SUMMARY

• Around 14 years of excellent experience as Automation Designer / Developer, QA Analyst and Project Lead/Manager.
• More than 13 years of experience in Software Testing includes automation and functional testing of mobile, web based and client - server applications related to Retail, Hospitality & Printing industries.
• Excellent experience in Automation Frameworks, implemented in QTP 8.2/9.0/10, UFT 11.5 / 12.5, TestPartner, Selenium (Python), Appium
• Experience in implementing and running Digital Testing - Mobile Testing, Mobile Cloud Lab Setup & Maintenance, CX Testing etc.
• Excellent experience in providing estimations, coordinating and running the project to meet the deadlines
• Thorough understanding of SDLC, STLC, Bug/Life cycle/Reporting.
• Possess extensive knowledge of Software Quality Assurance techniques, procedures, methods and excellent analytical skills coupled with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Manual Testing with Unit, System, Integration, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Extensive experience in reviewing, and understanding the business and testing requirements, writing effective & detailed test plans, test cases & test scripts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: UFT 11.5, QTP (11,10, 9.0, 8.2), Selenium, Test Partner, Watir, Rational Visual Test, Appium

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP Professional/ 7

Database: SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i, MS-Access

Languages: VB Script, VBA, VB, Python

Packages: MS-Office

Testing and Bug tracking tools: JIRA, Mantis, Clear Quest, Quality Center and Team Track 6.1

QA methodologies: SDLC, STLC, Black box

Automation Framework: Keyword Driven, BPT, POM Based Selenium Framework, Unittest

API Testing: REST, SOA API Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Automation / Functional Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 10 members responsible for Automation, Digital Testing
• Worked as QA consultant across different clients by proposing and implementing solution accelerators
• Playing the role of Automation Architect and Digital Testing Service Lead
• Technically leading the Automation team responsible for automation validation of Web, Windows & Mobile (Native and Mobile Web) based applications
• Maintaining Automation Framework in UFT and Selenium
• Responsible for establishing Mobile Cloud Test Lab and maintaining the same
• Fixing the Mobile Device Strategy from organization point of view
• Responsible for leading CX Testing for the organization
• Responsible for feasibility analysis for automation across new application areas to increase the automation coverage
• Project Lead responsible for test planning, scheduling and execution
• Responsible for reporting of QA Metrics and Reports to higher management
• Responsible for QA Deliverables and QA Team deadlines
• Lead process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues across organizational boundaries

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Automation / Functional Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 8 members responsible for Automation, Mobile and Oracle Retek functional testing
• Worked as QA consultant across different clients by proposing and implementing solution accelerators
• Designing Automation Solution for different types of applications (POS, Portal, Mobile etc.) for a renowned retail client
• Responsible for SOA Services testing in Oracle SOA Suite
• Responsible for Mobile APP (iOS based) and REST API testing and Mobile APP Automation using APPIUM
• Responsible for migration of automation from Test Partner to UFT
• Designing and implementing Keyword driven automation framework using UFT 11.5
• Designing and implementing POM framework using Selenium
• Designing & developing REST API testing automation using Python
• Descriptive Programming and Object Repository Maintenance
• Designing and developing the frontend and backend solution of the Data validation Automation tool using VB .NET
• Responsible for feasibility analysis for automation across new application areas to increase the automation coverage
• Project Lead responsible for test planning, scheduling and execution
• Responsible for reporting of QA Metrics and Reports to higher management
• Responsible for QA Deliverables and QA Team deadlines
• Lead process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues across organizational boundaries
• Active member to implement different solution accelerators to increase test productivity and effectiveness

Confidential

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as the Team Leader of the Automation Team of 5 members
• Designing and developing automation framework for different clients in retail and hospitality domain (based on QTP and Test Partner)
• Creating the Automation scripts / Data table / Keyword table to implement the automation solution for different applications (Portal / POS / PeopleSoft)
• Assisted automation test design and various automation framework improvements
• Designing and developing different automation tool (To automate repetitive manual processes of the manual testing team) using VB .NET technology
• Presenting the Automation Demo and knowledge transfer across different groups
• Test Status reporting

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements after interacting with offshore/onsite team.
• Preparation of the Effort Estimate
• Developing Automation Framework
• Creating the QTP scripts (VB Script)
• Modifying the scripts to incorporate the logics and Object Checks.
• Configuring the Object Repositories to tackle the Dynamic Objects and make the Object Repository understandable.
• Descriptive Programming to separate the Data and the script.
• Parameterization of the scripts to run the tests for multiple sets of data.
• Preparation of Automation Summary Report.
• Status Reporting