SUMMARY

• Overall 10+ years of diverse experience in IT with emphasis on Quality Assurance of testing applications, team management and automation testing in insurance and retirement services domains
• 8 years of experience in Automationtesting of web based,.Net and Oracle applications
• Experience in various QA phases QA, SIT and UAT and performing hands on testing including Regression, Functionality, Data migration and Data bridges testing
• Expertise in QTP/UFT Automation Frameworks: Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid frameworks
• Involved in analysis, estimation and ROI calculation for automation projects
• Highly skiled and experienced with different stages of Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) testing
• Extensive knowledge in automation feasibility study, estimations, and automation test strategy preparation
• Strong knowledge of best practices in Quality Assurance(QA) and Automation Testing, Strong skills in reusable components and parameterized test scripts using automation tools
• Experience in conducting POC ’s, preparing automation solutions for different customers.
• Recommended tools based on the client automation needs, performing tools evaluation, cost benefit analysis, Proof of concept, and evaluating ROI.
• Led automation testing projects independently by leveraging deep understanding of test planning, estimation, testing tools and approaches
• Proficiency in design, execution of Test cases, Test scripts and Test cycle formulation
• Creating Test plan, estimating QA tasks, tracking QA progress and assisting QA managers in improving QA process
• Effective leadership quality with good skills in strategy, business development, client management and project management
• Ability to work effectively in cross - functional team environments and experience of providing training to business users.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, have been recognized by management and peer for producing high quality work
• Responsible for analyze exist system challenges and provide technical expertise and recommendations to improve current existing systems.
• Proficient in interacting with the business users by conducting meetings with the clients during requirements Analysis phase
• Experienced with the Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC) process for Waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
• Strong technical knowledge in Linux/UNIX shell scripting
• Good knowledge in Big Data Testing in Hadoop, Hive and Spark
• Extensive experience in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery(CI/CD) process uing Jenkins
• Involved in various phases of a testing life cycle like Estimation, Requirement Analysis, Design, Test Plan Preparation, System testing and Test Reporting.
• Good knowledge in SQL and ADODB connection to connect database and to validate backend date using automation.Hands on experience in writing complex SQL queries using SQL Management Studio
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the client organization by working very closely with Customers, End users collect requirements and training or resolve any business process related issues.
• Worked closely with developers to design test criteria, test strategy, develop test plans, created and reviewed bug descriptions, functional requirements and design documents.
• QA Lead experience with responsibilities in team management, onsite/offshore resource and task coordination, project management and issue resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Centre/ALM, Microsoft Test Manager Test Professional 2013, TFS, MTM, Azure, JIRA, Git and Git Hub

Operating Systems: Window NT/95/98/2000/XP/7 and UNIX/Linux

Database Systems: SQL, Oracle7/8i/10g, ADODB

Languages: C, C++, Core Java, VB Scripting, PL/SQL, Linux / UNIX, Python, Bigdata Hadoop

Automation Tools: QTP, UFT 12.5, selenium Webdriver/Grid

Documenting Tools: MS-Office, Microsoft PowerPoint

Testing Methods: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration, Acceptance testing, UI testing

Methodolgies: Waterfall and Agile/Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Senior Test Automation Engineer/Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and re-prioritised the release backlog as per the change requests from product owner
• Manage coordination across teams within multiple projects and track project execution to ensure delivery as per timelines and quality, Determine automation coverage
• Software Application Testing Involved in Test Planning, Software Application Test Case development and execution for System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Developed Manual and automation test cases as per user stories and acceptance criteria
• Executed Test cases as per the pre-defined acceptance criteria and raised defects
• Responsible for estimation and devising the project timelines.
• Communicates project updates as needed to team, senior management, and client teams.
• Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining a cost effective, long-term automation strategy and framework promoting reusable components, high efficiency and scalability.
• Involved in Feasibility study and ROI calculation for identifying the right candidates for automation
• Ensured team has adequate training, consulting and tools to deliver objectives
• Developed automation scripts for Aspen, Member Portal and Partner Portal applications using QTP/UFT tool
• Analyze the requirements and create the plan for automation test script creation and review process
• Prepare and review of automation test estimation, test strategy and test plan
• Developed test scripts for regression suite.
• Update the test scripts affected by the code change at the end each release
• Setup Jenkins CI server to integrate for automated scheduling, running and reporting of smoke and regression suite
• Perform Cross Browser testing on Chrome, Firefox ans Safari using UFT emulators and performed Browser compatibility testing
• Writing and executing automation scripts,defect logging,tracking, regression testing
• Perform review and provide recommendations on automation testing artifacts, Track and maintain plans against actuals throughout the engagement and responsible for automation deliverables, Identify challenges and formulate strategies for process standardization
• Identification of gaps, ambiguities and clarifications with System Architects and Solution Architects, map test case requirements and design test coverage Plan.
• Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation and automated scripts.

