SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of extensive experience as anAutomation Lead/Architect Lead /QA Analyst
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in building out testing automation capabilities and drive the test transformation program for multiple cross - functional projects of medium to high complexity
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and has the ability to effectively organize, multi-task and prioritize a wide array of initiatives. Has an aptitude for innovation
• Effectively interact and build relationships with partners across organizational boundaries and across geographies and functions and encourage collaboration and team work with other teams
• Strong leadership presence which commands respect and earn trust of senior management team
• Demonstrated financial acumen to develop a detailed business case, including investments, detailed automation benefits and link to overall finances of the business
• Promotes pace and energy and group values within the team and leads by example
• Focuses QA Manual teams on how automation can contribute to the benefit of their personal skills and to the achievement of corporate goals and objectives
• I have worked for various U.S. organizations including:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: CICS, COBOL, FILE AID, ISPF, TSO, JCL, DB2, VB, JAVA, Excel, DHTML, HTML, XML, Oracle, SAP, ABAP/4, EDI, JIRA, Pivotal Tracker,SQL Developer,SOAP UI, SWAGGER UI, WINSCP,ALM/Quality Center, TOAD, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Load Runner, LISA, Selenium, JSON, RestAPI, MySQL, Pivotal tracker, Cloud Foundry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tech Lead

• Analysis of user stories and identified additional scenarios to cover
• Verify the user stories once the code is deployed to staging and testing in UI based on the acceptance criteria in the user story
• Testing API feature- Testing in Swagger UI, by invoking the endpoint specified in user story
• Testing user stories related batch job to retrieve data from other system
• Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java as Scripting languages
• Batch job execution for AAEvive customers and Health mine customers

Confidential, Tampa

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in building out testing automation capabilities and execution plan based on business strategies and objectives
• Develop automation feasibility reports for different applications and systems based on the technical analysis, complexity and reusability
• Actively engage and manage senior stakeholder relationships, expectations and provide regular project updates and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately
• Ensures most efficient course for delivery by identifying and removing barriers and completing base line tasks to project success
• Negotiated contracts with vendors that saved the organization and managed vendors
• Significant reduction of effort while ensuring the continuation and enhancement of automation framework - script development effort reduced by 50%, script execution time reduced by 40% and script maintenance effort reduced by 50%
• Assessing and managing risks associated with third-party relationships and perform necessary third-party due diligence, prepare request for quote (RFQ), CBA and vendor selection
• Define and document the QA automation processes, best practices, automation frameworks, data management strategy and roll out to different projects across the Banking Technology
• Develop road map, and detailed implementation plan with key work streams/milestonesand contingency plan and deliver project commitments on-time, within budget and with no disruption to stakeholders and meeting the strategic and business requirements
• Develop Automation Dashboards and formulate KPIs to highlight automation coverage and benefits and determine improvement opportunities
• Provided timely reports on project status, risks and issues, evaluating automation testing efficiency based on execution of automated scripts in each release
• Increase collaboration on test case rationalization and reduce duplicate efforts and cross training across the Banking Technology Quality Organization
• Develop test automation strategies, estimation, tools and effective test automation solutions for upcoming GLOBAL FUND CONTROL (GFC) stability projects like JETS testing, Performance testing and Capacity Testing, GFC Simulator, health check points, automated transaction processing, GFC UI testing, deep dive for regression testing
• Create data set for GFC stability dive compare utility tool (around 2500 end to end transactions of different scenarios)
• Develop and executed Automated test cases providing the greatest regression coverage for each release within time budget allocated and maintain the Automated Regression Test Bed
• Web services automation using SOAP UI tool
• Ensure effective and appropriate resourcing to project lifecycle with the right blend of skills and good working relationships
• Develop and managing career development including performance reviews, succession planning, hiring and training and enforcing corporate policies and procedures and rewarding and recognizing associates
• Stretching high potential associates and developing their leadership skills and managing underperformance in the team
• Accountability for the development of talent and skills within the team in order to meet both short term and long terms project needs
• Provide guidance, training and mentoring to project teams and test engineers for the implementation of testing automation processes and best practices as needed
• Participated in development of annual budget for Banking Technology team

Confidential

QA Analyst

• Ownership for: Test strategy, test planning, QA team deliverable, and review with peers and key project team members
• Perform complex functional, application, and regression tests, planned and implemented automated testing along with timely releases of product and production escalation patches
• Involved in business analysis and requirement gathering
• Responsible for in-house training, knowledge transfer and collaboration

Confidential

Project Lead

• Reviewed requirements, specifications and documentation to understand of the programs and processes to be certified& developed a test automation strategy and successfully implemented QTP
• Established formal QA Test Plans, Test Cases, Traceability Metrics and Test Summary documents.
• Mitigated QA risks including escalation to senior management, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure testing quality

Confidential

Project Lead

• Guide and develop QA associates through the process of QA strategy, planning, project team work allocation, scheduling and identification of deliverables, correlating back to the business and release objectives.
• Analyze and design comprehensive and efficient tests and test implementation strategies for various Internet projects. Successfully implemented Automated Testing solutions using Win Runner and QTP test tools. Collaborated with development to nail down issues before they became official defects.
• Collaborated with development to nail down issues before they became official defects
• Created a productive relationship with the development counterpart to maximize project efficiency
• Resource induction and managed test resources