PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A seasoned engineering professional with extensive experience in technology leadership, software design, architecture and project management.
• My career has been focused on building and leading engineering teams and solutions.
• Created from the ground up the most successful software engineering/support team in the company.
• Managed multiple geographically distributed team in the U.S and Asia.
• Directed all engineering activities and led the group through all stages of critical development projects.
• Established an offshore software development organization that allowed rapid project expansion and saved us millions of dollars in development cost per year.
• Successfully launched several innovative frameworks/products.
• Supervised all aspects of the software project management.
• Generated development plans, product requirements, test and release plans.
• Created and tracked software project schedules, managed software quality assurance and release activities.
• Established an efficient and flexible software development process.
• Defined and monitored process activities and metrics, established code and design documentation standards, code reviews and acceptance processes. Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements and development standards.
• Acquired new business accounts/projects consistently throughout the engagement.
• Prepare project status reports to keep senior leadership and clients informed of project status and teams roadmap.
• Research new technology tools for testing activities, perform evaluation and submitted conclusion reports.
• Communicate ideas for improving company processes and teams governance model.
• Worked along with program management to establish effective process of agile development. As the result we have successfully delivered completely re - engineered applications.
• Collaborated across the organization on creating an open and transparent environment for development and delivery of the product.
• Worked with divisional managers to establish a common set of software development testing tools across the division, improving efficiency by more than 50% and allowing multiple sites to work together on critical, time-sensitive projects.
• Adapted software development process to use scrum methodology, resulting in a 30% reduction in bug reports.

KEY STRENGTHS:

• Project Estimation and Management
• Process Development and Improvement
• People Management and Growth
• Metrics Development and Use
• Software Integration
• Defect Prevention
• Configuration Management
• Recruiting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: DevTest, CA Virtualize, CA Pathfinder, SOAP UI, SOAP Scope, Integra, XML Spy, XML Notepad, Parasoft, Quick Test Professional(QTP).

Test Management Tools: HP ALM/Quality Centre, JIRA, Bugzilla, Clear Quest, IBM RTC.

Programming Languages: C, JAVA Script.

Database Languages: SQL, PL/SQL.

Scripting Languages: HTML, PERL, CSS, XML, UNIX, VB Script, Bean Shell, Shell Script.

IDE: Eclipse, Net Beans.

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, MS Access, My-SQL, DB2.

Application Servers: Web-Logic, Web Sphere, Oracle Application Server.

Platforms: Windows (95, 98, 2000, 2003, NT, XP, Vista, 7), UNIX, Linux.

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Enterprise Architect, MS Project.

Others: IBM MQ Series, TIBCO, Oracle AQ Concepts, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, BPEL PM, OSB.

Version Control Tools: Clear Case, SVN, SharePoint, Bitbucket

Software Methodologies: Waterfall, RUP, Agile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Configure CA Confidential /DevTest for enterprise platform integration, define and standardize the process and architecture for implementing service virtualization and service - oriented architecture testing of the tool.
• Design and implement frameworks, different data protocols handlers/extensions (COBOL, Fixed Format MQ Services, REST JSON, Encoded URL Services) to implement custom virtual services to handle test driven, data driven approach and huge transactions.
• Establish strategies, goals, programs, best practices and improvement projects to drive operational effectiveness to drive growth.
• Develop protocols for capturing and tracking usage and quality metrics, and collaborate closely with centre of excellence manager to collect data across global architecture and development teams.
• Work with Citi s Project management Office and process and release management teams to integrate SV test policies into Citi s overall software development life cycle.
• Lead the design and implementation of a highly innovative ideas, utilities, frameworks, product and services to deliver towards a platform.
• Work on Confidential Pathfinder, by base lining test cases and virtualized MQ, SOAP and JMS services with Confidential Pathfinder.
• Distributed Installation of Confidential Components - Enterprise Dashboard, Dev Test, and VSE, Registry on Windows and Linux Box and Confidential Server Administration & License management.
• Trouble shooting installation issues, Agent installation issues and Confidential Maintenance - Upgrades Issues

Confidential, Denver, CO

Service Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configured CA Confidential for enterprise platform implementation & define and standardize the process for implementing service virtualization and SOA testing using CA Confidential tool.
• Designed custom virtual service to handle data driven approach and huge transactions. Worked on different Data protocol handlers/extensions to support other protocols
• Solid Quality Assurance experience including strategy planning, reporting and metrics analysis including experience managing and building test processes and frameworks; architecting, designing and delivering solutions using CA Confidential .
• Discussion with the Enterprise Architecture to get the overall architecture of the system to define and standardize the process for implementing service virtualization and SOA testing using CA Confidential tool.
• Prepared test strategy & approach for virtualizing various services (MQ, SOAP (HTTP/HTTPS) & REST) and components for various teams such as DEV, QA Testing team.
• Worked on different Data protocol handlers/extensions to support other protocols.

