SUMMARY:

• 16+ years of strong professional experience in Program management, Project management, Test management, Test automation, Mobile testing, Mobile automation, mainly in the BFSI segment
• Strong experience in setting up & managing large TcoE (Test Centre of excellence) & QA teams for various client organizations like EHI
• Head of the automation center of excellence for the entire Insurance vertical consisting of around 40+ insurance accounts (clients), 15+ managers, 20+ test leads and around 200+ automation engineers
• Seasoned QA strategist & manager, automation framework architect, Program manager
• Hands - on experience in designing and implementing various QTP frameworks for financial applications
• Performed QA assessments, device test strategy & roadmap for various customers like Hertz (rental car company)
• Specialize in Test management consulting and automation framework technical consulting & re-engineering
• Analyze latest trends in traditional automation & mobile automation tools & accordingly recommend tools as per client organization requirements
• Worked as an automation framework lead architect for the Asset and Wealth management LOB of Confidential
• Worked on financial verticals like wealth management, portfolio management, KYC, global strategic trading platform, tax lot accounting
• Test requirements gathering and Analysis through client interaction, translating them into test scenarios, test cases and driving their execution
• Worked on all types of testing in the STLC - Functional testing, UAT, SIT, Load testing, regression testing
• Worked with Confidential in Investment banking (derivatives) department for testing of ETF trading, basket trading and security trading with soft and hard limits
• Executed the UAT of PRIME 3.0 Credit card rollout for Barclaycards in India and UAE for

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation tools: HP QTP/UFT (all versions), Winrunner, Selenium

Mobile automation tools: Seetest, Mobile labs, Perfecto mobile, Device anywhere

Cross browser testing tools: Saucelabs,Crossbrowsertesting.com, Browsera

Test management tools: Quality Centre (ALM), Jira, Bugzilla, Zephyr

Operating Systems: Windows XP,2K,2K3, Vista, UNIX, LINUX, Macintosh

Database: Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase, My SQL domain / functional skills

Finance: Trading, Asset and Wealth management, Derivatives, Retail banking (Credit cards)

Telecom: POS systems UAT,POS systems automation

Systems: System administration, Domain controllers, Backup tools, File systems

Shipping: E2E shipping life cycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Owner & Founder

Responsibilities:

• Program management (QA)
• Test management
• Project management
• Setting up Test center of excellence (TCoE)
• Building QA organization from the scratch for various clients
• Fixing issues & pain points of QA organization
• Test automation strategy & roadmap consulting
• Automation framework architecture consulting & re-engineering
• Test automation tool analysis & recommendation
• Mobile automation strategy consulting (Experitest Seetest, Mobile Labs etc.)
• Functional QA strategy & management consulting
• Regression testing, UAT consulting
• SDLC

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct client interaction with the QA teams, Business analysts, stakeholders to understand and analyze the automation requirements
• Planning, forecasting and budgeting for the projects
• Strategize & Implement of DevOps / Continuous integration using Jenkins
• Owner of the ‘Integrated automation’ theme for the “Transformation” program with target savings of 3.1 GBP
• Presenting Cognizant’s QA/ACoE capabilities to various clientele
• Presenting proposals, estimates and new automation avenues to client
• Perform account level reviews and identify key issues
• Analyzing the project specific pain points and providing delivery resolution
• Create automation specific intellectual properties
• Designing and implementing the ‘Best in class automation frameworks’ for measuring the current state of the account level QA
• Track to closure and report various BIC parameters like script coverage, utilization, ROI
• Capability building around the industry wide used products
• Provide domain trainings to QA resources to ensure functional know how
• Create requirements traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
• Report test status to PMO and stakeholders periodically
• Provide effort estimates for assigned work packages
• Metrics gathering and reporting
• Implementation of SoA based automation, Webservices testing

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Testing center of excellence strives to bring out incremental innovation in various business processes of financial, supply chain, sustainability, Financials, Professional Services, Mobility solutions, costing efficiencies and other facets of managing an enterprise. As the part of CoE, my primary objective is to design and define customized QTP frameworks suitable for various projects, define best practices, drive new thoughts and ideas towards solutions based on market intelligence, customer requirements, addressing pain areas and facilitating innovation across the practice.
• Testing CoE is involved in creating differentiators and innovative solutions to address white spaces and providing flexible QTP frameworks that empower end user’s scripting flexibility and low maintenance
• Focus is on incremental innovation. Finding out business problems, identifying areas that need solutions. Creation of Idea Groups that can drive initiatives with multiple groups of people to search for problems.
• Facilitating innovation through various media including movie making, presentation, innovating 'inside' the box, removing functional fixedness, enabling extensive thoughts and such other means to foster knowledge enterprise and harness abilities of every mind

Confidential

Test manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct interaction with the program managers, delivery managers, business users, application owners for capturing initial test/QA requirements. Gathering and analyzing AUT for carrying out both high level and detailed analysis.
• Ensure the correctness of requirements with co coordinating with Business and internal IT stake holders.
• Support business during UAT
• Execute and maintain automated daily morning healthchecks
• Defining, designing, deploying and maintaining the test automation framework
• Prepare test summary report and defect metrics
• Preparing the automated regression test suite using QTP
• Creating reusable automation libraries
• Identifying and defining ‘Areas of Automation’
• Writing application specific functions
• Chairing the QA status call
• Resolving automation related queries of the team
• Developing test scenarios as per the FRD
• Problem tracking and reporting
• Design and execute functional, integration, system test cases
• Create requirements traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
• Report test status to PMO and stakeholders periodically
• Provide effort estimates for assigned work packages
• Contribute to metrics gathering
• Vendor management

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review the Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Use case documents to carry out the testing activities
• Participate in Team Planning Sessions and Walkthrough Meetings
• Preparing and executing run plan
• Responsible for testing the interfaces of PRIME 3.0
• Defect management
• Contribute QA part of the consolidated project plans
• Report Test status to PMO and stakeholders periodically
• Worked closely with for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Following features of RAPTOR were in scope of test life cycle - Order routing for Market and Limit order types for underlings like ETFs, Baskets, Single order
• Testing advanced risk management features during trade operation to ensure Soft limits and hard limits for limit are accurately implemented

Confidential

QC engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the automated regression test suite using Winrunner 7.6
• Creating reusable automation libraries
• Identifying and defining ‘Areas of Automation’
• Writing application specific functions
• Data warehouse (Distribution Centre) testing for carriers like UPS (Domestic and International) and FedEx (Domestic and International)

Confidential

QA engineer, Systems QA engineer

Responsibilities:

• Quality assurance of the overall GUI of SGD
• Automating the Smoke/Sanity Test with Winrunner using TSL
• Preparation & Verification of Test cases & Test Plans of specific components like Device drivers, IFS, Idle sessions, Connection settings, and Database redundancy
• Testing of the Load balancer, Web server, and Application server
• Quality assurance of the overall GUI of SGD
• Automating the Smoke/Sanity Test with Winrunner using TSL
• Testing of the Idle sessions in disconnect and logout scenarios
• Testing of Printer Driver Management utility of SGD
• Testing of the Implementation of IFS over the Client
• Web Testing of the SGD server over IIS
• Server Backup verification
• Execution of the SWAT (System wide acceptability test)
• Testing of the Single Port Relay and validating using Netstat