SUMMARY

• 8+ years of IT experience working as Project/Test Lead (Program Management, Test Data management, ETL, Data Warehouse, Informatica, UI, Automation, Mainframe and Manual testing) in Confidential India Pvt Ltd since March 2013. Holds valid H1B visa.
• IT experience in Software Development/Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC).
• Result focused and customer - oriented test lead with professional expertise in building program/project strategy, develop project timelines, program management, client-customer coordination, designing test strategy, test plan, defect reporting, project summary report, estimations, and leading testing effort for complex enterprise projects.
• Define and developed the shift left approach to achieve automation in early phase, to reduce cost and testing timeline for quality product.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process, use cases/user stories, and Software development life cycle- complying to Agile and Waterfall models.
• Expertise in understanding and analyzing business requirements and identifying test requirements and dependencies, document test strategies, tracking changes and maintenance of requirements on Blueprint.
• Experienced and self-motivated digital test consultant with successful record of driving forward digital transformation programs in demanding client environments in insurance sector.
• Provided leadership, guidance, train and mentor team members(offshore/onshore) to implement test automation across multiple projects.
• Define and suggest test (manual and automation) strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach across project teams.
• Hands-on experience in Multi-Geo Delivery Model. Supervised and managed offshore test teams for Client ( Confidential ) in wide range of applications and technologies.
• Lead team to develop risk assessment profiles while identifying major risks in a fast-paced environment.
• Closely worked with multiple lines of business in the organization for enterprise level projects.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining Keyword Driven, Data Driven and Hybrid frameworks using various automation tools like RIT, UFT, Selenium, Query search
• Experience in Functional and SIT project planning like creating Testing Scenario, Test Plans, and Test Scripts.
• Proficient in mSTAX (Selenium-Appium based cloud automation framework) for Web UI, Mobile, Desktop, Mainframe, CBT, RWD (Responsive Web Design) application, PDF document using different automation tools likes Selenium, Appium, Perfecto, JDBC, Image Processing algorithm (developed in-house), Apache POI, TestNG, Rational functional tester
• Design and develop Database utility to validate Bigdata, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB to compare the Database data with other DB values or with flat files and Generate the results
• Design and developed utilities, Asset and its enhancements to increase quality of the application and reduce cost in testing. Develop reusable utilities and functions in automation to reduce the effort and maintenance cost.
• Experienced in of conducting research and feasibility study on multiple tools and technologies.
• Good Analytical skills to comprehend business requirements and convert them to test cases for execution and use cases for Proof of Concepts.
• Experience in performing the Unit testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, System testing, Cross Browser testing and Documentation 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 HP ALM (QC Defect Tracking tool), JIRA.
• Good knowledge in Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models.
• Experience in defining Test Automation roadmaps and setting-up organizational level short time and longtime Automation goals.
• Design and Develop the automation scripts for Functional and UAT testing
• Assist in assessing application quality and release readiness via automation.
• Create and maintain Enterprise-wide digital strategy (insurance sector) for Business Delivery.
• Motivated to work individually as well as in a team and proven ability to deal effectively with change and to exercise good decision-making skill.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and creative skills. Highly organized, motivated, energetic, self-starter, detail oriented. Ability to learn new software techniques quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Selenium WebDriver/RC, QTP, Appium, JUnit, TestNG, Load Runner, JMeter.

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, XML, XSLT, JDBC & REST services

Defect Tracking Tools: HP /Quality Center, JIRA

Build Tools: Maven.

Languages: Java, SQL, C#, C++, Python, VB.net, ASP.Net, .Net.

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure

Cross Browser Tool: Selenium GRID, Eggplant

Databases: Oracle, DB2&MongoDB

Query tools: AQT, Confidential data studio, Oracle SQL Developer

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/8, Mac OS, UNIX and Linux, Android

Skills: Functional testing, Mainframe testing, ODS testing, ETL and Automation

Test Management tool: QC 11.52, JIRA, HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.52, Soap GUIE, Attachmate, AQT, RIT/GreenHat Tool, Policy extract tool, ODS and Schema Validation tool (Informatica).

Automation Testing Tool: Query Surge, SOAP UI and Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Defining Test Strategy and project automation strategy.
• Supervised and managed offshore test teams for Client ( Confidential ) in wide range of applications testing.
• Responsible for Estimation, Resource Planning, Project Plan, Burndown, Test Plan preparation and Project schedule.
• Conduct detailed analysis of Requirements and Technical design document for ambiguities and testability (and signoff)
• Track the traceability of requirements to ensure the test coverage.
• Prepare test data strategy and needs and ensure test environment and data.
• Review and approval of all test plan from application and business stakeholders
• Specify test scenarios and test cases.
• Walkthrough and baseline of Test Scenarios with AD and business teams
• Execute manual and automated Test Cases.
• Conduct analysis to identify reusable Test Scenarios for future releases and End to End Testing phases
• Identify existing Test Cases that can reused (Automated & Manual)
• Create and/or update Test Cases for baseline scenarios.
• Existing regression suite will be updated for future to include WL19 changes.
• Review and baseline test cases for testing
• Identify the smoke test cases.
• Review the test data requirements and request test data required for testing.
• A master test data matrix will be created and maintained.
• Test Execution will be performed using baseline Test Cases.
• Log and track defects in Quality Center and conduct daily/weekly defect triage meeting.
• Execute defect management plan.
• Support UAT and Business Production Install Testing
• Report Test Execution Status, Test Planning Status and Monthly Metrics preparation to test delivery teams, Developers and Business at all requested levels.
• Provide test signoff, evidence and closeout documentation, SOX when all exit criteria are met.
• Responsible for Client Calls and Status meeting.
• To avoid any impacts to business I had trained the newcomers by providing them with the practice-based exercise in addition to the regular KT sessions to gain required business knowledge to support the system.
• Responsible to improve our productivity and address Confidential Compensation business needs on time without any impacts.
• Successfully complete the production run activity on a quarterly basis
• Establish Quality processes for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.