SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience in IT Test Automation Development & Management
• Skilled in establishing and managing Test Automation Strategy for various projects
• Worked in Functional Test Automation (Mainframes/ GUI based) & SOA Test Automation
• Expert in WinRunner, QTP, iTKO LISA & Unisys Mainframe ACONS (Automated Console Scripting)
• Experience in EDI Testing/Automation and have validated EDI X12 Files (834, 835, 837 & 278) using tools like TIBCO Foresight HIPAA Validator, EDINotepad & ITKO LISA.
• Expertise in Tools evaluation, Test Automation Feasibility Analysis, Developing & implementing various types of Test Automation tools and frameworks.
• Expert in virtualizing & testing Web Services, ESB & Other Middleware technologies using ITKO LISA/SOAP UI.
• Experience in software development using ASP, HTA, Beanshell, SQL Server & Oracle.
• Extensive knowledge in Cloud computing architectures and is a certified solution advisor
• Experience in tools like, TestPartner, DeviceAnyWhere product (Mobile Test Automation) and LoadRunner.
• Extensive domain experience in Banking and Health care.
• Excellent interpersonal and technical skills with a sharp acumen for understanding and grasping the various needs of businesses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL server, Oracle, HTML, ASP, C, C++, VBScript, HTA, Java, Beanshell, Groovy

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i

Operating Systems: Windows NT / Window 95 / Windows 2000 / Linux /Unisys Series OS 1100/2200 mainframe

Test Automation Tools: WinRunner 7.6, LoadRunner 7.0, QTP 10.0, TestPartner 6.0, Quality Center 10.0, Unisys Mainframe ACONs (Automated Console Scripting), TOAD, iTKO LISA Test 5.0, DeviceAnywhere product

Methodologies/Software: Waterfall, AGILE, Roboform, Fiddler

Source Control: Microsoft SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Sr. Quality Professional/Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application.
• Conducted Feasibility analysis on the system to determine the suitable test automation candidates
• Creation/Maintenance of Hybrid test automation framework for functional testing using QTP
• Creation/Maintenance of test automation framework for database validation & web service testing using iTKO LISA Test.
• Integrated QTP and iTKO LISA Test tool using Automation Object Model (AOM)
• Integrated QTP and iTKO LISA test automation frameworks with test management tool (i.e., Quality Center).
• Performed complex XML validations using iTKO LISA & XPATH expressions.
• Developed HTA (HTML Application) screens and integrated with the iTKO LISA frame work to enhance user - friendliness & efficient test script maintenance across various test environments.
• Used BeanShell scripting to automate some of the complete scenarios using iTKO LISA.
• Designed/Implemented ITKO LISA framework to validate EDI X12 files (837, 835 & 278) for various projects.
• Used SOAP-UI tool to load data into an test environment via web service(s) and enhanced it using GROOVY scripting.
• Created an test automation framework/PoC using HP UFT and Perfecto Mobile Cloud add-in to automate mobile testing scenarios and integrated the results into HP ALM.
• Inducting and managing test automation resources.
• Status reporting to the client

Environment: Windows Professional, PowerBuilder, Oracle, IBM Web sphere MQ, JAVA

Confidential, New York

Senior Programmer/Quality Professional

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application.
• Conducted Feasibility analysis on the system to determine the suitable test automation.
• Creation of test plan & cases based on Functional design document
• Generated Membership Enrollment (834) X12 files to perform Intel Express Service Gateway Testing.
• Tested 843 X12 files using TIBCO Foresight to validate the membership enrollment functionality.
• Trained other QA resources in EDI X12 files and provided guidance & support to test the EDI files successfully.
• Created a SOAPUI framework using GROOVY scripting to automation web services testing as a part of CMS Wave 1 testing.
• Status reporting to the client

Environment: Windows Professional, Java, DB2LUW, Intel Express Service Gateway (ESG).

Confidential, Raleigh North Carolina

Automation Architect / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application.
• Preparation of Feasibility Analysis document for Test automation
• Involved in creation of Low level and high level test automation strategy documents.
• Creation of Test automation framework using data driven and keyword driven scripting techniques
• Designing automation framework using OR/Descriptive Programming approach based on applications.
• Creation of automation scripts using the designed framework
• Worked with QTP Web Test addin to automate web pages and QTP Terminal Emulator addin to automate IBM 3270 screens.
• Worked with iTKO LISA Test to automate SOA based applications. Tested TIBCO Webservices using iTKO LISA Test and also implemented monitors in iTKO LISA Validate i.e., Continuous Validation Service (CVS)
• Has been part of virtualizing third party credit bureaus external services for testing environment using iTKO LISA Virtualize.
• Has also performed feasibility study to use DeviceAnywhere Test Automation product to automate the Confidential &T Mobile based applications. Proof of concept is being developed.
• Has done a tool evaluation for CAST product to determine the quality index of the software code being developed.
• Has done throw-away automation using open source tools like Fiddler, RoboForm.
• Has done a Proof of Concept (PoC) and automated test cases for an web based application using TestPartner 6.0
• Inducting and managing test automation resources
• Status reporting to the client

Environment: Windows Professional, .NET, HTML, ASP, IBM Mainframe, JAVA

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathered to prepare the Test wares.
• High level and Low level Test Automation Strategy Preparation.
• Preparation of ECL (Executive Control Language) statements
• Developing of Unisys Mainframe ACONs (Automated Console Scripting) scripts to automate various business scenarios.
• Performed System testing and Volume System testing by executing the ACONs.
• Coordinated with other banks and supported Industry Testing and Performance testing
• Status reporting to the management and client

Environnent: Unisys 2200 Mainframe, COBEdit, TOAD, Unisys ACONs

Confidential

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathered to prepare the Test wares.
• High level and Low level Test Strategy Preparation.
• Automation Test Case Preparation.
• Developed Automation framework (Keyword driven) for functional and shakedown testing
• Involved in Developing and Executing the Automation Regression Test Suite
• Building Library function and creating reusable components
• Maintaining Coding Standard document.
• Worked with Web Test addin to automate web pages and Terminal Emulator addin to automate IBM 3270 screens.
• Also playing the role of Backup PL
• Client Interaction.
• Status Reporting to Management and Client.

Environment: Windows Professional, Java, HTML, Oracle, COOL: GEN, IBM Mainframe

Confidential

Test Automation Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis/Review.
• Preparation of test scenarios
• Preparation of driver scripts/ action scripts/ utility scripts and user defined functions using WinRunner 7.0.
• Involved in defect status reporting, Prepare bug summary reports

Environment: Windows 2000 with MDAC 2.6, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Oracle 9i, WinRunner 7.0.

Confidential

Sofware/QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis/Review
• Developed the application using ASP and SQL Server
• Preparation of test scenarios
• Preparation of driver scripts/ action scripts/ utility scripts and user defined functions using WinRunner 7.0.
• Developed automation test scripts using LoadRunner 7.0
• Involved in defect status reporting, Prepare bug summary reports

Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Visual Basic, MS SQL Server 7.0