PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Accomplished QA professional with over 26 years of experience across multiple domains (Healthcare, Telecom, Accounting, Finance, Administration and Procurement)
• Expertise across all phases of STLC and SDLC including requirement gathering, definition, analysis, designing, development, testing and implementation
• Possess good leadership of walkthrough the QA Test results with the QA team and communicate status to Project Leads
• Hands - on experience in developing test harnesses, designing and executing tests on developed software; strong understanding of testing concepts including defining test strategy, test cases and test plans
• Deft in planning, implementing & monitoring performance test scripts & troubleshooting issues with applications
• Hands-on experience in Project Life Cycle Management including project planning, scheduling, project progress monitoring and delivery as per quality and time norms
• Excels in liaising with clients to, gauging client’s requirements, suggesting appropriate business solutions and achieving successful conversion of business opportunities into profitable deals
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation and client relationship management skills with ability to relate to people at any level of business and management
• Well-versed with QTP, SOAP UI, Borland Silk Test, Selenium RC, Selenium WebDriver, Microfocus TestPartner, Advanced Java (Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, JDBC)

COMPETENCIES:

Quality Assurance

Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Designing & Executing Test Cases

Documentation

Defect Management

Change Management

Project Management

Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Client Relationship Management

Strategic Planning & Execution

MIS Reporting

Resource Management

Team Leadership & Motivation

Agile & Scrum Methodologies

IT FORTE:

Automation Tools: QTP/QC, SOAP UI, Borland Silk Test, QTP, Selenium RC, Selenium Webdriver RAD Delphi, Eclips

Version Control Systems: MS VSS, CVS, SVN, GI

Languages: VBScript, MS FoxPro, SQL, C/C++, Java, VBScript, JavaScript, Unix Shell, TL1, 4Test, XML, HTML, Abiniti

Databases: Oracle, MS FoxPro, MySQL, Teradata

Testing Methodology: Automation, ETL (Extract-Transform-Load), System, Regression, Integration, Functional, Performance, Manual and Web Application testing

Bug Tracking System: JIRA, QC/ALM, onTrac, Bugzilla, Siebel

Operating Systems: Windows XP / 7 / 2000 / 98, Confidential -UNIX

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Automation Test Engineer

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involve in testing critical functionalities while maintaining and executing all the test scripts
• Involve in logging and tracking defects and discussing with Developers for resolving issues
• Gather requirements, understand end-to-end application functionality & technical specifications of applications under test and devise / build test strategies depending on the projects needs along with co-ordinating all testing activities; establish / maintain test standards ensuring strict adherence to the same
• Direct performance test approach and strategies including planning, execution, scripting, etc., ensuring test schedules are maintained; identify test issues resulting in implementation delays
• Write / execute test cases and report bugs along with testing applications
• Prepare test plans, estimations, test data, test conditions, test scenarios for various modules at various stages
• Execute test cycles for various projects while monitoring the status of the same ensuring delivery within deadlines
• Review / analyze the results with the client team and provide them daily updates
• Ensure quality customer deliverables and lead & drive complex projects to successful completion
• Resolve and troubleshoot all client-related issues and escalations raised by the team as well as the client
• Build rapport and motivate resources at all levels in order to expand their capabilities to achieve individual as well as organizational goals
• Implement project plans within preset budgets and deadlines; perform tasks within a project scoping document, including design, specification and management of resources

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Environment: UNIX, KSH, QTP 11.0, VBScript, SQL, Agile, ALM, AbInitio, Teradata DBMS, Attachmate

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain QTP-based automation keyword-driven framework for testing ETL processes
• Design & implement keywords, utilize AbInitio scripts (graphs) in UNIX automation scripts and create QTP scripts for Attachmate Terminal emulator to support ETL processes on mainframe environment
• Create a ‘bridge’ between UNIX & Windows systems using Putty automation tool and UNIX scripts using KSH
• Train and mentor the offshore Automation team and perform code reviews for automation scripts designed by them
• Create automated test cases as per software specifications and functional requirements

Confidential

Environment: Selenium 2 Webdriver, QTP 11.0, Java, VBScript, SQL, TestPartner, GIT, Agile

Responsibilities:

