SUMMARY:

• A proficient QA Lead Engineer with more than Ten (18) years of Information Technology
• Experience, including Project Co - ordination, Quality Assurance and Development
• Experienced in managing both Manual and automation teams
• Good experience in managing and working with on-shore and off-shore teams
• Expertise in Waterfall and Agile software development models
• Expertise in Manual, Automated, Black box and White box testing
• Extensive experience in performing Functional, Regression, End to End and Performance testing
• Experience in Responsive QA (Rqa), Accessibility testing & RPA testing
• Good experience in testing effort estimation & testing requirement assessment
• Fluent in developing test plans, test cases, executing tests, generating defect reports, working with
• Development Engineers and Business Analysts to resolve problems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Tracking Tools: HP ALM, ClearQuest, JIRA, Version One, Radar, MS Outlook, WinCVS, Lotus Notes, CMVC

Workflow Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

SQA Tools: QTP/HP UFT, LoadRunner, SoapUI, Worksoft Certify, Cucumber, Selenium, BluePrism, JAWS, VoiceOver, Github, Jenkins, Eggplant

Languages: J2EE (Java, EJB, JSP, Servlets, JDBC), JavaScript, C, C++, PL/SQL, TSL, CGI/Perl, HTMLAnt, Ruby/Watir

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, DB2 UDB, Toad for Oracle

Web Servers: Apache Web Server, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere

Operating Systems: Unix (HP, SCO, Solaris, AIX), Windows(7, NT etc), Linux (Red Hat), Mac OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software QA Lead

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Establish this new QA role in the team by gaining business domain knowledge, end to end flow expertise, collaboration with multiple teams and work as test co-ordinator on multiple projects
• Define testing process and set expectations for applications involved
• From scratch create a brand new testing project in HP ALM and define standards for scripts, data etc
• Analyzed business requirement and functional requirement documents and prepared Test Plan and Test scripts
• Performed Risk Analysis on multiple projects
• Consistently provide sizing and estimation analysis for timeline and resource requirements
• Conducted quarterly meetings with business team to plan testing/resource
• Attended project meetings and update project managers, stake holders and team members on testing status and defects
• Delegate tasks to team members and provide necessary /mentoring
• Manage and track test scripts, results, traceability and defects using HP ALM, JIRA and Clearquest
• Support complete revamp of application from C++ based to Web based Java/Angular application testing efforts
• Maintain SVT lab workstations including peripheral devices for both legacy and new application platform
• Create and maintain documents
• Support testing efforts by execution transactions via ATM machines and validation in Hogan Mainframe and billing reports

Environment: Windows OS, Hogan Mainframe, Verifone, Agile, Jira, Waterfall, HP ALM, Java, C++, Clearquest, AddMaster, Panini Scanner

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review requirements and create test strategy and plan and provide effort forecasting
• Worked with offshore automation team to execute regression, update and manage scripts
• Monitor and manage automation script coverage and monitor test results
• Help and guide the team in converting from UFT to Java/Selenium based framework for automation
• Approve CR’s for appropriate code move to UAT/PFIX/Production environments
• Improve process of defect management and customer testing in UAT env
• Provide testing reports and maintain testing artifacts for audit requirement
• Participate in project meetings and bring up concerns, risk or clarifications on a timely basis
• Participate in production checkout during production install
• Performed hands on testing when required to support multiple releases
• Worked as Test coordinator for Tandem Replacement project
• Help operations team in setting up of RPA process by providing data and testing using BluePrism

Environment: Windows OS, Hogan Mainframe, Iphone, Android, Waterfall, HP ALM, Java, C++, UFT, Selenium, Github, Jenkins

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• As a lead interact with other teams in the enterprise to gather Test Data and Testing activities
• Gather and provide testing status to enterprise and within the project team
• Author Test Strategy document and provide testing estimation
• Perform End to End testing and help with functional/Regression testing
• Automate testcases using Ruby/Watir with Cucumber as the tool to develop the scripts
• Automate web services test scenarios using SoapUI
• Document requirements traceability to testcases
• Help team members as a Subject Matter Expert
• Document scenarios in Cucumber
• Automate story tests, Execute tests and report status
• Execute Wires testcases ( new functionality)
• Execute regression tests for ACH, Check, Account to Account and Portfolio to Portfolio transfers
• Communicate testing status and issues to the management

Environment: Windows OS, Java, S, Oracle, IE browser, Cucumber, Ruby/Watir, VersionOne, Hudson and Jira. Process followed is ‘Agile’.

Business Analyst/Senior QA Engineer

Confidential, San Jose CA

Responsibilities:

• Perform system analysis of impact of VMS implementation on IDM system of Confidential
• Provide recommendation for changes to be done to IDM system after analysis
• Perform as Subject matter expert for complete VMS implementation and train other team members
• Author and execute Unit/System/Regression testcases
• Coordinate with third party groups of Field Glass and Kelly services for system analysis and testing
• Report project status, meeting minutes and testing status to overall team
• Create test plan for System Testing
• Write testcases, Execute and report status to the technical and business team
• Execute load tests
• Participate in evaluation of automation tool like QTP, Selenium, Worksoft Certify etc
• Create automation test plan, Framework & methodology
• Author automated testcases in Certify
• Utilize Certify to document and execute Manual testcase
• Use Toad to perform queries from Oracle database
• Log bugs in ClearQuest
• Attend JAD sessions, Design review and project status meetings
• Point of contact for System testing
• Work with distributed team

Environment: Windows OS, Java, SAP, Oracle, ClearQuest, Worksoft Certify, Toad, IE browser and LoadRunner.

QA Lead/Automation Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Responsibilities:

• Executed functional, regression, end to end and Load tests for UI and web services
• Co-ordinated with multiple teams and acted as a point of contact to test inter-dependent functionalities
• Automated story tests for UI features using Ruby/Watir
• Automated tests for web services using SoapUI and GH Tester
• Enhanced SoapUI tests using Groovy scripting
• Created SoapUI regression set to be executed in Cruise Control
• Automated tests for PeopleSoft CRM application
• Updated/Verified Customer/Account information using HOGAN mainframe system
• Identified gaps in regression set and enhanced the set
• Communicated testing status and issues to the management
• Attended Story review meetings and analyzed story tests
• Actively participated in Retrospective, Show and Tell, Scrum and Load Planning meetings
• Evaluated tools and provided proof of concept for tools like GH Tester, Selenium etc
• Prepared Test plan and test strategy documents
• Estimate testing effort and document metrics
• Trained, delegated and reviewed team member work
• Maintained testing documentation in wiki pages and used Jira for defect management
• Worked with a distributed team across USA

Environment: Agile, J2EE, Ruby/Watir, Xpath, Jira, TMX, Groovy, SoapUI, Peoplesoft, GH Tester/IntegraHyperion Reports, SOA, VMWare, Hogan CIS mainframe & Windows OS

Automation Lead Engineer

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated various automation tools and provide proof of concept for automation using Eggplant tool
• Prepared automation Test plan/Test Framework and automate test cases for Web interface of the application and POS itself
• Executed Regression and functional testcases for desktop POS version and also on Easy Pay handheld device
• Logged defects in Radar and track it's progress
• Wrote testcases for new features of the application and updated testcases
• Performed Peer reviews of testcases
• Attended design review meetings
• Trained new team members in Automation tool