SUMMARY

• Associate is an ISEB ISTQB certified in Foundation of Software Testing and having around 8+ years of Progressive experience as QA Automation Engineer/Lead. As part of his assignments, he has been involved in Leading a Team, Requirement Analysis, Functional Studies, Quality Reviews and Testing, Environment Management and Co - ordination, Test automation development, specifically using Selenium, Perl/Shell Scripting.
• Expertise in designing and development of automation test best/application build and deployment solution on multi-platform Using Shell/Perl scripting.
• Developed automation frame work using shell scripting to capture application level performance and O/S performance and have good Knowledge in SDLC (RUP, V-Model, Agile, and Waterfall).
• Extensively involved in using LoadRunner for performance testing for AMEX STAR rewards applications which is developed based on oracle forms and also extensively involved in testing web service calls from ISL which is secured layer for STAR application communication with upstream and downstream applications like MYCA/VRS etc.,
• Expert in generating automation framework for web applications using Selenium.
• Expert in developing using Selenium (Java), in which, test data class was created to fetch data through scripting.
• Setting up Selenium in the Test Environment, deploy and run the scripts in as part of the build and generate automated test reports for test runs.
• Technical lead and heading off-shore team of 8 and manage the overall planning for IT operations and provide recommendations to improve processes and expertise in handling more than one project at a time.
• Involved in Resource planning/loading, setting up cost plan in CA clarity Tool and Responsible for tracking/updating project Cost Plan Actuals and forecasting and publishing fort-nightly status on the same with VP technologies.
• Expertise in performing QA Automation methods such as (black box testing, regression testing, functional testing, security testing, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing UAT) to ensure the software Quality Dimensions like (Reliability, Functionality, Performance and Usability).
• Well versed with QA process like kick-off project, setting up cost plan, resource plan, writing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Generating Test report, publishing QA metrics and initiating sing-off in on phase by phase.
• In-depth knowledge of data mapping, warehousing tools, unit testing, and process documentation.
• Expertise in HP Quality Center and responsible for generating test execution status reports and preparing test summary report. Apart involved in reporting and tracking for defects and defect management by using Defect Tracking Tools like HP QC.
• Expertise in ETL and Batch Testing.
• Expertise in setting up/Configuring test bed on various UNIX O/S flavors. (Solaris 10, HP-UX, AIX, RHEL)And got hands on installing databases like oracle and Sybase on UNIX system and troubleshooting the same.
• Have hands on as Environment coordinator (Manage IT infrastructure and operations) and Continuous integration tools and deployment automation.
• Expertise in product installation and Database installations on UNIX systems (Solaris 10, RHEL, HP-UX and AIX) and ability to work on IPV6.
• Hands on experience in Database Testing (Black box and White Box Testing) and extensively involved in writing complex queries for application data validations. Derived own queries to dump the data into database to test the performance of the stored procedures.
• Extensively involved in using SQL loader for loading bulk data for application load testing and validations for data capture for web services.
• Expensively involved in Testing core CA workload automation Autosys product R11.0 /R11.3

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS Windows 2K3/XP/2008, LINUX (RHEL, SUSE), HPUX 11.21/11.31 AIX 5.3/6.1

Relational Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, Sybase 12x/15x, MSSQL Server 2005/2008

Database Related: PL/SQL Stored Procedures, TOAD and SQL Developer

Testing Tools: Selenium, LoadRunner 9.5, QTP, Win Runner, VSTS, and SoapUI

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center 10/11, Team Track, STAR and Web CQ

Version Control: Visual Source Safe (VSS)

