SUMMARY

• IT Industry experience, as Developer (5 Years), Test Automation Engineer(4 Years) and Team Lead (2 Years).
• Domain Knowledge of Telecommunication Ordering and Billing application and Services.
• Skilled in Java/J2EE Applications development and testing, Web 2 and Web 3.0 Technologies, Application Modernization and System Automations.
• Leading 9 direct reporting team members and worked on different phases of Project life cycle Management.
• As offshore Project coordinator/team leader have strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Having good client interaction, project coordination and people management skills.
• Experienced in handling 24*7 on - call maintenance support and work under pressure for release cycles.
• Handled multiple projects through SDLC, STLC and continues improvements.
• Experienced in Software testing process including Test Planning, Test case design, Test scripting, Environment Setup, Test Execution and Defect Management.
• Participating in Multiple Key Organization Initiatives and COEs (Center of Excellence).
• Trained CMMi Dev version 1.3 and ATM (Assessment Team Member) for CMMi Level 5 SCAMPI for CenturyLink.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE and Related frameworks

GUI/Web Technologies: Java, TestNG framework, Selenium Webdriver, Backend Testing (SOAP and REST APIs), HTML, XML, JavaScript, JSON.

Development Skills: Core Java, J2EE frameworks (EJB, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Struts, Groovy on Grails), SOAP and REST Webservices, JSP, Servlet, HTML, Java Script.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Application/Web Servers: WebLogic, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat

Operating Systems: Unix, Sun Solaris, Windows, Linux

Other Tools: Toad, Cognos 10, Maven, Dimension (Config Management and release Management), Remedy (Ticketing Tool), Caliber, Quality Center, Jerkins, Git, VSS, Eclipse, Postman, Swagger, Jira, Eclipse, VSS

Testing Skills: Testing Automation, Defect/Bug Tracking, Test Strategies & Coverages, Test Plans, Scripting & Documentation, System, Integration, functionality and Regression testing, UI & Compatibility Testing, Backend API testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects from development, testing and data analysis and Reporting.
• Handled team size of 9, with simultaneous 8 active projects major development and testing. Owning 16 applications of service availability of 24*7.
• Presented proposal to higher management, increased project intake count from 9 to 16 without headcounts.
• Created new L1 opportunity in team for onshore coordinator, with helped management in saving cost for venders on those applications.
• Delivered Trainings organization wide and facilitated for changes to be brought in Maintenance project from CMMi 3 to CMMi5 level projects.
• Focused and achieved project stability by meeting KPIs. Improved turnaround time for ticket to be greater than 50% from the organization goal.
• Generate metrics and analyze the data on periodic basis and report to management
• Prepare Causal Analysis and Resolution on Critical Issues / Outages / Missed KPIs.
• Responsible for overall Project Monitoring, Control and Status Reporting to CenturyLink onshore and CenturyLink India Management.
• Translate Business Requirements to detailed IT Requirements, create Test strategies and Plan, take sign off from Business on Requirements (Functional & Non-Functional).
• Ensure all team members are utilized. Monitoring and ensuring the teams are stabilized on process and technical updates. Scheduling for the week based on the forecasted volume
• Creating congenial environment within the team to make it a great place to work.
• Set goals for direct reporters, encourage them to achieve and go beyond, do Performance Evaluation.
• Rewards and Recognition for subordinates.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contribute technically in building automation scripts for large complex telecom software systems.
• For Enhancement in existing system, conceptualize the solution, analyze Business requirements, document them, got them reviewed, approved and track requirements to the delivery.
• Piloted Migration of applications to FOSS environment from WebLogic server.
• Took initiative in transforming testing approach to Automation as part of application modernization of Legacy CenturyLink applications. Pilot project to be -OMIR suite testing framework as POC.
• Successfully Piloted suite of Application as POC for testing automation.
• Analyzed Requirements, designed, developed projects and Coordinated release as well as day to day project work with onshore and offshore team for Telecom Ordering and Billing Applications.
• Automated Backend Testing of the upstream and downstream data staging, APIs and System Availability.
• Develop test automation Scripts, maintain, and execute tests and metrics related to UI / functionality & API testing.
• Involved in peer reviews of the team’s test plans and cases. Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix in order to manage and organize test cases. Write test strategies, test plans and test cases based on IT requirements.
• Interact and collaborate directly with software developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure proper development and quality of service applications and products.
• Creates and manufactures test data needed for execution or database population.
• Participated in Open source COE and Operation tools development.