SUMMARY

• Overall 11 years of IT experience in Quality Assurance activities, Business Analysis, Software development and support activities using standard processes, tools and methodologies.
• Experience in Functional & Automation testing using tools QTP and Selenium Web driver. Involved in Planning, Designing and maintaining test environment for UI Automation Frameworks.
• Performed teh roles as Developer, Programmer, Tech lead, Programmer Analyst, QA Lead
• Strong experience in MDM & Database testing. Strong hold on Data Stage (ETL), BPM UI and IIB testing
• Experience in Functional testing, responsibilities including Mainframe batch testing, ETL testing, Table validations & Database validations
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in SOAP UI, REST and SQL
• Experience in Smoke, Functional, Integration, Sanity, Regression, System Testing
• Proficient in scripting languages Visual Basic Script and Java Script
• Extensively involved in HP ALM operations such as loading requirements, Requirements traceability, Test case execution and defect tracking.
• Excellent Onshore/Offshore coordination.
• Experience in Test driven development (TDD) and Behavior driven development (BDD)
• Experience in writing teh Business Use cases and performed User acceptance testing (UAT)
• Expertise in developing and maintaining Automation frameworks, execute regression suite
• Extensively used Descriptive Programming in developing Automation Framework & Scripts
• Proficient in Functional, Regression, SIT, UAT, Security, Page Validation, Usability and Accessibility, Browser Compatibility testing during teh various phases of teh development of teh application.
• Experience in testing with a wide variety of projects and environments like Java, SQL server and .Net
• Experience in Performance testing using HP Load Runner and JMeter.
• Expertise in Test effort estimations, Test Plan and Test Strategy preparation, Test Script creation and execution, Status reporting and preparing various metrics like effort metrics, test execution metrics and defect metrics.
• Experience in Test data management(TDM)
• Experience in IBM Mainframe, DB2/IMS, SQL Server, SQL, PL/SQL and TOAD.
• Experience in Automation strategy and proven ability in driving teh saves/ROI to teh organization
• Strong planning and organizational skills. Effective Onsite/offshore coordination.
• Excellent documentation, Results Analysis and reporting skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficient: HP QC ALM, QTP (UFT), JIRA, Zephyr, JAVA/J2EE, Selenium Web driver, Cucumber, Maven, ANT, node.JS, TFS, Oracle, QMF, MS Office tools, MPP, Visio, DB2, IMS, IBM Mainframe, SOAP UI, PL/SQL, MDM, ETL, BPM, IIB, SAP PI, Data stage/Quality Stage, JMeter, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, UNIX

Working Knowledge: C, C++, Bugzilla, Clarity, SQL Server, Ruby, VB, Jenkins, Cucumber, Maven, BI tools, Rally, Data Finder, LISA, Load Runner, HTML, Confluence

Applications: Banking & Finance (BFS), Telecom, HealthCare

Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall

Phases: Requirements Definition, Business Design, Technical Design, System Test Planning

Tools: & Standards: Rally, Clarity, SDLC, XML, RUCS, Use Cases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

QA Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in day to day operations of Automation, Functional, Batch Testing and Test management activities in Child support migration project.
• Involved in creating Selenium frameworks (Keyword and Data Driven) for test automation using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java, Maven, Oracle DB, MS Excel and integrated with continuous integration environment using Jenkins.
• Involved in creating Test strategies, Test plans, Functional and Automation test scripts.
• Involved in creating and managing Agile QA processes (Functional, Regression, Performance) and standards for scrum teams.
• Created and executed Unit & BDD test scripts using Java and Cucumber.
• Managed functional testing using automated test suites for teh Smoke and Regression Tests.
• Managed Scrum teams as a Product Owner by prioritizing teh tasks.
• Defined customized reports in JIRA dashboards for all Test metrics
• Create and maintain Test plans and Validate test results.
• Lead teh Automation efforts and ensure teh team adheres to teh QA processes
• Collect Test Metrics and present them to team and clients.
• Involved in Agile Scrum planning meetings and Daily stand up calls. Coordinate with Product Owners, SME’s and Business project managers to gather Functional and Non - Functional requirements.

