SUMMARY:

• Software and Systems QA Manager(Automation, Performance & Security Testing) with over 25 years of demonstrated career success and proven track record driving enterprise cost savings to the tune of 15 - 45 million USD through productivity improvements, reducing cycle times, improving operational efficiency by leading large scale implementation DevOps-QA enablement/transformation.
• Managed large scale IT transformations in QA program as Manager, setting QACOE (QA/Testing centers of Excellence) with shared services capabilities in test process, automation, performance testing, mobile testing, niche testing, test data management, test environment management, Continuous Testing and ERP testing
• Hands-on experience automated testing of Web-applications, Data Applications, Mobile Applications and Package Applications using Cucumber, Selenium, UFT, QuerySurge and Worksoft Certify.
• Experience of managing onsite-offshore teams in multi-vendor scenario.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Has experience of defining the Enterprise QA Strategy leading to setting-up of Hybrid Model QACOE for 3 Fortune 100 organizations. The QACOE also include shared services capability. The capabilities are
• QA Program Management
• QA Automation, BDDT, MBT, TDD
• Digital Testing (Testing in 21st Century Digital world)
• Test Data and Environment Management
• Non-functional Testing
• Niche Testing (SOA, Mobile, Continuous Testing, ETL Testing, ERP Testing etc.)
• QA Measurement, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement Framework
• Knowledge Management,, Process Automation Capability
• Resource Management
• Test Data and Environment Management
• Has experience of defining the Enterprise QA Automation Strategy using following tools and frameworks
• Cucumber, Selenium, Fitness, J Scripts, X Unit, Python
• Query Surge (ETL Testing tool)
• HP ALM 12.x, UFT, BPT, HP Service Test, LoadRunner, HP Performance Studio
• RQM, DOORs, RFT, RTVC, RIT
• CA LISA, RTVS for Test Virtualization
• Big data and Global data warehouse testing using Query Surge, or Informatica DVO
• Work-soft Certify, SAP Solution Manager
• Visual Studio and Coded UI
• IBM Optim, GRID tools for Test Data Management
• Strategies in a multi - technology, multi-application, multi-vendor environment in
• Digital Channels (Mobile, and other Devices)
• Analytics as a Service
• ETL(SSIS), BIGDATA, Teradata, Informatica and Data Ware Houses
• Java and Microsoft Applications
• Middleware and Service Bus and Integration Services
• Managing large scale enterprise software QA management teams delivering solutions in Microsoft and Java technology space for the benefit of business. The responsibilities include
• QA Program Management (Distributed teams, deliverables, Agile based release planning and QA management)
• Managing QA Engineering Center of Excellence
• QA strategy using advance development methods including CI/CD/MDD/BDD/TDD
• Budgeting
• Resource Management for QACOE - Hiring,, Performance Management (over 200 resources}
• Business, Process, and Technology Transformation Management
• Operations Management
• Facilitating Release/Sprint Planning at multiple levels
• Facilitating Backlog Grooming, User Story Mappings
• Administering JIRA Agile
• Ensuring Business/IT stakeholder Engagement in Demos/Review Sessions
• Facilitating impediment removal Internal/external dependencies
• Facilitating process improvements though effective Retrospectives
• Experience and hands on expertise on following tool sets for enabling ALM Automation in Agile and Waterfall life cycle

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Infrastructure Automation: Chef, Puppet

OS: Linux, Windows, iOS

Continuous Integration Servers: Jenkins, TFS, Bamboo

ALM tools: Rational CLM, HP ALM

Release and Deployment Automation: Nolio, IBM Urbancode, XLDeploy, MSDeploy

IDE: Eclipse, TFS, Visual Studio

Behavior Driven Development Frameworks: JBehave, Cucumber

Build Management: Maven, Ant, MSBuild

Scripting Languages: Selenium, Ruby, PowerShell, Python and PERL

Service Virtualization: CA LISA, SOAP UI, Parasoft

Test Automation: HP UFT (QTP), Rational Functional Tester, LoadrunnerOrchestration: VCAC and Microsoft System Orchestrator

Monitoring and Log Management: Splunk

Static Code Analysis: Style Guide, FxCop

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps QA - Enterprise Analytics and Data

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Managing DevOps-QA program Transformation for Enterprise Analytics Division
• Define QA/CI/CD/CT Strategy in across 3 locations US, Taiwan and India.
• Collaborative Testing Automation, Nonfunctional Testing Roadmap
• Implementation of Continuous Testing Pipelines, Test Data and Environment Provisioning Management
• Test Program Management for Big Data, ETL, D?W and Front End Application
• Responsible for Test Strategy, Budgeting, Resourcing, Performance Managements

Confidential

Digital DevOps QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Managing Large DevOps-QA Transformation with ROI of 100% (5-45 Million USD)
• Define QA/CI/CD/CT Strategy in Complex Business and IT environments involving multiple stake holders, multi-locations, multi-vendors, multi-application and technology portfolios.
• Use of Lean fundamentals for optimizing the ALM and Service Delivery
• Advising clients on QACOE Strategies, Digital Testing
• Setting-up and Managing Centers of Excellence - DevOps, ALM Automation, Agile, Testing/QA COE

Confidential

Practice Partner/Senior Manager - QA and DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Leading and Managing Large DevOps-QA Transformation with ROI of 100% (5-15 Million USD)
• Developing and creating “Reusable DevOps Solution Frameworks” for various Clients. Consulting, coaching, leading and implementing DevOps/QA Automation Strategies for various Fortune 100 Financial Services, Retail and E&U Clients. Solution Design Frameworks for enabling Automated DevOps, QA, Test Environment Management, Service Virtualization
• Define QA/CI/CD/CT Strategy in Complex Business and IT environments involving multiple stake holders, multi-locations, multi-vendors, multi-application and technology portfolios.
• Use of Lean fundamentals for optimizing the ALM and Service Delivery
• Advising clients on QACOE Strategies, Digital Testing
• Setting-up and Managing Centers of Excellence - DevOps, ALM Automation, Agile, Testing/QA COE,

Confidential

QA Automation Lead/ QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• QA Manager responsible for implementing best practices in distributed organization based out of several locations. - QA Strategy for multiple QA Projects, Test Automation, Performance Testing, Security Testing, Executive Reporting, Resource Hiring and Performance Management
• Responsible for organization wide implementation of HP ALM Tools (HP QC, UFT)
• Responsible for areas of process/technological improvements, piloting and implementing solutions to improve the operational efficiency
• Responsible for CMMI Level 3 Process Maturity for both India and Europe Locations
• Quantified Project/Process Management - Applying Lean/Six-sigma based approach for tracking organization wide Process Efficiency and Process Capability Trends.
• Using Casual Analysis Techniques and Continuous Improvement frameworks for resolve process issues

Confidential

Developer/ QA Automation Engineer/ QA Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked for several India, Europe based organizations as an Automation and QA consultant for several Fortune 100 organizations on short and long-term projects on contract
• Started as a >Net developer, then QA Automation Engineer, and then QA Lead
• QA Lead responsible for Automation Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Harness Design, Test Metrics and Reporting
• Responsible Resource Management (, Knowledge Management, Resource Capability Development)
• Also worked as QA Analyst involved in Test Case Design, Test Automation, Test Execution (SIT, ST and Nonfunctional Testing)