SUMMARY:

• Well rounded Quality Assurance professional with 8.5 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing.
• Firm Knowledge in SOA web service testing, both SOAP and REST and handled a variety of relevant tools like SOAP UI Pro, HP Service Test and Green Hat.
• Good knowledge in Selenium - creating scripts using Selenium Webdriver with Cucumber framework in Java, Maven build tool and Hudson CI tool.
• Involved in defining an evolved ‘Factory Model’ which takes the best practices from both Factory and Agile approach and was instrumental in deriving the agile test strategy for the client fitness purpose.
• Ability to define test estimates and test strategy directly out of workshops and using minimal documentation
• Was the POC for Test metrics to analyze the testing trends for Confidential at client location
• Key strengths include leading the team with activities like designing effective test cases, requirement analysis, test management, collecting test metrics, ability to learn on the job, teamwork, dependability, communication and quality consciousness
• An ISTQB Foundation level and HP Quality Center certified Test engineer with sound working knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Quality Center 11.0, MS Office 2013

Scripting / Language: Groovy scripting with SOAP, Java

SOA testing tools: SOAP UI Pro (ReadyAPI V1.3.0), HP ServiceTest, GreenHat

Agile management tools: Rally, Version One, TFS

Database: SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Project Skills: Quality Center V11, Ready API 1.3 - SOAP UI Pro, Blueprint

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for participating in the Project kick off meetings, gathering the testable requirements and provide sizing.
• Review the test cases and test deliverables and facilitate the technical review meetings to get the test cases sign off
• Validate the test cases and the associated defects (Web teams) and track them to closure
• Responsible for providing the necessary clarifications throughout the testing cycles
• Actively attending the Project checkpoint meetings, addressing the issues, risks with mitigation plan and the test progress status.
• Perform the Go Live testing for the web services involved in the release
• Able to create test suites in Ready API 1.3.0 for the Restful services and maintain the regression pack effectively.
• Actively involved in creating and updating the automation test suites using Selenium as part of sprint development

Confidential

Project Skills: Quality Center V11, HP Service Test, SOA Testing

Responsibilities:

• Handled a 7-member team with SOA Testing using the SOAP UI and HP Service Test. Was the first offshore resource and was responsible for building the strong offshore team.
• Facilitating & participating in daily stand-ups and weekly sprint planning meetings.
• Inspection/ review of requirements and functional design documents
• Delivering estimates of time and resource needed for the test phases
• Creation of test documentation including Test plan, Test Case Design
• Able to create test suites using SOAP UI and HP Service Test using the WSDL, schema validation, test data parameterization and collecting the test results
• Also performed the quick regression tests using the created suites before code delivery into system testing
• Reviewing and analyzing defect log, verifying Check points
• Provide test coordination & execution plan
• Prepare EOTR - End of Test summary report and weekly status report
• Implemented standard processes and tools to streamline test delivery functions enabling proper tracking and reporting mechanism
• Anchored the end-to-end testing activities including test estimation & planning, requirement analysis, test scripting & execution, test reporting to senior management
• Extensive experience in incident management life cycle and implemented quality gates to ensure an effective defect management process with a quicker turnaround of defects.

Confidential

Project Skills: Quality Center, SOAP UI, Green hat, SQL

Responsibilities:

• Part of both Onsite and Offshore team and was able to handle multiple projects effectively with peak team size 15.
• Implemented standard processes and tools to streamline test delivery functions enabling proper tracking and reporting mechanism
• Instrumental in driving the UAT testing liaising with multiple stakeholders and enabled the client to improve Success ratio in UAT test execution by implementing a robust test approach
• Anchored the end-to-end testing activities including test estimation & planning, requirement analysis, test scripting & execution, test reporting to senior management and conducted the defect triage meetings with multiple stakeholders
• Extensive experience in incident management life cycle and implemented quality gates to ensure an effective defect management process with a quicker turnaround of defects
• Handled a 10-member team with SOA Testing using the SOAP UI. All the business critical rules which are mostly data driven were data parameterized and the regression suite was created for a long run.
• Facilitating & participating in daily stand-ups and weekly sprint planning meetings.
• Inspection/ review of requirements and functional design documents
• Creation of test documentation including Test plan, Test Case Design
• Delivering estimates of time and resource needed for the test phases
• Design and review test strategy and test plan
• Design and review test conditions and test cases
• Provide test coordination & execution plan
• Prepare EOTR - End of Test summary report and weekly Status reports

Confidential

Project Skills: Quality Center, SQL

Responsibilities:

• Handled Five Modules of Down Streams as part of Confidential IVPA Testing that includes Billing and Collection, Accounting, Posting, DocGen, Reports
• Handled the Team Effectively with Peak Team Size ‘6’
• Involved in Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data Preparation for the System Testing of SOA Messaging that includes 11 Orchestrations using Quality center
• Involved in preparing metrics like Requirement Stability Index, Load factor, productivity metrics etc.
• Participated in Closure Audit and achieved no Non Conformance for the Project
• Participated in the Test Design and Execution activities of End to End Testing
• Logged high Priority Defects and tracked the same for Closure.
• Involved in Test Management Activities include Preparation of Test Summary Reports, Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Report

Confidential

Project Skills: Quality Center, Prolite, Clarity (Client Tool)

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include Understanding requirements from Business Specification documents and converting them to test scenarios, test cases and have interacted with the product development to clarify all functional and technical issues related to the module under testing.
• Execution of Test cases, identifying defects, submitting defects and retesting of defects
• Involved in peer reviews and ensuring the traceability of test cases to requirements is maintained