Environment: Selenium Web driver, Cucumber, Java, SQL, Oracle, Web Load, Soap UI, SVN, Jenkins, JIRA, Zephyr, Windows, Linux, Mainframes

Confidential, Warsaw, Indiana

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing Test Automation Framework for BPM (using Selenium) and MDM (Service tester) and SAP PI (ETL) applications in ZB MDM project.
• Involved in QA activities for MDM, ETL and BPM components.
• Actively participate in design review and code review meetings.
• Assist PM in planning and driving low level project tasks.
• Work closely with business analysts, solution architects and development leads to spear head teh testing efforts of best-of-class MDM, BPM and ETL solutions.
• Involve in day to day operations of MDM, DS/QS and IIB components.
• Involved in designing Test Automation Framework for MDM and SAP PI(ETL) applications in ZB MDM project.
• Involved in creating Test data and coordination test data team(TDM) for loading teh data into test base.
• Involved in setting up QA tasks (user stories) in JIRA and assign to individual QA team members and track teh progress including Issues/Bugs.
• Create and Assign Bugs in JIRA
• Troubleshoot and Coordinate QA related issues.
• Create and maintain Test plans.
• Validate test results.
• Perform Functional, Integration, Performance and Regression tests.
• Lead teh Automation efforts and ensure teh team adheres to teh QA processes.
• Collect Test Metrics and present them to team and clients.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed teh large program in Confidential as a Test lead.
• As an onshore lead, provided guidance to various Developers and Test analysts to resolve teh show stopper issues, Test data issues and updating teh day to day overall market status to Pegasus leadership.
• Involved in Scrum planning meetings. Coordinated between Product Owner, Development and QA teams.
• Involved in designing Test Automation Framework by coordinating with different Functional Testing Teams and Business Analysts.
• Performed Test data management (TDM), assisted several downstream applications by providing test data based on teh project needs.
• Involved in Test strategy, Sprint planning, Test plans and RUCS reviews.
• Involved in setting up QCoE for Pegasus migration projects and assisted QA team members in setting up best in class QA standards and delivered several QA artifacts on improving quality.
• Involved in QTP Automation framework, Automation strategy to bring in cost avoidance, HP QC 11.5 defect tracking, defining folder structure, release management and Reuse strategy.
• Facilitated teh Bug Review process for every sprint.
• Developed teh smoke test suite dat validates teh functional level of teh application whenever there is a new build in development environment. (Saves developers time to push teh build to QA environment with confidence)

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead full life-cycle project test management efforts for new and existing application development initiatives using teh Amex standard SDLC procedures from project initiation to close-out.
• Establish strategic project goals, timelines, resource utilization, and performance criteria for project team activities to meet and/or exceed client expectations.
• Validating teh test scripts developed by teh peers/ Automation test developers for test coverage and format adherence.
• Identifying functional areas and charting out teh functions to be developed and repositories to use
• Developed teh scripts using VB scripting (QTP Automation)
• Involved in Test scripts reviews, HP QC defect tracking, QTP automation scripts execution and reporting and Clarity forecasting.
• Effective utilization of Quality Center as Test management tool for both Functional and test automation projects.
• Facilitating teh Bug Review process for every build
• Participating in Core Team meetings to review teh test coverage and Application Quality
• Developed teh smoke test suite dat validates teh functional level of teh application whenever there is a new build in development environment.

Confidential, Miramar, Florida

Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Authored Automation Framework Design document.
• Involved in Designing Test Automation Framework by coordinating with different Functional Testing Teams and Business Analysts.
• Knowledge Transfer on teh Application from Business Development team and Functional Testing point of Contacts to analyze teh redundancies and gaps
• Designing teh spreadsheets dat allow teh flow of teh data and teh object information for a particular functional scenario. Building Object Repository (Descriptive Programming), Function Libraries and Error Handling concepts
• Determining teh Scope of Testing/ Validations to be inserted in teh automation scripts and preparing teh automation test coverage report to Functional testing team leads.
• Test Script review Development of test scripts for Functional test scenarios and Parameterization of test cases using Spread Sheets. Extensively Descriptive Programming performed to develop teh Automation scripts using VB Scripting and integrated with HPQC.
• Developed Test Scripts sent to client side POC for review

Confidential

Tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design, Build, Unit/Component testing, Functional and Nonfunctional testing and Regression testing.
• Gather teh requirements from teh BA and prepare teh low level and high level design.
• Identification of Functional Test Cases to be automated
• Designing of Descriptive Object Repository and Function Libraries.
• Development of test scripts for Functional test cases, Function Libraries and parameterization of test cases using Spread Sheets.
• Maintenance of Test Scripts if required and Execution of Test Scripts from Quality Center
• Involved in unit testing, SIT and UAT testing using IBM Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, DB2/IMS.
• Design, develop and execute test cases using Quality center.
• Prepare SIT test conditions and Unit test scripts. Involved in SIT and UAT testing.
• Participate in Implementation and post implementation activities including 90 day warranty.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in code development, unit testing, and integration and user acceptance IBM Mainframe, COBOL, and VSAM.
• Involved in preparation of Test conditions and Test cases and executed them in Test link.
• Performed Smoke testing and Regression testing for fixes released during Integration Testing phase.
• Analyze identified business scenarios and build supporting test cases.