SUMMARY

• 9 years of experience in quality assurance and software industry of which
• 2 year is as a manual test lead in India,
• 1.5 years is as a automation tester in India,
• 1 year is as an automation test lead in India.
• 3 years is of an Automation test Lead in the USA and
• 1.5 year is that of a Automation QA Manager/SPOC in the USA.
• Working knowledge of selenium, Ruby, Cucumber and WATIR, RSPEC, Load Runner.
• Thorough acquaintance with all the phases of Test Life Cycle, Testing concepts & methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in all phases of testing, right from reviewing the requirements, preparation of test plan, traceability matrix, writing test cases, assimilating test data, preparation of test bed, conducting build verification test (smoke test), functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Expertise in writing, reviewing and executing functional, system and integration test cases.
• Expertise in identifying regression test suite, assessing technical and economic feasibility, estimating cost and effort, scripting, reviewing, executing and maintaining Automation scripts.
• Process driven, good communication, leadership, training, analytical, documentation and reporting skills.
• Worked in banking, credit cards, finance, insurance and HR domains
• Trained on functioning of insurance & loan markets and various other financial domains.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Understanding Functional Requirements, Test Strategy and analyze the project scope.
• Estimating and budgeting the project effort and resource planning.
• Negotiating the project budget with vendors and track work order approvals.
• Identify project risks well in advance and device mitigations.
• Creating Test Plan, Test Schedule and participated in Code walk - troughs.
• Analyze technical and economic automation feasibility and ROI calculations.
• Setting Up automation conventions and creating the setup vbs files and ensure adherence to the best practices.
• Setting up tailor made automation frameworks based on the automation candidate.
• Recruiting, training and mentoring the team from time to time for quality deliverables.
• Quality Audit on the scripts/code generated and the data assimilated to check adherence to best practices and naming conventions.
• Creation of centralized common functions for repeated functionalities to be utilized across multiple projects across organization.
• Review the quality of defects raised and Participate in defect Triages
• Create/Audit Execution handbooks for the automation suite
• Set metrics for quality checks and device corrective actions to ensure quality software.

Automation Test Lead

Confidential, Newark, Delaware

Responsibility:

• Understanding Functional Requirements and analysis
• Created Test Plan and the strategy documents and Participated in Code walk-troughs
• Analysis of technical and economic automation feasibility and ROI calculations
• Setting Up automation conventions and creating the setup vbs files to be used by the team.
• Setting up tailor made automation frameworks based on the automation candidate.
• Recruiting, training and Mentoring the automation team from time to time for quality deliverables
• Preparing the Object Repository and named the objects as per convention
• Preparation of Data Table and ensuring that they follow the conventions specified
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen application crashes.
• Involved in Regression Testing and creation & execution of QTP scripts.
• Reviewing the Automation resources created by the team on a daily basis and ensure their adherence to the conventions.
• Raising defects in Quality center & tracking them to closure
• Participated in defect Triages with the development team
• Created Design document/Execution handbooks for the automation suite

Automation Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Understand Functional Requirements and analysis
• Created Test Plan and the strategy documents
• Participated in Code walk-troughs
• Creation & Execution of Manual Test Cases based on the requirements
• Raising defects in Quality center & tracking them to closure
• Participated in defect tracking meetings with the development team
• Involved in Regression Testing
• Involved in Automation Feasibility & Analysis of the application
• Preparing the Object Repository and named the objects as per convention
• Preparation of Data Table and ensuring that they follow the conventions specified
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen application crashes.
• Creation & Execution of QTP scripts
• Review the scripts created by peers to adhere to conventions
• Created Design document for the scripts created

Automation Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Involved in Automation Feasibility & Analysis of the application
• Preparing the Object Repository and Data Table and ensuring the objects and the table attributes follow the agreed naming conventions
• Creating object templates and developing common functions to assign specific values to the object template and so the specified action.
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen errors
• Creation & Execution of QTP scripts
• Review the scripts created by peers to adhere to conventions
• Created execution document or the induction manual for better understanding of the preconditions and the setting to be made to run the scripts created
• Maintenance and re-run of scripts on need basis and also on version change of the application

Automation Tester

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Understand Functional Requirements and analysis
• Created Test Plan and the strategy documents
• Participated in Code walk-troughs
• Raising defects in Quality center & tracking them to closure
• Participated in defect tracking meetings with the development team
• Involved in Regression Testing
• Involved in Automation Feasibility & Analysis of the application
• Preparing the Object Repository and named the objects as per convention
• Preparation of Data Table and ensuring that they follow the conventions specified
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen application crashes.
• Creation & Execution of QTP scripts
• Review the scripts created by peers to adhere to conventions
• Created Design document for the scripts created

Automation Tester

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Understand Functional Requirements and analysis
• Participated in Code walk-troughs
• Creation & Execution of Manual Test Cases based on the requirements
• Raising defects in Quality center & tracking them to closure
• Participated in defect tracking meetings with the development team
• Involved in Regression Testing
• Involved in Automation Feasibility & Analysis of the application
• Preparing the Object Repository and named the objects as per convention
• Preparation of Data Table and ensuring that they follow the conventions specified
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen application crashes.
• Creation & Execution of QTP scripts
• Review the scripts created by peers to adhere to conventions
• Created Design document for the scripts created

Automation Tester

Confidential

Responsibility:

• Involved in Automation Feasibility & Analysis of the application
• Preparing the Object Repository and named the objects as per convention
• Preparation of Data Table and ensuring that they follow the conventions specified
• Creation of common functions for repeated functionalities.
• Creation of recovery scenarios to handle foreseen application crashes.
• Creation & Execution of QTP scripts
• Review the scripts created by peers to adhere to conventions
• Created Design document for the scripts created

Confidential

Manual Test Lead

Responsibility:

• Understand Functional Requirements and analysis.
• Track the clarification log to get the questions raised by testers clarified.
• Created Test Plan and the strategy documents.
• Create a detailed test scheduled accommodating the risks and device contingencies.
• Participated in Code walk-troughs and static testing.
• Plan, track and co-ordinate the creation of a test bed and deployment of AUT.
• Ensure test case and test data readiness and set them ready to be executed in the QC.
• Assign testers the task to create& execute manual test cases based on the test schedule.
• Review defects raised in QC & tracking them to closure.
• Participated in defect triage meetings and co-ordinate the defect resolution and retest.
• Ensure timely completion of testing effort by tracking the testing activities and employing corrective measures where necessary.
• Ensure deployment of quality product to production environment and do a causal analysis of defects missed in testing and identified on UAT or production.