SUMMARY

• Excellent experience in Software Engineering Life Cycle that includes Project Delivery, Resource Allocation, Risk Management, Test Management, and Quality Assurance at CMMI processes.
• Worked in Retail domain with IBM Sterling Order Management System and Warehouse Order Management System.
• Worked in Insurance domain.
• Experience in leading large quality driven projects.
• Passionate for managing, developing and mentoring individuals, growing strong leads, and the ability to recruit top technical talent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent leadership and coaching skills with ability to provide thought leadership.
• Acquired expertise in software testing by working on complex projects following waterfall, agile and V models.
• Experienced in DevOps,Test Data Management, Manual, Automation and mobile Testing
• Mentored, coached and developed employees to align to their personal goals with organization strategies.
• Quick learner, versatile, adaptable and process oriented, with abundant enthusiasm and good sense of humor.
• Experienced in creating test plan, test strategy, test summary, framework and metrics.
• Worked and well experienced (6 years) in agile projects.
• Managed globally distributed teams through project direction and systematic methodologies.
• Test Automation: Proficient in testing automation using UFT, Jenkins, Selenium and Appium.
• Experience in Services testing and Performance testing.
• Test Process Improvement: Experience in test process improvement consulting, identify gaps, record observations and road map to Test Process Improvement.
• Attended training from Manhattan for Warehouse Management System and cleared certificate for basic level.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• UFT
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Appium
• Jenkins
• CI/CD
• Azure
• GIT
• VB Script
• HP Test Data Management
• XML
• SQL Server
• TFS
• MTM
• SOA Test
• JMeter
• LoadRunner
• Guidewire Policy Center
• Guidewire Billing Center
• IBM Sterling OMS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing the software test team (manual and automation) of multiple projects to ensure test deliverables are met and assists with resolution of issues.
• Review test schedule, progress reports, metrics, and issues to ensure the test effort remains on track and issues are resolved or escalated quickly.
• Ensure overall responsibility for the software testing activities within the scope of the project.
• Attend kick off, requirements reviews, and status meetings to ensure effective communication and issue resolution.
• Effort estimation, setting testing timelines, identifying risks and mitigation.
• Design/Architect test automation framework and develop the new test automation libraries
• Develop and evaluate the automation scripts using Selenium.
• Design & execute Regression Test Pack using frontend & backend test scripts
• Analyze test results and create test reports subsequently communicating reports to stakeholders.
• Research and resolve issues or provide possible solutions related to testing.
• Participate in code reviews to track, analyze and resolve defects.
• Collaborate with the research of techniques and tools related to software testing.
• Streamline and optimize validation process as appropriate.
• Manage resources onshore and offshore and coordinate test activities between onshore and offshore test teams.
• Assigning work to team, appraisals of team members.
• Establish test tools across projects executed in the platform.
• Act as a liaison between the automation and functional test team.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing testing (manual and automation) teams for Guidewire Policy Center project.
• Assigning work to team, appraisals of team members.
• Design/Architect test automation framework and develop the new test automation libraries
• Develop and evaluate the automation scripts using UFT.
• Effort Estimation and planning and setting testing timelines.
• Develop and coordinate to implement quality assurance practices and procedures.
• Design & execute Regression Test Pack using frontend & backend test scripts
• Identify future automated testing needs, scope, plan and supervise their creation.
• Coordination with project stakeholders and project teams.
• Conduct Status Meeting with the entire team.
• Risk identification and work on mitigation strategy.
• Capture various metrics in the project.
• Propose stepwise improvements for test process and link them to achieve business goals.
• Analyze specific problems with the test process and propose effective solutions.
• Helping User Acceptance team with test cases and test data setup.
• Conducting trainings for project teams for learning and keeping team project compliance.