CAREER SUMMARY:

• Over 19 years of experience with a track record of successful delivery of high quality releases of software/services.
• I have extensive experience directing all aspects of Quality Assurance functions in diverse industries such as technology, cloud services, banking, and e - commerce with a track record of successful releases of complex products/services and applications.
• I have built the geographically distributed team and led them to develop QA processes, test strategies, test plan, test development and test automation from ground-up.
• I have also led the team to test security, high availability, performance, load and scalability.
• I have extensive experience developing Quality metrics and Quality Dashboards.
• I have extensive experience in cloud technologies, CI/CD and automation.
• I have experience collaborating with Openstack community and have participated in conferences, contributed tests, logged bugs and involved in enhancing QA processes.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Team building and mentoring.
• Partnership with cross functional teams.
• Knowledge of QA Processes and SDLC.
• Test Automation using various tools and technologies
• Participate in Root cause analysis

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Technologies: Cloud, Openstack, CloudFoundry, Docker, Kubernetes, ResT API

Database: Oracle, IBM DB2,SQL Server, MySQL

IDE: Eclipse

Languages: Java

Scripts: Python

Source Control: git, Perforce, gerrit

Build Tools: Ant, Maven

Continuous Integration: Jenkins

Bug Tracking System: Jira, BugZilla, Confidential ALM.

Performance Test tools: Jmeter, Loadrunner

Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Soap UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud QA Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• I am responsible for overall quality of the Helion Stackato cloud platform service that includes CloudFoundry, Docker and Kubernetes that runs on AWS, Openstack and VSphere.
• I have also led testing efforts for Openstack based Confidential public cloud services for infrastructure and platform services. I have also led testing efforts for new Datacentre verification for Infrastructure services and Platform services.
• I have been leading the team for test design, deployment, functional tests, automation, performance, scalability, use case scenarios, and end to end integration testing of complex cloud service with interface of Web console, ResT Api, and CLIs.
• I am responsible to provide weekly QA updates, quality metrics, bug metrics, and release readiness updates to senior management.
• I have built the team from ground up and responsible for staffing plans, training, mentor, appraisal, motivate, and maintaining a best-of-class quality team
• Collaborate with stake holders for product issues and to enhance processes, tools and techniques.
• I am a key member to drive valuation of automation tools and development of automation frameworks and also responsible to drive automation efforts and code reviews.
• Participate in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes.
• I have collaborated closely with Openstack community, contributed software bugs, automated test cases, and reviewed automation tests.
• I have been awarded for outstanding performance multiple times.

QA Lead

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led QA Effort for system integration testing for e-commerce project for U.S market.
• Developed effort estimation, resource requirements, project scope, and presented to senior management for decision making for new European ecommerce project.
• Developed test strategy, test plans and also setup infrastructure for end to end testing. Also hired and trained a strong 15 temp resources for QA team.

Consultant

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created automation framework and harness using Selenium and Ant to test banking web application.
• Responsible for performance testing of mission critical financial application. Developed and executed performance test plan. Worked closely with development and infrastructure team to get the issues resolved, and to enable the application rock solid.
• Developed and implemented QA processes with Quality Center.
• Developed test plan and test cases for mission critical financial applications.
• Participated in detailed design and review sessions.
• Actively involved and co-ordinated to improve performance and stability of financial web applications.

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

QA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led QA effort for customer service software and have built the QA team and served as technical lead and mentor to onshore and offshore teams.
• Developed test strategies, automation strategies, test plans and test cases for integration scenarios. Closely worked with product management, and developed use case scenarios and demos.
• Developed white box automation tests with Junit and service level tests with Cactus and developed black box automation tests for web services based CRM call center J2EE application that was deployed to IBM Web Sphere server.
• Developed code coverage plans and framework with Emma and Cobertura.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for software quality assurance function to release secure, high quality, scalable, and user-friendly applications, portal, and websites for the company.
• Part of release team and responsible for product releases.
• Defined QA strategy, test practices, and roadmap for Web applications.
• Developed test plans for functional, scalability and performance test for enterprise web applications/site and also Siebel CRM application.
• Participated in project meetings, reviewed requirements and specifications, and contributed to project plans. Estimated QA efforts for projects.
• Member of team to analyse root cause for production issues.
• Analysed testing tools to select automation tools and developed framework using Java, Ant and automated 80 functional tests with httpunit for functional testing of web application. Developed Automation tests with Selenium for functional testing of Web Application.
• Created scripts for load tests with Load runner, and for performance tests with JMeter.

Confidential, Redwood Shores, CA

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for software quality assurance function for a highly complex Oracle product Reports and Portal component of Middleware.
• Defined team organization, roles, and responsibilities. Set objectives, tracked progress periodically, and provided feedback.
• Managed onshore and offshore team. Responsible for team development, hiring, training, mentoring, motivation, performance reviews and evaluation.
• Improved QA processes, and defined product exit-criteria.
• Led a team of engineers in test design, test development, test automation, and test execution to deliver high quality product releases.
• Contributed to selection of test automation tools, and design of automation framework. Led test automation using tools like Winrunner, httpunit, and junit.
• Partnered with cross functional teams. Participated in meetings, reviewed requirements, and specifications
• Responsible for security and access control of business applications.
• Contributed to product documentation/manual.
• Contributed to better product quality for Oracle Reports/Portal by enhancing test coverage with non-functional tests like performance, scalability, longevity, and stress tests.
• Improved internal bug flow rate that helped to reduce issues found by customer.
• Enhanced test automation from 20% to 80% using tools like WinRunner, LoadRunner, and back end API tests.
• Always motivated the team members and enabled them to move to the next level.
• Led a team in installation of Oracle Application Server, IBM Web Sphere, BEA Web Logic, and Oracle Applications 11.5.9 on Linux /Solaris for QA environment. Managed team in test execution phase; this includes functional test, integration, upgrade, migration, inter-operability, performance, scalability, code coverage, and stress tests. Triaged the bugs, and set appropriate fix-by. Analyzed test results, and provided status reports, and product readiness to higher management.
• Designed and developed QA Metrics application using Reports and Portal for management information to assess product readiness, to compare quality across releases.
• Worked with customer support and provided technical support and rolled real world test cases into test suite. Tested the product with Oracle Applications, an internal customer.
• Installed database, and set up internal and customer datasets for QA environment.