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SUMMARY:

Senior IT Professional having 10.5 years of experience in Software Testing and Test Automation with a track record of increasing efficiency of QA Teams by implementing solid processes/practices and generating substantial ROI through Test Automation thus helping organizations to test and deliver products on time and with quality.
Pioneer in implementing Testing practices across enterprise
Experience in setting up Testing and Automation CoE
Designing and Implementing robust automation strategies
Good track record with Onsite/Offshore model
Designing and Developing automation frameworks
Organizational Leadership Skills
Software Quality Metrics and benchmarking
Vendor Management and Customer Relationship
Expert level hands on knowledge of QTP/UFT & QC
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft CodedUI & Test Manager
Creating status reports & dashboards for senior management up to the level of CTO
DevOps using Microsoft TFS and Jenkins
Retrospective and Root Cause Analysis
Mid - level hands on expertise in Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber and Maven.
Creating timely simple and out of box solutions
Well versed with both Agile (Scrum & BDD) and Waterfall software development methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal QA Architect

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Responsibilities:

Creating a strategy to test the migration of various components and system integration testing (SIT).
Design an automation framework around QTP/UFT for automating the new HTML 5 version of the application.
Review test cases and test results.
Conduct defect triage and root cause analysis.
Send out weekly QA status report.

Confidential

ALM Architect/QA Architect/QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

Mentor and provide technical leadership to a passionate team of test engineers both Confidential onshore and offshore.
Create vision and road maps for testing teams both Confidential offshore and onshore.
Deliver proof of concepts for testing and automating new architectures and technologies using various tools and then recommending teams to use the best one.
Be responsible for the quality aspect of various products, monitor and publish quality metrics Confidential the end of every release, conduct retrospective and drive improvements.
Deliver automation frameworks, accelerators & scripts that play a key role in creating a Test Automation Frameworks.
Define processes for global testing teams, monitor them and drive improvements from time to time.
Be a senior member of the interview panel.
Review work done by global testing teams which includes test plan, test case and automation scripts reviews respectively.
Manage test environments.
Be a core member of the SCM and ALM team of the company and contribute heavily to TFS and Build Engineering processes.

Environment: Windows XP and 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Microsoft TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, HP QTP/UFT, Microsoft Visual Studio, C# .NET, SQL Server, VB Script, VB 6.0.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Manage the test team that develops and executes automated test suite with active participation in scripting and framework layout.
Review work done by the team and give feedback wherever required.
Participate in Project Planning and Test Planning.
Create Test Strategy document and get approval from onshore managers.
Monitor the test results and keep a check on the exit criteria.
Identify areas for test improvement by implementing traceability, automated testing, repeatable test practices and metrics.
Maintain a steady and healthy flow of communication with the onshore team and developers. Follow up on the bugs reported.
Set up adequate configuration management of test artifacts for traceability.
Be the single point of contact for issues and knowhow of the project.

Environment: Application/Software: HP QC, HP QTP/UFT, Oracle 10g, Clarity, ASP .NET, VB Script.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Create test cases as per the business requirements in HP Quality Center.
Execute test cases, log and tracked defect in HP Quality Center.
Create QTP scripts as per the manual test cases and execute them as a part of Regression testing.

Environment: Application/Software: HP QC, HP QTP, Web, VB Script

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