SUMMARY:

• Technical Test Lead/Test Coordinator with 8 years of diverse experience in Manual and Automation testing including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fuelling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault - free audits .
• Hands-on technology professional accustomed to working in complex, project-based environments. Multifaceted experience in QA software testing, software development and user-acceptance testing.
• Backed by strong credentials including a computer science degree, PMP certification, ISTQB Certification, IBM DB2 Certification and computer analytics certificate ; advanced command of various testing suites and monitoring tools; and cross-platform skills in Windows and UNIX.
• Have working experience with fortune 500 software enterprises such as Wells Fargo & Co.
• Gigantic experience and knowledge in Retail and knowledge of Accounting, Finance & Banking domains
• Around 4 years of extensive US working experience as Technical Analyst, Test Lead/Onsite Testing Coordinator, Business Analyst (BA) at different Client’s places in USA
• Well experience in Client Management, Team Management in onsite-offshore delivery model
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, interact one on one with clients, business stakeholders and converse with all facets in the clients organization
• Expertise in design, review and execution of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Scenarios from BRD & Use Cases
• Experience in performing SQA activities- through test environment setup, test plan sign off, setting up the process to resolve and track issues, creating deficiency reports, Test Summary Reports and final sign off. 
• Experience in Test Management and Testing Lifecycle Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall. 
• Experience in Setting up of Test bed for the End to End Test Execution by coordinating with Various Teams (E.g.: Payment systems, Billing Systems, ESP team, Database).
• Experience in managing escalations, communications & coordination between client, development teams and QA teams
• Proficient in Test Automation using Automation tools like UFT (Formerly QTP) and Selenium Web driver
• Experiment in implementation of Automation Framework
• Well versed with UFT/Quick Test Professional features like Object Repository, Checkpoints, Object identification, Descriptive programming, Exception handling, Regular expression.
• Designed and implemented different UFT automation frameworks like  Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework and Hybrid framework for a number of projects Along with ALM Integration and Continuous Integration.
• Expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Junit, TestNG & Maven
• Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from starch like Page Objects framework, Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework and Hybrid framework for a number of projects
• Executed automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team
• Writing Test Cases using Element Locators, Web driver Methods, Java Programming features and TestNG annotations
• Experience in Data Driven testing, Cross Browser Testing and Parallel test execution using Selenium Web driver and TestNG
• Experience in validating the data by writing and executing SQL Queries in various data base's including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 Database and My-SQL.  
• Implemented web Service testing Restful, Soap UI tool, SQL, Oracle & database Concepts .
• Good Team Player, Strong Work Ethic, taking Ownership of Duties and Responsibilities. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong technical background and good interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Toos: Quick Test Professional 11 And UFT 12.52, SOAP UI for Web Service testing, Selenium Web driver, Junit, TestNG, Maven  ,Soap UI (Groovy), IBM Rational Integration Tester, SQL Server, Oracle, HP ALM 11.0, 12.01, Excel Macros and utilities, Anthill Pro for Build Deployment, Putty, Winscp

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#.Net, VB.Net, SQL, PL-SQL

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script, Groovy Script, Shell Scripting

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2

Defect Reporting: HP QC/ALM, JIRA

Automation Testing Tools: QTP/UFT, Selenium using Java, Soap UI using Groovy, Excel Macro

Test Reporting Tools: Excel Pie Charts, Graphs. HP ALM Analysis and Dashboard view reporting

Operating Systems: Windows XP, 7, 8, 10. Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing on-shore and off-shore test teams in India and Charlotte, NC for Flexcube Corporate products software solutions used by world leaders in the banking Industry.
• Working as primary liaison with Customer Service, Business, QA and Development teams for major releases, recreation of customer issues, subsequent patch testing and successful release of patches and service packs to clients.
• Reengineered QA methodologies and processes that resulted in establishment of complete traceability of requirements and enhanced test quality.
• Managing various QA phases and performing hands on testing including Regression, Functionality and Pre Release testing of the Flexcube products.
• Directly interacting and partnering with clients on a regular basis through road shows, user conferences showcasing new functionality and enhancements. Evaluating and gathering specific client expectations on QA.
• Performing internal audits at project level for ensuring compliance with SDLC standards.
• Managing the off-shore based automation test teams responsible for regression testing of the product.
• Supervised the system test plan and test case walkthroughs with application partners and documentation compliance
• Supervised routine generation of defect metrics and communicated them to upper management on a timely basis.
• Performing extensive manual and XML API testing on a continuous basis for enhancement releases and patches.
• Responsible for coordinating test data preparation and code movements into test environments.
• Worked closely with business to ensure that QA has full understanding of business objectives. This directly resulted in complete test coverage.
• Created Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Traceability matrices according to Business and Functional Requirements. 
• Implemented Parameterization in SOAP UI and SOA Tested the Services and written Test Cases for and reported the defects to Developers
• Designed automated tests, created automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium 
• Implemented Data Driven in SOAP UI and tested various functions in Web Services with Data

