SUMMARY:

• A dynamic Senior Automation Architect with rich experience and thought leadership view in Digital, Independent, shared & strategic services like Test Transformation, Service Virtualization, Legacy - Modernization Automation, DevOps, Automation-Rich UI, Web, Desktop, API, DB, SOA/Micro Services, TDD, BDD implementation.
• Expertise in managing & Building the teams for Traditional & Insprint/Agile Automation using both Open source & Commercial tools.
• 6+ Years of experience in CA DevTest Service Virtualization & API Automation.
• Expertise Virtualization of various Transport & Data protocols via SOAP/REST,MQ,TCP/IP,JDBC,CICS transactions.
• DevOps implementation experience using Chef, CI-Jenkins, CD- IBM Urban deploy & CA products.
• Expertise in testing of Data Transformation, Mediation, Routing of messages across multiple heterogeneous systems.
• Expertise in SOAP/REST API Automation using DevTest, PostMan.
• Expertise in Automation for Technology Migration of the applications.
• Platform Testing of the product across various Operating Systems & Browsers.
• Defining Automation Strategy, POC, Due Diligence, Assessment, environment management
• Automation implementation experience for Large migration from Legacy to SOA stack.
• Conducting workshops & brain storm sessions to the customers on latest trends & technologies
• Automation Maturity Assessment & End-End Automation program management
• Gap analysis to assess current practices against key process areas to arrive at process improvements
• Experience for End-End Automation Solution Design Lifecycle.
• Due-diligence on vision translation engagements to rationalize the current Automation practices to align towards industry standards & best practices without compromising effectiveness or business impact.
• Automation Strategy, ROI, Road Map, Commercials-Estimations, Resource Loading and Pricing Model
• Test Environment & Test Data Management experience.
• Creating Joint Solution Offerings with automation Tool Vendors to customize customer landscape.
• Expertise in managing the End-End Testing/Automation delivery.
• A global point of contact, Responsible for starting & setting up the SOA testing & Service Virtualization practice & lab from the scratch for fortune BFS customers & end to end SOA testing operations.
• Defining best practices for SOA project support and documentation.
• SOA Project kick offs, Requirement gathering, Planning, Approach, Technique, Strategies, Estimation, Preparation & Execution.
• Expertise in delivery of successful Automation & SOA projects
• Managing overall operations for executing SOA projects involving and execution within cost & time parameters.
• Steering delivery management initiatives for technical deliverables of concurrent projects.
• Monitoring / tracking projects with respect to budgeted cost, demand forecasts, Dependencies, Risks, Mitigations, resource mobilization, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Object oriented Languages-Core Java

Automation/Unit Testing Frameworks: Junit, Test NG, nUnit, xUnit,Robot

Automation Tools: Selenium, Auto IT

BDD Frameworks/Acceptance Automation: Robot Framework, Cucumber, Jbehave, Fitnessee, Serenity

SOA Automation/Service Virtualization Tools: CA LISA-Dev Test, SOAPUI, Green Hat-RIT, Parasoft SOA

Test Management Tools: QC-ALM, Jira, TFS/MTM,IBM-RTM,CA-Test Manager

Scripting Languages: Java Script, Perl Script,Python, Shell Scripting, VB Scripting

DevOps: Chef, IBM Urban Code Deploy, Jenkins, CA Products

Configuration Tools: SVN,GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Test Architect

• Service Virtualization scope assessment for 50+ Applications.
• Defining the Effort estimates, Solution strategy and Road map for Virtualization.
• Virtualized SOAP,HTTP,REST, JSON 2.0,JDBC,SAP,MQ protocols.
• Designing the Solution Design/Approach for Virtualization.
• Designing the Virtual Services & Models.
• Managing the End-End Virtualization delivery for the shortlisted processes.
• Identifying and validating the Test data required for business and process validations.
• Responsible for End-End Service Virtualization and enablement of the team for successful delivery.
• Enabling early Performance Testing through Service Virtualization.
• Defining the best practices for Service Virtualization.
• Leader for Automation COE, mentored the team of 10 and provided the vision
• Implemented for product automation and helped the initiative of shift left in testing
• Participated in Agile Transformation at Ally and defined the new testing test processes
• Developed Test Automation strategies and estimations
• Participant in frameworks development
• Performed Technical role along with test management capacity
• Participated in Agile Transformation at Ally and defined the new testing test processes
• Participated in Test Pyramid definition which defines Business Logic, Contract tests
• Working with product teams to design test strategies with automation as the core component to transform QA to enable agile and continuous testing
• Supported in Test solution aspects of Proposals and RFPs - Identification of Test Services, Strategy/Approach, Delivery Models, Effort estimations and Timelines/Roadmaps.
• Supported in Automation Initiatives of projects & programs with scope identification, Proof of Concepts and ROI analysis.
• Implemented Production Validation Testing capability and helped organization to improve the monitoring of the App post patches
• Responsible for coordination of both offshore and onsite team’s daily tasks planning, assignment, tracking and weekly status updates to the leadership
• Establishes standards and processes that Test Leads should follow to manage their areas of responsibilities.
• Preparation of System Test Strategy, Test Plan and effort estimation, formation of Test Team, distribute the workloads, track the progress.
• Determine milestone deliverables, Communicate changes to schedule, Determines impact of schedule changes on quality objectives, Coordinates schedule with dependent groups.

Confidential, Milwaukee

Test Lead/Test Manager

• Developed hybrid frame work from scratch
• Developed Test Automation strategies and estimations
• Created Automation Test strategy and Implemented the vision
• Working as Onshore QA Manager and interacting directly with client providing the solutions for technical challenges, QA strategies and effective automation approach for high quality application
• Interact with Client, Business users, Product Owners, and Development team to understand the User stories and Acceptance Criteria and gathered Functional and Non-Functional requirements for the project release and define and translate requirements and designs into clear QA/test objectives and strategies
• Attended regular use case review meetings to understand the scope of functional testing
• Analyzed specific problems with the test management and its alignment with other roles or management areas in the project/organization, and propose effective solutions
• Created a master test plan with matching governance dashboard to meet or exceed the business objectives of the organization or a project/program
• Established a standard process for implementing test management in an organization (project/program) with standardized delivery based on quality KPIs
• Monitored the testing documentation including test cases, test scripts, test plans, requirement traceability matrix documents

Confidential, Milwaukee

QA Analyst /Test Lead

• Attended KT Sessions conducted by project management team
• Participation in Requirement, Environment Setup and Test Documentation review sessions
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases in Quality center and conducted test documentation review with Project team members and SME's of each sprint for Functional requirements
• Worked in Agile environment; including team engagement of Business Analyst, Developers, Test lead, Testers during user story creation for each sprint.
• Involved in Manual and Automation Testing for Functional, System, Integration, Regression Testing.
• Identified regression test cases after every manual run and created automation test scripts for the test cases using Quick Test Professional(QTP)
• Performed Functionality testing, Regression testing of the Application, its interfaces and Client-Server Utilities using Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Document defects using Quality center and tracked them to completion by communicating and coordinating with the team.
• Assist troubleshoot issues, escalate issues as appropriate.
• Daily/Weekly test status reports to the management on test execution status