SUMMARY

• SAFe ® 5.0 certified professional with 15 years of work experience primarily in testing space.
• Reviewing Customer needs & proposing cost - effective testing solutions.
• Applying methodologies, processes & tools to create automation opportunities.
• Developing & Managing end-to-end manual & Automation solutions, configuration mgt..
• Hands-on experience in testing Web API, ETL, Functional, E2E, Regression testing & testing in cloud.
• Anchoring testing requirements, managing deliveries, monitoring improvements & resource planning.
• Monitoring project daily with generating planned vs. actual testing progress reports.
• Supporting & certifying frequent production deployments in Continuous delivery model.
• Formulation of Project/test planning artifacts such as Project Plan, test plan, test strategy, & CM plan.
• Automation Feasibility Analysis, Incident mgt., Proof of concept of tools, test bed preparation.
• Framework development & implementation using Selenium, UFT and Rest Assured for API’s.
• Resolving conflicts amicably and develops a positive working team environment.
• Shrinking the execution cycle through optimization & automation frameworks/tools.
• Finding better ways to save time & effort in SAFe model & deliver business value quickly.
• Meeting with project team regularly to review project status, audits, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Participating in code & design walkthroughs & generating defect trends report.
• Experience in UI Automation Tool Selenium Web driver.
• Experience in Core Java.
• Experience in acceptance testing. experience on JDBC connectivity to RDBMS
• Experience in identify gaps between functional and business requirements.
• Involved in framework designing, development and enhancement.
• Good experience in the POM (Page Object Module) framework.
• Facilitates collaboration with other teams & promoting quality improvements.
• Managed a team size of 25 & have good experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Extensive experience in managing multiple vendors in larger projects.
• Worked as an escalation contact point for the customer.
• Documenting lessons learnt & participating in retrospectives meetings.
• Managing the overall testing delivery for Projects operating in SAFe Agile model.
• Monitoring and tracking milestones of all phases of the project.
• Managing project changes requests.
• Good manual & automation skills with experience in ETL, Back end, Smoke/Sanity Integration, Compatibility & regression testing.
• Resource Management across locations, risk identification & formulating mitigation plans.
• To select, train, develop and manage project team members in a conducive team environment.
• Expertise in descriptive functional test planning for Banking & Financial Services domain.
• Expertise in functional test planning in investment banking, WMS, Equities, Bonds, Trading.
• Good understanding of Telecom & Oil & Gas domain.
• Hands-on experience on Agile, Azure DevOps, big data, cloud computing, Azure data solutions.
• Risk identification, estimation, and resource management, billing & best practices.
• IBM Data stage director & Control M training.
• Universal banking solution (Finacle) functionality & usability Training.
• Two months extensive Infosys Education and Research training (Comprising of RDBMS, Oracle, UNIX,
• Core & Advanced Java, C programming etc.).
• IVS - Infosys testing training (comprising manual, automation & product testing).
• Attended several cross-cultural sensitivity & CSAT trainings.
• Understanding of data models, pipelines, Azure Blob storage, Synapse, data lakes & data factory.
• Data Analysis using Python & Pandas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Azure DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps (ADO), Azure test plans, ALM (Quality center)

Project Management tool: MSEPM, Jira, Informatica, AlteryxJenkins,Maven,Cucumber, Rest Assured library, GitHub, Azure Data factory

Testing Tools: NeoLoad, UFT, SoapUI, Selenium Web driver, Load runner, Test Complete,Postman, Newman CLI, WS Certify, Appium, QuerySurge

Defect Tracking Tools: IBM Clear Quest, Firestone (Defect Tracking System), Jira.

Operating System: Unix, Windows 98/ 2000/ NT/ XP, Vista, Windows 7 DOS.

Configuration Mgt: Microsoft Visual Source Safe, TFS, VSTS, SharePoint Workflows, Power Automate flows.

Others: TOAD, ETL (IBM data stage director), Eclipse, Control M SwaggerInformatica.

Languages: C, Core java, advanced java, HTML, XML, Python.

Databases/DW: Teradata v16, Oracle, SQL, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos, Azure Synapse Analytics.

Scripting: Java script, VB script, Node.js.

Technology: Angular 7 & 8, .Net, SpreadJS, REST API, Java.

Automation frameworks: BDD, Robot, Keyword-driven, Hybrid, Data-driven, TestNG.

BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI, advanced excel, Power Query etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Manager

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, understanding the data sources, interviewing the Confidential SMEs from various departments to assess and measure current state through data analysis, analyse requirements, manual & automation testing of various modules.
• Reviewing ETL mapping sheet to identify test scenarios.
• Preparing ETL test cases to compare source & target database systems.
• Verify data transformation rules & verify that expected data is added in target system.
• Verify that all tables and specified fields were loaded from source to staging.
• Verify the data for record count match & rejected data logs are generated with required details.
• Verify NULL value fields, data types & formats as specified in requirements.
• Duplicate data checks & data integrity checks.
• Web services & API testing using Postman & Newman.
• Logging defects in Jira. Report data issues/defects & provide metrics as part of monthly reporting to demonstrate progress towards the goal of the project.
• Participating in sprint planning, user story grooming, and defining acceptance criteria for user stories.
• User story estimation using planning poker. Collaboration with scrum team (Product owner & developers) to understand the requirements.
• Certifying releases using product & regression test cases. Testing Tableau/Power BI dashboards/visualizations & using advanced excel (VLookups & Power Query) for data analysis.
• Weekly status report with testing KPI’s for governance meetings. Highlight risks & blockers.
• Identifying opportunities for automation. Defining test strategy, preparing test plans, test scenarios & test cases for complex modules.
• Maintain issue log, defect tracking & requirements traceability matrix. Writing SQL queries for data & E2E testing.
• Framework development, test estimation, test prioritization & Web based testing using UFT.
• Monitoring KPI & Metrics, sharing the progress with Governance team.
• ROI calculations & documentation of learnings from the project.
• Involved in scrum sprint planning, demo & retrospectives.
• Performance testing using NeoLoad.

Test Lead - QA delivery

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for customer, vendor, and offshore team. Involved in developing the test strategy & test plans for testing for Planning, Optimization & Scheduling applications (Planning Workspace, Aspentech Demand Manager, Aspect Price forecasting system, Spot fire reports.
• Finalized the large-scale ETL testing (E2E Integration testing, data quality, source to target testing) for IBM datastage & .Net jobs along with the web services testing.
• Verify that all tables and specified fields were loaded from source to staging.
• Verify the data for record count match & rejected data logs are generated with required details.
• Verify NULL value fields, data types & formats as specified in requirements.
• Duplicate data checks & data integrity checks.
• Web services & API testing using Postman & Newman.
• Web based testing for legacy applications using UFT.
• Potential $ savings $600K annually through automation.
• Laid the foundation of automation of REST API, SOAP UI using Postman & Newman & Datastage ETL jobs using Certify & ALM.
• Implemented Performance testing with varied load policy & populations using NeoLoad.
• Handled JSON & xml files through Power Query & Excel macros for data validations. Manual testing of Aspentech Multi Blend Optimizer & Petroleum Scheduler.
• Involved in Transformation of On-premises to Azure cloud-based solutions & implementation of CI-CD pipelines. Integration of Certify with ALM /ADO & Power BI.
• Testing of SQL databases from on-prem to Azure cloud. Reporting defects & tracking progress.
• Logging defects in Jira. Report data issues/defects & provide metrics as part of monthly reporting to demonstrate progress towards the goal of the project.
• Participating in sprint planning, user story grooming, and defining acceptance criteria for user stories.
• User story estimation using planning poker. Collaboration with scrum team (Product owner & developers) to understand the requirements.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prime responsibility was to Strategize, plan & manage & perform the testing of the AUT. Used Postman & Newman tool for Rest API testing.
• Also scoped-in the Performance testing of web API’s using JavaScript and postman collections & WS Certify through multiple POCs & consultancy with the TCOE within Confidential .
• Performed Rest & Soap API testing. The project involved the testing of MyAT&T application on both web & mobile device native app application for new plans, services offered, customer portfolio, usages, billing & payments.
• Responsible for overall testing delivery & managed different Agile POD’s ensuring highly stable releases to the customer. Automation of Native & Mobile web-apps using Appium.
• Prioritizing test scripts with TestNG. Integration of TestNG with Maven.
• Delivered Quantifiable benefits to the customer.

UAT Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The task was to customize the Finacle product to accommodate the requirements of the bank and test the product for the new changes as per the L3 business processes.
• Analysis of L3 business processes, BRD, MRD, SDD & documenting Finacle processes, logging queries with Business SME.
• Manual testing of critical use cases & functional flows.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test lead Provide testing progress information (defect status, test case execution status) and escalate issues to Senior Test Manager.
• Escalating testing issues and risks as appropriate to Senior Manager.
• Review requirements, specifications, and other deliverables for testability and to assist scoping testing effort.
• Attending defect triage meetings.
• Performing functional audits & review of deliverables.
• Acting as an interface between business units, technology teams and support teams.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Module lead - Understanding Client req. & Bonds as an Asset Class in WMS-Finacle, HLD & SRS analysis, planning, execution till closure.
• Worked on Distributor Model - Zero Coupon, Normal Bonds - Corporate actions such as full, partial call, Customer Put, redemption, Coupon, Amortization, maturity. OMS, transfers, trades, Customer relationship view, advice, Portfolio Mgt., Asset Mgt., CA Settlements, identifying/framing reusable scenarios for automation using UFT. Understanding Client requirements, writing Functional Test plans & strategy for complex modules.Manual testing of Securities, Symbols, order entry & trades - OMS, Delisting, suspension of symbols, Back-office processing, corporate actions - Buyback, Spinoff, Merger, Demerger, Cash Dividend, Bonus & Stock dividend, Liquidation, Rights, Name change, Split & reverse split, Investor Portfolio Mgt., identifying/framing reusable scenarios for automation using QTP. Built the automation framework from scratch & implemented the Hybrid framework.