SUMMARY

• Technically sophisticated and Business - savvy, IT professional with 16 years of rich experience in Software Testing with a key focus on Project Management and delivering Functional and test automation services, strong noledge in Software QA Processes and Methodologies in the Finance, Banking sector, manufacturing, healthcare sectors.
• 2 years of direct client exposure, Worked with Confidential client(San Jose-California) through Confidential technologies and Handled a team of 10 members and played onshore lead role
• Over 6 years of ETL experience in analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of ETL and Business Intelligence solutions using ETL and BI tools, Informatica, Business Objects.
• Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proven ability in handling end-to-end projects from a client location, currently working in Financial Institution Handling the projects involves Test Automation (Selenium, Cucumber), Functional testing including localization testing, BO reports testing.
• Competent in managing testing projects in Automation Testing using Selenium Web driver, Web-based Functional Testing, Data Warehouse testing (ETL), Business Intelligence (BI) Reports testing using Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase testing and Web Services Testing
• Experience in designing and developing test plans for ETL unit testing and Integration testing.
• Experience in designing ETL mapping specifications part of ETL test activities using Informatica Power center and designer tools. And Managing ETL specification and supporting documentation.
• Leading Trade Surveillance and Financial Crimes portfolio from India for global distributed and Quality Assurance Engineer for E2E delivery along with strategic partners across globe
• Experience in designing and developing Test Automation using Selenium, Cucumber, Web Services Testing using SoapUI and API Testing.
• Expertise in developing, executing test plans, test strategies, test cases, test estimates, reviewing test cases based on business and functional requirements
• Experience in, preparing requirements traceability matrices & test reports, and bug tracking
• Good experience in Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum like facilitating release planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Retrospectives
• Possesses in-depth technical noledge in Data Warehousing, Data Validations, OLAP, Oracle, and ETL
• Experienced in Test Plan creation, Defect Management, documenting Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• 2 years of direct client interaction for Confidential account (California/San Jose) as Test Lead and experienced in handling projects from client location.
• Innovatively building Anti Money Laundering (AML) workflows to carry out investigations within the company
• Technically competent in business test scenarios with deep analysis on core modules for SAR (Suspicious Activity report)
• Profound expertise in planning and managing projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains
• Extensively worked in various Testing Methodologies as per Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including Agile SCRUM methodology
• Technically proficient in working with test management tools like HP and Rational; test automation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Manual & Automation Testing
• Data warehouse &ETL Testing
• API Testing
• Software Testing Software QA Processes & Methodologies
• Bug Management & Defect Reporting
• Functional Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Regression Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Release Management & Team Management
• Requirement Analysis
• Client Interactions
• Agile
• Scrum Methodologies
• Technical
• Selenium
• BDD Cucumber
• IntelliJ
• JIRA
• Confluence
• SOAPUI
• Postman
• SQLBusiness Objects
• Hyperion Essbase
• Informatica Power Center
• HP ALM
• Core JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensively working as Quality Assurance Lead and managing quality assurance activities at a financial institution ensuring timely release of the project with quality deliverables.
• Designing and maintaining automation Test scripts using Selenium
• Develop test scripts and continuously improve automated tests as new system features and enhancements are developed.
• Part of Digital Transformation, Adopted cloud automation using blue grid on Hybrid component page object model framework in Modernization project moving from remote execution to cloud execution
• Moving from traditional test management tool (ALM) to integrated development and project management tools like Jira.
• Successfully driven the QA modernization moving from traditional techniques to quick market ready testing
• Involved in successful implementation of CI/CD Jules pipeline ensuring major workflows are executed on every build process which includes API & UI features
• Spearheading multiple projects SAR/LOB/CAR and assuring timely project completion
• Validating new version of SAR 2.0 reporting to US Govt. with the highest quality
• Subject Matter expert in Anti Money Laundering(ALM)- Suspicious Activity Report,
• Interacting with onsite team leads and acting as a single point of contact for the quality assurance team for most critical functionalities
• Created and Maintained Automated test scripts in the form of feature files with Selenium Web driver framework
• Working on different kinds of testing Selenium web driver, functional testing - Cross browser testing, Localization testing (across NA, APAC, EMEA, Geneva, Saudi and Malaysia) communicating with users across all regions.
• Validate the APIs using Postman before developing the complete feature ensured the functionality is working as expected
• Designing and reviewing the automated test scripts in the form of feature files
• Key involvement in working with Agile methodology, active participation in all kinds of scrum activities.
• Active role involvement in developing/implementing processes and procedures to ensure the quality throughout the process
• Working with JIRA tool and tracking defects, maintaining the requirement updates and interacting with the teams
• Key analysis of functional specification documents for preparing test scenarios and writing test scripts for the automated test scripts
• Pivotal involvement in maintaining test scripts for regression modules and contributing for automation
• Performing a mélange of activities such as addressing issues and raising the defects in ALM, generating daily status reports, monitoring the teams work progress
• Responsible for preparing/reviewing test artifacts such as test plan, test approach, traceability, and defect tracking
• Driving the teams working on different interfaces across locations
• Played Scrum master role for 6 months and ran the Scrum team effectively as per the Agile standards
• Interacting with vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment of a project

Technical Test Lead

Confidential - San Jose - California

Responsibilities:

• Working as Team Lead and responsible for leading the testing projects for ICPM project from Onshore and offshore model
• Worked as ETL and BI Test Lead and played as onsite Co-coordinator and leading offshore project and managing team
• Experience in Client facing for 2 years and handled the projects in multiple releases
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Data warehousing, Data Mart, ETL, BI, Informatica, OLAP by testing multiple source data feeds for ETL and BI group
• Experience in validating data using sql queries on data staging tables and warehouse tables to validate the data results
• Experience in writing sql queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validating business rules for testing activities
• Writing Test automation scripts using selenium for regression suits and maintained the scripts as per the enhancements
• Involved in preparation and review of Test Artifacts(Test Plan, Test Approach, Traceability, Defect trackers).
• Responsible for validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using Informatica Power Center, sql and Unix
• Preparing Daily Status Reports and Trackers.
• Communicates and understands cross-functional dependencies
• Interacting with the teams working on different interfaces and across locations. Manage Upstream and Downstream Dependencies
• Addressing issues and raising the defects in ALM accordingly to the development team
• Coordinated with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment of a single project

Sr Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled a team worked as onsite co-coordinator and prepared test scenarios as per the functional specification document
• Provided robust data analysis capabilities to detect the root cause of the issues and relevant resolution. to customers
• Cultivated a collaborative working environment and a culture of ownership with a growing team
• Instrumental in preparing/reviewing test artifacts like test plan, test approach, traceability, and tracking defects
• Prepared daily work status reports and tracked the same
• Maintained quality standards as well as enforced technical and testing standards
• Key involvement in managing the upstream/downstream dependencies
• Addressed issues and raised defects in Test Director accordingly to the development team.
• Extensively involved in interacting with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for successful development, testing and deployment of a project
• Carried out validation of target data in data warehouse and data marts in the transformation and loading using Informatica Power Center and Unix.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in a wide range of activities such as preparing test cases, analyzing the requirement documents, identifying/resolving the issues, migrating the data, maintaining the issue log for the defects and so on
• Assured team members adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined
• Attended conference calls with onsite teams and interacted with the development team to resolve bugs
• Worked with Quality Center, uploading/executing test cases, and raising the defects
• Responsible for performing code merge activities, the different release of the application, validating data for source/target tables
• Executed workflows in Informatica workflow manager
• Performed job monitoring using Informatica workflow monitor and $U job monitor