SUMMARY:

• Expert on a wide array of systems and domains that includes automation , iOT , supply chain management, Industrial Internet, Banking, Manufacturing, Insurance, E - Commerce, Embedded , product development , and mobile applications .
• Strong knowledge and skills in developing test strategies, reviewing test plans and test scripts; implementing new QA methodologies resulting in timely releases. Developed well-defined process by utilizing the best practices in software testing.
• Orchestrated and Articulated test automation events to exercise a of savings in execution at enterprise level .
• Managed resources in US & INDIA locations along with multiple vendors . Presented results to C-level management and customers .
• Five years of experience in optimizing teams by establishing goals with line of sight to business outcomes, implementing consistent performance measurements , empowering people to own “success” and rewarding results .
• Effectively interacted with customers to meet collective goals and maintained a conducive professional environment
• Extensive experience in led teams in areas like unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression and Performance analysis of over 100K scripts by Protractor, Protractor Perf, Selenium, SOAPUI, Rest Assured, JMeter, Gatling, Blaze meter, Appium, Ready API, LoadRunner, UFT, QTP, Sahi, Fitness
• Over Six years of experience with Scrum and CI/CD integration test processes, resulting in earlier defect discovery, consistent quality gates and reduced time to market.
• Building and mentoring QA teams in Agile development/transformation , Automation and Deep functional knowledge development .
• Experiences in drive the planning, design and implementation of a division-wide automation strategy for large scale and complex products, product families and groups of products and will ensure alignment with and contribute significantly to corporate quality initiatives.
• Worked closely with product delivery managers to review and validate requirement documents.
• Actively participated in adopting Agile Process for Web and Product Testing
• Involved in Stand-Up meetings to track the Iteration status using Rally and participated in Iteration planning.
• Expert knowledge and good experience in assisting current processes and infrastructure and architect new automation frameworks.
• Created functional test plans mapping the requirements and testing approach.
• Created and maintained test cases for different modules and different products.
• Estimated testing efforts during the product planning stage.
• Created build scripts for integration with continuous build server and integrated automated functional test suite with continuous build server.
• Wrote business logic tests in Selenium, Fitness and Sahi to run part of CI for nightly build.
• Extensively supported CM team for the build notification by providing integrated automation scripts for SMOKE test through management tool or run batch mode file by the CM team.
• Implemented Selenium framework to run through Perfecto for various devices.
• Involved in creating device automation scripts using various SDKs like Appium, Android.iOS.
• Extensively implemented Business Process Testing for SMOKE and Regression testing for large scale, small projects by using Quality Center and QTP.
• Expert Knowledge in building out test automation framework from the scratch.
• Actively participated in customizing the reports as per the requirement in Quality Center Dashboard.
• Extensive experience with DevOps team to work on Cloud Foundry configs, Microservice validations.
• Extensive experience in developing automation for Web, Client/Server, Main-Frame and web-service applications and Strong knowledge in designing and developing Framework with mercury automation tool(s) QTP, Load runner and other tools Selenium(Web Driver), Fitness, SOAPUI.
• Expertise in meeting with client groups to determine performance requirements and goals, determine test strategies based on requirements and architecture, create and implement performance tests using Load Runner and SOAP UI, JMeter, Rest Assured.
• Actively participated in is the process of creating a set of data for testing the adequacy of new or revised application.
• Responsible for maintaining a high level of data quality through rigorous analysis and auditing of all data used in reporting.
• Responsible for working with internal customers, external customs and vendors to ensure timely resolution of data issues and problems.
• Analyze, query and manipulate data according to defined business rules and procedures.
• Good Knowledge in writing custom functions and programs to support the load testing efforts, monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks, analyze test results and report the findings to the clients, and provide recommendation for performance improvements as needed
• Significant experience in using profiling tools to analyze and improve software performance and detect memory leaks
• Diagnosis and Debugging of Application Servers performance issues using web admin tools
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. Also, in a fast paced environment with little guidance at times
• Active team player having good Communication skills with Strong Interpersonal and Analytical skills, Strong Analytical, Diagnostic and Troubleshooting skills and ability to work in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

SDLC: Experiences SAFe Agile with SCRUM/Sprints, Iterative, Waterfall

Test Planning: Scoping, estimates, strategy, plans, presentation, co-ordination

Risk Management: Identify risks and plan best case approach for risk mitigation

Mentor/Implementor: QA processes, techniques, standards in non-structured business cultures

Test Case Management: Managing Test cases by design docs

Defect Management: Tracking, reporting, triage/management meetings

Test Execution: PaaS, Cloud, Cockers, Containers, Web, mobile, Micro-services, SOAP/RESTful API’s, database, network, hardware and infrastructure

Test Types: Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, System, UAT, Usability, Product verification/smoke test, Test data generation, Performance, Stress, load, Capacity, Reliability