Programming Languages: C++ and Core Java

Web Languages/Scripts: Perl, shell, VBScript, XML, JavaScript

VM Tools: VMware Workstation

Application servers: Weblogic, Apache Tomcat

Data Warehousing Tools: Informatica 8.1

Unit Testing: JUNIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Lead Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed new test scripts in Perl scripts to capture application performance metrics.
• Provided inputs for non-functional requirements and develop shell script for capturing O/S and application level performance metrics.
• Responsible for developing a dynamic framework which could automate all the test cases for few areas of MYCA application by using Selenium.
• Setting up Selenium in the Test Environment, deploy and run the scripts in as part of the build and generate automated test reports for test runs
• Developed test scripts using Selenium (Java), in which, test data class was created to fetch data through scripting.
• Responsible for monitoring, extracting data from STAR via B2B scripts developed in informatica and validate against STAR database using complex queries.
• Responsible for file layout validations generated via B2B scripts and sharing the same with partner.
• Extensively involved in testing STAR application and web services with LoadRunner and Responsible for analyzing and sharing the performance test results with business teams.
• Responsible for performing RCA of performance bottlenecks and preparation of final performance test reports for performance testing.
• Expertise in product I18N (Internationalization) and L10N (Localization) testing and good hands on JUNITS for UNIT testing.
• Developed sample testing data through Oracle SQL development client.
• Collect SLAs and Metrics to monitor the utilization of the Test Environment and performance of the new process and Report the same to all the stakeholders.
• Experience in solving the operational issues by engineering automated solutions.
• Have Good Knowledge in QA Process and Implementing QA Metrics.
• Expertise in HP Quality Center and responsible for generating test execution status reports and preparing test summary report.
• Responsible for initiating sing-off from technology director and business director via SharePoint.
• Maintain a self-servicing tool to track the Test Environment usage and the Patches' application
• Service the Test Environment requests from project teams by identifying appropriate Databases.
• Responsible for creating SOAP project and test the API calls using SoapUI tool.
• Responsible for identifying required Webservices/APIs for particular market level changes responsible for validating XML request/response test results against database.
• Facilitate the creation, refresh and deletion of the Databases as per the Team’s request
• Manage the application of Development code changes and Production fixes in the Test Environment (Patch application management) and make it available for the project teams for testing. Got hand on administrative tasks periodically like cleaning of system log files, Var files, removing temp files, checking file system, scheduling jobs and creation of user accounts.
• Experience in troubleshooting OS, Crash recovery and performance tuning activities Skilled at investigating and resolving system problems with minimum time.
• Facilitate Test environment issue resolution (by working with Development and the DBA teams)
• Collect SLAs and Metrics to monitor the utilization of the Test Environment and performance of the new process and Report the same to all the stakeholders
• Involved in E2E test manager role (Aligning different teams residing across globe).
• Technical lead and heading off-shore team of 8.
• Responsible for Creating QC (Quality Center) project, uploading requirements, maintain test case repository and generating graphs(requirement progress, test execution progress, defect status) and report same to all stake holders.
• Responsible to run and manage B2B test bed developed on Informatica and scheduling the scripts using Control-M. In ETL testing (validation In-bound and out-bound partner specific files generated by Informatica scripts).
• Expertise in BATCH testing (in UNIX), On daily basis we will receive huge files from Mainframe system and the same are processed by UNIX batch jobs. Responsible for validating correct market environment and execute the batches on hourly, daily, monthly jobs and collect the batch SLA and reporting the same with Stakeholders.
• Responsible for analysis, design & advisory of software test automation for software functional regression & performance testing after evaluating status of releases/patches & test requirements of web based and desktop applications.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, gap analysis, impact analysis, test case reviews & execution, fault reporting & tracking, automated test planning, time estimation and test data generation for automated functional regression testing and performance testing.
• Responsible for updating project Cost Plan Actuals and forecasting.
• Optimize the utilization of the AMEX STAR Test environment by:
• Validating the project requests.
• Increase the reusability of test databases (shared usage between the projects), thereby reducing the Space requirements for the Test Environment.
• Improve the stakeholder satisfaction by servicing their requests in a timely manner.

