SUMMARY:

• Over 12 Years of experience in Project/Test Management, and Software/ Product Testing. Sound knowledge in preparing Test Strategies and managing Data Centre Migration testing, UAT, ETL testing, Data Warehouse testing and Automation testing
• Over 5 years of experience in Project/Test Management, includes managing project test life cycle from Initiation to completion, resource management, and stakeholder management
• Extensive experience in Software testing using both manual and automated testing using various tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP 9.0/9.2/11.0 )
• Good working knowledge of using Win Runner, Test partner, QTP and Selenium WebDriver, Junit/ JTest/ JMeter with Java/PHP Bindings
• Good hands on working experience of using Management & Defect tracking tools like Bugzilla, Quality Center9.2/10.0, ALM 11.0, Test Director, Jira and SharePoint.
• Possess Sound domain knowledge like HeathCare (ACA/ObamaCare), Retail, Banking, Finance etc
• Experienced in working in various automation framework models like Hybrid, Keyword - Driven, Data Driven, Script Modularity and Object Oriented Framework
• Experience as Unit Tester and Programmer - Visual Basic, .NET and Java
• Managed projects using various models like SaaS (Software As A Service) model, Managed Services model, Staff Augmentation etc.
• Managed large testing programs using both Onsite, Offshore and Onsite/Offshore models which involved various testing types like Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation testing, Performance Testing, Security Testing, Failover Testing and Cutover Testing.
• Having a good testing knowledge on JAVA/VB/.Net/ and Mainframe systems (Windows and UNIX platforms) applications.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project.
• Designing and Executing ETL tests and Data warehouse - migration, Oracle with Toad (Ab-Initio and BizTalk)
• Worked as a SME on Medicaid, APTC, QHP, WRAP/CSR, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, MediGap, HIPAA, HL7, EDI Transactions and all other compliances
• Carried out HIPAA standard EDI transactions, ICD 9/10 testing activities as a Lead QA.
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Good working knowledge of performance testing using Load Runner - VuGen
• Have good hands on C++/Unix-Shell and Java/Javascripting/VB scripting
• Good exposure on Cucumber, FitNesse etc.
• Expertise in Test planning, Design, Execution & Defect tracking, Test Summary and Validation Reports, Metrics
• Well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) V-Model, Agile - Scrum and Waterfall, TCoE models of applications.
• Having good working knowledge on developing reusable components of MS-Excel using VB/VBscript.
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills with strong communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: WinRunner, Rational Robot, Selenium, Test Harness, QTP, LoadRunner Nessus, Beyond Compare, Autosys and CA7 Scheduler, SOAP UI

Test Management Tool: Test Director, Jira, Quality Centre, ALM and Citrix.

Languages: C, C++, .Net, PHP and JAVA (Core, Advanced, Spring)

Operating Systems: WINDOWS-98/XP/8,2000, Unix and MS-DOS

Data Base: Oracle, SQL

GUI: Visual Basic

Web Tools: Html, VBScript/Javascript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Test Solution Architect / UAT Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on various roles like UAT Test Lead and Automation Test Solution Architect for MA-HIX Individual portals
• Worked with Technical Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Release Managers, Support Teams to understand and agree on the scope of the projects for the testing releases
• Managing a team size of 10 UAT resources as part of MA HIX Individual portal
• Worked on Data Analysis techniques for generating the UAT Test Data as part of performing the UAT
• Worked closely with MA State stakeholders as part of carrying out UAT
• Was the Automation Pioneer to commence the thought of Automating the Individual Portal and succeeded in bringing up the Automation suite into usage for Manual testers in just 30 days.
• Setting up Automation Framework and building the automation test suite for regression testing of Individual portal, using Selenium Webdriver 2.0 (Java as background language)
• Performing Database checks for each of the EDI (834’s) and Notices processing using Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle DB.
• Testing Webservices using SOAP UI.
• Worked as a SME on Eligibility Determination Module determining the MassHealth (Medicaid), APTC, QHP and WRAP (ConnectorCare) eligibilities.
• Was part of the Production Support Team involving reviewing of production defects and helping the dev team identify the Root Cause.
• Managing Testing of production defects as part of on-call support
• Coordinating with BA’s, State Stakeholders and Dev Solution Architect whilst performing the Live Testing
• Working with BA’s for understanding the Requirements related to the CR’s and enabling to update the FDD’s wherever a gap in understanding is identified
• Managing the RQM and RTC tools for Test Deliverables
• Coordinating with Release Managers team for understanding the CR’s Vs FDD mapping to help organize the plan and roadmap for testing and its deliverables
• Preparing the Test Plan and Test Report of the test deliverables for each release
• Estimating the test deliverables based on CR’s logged by state and organizing and planning the test deliverables based on approved effort from state
• Publishing the DTS reports to the key stakeholders during test execution phase by capturing relevant metrics (Test Execution Summary, DRR, DSI etc)