Release Management: Plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams

Automation: Protractor, Selenium, Rest Assured, Cucumber, SOAP/Ready API, JMeter, Appium, Jenkins, LoadRunner, UFT/QTP, Gatling, Python, Java Client, AnyLogic

Mobile Applications: Native, Web and Hybrid applications

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Quality Assurance Organizational Leadership
• Quality Process Design, and Best Practices
• Leading Manual and Automation teams
• Test/Automation Governance, TCOE, COE, Implementation
• Program and Project Management
• Budgeting, Scheduling, Resource allocation
• QA Process Improvement Initiatives
• Integration, Functional, Regression, NFR
• Automation testing
• Performance testing
• System testing
• UAT, Production verification
• Data Center Migration testing
• PaaS, Mobile, Cloud, iOT application testing
• Demo/Presentations, Poc’s, Pilot’s

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows, VMware, SaaS Labs, AWS - S3 / EC2, Elastic Search, Cloud Foundry, Java, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, Hudson, Jenkins, LDAP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Postgres, Casandra, RdishCache, Blob Store, RabbitMQ, Selenium Web driver, Protractor, TestNG, Sahi, Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT, Fitness, ReadyAPI, Soap UI Pro, Rest Assured, JMeter, Gatling, Taurus, Blazemeter, Load Runner, HP - Quality Center (ALM), Rally, BugZilla, Clear Quest, Perfecto, Device Anywhere, Visual Studio, TFS, CodedUI, Android SDK, Vi Editor / Putty / SSH, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Project Plan), PVCS Tracker / VM, Tortoise SVN, GitHub, Microsoft Project Server, KERNAL, NTSD, WINDBG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Staff Software Quality Automation Architect /Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and leading a team of 10 team member in Manual, DevOps and Automated QA organization.
• Spearheaded all quality assurance efforts within an organization including the development and implementation of quality assurance program
• Defined QA policies, quality improvement processes, best practices.
• Held overall responsibility to plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams.
• Developed QA Budgets, hire, train, mentor, and supervise QA Engineers in Test Automation.
• Designed and developed Test automation frameworks and articulated to QA teams to implement in all projects.
• Played a key role in establishing automation in all quality validation areas.
• Established TCOE and managed Automation & Functional testing areas, created Test Strategies, Test Plans, Dashboards, etc.
• Designed and developed robust and enterprise level automation.
• Balanced excellent decision making, leadership, analytical, interpersonal, communication skills with strong motivational skills to ability to speak with different Product/Development/TechOps/DevOps teams to future prospects.
• Provide daily, program status reports to the executive management with appropriate KPI’s, metrics.
• Prepared and managed Risk & mitigation plans
• Have a thorough understanding of the architectural and design principles, hands-on automation and testing experiences.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in al opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Maintained effective off-site /on-site team communications.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

IT Quality Automation Architect/ Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and leading a team of 5 team member in Manual, Automated QA organization.
• Spearheaded all quality assurance efforts within an organization including the development and implementation of quality assurance program
• Established TCOE and managed Automation & Functional testing areas, created Test Strategies, Test Plans, Dashboards, etc.
• Designed and developed Test automation frameworks and articulated to QA teams to implement in all projects.
• Designed and developed robust and enterprise level automation.
• Balanced excellent decision making, leadership, analytical, interpersonal, communication skills with strong motivational skills to ability to speak with different Product/Development/TechOps/DevOps teams to future prospects.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in al opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Maintained effective off-site /on-site team communications.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr Automation Architect/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and leading a team of 12 team member in Manual, Automated QA organization.
• Spearheaded all quality assurance efforts within an organization including the development and implementation of quality assurance program
• Established TCOE and managed Automation & Functional testing areas, created Test Strategies, Test Plans, Dashboards, etc.
• Articulated automation frameworks to stakeholders into various projects for different clients, Wells Fargo, Ingenuity, Cisco Systems
• Conducted PoC’s, executed Pilots to solve customer problems.
• Presented Demo’s to customer executives, engineering teams on automation frameworks
• Designed and developed robust and enterprise level automation.
• Led hands-on efforts in delivering (writing/debugging/executing) automation scripts to on to various projects/products

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Sr Automation Architect/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led hands-on efforts in delivering (writing/debugging/executing) automation scripts to on to various projects/products

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and leading a team of 15 team member in Manual, Automated QA organization.
• Spearheaded all quality assurance efforts within an organization including the development and implementation of quality assurance program
• Established TCOE and managed Automation & Functional testing areas, created Test Strategies, Test Plans, Dashboards, etc.
• Articulated automation frameworks to stakeholders into various projects for different clients Microsoft, All State
• Conducted PoC’s, executed Pilots to solve customer problems.
• Presented Demo’s to customer executives, engineering teams on automation frameworks
• Designed and developed robust and enterprise level automation.
• Led hands-on efforts in delivering (writing/debugging/executing) automation scripts to on to various projects/products

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.