SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 14+ Years of experience in SW Testing & QA Management.
• Experience in using QA Automation Tools for HP QTP/UFT, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, Cucumber and Appium.
• Experience in developing and enhancing automated test scripts using Java, VB Script and Gherkin.
• Experience in defining overall Test Strategy/Methodologies, Test Plans, setting up Test Environments, Test Data for various test Phases/Environments.
• Expertise in Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing Mobile Testing, Backend Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensively experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) including Manual & Automation testing in various domains (i.e. Telecom, GAS, Electrical, Property Management, Audit, Financial, Retail, Cargo and various Managerial Portals/Applications).
• Areas of Effectiveness: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), SW Quality Assurance Techniques & Methodologies, Risk & Change Management, Defect Management, Release Management, Strategic Planning, Cost & Resource Planning, Gap Analysis, Client Management, Impact Analysis, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CMMi, TCOE, TMMi/TPI, Process Improvement, Strong Analytical Skills, Vendor Management and Quality Management.
• Strong leadership qualities with proven record of accomplishment of inspiring teams (Onsite / Offsite) to deliver high quality software and achieve strategic business goals and customer delight.
• Played key role for understanding of business & IT requirements to streamline administration and internal processes, resulting in enhanced automation and operational efficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Application Design & Development meetings to understand the new requirements and enhancements.
• Lead Offshore / Onshore testing teams (Manual & Automation) for concurrent multiple projects.
• Ensure the architectural design is in compliance with the IT methodologies and client requirements.
• Support production systems, perform immediate investigation and resolution of software problems.
• Conduct code review with QA team for test automation scripts and provide feedback to team.
• Manage for all QA activities and signoff process across a portfolio of projects.
• Acts as Point of Contact for JIRA for all QA related items to ensures a smooth transition from project to End Users/Business Officials.
• Develop test strategy for laying out the procedures for test approach and test planning
• Facilitate defect triage meetings with Dev and Product Owner in coordination with Business Users.
• Monitors and controls quality by identifying critical control points, preventive measures and corrective actions for continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and understand customer requirements and translate to appropriate test strategies.
• Understand the challenges in the existing process and recommend changes aligned to the business objectives.
• Responsible to maintain Java and selenium source code and Project resources in GIT as source control repository.
• Manage different testing tracks for the integrated solution helping team members, track leads estimate, and plan their tracks efficiently.
• Share best practices to the team and encourages incorporation for delivery excellence.
• Involve in Production Go & No Go decisions and Project closure activities

Confidential

QA Lead/QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and Lead Off Shore / Onshore testing teams (Manual & Automation) for concurrent multiple projects
• Responsible for testing release schedules, release cycles, Change Request & QA Sign - offs.
• Schedule Project Kick of Meetings and BRD Walk through sessions with Business and Project team.
• Develop test strategy for laying out the procedures for test approach and test planning.
• Review manual test cases for each module of the application, identify the automation scope, and assign to automation team to automate the test cases.
• Conduct code review for test automation scripts and provide feedback to team to streamline the code and to work effectively for the test scripts for all environments.
• Assess risks, prepare Risk Mitigation plans and Contingency plans
• Facilitate defect triage/review meetings with Dev, Business and Project managers in coordination with UAT
• Enforce Quality engineering best practices across all areas of software delivery.
• Review test artifacts and manage in central repository system for all build releases.
• Experience in test automation for Web Application using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.
• Conduct daily status review meetings with team members to get status updates and to take corrective and preventive actions for respective items.
• Maintain positive working relationships with team and get expected productivity per project time lines.
• Work with other external teams/departments for environment/license issues, external services availability and work towards resolution.
• Coordinate with Developers to resolve and prioritized defects per business time lines.
• Identify cross team training requirements and accordingly plan to get it done on time for every time.
• Involved in Go-No Go decisions and Project closure activities like lessons learned reviews
• Coach and advise the team on process improvements.
• Perform GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) as and when required towards to achieve good results as expected within time lines.
• Engage daily, weekly and Monthly status review meeting with key customer stakeholders - Solution Leads, SMEs, Managers, Directors and Senior Directors.
• Interacting with users by conducting a final product demonstration for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that the total functionality of the application was met by complying with all the business requirements.

Confidential

Sr.Consultant-QA

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Application Design & Development team meetings to understand the new enhancements requirements.
• Responsible for creating Test Plans/Schedules & Test Data.
• Communicated inconsistencies between System specifications and Test results to development and Analyst team.
• Experience in managing/delivering projects working in an Onsite/Offsite delivery model.
• Responsible for enhancement releases for every release as per the release calendar/time lines.
• Review Test Scenarios & Test Cases and provided feedback to the Team.
• Participated weekly status meetings with management to provide work status for assigned work and if any issues/risks.
• Responsible for Test Designs, Test Schedules for new bidding Projects.
• Participates in regular testing activities across the Web Portal enhancements releases.
• Actively supports and provides guidance on the web portal enhancements for test processes, procedures, standards and customer use cases
• Analyzes and understands each web portal enhancement requirements and interdependencies to determine and apply appropriate test methodologies and cases relative to applications being tested

Confidential

Sr.Consultant-QA Automation

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created the Test Strategy, Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Experience work with Data Driven and Page Object Model frameworks for Selenium.
• Developed and Implemented Web Application Test Automation Scripts using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework and Java. Used Eclipse IDE to develop & debug the code.
• Creation of Feature Files and Automation Step Definitions using BDD (Behavior driven development) in Cucumber.
• Experienced in providing the efficient locators strategy to run WebDriver Scripts in stable condition for all Phases / Environments.
• Experience to implement synchronization using implicit and explicit wait conditions in test scripts.
• Experience with Parameterization using Test NG XML and Data Providers to work differently with a different set of data with Test NG, Selenium.
• Performed the build and maven dependencies using Maven build tool.
• Parallel, Cross - Browser Testing using Selenium Grid and TestNG.
• Maintained Java and selenium source code and Project resources in GIT as source control repository tool.
• Used SQL to generate the test metrics after executing the respective test cases of the Module/Functionality.
• Responsible for executing the Mobile (both iOS & Android) Test scripts during the Regression Phase.
• Excellent skills in Bug Tracking and Reporting using HP QC/ALM and JIRA.
• Experience in test execution reports review and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Experience in managing/delivering projects working in an Onsite/Offsite delivery model.
• Supported for Enterprise Releases (ERs) & Maintenance Releases (MRs), Manage defects during execution and ensure that the defects addressed in Priority order per Severity.
• Extensively worked in Regression testing using Selenium Web driver in Test NG.
• Responsible for creating daily QA Activity documents (QA Dashboards for Management, Status Reports, Metrics, Traceability Matrixes, Release Notes, Check Lists, Validated Test Results, Defect Tracking Report and required supporting documents and maintained in Confluence.
• Participated weekly status meetings with management to provide work status for assigned work and if any issues/risks.
• Interacted with other external teams for environment/license issues, external services availability and work towards resolution.