SUMMARY:

• I am a technology leader with over 11 years of experience in Software Development, Automation, Quality Management and DevOps.
• My passion is to lead and design enterprise automation frameworks and test harness for solving QA challenges.
• I do that by (a) complex problem solving skills, (b) keeping up with technology trends and (c) building and leading global, high performing teams who share the same passion.
• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Agile Methodologies, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Test strategy, Test plan, Test environment management, Execution, Result Analysis & Reporting, Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Automation Architect with solid 8+ years of experience in leading and designing dynamic, robust and highly scalable enterprise automation frameworks
• 4+ years of leading and managing QA and automation team, local and offshore.
• Expertise in developing hybrid, data driven, module and keyword driven frameworks; creating test harness to support parallel execution of large regression suites, integrating with CI/CD process using Jenkins and Octopus deploy.
• Extensive experience in Performance Testing, Data Analysis and reporting. Database, Web services and API testing.
• Experience in cloud computing; automating orchestration of deployment and provisioning instances on AWS cloud using CLI, PowerShell, Terraform and Ansible (AWX).
• 6+ years of experience in software development and maintenance applications built in C#.net, MVC, Entity Framework, Web API, WPF, ASP.Net, Web Services.
• Functional domain experience involves Public Safety Sector, Equity Trading, FIX Trading, Superannuation and Healthcare

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Programming: C#.Net, VB Script, HTML, XML, JSON, JS, jQuery, SQL, MVC, WPF, Web API, Entity Framework

Testing Tools: Test Complete, Test Execute, UFT/QTP, WebLoad, Load Complete, MS Test Manager, Selenium, ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana), SoapUI, Postman, Perfecto Mobile

ALM: SDLC, STLC, Quality Management, Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), PPMR, Scrum, Kanban, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence (Power BI, TFS Cube), TFS Administration

Cloud Computing: AWS Gov Cloud, AWS CLI, Azure, Terraform, Ansible AWX, VMware vSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Automation Architect, Quality Management

Responsibilities:

• In my current role I lead Quality Engineering and Automation Team (onsite and offshore) to facilitate continues delivery of mission critical solutions for first responders with robust STLC to achieve high standard of quality.
• Designed and Developed Core Automation Framework on hybrid modal, highly scalable and reusable libraries in Test Complete by Smartbear. Created custom .Net powered object repository supporting 15,000+ object definitions; results in huge performance improvement in test execution.
• Designed automated performance test for desktop (Test Complete), web (Webload) and mobile applications. Created a centralized data analysis, reporting and dashboarding tool in MVC.Net.
• Created multiple inhouse tools and test harness to support automation duties like batch creation, parallel batch execution (on local and AWS) of 4000+ automated test suite, maintenance, failure analysis, reporting and dashboarding for all product teams.
• Extensive collaboration with Product Managers, Developers and QA Team to define roadmap for test plans and automation scripts in every sprint release.
• Implemented product telemetry system using ELK stack (elastic search, logstash and kibana)
• Built an organization level KPI dashboard in MVC.net integrated with Salesforce and TFS to report Revenue, Product Deliverables, Product Feature Pipeline, Customer Support Responsiveness.
• As part of Devops, worked with team to support migration to cloud (AWS), automated EC2 provisioning by using AWS CLI, Terraform, AWX and PowerShell scripts; automated backups in S3 bucket
• TFS Administration, Process Template Management, WI Deployment, Permissions

Environment: Test Complete, Test Execute, MS Test Manager, TFS 2017, VS 2017, Webload, SoapUI, ELK Stack, PowerShell, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, AWX, Terraform, AWS CLI, Power BI, AWS, Azure

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leading, mentoring and coordinating team onsite and offshore automation resources.
• Designed and Developed Core Automation Framework by implementing OOPS concepts for supporting and running robust automation scripts.
• Developed functional libraries which includes business utility and script utility functions to provide reusability and maintainability of test scripts
• Developed FIX framework, to test FIX trading using Greenlinetech Verifix tool API. This tool serves as a emulator for FIX broker. Did extensive testing to validate FIX messages from both Buy Sell Side
• Designed Data Driven framework for performing dynamic testing of application
• Developed a supporting application in .Net which will allow testers to create execution batch in QC and automatically execute scripts in multiple machines and update results in QC accordingly. This application also generate graphs and tables in excel which help team for preparing dashboard
• Implemented Continuous Integration Testing functionality which will allow developers to initiate smoke test as soon as they check in their code
• Review product requirements, functional and design specifications to determine and prepare automated test cases
• Prepared test scripts for testing GUI, extensive database testing and web service/SOAP testing using SOAP UI
• Performed Regression, Performance, Smoke testing which were followed by preparing and presenting detailed dashboards, charts and graphs to the whole team
• Prepared Test Design Strategy, Test Planning and maintaining automation scripts
• Responsible for doing RCA and defect management

Environment: QTP 11.0, QC ALM 11.5, .Net Framework, Sybase, SOAP UI, Web Services, VB Script, VB.Net, XML, MindMap, HexaWise, GreenLineTech Verifix

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Automation Engineer / Sr .Net Developer

Responsibilities:

• Revamped complete member portal in new graphics with additional features
• Developed CSS, JavaScript and JQuery for User Interface uniformity throughout the application
• Developed several desktop applications in VB.Net for member payment processing and calibration
• Designed and developed central DLL library on Layer design and Abstract Factory Design Pattern which serves all data retrieval and processing for portal, applications and websites
• Created stored procedures for data transactions in SQL database to be used by DLLs
• Developed stand alone applications in VB.Net which perform regression testing of all functions of all DLLs used in system
• Developed new member portal in ASP.Net 3.5 for one of client’s business which includes webpage designing and programming in C#.Net and WPF
• Prepared functional, unit and regression test cases implementing testing strategies
• Prepared Automation Scripts in QTP to validate GUI and Database
• Prepared Dashboard for automation execution, defect removal and prevention, regression metrics to present to the team.

Environment: Classic Asp, Asp.Net, MVC, C#.Net, VB.Net, VB 6.0, Web Services, SQL Server 2008, XML, QTP, QC

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used N - Tier Architecture for presentation layer, business logic and data access layer
• Written stored procedures using SQL in SQL Server 2008
• Designed aesthetics of website using HTML, CSS, JQuery
• Developed web forms using C# and ASP.Net
• Developed Web Services for user authentication and file transfers
• Used X-Path, XmlNode to access files and XMLDataDocuemnt to synchronize with Datasets
• Wrote triggers for sending Emails to clients after any kind of transaction has been made

Environment: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, C# .Net 3.5, ASP. NET 3.5, LINQ, WCF, WPF, AJAX, HTML, Web Services, XML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL Server, IIS