Environment: O/S Versions: windows 20 bit, Solaris 10 SPARC, AIXDatabases: Oracle 10g/11gDefect Track tool: HP Quality Center 11Other Components: Selenium (Java Web driver), Oracle Forms, Control-M, Perl/Shell Script, LoadRunner 9.5, Informatica 8.1, Java, SoapUI

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in software development life cycle, requirements, development, and QA and release process.
• Design new test scripts in Perl to automate Autosys different job types.
• Perform build and maintain engineering build and deployment scripts.
• Involved in database design documents reviews and provided inputs for technical design.
• Review the results of the system monitoring on a daily basis and initiating action on automated system alerts.
• Design of CFG scripts to capture different O/S properties and based on the automation script
• Perl script Provide inputs for non-functional requirements and develop shell script for capturing O/S and application level performance metrics.
• Assigning task to team members, Tracking and sending consolidated task status on daily basis.
• Responsible generating weekly status reports.
• Module lead for (New Features Testing and IPV6 testing).
• Extensively involved in using HP Quality Center 10.
• Responsible for generating QC reports for finding bugs that are not mapped to appropriate requirements.
• Responsible for generating reports on Defects by Severity, Requirements by Status etc.,
• Responsible for Build Installation and BVT signoff.
• Responsible for setting up test bed on various O/S flavors.
• Module Lead and heading a team of 5.
• Responsible for arranging Scrum calls with product management and Bug Triage meetings.
• Responsible for mentoring team.
• Responsible for arranging release meetings and QA status meetings.
• Played crucial role in Manual Database Testing
• Simulating Customer Environment and Preparing High level test cases for customer scenarios.
• Involved in configuring SAP, ORACLE, PeopleSoft adapters to run jobs from Autosys.
• Involved in DST testing for Autosys on Various platforms like HPUX, AIX, Solaris etc.,
• Extensively involved in setting up environment individually on various Unix ad windows platformsAgainst various database flavors like MS SQL, Oracle and Sybase
• Extensively involved in configuring Cross platform scheduling from Autosys to other CA products like CA7, JMO, UUJMA, ZOS and ESP agents
• Extensively involved in Autosys R113 BETA cycle.
• Helped team by preparing templates to track QA process and QA Metrics.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Study and Analysis of Functional Specifications
• Helped in leading the team by preparing templates
• Involved in implementing QA process and QA Metrics.
• Understanding of use cases and preparation of TID (Testing In Development)
• Involved in database design documents reviews and provided inputs for technical design.
• Preparing Test Data and Designed Test Cases
• Build Installation and build verification testing.
• Involved in Functional and Regression Testing and Database Migration Testing.
• Played crucial role in Database Testing & performance benchmarking.
• Regular interaction with Business analyst and Onsite Team.
• Involved in preparing Test Summary Report and Participated in Reviews.
• Extensively used web based Clear Quest Tool for bug tracking & reporting.
• Involved in automating Regression, Integration and System testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.
• Involved in User meetings, knowledge transfer and end user .
• Designed test cases based on Functional specifications.
• Executed Functional, User Interface, Browser compatibility test cases.
• Involved in peer reviews and participated in walkthroughs.
• Integrated with developers and discussed technical problems.
• Executed Functional, UI, Browser compatibility test cases.
• Reported bugs and performed Regression and Retesting.
• Designed and executed Functional, UI and Localization test cases.
• Performed both Manual and Automation testing using Visual Studio Team Test tool.
• Preparation & Execution of test cases for the new assignments or change requests.
• Tested the application in test and production environment.
• Generated the reports and tested the application for different scenarios using VSTS.
• Scheduled the reports and verified them both in test and production environment.
• Involved in conference calls with the onsite team.
• Frequent interaction with onsite coordinator and onsite QA Manager.
• Tracked reported the bugs using Rational Clear Quest Web tool.

Environment: Struts frame work, JSP, Java script, PHP, SQL Server, Windows XP, .net, SQL-Server 2000/2005, Clear Quest and Visual Studio Team Suite, Windows 2000 server

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Data.
• Preparation of Regression Test Pack.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and Database Testing.
• Regular interaction with developers, business analyst.
• Verified the "fixes" for the reported bugs.
• Participated in Functional specifications Study.
• Test case review and execution
• Regular interactions with developers and business analyst
• Client communication- Addressing conference calls on a weekly basis.

Environment: Solaris, C++, JAVA, Oracle 8i, .Net, Oracle 8.0, Win Runner, Test Director 7.2