SUMMARY

• A competent professional with 12+ years of experience in Web and Mobile Testing and Test Automation
• Proven experience of working in Agile and Waterfall development and delivery practices
• Over 6 years of experience in managing subordinates in large teams spanned across geographies in onshore - offshore delivery model
• Have worked on Test Automation tools like Selenium WedDriver, Java, TestNG, SoapUI, JMeter
• Extensive Hands On experience on Test & Defect Management Tools like Team Foundation Server(TFS), HP Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, Rational Test Manager
• Hands on experience in Functional Testing like System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Services Testing, Data Migration Testing
• Hands on experience in Non-Functional Testing like Compatibility Testing (Browser & Devices), Accessibility Testing, Performance Testing
• Self-motivated, detailed oriented and quick learner

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Domain: STM Publishing, Public Sector: Human and Health Services, - Financial Services: Creditor Insurance, POS Mortgages, Pre-Paid Cards, Human Resources (Compensation, Time sheet and Leave & Attendance) and E-learning

Testing: Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, Services Testing, Web Accessibility Testing, Database Testing, Data Migration Testing, Performance Testing

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, JMeter, Selenium IDE

Test/ Bug Management Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, Bugzilla

Content Management System / Workflow Tools: Alfresco, Activiti

DBMS: Oracle 9i/10g, MarkLogic(NoSQL), PostgreSQL

Profiler Tools: YourKit 10.x, SiteScope

Tools: PL/SQL Developer, Toad, pgAdmin, Maven

Continuous Integration: Bamboo

Configuration Management Tools: Git, SVN, eRoom, Confluence

Platforms: Windows, Linux, Unix

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Devise the test plan to outline the test approach, types of testing, scope, dependencies
• Actively participate in the Scrum ceremonies - Look Ahead, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Demo & Retrospective.
• Review the business requirements and user stories to prepare detailed high level scenarios
• Update the user stories in JIRA with the appropriate testing tasks and estimates for daily tracking
• Attend the daily stand ups and provide updates on progress, risks, roadblocks for the sprint stories
• Develop the test cases based on the acceptance criteria
• Peer review the test cases written by the offshore team members and provide feedback
• Developed an automation framework based on Selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG
• Create automation test scripts by using the appropriate locators based on ids, xpath etc.
• Create SoapUI test scripts for the REST based scenarios for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE methods.
• Execute the test cases and report the defects with supporting artefacts in JIRA
• Attend defect triage to prioritize the sprint bugs and assist developers to reproduce and resolve the bugs
• Participate in demo and retrospective to improve the overall delivery process

Confidential

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Devise and maintain the Test Strategy to include the test approach, scope, risks, dependencies, entry and exit criteria, deliverables, reporting and training needs for the team
• Actively participate in daily SCRUM meetings like look ahead, sprint planning, daily stand ups, demo and retrospective
• Analyze the business requirements and user stories, and accordingly plan the sprint activities
• Create the appropriate tasks in JIRA and update it with the estimates for daily tracking
• Assist building a Hybrid Framework based on selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG.
• Developed the excel based data driven support using Apache POI and DataProvider
• Developed the automated test scripts and refactored it based on common functionalities for reuse
• Actively monitored the checked in code based on the Bamboo CI tool reports
• Debug and fix the test scripts failure based on the inspection of logs generated on Bamboo and TestNG Reports
• Peer reviews the manual and automated scripts - WebDriver & SoapUI
• Execute the functional test cases and automated scripts and log the defects in JIRA
• Authorize the performance scenarios based on the discussion with the product owner to understand the user journey
• Replicate the user journeys as the performance tests using JMeter
• Execute the performance tests on the performance environment and monitor the resources during the tests
• Participate in the defect triage meeting with other stack holders to discuss the defect priority
• Evaluate the performance of the team members every six months and provide feedback based on their contribution to the project delivery

Confidential

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Devise and maintain the test approach for the maintenance sprint to include the necessary checks to be performed before the LIVE release.
• Collaborating actively with business analyst and other stack holders to under the impact of the change requests on the production sites and legacy systems
• Participate actively in the Scrum of Scrums to highlight any risks and dependencies which may affect the sprint delivery
• Performing peer reviews for test cases, WedDriver scripts, regression suite and reports
• Participate with other stack holders in the defect triage calls to prioritize the sprints bugs
• Actively monitor the automated regression suite execution through Bamboo
• Executing the automation suite (Selenium WebDriver)
• Executing the performance scripts and monitor the response times (JMeter)
• Release activities. Executing Regression Pack on Stage and LIVE servers

Confidential

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Created the Test Plan enlisting the testing activities, schedule and test cycles details
• Clarifying and following up on issues with onshore business analysts to resolve queries related to business requirements
• Allocate and monitor the work to the team members based on the test plan
• Preparing Daily/Weekly/ Monthly reports to appraise the stack holders of the test activities, risks and dependencies
• Analyze the business specifications documents and Use cases and prepare the high level scenarios, test cases and test data
• Peer review the test cases of the team member and maintained the review logs
• Execute the test cases and log the defects in Rational ClearQuest
• Participate in the defect triage meetings with the technical leads, manager and service delivery manager
• Participate in the CAR sessions at the end of release to fine tune and improve the test processes
• Assist the manager during the half yearly/yearly performance appraisal of the team members

Confidential

Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the test plan enlisting the testing activities for the release
• Follow up with the onshore Business Analyst to clarify the queries raised by the team members and maintained it in a query log
• Allocating work to the team members
• Analyze the use cases and prepare the test cases against it in the HP Quality Center to maintain the traceability
• Execute the test cases in the Quality Center and logs the necessary defect along with the supporting artefacts
• Prepare the test execution reports for the weekly meeting with the stakeholders
• Capturing actuals related to project progress, time reporting etc for quality metrics

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Grooming the team members and providing assistance for ‘Base Pay Module’.
• Analyzing business requirements and the use cases and maintain the queries in the query log
• Follow up with onshore business analyst to get clarity on the queries
• Allocating work to the team members
• Prepare test cases based on the requirement analyses.
• Conduct test case reviews for the test members and maintained the review log for the same
• Execute the test cases and log the defects in Bugzilla
• Participation in defect triage calls with the technical lead, onsite BA and onsite manager
• Reporting the testing status to onshore team on daily and weekly basis

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the use cases and maintained the queries in the query log
• Prepare the high level scenarios and test cases and get it reviewed through the test lead
• Modify the test cases based on the review comments and update the review log
• Execute the test cases and log the defects in Bugzilla
• Involvement in peer test cases reviews.
• Handling daily status conference calls with onshore counterparts and provide the status

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test script preparation and execution.
• Reports testing.
• Involvement in peer test script reviews.
• Involvement in daily status conference calls with onshore counterparts.
• Involvement in metrics collection for defects and review comments.