Environment: Oracle Flexcube 12, Internet Explorer, Text pad, HP Quality centre, Oracle 11g, HP QTP/UFT, MS Office, XML, Soap UI

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led a 7 member test team responsible for the Automation of Pega system
• Supervised and created comprehensive test plans for System, Enterprise and Regression testing, creation and maintenance of test cases (manual / automated), and test data.
• Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Selenium Grid and Maven.
• Implemented Page Objects framework, Hybrid framework and 21 Page classes from scratch to represent web pages.
• Configured Maven for JAVA automation projects and developed Maven project object model (POM).
• Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like CVS, SVN over the time for improvements and new features
• Involved in Automation Environment Setup using Eclipse, Java, Selenium Web driver Jars and Test NG, SVN, Maven
• Execution of test cases and reporting defects
• Enhancing the Selenium test cases for cross browser execution
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports

Environment: PEGA, 6.X Internet Explorer, Eclipse, Selenium Web driver, Test NG, Text pad, HP Quality centre, SQL Server

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Automation Development using QTP/UFT
• Designed tests using Keyword Driven Methodology
• Implemented Continuous Integration with Anthill using UFT, HP ALM and Anthill
• Smoke Test Execution from Anthill and result reporting from ALM to Anthill
• Detecting the bugs and classifying them according to severity and priority
• Created, updated and maintained the object repository.
• Enhanced UFT automation scripts with checkpoints, synchronization points, data table, parameterization and functions.

Environment: Internet Explorer, UFT (Unified Functional Testing 12.52), UNIX, Anthill Pro, HP Quality Centre

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervised test estimation and approval processes.
• Prepared and submitted regression updates and software defect tracking reports to stakeholders as appropriate.
• Developed automated test suites and engines.
• Performed design reviews for continuous improvement in meeting goals and needs.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts for Functional Testing using UFT
• Worked on Keyword Driven Framework. Responsible for creating keywords, functions, libraries, integrating framework with ALM and executing it from ALM
• Implemented ALM integration for the Keyword Driven Framework using OTA
• Extensively used VB Scripts to write scripts for testing functionalities in the unit.
• Performed testing extensively on the unit using UFT
• Inserted verification checkpoints, synchronization points, and parameterized data using UFT

Environment: Internet Explorer, Quick Test Professional (11.0), MS SQL server 2008, Text pad, HP Quality centre

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation framework for web service testing.
• Involved in Preparation of Test procedures, Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test data
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing
• Responsible for development of new Automation using UFT and VB scripts useful for business needs.
• Enhanced Regression Test Cases to implement complex testing scenarios, Increased permeations of Functionality Testing and increased code coverage using UFT
• Created, updated and maintained the object repository, Function Libraries
• Enhanced UFT automation scripts with synchronization points, data table, Parameterization and functions
• Executing tests and analyzing results as per client Requirements
• Detecting the bugs and classifying them per severity and priority
• Reporting the coverage status of tests performed on the daily/weekly basis.

Environment: Soap UI 3.0.1, UFT (Unified Functional Testing), MS SQL server 2008, Text pad, HP Quality Center

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.
• Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.
• Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules
• Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.
• Worked with batch jobs, monitoring and scheduling jobs using CNTRL-M
• Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.
• Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center
• Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using Quality Center.

Environment: Java, Quick Test Professional (11.0), Adobe Flex, DB Visualizer, HP Quality Center

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents and business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Cases
• Conducted Functionality and Back End testing during various phases of the application
• Involved in performing Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems
• Tracked and reported defects using Test Director
• Prepared Test Summary Report
• Generated Defect Reports using Test Director

Environment: Java, Quick Test Professional (11.0), HTML, Adobe Flex, DB Visualizer, HP Quality Center