Confidential, Plantation, FL

Tech Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understand the enterprise architecture of Confidential and identify the gaps and areas of complexity where iTKO Confidential Virtualize can fit in and perform enterprise implementation.
• Solid Quality Assurance experience including strategy planning, reporting and metrics analysis including experience managing and building test processes and frameworks; designing and delivering solutions using iTKO Confidential .
• Discussion with the Enterprise Architecture to get the overall architecture of the system to define and standardize the process for implementing service virtualization and SOA testing using iTKO Confidential tool.
• Prepared test strategy & approach for virtualizing various services (MQ, JMS, SOAP (HTTP/HTTPS) & REST) and components for various teams such as DEV, QA Testing team. Built different data protocol handlers/extensions to support protocols.
• Co - ordinate and conduct various types of SOA testing for different projects including web service testing, rest services testing, testing ESB orchestrations, MQ workflows, etc. using iTKO Confidential .
• Extensively worked on Confidential Pathfinder, by base lining test cases and virtualized MQ, SOAP and JMS services with Confidential Pathfinder.
• Virtualized 52K transactions for SOAP Service with Custom virtual service model.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Service Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand the enterprise architecture of Confidential and identify the gaps and areas of complexity where iTKO Confidential Virtualize can fit in.
• Discussion with the Enterprise Architecture to get the overall architecture of the system to define and standardize the process for implementing service virtualization and SOA testing using iTKO Confidential tool.
• As an iTKO Service Virtualization Specialist, prepared test strategy & approach for virtualizing various services (SOAP & REST) and components for various teams such as DEV, QA, and Performance testing team.
• Co - ordinate and conduct various types of SOA testing for different projects including web service testing, rest services testing, testing ESB orchestrations, MQ workflows, etc. using iTKO Confidential .
• Virtualized and deployed many services (HTTP & HTTP/S) for end to end testing and made test environment available 24/7.
• Led the functionality, integration, system and regression testing and executed various test cases to validate the web functionalities with dynamic data contents.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SOA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall solution options based on Business Requirements. Proving estimates to the efforts involved to the probable tasks during the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Participate in analysis, design, testing of QEP components using Oracle Fusion Middleware products and QA tools such as Oracle SOA Suite, BPEL PM, OSB, Web Logic Server Java/J2EE, iTKO Confidential, HP Quality Center.
• Building a QA Framework and Test Strategy for testing various applications for the QEP project.
• Train Confidential employees in using tools such as HP Quality Center, iTKO Confidential etc., which are used for Test Management and Test Automation
• Build an automated scripts, which covers end - to-end functionality of the application in iTKO Confidential that involved many steps like Web Services, Rest, JMS Step, DB Step, and sub, processes etc.
• Develop virtual models and end-to-end models for testing applications for QEP using iTKO Confidential Virtualize and iTKO Confidential Pathfinder tools.
• Participate in testing & deploying the developed SOA applications to development, staging and production environments.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior SOA Engineer & Web Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing Process plan, requirement docs, and application functional specs in a structured RUP environment.
• Coordinated the key strategic planning, program development, implementation and evaluation committees.
• Built automation scripts in Integra and iTKO Confidential automation tool
• Extensively worked with QC to develop full lifecycle Test Plans including business rules and business models for functional, end to end and User Acceptance testing
• Developed and executed SQL scripts to validate the database activities and data generation
• Responsibility to write the major SQL commands to validate the Web Services update and feed the seed script in order to make test case is recursive
• Led the test engineers in analyzing the data processes and developing test cases.
• Led the functionality, integration, system and regression testing and executed various test cases to validate the web functionalities and dynamic data contents.
• Performed Regression testing using iTKO Confidential test of the entire build according to the change been updated and ensuring by cross validating the entire components of the application.
• Worked towards process improvement, and contributed with Templates and workflow formats

Confidential

Associate Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test strategies to facilitate the process of testing.
• Performed as Manual Testing and Automation Testing of the application using Quality Centre and Quick Test Professional.
• Performed black box, smoke, functionality, integration, GUI, system, database, regression and acceptance testing.
• Extensively worked on Web based, Portal and Intranet applications testing.
• Developed data driven functions using excel files and flat files to perform the same test with multiple sets of data using Data Table functions in QTP.
• Work closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of product specifications.
• Back - End Database testing manually by building complex queries and verify database with the values entered during automated testing