PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Technical Test Lead witharound 13 years of overall experience in Software QA Processes and Software Testing with emphasis in testing of Desktop applications, Mainframes applications, COTS packages and Enterprise Web Applications, TCoE implementation, Tools Administration, Software Development using Microsoft Technologies and also managing teams and project deliveries in agile based projects with proven abilities to switch to new and cutting edge technologies in alignment to industry standards.
• Automation Architect and Developer with strong experience in Test Automation using JavaScript and Javabased Technologies and experience in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Involved in UI Functional Test Automation, E2E Test Automation and Process Automation Development, Exposure to Machine learning
• Test Automation expertise using following languages and tools - SmartBear TestComplete, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jscript/JavaScript, C#, Core Java, Maven,TestNGand ExtentReporting Frameworks in DevOpsbasedProjects with involvement in defining automation approach and developing automation frameworks, experience in using code quality inspection tools (Linting Tools)like EsLint, pmd-cpd and Jsonlint. Exposure to Test Automation using HP QTP/UFT
• Exposure to BDD and ATDD Test Automation
• Very good Experience in Continuous Integration Processesusing Tools like GitHub, SourceTree, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins etc.
• Application Developer with Strong experience in SDLC Phases starting from Planning to Deployment, Good experience in developing Desktop and Web applications using technologies VB6.0, C#.NET and VB.NET
• Good Working experience in HP ALM/QC Project Administration using Project Customization feature and also VBScript
• Very good experience in using IDE s like Eclipse, IntelliJIDEA and Microsoft Visual Studio
• Good Knowledge on Soap UI
• Around 4 Years of Experience in handling projects including consulting duties at onsite in USA for major clients in Chicago (IL), Phoenix (AZ) and Juno Beach (FL)
• Around 11years of Software QA experience in managing software project delivery for manual, automation testing and test process consultation, Lead teams with min size 3 and max size 10
• Around 7 years of experience in managing testing projects with onsite - offshore team coordination and various testing types involved in projects, Test Lead with strong expertise and experience in complete software test lifecycle including requirements analysis, planning, test strategizing, estimating, scripting, execution, reporting and closure. Handled major releases with a team of 8 members for leading Energy Clients
• Proficient in test management/defect management using HP QC/ALM, IBM RQM/CQ, MS TFS, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)and JIRA/Zephyr Tools
• Very good working experience in Agile Scrum/Kanban delivery models
• Strong Experience in establishing Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) including Templates, Guidelines and Processes for Functional Testing, Automation Testing and Performance Testing, Played the role of a QA Lead - Process/Technical Consultant and Advisory for a leading Energy Company in Chicago, USA through Assessments and setting up of Test Center of Excellence(TCoE), Strong experience in TMMI assessment for testing projects
• Experience in Unit Test Development, Unit Testing and White box testing
• Proficient Scripting skills with scripting languages VBScript, JavaScript/Jscript
• Good knowledge in COTS Packages like PCI and OATI for Energy Trading and Risk Management
• Expertise in HP Quality Center/ALM - Project Administration which included programming in VBScript to configure and customize tool for different projects
• Strong Experience in using various Microsoft Tools like MS VSTS, MS TFS and MTM
• Good experience in writing SQL Queries and Stored Procedures.Experience with PL/SQL Developer, Toad Oracle Client and Microsoft SQL Server
• Process consulting to deliver testing ManagedServices for leading US Utility companies based out of California
• Worked in multiple domains like Retail, HealthCare and Talent Management (Performance Management), Energy Utilities and Energy Trading &Risk Management
• Strong experience in writing Test Plans, Test Strategy and setting up Test Environment and Test Data Management. Experience in preparing Use cases, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Pre-conditions and expected results for the System Integration Testing and; Support & Coordination during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Good Operational and Client Management experience
• Displays capability of playing the role of a QA Advisor
• Passion towards Automation Development, QA and Automation Technology and Continuous Learning

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Automation Tools: SmartBear TestComplete/Test Execute, UiPath (RPA), Selenium WebDriver

