SUMMARY

• Total 15 years of testing and quality assurance experience, in a variety of industries and environments.
• 8 years as a Project Lead/Manager, managing teams up to 15 members in size.
• Over 7+ years of experience in Automation Testing using QTP, UFT, Selenium Web driver with Java & Python.
• Successfully managed large testing program having 40 member onsite testing team.
• Extensive experience in Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, BAU process Model.
• Experienced in multiple industries including Insurance, Finance, Health Care, Retail, Life Science.
• Experienced in Mobile app (iOS and Android) testing.
• Experienced in Web Service/Api (REST/SOAP) testing.
• Involved in Architect the Keyword driven framework (Intellibuild) for Automation regression testing for Web and Client server Application across the organization using QTP.
• Written Descriptive programming supportive functions (VB Script) to create object description at Runtime.
• Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven and Ant for Project building tool Jekins for Continuous Integration.
• Excellent in using various Spying tools like Firebug and Firepath element as a Firefox add - on for addressing web elements using Locator's ID, Class name, CSS Selector, Xpath, etc.
• Expertise in using Apache POI for data driven frameworks, to load data into required test scripts from external sources like excel sheets.
• Proficient in mobile testing using Appium on real and virtual devices to execute the mobile automation test scripts
• Sound knowledge of Web Services testing using POSTMAN, Parasoft, SOAP UI.
• Experience in developing database queries for Backend Testing for Oracle and SQL Server.
• Experienced in Defining Testing Methodologies, Developing Test plans, Test cases, Test Procedures and Test scripts, Verifying and Validating and Performing Structural, Functional and Regression testing of web based and client server applications.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools & Tracking Tools: Mercury UFT, Selenium WebDriver/IDE/RC, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Appium, JMeter, Postman, Parasoft, SOAPUI.

Database: Oracle, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Acces

IDE: Eclipse, Pycharm

Other Tools: SQL Tools, VersionOne, Perfecto, TOAD, Teradata, IBM Datastudio

Operating System: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MAINFRAME, iOS, Android

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, Hudson

Languages: JAVA, C, Python, VB6.0,VB script,JavaScript

Packages: MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

QA Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, BAU.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Manager

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Identification of deliverables and strategizing the testing efforts and extent.
• Responsible for communication on all QA deliverables from Testing Planning to test summary report to the appropriate stakeholders and team.
• Create Test strategy and Test plan document as per slandered define by Confidential .
• Coordinate with Third party vendor for end to end testing.
• Manage offshore team and review artifacts created by the offshore QA Team to ensure comprehensiveness and standardization
• Conduct defect triage meeting involving third party vendor, stakeholder of various support team for Quick defect resolutions.
• Execute & monitor the batch job for file extraction.
• Executed Backend database testing using SQL, validating the Extract job data load in database and debugging the root cause of failure.
• Design, Developed automation test script for User account setup using Selenium Web driver.
• Utilized various methods like XPath, CSS Locators to identify object/elements in the application.
• Design and developed automation test script for Regression testing using Selenium Web driver.
• Validate Extract file (XML File) data sent by third party vendor for each participant associated with the selected plan’s.
• Manage and publish Weekly status report, daily progress report and associated testing Metrics at highest level.
• Manage risks/issues at highest level and communicate as appropriate including escalation.
• Delegate and co-ordinate the tasks to the Cognizant Offshore team.

Test Manager

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Identification of deliverables and strategizing the testing efforts and extent.
• Responsible for communication on all QA deliverables from Testing Planning to test summary report to the appropriate stakeholders and team.
• Create Test strategy and Test plan document as per slandered define by Confidential .
• Coordinate with third party admin system team for all test data needs and Issue resolution.
• Conduct defect triage meeting involving third party vendor, stakeholder of various support team for Quick defect resolutions.
• Manage offshore team and review artifacts created by the offshore QA Team to ensure comprehensiveness and standardization
• Verified IFT File extracts to make sure it’s coming correct as per DTCC guidelines.
• Validate Extract file (POV, FAR & IDF) generated from EDW as per the specification given in Field Mapping document.
• Performed Backend database testing using SQL to validate extract file data load in data warehouse.
• Created VB scripts to verify data element in output extract files.
• Provide support to automation testing for regression testing by using Mercury QTP 11.0.
• Monitor, track and report on milestone delivery.
• Manage and publish Weekly status report, daily progress report and associated testing Metrics at highest level.
• Manage risks/issues at highest level and communicate as appropriate including escalation.
• Delegate and co-ordinate the tasks to the Cognizant Offshore team.

Test Manager

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA Software Testers and served as a liaison to project managers on multiple tracks.
• Define Testing process to support BAU development Model.
• Identification of deliverables and strategizing the testing efforts as per release objective.
• Analyze Work Effort for each release and provide the testing estimates.
• Define testing strategy for 24 HR Clock/SIT testing.
• Manage testing coordination with 15+ SDA’s/SME’s team and report risk/issues to stakeholders.
• Provide testing support using various technologies like Oracle, SQL Server, and Job Management Hub etc.
• Manage risks/issues at highest level and communicate as appropriate including escalation.
• Provide support to automation testing for regression testing by using Mercury UFT.
• Execute Jobs to process the file for loading the data from PACE to DataMart Tables.
• Execute SQL queries to Validate data load to data mart as per the specification given in Field Mapping document.
• Monitor, track and report on milestone delivery.
• Responsible for communication on all QA deliverables from Testing Planning to test summary report to the appropriate stakeholders and team.
• Manage and publish Weekly status report, daily progress report and associated testing Metrics at highest level.

Test Manager

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA Software Testers and served as a liaison to project managers on multiple tracks.
• Identification of deliverables and strategizing the testing efforts as per Sprint objective.
• Provide estimates on the amount of time needed to complete testing related tasks within a sprint.
• Define Testing stories and create task in VersionOne and assign the task to team members.
• Define Test data strategy to support 40+ products from Life, Annuities, EB (Executive Benefits) and DI (Disability) Domain.
• Define testing strategy and overall plan for Mobile App testing.
• Implement Perfecto Tool to connect to mobile device for testing the CSS portal.
• Define test strategy for API testing.
• Coordinate and support API testing as per the business rule defined in Restriction framework.
• Developed Performance test plan using JMeter for various critical functions like Registration & Login, Landing page etc.
• Report Performance result covering all deviation from performance benchmark defines by SME’s.
• Design and developed automation script using Selenium Webdriver for regression testing.
• Utilized various methods like XPath, CSS Locators to identify object/elements in the application.
• Execute automation Regression test suite in Major browser (Chrome & FF).
• Monitor, track and report on milestone delivery.
• Define test strategy for Browser compatibility, Accessibility testing etc.
• Responsible for communication on all QA deliverables from Testing Planning to test summary report to the appropriate stakeholders and team.
• Manage and publish Weekly status report, daily progress report and associated testing Metrics at highest level.