SUMMARY

• Seasoned and accomplished IT/management professional with an extensive 11 years of background in Test Automation, Quality Assurance, project management, and business analysis in the software industry.
• Hands - on experience in developing automation architecture with proven ability to implement automation initiatives, frameworks, lead and improve testing processes, reduce defects and improve overall efficiency and risk mitigation.
• Highly adept at developing and implementing test strategies, operational procedures and quality methodologies to support development and release of business applications.
• Adaptive to shaping test strategies for multiple projects that require alignment to aggressive deliverables such as agile, waterfall, or hybrid. Experience in the integration and testing of third- party software.
• Led test teams (offshore/onshore) at multiple time zones and delivered several projects with high quality on time.
• Guided and participated in many project documents, design and code reviews
• Collaborated with management, product and developers to troubleshoot wide-ranging issues, including server efficiency, site stability, customer relations and overall technical approach
• Proficient in test automation and continuous delivery of web applications, client server applications, web services/APIs, cloud applications, Amazon web services (aws) ec2 and s3, ruby on rails and customer information system
• Design and development of automated test frameworks preferably in Perl, Ruby, Java and Shell/Linux development environment
• Excellent skills in defining/analysis of business requirements, use cases, functional, non-functional requirements and systems design specification
• Highly proficient in ad-hoc, unit, functional, GUI, regression, data driven, integration, system, compatibility, performance and user acceptance testing. Experienced in ETL testing, database testing and all kinds of back end validation
• Received consistently favorable evaluations from supervisors and excellent VOC’s (voice of customer) from clients
• Self starter with excellent analytical skills, communication skills, work ethics, a quick learner and an effective team player
• Good knowledge of CMM levels, 6-sigma, ISO standards and SOX compliance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, OS X, Mainframe, OS400, Windows

Languages: Perl, UNIX Shell, Java, Ruby, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, VB Scripting

Database: Mongo DB, HIVE, HQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server 2005

Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, Jmeter, QTP 8.2/9.5, Empirix e-Tester, MS- Excel (Macro), iSeries (Macro), SOAtest9.0, SoapUI 4.0

Version: GIT, SVN, Rational Clear Case 7.0, Visual Source Safe (VSS), SharePoint, TFS 9.0

Defects reporting and Tracking Tool: Rally, JIRA, Quality Center 9.2/9.0/8., Test Director 7.0, Rational Clear Quest 7.0, Task Manager

Others: Cloud - Amazon s3, EC2, Hadoop, Streaming, HIVE, Oracle VM Virtual Box 4.1.2, iRise Reader, Rational Req Pro 7.0,Putty, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD, Crystal Reports, AS400, SQL/400, GHTester, Fitnesse, LogMiner, Valium, Fiddler, Test Rail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Senior Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated seamlessly within Agile / Scrum environments with daily stand-ups, sprints and release cycles
• Involved in design reviews, code reviews, walkthroughs and risk analysis
• Created/reviewed JIRA tickets (story/defect/enhancement/tasks) etc. and helped team to deliver small/working products and iterate fast
• Involved in backlog grooming and defect review meetings to prioritize business/partner needs
• Reviewed/wrote Test Plan, Test Cases and developed automated test scripts as per user stories, business requirement docs, design doc and/or wire frames
• Responsible for manual and automated testing of WebServices and YPA UI (Functional, Web services, Integration, Regression and Performance)
• Involved in continuous integration/deployment CI/CD, pipelines improvement, code deployment and build management
• Designed and developed test automation framework in Perl for verification of XML/JSON response
• Supported enhancement and maintenance of homegrown tools and automation scripts
• Provided support for release launch i.e. production deployment, spot check, monitoring and graphing
• Designed and implemented performance test plans
• Ran production scrapes to determine advertisement and web results depth and coverage
• Measured and validated system performance requirements via automated test development
• Reported performance issues related to configuration, application and middleware and drive issues to successful resolution

Environment: JIRA, Jive, GIT, Linux, Perl, Shell, CI/CD, Jenkins, Functional/Performance/Regression Testing, XML, JSON, API/Web Services, Eclipse, Java, WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Sauce Labs, HTML, JavaScript, some homegrown tools- yinst, yperf, yamas, atlas, etc.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Management, Test planning, Resource planning & Walkthroughs, Release Management, Risk analysis, Point-to-Point Coordination
• Used Rally (Agile Project Management tool) for creating User Stories, Test Cases, tracking Defects
• Wrote Test Plan, Test Cases and developed automated test scripts as per user stories, business requirement docs, design doc and/or wire frames.
• Verification of catalog ingestion process on Hadoop cluster built on AWS EC2
• Test cases execution by submitting batch jobs written in ruby
• Validation of file layout, data mapping and translation in JSON files
• Developed Automated Smoke Test and Regression Test suite for data validation in Ruby
• Good Knowledge of GIT workflow- branching, tagging, etc.
• Used SoapUI to test WebServices and automation of WebServices utilizing XPaths, response assertions, Schema assertions

