SUMMARY

• 12 years of IT experience in Analysis, Design, Deployment, Testing and Support of client server systems and web applications as a QA & UAT Lead and Scrum Master.
• Experience in Testing, managing and leading multiple teams over 30 resources.
• Possess exceptional abilities in designing test cases, Manual Testing, Functional and Integration Environmental Testing, Risk based testing.
• Experience in developing hybrid Framework using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to Test Scenarios and Test Cases, reviewing test artifacts, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & tracking.
• Extensive experience with Estimation of Test effort and coordinate Test Schedule with overall Project both on individual and program level projects.
• Experience as a Scrum Master working with Business stakeholders, Product Owners, Development, QA teams to plan and execute the releases/sprints
• Knowledge of Spark, Scala, Hue, Sqoop.
• Designed macros to pull metrics & create reports from Quality Center which reduced the turn - around time from few hours to just minutes.
• Managing financials, invoices, billing to the client in an effective manner.
• Extensive experience in Insurance and Telecom domains.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Big Data with Scala
• Python
• Selenium
• HP Quality Center (QC)
• SOAP UI
• Knowledge of Test Automation using HP QTP 10
• Scrum Master
• SQL Database Queries
• VB Scripting
• Excel VBA macros
• Mainframe macros

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cary, North Carolina

QA Lead & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 6 integration Agile applications.
• Initiating a Program Increment methodology and transforming the team from a Hybrid Agile to a Pure Agile process.
• Conduct daily Scrum calls, Story design and development, Defect triages, Sprint grooming sessions, Sprint retrospectives and UI demos across the team.
• Working with Product owner to provide inputs on Product Backlog.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, and Retrospective meetings.
• Lead distributed testing teams in projects & programs of high complexity.
• Review the work done by the team members and assume complete ownership for the quality of the deliverables produced by the QA team.
• Manage resource allocation, provide estimations, resource forecasting.
• Work with Technical Architects, Business Analysts and other stakeholders to plan and carry out testing smoothly.
• Organize business calls, touch point calls, status calls with the AD (Vitech and MetLife)/Business/UAT to resolve any issues.
• Participate in the Kick off/requirements meetings with all the stake holders and getting all the required information to the offshore.
• Provide daily metrics and status reports to senior management on the progress of test execution and highlight any potential issues or risks.
• Follow up with IT on code delivery, critical defects and downtime.
• Attend scope sessions with IT & Business and provide inputs on behalf of testing team.
• Review the test automation suites created by the offshore team and provide inputs to enhance it.
• Review defect reports and assign valid defects to the relevant developer/ development manager.
• Identify risks and provide mitigation plans.
• Ensure the resolved defects are re-tested and closed within specified SLA.
• Create Test Strategy / Test Approach.
• Ensure Entry Criteria are met before beginning testing.
• Ensure Exit Criteria are met before providing QA signoff.

Confidential

QA Analyst & Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering directly from Client / Business, and preparing test deliverables like Test Plan, Test Scenario, and Test Case.
• Extensive hands on Web Application testing using Agile and waterfall model.
• Test Execution - Functional, Regression, Integration, End to End, Ad hoc.
• Perform Web Service testing using SOAP UI to validate request and response XMLs.
• Creating, modifying & maintaining attachmate macros for Mainframe automation.
• Creation of SQL queries for data extraction and analysis.
• Defect raising, tracking, closure.
• Prepare Daily Status Report, Execution Report & Test Closure Report.
• Peer review of project deliverables; attend & host walkthroughs.
• Part of the team that is involved in design and implementation of Automation Test Framework for UI using Selenium.
• Developed automation Scripts for UI based application using Selenium WebDriver.
• QTP Automation Scripts Execution.
• Validate the data with backend tables via mainframes and SQL.
• Extract and Analyze Big Data using Hadoop, Sqoop and Hive.
• Creating Sqoop queries to retrieve data, segregate as required and store it back.
• Writing basic Flume solutions to read real time data and store it back in HDFS.
• Maintain QTP automation scripts for the application.
• Create & maintain VB macros in excel to automate reports and other day to day activities.
• Ensure all testing deliverables and reports are version controlled.
• Participate in project audits and ensure non-compliances (if any) are corrected. Take steps in the next release to ensure the reported non-compliance does not occur again.
• Suggest innovative ideas/solutions to client in the form of process improvement, automation proposals and reusability of test artifacts to bring about saving to the client.
• Write shell scripts to automate some of the day to day activities.
• Core member of the Transformation Team which helps optimize the day to day testing.
• Troubleshoot for JMS/MQ connectivity, message pileups, server crashes and other administrative tasks using the weblogic tool.

Confidential

Asst. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sanity testing post deployment.
• E2E testing support after major releases.
• Installation and environment set up for testing.
• Execution of test cases in Hub System Testing (HST).
• Defect re testing.
• Key member of the Next Box Testing (NBT) and Integration Verification and Validation Testing (IVVT) teams.