Environment: Oracle, Java, Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2.0), Firefox (with plugins: Selenium IDE, Firebug, Firepath), Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari, HIPPA, ICD 9/10 Compliance, Windows 7/XP, Unix, Toad, ALM, Jira, SOAP UI

Confidential, Washington DC

Test Solution Architect:

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Test Solution Architect for Treliant Solutions Product designed for Banking/Finance Solutions.
• Worked from scratch in this project tenure and helped put in a Road-Map for the testing solutions implementation.
• Designed a Master Test Plan along with a Test Strategy document for getting the Testing processes and solutions to be implemented in the project
• Worked as a tester for testing the Treliant Solution product and on an average reported 5 critical defects as part of 2 Hr test execution cycle per day
• Setting up Automation Framework and building the automation test suite for regression testing of Individual portal, using Selenium Webdriver 2.0 (Java as background language)
• Testing Webservices using SOAP UI
• Participated in daily standup meetings and provided valuable feedback to the end client on the product stability and feedback
• Coordinating with BA’s, State Stakeholders and Dev Solution Architect whilst performing the Testing activities
• Estimating the test deliverables based on CR’s logged by state and organizing and planning the test deliverables based on approved effort from state

Environment: DB2, .Net, Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2.0), Firefox (with plugins: Selenium IDE, Firebug, Firepath), Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome and Safari,, Windows 7/XP, SOAP UI

Confidential, NYSOH

Automation Project Lead/Manager:

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various roles like Manual Tester, Test Lead and Automation Project Manager for Individual, SHOP & CS portals
• Worked with Technical Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Release Managers, Ops Team to understand and agree on the scope of the projects for the testing releases
• Managing a team size of 21 resources as part of Individual/SHOP and CS portals, inclusive of UAT resources
• Performed UAT using Data Analysis techniques
• Worked as Interface/Manual/Automation Test Lead for SHOP and Individual portals
• Setting up Automation Framework and building the automation test suite for regression testing of Individual portal, using Selenium Webdriver 2.0 (Java as background language)
• Performing Database checks for each of the EDI (834’s) and Notices processing using Toad and DB2.
• Testing Webservices using SOAP UI.
• Worked as a SME on Medicaid MMC/FFS, APTC PP/CSR, CHP, QHP, MediGap, HIPAA, HL7, EDI Transactions and all other compliances
• Carried out HIPAA standard EDI transactions, ICD 9/10 testing activities
• Reviewing SQL’s and recommending best practices along identifying any missing conditions within the SQL’s used to generate reports for the Governor.
• Planning and scheduling the resources for on-call support for testing the production defects
• Managing Testing of production defects as part of on-call support
• Coordinating with BA’s, State Stakeholders and Dev Solution Architect whilst performing the Live Testing
• Working with BA’s for understanding the Requirements related to the CR’s and enabling to update the FDD’s wherever a gap in understanding is identified
• Managing the RQM and RTC tools for Test Deliverables
• Coordinating with Release Managers team for understanding the CR’s Vs FDD mapping to help organize the plan and roadmap for testing and its deliverables
• Preparing the Test Plan and Test Report of the test deliverables for each release
• Estimating the test deliverables based on CR’s logged by state and organizing and planning the test deliverables based on approved effort from state
• Publishing the DTS reports to the key stakeholders during test execution phase by capturing relevant metrics (Test Execution Summary, DRR, DSI etc)

Environment: DB2, Java, Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2.0), Firefox (with plugins: Selenium IDE, Firebug, Firepath), Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome and Safari, HL7 Messaging, HIPPA, ICD 9/10 Compliance, Windows 7/XP, Unix, Toad, RQM, RTC, SOAP UI, EDI