Environment: Rally, Testing Approach-Grey Box /Black Box, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Cucumber, Mongo DB, Linux, Ruby, Amazon s3, EC2, Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.2, Putty, Hive, HQL, XML, JSON, REST and SOAP Web Services, WSDL, WADL, Web Services Add - ins on browsers, etc., SoapUI 4.0.1, Java, Flash/Action Script, eclipse, .Net, CSS, Ajax, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL, Windows XP, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MPP, Visio), SharePoint

Confidential

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the tool evaluation for testing of Web Services .e.g. GH Tester, SOAtest and Fitnesse
• Created project Schedule and effort estimatesfor using Microsoft Project Plan, Formulated & Developed effective Test Architecture per organizational needs
• Identifying regression test suite for WebServices maintained/used by the group-central services and interfaces to non-HLIT
• Validation of Web Methods-XML request and response using SoapUI,
• Tweaking of test scripts for parameterization, inserting checkpoints and outputting XML values, comparing output XML response with SQL results
• Reviewed BRD, HLD and LLD documents, involved in review of Business Requirement Documents, High Level Design Documents and Low Level Design Documents,
• Effort estimation, Onshore-Offshore co-ordination, mentoring and delegation of tasks, created/ reviewed Test Plans and Test Cases,
• Set up of Test Environments in AS400 system, validation of file layout, data mapping and translation in data files, created automated SQL scripts in AS400 for generating reports for data validation, verification of OAG messages sent/received via MQ Series
• Involved in Go-No Go decisions for software implementation
• Complying Software Quality assurance activities for each releases in line with the organization standards based on Six Sigma DMAIC method

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Testing Approach used were White Box and Black box as well, DB2/400, SQL/400, Query 400, AS400-RPG, iSeries Client Access v5.8, AS400, OS400 V5R2, iSeries Navigator, MQ Series, DBU, iSeries Macros using VBScript, SharePoint, Web Services Add - ins, WebServices, XML, WSDL 1.1/2.0, SOAP 1.1/1.2, Fitnesse, GH Tester, SOAtest 9.0, SoapUI3.5, JavaScript, LogMiner, Valium, TFS 9.0, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MPP, Visio), SQL Server2005

Confidential

QA Lead (Onsite-Offshore)

Responsibilities:

• Synthesized facts, concepts, and principles to deliver proof-of-concept at the proposal stage of the project.
• Actively involved with the project team in preparation of project plan and schedules.
• Aggressively involved in the requirements gathering and use cases reviews.
• Developed test architecture and strategies to optimize time, quality, and cost for system testing; verified requirements and validation of final system.
• Defined and implemented common structured testing process based on RUP used by independent test teams.
• Led various quality assurance initiatives by creating possible test scenarios and defect history logs for QA test environment, lowering defect rate significantly.

Environment: JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, Rational Suite (Clear Case 7.0, Requisite Pro7.0, Clear Quest 7.0), Quality Center 9.2, Testing Approach used were White Box and Black box as well, QTP 9.5, Macros, Oracle 10g, Oracle SQL Developer, DB2/400, SQL/400, Query 400, AS400-RPG, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), IBM PC, Windows XP, Browser (IE6.0), iSeries Client Access v5.8, AS400, OS400 V5R2

Confidential

Technical Associate- Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with VV&T managers, Development Team for information about work packages and schedules
• Evaluating Testability requirements and Test Planning
• Preparing Estimates for various work packages
• Distributing and Delegating the tasks to the team members
• Reviewing Test cases developed by team members
• Test Data and Test Environments maintenance
• Interfacing with development teams to resolve issues related to testing.
• Monitoring functional tests carried out by the team
• Attending Release meeting representing VV&T

Environment: IBM PC, Windows XP, Browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Opera), Apple Macintosh OS 9; Broad vision 5.5, Oracle 9i, Mainframe System CSS, WebServices and XML, Empirix E-Tester, QTP 8.2, Load Runner, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)