PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have 16 years of total experience in IT industry mainly in software testing and automation field. I have primarily worked on different domains comprised of Manufacturing, Health Care, Insurance, Retail, Publishing, Hospitality and Finance.
• More than 12+ years of Java/.Net Test Development experience, primarily as an architect creating and driving Automation Test Strategies.
• I have successfully tailored and implemented software product testing and release processes for different clients, setup TCoE (Testing Center of Excellence) and successfully delivered quality products/solutions.
• In past worked on test automation and frameworks with various tools such as Silk test, Selenium Web driver, TOSCA and currently working on Ranorex 7. x.
• Developed and implemented automation frameworks mainly using data driven, modular and hybrid approach.
• Experience in Test and Behavior Driven Development (TDD and BDD)
• To support DevOps worked on Testing, Maven, Jenkins, POM (Page Object model with selenium framework), Gits and HP ALM.
• Experience in Mobile application testing & automation (Multiple OS/Browsers, device)
• Applied different test strategies based on application domains that leads to different test approach - es and different types of testing (Functional, Risk Based, Regression, Acceptance, smoke etc.) based on project methodologies( Waterfall, V Model, agile, Scrum, Kanban ).
• Lead team sizes from 20-65 (As Test manager) and 4-20 (As Test automation lead) at different geographical locations with different vendors, in different scenarios ( Changing requirements, Different vendors, dependency on different tools built in-house, CoTS products, multiple environments, squeezing timelines, changing UI, adhoc builds).
• Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API vs. UI level functionality.
• Lead building automation Solution s to integrate thick and thin clients ( browsers) together, designed and developed reusable modules applicable for different Manufacturing project s, designed various test suites such as smoke, regression, daily, weekly, release and functional suites.
• Designed automation standards to use modular, reusable approach of test cases, each test case should run independently, minimizing the dependency in between test cases so that all cases can run parallel in test lab to reduce execution times, yield greater RoI's and optimally used built test lab infrastructure.
• Exposure to Device/Browser compatibility and experienced on validating code review and development quality for Product Health
• Lead test, automation, business and dev team to finalize automation strategy, plans and identify candidates from functional test cases
• Expertise in implementing, monitoring, evaluating and adjusting SLA’s from level 1 to level 4 for support projects and finalize type of reports required for different set of audience
• Experience with programming languages - C#, Java, VB Script
• Experience in defining Test Automation road maps and setting-up organizational level short term and long term Automation goals
• Experience developing high quality Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Reports (weekly and quarterly) for all stakeholders involved.
• Experience in performing Sanity testing, Functional testing, Retesting, Regression testing, System testing, GUI & Browser compatibility testing, Ad-hoc testing, End-to-End Testing, UAT testing
• Proficient in Defect management, including Defect creation, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard tools like ALM, Bugzilla, IBM ClearCase, Silk Radar and Jira
• Involved in Work Allocation, Peer Reviews, Walkthroughs and Inspections
• Involved in Creation & Analysis of Functional Requirements, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Execution Matrix
• Able to cope with pressure, priorities workload and meet agreed timelines Possess good interpersonal skills
• Expertise in implementing, monitoring and evaluating QA process in organization
• Expertise in providing accurate estimates by manual techniques and using tools also, plays active role of Defect Prevention Coordinator and Risk Analyst

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation and Test Management Tools: Ranorex, Selenium Web Driver, Silk RadarSilk Test, Tricentic TOSCA Jira, Defect tracker, Clear Quest, RMT (Rational manual Tester) and HP ALM

Build/Version Control: Git, SVN, Jenkins

Data base: Oracle 10, SQL Server 7.0 and Pl/SQL

Web: Java Script, HTML, VB Script, XML

Programming Language: C#, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Automation Architect, QA Manager

Tools: Ranorex, HP ALM, Gits, Jenkins, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Design Architecture and Implement Automation framework for both Meat and Bakery projects Under MES
• Implemented DevOps for Vaughan project as pilot rest of projects follows Agile
• Involved in Automation Scripts development, debugging, reviews, batch scripts execution, Result analysis and defect reporting
• Draft testing artifacts, including Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Requirements Traceability Matrices
• Part of Framework Unification Team whose objective was to define & implement Coding Standards across all Costco Automation Projects
• Developing End to End Test Scripts for Smoke and Regression Test Suites Design, document, Manage and execute test cases, sets, and suites
• Scheduling Lights Out Runs and manage VM's
• Modifying and Fixing Automation Framework and Scripts according to new requirements
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope/delivery dates Mentored,
• Trained and did work allocation for Onsite and offshore team members.
• Reporting & Tracking of defects found while executing test in ALM Monitor defect resolution and retest the defect when fixed by developers
• Assist with technical artifacts and engage in technical discussions

