SUMMARY:

• Over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology industry
• 8 years of experience as a QA Test Lead/Coordinator for fortune 50 Insurance Company
• Experienced with handling QA team of 15 test engineers
• Domain Exposure - Financial and Insurance services
• Experienced in Automation tools - Selenium WebDriver, RFT and HP QTP.
• Experienced in Selenium WebDriver and have worked in implementing test automation in multiple projects.
• Experienced in designing and developing test automation frameworks
• Experience in working with various automation frameworks - TestNG and Serenity BDD
• Experience in working Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tools - Cucumber and JBehave
• Excellent in understanding of complete Software Development life cycle (SDLC)
• Software development expertise in Databases like DB2 and PostgreSQL
• Extensively worked on Planning, managing and executing entire Testing Lifecycle for project milestones and delivery.
• Expert in Formulating Test Strategy, Test Plans from Product Requirement Document and Test Design Specs.
• Extensive Experience in Managing Testing Schedules and planning Test Cycles per release requirement.
• Evaluating Requirement Impact Analysis & worked on Risk Analysis, test quality and effectiveness by doing causal analysis.
• Extensively worked on Identifying Risks, gaps and issues in the Testing Process.
• Extensively worked on Agile Methodology, Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC, Scrum Development Life cycle, define sprints and Version One
• Good Exposure in Conducting Defect Review Meetings and evaluating impact analysis for defects.
• Coordinating with UAT team for setup and testing of proposed application and evaluating their findings.
• Ability to handle the multiple project assignments.
• Seeking position as QA Test Lead or QA Manager

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Serenity BDD: Cucumber - JBehave - Gherkin Langauge - Selenium WebDriver - QuickTest Professional (QTP) - WinRunner - TestDirector - Quality Center - Rational Functional Tester (RFT) Rational Manual Tester (RMT) - - Telelogic DOORS 8.1 - TRAC - TestLink – SOAP UI

Windows XP: Windows 2003 – Windows NT / 2000 – Linux-Mandrake 7.2

C – C++ – COBOL – PL/I – WML – WML: Scripts – HTML 4.0 – JAVA – HTML – VBScript – Test Script Language (TSL) - WML, WML Scripts, Perl 5,

IMS: DB – DB2 – Sybase – PostgreSQL – IMS DC – Rumba 95 – ISPF Editor –TSO – FILE AID – SPUFI – QMF – IMS EXPERT – DB2 EXPERT – XPEDITOR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Illinois

Senior Test Lead/Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Ensured project status and metrics are accurately reported to Service Managers, Test Mangers, Project Sponsors, and other project stake holders
• Designed and Developed automation framework and scripts using BDD framework tools - Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver and Serenity BDD.
• Developed automated test scripts by setting up Page Factory and Page Object patterns.
• Expert in writing user stories & Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and helped maintaining story board.
• Lead dependency, risk and issue management activities across releases and provided status to systems and business stake holders.
• Generated Test Strategy, Test Planning, Defect reports document and defined testing processes for Test efforts.
• Review Test environment needs and data availability.
• Team lead for Functional Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing and Exploratory testing in an AGILE environment.
• Developing and executing Test plans, outlining Testing scope, activities, schedules, deadlines and estimates.
• Managing Test Execution, allocating task to individuals and monitoring their output.
• Managed testing activities, updated daily testing activities status to the stakeholders and Co-coordinating onshore-offshore calls.
• Extensively worked on SOAP UI for Web Service Testing.
• Lead major effort in Claims System like Canada Migration Project, Workers Comp Project, Claim Handling & Assignment, Organization & Performer, Generic Reassignment and Multiple Reassignment etc.
• Actively worked with Vendors (Enterprise Rent A Car, Sedgwick Workers Comp – E02)

Confidential, Illinois

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans and test cases based on functional and business requirements using SDM.
• Manage the test schedule and resources for a project split out to ensure that all hardware, firmware and software work seamlessly with each other across the entire platform.
• Maintaining an awareness of the skills and strengths of team members and using this knowledge to allocate tasks effectively
• Responsible for writing master test plans, environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules for applications.
• Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Re-testing of application using written test cases
• Run all Defect Review meetings, Test meetings and Vendor software discussion meetings.
• Responsible for Test delivery, end to end management for particular modules, conducting knowledge sharing trainings and providing cross team trainings.
• Managed testing activities, updated daily testing activities status to the stakeholders and Co-coordinating onshore-offshore calls.
• Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Data. Creating and executed Test Cases & Performed Regression Testing/ Functional Testing/ Cross Browser Testing /System Testing

Confidential

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual, Regression, Functional, UAT and System testing for Auto Insurance, Life Insurance, Investment Products, Employee Benefits and Homeowner Products Insurance Information
• Involved in the Development of test plans and test cases based on functional and business requirements using SDM
• Extensively Performed Manual Testing of the Application to ensure the Quality of the Application.
• Tested the application on various browsers and platforms and Performed Back End Testing using SQL Queries.
• Retrieved the data from Mainframe environment using DB2 and Verified data integrity using SQL.
• Manage the test schedule and resources for a project split out to ensure that all hardware, firmware and software work seamlessly with each other across the entire platform.
• Formulating Estimation methodologies, Test Plan/Approach/Strategy, Test Report preparation
• Run all Defect Review meetings, Test meetings and Vendor software discussion meetings. Review all specifications & maintaining the defects using Defect tracking system and Review defects, Provide analysis, reports and status of all products in test, defect trends

Confidential

Mainframe Application Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Prepared understanding documents regarding the knowledge gained by analysis of the system
• Preparation of Data Flow Diagrams ( DFD s) using VISIO
• Preparation of Unit, Integration & System Test Case
• Testing using Batch Terminal Simulator (BTS) and XPEDITOR
• Quality procedures related to the project and Metrics Collection.
• Code Reviews and Test Reviews using company’s proprietary Quality Checklist (QUALIFY)
• Testing and recording test results
• Reporting work status
• Ensuring timely and defect free deliver

Confidential

Project Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Designed front end using WML
• For back end processing used Perl 5.0 and at the back end used PostgreSQL for storing users information.
• Test the application through WAP Simulator Toolkit.