SUMMARY

• 13.5 Years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle. Well versed in Manual Testing, Automation and Database Testing with a proven track record of delivery, strong strategic vision and demonstrated ability to inspire, mentor and manage QA teams.Worked in various roles as Test Manager, Project Lead, Test Lead, Automation Test Lead, Onsite Coordinator and Programmer/Analyst.
• Expertise in Life Sciences, Banking services, Transportation and Insurance domains.
• Strong in SDLC and SOA and have successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Managed and worked in Agile, Spiral, Iteration, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) and Waterfall environments. Worked in multiple projects simultaneously in a multi - platform environment by leveraging the existing strengths across.
• Strong exposure to various applications like Web base, Client-server.
• 3 years 8 Months of experience as a TestManager for Confidential insurance managing complex projects and major implementations.
• 7 years of experience as Test Lead/Test Automation Lead and Test Management activities handling larger initiatives involving 60+ team members for the Clients Confidential and Confidential Insurance.
• 9 months of experience as a Test Process Consultant in TCoE contributing program level test strategy documents, mobile and digital test strategy documents.
• Highly skilled in analysis, design, develop and review the Test Analysis and Design, Automation Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Execution.
• Author and managed project schedules including key deliverables, milestones, dependencies and resource allocation.
• Expert in Functional, Regression, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Identified crucial business defects during the testing phase.
• Worked in various Automation Frameworks, Automation Tools WATIR (Web Application Testing in Ruby, frameworks(BDD & TDD), Selenium RC & Webdriver, RFT (Rational Functional Tester), QTP (Quick Test Professional), Soap UI, Cucumber and Groovy Scripting.
• Experience in understanding Web Services, SOAP, REST, XML, XSD, HTML, Style Sheets, XPath
• Knowledge and experience in programming languages like C,C++, Java and scripting languages like VB script and JavaScript.
• Worked in all areas of project execution including planning, business analysis, requirements gathering, building up test environment, design, development, functional checkouts, releasing an environment for testing, test execution, SLA based production support & maintenance, sun setting and repurposing test environments.
• Managed QA/Test teams for their optimal utilization by on-going mentoring, oversight and ensuring they have required skills
• Proven record in Test Management, Test architecture, Change Management, System analysis, Problem solving, Supervisory management, Technical and Business training.
• Effective communication skills, good leadership ability in organizing and coordinating teams to deliver quality products in a multivendor outsourcing environments.
• Experience in offshore and onsite team setup, resource planning and management, project effort estimation, team appraisals for every half year, metrics collection, time sheet management, quality reviews and status reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: SoapUI Pro, IBM Rational Tools

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center 9 .2, HP QC ALM, TRAC, Bugzilla, IBM Clear Quest, TestDirector, Test Link.

Mobile Cloud: Perfecto Mobile.

Automation Tools: Selenium, Rational Functional Tester 8.0(RFT), Quick Test Professional (QTP), Staf/Stax, Cascade, Web Application Testing in Ruby, Groovy, Rational Manual Tester.

SCM Tools: Visual Source Safe, SharePoint, SVN, CVS

Operating systems: Ms-DOS, UNIX, Linux, And MAC.

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Java script, VB Script IDE Eclipse3.1,RSA/RAD&SpringSourceToolSuite

Application/WebServers: VMwarev2.6,WebLogic10,Tomcat6.0.Database Oracle, PostGreSQLAnd MSAccess

BITool: QlikView.

Other Tools: Jenkins, MS Project, MS Visio, Maven, Code Tutor, TRAC

Testing Methodology: Waterfall, Agile and Scaled Agile, Manual and Automated Functional Testing, Database and ETL Testing, Web App and Native Apps Testing in Tablets, iPads and other Digital devices, Exploratory testing and Risk Based Testing,Cucumber, Soap UI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Lead/ Test Manager

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Review the Test plan, Test Strategy and the Test Automation Plan documents to suit the need of the customer to handle complex releases involving multiple delivery centers and line of businesses.
• Be responsible for the quality and timelines of the deliverables and facilitating the quality review process
• Attend Daily Standups, Scrum, Retrospective and Planning meetings
• Involved in sprint planning with business analysts, developers and project management for agile methodology.
• Resolving bottle neck issues for the successful execution and delivery of a release.
• Estimating effort, determining the resource requirements and hiring the required resources for the project and interacting with offshore and onsite Management.
• Review the checklist, lessons learnt and best practices documents.
• Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes
• Project billing and Timesheet management.
• Establishing Quality Management processes and monitoring Quality assurance and Quality control activities.
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards and templates defined by the organization.
• Prepared metrics for the project and gave support to the UAT team.
• Reviewing and executing the automation scripts written in Java/Cucumber.

Test Lead/Test Manager

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Review the Test plan, Test Strategy and the Test Automation Plan documentsto suit the need of the customer to handle complex releases involving multiple delivery centers and line of businesses.
• Involving in developing cost analysis, design considerations and implication timelines.
• Awareness of key milestones dependencies and understanding of data models.
• Responsible to provide specific directions, training and mentoring to other system analysts, customers and associated roles of the project team or service component.
• Be responsible for the quality and timelines of the deliverables and facilitating the quality review process
• Identify the dependencies, risks and issues with the other project teams and also the environment topology to test the components
• Participating in Go/No-Go meetings for release implementations.
• Attend Daily Standups, Scrum, Retrospective and Planning meetings
• Involved in sprint planning with business analysts, developers and project management for agile methodology.
• Resolving bottle neck issues for the successful execution and delivery of a release.
• Estimating effort, determining the resource requirements and hiring the required resources for the project and interacting with offshore and onsite Management.
• Review the checklist, lessons learnt and best practices documents.
• Formalized the change management process for test environments and Fully Automated Functional Checkouts.
• Administrating End to End customer experience testing after every major implementation in Life, Auto, Home and Renters line of businesses.
• Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes
• Did internal and external audits.
• Project billing and Timesheet management.
• Establishing Quality Management processes and monitoring Quality assurance and Quality control activities.
• Review the automation scripts and gave deliverable acceptance for the automation scripts
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards and templates defined by the organization.
• Reporting project status to Clients and TCS Senior Management.
• Prepared metrics for the project and gave support to the UAT team.
• Business requirement analysis and discussion with stakeholders to come up with new business solutions

