SUMMARY

• Highly passionate, experienced Software QA Lead with over 14+ years in Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Have comprehensive knowledge of agile software development cycle, Functional testing experience on web based and client - server Applications.
• Experienced with SDLC including traditional Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Senior software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits.
• Strong knowledge in web services testing via Restful web servies/ SOAP UI
• Well versed with configuration management, version control systems, build and deployment automation tools, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Management of applications servers and Release processes.
• Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline.
• Currently installed Chef Server and clients to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, and Production).
• Have In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies, functional, and regression testing on multiple web browsers with automated testing suites.
• Hands-on technology professional accustomed to working in complex, project-based environments.
• Multifaceted experience in QA software testing, software development and user-acceptance testing.
• Have sound knowledge of change management tools, User Acceptance Testing phases, programming technologies, and automated testing fundamental concepts.
• Familiar with Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, OPS Work, Security Groups.
• Quick learner with excellent analytical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: .NET, HTML, XML, JavaScript and Perl

RDBMS: Oracle and MS-SQL server

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, VBScript and LDAP Browser

Scripting Languages: Shell script, Perl.

Testing Tools: HP ALM 12.12, Selenium, HP Load Runner, JIRA and Jenkins

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/2016 , UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr QA Lead / AWSDevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMWare Vm's as required in the environment.
• Deployed and configured Chef Server and Chef Solo including bootstrapping of chef client nodes for provisioning; Created roles, cookbooks, recipes, and data bags for server configuration, deployment, and app stack build outs.
• Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Requirement Gathering and Produce Test Plan and high-level Test Scenarios.
• Plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis.
• Involved in Test case creation and traceability matrix.
• Involved in discussing with clients about daily execution summary and analyzing the defects.
• Assisted developers in writing cookbooks for deploying product applications in development, QA, and production environments.
• Deployed application updates using Jenkins. Installed, configured, and managed Jenkins.
• Triggering the SIT environment build of client remotely through Jenkins.
• Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, forks, tagging, and notifications. Experienced and proficient deploying and administering GitHub.
• Deploy builds to production and work with the teams to identify and troubleshoot any issues.
• Automated Merging of branches as requested by developers.
• Configure Linux environments in both public and private domains.
• Configure and schedule the scripts to automate the module installation in the environment.
• Installed and configured Nagios as monitoring tool for disk usage, CPU utilization, list of open files etc. and sending alerts to our teams based on the same.
• Applied redirection rules in Apache based on redirection conditions provided by developers.
• Implemented zero downtime deployment process in WebLogic using python and shell script and automated it using Jenkins.

Environment: AWS cloud, VMWare, Linux, Apache, SIT, GIT, Jenkins, Python and Shell.

Confidential

Sr Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Produce Test Plan and high-level Test Scenarios.
• Plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis.
• Involved in Test case creation and traceability matrix.
• Involved in discussing with clients about daily execution summary and analyzing the defects.
• Review test results and identify any dependencies, which may result in risk.
• Prepare Test Release Note and publishing to the Management team.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing system specifications, design, development testing strategy
• Responsible for testing, analyzing and validating application performances against business requirements using HP ALM.
• Execution of test plans and test cases for Manual and Automated testing.

Confidential, Chicago

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Delivering at the capacity of Assistant Project Manager/Project Coordinator
• Requirement walkthroughs and preparing the review document for the same
• Test Case design & execution
• Defect Analysis, Reviews, preparing Traceability Matrix and estimations
• Helping the Project manager in project execution and development of weekly status
• Skill gap analysis and trainings of project team
• Preparation of billing sheets, resource planning (ramp up/down) based on the scope conditions
• Maintain check lists for the activities of requirement review, test case designing, test case execution and defect management

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
• Requirement walkthroughs and preparing the Traceability Matrix and review document for sign-off
• KT plans for the new members
• Test Case development and execution
• Defect Analysis, Reviews and reports
• Preparation of Client Release Notes and Project Execution

Confidential, New Jersey

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
• Requirement walkthroughs and preparing the Traceability Matrix and review document for sign-off
• KT plans for the new members
• Test Case development and execution
• Defect Analysis, Reviews and reports
• Preparation of Client Release Notes and Project Execution

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
• Requirement walkthroughs and preparing the Traceability Matrix and review document for sign-off
• KT plans for the new members
• Test Case development and execution
• Defect Analysis, Reviews and reports
• Preparation of Client Release Notes and Project Execution

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer /QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination
• Requirement walkthroughs and preparing the Traceability Matrix and review document for sign-off
• KT plans for the new members
• Test Case development and execution
• Defect Analysis, Reviews and reports
• Preparation of Client Release Notes and Project Execution

Confidential, Virginia

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test Case design & Execution
• Development of Defect Analysis and reports
• Test reports

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Test cases, Test Execution and Defect Logging
• Prepared Defect Reports and Test Reports

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Test cases, Test Execution and Defect Logging
• Prepared Defect Reports and Test Reports

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Test cases, Test Execution and Defect Logging
• Prepared Defect Reports and Test Reports

Confidential, Baltimore

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Test cases, Test Execution and Defect Logging
• Prepared Defect Reports and Test Reports