SUMMARY:

• Founding hands on QA Manager and lead to validate and deliver VOD (IPTV) content to end - consumer devices.
• Hired, mentored and managed a 5+ member QA team for 5+ years.
• Architected and implemented Automation frameworks that are efficient and multifunctional
• Initiated cross functional meetings to ensure end to end quality and project goals.
• Have spent 12 years playing with automation, leading and managing teams in a gamut of industries Confidential (Solar), Confidential (Service Provider ), Cisco(Networking), Confidential (Advertising), ThermoFisherScientific(Life Sciences), Confidential (Internet TV Service).
• Expertise in functional, API automation and performance testing using a variety of automation tools (Silk,QTP,TestComplete,CodedUI) and languages.
• Experienced in testing on Webservices, web-based enterprise apps, WPF, SAAS, Ecommerce apps,MicroServices.
• Extensively worked on Mongo DB, Oracle, MSSQL databases and DB testing.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and software development life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Core Competency: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Stress/Performance Testing, Rest API Testing, Mobile Application Testing(iPhone, iPad), SAAS Applications,, Microsoft Dynamics AX .

Automation Tools: TestComplete, TestExecute, Coded UI, QTP, Silk Test, Silk Performer, Ghost, FoneMonkey, TFS, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse,Test NG, Maven,TFS Load Testing Tool.

Languages: Java, Python, Jscript, ShellScripting, SQL, XML, Cucumber

Version Control Tools: Jenkins, Github,,Team Foundation Server, SVN, Perforce

Back End Tools: Mongo, Oracle, Elastic Search, MSSQL,LDAP

Platforms: Linux, IOS,Mac, Windows, Unix

Utilities / Other: Postman,TFS, Rally, JIRA, Zephyr, Splunk,Team Track, Bugzilla, HPQC, DevTrack,Confluence,AWS.

Methodology: Scrum, Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose,CA

QA Manager Tech Automation

• Worked on Mobile First OTT & IPTV platform and services that deliver Live and VOD Content to STB.
• Managing a team of 5 people and am involved in QA Strategies, mentoring, determining workload, prioritization, coordinating release engineering and deployments besides recruiting technical folks.
• Working with cross functional teams and stakeholders to design project plans, schedule and align processes to achieve project goals besides running daily scrums, QA standups, design discussions.
• Involved in design, development & housekeeping of nosql DB utility tools in java Automation framework for enhanced & complex Db reporting, Rest API Testing, & Selenium POM Automation Framework(SAF) with ObjectRepository Design Pattern using TestNG and Selenium WebDriver for website testing.

Technologies: Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins, Java,,Mongo, Github,Eclipse,Jira,Maven,Splunk

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Sr. Software QA Engineer

• Designed and developed Keyword Driven Test Automation Framework.
• Developed Smoke and Regression Test Suites for Dynamics AX application.
• Written Cucumber (Gherkins) Acceptance Test suites for Advertising Application.
• Involved in recruiting members to the QA team besides mentoring them.

Technologies: Visual Studio 2013, Coded UI, TestComplete, TestExecute, JIRA, DevTrack, Cucumber, Microsoft Dynamics AX., Team Foundation Server.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Sr. Software Quality Engineer

• Designed and architected the test automation framework for SAAS based Intelligent Solar Information System (ISIS) application which includes monitoring and performs system control.
• Developed reusable component libraries, application specific functions for Functional Testing
• Developed Regression, Acceptance and SmokeTest Suites for Confidential flagship product.
• Performed Database Testing, Web Application Testing, API Testing and Performance Testing.
• Performed API Testing (REST) for mobile clients on iPad and iPhone.
• Automated Web Application which contains dynamic data generated from all system components and dynamic graphs.
• Performance and Scalability testing conducted on ISIS Application conducted using VS2010.
• Automated SSRS Reports and DataServices API’s (Json)

Technologies: TestComplete TestExecute, Visual Studio 2010 (TFS),MSSQL 2008,Selenium WebDriver,Eclipse and FoneMonkey, JSON, SilverLight, REST,SAAS, WPF application

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

• Implemented the test automation framework and several generic functions to perform automated Functional Testing on ThermoFisher Applications using TestComplete & TestExecute Automation Tools.
• These applications interact with medical devices & scientific instruments.
• Involved in Designing, developing and implementing comprehensive test plans and identifying automation tasks based on userstories.
• Implementation of Distributed Testing and integrating the Automation tool TestComplete with Visual Studios Team Foundation System 2008 and 2010..
• Document, troubleshoot and isolate problems during testing & tracking bugs in TeamTrack & Rally .
• Developed knowledge base for TestComplete Errors, documentation for TestComplete integration with Team Foundation System, developed documentation for Distributed Testing mechanism.
• Conducted several training sessions for the Product evaluation team for TestComplete/TestExecute, Automation Framework, SmokeTest automated script demonstration and several other related presentations.

Technologies: QTP, TestComplete, TestExecute, Visual Studio 2008 and 2010,WPF applications

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

• Implementing a test automation framework to perform automated Functional Testing on the Cisco SMB (Cisco Configuration Assistant) product using SilkTest
• SMB is an Application that creates communities of devices, configures devices (Switches, Controllers, Acceess Points & Clients), monitors real time device images and trouble shoot network problems.
• Involved in designing, developing and implementing comprehensive QA LOE (Level Of Effort), QAR (QA Scoping Request Form), test plans.
• Perform all aspects of verification, including functional, regression, load and system testing.
• Developed generic test Framework to use across builds.

Technologies: CVS, SilkTest and Silk Performer

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

• Implemented test automation and performed automated Functional & Stress Testing on all Confidential Products .
• Designed, developed and implemented comprehensive QA LOE, QAR, test plans and test cases.
• Ran regression tests and performed both white and black box testing using SilkTest.
• Followed SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Mentored other members of the QA team to improve processes, tools and methods.
• Worked with other IT groups such as Marketing to gather requirements, engineering to resolve defects and Operations to assist in defining performance metrics.

Technologies: SilkTest and Silk Performer

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Sr. QA Engineer

• Performed QA on SSL based Web Server Applications using JAVA, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, XML, ORACLE, NES, .NET, IAS and Apache.
• Documented test procedures, test cases, and test scripts using SilkTest.
• Involved in Business Process, Functional Testing, User interface testing, Performance Testing, Configuration Testing (App/web servers, Application), Installation Testing and Integration Testing.
• Coordinated with Confidential Partners in developing appropriate testing procedures and executed them successfully at Partner site.
• Quality Control, Backup and Recovery, Database Administration.
• Supported a suite of iPlanet eCommerce products.

Technologies: SilkTest and Silk Performer