SUMMARY

• Accomplished and result - driven Software QA professional with extensive experience in quality assurance, design verification and system design.
• Hands-on manager with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity.
• Adept at developing and implementing test strategies, test methodologies, and operational procedures. Expertise in software testing with familiarity across multiple programming languages, problem solving, risk analysis and mitigation.
• Proficient in training, leading, and motivating geographically dispersed teams; process optimization, and seamless workflow management. Excellent personal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Leadership: QA management • Process Improvement • Recruitment • Mentoring • Project Management

Processes: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) • Software Test Lifecycle (STLC) • Development Practices (TDD, BDD, ATDD) • Agile (Scrum, Kanban) • Test methodologies

Languages: HTML • VBScript • JavaScript • Java • Node.js • React.js • XML • JSON • Python • PHP

Technologies: Apache (HTTP) • LAMP • MAMP • Databases (SQLite, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, Oracle) • Web Services (SOAP, REST) • Selenium WebDriver • Cucumber.js • Gherkin • LoadRunner • HP QTP • NPM • SwaggerUI • GruntJS • JUnit • TestNG • GraphiQL • Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure)

Tools: VS Code • Eclipse • GitHub • BitBucket • Innersource • Jenkins • JIRA • Confluence • Sharepoint • VMware • VirtualBox • Vagrant • Docker • Kubernetes • GitLab • Kitematic • Postman • Firebug • XPath • TestLink • PHPStorm • PgAdmin ||| • SQL Plus • MS SQL server • PHPMyAdmin • Bitnami • StarTeam • TeamInspector • RESTClient • Android Emulator • Simulator • Crosse Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera) • IIS • SpiraTeam • PHPStorm • HP Quality Center • Kibana • Elasticsearch • Splunk •YouTrack • ALM Octane • MS Office • MS Project • Slack • MS Teams

Operating Systems: Linux • Windows • OSX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Test Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the ACP QA teams’ transition to automated testing, driving research, tool selection process, implementation of automation tool, leading the development of in-house test framework (using Cucumber.js and Gherkin) and implementation of ACP test suite.
• Built a high-performance test engineering team; manage and lead test engineering team across Asia, Europe, and Americas, technically driving the development of end-to-end automation testing, test execution, debugging and resolution.
• Institute Engineering UI Validation program, automate testing of UI development, executing UI tests on Jenkins pipeline. Responsible for design and implementation of UI framework (using Node.js with Selenium WebDriver) and development of ~80% of UI test cases.
• Develop product test strategies and test plans and collaborate with ACP feature teams to ensure alignment of quality assurance. Coordinate test execution in an agile environment.
• Manage deployment of applications and test resources across multiple cloud provides (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and multi-tenancy cloud environment. Deploy ACP Services and validate configuration using GraphiQL queries, Python scripts or querying the database.
• Design, implement, and execute UI and backend API automation tests. Conduct code reviews of test code and provide feedback on PRs. Prepare test progress report for senior management with appropriate RAG status and KPI’s / test metrics.
• Lead validation effort of ACP client deployment projects; update and execute scripts in python to deploy product; develop and execute tests to validate custom features using LoadRunner.
• Manage complete implementation (including research, customization, pilot runs and deployment) of ALM Octane tool for requirements traceability and test management across ACP engineering product unit, spanning multiple regions. Managed test artifacts and prepared reports for management.

Environment: ALM Octane, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Bitbucket, Python, ReactJS, CucumberJS, Gherkin, BDD, Selenium Webdriver, VS code, LoadRunner, JSON, Postman, GraphiQL, GitHub, SwaggerUI, AWS Cloud, Jenkins, Virtual Box, Vagrant, Node.js, NPM, AWS Web Services, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Splunk, Windows, OSX, Linux.

Senior QA Lead

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Drove overall test management effort (test strategy, test plan, test execution, defect management) across all DF products.
• Performed GUI, usability, regression, performance, cross-browser, system, smoke, integration, and exploratory testing; performed REST API testing using in-house development tools and postman.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained in-house test automation framework based on Java, JUnit, Selenium and NgWebDriver (AngularJS). Developed and maintained automation test scripts across all products; created and maintained test deliverables / artifacts for each sprint.
• Implemented and executed queries to administer and manage test databases across various database services (SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase); configured and maintained test environment snapshots using AWS EC2, Docker / Kitematic, Vagrant and VirtualBox.
• Executed tests using a combination of automation and manual testing, cross-browser, cross- platform, analyzed and verified test results, and managed defects using JIRA and TestLink.

Environment: Selenium 3.0, Eclipse IDE, JUNIT, TestNG, ngWebDriver, AngularJS, Java, JSON, PHP Laravel web framework, Firebug, XPath, TestLink, Jira, Confluence, In-house REST API test tool, PHPstorm, Postman, GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Kitematic, SwaggerUI, AWS Cloud, Jenkins, Virtual Box, Vagrant, GruntJS, MAMP, PHPMyAdmin, Bitnami, AWS Web services, SQL / NoSQL databases, Windows, OSX, Linux.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Led IMC quality assurance program - defined, established, and deployed tools and processes to streamline verification and validation of Web and Mobile applications in an agile environment.
• Designed and developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test strategies based on sprint objectives and software design documentation in TestLink; performed functional, GUI, regression, data-driven, cross-browser, system, smoke and exploratory testing.
• Designed and developed an in-house automation test framework using Selenium WebDriver and JUnit. Implemented and maintained IMC test framework and test cases using Java.
• Implemented and executed SQL queries to create and populate test database. Maintained and executed queries using pgAdmin III to deploy database changes, validate integrity and accuracy of the backend database.
• Responsible for deploying and verifying software builds on test and production environments; collaborated with customers to execute UAT, prepared test reports (execution, summary report and key performance indicators (KPI) reports), managed defects, and monitored overall quality using StarTeam and TestLink.

Environment: Selenium 2.0, Eclipse IDE, JUNIT, TestNG, Java, Java play framework 2.2.4, Firebug, XPath, TestLink, Star Team 14.0, TeamInspector, Confluence, XML, RESTClient 3.2.1, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, pgAdmin III, Android Emulator.