Test Lead/Automation Test Lead

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the Offshore Team and Review the test deliverables submitted by offshore.
• Review the scripts in RFT and selenium along with Web Application Testing Framework(WAT)
• Review the converted scripts from RFT to Selenium using WAT.
• Review the Groovy scripts to test the web services.
• Review the unique patterns document for the review comments.
• Scripts were reviewed using local check style and Code tutor Tool.
• Reviewed the automation scripts and automation approach written in java automation framework, WAT (Web Application Testing) in different web browsers using the web driver API.
• Review the topology of the automation scripts creation.
• Execute PMMT project through SDLC methodologies, complying to TCS and Client quality processes.
• Used Test Link (open source) for bug tracking and report generation of defects.
• Monitoring the STAF/STAX execution that was used to execute the scripts in remote drones in various browsers.
• Review and monitor the automation deliverables submitted by onsite and offshore.
• Knowledge transfer of 6 critical applications and 3 tools related to Business Application Framework.
• Version management of constructed code and deployment in different environment.
• Coordinating the user interface and component configuration for the Existing/Proposed system for both online and batch transactions.
• Mentoring the team at both onsite and offshore in terms of code reviews, Scripting and automation process.
• Feasibility study on automation tools for testing the PMMT application.
• Gave deliverable acceptance for the automation scripts at unit, Integration and System level.
• Project Planning, Estimating and Scheduling
• Writing, Reviewing & Editing Test Plans
• Involved in POC’s and Knowledge Transfer

Test Lead /Automation Test Lead

Confidential, Pasadena, California

Responsibilities:

• Prepared estimation and test plan for system testing for the different releases
• Interact with Architects or designers to understand the limitations pertaining to existing proposed system.
• Validated requirements with business team/SMEs and gave PPT Presentations to business on High Level Scenarios
• Attended defect Analysis and tracking meeting,
• Did Requirements gathering
• Carried out Unit, Integration and System Testing
• Prepared Test summary report, SIT exit report, weekly status reports and attended weekly team meeting with the clients.
• Executed PL/SQL Queries
• Did IQA and EQA for all type of deliverables.
• Understanding and estimating business requirements.
• Prepared Design documents and traceability matrix of requirements.
• Created and executed automation Test Scripts in QTP.
• Providing Business improvements suggestions to the clients.
• Prepared metrics for the project and gave support to the UAT Team
• Involved in planning and effort estimation for automation activities for both UI and services at unit and integration level.
• Verify the automation scripts and Test cases mapping.
• Support the business users in User Acceptance testing.

Test Lead /Automation Lead

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Responsibilities:

• Automation scripts are written in Ruby/Watir, Selenium for various projects and executed all the automation scripts in Ruby/Watir and Selenium.
• Converted Ruby/Watir scripts to Selenium scripts and verified the data discrepancies while executing the scripts
• Created knowledge transfer documents on Ruby/Watir Automation Tools and various projects. Gave presentations on these.
• Various changes are made to the Automation Framework and verified the data discrepancies while executing the scripts
• Executed PL/SQL Queries and Informatica Workflows.
• Reviewed all the deliverables submitted by offshore.
• Defects Tracking and Reporting using Clear Quest.
• Involved in POC’s and Knowledge Transfer
• Prepared Test Strategy and Regression test plan
• Creating component specific documents, logical system behavior and physical system flow for the deliverables and getting reviewed by technical analysts
• Review the coding standards and checklist for automation process.

Test Lead/Onsite Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Clients to review and get the signoff for Test plan and propose applications to be automated.
• Defect Tracking, Reporting and involved in variance meetings.
• Got the Sign off on all Deliverables from the Business and Technical Management.
• Prepared knowledge transfer documents and gave Knowledge transfer to the Team members at offshore.
• Involved in various different projects PCA Account Number Expansion, OMNI, Anti Money Laundry and non Confidential product Target
• Maintenance of Timesheet Application Tool developed - in JSP and Servlets.
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix, Test Execution plan, Test Cases and Test results documents.
• Involved in Shakedown testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, PreAcceptance Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Prepared Mom’s,SIT and UAT Exit and Completion Reports
• Perform System Testing using Test Automation Procedures
• Attend the training sessions conducted by the Business Associates.
• Analyze the new business requirements and create the system specific design documents required for the proposed system.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designing the UI for various modules in BC4J framework.
• Client interaction to understand the business knowledge and their requirements for System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Preparing Analysis, High Level Scenarios (HLS), Detailed Level Scenarios (DLS).
• Identify requirements for Data Management Tool (DMT) which will be used for Test Data Management.
• Design for Data Management Tool (DMT) and design strategy for Data Collection activities.
• Reviewed the Use Cases and finalize the use cases with clients
• Involved in data Collection of Test Data.
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix and Test Execution plan, Preparation of Mom’s, Walkthrough of Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan and Test Cases Documents
• Involved in Shakedown testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Defect Tracking, Reporting and involved in variance meetings
• Update the Integration Plan with client discussions during complete data collection phase.