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Automation Test Lead/Manager:

Responsibilities:

• Operating in 16X5 support window.
• Working with Technical Architects, Business Analysts, Project Managers to understand and agree on the scope of the projects for the testing releases
• Worked on PoC (Proof of Concepts) for HP SaaS QC project and supported the BDM’s achieve a long term contract
• Managed successful migration of QC 9.2 to ALM 11.0 and QTP 10 to UFT.
• Managed Administration activities as part of migration and support activities in the project.
• Worked on Capacity Vs Demand and managed the project needs by effective resourcing
• Worked on estimating the effort required for migrating QC projects to ALM and supported the Org to materialize the same into an SoW (Statement of Work)
• Organized FDR’s (Formal Delivery Review’s) with both the team and Sr. Management for understanding the status and also for minimizing any communication gaps both with Internal and External stakeholders
• Liaising with HP Customer Support, Wintel Cloud Support Teams for resolving dependent/complex tickets assigned to the team
• Conducted PII Compliance testing and ensured the PII data was encrypted when being circulated internally
• Performed testing in Compliant with HIPAA regulations
• Keep track of licensing expiry and coordinate with Sr. Management and relevant customer support for license renewals
• Analysis, creating and executing test plans in HP Quality Center
• Conducted performance evaluation using JMeter
• Conducting Functional/ Integration/ System/ Regression testing / Automation Testing using both Selenium 2.0 & QTP 11.0 (UFT) using Hybrid Framework
• Worked in Agile Methodology for quick solutions
• Identify new solutions and Automating the migration process
• Working closely with Development, BA and Data Quality, QA teams and validate Data quality
• Creating quality assurance documents like Traceability matrix, Defect trend charts and metric reports
• Designing and executing automation, Defect reporting & tracking using Quality Center11.0

Environment: Oracle 11i, Java JDK, VMware, Tortoise SVN, Jenkins, ALM 11.0, QTP 11.0, UFT 11.5, Framework-Selenium2Library, Database Library, Rational Clear Case, Excel Library, Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2.0), JMeter, Firefox (with plugins: Selenium IDE, Firebug, Firepath), Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome and Safari, Windows 2000/NT/XP/8, UNIX (putty), Cloud

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Automation/UAT Test Lead:

Responsibilities:

• Working with business analysts to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements
• Performed UAT using Data Analysis Techniques and worked with direct customers to understand the user stories required as part of UAT
• Conducted evaluation and Tool Feasibility for the application using the tools, Selenium, QTP, JUnit, JMeter, HTTPUnit, and WebLoad
• Automated the Base Module using Selenium Webdriver (Selenium 2.0) with Java/PHP Bindings
• Integrated Selenium automated tests with WebLoad tests
• Managed teams comprising of Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Performance Testing and Platform Testing as part of Managed Services model
• Worked in Agile Methodology for quick solutions
• Webservices (SOA) testing for ensuring the data passed is of standard expected quality
• Conducting Functional/ Integration/ System/ End to End/ Regression testing for the software product under varying environments and analysing the behaviour of the system (SIT/UAT)
• Working closely with Development, BA and Data Quality, QA teams and validate the Build Testing
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and Publishing different kinds of Quality metrics
• Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management
• Automated the Functional automation suite using WebLoad and also conducted performance testing using WebLoad
• Creating quality assurance documents like Traceability matrix, Defect trend charts and metric reports
• Defect reporting & tracking using Quality Center9.2
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project
• Closely coordinated with offshore team for delivery compliance

Environment: Oracle 10g, 11i with IDM (IBM), SQL, Quality Center 9.2, QTP10.0, UFT 11.0/11.5, Selenium 2.0, WebLoad, Jmeter, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Unix, Solaris, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE, Jira, Rational Clear Case, Bugzilla, VSS, Linux

Confidential,

Automation Test Lead:

Responsibilities:

