QA Lead / QA manager (Agile Methodology) Resume

SUMMARY:

Accomplished, hands on software Quality Assurance lead/Engineer with experience in manual and automated testing.
Broad experience in the tools and technologies in the space of IT software assurance / Quality engineering functions.
Proficient in managing vendor resources including offshore team. Over 10 years of experience in QA and 5 years of prior experience in software development.
Proficient in Agile, Scrum, DevOp s methodologies.
Over 14 years of progressive experience in IT software Technology space
09 years in Testing / Quality assurance / Quality engineering
Last 8 years of experience working in Agile methodology
Over 6 years of lead experience including leading global teams
Prior development experience in VB Script, html, .net, SQL etc
Proven track record of success in delivering through offshore team
Led testing for a large variety of projects/programs across different SDLC methodologies and different technology stacks
Breadth and depth of experience in test strategies, test plans, test execution, status reporting, offshore coordination, test automation, performance testing
Current with latest trends QA process, metrics, tools, technologies
Proficient in people management, Team building and Talent development
Experience across a variety of domains such as CRM, Sales, Banking
Proficiency in tools such as Jnekins, Selenium, VSTS, Splunk, Jira, QA Sprira, Octopus etc
Several years of experience in Agile, DevOps methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Confidential

QA Lead / QA manager (Agile Methodology)

Responsibilities:

Creating manual and automated Testcases in Spira and Quality Center.
Led a global team including vendor team members from offshore
Successfully brought the best practices of Agile QA testing
Automating testcases using Selenium(Java)
Acted as QA point of contact for estimates, status, coordination etc
Responsible for all kind of testing including Test automation, manual testing, Performance testing and end to end testing
Established appropriate metrics for quality and status measurement
Closely coordinated with users to ensure user centric QA testing
Lead the migration project which involved migration of scripts written in QTP Tool to Selenium.
Co - ordinated with offshore team for developing the Automated/Manual regression suite
Acted as a Test Lead and provided leadership to testing team in daily Scrum meeting.
Allocated work to offshore team for Functional testing for a Sprint
Co-ordinated with other teams for UAT testing, Front End User Testing, Performance Testing and Compliance Testing
Created Test plan and Test metrices for the project.
Executed automated test cases using test management tools.
Used Jira and TFS as Defect tracking and PBI management tool.
Webservices testing using SOAPUI
Used deployment tools like Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
Used Splunk for checking Error logs

Confidential

Test Engineer (Agile methodology)

Responsibilities:

Created Test plan and Test metrices for the project.
Created automation test tool using PHP for monitoring the websites
Automated the defects and event update scenarios along with the smoke tests thus providing value - adds to the client.
Created and ran manual test cases.
Performed functional testing on the websites.
Defect tracking using Pivotal Tracker and Bugs database

Confidential

Software Developer/Tester

Responsibilities:

Did requirement gathering and analysis, prepared Business Requirement, Functional and Technical Specification Documents, prepared time estimates
UI Coding and implementing Business Logic using VB6 and COM.
Responsibility of developing/modifying stored procedures, complex sql queries for database SQL Server 2005 using T-SQL.
Created unit test cases and did unit testing, system testing and integration testing (frontend + backend), provided user acceptance testing (UAT) support for business users using JIRA tool. In short was part of whole SDLC.
Defect tracking using Jira tool

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Designed the frontend application UI - Web pages, business layer and database access layer of the application.
Coding and Implementing Business Logic using C#
Designed the SQL Server database - created tables using normalization, created sql queries and stored procedures using T-SQL
Prepared unit test cases and system test cases, did unit testing, system testing and integration testing(frontend + backend)
Was part of deployment of the application as well.

Confidential

Software Developer and Tester

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed and maintained web pages using ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML for the bank website.
Created/changed Stored Procedures, Sql Queries using T-SQL,DML and enhanced DLLs(COM) for implementing new Business Logic
Interaction with client/business for requirement analysis.
Attending status calls with the client for giving regular project updates.
Involved in end to end system testing and have done Whitebox Testing and Functional/Integration Testing using test scripts for few months for the same project using Quality Center.
Reviewed test plan

Confidential

Software Developer, Tester

Responsibilities:

Made changes to the UI of the web application and also did content management of the website.
Involved in creating few Excel Macros for converting data from Excel to XML format.
Involved in unit testing, system testing and end to end testing of the web application.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

Coding and Implementing Business Logic using COM and UI changes in ASP,Visual Basic 6.0
Prepared Stored Procedures, complex Sql queries and views
Preparation of complex Crystal Reports using stored procedures and views.
Documentation of technical details which involved writing psuedocode based on business requirements.
Testing of the peer code