviewing & designs the architecture for accomplishment of performance milestones.
• Create Go-to-market Solutions for niche technology and creating IP's, White Papers
• Develop & build solutions & propositions for customer requirements.
• Interaction with various Testing tool vendors, setting up NDA,SOW,MSA, working on pricing and proposing to customers
• Build, enhance, improve and maintain sales & marketing collaterals.
• Understanding and coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, customization of product accordingly to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SOA Testing iTKO LISA, Service Virtualization soapUI, soapUI-Pro
• HP Service Test,
• SOA Test - Parasoft
• JUNIT, selenium, QTP
• Quality Center
• StarTeam
• SVN
• ANT
• Cobertura
• HTML/XHTML
• JavaScript
• XML/XSL
• Oracle, SQL server
• Windows Vista/XP
• Apache/Tomcat
• WebSphere,Oracle SOA Suite
• Weblogic
• JDeveloper eclipse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• To design and develop test framework
• Presentation to the Client Management on the SOA service capability and Virtualization using IBM rational integration tester.
• Works on SCRUM model to get daily updates.
• Responsible to create and manage build process for
• Define and review the test scopes.
• Responsible to calculate the ROI and test automation framework design
• Creating Virtualization test plan, test strategy.
• Preparing SOA test, virtualization test approach & strategy for overall project and other service based project inside TCE.
• Client interaction for requirement clarification, status update, project allocation.
• Providing Documentation for SOA services and new innovations for effectively using the service test tools.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.
• Involved in Project coordinating with Business partners and stake holders
• Troubleshooting the problems of IBM RIT and developed custom enhancement for IBM RIT tool.
• Enhancing tool to meet the requirement.

Confidential

Sr SOA Test Architect/ Sr Manager projects

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements review, test planning and estimation
• Presentation to the Client Management on the SOA service capability and Virtualization using iTKO LISA tool.
• Managing a team of 6 members team (onsite and offshore and multi vendor).
• Key member of Center of Excellence managing around multiple members in SOA practice both onsite and offshore.
• Work allocation and estimations and status reporting on day to day basis.
• Works on SCRUM model to get daily updates.
• Responsible to prepare analytics data for testing and its usage.
• Report preparation using Quality Center.
• Responsible to calculate the ROI and test automation framework design
• Involved in Business Analysis with Stake holders and Business partners
• Creating Virtualization services using iTKO LISA tool for MQ, SOAP, REST and other protocols.
• Creating Virtualization test plan, test strategy.
• Preparing Test reports, evaluation reports.
• Preparing virtualization test approach & strategy for overall project and other service based project inside THD.
• Client interaction for requirement clarification, status update, project allocation.
• Providing Documentation for SOA services and new innovations for effectively using the service test tools (White paper).
• Building SOA testing competency at onsite for THD and managing team of 6 at onsite .
• Work allocation to the team.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.
• Involved in Project coordinating with Business partners and stake holders
• Daily Status Reports, test summary report and defect report
• Troubleshooting the problems of iTKO and developed custom enhancement for iTKO LISA tool.
• Enhancing tool to meet the requirement.
• Tool Evaluation (ITKO, HP service Test, SOAP Sonar) and providing evaluation report to the client and discussing with Tool vendors for the tool evaluation.

Confidential

SOA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing 10 member team (on site and offshore)
• Day to day work allocation, effort estimation for new projects, Status repot preparation, co-ordinate with offshore and onsite on issues and allocation.
• Involved in requirements review, test planning and estimation
• Presentation to the Client Management on the SOA service capability and new innovations with the existing tools and technology.
• Involved in Business Analysis with Stake holders and Business partners
• Creating Test Framework using soapUI.
• Creating test plan, test cases, test strategy.
• Preparing Test reports, evaluation reports.
• Preparing test approach & strategy for overall project and other service based project inside Confidential .
• Client interaction for requirement clarification, status update, project allocation.
• Providing Documentation for SOA services and new innovations for effectively using the service test tools (White paper).
• Building SOA testing competency at onsite for Confidential and managing team of 6 at onsite and 4 at offshore .
• Work allocation to the team.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.
• Involved in Project coordinating with Business partners and stake holders
• Daily Status Reports, test summary report and defect report
• Creating new templates (SCRUM tool) to manage the project.
• Involved in end to end testing of the SOA based applications.
• Validating Interoperability testing in SOA
• Validating Messages testing (JMS, IBM MQ series, TIBCO EMS.
• Preparing Requirements in Quality Center, creating traceability and reporting to the Client management
• Troubleshooting the problems of soapUi on client side.
• Enhancing tool to meet the requirement.
• Tool Evaluation (ITKO, HP service Test, SOAP Sonar) and providing evaluation report to the client and discussing with Tool vendors for the tool evaluation.

Confidential

SOA Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements review, test planning and estimation
• Worked as an onsite and offshore coordinator
• Involved in Business Analysis with Stake holders and Business partners
• Creating Test Framework using iTKO LISA, Creating test plan, test cases, test strategy.
• Testing web services on SOA Test tool (iTKO LISA).
• Creating Virtual Services for WS, MQ, JMS, DB.
• Enhancement to ITKO by creating custom filters and assertions.
• Preparing Test reports, evaluation reports, Preparing test approach & strategy for overall project.
• Client interaction for requirement clarification, status update, project allocation.
• Validating the framework, scripts on SOA testing for Off-shore.
• Providing Documentation for Virtualization and Functional testing and white papers for it.
• Worked as a Virtualization Specialist for all the Virtualization work in Allstate.
• Building SOA testing competency at offshore for Allstate and managing team of 3 at onsite and 6 at offshore .
• Work allocation to the team.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.
• Involved in Project coordinating with Business partners and stake holders
• Daily Status Reports, test summary report and defect report
• Involved in end to end testing of the SOA based applications.
• Logged the defects in Defects tab in Quality center
• Validating Interoperability testing in SOA
• Validating Messages testing (JMS, IBM MQ series, TIBCO EMS.
• Preparing Requirements in Quality Center

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Providing Estimations for different stages of the project
• Leading and managing the entire testing team of 8.
• Work allocation to the team.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.
• Preparing Test reports, evaluation reports.
• Preparing test approach, plan & strategy for overall project.
• Configuration of QC Server and client on initial stages for Confidential .
• Framework design in QTP.
• Installations of software’s on Linux server and managing the Development and testing environments.
• Configuration of Web logic server on Linux servers.
• Worked as QC admin for Confidential .
• Testing web services on SOA Test tool from parasoft.
• QTP frame work design.
• Client interaction for requirement analysis.
• POC for selecting SOA test tools (iTKO LISA, HP Service Test, SOATest, SOAP UI)
• Test Tool comparison report and selecting the best tool to use in Confidential .

Confidential

SOA Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Writing Test Plan, strategy
• Creating the SOA test frame work.
• Automated Test scripts using soapUI-Pro and Test case execution.
• Test Reports and defect reporting on QC.
• Work allocation to the team.
• Involved on Reviews and status meetings.

Confidential

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing of test plans & test cases.
• Identified the Test requirements based on business requirements of the application.
• Performed GUI and functionality testing.
• Involved in executing automated test scripts for Application Connectors like XML Store Services, LDAP, OLEDB, JDBC, CoBoC, SOAP.
• Responsible for performing Systems testing, which include Functional Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Installation testing before the software was marketed.
• Involved in Regression Testing and Code Coverage testing on Various Environments.
• Involved in analyzing issues, trouble shooting scripts and timely reporting as necessary.