• Worked as part of the Regulatory department to create and maintain an automation framework for different web-based applications using Selenium 2, Webdriver and QTP
• Involved in the maintenance of an existing TestPartner automation framework, developing automated scripts for 3 different applications and adding new scripts to the existing TestPartner framework
• Successfully created additional utilities for manual testers using Java (Reports Comparator and DB Check)
• Performed code reviews for automation scripts designed by the offshore team
• Conducted research and created POCs for different automation tools (QTP, Selenium, TestComplete, Ranorex, and AutoIT)
• Created both manual & automated test cases as per software specifications and functional requirements

Confidential

Environment: QTP 10.0, QTP 11.0, QC 10.0, VBScript, SQL, SOAP UI, REST web services, Scrum

Responsibilities:

• Created & maintained the QTP framework, developed automated scripts using QTP on a web-based application and enhanced existing procedural QTP framework as per Object-Based Automation concept to benefit from utilization of Classes and Object
• Created both manual and automated test cases in line with software specifications and functional requirements
• Reviewed business & functional requirements and design specifications to eliminate ambiguity and inconsistency prior to test cases creation on top of them
• Identified & documented defects and generated status reports, bug reports; shared the same in weekly status meetings
• Created SOAP UI framework for testing API based on REST web services; performed load testing using SOAP UI build-in features

Confidential

Environment: QTP 10.0, QC 10.0, VBScript, SQL, SOAP UI, UNIX, XML, Altova XMLSpy, Velocity

Responsibilities:

• Created both manual and automated test cases as per software specifications and functional requirements
• Involved in the extinction and maintenance of the existing QTP framework; performed transformation of manual test cases and use cases into automated test procedures via Confidential QTP; delivered test-automation plans
• Developed automated scripts using QTP on a web part of the OSS Granite application
• Collected process information from various resources to understand several processes to be tested
• Reviewed project requirements and design documents for inconsistencies and/or omissions using own traceability matrix; tested web services using SOAP UI
• Documented data and workflow to share with other QA team members
• Identified design/process issues prior to delivery of code through documentation reviews and analysis
• Mentored junior QA Tester and performed QA Lead role for the growing QA team

Confidential

Environment: QTP 9.5, QC 9.0, VBScript, XML, XSLT, Altova XMLSpy

Responsibilities:

• Conducted functional and regression automation testing
• Responsible for QTP Automation framework development from scratch using Hybrid Automation approach which combines Data Driven and Keyword driven methodologies while utilizing both Object Repository as well as Static and Dynamic Descriptive programming techniques
• Performed Quality Center Administration, developed processes and best practices across testing life cycle
• Created both manual and automated test cases in accordance with the software specifications and functional requirements
• Responsible for development of test strategy, test plans, creation and execution of automated test scripts, reporting test results and working closely with project team members on issue resolution and process optimization

Confidential

Environment: Selenium RC, QTP 9.5, QC 9.0, VBScript, ORACLE Database, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced existing Keyword-Driven Automated Frameworks using Selenium RC configured under Eclipse JUnit environment
• Stellar role in migration of existing Selenium based automation framework to QTP and QC
• Generated scope of testing without functional specs or other client specs by utilizing client's electronic training material for previous version of the application -- current, tested version had new UI
• Created and documented multiple standards for the testing team - test step structure, test name, screen area reference, test storage location, data sheet, application & database install procedures and restore/refresh procedures
• Mentored and managed an 8-member testing team members included assigning daily/weekly tasks and providing feedback both in-person and electronically
• Designed regression test bed of re-usable, data-driven tests that were decomposed to a level that should be usable by existing and future test scenarios; tested WEB components resulting in cost benefit by reducing time for test creation, maintenance and execution and by design
• Managed the conversion of manual tests to automate tests and executed automated scripts for review and live regression runs
• Assisted in creating work-around for QTP object recognition using indirect recognition

Confidential

Environment: Borland SilkTest, UNIX, JIRA, Wiki, ANSI SQL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and automation testing of WEB application, providing test case documentation standards to the test case Writer team, summarizing use cases to identify patterns to construct test case approach and developing project documentation
• Reduced test case maintenance time/costs by designing callable test case containing repeatable actions wherever possible