SUMMARY

• 11+ Years of IT professional experience in, QA Automation Architect, QA Manager, with various domain exposures like Telecom (OSS and BSS), Banking, Healthcare, Retail, ERP
• Proficient in Automation Frame works in Selenium, Cucumber (BDD) like Data Driven, Hybrid and Keyword Driven, unite and Regression Testing. Experience in CORE Java using OOPS Concept, Extensively used java, Java Scripts
• Automated functional test cases using Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber (JUNIT and Java TESTNG)
• Extensively worked in executing tests by using Selenium grid/Testing in different browsers/Cross Browser testing.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in various types of testing (Unit, Integration, API, Smoke, System, Browser compatibility, etc.) is required
• Working knowledge in Web development and testing tools like Firebug, Fire Path, XPath, DOM Inspector, and Chrome Console.
• Identify issues and risks and work with project team to develop mitigation plans and provide timely escalation.
• Well exposed to different troubleshooting/debugging/testing/version control methodologies.
• Good Analytical skill, Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• Good Experience in creating XPath queries and functions.
• Ability to enhance the existing Automation framework and develop functions, methods in Page Object Model
• Experience in GitHub,TestNG Jenkins, JIRA, Restful Web services, Postman, JUnit, Maven, Eclipse
• Having excellent hands on Expertise in Analysis, Design, and Development & Implementation of application systems.
• Good work experience in Waterfall, Agile and SaFe delivery models
• Experience in conducting Sprint planning, Standup meeting, retrospective etc..
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team(s) and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, Confidential a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Exposure in maintaining Product Backlog tracking, Burn down metrics, Velocity, EPIC, User Stories and related project documentation.
• Proactively communicate project status and drives resolution of outstanding risks, issues, and action items

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Core JAVA, C, C++

Web/XML Technologies: HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript,, XPATH, XSD, XML

Frameworks: Selenium Automation, Cucumber (BDD), DevOps, GitHub

Tools: & Utilities: Eclipse IDE, Maven, HP - ALM, Confidential &T - TDP, D2-Jira, Rally

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL, MS Access

Source Control: Rational Clear Case, Microsoft VSS, Share Point

Operating Systems: Windows 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Perform the project initial assessment and estimate the work effort
• Secure the project funding and identify the right resource to assign the projects and track them
• Raise application dependencies and risk on time and escalate to management and migrating the risk.
• Defining and executing test automation strategies by partnering with business and development teams supporting in sprint test automation.
• Create, execute and maintain new automated test scenarios and data sets.
• Work as part of an agile product team, to deliver quality automation aligned with each sprint to support DevOps
• Provide project technical knowledge to the team.
• Collaborate: Work with technical and non-technical team members to ensure clear, concise communication is being maintained between development, production, and operations teams.
• Design and build: write comprehensive test suites and test cases for both automated and manual tests to support confident, rapid deployments and scheduled releases.
• Performed System Integration testing and recorded issues along with product enhancements. Worked with Engineers to troubleshoot problems and inconsistencies.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements. Conducted Unit, System testing.
• Implementing Selenium testing platform and using test scripts with Eclipse IDE, writing Selenium Web driver scripts, using JUnit and Selenium, Cucumber for automated testing.
• Use of XPath in the context of Selenium RC in order to pick out page elements in a robust manner by avoiding index based expressions. These XPath were then abstracted behind Page Object classes to provide a central point of change of any UI changes made in the application.
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Performed cross browser testing for compatibility checks on IE, Firefox and Chrome
• Performed Data Driven testing with multiple test data inputs with Selenium Webdriver and MS-Excel.
• Optimized Selenium scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, Confidential a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading

Confidential, St Louis, MO 

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements documents.
• Involved in writing Test plan, Test strategy and test scenarios to test business requirements using word, Excel.
• Created Test Cases for regression, GUI testing and functional testing, Back-end and compatibility testing based on the system requirements.
• Involved in system Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression, End-End Testing and User acceptance Testing.
• Automate Test Cases and create Test Suites locally within Eclipse for Functional, Integration, Regression, and Browser Compatibility, using Selenium WebDriver, Testing.
• Experience testing with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome browser
• Designed and developed automation framework using Key Word Driver and Data Driven methods
• Involved in testing compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browser using HTML IDs and Xpath in selenium.
• Handle the tasks of identifying defects and perform root cause analysis by analyzing data quality issues
• Maintained the Selenium and Java automation code and resources in source control like CVS,SVN over the time for improvements and new features
• Maintain automation builds on Continuous Integration (CI) tool Jenkins.
• Used Maven as Build Integration Tool.

Confidential 

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Automation Script using Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Testing and Java
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browser using HTML IDs and Xpath in selenium.
• Involved in performing Smoke, Functional, System and Regression and backend Testing
• Developed Hybrid framework with Selenium
• Used Selenium GRID to execute test cases in parallel on different target machines
• Communicated with QA Lead and QA Team members to resolve issues
• Reported software problems using ALM bug trucking system and verified bugs fixed in new releases
• Identified and documented defects using ALM to ensure application functionality
• Worked with QA team and developers to improve processes. Performed quality reviews to improve test maturity
• Executed SQL queries to verify proper insertion, deletion, and updates to the Database
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing)
• Utilized Confluence for reporting weekly status on area of ownership. Attended meetings to influence building quality into the product cycle

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirement and analysis the requirement
• Preparing the High-Level Scenario and Review with Client
• Prepare the Test plan and involve into Test internal & external review.
• Preparing details level test cases and conducting the Internal and external review.
• Performing in Integration and End-to-End Testing, Regression and UAT Testing
• Identifies the defect and report defect in ALM-QC
• Closely working with application teams and co-coordinating with them to get resolve the issues and retest the defect on time.
• Involving in Service Assurance and trouble ticket creation
• Performing Telecom various Bill verification and report to customer
• Preparing the Daily status and providing to the Client on the daily End of the day meeting with all stakeholders

Confidential

Test Lead (Selenium Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the clients to gather & analyze business requirements of the various modules of the project.
• Extensively involved in the design, coding, deployment, and maintenance of the project.
• Implementation of View and Controller components with Struts Framework, Model components with EJBs.
• Written ant build.xml files for ear and war files generation.
• Written the JMeter scripts to test the performance (stress) of the application by increasing the concurrent users.
• Worked on threads, to submit the messages to smp server.
• Worked onsite Confidential the client place involved in the UAT Build, Configuration, Deployment, and Integration.