Scripting Languages: VBScript, JavaScript/Jscript

Programming Languages: VB, C#, Core Java

Code Build Tools: Maven

IDE s: MSVS, Eclipse, IntelliJIDEA

Data Solutions: JSON, xml, Excel

Code/Data Quality inspection Tools (Linting Tools): EsLint for JavaScript, JSONLint, Pmd - CPD

Test Tools Administration: HP QC/ALM

Project/Test Management Tools: HP QC/ALM, MS TFS (MTM), IBM RQM/CQ, Atlassian JIRA

CI/CD Tools: GitHub, SourceTree, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins

Software Process Models: CMMI/TMMI

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase

Configuration Management Tools: SVN, VSS

Team Collaboration Software Tools: Confluence, HipChat, SharePoint

Domains: Healthcare, Retail, Performance Management, Energy Utilities, Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM)

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, FL

Technical Test Lead

Tools: Java, JavaScript, Eclipse, IntelliJIDEA, SmartBear TestComplete, Selenium WebDriver, EsLint, JSON, JSONLint, SmartBear AQTime, JIRA/Zephyr, Confluence, BitBucket, SourceTree, GitHub

Responsibilities:

• Coordination/Communication with all cross teams and offshore team, Leading offshore automation teams, Test Automation framework development, Automation Scripting Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, Code Reviews through pull requests process, Regression Test Execution Setup, Status Reporting, Review of Automaton Scripts developed by offshore team, Build Merge and Maintenance in Bitbucket/GIT and SourceTree.
• Test Automation using SmartBear TestComplete and Selenium WebDriver Tools.
• Languages used for Test Automation Development: Jscript/JavaScript and Java. Agile Kanban and Scrum based projects with CI/CD Processes in place.
• Attend agile ceremonies like Daily standup, Look Ahead, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retro meetings.
• Mentor other automation developers and coordinate with business stakeholders and release management team.

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead (QA Process Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Coordination/Communication with all cross teams, Leading team, Defining TCoE Processes, Presentations to the client, Tracking and Status Reporting

Confidential, AZ

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Management Plan Preparation, Project Deliverables Tracking and Reporting, Invoice submissions to client, coordination/Communication with all cross teams and offshore team, Leading team, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, System Test Data Setup, System Test Scripts Preparation/Reviews, System Testing, Coordination for UAT/Business /Defect Triage meetings, Tracking, Status Reporting

Confidential, NC

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Resource planning and Management, Coordination/Communication with all cross teams, Leading team, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, System Test Environment Setup, System Test Scripts Preparation, System Testing, Tracking, Status Reporting

Confidential, IL

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Come up with process implementation guidelines, templates and check-lists, Audit the respective BA programs for adherence to schedule, time and effort, Review metrics for adherence to the SLAs, Ensure documentation guidelines are adhered to by the respective BA programs
• Coordinating with the BA project teams and reporting the health status to the PMO, Coordinate with offshore team to review the RTM Matrix
• Coordinate with offshore team for review of each script with respect to completeness and readiness for execution in terms of process standards, Track Defect resolution

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination/Communication with all cross teams, Leading team, Requirements Analysis, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, System Test Environment Setup, System Test Scripts Preparation, System Testing, Tracking, Status Reporting

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination/Communication with all cross teams, Leading team, Requirements Analysis, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, System Test Environment Setup, System Test Scripts Preparation, System Testing, Tracking, Status Reporting

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination/Communication with all cross teams, Leading team, Requirements Analysis, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Design Discussions/Reviews, System Test Environment Setup, System Test Scripts Preparation, System Testing, Tracking, Status Reporting

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis, System Test Effort Estimates Preparation, Knowledge Management Activities, Coordination, Team mentoring/leading, Tracking, Status Reporting, Client Communication

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• System Test Environment Setup, Knowledge Management Activities, Coordination with DEV team and onsite team, Team mentoring/leading, System Test Execution, Status Reporting, Client Interactions