Environment: UFT12.5, ALM,TFS,MTM,Azure, AutoIt,ASP.NET2.0, ADO.NET,Selinium Web grid, Linux and Unix, Python

Confidential

Senior Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and oversaw the full lifecycle testing of SAP UI and web based applications
• Collaborated with business users to test applications and implement workaround to feature issues.
• Responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing the data driven automation framework using QTP/UFT for SAP and Web based applications
• Created huge library of generic and application specific reusable functions and reusable actions using VB script
• Developed test plan/procedure and executed regression test suite for every cycle and after defect fixes
• Prepared test cycles/test suites for all phases of integration testing, system testing and user acceptance testing
• Developed automation scripts for Unified Desktop, IWC(Individual Web Center and Plan Focus(Sponsor Site Redesign), Transaction Portal applications
• Developed automation script for Transaction ID creation in UD and IWC(Individual Web Center) applications
• Automated transactions for Participant enrollment, Contribution, Withdrawal in Omni station
• Ran scripts for regression testing after defect fixes and new enhancements
• Actively participated in training end users on new system usage and trained manual testers on how to maintain automation for regression testing
• Created large sets of data for UFT training and UFT testing using scripts
• Extensively used Quality center/ALM tool for running scripts and reporting test results
• Created queries in QC dash board for generating reports on test execution and defect status
• Responsible for tool upgrades, new tool installations, Raising tickets and following up with HP team for any issues with upgrades
• Responsible for Day-to-day resource management. Continuously monitor and mentor team members.

Environment: QTP 10/11.0, ALM /Quality Center 10.0, AutoIt, Oracle,ASP.NET2.0, ADO.NETProject: PAVE

Confidential

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Keyword Driven automation framework to automate multiple web based applications
• Planned project schedules, estimations and delivered daily/weekly reports to the management
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders
• Participate in walkthroughs and inspections for project-based documentation such as Functional Requirements that are based on integrated business and use cases as well as user guides
• Participated in code review process, identified root cause of defects .Worked closely with members of the business and engineering teams, and determined estimates of effort and potential impact.
• Created huge library of reusable functions using VB script and used those functions as Keywords in XL sheets
• Tested application on multiple browsers including IE 6/7 and Firefox 2
• Created and executed SQL queries using QTP/UFT scripts for automation testing
• Automated 60% of manual test cases and executed for regression and Sanity tests
• Extensively used Quality Center to run QTP/UFT scripts, and defect tracking, test case design, scripts execution
• Tracked and reported upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Scheduling & running daily QA Status meetings with other teams
• Developed Test Scenarios which covered all the business requirements

Environment: QTP 9.5,Quality Center 9.5,, JAVA, J2EE, ORACLE 10g, UNIX

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation test plans, test scripts from the scratch using VB script
• Responsible for building manual and automation test cycles for Smoke testing, Integration testing and End-to-end testing
• Performed Smoke Testing, Regression testing for every modification in the application and for each build
• Manages and executes automation projects including, Analysis, design, testing and support.
• Involved in Feasibility Study for identifying the right candidates for automation
• Involved in complexity Analysis for automation
• Responsible for Framework Identification and designing
• Responsible for estimation and devising the project timelines.
• Leading the team at offshore and involved in onsite and offshore coordination activities.
• Handling status reporting from offshore.
• Directs and monitors the work of the project team, performing quality review
• Actively participated in Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings, as well as collaborated with business users on implementation of target specific enhancements.
• Reported defects and retested defects and executed regression scenarios
• Ran QTP scripts from Quality center and reported results in HTML format and Excel format
• Debugged VB script, confirmed script standards are complying to VB script standards
• Extensively given training on Business Process testing using QTP, Quality Center

Environment: QTP 8.5, Quality Center 8.5, JAVA, J2EE, ORACLE 10g, Flex