SUMMARY

• 16 years of Software Industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets and roles. Performed Test Automation Architect & Automation Lead role for 10+ years.
• 8 years of experience at client site, US.
• Experience in design and architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions to satisfy client requirements
• Substantial Expertise in Test Automation & Framework development for UI, Services/API testing, Integration, E2E & Performance Testing using Selenium Web Driver, Soap UI, Java, Groovy Scripting, Test NG, Cucumber, Jenkins, VSTS/Coded UI (C#), Ruby, UFT, Silk Test, Load Runner, VBA and Microsoft Internal tools like KAF & RNP.
• Experience in Cloud Technology (AWS) and CICD (using Jenkins, Git Hub, BitBucket etc)
• Experience in integrating Smoke/Regression test suites in CI/CD pipelines
• Good Knowledge on Kubernetes.
• Experience in SOA/Micro services, Hadoop Big Data and Tableau reporting tool
• Experience in developing Test Automation frameworks from scratch using programming languages like Java, C# & various Automation tools.
• Experience in framework development for SQL/NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, SQL Server) testing using C# and Java.
• Proven experience with defining, developing and implementing manufacturing test strategy for new products.
• Experience in testing Data Warehouse Systems
• Expertise in writing stored procedure using SQL Server.
• Experience working with Log Aggregation Tools like Splunk etc
• Experience in using Cloud based infrastructure (AWS) for testing.
• Experience in closely working with Product Owners and help them define the requirements
• Lead multiple project teams develop ing and maintaining detailed test plans, managing test deliverables in line with the test plans
• Substantial experience in tools like JIRA, VersionOne, QTest ALM, Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearQuest and Bugzilla.
• Experience in Software Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, TFS, Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearCase and SVN Tortoise.
• Substantial experience in performing Service/API Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Performance Testing, D.B Testing, Regression Testing and UI testing
• Experience in developing Test Strategy document & Effort estimation for the projects
• Sound knowledge in Web - based applications
• Understand client issues and drives root cause analysis (RCA) and implementation of processes that improve quality of releases
• Mentored the test automation teams and managed various test environments.
• Developed and maintained planning model to estimate the ROI of test automation
• Experience with AWS DevOps, Team Foundation Server, Jenkins and other continuous integration software
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously
• Worked with various scrum teams to identify key quality metrics per team and accumulate quality metrics across the entire tech organization
• A keen ability to plan clearly and strategically in a complex environment and build effective organizational processes that support these plans.
• 10 years of experience of implementing projects using Agile methodologies and 5.5 years of experience in Waterfall methodology.
• Experience in Banking and Finance, Insurance, HealthCare, Industrial Automation and Semi Conductor domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver, SOAP UI, Coded UI, Silk Test, UFT

Languages: Java, C#, Ruby, Python

Software Configuration Management Tools: Bit Bucket, VersionOne, GitHub, Team Foundation Server, IBM ClearCase, Tortoise SVN

CICD Tool: Jenkins

BDD: Cucumber

Data bases: Mongo DB, SQL Server, Oracle

Build Automation Tool: Maven

Code Coverage Tools: VSTS, Rational Pure Coverage

Unit Testing & Reporting Framework: N Unit, JUnit, TestNG

Data Analysis and Reporting Tools: Hadoop, Tableau

Other tools: ALM, Bugzilla, Cucumber, Rational Team Concert

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the UI and API Testing teams from onsite. Role encompasses activities like design, architect and develop automation Framework for Functional, Regression and E2E testing using Selenium Web driver, Java, Soap UI, Groovy Script etc
• Created Test Strategy document
• In Sprint automation and Regression testing
• DevOps implementation using Jenkins, GitHub
• Driving ceremonies like Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and Stand up, conduct Defect Triage meeting, Effort estimation etc.
• Lead teams of engineers on evaluating new tools and automation technologies along with evaluation report
• Established design principles for QA automation and Performance Testing Present options and recommendations as needed
• Designed and maintained the test automation frameworks
• Worked closely with Business Analysts, dev architects and business owners to understand the requirements
• Mentored the test automation teams and contributed to managing of test environments.
• Mentored multiple teams simultaneously and helped the team members resolve critical issues.

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the IIS Testing team from onsite. Role encompasses activities like Framework development using Soap/Groovy Scripting/Java for API testing and Selenium/Java for UI testing, Automation script development using SoapUI, Python, Selenium Web driver/Java for IIS project.
• DevOps implementation using Jenkins, BitBucket, GitHub, Test design and Unit testing (using Python packages), Test design for Infrastructure evaluation and Performance testing, Driving ceremonies like Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and Stand up, conduct Defect Triage meeting, Effort estimation etc.
• Lead a team of engineers on evaluating new tools and automation technologies along with evaluation report
• Analyzed data using Hadoop and Tableau reporting tool
• Developed Test Strategy document
• Responsible for conducting various training on technology aspects to keep team members up to date
• Lead QA strategy engagements to provide the blueprint for the QA automation and Regression Strategy

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• The role encompasses activities like understanding requirements and defining business uses cases, developing Automation framework for BDQ (Business data query) execution and tables comparisons between 2 databases using SQL Server and C#, developing test framework for applications like Cash Projection etc.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, developing various utilities using C#, VBScripts, for Trade file generation, Job scheduling etc.,
• Developing test plan, acting as the key liaison between Front office and the vendors, coordinating project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables.
• Conducted POC for DI Hub application and developed Automation Framework using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG under Java platform.
• Involved in performing Functional testing, Regression testing etc. He was extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Agile’ s Scrum methodologies.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed Sagittarius project from Offshore.
• Role encompasses many activities including developing and maintaining a detailed project plan, managing project deliverables in line with the project plan, recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary review of design specification, setting-up infrastructure required for implementation and support of each working group.
• Directly managed the offshore project team in charge of setting up and supporting the development environments.
• Developed Test Strategy document
• Acted as the key liaison between the client management team and the offshore teams, coordinating all project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables and timeliness of the project schedule.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing and leading the Confidential Supervisory Platform - Visualization. R
• Responsibilities include effort estimation, task allocation, test framework development, overall design of the application set-up as well as the infrastructure required for implementation and support of each working group.
• Acted as the key liaison between the client management team and the offshore teams, coordinating all project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables and timeliness of the project schedule to facilitate a seamless development environment for the project around the clock between the onsite and offshore teams.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Design, Development, System testing and bugs verifications for different modules like Memory Management and Runtime Tag Viewer.
• Responsible for developing InTouch test applications and developing the automated system testing framework for the managed code.
• Involved in authoring test case documents, Test design documents, setting up test machines and developing autotest scripts using WWFAST and Coded UI tools.
• Involved in code review, generating code coverage report and validating performance metrics.