SUMMARY:

• QA Automation Engineering Manager with 16.5 years of IT experience offering Quality Engineering, Assurance, Test Automation with Thought leadership to support NEXT gen testing tools, process, and practices. Self - motivated, can work independently and perform multiple tasks in leading and developing a high performance testing team using industry tools and best practices
• Strong expertise to mentor and drive Automation roadmap to implement Automation framework (Hybrid/Data Driven/Keyword Driven) with Page Object Model using commercial (UFT, Sauce labs, Tricentis TOSCA, Rational, CA Devtest, Querysurge) and open source tools (Cucumber, Protractor, Selenium, Appium, SOAP UI) covering Web/Mobile, SOA, Middleware(SOAP/REST), ETL/Database (Informatica/Big data) to mitigate automation gaps for increased coverage and quality
• Rich domain experience working with various clients covering Hospitality, Retail, and Insurance customers i.e. Confidential, eBay, Home Depot, Chubb, Hanover
• Scaled Agile methodologies with hands on experience covering Continuous Integration(CI), Continuous Delivery(CD) and Continuous Testing(CT) environment using open source and custom tools like Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Sub version, GIT Hub etc.
• Matured test practices covering Shift left Automation, White Box Testing, Code Coverage (e.g. Emma, Cobertura, Coverity) to optimize test coverage based on code change
• Instrumental to develop and implement a CI/CD Build pipeline platform based on Hygeia/Jenkins2.0 on pivotal cloud platform following CI/CD/CT process and practices
• Product development experience from major players like IBM, Oracle using products like IBM JDK, IBM Web Sphere Everyplace Mobile Portal, IBM DB2, AIX, Linux, Oracle database and security products
• Strong experience covering Test Management, Process, Automation, Tools, Technology to deliver test strategy, planning and execution in a global delivery model
• Participation in sprint planning, grooming, daily standup, and retrospection based on agile metrics at project/program level
• Measured and Monitored Progress & Status to ensure Application Releases are delivered on time and within budget and schedule
• Value articulation with senior leadership to plan the IT tooling budget based on the benefits seen
• Well versed with Budget Management, Resource Management, Capacity Planning, Forecasting, Risk Management, Vendor Management, and Estimation
• Mentored and influenced QA teams across organization towards long term goals on capability building

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TEST AUTOMATION/FRAMEWORKS: Selenium (Webdriver/Grid), UFT (QTP), Tricentis Tosca, Appium, SOAP UI, CA DevTest, Postman, Blaze Meter, JMeter, SilkTest TestNG, JUnit, xUnit, Protractor, Cucumber, Spock DevOps/CI/CD/CT Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, SVN, Git, Bit Bucket

TEST/DEFECT MANAGEMENT: Rally, ALM (Quality Center), JIRA, Rational Clear Quest

TECHNOLOGIES: JAVA/J2EE, XML, XSLT, JMS, HTML, CSS, JSON, SOA, APIGEE, Services (SOAP/REST), JavaScript, Angular JS

SCRIPTING: Python, Groovy, Gherkin, Perl, VB Script

DATABASES: Oracle 12c, SQL Server, IBM DB2, SQL, TOAD

APPLICATION SERVERS: WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle Fusion, Share Point, Apache

PLATFORMS: Windows, AS/400, SUN/Solaris, UNIX, Linux

APPLICATIONS: Amadeus Hotel Platform (AHP), IBM Sterling Order Management System, Oracle Identity Management

INFRASTRUCTURE: Messaging - MQ, Kafka Monitoring - Service Now, App Dynamics, Splunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Tools: Selenium, CA Devtest, Jenkins, Rally, ALM

