SUMMARY:

• Senior QA Automation Lead with 10 years of QA experience in Automation, Manual, Database, Datawarehouse, Business Intelligence, BPM and CRM testing.
• Core Expertise in Selenium Automation Testing in a DevOps culture using Java, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, GITs and Cucumber.
• Core Expertise in HP UFT Automation using VB Script and Descriptive programming.
• Test Automation frameworks used: RTEE, CRAFT, CITS, Data - Driven, Keyword, Hybrid and Page Object Model.
• Proficient in ETL, Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence testing using SQL Server and Oracle.
• Superior proficiency in Agile, CI/CD, TDD, BDD and Waterfall methodologies using test management tools like HP ALM and Rally.
• Performed web services/API testing using SOAPUI tool for SOAP and RESTful Web Services using WSDL.
• Sound Knowledge in BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkins format.
• Drove the testing efforts of 30+ BPM/CRM projects involving technologies like PEGA, Salesforce, Siebel, AWD and TPP to success, earning 100% customer satisfaction and trust.
• Added $1.5M revenue in 2017 for my company by doing Business Development activities and identifying new logos.
• Contributed to Proof of Concept for developing the next generation Automation Framework CITS.
• Domain expertise in Insurance, Banking, Information Media & Entertainment and Retail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, HP UFT, HP QTP, Eclipse Oxygen, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven, Firebug, Firepath, Applitools

Automation Frameworks:: Rapid Test Execution Engine (RTEE), Cognizant Reusable Automation Framework for Testing (CRAFT), Cognizant Intelligent Test Scripter (CITS), Page Object Model (POM), Data-Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid frameworks.

DevOps: GITHub, GITS, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gradle

Programming Languages: Java, C++, VBScript

Database: ETL, Microstategy, DWBi, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, MS Access, Beyond Compare

BPM CRM: PEGA, Salesforce, Siebel, Commergent, Savvion

Web service:: SOAP UI

Test Management: HP QC, HP ALM, Rally.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior QA Automation Lead

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Delivered In-Sprint Automation for a CI/CD DevOps project using Rapid Test Execution Engine framework (RTEE) for test design, execution and deployment.
• Led a team of 6 offshore resources and guided them through the entire process from Idea to Delivery.
• Designed Test Scripts using wireframes and prototypes and followed a TDD approach.
• Continuously Integrated and Delivered test suites by maintaining them in GitHub and executing them from the DevOps pipeline using Jenkins.
• Performed web services testing between Broker Portal and other integrated systems using SOAP UI.
• Participated and led in various Agile Ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Product Backlog Grooming, Iteration planning, Demos, Iteration Retrospective).
• Authored Test Plans to include scope of testing, test objectives, test approach, test data, test cases, methodology, test risk, assumption and limitations.
• Provided POC for the use of open source automation tool Cognizant Intelligent Test Scripter.

Environment: Angular JS, Amazon AWS, Sonar, Artifactory, Xebia Labs, PCF / XL Deploy, Eclipse Oxygen, Selenium WebDriver 3.4, RTEE, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, GITS, Gradle, and Rally

Senior QA Automation Lead

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Validated the complete end-to-end ETL data load from source to destination following complex business transformation logic using SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and Beyond Compare.
• Extensive experience in developing complex SQL queries using functions, triggers, views and stored procedures in the Staging, Data warehouse and Data Marts.
• Provided an Automation Solution to automate existing DB validation test cases using HP UFT following Data Driven methodology supported by Cognizant’s CRAFT automation framework.
• Managed a team of 5 offshore resources, guiding them through various stages of a Test Life Cycle in Agile methodology and executed test cases from HP ALM.
• Participated in standup meetings, user story grooming, test estimation and user story acceptance demo to the clients and maintained test management in Rally.
• Prepared daily and weekly productivity reports and submitted test metrics to the management.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.5.1, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, Tableau, Scooter Beyond Compare, HP UFT 12.52, HP ALM 12.53

Senior QA Automation Lead

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Test Architect leading 4 individual teams with a total of 18 resources.
• Defined Test Strategy and Approach for the entire program, managed change requests, resolution of Issues and Risks, participated in Defect Review group, approved Test Report to authorize continuation of Staging/Implementation and generated status reports and QA metrics.
• Designed Automation scripts in Selenium using CRAFT framework that automated testing the flow of data through BFDS (Document Scanning Company) to AWD (Document Indexing service) to TIBCO layer (web service) to EFS (Document Storage Repository) to another TIBCO layer (webservice) to the Database layer.
• Performed Webservices testing using SOAP UI and ensured the results are correct.
• Achieved a 68% reduction in Regression Effort for AWD, SFDC and JHIM ODS/MDM for this program.

Environment: PEGA PRPC 7.0, Salesforce, Siebel, TIBCO MQ Services, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, TestNG, Jenkins, HP ALM, SSIS, SOAP UI

QA Automation Lead

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 8 manual and 3 automation testers, guiding them through various stages of a Test Life Cycle following Agile methodology.
• Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs, ensuring test environment availability, generation of test reports, communication of test status, and networking to coordinate test activities.
• Automated the regression suite of 1000 test cases using HP UFT following a Hybrid framework of Data Driven and Keyword Driven methodology.
• Checked the data flow through the front and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Performed an end-to-end test in a production environment to validate new or updated business processes, customization and configuration, reports, and data migration.
• Created test plans and test scripts based on the higher/lower level design documents. Worked extensively with Line of Business and User Acceptance testing resources to cover total functionality for System Integration testing, including end to end and regression testing.

Environment: PEGA PRPC 6.3, SQL Server 2005, HP UFT, HP ALM and SSIS

Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drive scope and manage all aspects of requirements gathering, prioritization, design, and adoption of new capabilities.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in HP Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Act as a single point of contact between Development and Testers for Testing and deployment activities.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Partner with development and business teams to prioritize and track bugs.
• Provide QA reporting metrics to business, technology and management teams.

Environment: PEGA PRPC 7.0, Comergent eBusiness Suite, Savvion Business Manager, HP QTP, SQL Server 2008, HP Quality Center