SUMMARY

• Accomplished professional quality assurance analyst with extensive experience providing the leadership and direction needed to drive the achievement of key organizational QA - related business goals and objectives.
• Able to develop and execute strategy designed around quality assurance best practices and wide-ranging business intelligence to deliver results that exceed defined expectations.
• Demonstrated strength building and maintaining strong, professional relationships with strategic business partners and quality assurance stakeholders based on the effectiveness of the leadership, support, and solutions provided.
• Recognized for the ability to deliver impactful results while leading in fast-paced, dynamic business environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: Cloud Computing Basics (AWS)

Scripting Languages: Perl, VBSscript, Groovy, Python

Database: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

Operating System: Linux/UNIX, Windows

Performance Testing Tool: OpenSTA, LoadRunner

OOL: Java, Python

IDE: Eclipse, TestPad, JBOSS. PyCharm

Bug Tracking Tool: Hydra (In-House Tool), Remedy, TFS, HP ALM

CI/CD: Jenkins

Build Management: Maven

Functional Testing Tools and Framework: QTP, Selenium Webdriver, RobotFramework, SOAP UI, Pytest

Project Configuration and Management Tool: Prolite, CA Rally

Test Management Tool: HP Quality Centre, HP ALM, Storeroom (In house)

Configuration Management Tool: VSS, Perforce, SVN, GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LEAD QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing team, collaborating with various business units for requirement gathering and project planning
• Mentor and guide team members technically in project and process
• Work to develop business understanding and design high-level scenarios and interact with the business team for requirement clarification and support user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Design scenarios, write manual and automated test cases, review test cases, and complete web application, report, and backend testing, verifying data using SQL queries
• Used LoadRunner to regularly test performance life cycles

Environment: Microsoft Office, SQL Developer, Microsoft Visio, TextPad, IE, Chrome, Firefox, HP-ALM, ClearQuest, SnagIt, HP- UFT, LoadRunner

SR. QUALITY ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in collaboration with project managers while setting meetings with key points of contact to understand and gather the requirements, clarifying the requirements as documented as needed.
• Designed scenarios, wrote test cases, and created and updated tasks and user stories.
• Completed all work following Agile processes, attended daily scrum meetings and retrospective meetings, added valued contributions towards scoping and estimations, and analyzed the business workflows and design solutions.
• Implemented manual testing methodologies as needed to produce the desired outcomes.

Environment: Windows, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and JS Fiddle.

SR. QUALITY ANALYST, AGILE AUTOMATION TESTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in collaboration with project managers to develop and gather the requirements for automation, clarifying the requirements as documented.
• Designed scenarios and solutions and created and updated user stories for automation in the CA rally tool.
• Followed Agile processes, attended daily scrum meetings and retrospective meetings, and contributed to the scoping and estimation of user stories by point allocations.
• Analyzed the business workflows and design solutions to cover automation of those scenarios and developed testing frameworks for RESTful web service testing for multiple services.
• Created data-driven framework using Groovy in SoapUI, obtained valued CI/CD experience using Jenkins, and used SoapUI APIs with Selenium to test E2D testing of web services and application UI.
• Wrote utility classes for the selenium framework in Java and planned test schedules and strategies in line with the project scope or delivery dates.
• Participated in solution design reviews, providing input on functionality requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Executed automated tests in the appropriate test regions to support unit, integration, functional, and regression tests.
• Documented software defects using a bug tracking system, reported defects to the software developers, and conducted system testing on development projects against project specifications in an Agile development environment.

Environment: Windows, GIT, JBOSS, SoapUI, Jira, Groovy, Java, Maven, CA Rally, REST, SOAP web service testing, Maven, Jenkins, Selenium web Driver.

LEAD-TESTING, ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SR. LEAD-TESTING

Confidential, KS

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed test plans from user storied in each product backlog and test cases for functional, integration, system, and User Acceptance testing.
• Maintained full responsibility for defect tracking to closure for a project later migrated to TFS.
• Created automated test scripts using Selenium Web Driver with Java and supported the development of automated scripts and utility functions for automation testing using Selenium Robot Framework.
• Performed service testing use SoapUI with REST API protocol, provided feedback to business analysts and project subject matter experts (SMEs), and created customer functions using python for Robot framework.
• Added valued input while participating in daily scrum calls and providing the test status.
• Prepared the test plan and templates to create test cases and procedures using the CMM/SEI framework and coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT) with business users.
• Tested the UI of the end-product on mobile, PC, Android, and iOS platforms for localization testing.
• Obtained valued CI/CD experience using Jenkins.
• Created test plan, test strategy, and detailed test cases to perform the application's functionality in TFS after analyzing the specifications design document.

Environment: Windows, Selenium Robot Framework, HP-ALM(QC), TFS, MS Office, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Java, XML, HTML, GIT, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, and Pytest framework.

SR. LEAD-TESTING, LEAD-TESTING

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, prepared test plans based on the business requirement document, planned and estimated test cycles and timelines, and planned tasks and allocations, and prepared and reviewed test scenarios and cases.
• Worked in collaboration with the team, business analysts, and developers on requirement issues and added valued input while participating in project meetings, QA status meetings, and release meetings.
• Monitored reports with real-time test data for accuracy and supported backend testing using complex SQL Queries.
• Participated in the system and integration testing, concluded assigned tasks and deliverables on schedule, and completed process and project quality audits.
• Maintained open lines of communication with clients and customers while documentation business processes.

Environment: Tools, and Languages: Windows, Unix, ALM (QC), MS Office, SQL, PL/SQL, DB2, Java, XML, HTML, SVN, JIRA, and Eclipse.

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a staff software engineering role for key clients, including Caesars, Societe Generale, IBM USA, and Marriott International.
• Analyzed and developed an understanding of business functionalities from the clients and wrote and reviewed test cases.
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix for each release and kept and updated the regression test suite.
• Produced segregation regression test cases automated using QTP and delivered solutions to the automation scripting-related issues.
• Customized the test scripts using user-defined functions and coding standards and shared test faults and outcomes to the project managers and the application developers for failed scenarios.
• Deployed builds in various stacks, including UNIX+Weblogic+Oracle, Windows+Tomcat+SQL Server, and AIX+Websphere+DB2.
• Created and managed backend test cases based on the application interface design.

Environment: Tools, and Language: Windows, UNIX, AIX, MS Office, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, PL/SQL, QTP, and HP Quality Center.

TEST LEAD

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and prepared test plans based on BRD and delivered the test scenarios and test cases using QC.
• Worked in collaboration with the Project Manager, Business Analysts, and Developers on requirement issues and added valued input in sprint meetings, QA status meetings, and release meetings.
• Created test scenarios and test data using upstream and downstream systems and created test cases, automated for regression and functional testing with checkpoints using Quick Test Professional.
• Participated in system and integration testing, coordinated user acceptance testing, and played a key role in communication and the documentation of business flows with the client.
• Completed assigned tasks and deliverables on schedule, delivered results, supported backend testing using complex SQL queries, and performed application testing using OpenSTA.
• Environment, Tools, and Languages: Windows, Unix, MS Office, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, PL/SQL, QTP, HP Quality Center, and OpenSTA.
• Notable achievements while in the position included:
• Recipient of the “Rewards & Recognition Award” of ‘Kudos’ for Q1 2008 in Cognizant Technologies Solutions.