SUMMARY

• Senior SDET/Automation Lead with more than 14 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets, roles, and industry verticals
• Comprehensive experience in software development, software sustenance, testing/tools support: participated in design and analysis activities, created, and executed key product testing
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture
• Worked as project tools administrator and automation testing tools engineer with excellent project management and presentation skills
• Proficient in Quality Center/QTP/UFT/qTest tools support, ALM versions 10/11/12.x, JIRA 8.13.x, Java, Selenium Automation framework, Web services, and C++, .NET, Excel macros, VB6/VBA Debugging
• UiPath Certified Developer, qTest Specialist Level1 certified
• Experience leading and managing teams. Worked in multiple roles - Tools Admin, Test Lead, Software Testing Consultant, Developer, Test Analyst
• Executed software projects for Banking, Insurance, Semiconductor and Medical industry clients

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HP/Microfocus Tools: Quality Center/ALM 10/11.x/12.x Administration, QTP/UFT 9.5/10/11.x,12.x, LoadRunner, Sprinter, ALM Synchronizer

IBM Tools: Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, Teradata, DataStage

Development Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio, Aqua Data Studio, Windows debugger, Application verifier, SQL Management Studio, UiPath

Languages: VB6.0, C++, VBA, Java, Visual C#.Net, SQL

O/S: Windows XP/7/8/10, Windows Server 2003/2005/2008/2012 R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SDET/Automation Technical Lead

Confidential, Cary, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, clarified, and reviewed business flows for claim policy creation, customer creation in external system and conducted requirement mapping walkthrough
• Created and reviewed master test strategy document, test plan, test scenarios, test scripts, and walk through with Confidential business and development teams
• Prepared estimation for minor/major enhancements of applications and reviewed with stakeholders for the approval of L0 & L1 (Level 0 or Level 1) estimations
• Provided consulting for Automation testing tools - UFT, Selenium, Test Complete, and developed frameworks for API testing SOAP UI, and Postman for the applications
• Developed automation strategy and automation scripts in Selenium to support disability claim applications. Enhanced the coverage for smoke and regression automation cases based on product upgrade activities and debugged and fixed issues
• Used Selenium WebDriver for writing scripts and identifing various locators such as Xpath in Eclipse with/without Maven build tool
• Customized the framework by configuring POM XMLs with required dependencies (Apache-Poi, Extent report, Sikuli API, Log4j) and built respective utility classes
• Customized TestNG framework for reporting needs across applications
• Created Feature Files for Cucumber Automation (BDD) that helps business team to run acceptance criteria and Customize Step Definition Class and Runner Class as needed to support automation activities
• Tested Native Mobile app for a vendor product using Appium framework by creating iOS and Android objects, creating test classes, and capturing Xpath and customizing data sheet accordingly
• Used Bitbucket to maintain scripts, built Bamboo plans for Web UI and Web Service automation suites and achieved continuous integration and Continuous testing CI/CT
• Used Query Surge tool and compared different application DBs across environments for the application involved and extracted query results to reporting dashboard for the comparison
• Created test user stories, components, sub tasks for offshore teams, Kanban view with multiple filter options in Jira tool and drove the tasks to be completed for projects
• Set up different work environments (DEV, QA, End to End) for the applications to be tested before test execution and arranged the application access, HP Quality Center tool access, virtual desktop machines to execute test cases for all testing team members
• Tracked the execution status for functional, regression, end to end testing with the testing team members and captured test execution results in HP Quality Center (QC). Ensured that all application logs attached in test execution results. Used Quality Center dashboard module to write complex SQL queries to extract data and distribute in the form of Excel, Word and PDF reports to all stakeholders
• Through Power BI reporting, generated different test/defect/burndown templates for cross capability application artifacts which linked to Quality Center
• Generated project status report using Acumen Portal and communicated the right project status in a timely manner to all Disability Claims capability stakeholders. Reviewed Test Closure report and published to the Confidential Business stakeholders once testing/sign off was received
• Used ServiceNow IT Service Management web platform to raise incidents for disability claim application web services outages and created change requests for deploying code changes in Dev/QA/PROD environment as part of service now process workflow
• Provided RPA solutions for end-to-end Confidential applications, Incident & Change management systems (RPA-UiPath) that includes developing sequences, flow charts, re-usable VB scripts/macros, scheduled jobs/process in Orchestrator, define robots for the applications and orchestrated, controlled virtual workforce through UiPath Orchestrator and scheduled the jobs
• Involved in Jira and Trecentist qtest admin activities and provided support across test teams; added project scope/release items on the upcoming cycle projects - creating test suites for cycle runs

Environment: SharePoint, Query Surge, ALM Quality Center, Micro Focus UFT, Microsoft Project Plan, Blueprint, Jira 8.13.x, ServiceNow, SOAP UI, Selenium, Test complete, Postman, qTest 10.4.x, Microsoft Power BI, RPA-UiPath Studio, VBA

Technical Project Lead-QC/ALM/Jira Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QC/Jira user, project/workflow maintenance, customization/template creation, roles/permissions: added users, deleted users on QC projects - added project entities - lists, groups, permissions on QC user projects
• Facilitated Excel add in installation and support for QA team
• Provided QC/Jira training for new users: created user training information for QC modules - Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects and delivered it to the larger audience
• Integrated QC/Jira and non-HP products/others and synchronized the data between them
• Administered SharePoint sites and monitored them based on business requirements - redesign, support maintenance, customization, using scripting wherever required
• Performed QC upgrade/site admin activities - site maintenance, data backup, repository clean up, patch upgrade recovery, DB update and restored QC data through SQL Management Studio
• Supported Citrix platform users - adding users on virtual desktop, fixing issues, assigning VDI/RDP machines and deploying application/plugin/add-in on Citrix farm
• Developed utility (macro) for QC deliverable items - Defects, Requirements, Test Plan, Test lab data from QC and conduct archive/purge of QC project data by running VBA Excel macro utility and report for the client
• Performed proof of concept activities - alternatives to QC and other tools in the market - qTest, Rational functional test, RPA-UiPath/Blue prism
• Developed automation framework design and created regression activities - Selenium, QTP, Test complete across QA test projects

Environment: QC 10/11.52/12.53/12. x, Caliber, Rally, Jira, Blueprint Requirements Center, QTP/UFT 10/11/12.x, Egg Plant, Selenium, C#, VBA Excel and VB Scripting, Python, SQL, Java, Soap UI, Postman, Web services, ServiceNow, iVanti Desktop Now (Virtualization), Rational Functional Test

Automation Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation framework (keyword/data driven), server data validation along with different test data parameters
• Used descriptive programming techniques, re-usable components, user defined functions, object repository maintenance, recovery scenarios, error handling mechanisms
• Identified the metrics and provided risk analysis, resource management
• Set up ALM 11 environment, setting up roles/permissions for QC users, workflow customization, QC report, QC process standardization, HP Sprinter usage on testing teams, integration with various tools like Jira, Caliber and Performed test pilot using TOSCA tool for other applications

Environment: UFT 11.52, HP ALM 11.0, HP Sprinter 11.0, Jira, Caliber, TOSCA, VBA/VB

ETL Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The objective of this project was to extract data from various source systems (the hub), consolidate the data and send the data to authorized target systems.

Environment: IBM Teradata, DataStage, Connect Direct, Aqua Data Studio 4.7, QC 11

QC Administrator / Automation Tools / Testing Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided end to end tools and testing support for the entire bank involving more than 5000+ QC users.

Environment: QC 9.2/10/11, QTP 10/11, SQL Management Studio, SQL Server 2005/2008, LoadRunner, SiteScope, VBA, VB