SUMMARY:

• Senior QA/ Automation Lead with full system development lifecycle experience, including creating Manual and Automated test cases (System, Integration, User Acceptance Testing UAT), performing - Load Test.
• Qualifications include 8 years of QA software testing and Lead experience.Backed by strong credentials including a computer science bachelor’s degree, worked on agile methodologies, waterfall model and multiple QA tools- Automation and Performance Test
• Extensive experience in Selenium Web driver - Java, and following Continuous Integration/Development with Jenkins- Maven Build.
• Strong Knowledge of Web service testing- SOAP and REST/ Service Virtualization (CA Lisa) and Database/Data Migration testing- Complex SQL scripting and ETL processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SOA Testing & Methodologies
• Test Plans, Strategy & Processes
• Acceptance Test Driven Development
• Scripting & Documentation
• Agile Methodologies
• UI & Compatibility Testing
• Web Service Testing-Soap/Rest
• Load / Stress Testing
• Data Stage Jobs
• Automation Testing
• Defect Tracking/Reporting
• Jenkins and Sauce Labs
• ETL and Unix
• SOAP UI and LOAD UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 40 members offshore for multiple projects while working on monthly releases- waterfall model- approx. $2.5M projects each
• Led another team of 4 QAs - offshore for Agile Projects in a scrum model.
• Set up QA process for agile team to follow for test and defect management, test environments set up and test execution and reporting.
• Moved team from ALM to Rally for Test and Defect Management to cater to selenium automation
• Walkthrough the applications with the help of Subject Matter Experts to know third party components, custom build components, dependencies and technologies. Also identify some end-to-end test scenarios for automation tool evaluation.
• Followed Acceptance Test Driven Development - using Selenium WebDriver - Java, Cucumber, Jenkins, SauceLabs . Source Code Management in Git/Code hub.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Modular Driven and Hybrid frameworks
• Mentor the team to use the framework, quality standards, implement the change management system in the automation suites and prepare the user friendly documentation for the scripts
• Creating Test Plan/Strategy Documents and walking through with entire team including business
• Attend Budgeting meeting to estimate QA efforts for multiple projects
• Signing off on project related documents from QA end, and also sign off from QA standpoint during Production validations and releases .
• Attended weekly status meeting with Business and Stakeholders and provided detailed QA status reports (Daily and Weekly).
• Worked with multiple projects - UAT partners- User Acceptance Test to make sure, production release is a GO
• Conducted a complete assessment of teams, processes and environment ; defined issues and risks; and oversaw the design and introduction of tools, processes and best practices across testing life cycle to improve throughput, communication and on-time delivery of projects in an Agile development environment.
• Co-ordinated with Client and Business Analysts for creating and updating Functional Specification document(Base document for all the testing and development)
• Work in an Agile team and follow scrum model deploying code to production every month
• I was involved in multiple phases of testing, Assembly Testing, System Integration testing, Functional Verification Testing, Production Support, User Acceptance Testing, Production validations
• Data Warehouse /Data Conversion/Migration/Backend/Background testing, exclusively TOAD, Oracle, My SQL, Complex SQL querying, SQL server used for validation.
• Attending and signing off on Go No-Go meetings every release
• Production Validations and Checkout Activities along with business.
• Reviewing Source and Target mapping documents created by the multiple downstream and upstream applications.
• Aligning 6 Test environments for testing purpose per the release .
• Assisted QA management in the interviewing and hiring process .
• Defect and Test Management in ALM 12/HP Quality Centre, Jira, VersionOne and Rally
• Working on APIs- Soap and Rest services- SOA
• Running backend jobs in UNIX and job schedulers
• Built wiki site for Quality Engineering department.

Confidential, Richfield, Minnesota

QA and Integration(End to End) Lead (Agile Methodology)

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key member of an Agile Team, as a QA lead.
• Supervise and coordinate a Eight member software QA team, offshore (Chengdu, China )
• Understanding requirements given by the client and estimating testing efforts in sprint planning
• Automating test scripts in SOAP UI, Push to Test-Test Card Server and Test maker- Service Oriented architecture (SOA)
• Working with MQs, Unix, Integration Adapters, Publisher Subscriber models
• Worked on automation framework using Rational Functional Tester.
• Defect management and test management using HP ALM
• Used QTP and RFT for automation framework
• Working with MQ Admin.
• Integration Testing- Test Lead (End to End)- Working with multiple cross application over the enterprise to get newer enhancement deployed to production
• Groovy Scripts and Soap UI Properties
• Perform Load test on the web service using Push to Test- TestMaker
• Rally and Version1 used as a documentation tool for test cases and Sprint Tasks
• Raising RFC Request For Change in ITSM and Service Now tool
• Checking Database tables using SQL developer
• Given Demo to Clients on the working of web services and performance test metrics
• Been a part of the Exhibition of web services, internal to best buy.
• Creating support document for Support Team, post production
• Requirement Gathering for testing purpose
• Load UI used for Load testing.
• Interact with BA to understand the functional requirements, have also worked as a BA.
• Worked as a TIBCO Tester- tracking Proxy, Server and Interface.
• Error Logging testing using TIBCO.
• Worked on Test Coverage Plans with Hexawise Tool and QA Estimation for multiple large projects
• ETL testing using Publisher and Subscriber Model, Standalone adapter including Data Analysis on Transactional and Logging Database.

Confidential

Functional Tester and Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The role included working with iGate Patni and Mahindra Satyam developers, in an Agile model.
• Involved in client meetings with IT secretary and Director General, explaining the working of the web based application.
• Defect Management and reporting with Rational Team Concert.
• Ad-hoc testing of the application in Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat, as per the FRS document

Confidential

Functional and Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• The role included understanding the requirements from the client-Home and Auto LOBs ( Flow Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, High Level and Low Level Requirement and Wire Frames )
• The role also included Sending testing estimates ( Preparation of Test Plan, Condition Creation, Test Case Writing, Peer Reviewing, Content Reviewing, Test Execution, Defect Contingency )
• Creating Test Conditions, Test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix in Excel and linking them in HP Quality Centre for tracking.
• I was Involved in multiple phases of testing, Assembly Testing, System Integration, Functional Verification Testing, Production Support and User Acceptance Testing.
• Trained newly joined testers on writing, executing and automating test cases in very short time and conducted trainings for the same
• Attended weekly status meeting and provided detailed status report(Daily and Weekly).
• Involved in Creating Test Plan document. Also, involved in co-ordination with client during the testing and planning activities.
• Module Lead for two different modules in AT phase(LifeCycle and Billing), managing an off-shore team of 10 members
• Co-ordinated with Client for creating and updating Functional Specification document(Base document for all the testing and development)