Confidential

Automation Architect, QA manager

Tools: Ranorex, HP ALM, Gits, Jenkins, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Created framework by using Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, POM (Page Object model), Gits, Extent Reports and HP ALM.
• Developing End to End Test Scripts for Smoke and Regression Test Suites Design, document, manage and execute test cases, sets, and suites
• Responsible for creating Utilities methods as part of framework for different web based projects
• Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium Web Driver
• Responsible for acquiring test data before execution cycle starts. Responsible to review Selenium automation scripts and publishing automation results
• Defined and successfully led the overall defect management process, governance and operation for the project.
• Developed reusable Generic and Application functions using Java Selenium API. These function can be used anywhere in the test scripts.
• Performed functional, compatibility testing on different browsers like Firefox, IE and Chrome.
• Review automation scripts created by team and give feedback to optimize them.
• Played the role of defect coordinator for more than 10 projects, Estimation for system test and for support of UAT. Responsible for providing test results and all test closure documents

Confidential

Automation Architect, QA manager

Tools: Selenium Web Driver, HP ALM, Gits, Jenkins, TestNG, VMware and Maven

Responsibilities:

• I have handled 2 testing projects s ICR and ACMP
• Lead team of 15 automation testers, primary responsibility was to review and publish execution results to all stakeholders
• Ramping up the teams at both onshore and offshore and implemented on shore off shore model without any delta
• Lead Onshore Selenium automation team, automated ICR (Interactive Care Review) web application
• Responsible to automate Regression and Acceptance suites and reviewed all automated test cases
• Responsible for quarterly releases for both ICR and ACMP, responsible for making coordination with business and Dev managers of different products
• Responsible for test data management and ensure there is no (PHI) personal health information Involved.
• Implemented best practices in automation framework to meet all Quality factors.
• Involved in Automation Scripts development, debugging, reviews, batch scripts execution, analyze results and reporting defects.
• Generate automated test data creation using various tools to help Development team, Subject Matter Experts and Testing team for their application testing purpose.

Confidential

Automation Architect, QA Manager

Tools: Ranorex, HP ALM, Gits, Jenkins, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation of QA processes for State Farm.
• Design Architecture and Implement Automation framework for projects under Auto insurance by using Ranorex, Jenkins, Gits, Excel, XML and HP ALM.
• Help team to Identified the test cases to be automated and performed data driven testing and GUI Check Points
• Helped team to develop the Test Cases Client based on FSDS and Business Rules; And for Web Client Test Cases based on Use Cases, Wire Frames, Annotated Documents and Business Rules.
• Using Selenium and enhanced the overall functionality of the application.
• To create different phases of system test for different lines of business (Health, Auto and Fire).
• Involved in the project team, which focused on testing and dealing with process, tools and best
• Practices. This team also leveraged testing knowledge, technology, methodology and resources across
• Similar projects.
• I was responsible for making coordination with different test leads and Dev managers of different Lob’s
• Estimation for system test and for support of UAT.
• To showcase Project status with respect to different vendors.
• Point of contact for Client and Dev teams (different Vendor) at onshore.
• Responsible for providing test results and all test closure documents.
• Responsible for acquiring test data before execution cycle starts and ensuring correctness of test data

Confidential

UAT Manager

Tool: used: HPALM, SharePoint, SQL and C#

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for UAT testing for CPO (Compliance Policy Management) and Authoring tool.
• Responsible for creation of UAT strategy and UAT plan.
• Responsible for extraction of test data from different vendor databases.
• Estimation for system test and for support of UAT.
• Responsible for completion of UAT
• Handling Production issues and minimizing their occurrence.
• Responsible for providing test results and all test closure documents.
• Done internal share point testing for version controlling for policy documents.

Confidential

QA/Automation Lead

Tools: Ranorex, HP ALM, Gits, Jenkins, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Estimation for system test and for support of UAT.
• Created test scripys by using Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Gits, Extent Reports and HP ALM.
• Developing End to End Test Scripts for Smoke and Regression Test Suites Design, document, manage and execute test cases, sets, and suites
• Responsible for creating Utilities methods as part of framework for different web based projects
• Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium WebDriver
• Responsible for acquiring test data before execution cycle starts. Responsible to review Selenium automation scripts and publishing automation results
• Defined and successfully led the overall defect management process, governance and operation for the project.
• Point of contact for Client and Dev team (different Vendor) at onshore
• Work closely with Test data mining teams who used to extract production data, morphed it as per need of testing team as per their test scenarios.