PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over fourteen years of experience in Software Quality Management, Automation and Testing. Experience in creating and executing project plans which includes project successes in the areas of automation, project management and vendor contract implementation. Strengths in Healthcare and Financial domains backed by a Masters in Computer Engineering. Great communicator, an innovative architect, and problem solver with a proven track record in delivering complex projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: UFT, Selenium, Fitnesse, Quality Center/ALM, Rational Robot, Win Runner, Load Runner

Test Reporting: JIRA, Rally, Clearquest and ALM

Agile technologies: Scrum and Kanban

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB, C#

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and Solaris

Web technologies: Sales force, Smart GWT, JavaScript, Flex, .NET, HTML, XML, CSS, ASP, VB Script

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008R2 and MS Access

AppServers/WebServers: WebSphere, Jetty, JRun, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Sun one, and IIS

Tools: STS, Eclipse, Subversion, Bit bucket, GIT, Jenkins, MS Project, MS Office, Sharepoint, Awesim Simulation, Mat lab, CCStudio

Networking: Socket Programming in C/C++, TCP/IP

EXPERIENCE

Confidential,  Herndon, VA

Automation Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop Automation projects using Java/Selenium, UFT, C#, VB.
• Managed automation development, testing and maintenance within 5% budget variance
• Presented many training sessions/demos and technical deep - dives
• Go-to resource to present and lead team discussions on strategy and planning
• Managed the Confidential automation projects for various business initiatives across Credit BTO.
• Successfully motivated, coached and managed teams in accomplishing complex tasks and challenges through various business transformations resulting in 10% decrease in automation cost.
• Part of the interview panel for hiring new QA consultants.
• Mentor manual testing team on converting User Stories into feature files in Cucumber/Gherkin format.
• Created, configured and executed Jenkins jobs for Automated Smoke and Regression.
• Completed Lights-out automation for QAS and SMDU projects with data staging, regression and results upload which reduced the effort from Days to Hours.
• Successfully implemented In-sprint and out of sprint activities
• Experience in Scrum and Kanban agile models

Confidential, Newton, MA

Automation Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the Automation framework using QTP and selenium/fitnesse (Selenesse).
• Presented best practices and researched new tools for early adoption of new technology.
• Trained the QA team on selenium/fitnesse automation
• Successfully managed the automation projects across the Health solutions enterprise.
• Prepared LOE for automation efforts across multiple projects to optimize implementation timelines.
• Created automation guideline/training documentation for internal QA resources and project stakeholders.
• Conducted recurring automation design meetings
• Created java fixtures that were called from fitnesse.
• Moved data among different databases using DB unit
• Created a backup/restore java fixture that could be called from fitnesse to backup and restore gold data
• Design and Develop New Regression Suite for creating Reviews in CERMe
• Develop Data Driven Automation for Review creation
• Design and Develop Data driven Automation for validating HL7 messages against CERMe DB using ADO object (All business logic in the data sheet)
• Design and develop Data driven automation to verify single sign on .NET application (All business logic in the data sheet)
• Liaise with development on improving object identification for CERMe objects by providing unique static property values
• Conducted a Pilot program to determine the feasibility of Flex UI automation in CERMe

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project planning with Resource allocation and LOE estimation
• QA Project planning for meeting the GA release dates.
• From a Quality perspective managed CERMe related enterprise deployment and hosting.
• Allocate jobs for QA resources and track progress.
• Test strategy implementation and execution
• Liaise with development/product management to resolve issues.
• Metrics gathering and reporting
• Interface with product management in triage meetings for prioritization of defects and enhancements.
• Validated GA check list and Bill of Materials.
• Set up a Websphere 7.0 Linux/Windows cluster and Deployed CERMe war files.
• Set up apache webserver on windows and IBM HTTP server on linux.
• Set up Jetty cluster with Pen Load balancer
• Set up IIS/Jetty install for CERMe
• Set up SSL configurations on Apache, IBM HTTP server,Jetty and IIS
• Imported Self signed SSL certificates into various Key stores
• Participated in the Various JAD Sessions and the General Stakeholders’ walkthroughs.
• Developed Strategy and planning for Upgrade Testing
• Developed Strategy and planning for Testing Jasper and Crystal Reports
• Performed Regular and dump and restore of Oracle Schemas
• Designed, Developed and executed test cases for sending HL7 Messages from Symphonia and Validating in CareEnhance Review Manager
• Designed Developed and executed test cases for testing ActiveX and Javascript Integration with CareEnhance Review Manager
• Worked on Kanban model