SUMMARY

• 15+ years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance (QA) and testing experience with a wide variety of projects and environments.
• Experience with both Team Lead and individual work in below primary areas.
• Experience in complete project Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Analyzed functional requirement specifications and wrote detailed Test plans, Test cases and executed Test scenarios.
• Used TestLink, Trac, HP ALM, VersionOne and JIRA for tracking defects.
• Strong Technical Expertise in System, Regression, Integration, Performance and User Acceptance testing.
• Highly motivated resourceful team Lead that takes a positive approach to problem resolution
• Ability to effectively and professionally interact with people at all levels of management.
• Expertise in Policy Master Creation and Claim processing through Electronic Claim System
• Expertise in implementing many Guidewire PolicyCenter, PolicyBilling, and ClaimCenter functionalities.
• Expertise in End to End (E2E) from Policy creation, billing and Claim and across other interfaces and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Sound knowledge on JUnit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven and Ant for Project building tool, Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Integration.
• Experience with source version control tools such as Subversion (SVN), TFS, Git and Bitbucket.
• Very Good understanding of Automation.
• Worked with testing models Agile and waterfall method

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, Java

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, VersonOne, Trac, and HP - ALM

Scripting: VB Script, Unix/Linux

Tools: and Utilities: MS Visio, SQL Loader, SQL Query Analyzer, TOAD, SoapUI, Putty, Control-M, ETL, QMF, SPUFI, File-Aid for MVS, MQ Series, Data Analysis, UltraEdit and IBM MDM (Master Data Management)

Operating System: MVS/ESA, MS-DOS, UNIX, WIN 95/NT, MS DOS, Windows 95/98/XP/2000 Professional/NT, UNIX (HP-UX, IBM AIX 5.1.2/4.3.2 ), OS/390, z/OS.

Markup Languages: HTML, XML, JSON, Xpath, XCode, XSD, XSL, XSLT, JSP, AJAX, CSS

Databases and Tools: Oracle (SQL), DB2, PostgreSQL 9.1, MS SQL Server, DB visualizer.

Mainframe Technologies: VSAM, JCL, RUMBA, RACF, VTAM, COBOL, CICS, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, PANVALET, TSO/ISPF, CEDF, SAS, SPF/PDF, SPUFI, FTP, NDM, QMF, PVCS, SYNCSORT, JES2, FILE MANAGER, ABENDAID, VANTAGE-ONE

Schedulers: OPC, CA-7, Zeke, and Control-M

Products: Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimCenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Offshore and Onsite Coordination due to Offshore and Onsite model.
• Assign various tasks to the engineers as per strength of individual.
• Manage a team of 8 testing resources.
• Prepare the estimates and work for offshore as functional role of QA lead is to lead the quality assurance department
• Track QA engineers are on the right track all the way in the project, resolving conflicts across team, review the schedules and plans, mitigation of the risks, checking quality in phases, update management, build a challenging and motivation environment.
• Defining quality standards and metrics for the current project/product.
• Working with all stake holders to ensure that the quality metrics is reviewed, closed and agreed upon.
• Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking.
• Work closely on the deadlines of the project
• Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
• Transferred the knowledge to offshore to developing test scripts for all functional, GUI and data verification for each functionality based on the prototypes in Invision.
• Working closely with UAT team on UAT scenarios.
• Providing support to the automation team and providing them with business - critical scenarios to automate as well and helping them with regression scenario execution.
• Providing estimates for testing effort to senior management for each release and sprint.
• Create functional scenarios for the requirements under test each sprint.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy and other monthly, weekly status reports
• Used XML and web services for the integration - vendors, Inspire software for documents upload.

Environment: AWS, VersionOne, DevOps, Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter, VersionOne, SoapUI, Slack.

Confidential, Lancing, MI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing test scripts for all functional, GUI and data verification for each functionality.
• Working closely with UAT team for development for UAT scenarios.
• Providing support to the automation team and providing them with business - critical scenarios to automate as well and helping them with regression scenario execution.
• Providing estimates for testing effort to senior management for each release and sprint.
• Create functional scenarios for the requirements under test each sprint.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy and other monthly, weekly status reports
• Used XML and web services for the integration - vendors, Inspire software for documents upload.

Environment: DevOps, Bitbucket, Duck Creek, Guidewire ClaimCenter, HP ALM, SoapUI, Slack, JIRA.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing functional specifications along with the Team in AGILE process
• Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing test automation for customized software products
• Apply best practices and techniques for testing and delivery quality projects
• Develop, execute, and maintain testing scripts
• Writing and Reviewing Scenarios and identifying issues in the specs
• Incorporate review comments received from the clients.
• Created the E2E and testing scenarios across the system
• Creating and Debugging the Test Plans & logging defects
• Preparing Test Data & Maintaining Test Cases, Test scenarios in Share Point.
• Functional Walkthrough and Peer Reviews of Test Scenarios and Test Plans among the Team Members.
• Using Testing Anywhere Tool for automation of the test scenarios.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation.
• Performed Regression testing by executing Testing Anywhere scripts on the new build.
• Worked on Hadoop technologies, MapReduce, Hive, HDFS
• Software Installation and Configuration of 4 nodes Hadoop Cluster
• Written Flume config files to store streaming data in HDFS.
• Loading Data from Oracle database to Hadoop Cluster in test environment using Flume
• Creating Hive tables and writing Hive Queries on Data Sets
• Verified Reports built on reporting layer on the Hive Data.

Environment: Click Software, DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, SOAPUI, VB Script, Testing Anywhere, XML, Middleware TIBCO, Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive