SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 14 years of experience in providing strategic direction and integrating IT (QA) needs of the company into the overall business model. Manage and direct offshore/onshore teams.
• Hands on automation in java and groovy. Experience leading automation teams and applying new technologies proactively for continuous improvement.
• Help build high performing client teams.
• Experienced in digital advertising and Financial domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation: SoapUI, Selenium WebDriver, Mocha, Chai, Webdriverio, Protractor, Appium, Geb/Spock, maven,gradle, Cucumber, SikuliX

Languages: Java, groovy, SQL, JavaScript,nodejs,Ruby, Shell Script, Perl, VBScript

Tools: HP ALM, Fiddler, Bugzilla, Jira, TOAD, EditPlus, Ant, SQL *Plus, Putty, WinSCP, Sauce Labs.

Web Technologies: HTML, DOM, CSS, XML, ActiveMQ, REST and SOAP API

RDBMS: Oracle

Platforms: UNIX, Windows (98/2000/XP/VISTA/7), MAC, Android

SDLC Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, CI - CD, TDD, BDD

QA: Web services, data base, batch, frontend, performance, team mentoring/leading, QA estimates, QA strategy, outsourced team management, test schedules, scope, QA risks, defect management, dev/BA collaboration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Architect (Automation)

Confidential, New York, NY

• Working on a C# framework to build an automation solution (Ranorex) for a trading order management desktop application.

Confidential - Jersey City, NJ

• Developed automation solutions for Confidential applications using Java.
• Architect automation testing of IBM MQ and batch applications.

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Automation Lead

• Created testing solutions for wealth market applications from ground up.
• Mentored and leading a team of automation engineers.
• Foster teamwork within the group, help team members improve their skills and achieve project goals.
• Created and maintaining selenium/java/testNG framework.
• Lead team’s technology discussions from QA perspective to resolve issues, debug automation suites and to plan for future technical needs.

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead QA (Automation dev)

• Created QA solutions for a web services application for digital data platform.
• Testing product end to end, integrating with other applications.
• Lead QA in providing agile process improvement suggestions to management.
• Introduced automation solution by automating ad-hoc tasks.

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead QA

• Brought automation into team and reduced regression time.
• Built framework using soapUI.
• Successfully led QA for standard interface project, a consolidation of bi-directional SOAP APIs, under demanding deadlines.
• Led testing of vendor software to integrate with ITSM Change Management.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Built frameworks using SoapUI (Groovy scripts), webdriver, android sdk, appium, java, testng.
• Manual data validation through SQL. Jenkins for CI-CD
• Performance tested servers for specific requirements using httperf; analyzed results.
• Contributed to agile artifacts from QA standpoint.

Confidential, South Brunswick, NJ

Senior Web Quality Assurance Engineer

• Tested user interface and functionality in a web services and CMS (Methode) environment.
• Served as point person for login password project.
• Performed mobile testing on iOS and android devices.
• Identified and automated automation tasks using selenium webdriver, testNG and Java
• Resolved defects and bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patch phases.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Performed application functional, integration, system, regression and database testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to test database views and tables.
• Provided QA schedule estimates and participated in requirements review and design review meetings.
• Performed QA activities for the Eclipse Plus product that served advertising needs.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Quality Assurance Engineer

• Performed end-to-end functional, regression and integration testing. Automation using selenium, testNG and Java.
• Coordinated defects in QC and wrote SQL queries for data validation.
• Worked with business users to develop user acceptance testing (UAT) plans.
• Led Maestro credit card offer project.