PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Lead QA/ALM Specialist with 10 years of experience skilled in performing manual and automation testing of web applications for fortune 500 firms.
• Excellent hands - on experience in Test Management which includes creating Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test estimations, Testing processes, test reporting, testing metrics and handling test tools.
• Created, directed and guided QA processes by following agile methodology and created agile user stories with acceptance criteria by gathering requirements from end users.
• Well versed with onsite and offshore delivery model, conducting meetings, delivering daily test status reports to the management, owned defect management and conducted triage meetings, coordinated with development team members for defect resolution.
• Managed test team of 5 to 7 testers and lead the entire functional and system testing activities.
• Mentored and trained the testers on QA processes as well as trained developers with HP ALM tool.
• Suggested and implemented QA process improvements and change control procedures.
• Experienced in creating test automation frameworks such as data driven, keyword driven and automated test scripts using tools like HP UFT/QTP and Selenium Web Driver with Java, TestNG.
• Extensive experience in Sanity, Functional, System Integration, Regression, Performance, User acceptance, Cross browser, and Smoke testing.
• Strong knowledge on SOA architecture, Core Java (Eclipse IDE), JSON, SQL and VB Scripting.
• Good understanding with TDD, BDD concepts and Cucumber framework with Gherkin language.
• Demonstrated experience with REST and Soap web services testing, ETL and Database testing.
• Good knowledge on SAP Sales & Distribution (SD) module processes.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL commands to verify the database integrity.
• Served as HP ALM admin and Jira Project Administrator including the areas such as managing site administration and project customization, creating template projects, assigning template admin privileges to users, creating users and assigning group permissions, creating alert rules, customizing project entities, creating user defined fields, data hiding based on the groups and Excel Reporting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities, process oriented, effective in working independently, quick learner and an exceptional team player.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM/QC, Atlassian Jira, Rally,Rational ClearQuest, Microsoft Test Manager, TFS, HP QTP/UFT, Selenium Web Driver, Soap UI, HP Sprinter, Ready API(In Practice)

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Programming/Scripting Languages: Core Java, VBScript, HTML, XML, SQL, Toad (Utility)

Document Management: Confluence, Share point

Web Service Technologies: REST, SOAP, JSON

J2EE Servers: BEA Web Logic and Tomcat servers

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, UNIX

Microsoft Office suites: Word, Visio, MS Project, PowerPoint

Environment: /Platform: Java, .NET (Built on Angular JS framework)

Continuous Integration Tool: Jenkins/Hudson

Software Development Lifecycle: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, V - Model

Configuration Management: TFS, VSS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kent, WA

QA lead/ Jira Admin

Responsibilities:

• Created test strategy, test plan, test estimation and test cases.
• Created test and defect management processes from the scratch at onsite as the client doesn’t have any QA team set up earlier.
• Actively participated in daily scrum meetings, Sprint Planning and consulted regularly with Project manager/Product owners adjusting deliverables to meet project objectives.
• Conducted peer reviews and structured walkthroughs of test plan, test scripts and other test artifacts.
• Managed and coordinated test schedules, test environment setup confirmation, test execution, produced test results, logged and tracked defects.
• Performed system testing by executing test cases on the .NET based Web applications built on Angular JS framework which are migrated from access to .NET using the Ciber Momentum Transformation Accelerator tool.
• Delivered test status dash board, test metrics and reported the same on daily basis to the project management team.
• Involved in Automation Environment setup using Eclipse, Java, Selenium Web Driver jars and TestNG.
• Designed TestNG test suites, test cases using automation frameworks such as data driven and Keyword driven using Selenium Web Driver commands and methods.
• Executed test scripts, analyzed results and reported defects in Jira.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for back-end testing using SQL server 2012.
• Coordinated UAT testing with clients and supported them on the UAT issues for resolution.
• Acted as an Atlassian Jira Project administrator by performing Jira installation, configuration in Jira Cloud. Created new software projects in Jira, setting up the entire configurations and granted user access to team members in Jira.
• Designed and developed customized test case management workflow and defect workflow in Jira.
• Created new issue type with new screens and fields, custom issue type scheme, new field configurations and new field configuration schemes.
• Managed legacy requirements in Confluence, a collaborative workspace.