• End to End Evaluation of Testing Requirements and Propose a Test Strategy
• Managed the overall Testing Program for the Data centre Migration testing which included Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Performance Testing, Security Testing, DB/Network Failover Testing and Cutover Testing
• Propose all the testing types to be planned and performed and executed the same. Designed the overall project master test plan
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and Publishing different kinds of Quality metrics
• Coordinating with all the dependent teams and lining them up according to the test schedules
• Analysing complex problem and identify potential solutions and Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks
• Estimating the effort required for various tasks and coordinating with PM and offshore managers for lining the resources
• Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management.
• Working with business analysis function to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements.
• Coordinating and help set up the network transmissions between Load Controller and Load Generators. This also involved exchange of IP’s between security teams of both client and vendor.
• Drove the essence of working with all dependent 3rd Party Services (CommIdea (Bank Card Service), Red (Fraud Service), Certona (Recommendations Service), Synertec (Invoice Re-print service), Fredhopper (Search Service), SMS Service) and aligned them to testing phases by analyzing the test/Live services
• Creating quality assurance documents like Traceability matrix, Defect trend charts and metric reports
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / Test artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers(Offshore/Onshore delivery model)
• Conducting Functional/Performance/Security/Network/DB Failover and Cutover testing for the software product under varying environments and analysing the behaviour of the system
• Defect reporting & tracking using Quality Center9.2
• Handling communication and coordination effectively whilst working in Onshore/Offshore delivery model

Environment: SQL Server, Oracle (Data Centre), LDAP, Windows 2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Quality Centre 9.2, FitNesse, Nessus, LoadRunner 6, IP ports/Proxy/Load Balancers, Team Quest, Checkpoint SecuRemote NGX R60, Weblogic 10, ATG 2007, Fitnesse, Jenkins, Adobe CQ

Confidential

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Testing the staging files generated and loading the same to target using Ab-Initio
• SOA Webservices testing for ensuring the data passed is of standard expected quality
• Working closely with Development, BA, Release, QA and Support teams
• Preparing the Batch runs and executing them as part of testing
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and Publishing different kinds of Quality metrics
• Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management.
• Working with business analysis function to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements.
• Creating quality assurance documents like Traceability matrix, Defect trend charts and metric reports.
• Designing and executing automation on Selenium, Defect reporting & tracking using Quality Center9.2
• Implemented Agile Scrum for quick solutions and V-Model Methodology for ETL
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project
• Designing and executing of QTP automation scripts
• Automation framework model: Created Automation scripts in data driven Automation
• Automation framework model: Developed Modular driven model using QTP tool.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.0, Autosys, CA7 Scheduler, Ab-Initio, BizTalk, Windows 2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Oracle with CA Unicenter Station, Test Harness, Silk Performer, Rational Clear Case, BeyondCompare

Confidential

Sr. Automation Tester:

Responsibilities:

• Creating Automation Test sets using the tool Test Harness128.2 / QTP
• Tested XML templates designed in Java API’S for functionality in DOM application
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testing teams.
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard Confidential the end of a phase and Confidential the completion of project.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements (CR’s) of the Project.
• Worked in Agile Methodology for quick solutions
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager
• Defect reporting & tracking tools like Quality Center9.2

Environment: Quality Centre 9.0, Test Harness, and QTP 9.0, Windows 2000/NT/XP, XML, Oracle 10g, Toad

Confidential

Sr. Automation Tester:

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly, Test summary etc.) to the Client
• Conducted Java Code Modification using the JTest tool
• Created the Automation scripts using Win Runner/QTP
• Creating scripts having exceptions using Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP
• Creating object repositories using QTP
• Conducted Performance Testing using Load Runner / Silk Performer
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting along with the project manager
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testing team
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard Confidential the end of a phase and Confidential the completion of project
• Creating and Running Automation Scripts on Test partner and developing business functions
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / Test artifacts is documented and maintained
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents
• Defect reporting & tracking tools like Jira

Environment: Bugzilla, Jira and Test Director 8, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Citrix, Java, .Net, VB Script, WinRunner 7/8, QTP 7, Oracle

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. Automation Tester:

Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements Check / Review the Test Cases documents
• Creating and Executing the test cases both manually and through automation using the tool WinRunner
• Creating Library functions, Startup scripts, and GUI Map using WinRunner
• Creating scripts to handle Exception scenario’s using WinRunner
• Creating the Traceability matrix for tracking the requirements
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Designing and coordinating the implementation and availability of the QA test environments, and ensure compatibility of testing.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly, Test summary etc.) to the Client
• Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project

Environment: Test Director, VB, HTML/ Java, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Unix, Oracle