CAREER SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience developing, implementing and leading QA processes, programs and teams.
• Extensively involved in all types of testing activities (System testing, Functional, GUI testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, performance testing and Load testing).
• Successful history of leading and guiding projects from conception through completion, while identifying and addressing critical business needs and driving results.
• Strong attention to details and desire for quality work. Ability to effectively and professionally interact with all levels of upper management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HP UFT (QTP),
• HP LeanFT,
• HP Service Test,
• HP Load Runner,
• Selenium,
• HP ALM (Quality Center, Performance Center),
• CPM/Load Testing,
• WebInspect,
• Appium,
• Parasoft SOA Test,
• Parasoft Load Test,
• JIRA,
• Jenkins/Continuous Integration,
• Dynatrace,
• Splunk,
• Vsphere,
• SQL,
• UNIX,
• Windows.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Elk Grove, CA

Lead Software QA Engineer/ Supervisor

• Managed globally distributed test automation teams both onshore and offshore
• Lead the team to build a framework for automation projects in Selenium, HP LeanFT, Service Test, and LoadRunner
• Managed personnel relations within the department, including appraisals, training, development and career planning to ensure an efficient and effective functioning employees
• Involved in budget discussions and resource allocation to different projects
• Involved in Hiring new employees, on - boarding process, training and mentoring
• Trained and mentored automation engineers on test automation tool techniques and automation framework development concepts and approaches. 
• Responsible for Generating weekly QA Status Reports for different projects to send them to the upper management
• As a member of “Testing Center Of Excellence” team, travelled to different parts of the organization where we defined our QA process, discussed issues to come up with a resolution.
• Reduced the manual regression test execution duration from a few weeks to several hours using test automation, and saved the company several thousands of dollars in labor costs.
• Written and maintained the QA documentation (Test Plan, Test Results Summary, RTVM etc.,) for all the projects involved.
• Responsible for testing all the APIs and UI with Layer 7 infrastructure implementation.
• Involved in Production Release meetings and owned the Co-ordination efforts with different teams (Dev, IT Ops and release engineers) several times.
• Being an HP ALM Admin, Involved in Defining the QA Documentation process and building Reports within ALM using all the modules
• Involved in ALM and JIRA integration process to integrate the business and functional requirements, Defects
• Responsible in designing, scripting, profiling, and Analyzing the load and stress testing scripts using LoadRunner tool to validate UI, API and Database performance.
• Lead the Testing efforts on Functional, System, Regression, Integration, Application Performance, Database Performance, Usability and Stress testing.
• Responsible in evaluating the new testing tools to make sure they are compliant and suitable for our application testing. Tools such as Appium, Parasoft SOA Test, Parasoft Load Test.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Lead QA Engineer

• Created and implemented auditing process to assure the validity of test specifications created by team members in order to meet customer’s business requirements
• Point of contact for all projects to provide LOEs, analyze risks and challenges
• Active member of TCOE (Testing Center of Excellence) group. A group who came up with the final templates of Test Documentation to globally use in different LexisNexis divisions.
• Supervised a team of QA functional test engineers in Sacramento and Pune(India) working on multiple projects
• Facilitated cross-training sessions to improve the functional knowledge of the application for the new and existing team members
• Actively participated in the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements analysis to software delivery
• Participated in writing guidelines for automation framework and implementation
• As a Quality Center Admin, Created and implemented a process to follow to write, maintain, import and execute test cases and test plans
• Integrated Quality Center and Blue Print requirement management tool
• Mentored the EDI Testing team in multiple projects
• Validated the application security using various security testing techniques such as Cross-Site scripting, SQL Injunction, Session Management, Restrict URL Access
• Involved in all levels of Load Testing Process (Creating Vusers, Creating the Scenarios, Running the Scenarios, Monitoring the Scenarios and Analyzing Test Results)
• Knowledge in Continuous integration using Hudson and Jenkins tool
• Acted as a QA manager for 6 months when the manager was in long term leave
• Delegated work to the team members and monitored the status
• Participated in second level managerial meetings and updated the QA group status
• Conducted weekly meetings with internal QA group as well as Offshore QA group
• Responsible in making sure the project(s) readiness for the release and part of the group making Go, No Go decisions for the releases
• Conducted one-on-one meetings with team members to discuss the status and prioritize the work and resolve any hurdles they are facing in meeting the deadlines.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in writing scenario test cases for manual and automation testing according to the business requirements and functionality
• Involved in the weekly county meetings to discuss about their Change order requests.
• Responsible for Functional, Integration, System and Regression Testing
• Written the automation scripts and modified according to the requirement change using QTP
• Prepared Test Log Reports to better estimate and predict the impact of issues and help communicate those issues to project management and the customer.
• Reporting and tracking the defects and status in the defect tracking tool Fogbugz.

Confidential, Draper, UT

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Performed Functional, Regression and Integration testing both manually and using automated test tool.
• Responsible for generating scripts to check valid and invalid parameters for various types of contact lenses using QTP.
• Executed SQL queries using database checkpoints to check whether the order has been placed with the correct information.
• Worked with Object Repository when there is a change in object properties, to change the properties manually so that QTP will recognize the objects
• Responsible in reporting the browser compatibility issues (like IE 6.0, Netscape 7, and AOL) while executing all QTP scripts.
• Involved in data verification and validation testing for the application
• Involved in Functional, Integration, System and Regression Testing.