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis, Knowledge Management Activities, System Test Conditions Preparation, System Test Scripts Preparation, System Test Environment Setup, Leading/Mentoring team, Coordination with onsite team

Confidential, CA

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination with onsite team, Leading team, Trackers preparation, leading team and Testing

Confidential

Environment: S/W and OSC#, ASP.NET and Support for Windows Family, Ajax Extensions 1.0, Firefox 2.x, IE 7 and IE 6

Database: SQL Server 2005

Version Control Systems: SVN, TFS, HP Quality Center

Senior Software Design Engineer (Quality Assurance)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Agile Development Model and implementing it
• Understanding the requirements of the product enhancements
• Understanding business needs and various customer scenarios
• Bug Scrubbing (a process where the severity and priority of the defects are revisited and giving a list of critical defects to be fixed in a service pack)
• Developing Tests for the all stories/tasks handled
• Delivering BVT test cases set for the stories
• Delivering Sanity test cases set for the stories handled
• Updating 8.0 sanity tests to have the important tests which have the defects fixed in service packs
• Test Execution and publishing test results
• Risk escalations and mitigation plans
• Quality measures and the known issues maintenance
• Executing BVT and sanity tests on ROD environments
• Delivering TOI s (Transfer of information)/Knowledge Transfer sessions to cross teams
• Helping Trainers in transferring the product knowledge to various audience
• Test Suite automation for owned features
• Attending scheduled one on ones with manager and delivering the feedback on product quality and also implementing the feedback given

Confidential

Environment: S/W and OSC#, ASP.NET and Support for Windows Family, Ajax Extensions 1.0, Firefox 2.x, IE 7 and IE 6

Database: SQL Server 2005

Version Control Systems: SVN, TFS, HP Quality Center

Senior Software Design Engineer (Quality Assurance)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Agile Development Model and implementing it
• Understanding the requirements of the product enhancements
• Understanding business needs and various customer scenarios
• Bug Scrubbing (a process where the severity and priority of the defects are revisited and giving a list of critical defects to be fixed in a service pack)
• Developing Tests for the all stories/tasks handled
• Delivering BVT test cases set for the stories
• Delivering Sanity test cases set for the stories handled
• Updating 8.0 sanity tests to have the important tests which have the defects fixed in service packs
• Test Execution and publishing test results
• Risk escalations and mitigation plans
• Quality measures and the known issues maintenance
• Executing BVT and sanity tests on ROD environments
• Delivering TOI s (Transfer of information)/Knowledge Transfer sessions to cross teams
• Helping Trainers in transferring the product knowledge to various audience
• Test Suite automation for owned features
• Attending scheduled one on ones with manager and delivering the feedback on product quality and also implementing the feedback given

Confidential

Environment: S/W and OSC#, ASP.NET and Support for Windows Family, Ajax Extensions 1.0, Firefox 2.x, IE 7 and IE 6

Database: SQL Server 2005

Version Control Systems: SVN, TFS

Software Design Engineer (Quality Assurance)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the features of the Product
• Understanding business needs and various customer scenarios
• Developing Test suites
• Developing Use cases documents
• Delivering BVT test cases set
• Delivering Sanity test cases set
• Test Execution and publishing test results
• Risk escalations and mitigation plans
• Quality measures and the known issues maintenance
• Executing BVT and sanity tests on ROD environments
• Delivering TOI s (Transfer of information)/Knowledge Transfer sessions to cross teams
• Helping Trainers in transferring the product knowledge to various audience
• Test Suite automation for owned features
• Attending scheduled one on ones with manager and delivering the feedback on product quality and also implementing the feedback given

Confidential, Las Vegas

Environment: S/W and OS:C#, ASP.NET and Windows XP

Database: SQL Server 2000

Version Control System:VSS

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements sent by the client
• Preparing relevant documents for the requirements or change requests
• Developing the web pages or modifying web pages according to the requirements
• Deploying the build to QA Environment while moving the site for testing
• Fixing issues reported by QA