SUMMARY:

• Innovative, quality - focused Automation Architect with demonstrated success in architecting enterprise-wide test automation solutions; Visionary designer, accomplished at collaborating across teams, project planning, framework design and implementing end-end robust automation system from grass-roots that deliver project quality, increase reliability and improve productivity.
• Detail oriented leader with ability to manage people, process and technology.
• Hands-on professional with ability to oversee all aspects of software development life cycle. Qualifications offer 16+ years of experience in:
• Designing, Implementing & Managing Test Automation Test Management

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

GUI testing: HP QuickTestPro, Froglogic Squish, Telerik test framework, Ranorex, Selenium

Languages: C#, VB, VBScript, JavaScript, Python, Shell script

Unit Test framework: Nunit, MSTest

ALM/Project Management: HP Quality Center, JIRA, TFS

Test Management: Zephyr

Build/CI: Jenkins

Configuration Management: Perforce, Clearcase, bitbucket

Database: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SDET & Test Lead

Test Automation

• Evaluated and recommended Telerik’s free testing framework for functional test automation due to its native support for Telerik/Kendo controls
• Standardized QA testcase documentation method to use BDD in defining manual tests to assist automation
• Designed a framework with the following components:
• Jenkins for CI and automation on multiple environments
• Telerik test framework for functional GUI testing
• Visual Studio Unit Test framework with TechTalk.SpecFlow to use newly written BDD tests and bind them to automation
• Incorporates POM overlaid with behavior design pattern

Test lead

• Lead globally distributed QA teams across development streams
• Responsible for overseeing testing allocations and activities across teams
• Help QA teams strategize effective test methods for different problem statements
• Identify and share best practices, lessons learnt between the QA teams
• Track and report test metrics and risks for different teams and initiatives
• Use of TFS to align QA practice with our current Agile project management to plan and track work across teams

Confidential  

QA Automation Architect

Test Automation

• Evaluated and recommended FrogLogic Squish as a suitable tool for enterprise test automation to cater to Unix/Windows environments for applications developed on Qt framework
• Responsible for vendor interaction for tool procurement and support
• Designed and developed a platform independent enterprise automation architecture with the following components:
• Zephyr as test management solution and automation execution engine using zbot
• MySQL as the backend to log execution history
• Live automation dashboard using ASP.net, Google visualization APIs, RabbitMQ APIs
• Squish-Qt with python for GUI tests and bash script for backend tests
• Seamless integration with application build system using Jenkins as the driver and consolidator
• Collaborate with application development in improving code consistency to support automation
• Source controlled the automation suite using mercurial into bitbucket

DevOps & Change Management

• Determine release readiness and conduct pre-production release meeting with all stakeholders
• Collaborate with application support and DevOps in deployment and release
• Built a real-time Dashboard to monitor the state and transition of feature branch builds between environments using groovy on Jenkins, JIRA rest APIs and MySQL backend
• Develop tools calling JIRA rest APIs to track task estimates for the team and to import tasks during sprint planning

Confidential  

QA Automation Architect

Planning and Management

• Gather requirements from teams; study feasibility for Automation, establish scope and plan the statement of work.
• Develop Automation strategy document, plan Automation effort and schedule automation script development for functional, integration and regression testing.
• Build a team of talented professionals; mentor them on the framework, tool; delegate units of work.
• Collaborate with build teams and plan regression runs; analyze run report, work with build teams to track down the issues to closure.
• Provide Test metrics to stakeholders.
• Design and establish QA process to be implemented by various teams.
• Demonstrate proof of concept to various clinical teams and sell the benefits of automation.
• Form a committee of representatives from different teams - operation experts, build, prod support teams and perform root-cause analysis after every release and incorporate the review findings into subsequent release.

Automation

• Build one of the largest automation implementations on EPIC EMR system with over 200 business-critical flows automated across different areas of EPIC such as ADT, CAD, AMB, ASAP, Inpatient and Stork.
• Design end-to-end, easy plug-and-play framework using QTP and BPT factoring in usability, seamless data flow, reusability, maintainability, scalability, error logging and recovery.
• Develop accelerative utilities to optimize scripts, improve efficiency and productivity that can integrate with the automation suite.
• Define standards, guidelines, documentation and process for Test Automation.
• Collaborate with vendors for software procurement and support services.

Quality Management

• Setup, Administer and Customize Quality Center(QC) for the entire organization.
• Develop training plan and provide training to clinical/non-clinical teams on using QC with the concept of business process testing (BPT).
• Organize QC structure; strategize effective ways to manage artifacts for implementation and post production teams.
• Create internal workorder application with built-in workflows on SharePoint site using SharePoint designer, aspx pages to manage requests; meet commitments effectively and provide KPI metrics.
• QC Customization & Reporting - VB Script, OTA API, C#, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, SQL, Google Visualization API
• Print System - Prints any type of testplan from the QC client.
• Extract attachments - Integrated a .Net executable with QC Client to extract, download multiple attachments from any QC module.
• QC Custom Help - Hijack help feature to include help file custom built for project.
• Develop several real-time dashboards using ASP.NET, Google charts, SQL and deploy on SharePoint intranet site to be accessible across the organization.
• Conceptualized, designed and developed custom Tools to enhance UX, improve productivity
• Process - Testing enterprise-wide workstation updates
• Constitute a committee to formalize the testing process for enterprise-wide workstation updates.
• Envision and develop SharePoint team site for alpha testing with custom InfoPath forms and nintex workflows.
• Establish metrics and develop aspx reports using SharePoint webservices + Google visualization APIs to aid in reporting test progress.

Confidential,  Tallahassee, FL

Manager & Architect - Test Automation

Management & Planning

• Managed a 4 member team of highly talented automation engineers.
• Established KPIs, goals and managed team performance.
• Conducted several team building activities to keep the team motivated.
• Gathered requirements from teams, analyzed feasibility for automation.
• Planned schedules, allocated resources and designed processes for various Automation projects and coordinated automation efforts.
• Facilitated automation tool training across the organization.

Framework Design & Implementation

• Designed a super-efficient object oriented approach that reduced the scripting time by ~ 50%.
• Researched various cost-effective tools to support object recognition on MS Office suite and zeroed-in on Ranorex® tool.
• Worked with the senior management and procurement teams to procure the software.
• Created wrapper on C# referencing Ranorex® dlls and integrated this with QTP scripts for office object recognition.
• Created core test library dlls using Ranorex on C# and string them in NUNIT to run batches of smoke tests.
• Integrated Excel as a driver interacting with and managing scripts written over QTP and versioning centrally managed libraries using Perforce.
• Developed lucid custom logging using XML + XSLT.
• Shipped over 2000 automated Regression test cases to production estimated to plummet manual test effort by ~40% for a Content Management product.
• Performed feasibility study on Selenium for automation of a web-based content management solution.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET)

• Participated in Framework design and Enhancements for UI Automation using in-house Tools built on C# for a Microsoft Licensing application.
• Test Functions and execute them using Visual Studio Team System - Unit Test Framework.
• As a member of core team that reviewed and supported the in-house tool, incorporated many enhancements to the tool.

Confidential, Merrimack, NH 

Automation Lead

• Setting up automation practice in Testing COE
• Distributed Automation Framework for an Instant messaging application