SUMMARY

• QA functional and automation lead with 15 years of experience and a proven record in diversified fields of testing, streamlining, and developing efficient project test plans and scripts leading to accelerated product rollout and system optimizations. Experienced in Financial, Educational, Manufacturing, Point of Sales domain and e - commerce applications with Selenium and Microfocus automation Silk suite testing tools.
• Extensive working experience in different phases of SDLC lifecycle including requirements gathering, planning, analyzing, and testing.
• Experienced in Waterfall / Agile methodologies.
• Deep knowledge of all phases of software testing life cycle including development of test strategies and test plans, defect reporting, test and execution matrix, risk analysis and status reporting.
• Expertise in leading and managing Onsite, Off-shore and Near shore projects with varied sized QA teams.
• Performed POCs and tool evaluations for automation return of investment (ROI).
• Experienced in QA/automation strategies, and design of automation frameworks - linear, keyword driven, data driven, functional driven, and hybrid using Selenium and SilkTest automation tools.
• Proficient in performance tuning and improving existing automation framework with periodic upgrades, enhancements, and fixes.
• Experienced in backend SQL testing, Web services and XML validations.
• Expertise in creating and executions of Test Suites for Smoke Test, Regression Test, System Test and User Acceptance Test (UAT) including remote testing and Traceability Matrices from Use Cases.
• Proven ability to work in highly competitive environment and handling critical projects.
• Managed testing activities, test deliverables, task allocation and future release planning including periodic test status reviews, identified risks, and mitigation planning
• Established QA sign off criteria, and test process with scrum teams ensuring QA accepting criteria was met at the end of iteration.
• Actively participated in issue triage meetings with scrum teams to plan defect fixes for sprints with extensive review of defect priority and severity with Product owner.
• Provided technical guidance to testing teams for continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, automation approaches and trainings for the team members.
• Regularly interact with management and product owners on project status, set priorities, guide testing teams per business needs and sprint timeframe.
• Extensive experience in testing in Virtualized Test environments.
• Trained in Robotic Process Automation tool Blue Prism.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems/Infrastructure: Windows 7/ 8.1/ 10, MAC, iOS, VMWare, DaaS, AWS, Azure

Languages: 4Test, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Ruby, Excel macros

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Automated Test Tools: SilkTest, Selenium, TOSCA, SoapUI, Browserstack, Sahi

Performance Test Tools: SilkPerformer, JMeter

Test Management Tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, SilkCentral Test Manager, HP Quality Center

Service Management Tools: ServiceNow, Next Dimension, HP Service Management System (SMS), BMC Remedy

Requirement Management Tools: Borland’s Caliber RM, SCTM

Bug Reporting Tools: Jira, SilkCentral Test Manager, ClearQuest, StarTeam, NextDimensions

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Edge, Mozilla FireFox, Safari, Edge

Source Control: SVN, Git, PVCS, Microsoft VSS, StarTeam, ClearCase

SQL Tools: SQL Developer, Rapid SQL, Toad

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

VM Tools: VMWare, RealVNC, UltraVNC

Confidential Tools: RTS (Rapid Transition Suite), ADT Estimator (Demand/Forecast)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Functional/Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project planning, scheduling, and testing of applications.
• ST cost estimations and budget-based resource planning with critical timelines.
• Coordinating with onshore/offshore testing, development, and system engineering teams at different phases of application life cycle.
• Involved in creation of system job aids, and standard procedures.
• Developed and implemented automation standards based on client requirements.
• Involved in define, design, develop and implement automation test strategies and framework including functional implementations.
• Prepared automation and functional test plans, test scripts and test suites to run cross platform/distributed systems.
• Designed and implemented robust automation framework with SilkTest automation tool.
• Automated several functionalities of the different applications including test question item creation, profile creation, student registration, student test taking and test response including web services/API testing.
• Created End-to-End automation scripts for data flow and validations of multiple integrated applications with SilkTest and Selenium automation tool.
• Developed new classes and methods in SilkTest/Selenium to handle the critical testing components.
• Tested extensively data validations with backend SQL and front end UI.
• Performed a POC with TOSCA tool as part of analysis for onboarding new suite of tools.
• Analyzed software defects, conduct weekly bug triage meetings with development and product management.
• Created Traceability matrices from Use Cases and developed data driven and keyword driven testing.
• Lead Code Reviews, automation strategies and technical meetings.
• Created Root Cause Analysis document for production bugs.
• Worked with senior IT leadership for test automation approaches, estimations, approvals, reporting metrics etc.
• Played key role in migrating test management tool from SilkCentral to Jira and confluence with huge repository of test cases, bugs, and requirements.
• Instrumental in successful implementation of virtualized environment and test environment infrastructure for multiple projects.
• Worked collaboratively with functional teams, development, system engineering, database, release management teams and technical vendor companies.
• Strong experience in setup and manage infrastructure and hardware for on-prem, remote and mobile testing.
• Performed weekly/monthly metrics presentation and review with senior management and stakeholders.
• Involved in migrating hardware infrastructure servers to Amazon cloud resulting in substantial cost savings.
• Successfully implemented Silk Central management tool.
• Involved in all phases of QA life cycle from requirements analysis to product deployment to production.

Confidential

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined and developed QA automation standards.
• Involved in validation of new builds on multiple QA servers with different environments for cross platform testing.
• Developed new classes and methods in SilkTest to handle the critical testing components.
• Created automation test scripts for Regression Tests and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Developed test suites to execute in different test environments.
• Created global methods and functions at object and class level.
• Participated in Code Reviews and meetings with different groups.
• Created Final Release notes with required information for signoff.
• Worked closely with developers, business analysts, tech writers, database administrators in Agile environment having two weeks iterations
• Participated in daily status/standup meetings and iteration plan meetings.
• Performed backend testing with SQL queries using Aqua Studio
• Involved in software installation, system configurations and coordinating with offshore teams based in Ukraine.