PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having 10+ years of QA experience in Banking Finance and Securities, Insurance, Embedded and SAP domains.
• Specializing in SOA (SOAP, REST, MQ, store procedure) manual and automation testing.
• Have extensive experience in test Planning, Management and Execution of Manual and Automation testing solutions in various domains.
• Currently working in Confidential as SOA QA consultant for Projects related to banking and securities, leading a team of 25 QA engineers & managing project across multiple locations (US, India)
• Experienced as Project QA lead, co - ordinator, E2E co-ordinator and LSIT co-ordinator for various technology, business oriented projects.
• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans, test suites, test scripts, test scenarios, test cases, end-to-end tests, test strategies, test estimations and other QA documentations with a good exposure to various quality processes like LEAN and Six Sigma and Experience in Agile and Scrum Processes.
• Extensive experience in preparing test beds and performing integration, sanity, smoke, functional, system, user acceptance and regression tests using Parasoft SOATest tool & SOAP UI
• Hands on experience in performance testing using Load test
• Having hands on experience in automation tools like UFT, Selenium, TOSCA
• Experienced in data base concepts and used SQL server management studio 2005/2008 for testing. Used windows interface for IBM DB2 mainframe, Mongo, Toad for oracle DB and tested aerospike/persistence DB using scripts.
• Extensive experience in using Test Management tools such as HP Quality Center (QC), Team Foundation server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) for organizing and managing all phases of application testing process.
• Proven ability to plan, coordinate and implement SDLC and Agile software development and maintenance projects.
• Able to work within an aggressive and demanding project schedule and environment.
• Highly motivated & conceptually strong individual with outstanding oral and excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodology: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile with Scrum, ETL testing & continuous integration (CICID)

Platforms: Windows, Macintosh

Testing Tools: Parasoft SOA test, Parasoft Load Test, QTP, TOSCA, Selenium

Languages: Java, Jython

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Lotus Notes, TFS, MTM, Bugzilla, Clear Quest

Database: SQL , Oracle, Mongo

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, Texas

SOA QA consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test estimations, defect management and forecasts, onsite offshore allocation.
• Review and own weekly status report, monthly metrics and yearly deck reviews.
• Worked as E2E co-ordinator, Project QA Lead and onsite QA co-ordinator for various Trading agile projects such as DOES, OIS, charitable fund, Schwab index advantage, Schwab bond source etc as well as maintenance releases.
• Create QA best practices like defining the standards on scripting, Sign off process, review process etc.
• Reviewing test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members and ensuring testing activities are completed on time with quality
• Conducting project walkthroughs and daily QA/defect meetings involving various leads from Business, Development, Technical Support teams and other stakeholders
• Preparation of Test scenario /Test Cases for functional, Regression and Performance testing and maintaining the test cases in MTM/Excel
• Have a hands on experience in Smoke, functional, regression and performance tests on Order/trade management, Retirement, charitable applications using Parasoft SOA test
• Automate the functional test cases with SOA test using its various features like DB tool, Assertions, service chaining, Java and Jython coding, Integration with Selenium, UFT and Jenkins etc.
• Hands on and POC in TOSCA for a trading aerospike projects
• POC in Ruby mine (Selenium) and Cucumber frame work for Mobile/web browsers.
• Implementation of CICD through Jenkins and Parasoft Environment Manager
• Mentor the team on automation with different frame work like SOA test with QTP and selenium.
• Have a good commendation notes from VP and various QA MDs of Confidential

Environment: PL/SQL, Microsoft Excel, TOAD, SQL, MONGO, TOAD for ORACLE, Java, Aerospike, Mainframe, Parasoft SOA Test, Load Test, Jenkins, Environment Manager, CICD, UFT, TOSCA, Selenium, QC, Clear quest

Confidential

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing entire testing activities from Functional test preparation/execution, Integration test preparation/execution, System test preparation/execution
• Performing build acceptance testing, system testing, regression testing and sanity testing
• Integration testing with different applications.
• Used QC extensively starting requirement creation, create test cases, execute in QC defect tracking and generate report from QC.
• Collection of metrics after testing cycles to determine test case efficiency, bug reproducibility, bug trends and creating daily and weekly status reports
• Involved starting requirement discussion till UAT on the entire SDLC life cycle
• Assigning daily activities to the team members, maintaining test reports, performing reviews, conduct daily meetings and knowledge transfer trainings for new hires.
• Cross Browser testing for the applications
• Involved in requirement gathering, Design discussion and helped in creating tech spec and business requirements.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, TOAD, HP Quality center, UAT

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assigning daily activities to the team members, maintaining test reports, performing reviews, conduct daily meetings
• Managing entire testing activities from Functional test preparation/execution, Integration test preparation/execution, System test preparation/execution for the web services using HP service Test and SOAP UI.
• Used QC extensively starting requirement creation, create test cases, execute in QC and generate report from QC.
• The role required extensive interactions with Business Managers and Users

Environment: TOAD, SQL, SOAP UI, HP service Test, HP quality center, Putty, Microsoft Excel

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the testing team taking full accountability for productivity optimization, project planning and delivery and responsible for complete Localization testing of SAP - HR implementation.
• Co - ordination with onsite the daily activities and updating the daily task Defect tracking and test case tracking
• Co - ordination with multiple functional testing team on Employee self-service and Manager Self Service portal.
• As a part of localization testing team, Performed testing on the different Modules of SAP HR like Reports, Portal, Time Management, Leaves etc in various languages
• Review and analyze test results and submit defects in Quality Center.

Environment: SAP, Web Portal, Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, Localization testing

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite study on Point of Sale Online Module.
• Coordinating with client for the Online Module test environment creation.
• Preparation and presentation of study document with client.
• Understanding the scope of testing.
• Preparing Test plans, Test cases, Test reports, Test estimates and Test setup, test Execution and logging bugs in the tracking systems and monitoring status of the bugs till its closure.
• Knowledge transformation on onsite study with offshore team members.
• Preparation of tractability matrix and weekly status report.

Environment: Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, POS, SQL

Confidential

Senior Software engineer/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test plans, Test cases, Test reports, Test estimates and Test setup and logging bugs in the tracking systems and monitoring status of the bugs till its closure.
• Responsible for performing field testing by following the user docs and process.
• Testing the Multi-Function Peripheral applications in different platforms like Mac and Windows.
• Defect logging using Lotus Notes and Bugzilla
• Automation using QTP and mentor the team.

Environment: CVS, QTP, MAC, Windows, Microsoft Excel

Confidential

Senior Customer Engineer

• Won Wipro ’s prestigious ‘Best Team Award ’ across testing services, with over 3000 teams in contention. 2006
• “Feather in a CAP” for SAP HR localization testing on critical project deliverables. 2010
• ‘ Feather in a Cap’ for SOA testing contribution in Schwab 2012
• Multiple appreciations from Confidential MD’s and VP on the various projects worked.