Quality Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program management covering application areas Loyalty, CRM, Enterprise Information Systems, Global Corporate Solutions, and Property Management System
• Provided extensive QA Automation Thought Leadership for establishing & implementing End-to-End QA Automation Framework, hands-on Strategy and Roadmap involving Full Stack Solution (Web UI (Responsive Web), Mobile (iOS & Android), Desktop, Databases, Mainframe, ESBs, Cloud, and Web Services/API Gateway) Automation across a Portfolio in a Sprint based Scaled Agile (SAFe) CI/CD/CT Environment and a Global delivery model
• Collaboration with QA Team and Stakeholders to document Automation feasibility, Tool selection, Estimation, Strategy, Planning, Reporting, Metrics and to improve Efficiency and Effectiveness of Automation Framework
• Provided Technical Assistance, Deliverables Review, Mentorship, Direction, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Resource Management to QA Team during Functional & Non-Functional Requirements, Security and Regression Testing across all Test Phases and helped in eliminating impediments
• Measured and Monitored Progress & Status to ensure Application Releases are delivered on time and within budget meeting or exceeding expectations
• Implemented Page Object Design (Page Factory) Design Pattern and Data-Driven Automation Framework with TestNG Framework using Selenium Webdriver for WebUI & Mobile (iOS & Android) Automation
• Implemented SOAP UI/CA DevTest/REST-Assured/Groovy Automation Framework for SOA/Middleware (ESB/Web Services) & API Platform Gateway Testing and Load Runner for NFR/Performance/Infrastructure Testing
• Hands on Extensive Experience with Build and Deployment (Ant/Maven/Gradle), Logging and Debugging (Log4j and TestNG/Junit), Continuous Integration (Jenkins), Source Code Management (Bit Bucket) and Reporting (Report NG) Tools & Frameworks
• Pushed new efficiencies with QA Team, from promoting test coverage to creating new tools and Evangelizing Automation best practices

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Tools: Selenium, Protractor, CA LISA, Jenkins, Sauce Labs, JIRA, QC

Automation and Tooling Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the overall delivery across functional, automation, virtualization, Metrics, and tools
• Mentored and implemented Automation Framework Development with customization supporting Behavior Driven Development(Cucumber) to establish end to end traceability between user stories and automation scripts
• Full site/mobile Automation using Selenium/Protractor/Appium, Sauce labs for cross browser automation
• API Automation using Devtest
• Test data management using custom tool using REST API’s
• Jenkins Continuous Integration and environment monitoring using Splunk and Homez
• Static/Dynamic code analysis, coverage and review using Cobertura, Coverity, Crucible and fish eye
• Custom solution for centralized metrics/reports from different sources i.e. Quality Center, JIRA
• Shift left testing practices implemented to identify defects earlier in the cycle
• Custom dev ops build pipeline solution implemented based on (Jenkins/Hygeia) Automation and dev. ops solutions implemented
• Supported business development and transformation across online and enterprise teams
• Supported financial planning, revenue tracking and preparation of the SOWs to meet the customer needs
• Program management, team mentoring, supervision, and escalation management

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Tools: HP QuickTest Professional, HP Quality Center, SOAP UI

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test data management using QTP scripts for policy administration and management
• Test strategy and planning implemented across agile scrum teams and automation teams
• Close partnership with client team for a working model across vendors for functional and integration testing activities
• Transformation roles with the project awarded as innovation champions for the various innovations implemented with net innovation index of 91%
• Program management, project management, delivery governance and strategic directions across scrum teams
• Project management and mentoring the team on test strategy, planning and execution of the deliverables
• QA Governance through dashboards and metrics
• New tools implemented as listed below
• Test case generator tool
• Custom SOA Automation tool
• Knowledge management through social media platform

Confidential

Tools: Java Selenium, CA LISA, Jenkins, Rational Clear quest

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead and delivered a complex program called New Seller Holds with multiple domains and third parties involved. This feature arrested the bad buyer experience caused by new sellers
• Successfully delivered the first Agile project (Known Based Authentication) with test driven requirement covering unit testing, selenium automation and overall quality
• Created a tool called Requirements Definition and Test Case Generation that can help the product team to provide the inputs on a single web UI tool and generate test cases automatically based on the same
• Lead the initiatives like Centralized test plan, wired off test cases and PC management which got recognized by the management team
• Influenced the Test strategy to cover functional test plans, test cases, backend test coverage, integration test coverage and regression test coverage for core and international sites
• Part of the QE strategy to cover across V4 UI layer, Business layer, DB layer and E2E workflow of the product
• Supported the IPC innovation committee through innovation events to demonstrate and nurture the talent

Confidential

Software/Tools: Bug DB, Oratst, JFCUnit, Oracle DB, Oracle Fusion Middleware

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Lead and delivered Identity management products (LDAP, OVD, SSO and SSL) with quality for Oracle fusion middleware and database releases covering 10g and 11g
• Tracking QA deliverables for 11g and reporting them to the management team
• Supported the execution and delivery for Identity management components like Orapki, Oracle Wallet Manager and Oracle Virtual Directory
• Generated Emma code coverage for SSL libraries
• Test Automation using JFCUnit, DTE and Oratst