SUMMARY:

• Over 16 years of experience in successful delivery of complex end to end testing solutions, end to end test automation and delivery management.
• Four year’s experience managing 25+ members, leading and managing complex projects in communications domain.
• Test automation architect with 16 years of software quality assurance and test automation experience.
• Over five years of experience as test automation manager /test manager handling geographically distributed teams.
• Ten plus years of hands - on experience in Confidential functional test automation tools: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center/ALM, Business Process Testing, Confidential Service Test, VBScript, Para Soft SOA Test, Java, JMeter, Jenkins and Excel Macros.
• Experience in preparing automation test plan, automation strategy, design/developing framework, automation effort estimation and calculating ROI.
• Designed and deployed effective test automation solutions for client-server, web services and mainframe applications.
• Provided technical expertise, designed, developed and maintained robust, scalable automation frameworks.
• Experience in Web Services automation testing using Confidential Service Test, SOAP UI, Para Soft SOA Test and JMeter.
• Proven experience of managing and overseeing testing teams across multi locations.
• Possesses an expert understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software testing concepts, methodologies and metrics.
• Experience in Communications, Health Care and Banking domains

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 7, Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98.

Programming Languages: VB Script, Visual Basic 6.0, Ruby, WATIR, JYTHON, Java, Basic C and HTML

Databases & Tools: MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL and MS Access

Tools: Confidential Quick Test Professional, Confidential Service Test, JMeter, Jenkins, Apache Ant, SOAP UI, Para Soft SOA Test, Sikuli, Confidential Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, Sub-Version, Visual Source Safe 6.0, Toad, Putty, VMware, Hudson and DataPower XI50 .

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Test Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee delivery of all functional testing activities for this project.
• Responsible for developing E2E Test Strategy/Test plan, status reporting, test readiness reviews and test completion reports.
• Participated in program review meetings to discuss current project status, identify problem areas, suggest/review corrective actions and reprioritize activities if required.
• Lead a team 10 onsite and 20 Offshore resources. Was responsible to manage team workload and ensure delivery targets are meet.
• Coordinated with dev-ops team for code deployments and environment shakedown.
• Actively identify/mitigate any risks and issues which may impact delivery schedule.
• Developed automation framework for web services in JMeter.
• Provide detailed reports, tracking progress, highlighting risks and issues at program level.

est Manager/Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work with business owners to understand requirements and develop test plan.
• Analyzed existing automation scripts and designed/developed new framework in JMeter to improve overall efficiency and reduce script execution time.
• Developed data driven framework using JMeter, Java and ANT.
• Developed code to compare complex XML files using XMLUnit in Java.
• Automated execution of regression test scripts via Jenkins.
• Developed XSL code to convert default JMeter results into HTML format.
• Offshore/Onshore Coordination.

Transformation Program, Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the timely delivery of the project from Quality Assurance perspective.
• Leading integration testing effort for the Transformation project.
• Responsible to publish release notes with the TracFone testing teams and ensure that the right modules/ functionalities are being tested.
• Responsible to drive the daily war room calls and track the action items to closure.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure team and ensure that the systems are available for testing.
• Prepare and present various metrics like defect trends, defect closure rates etc. to executive management and project management team.
• Work with TracFone IT development teams to clarify issues and resolve any conflicts.

MyAccount Web Services, Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with business/product owners to understand the requirements to create test plan and strategies.
• Review/Validate requirements with stakeholders to ensuring that they are unambiguous, complete and consistent.
• Define and document system level test cases and acceptance criteria.
• Work with engineering/ IT development teams to clarify issues and resolve any conflicts.
• Execute manual test cases/ automated scripts and assist developers resolving defects.
• Automated Rest web services using JMeter.

Broadband Provisioning System, Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand and improve existing test automation process.
• Optimized the existing automation suite developed in Parasoft SOATest.
• Developed java code to generate the web service request dynamically and dynamic validation of the response.
• Implement Test Management processes using Parasoft Concerto.
• Enabled continuous integration of automation script execution via Hudson.
• Externalized test data from script for ease of use and maintenance.
• Developed customized reports in HTML.
• Offshore/Onshore Coordination.

Confidential, Mt. Laurel, NJ

Automation Center of Excellence, Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned framework for Provisioning Dev team which helped in reducing the test execution time by 60%.
• Developed framework for the Telescope project in Confidential QTP and Para Soft SOA Test for web services automaton.
• Provided solution to automate the End-to-End regression scenarios for Xcalibur project.
• Audited the existing framework for Dotcom project and shared my findings/recommendations with management.
• Developed the automation test plan, test strategies and test environment setup for multiple projects.
• Developed Sikuli scripts to automate the ACSR billing system using JYTHON scripting.
• Automated AMDOCS billing transactions using Web Services.
• Extensively used DOM to identify and interact with test objects.
• Prepared training material on Confidential QTP and trained various team on Test Automation with Confidential QTP.
• Worked on standardization of fields in Confidential ALM across project and domains. This effort helped in generating standard reports from ALM across organization.
• Developed the Test Prediction Dashboard tool for Reporting and Metrics.
• Allocated work to the team, supervised progress, reviewed the scripts and ensured deliverables are of high quality.

Project Cavalry (DTA), Automation Developer

Responsibilities:

• Assessed existing automated framework and redesigned the framework to improve maintainability and overall code coverage
• Developed the automation framework using Confidential Service Test using the C programming language.
• Automation web services using Confidential Service Test.