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St Louis, MissourI

SUMMARY

  • Over 22 years of experience in Application Development (3+ years), QA/Automation Testing (13+ years), Project Management/Scrum Master (6+ years), and people management (around 3 years).
  • Managing, planning, scheduling and tracking tasks of various App Dev maintenance, enhancement and new development global projects, Infrastructure Upgrades, Security enhancement releases using both traditional and agile methodologies using Trello, JIRA and Microsoft Project.
  • Experience in managing global projects including the Data migration while working with onsite as well as offshore/offsite team members from India, USA, UK, France, Spain and Ireland.
  • Experience in people management activities including career planning/support, training, interviewing, hiring, rewarding, disciplining, coaching, mentoring, and performance and salary reviews.
  • Expertise in managing the execution of operational, tactical, and strategic activities on a day - to-day basis, including technical support for individual tasks while managing a project.
  • Delivered project success through scope/budget/schedule development, project planning, integrating industry best practices, change management, risk identification and prioritization, and communication planning.
  • Responsible for Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Risk Assessment, Sprint Review, Planning poker, Sprint Retrospective as a Scrum Master.
  • Formed the Automation Team and managed to grow to the strength of 3 internal and 4 offshore resources.
  • Technically leading and managing QA Automation team with a group of off-shore consultants and internal employees that supported automation activities.
  • Coaching and mentoring every member of our team with our process and framework.
  • Developed an Object-Oriented Automation Framework and proven simple, manageable and efficient
  • Strong experience with Automated/Manual, Integration testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box testing, White Box testing, services testing, Code walkthrough and Test Documentation.
  • Created a tool to provide cost/benefit analysis for the automation effort and execution effort trend analysis.
  • Very strong experience in Rational Functional Tester and Java and created so many common utility classes/methods that are used across all the automation projects.
  • Experience with SoupUI to create the automated test suites for VOS and CVD services testing
  • Developed and followed Automation Project Development Process Model for successful completion of automation projects that are being treated as small automation development projects.
  • Experience of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies & validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control
  • Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment, work on any project, and excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Good problem-solving skills and team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX, Windows

Relational Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MS-Access

Languages: HTML, VBScript, Java, JavaScript, TSL, SQA Basic, C, C++ and COBOL

Tools: Oracle Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5/5.0, Reports 2.5/3.0, PL/SQL), Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle DBA, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, ASP, Crystal Report 4.0/7.0, Lotus Notes, Eclipse

Testing Tools: Rational Tools (Rational Functional Tester 8.2.2., Rational Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Site Check), Mercury Tools 7.01 (Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director), Silk Performer 6.0.1, SoapUI

Others: Turbo Analyst 3.0, ERWIN, Visual SourceSafe 6.0, MS Outlook, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, Trello

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • As a Project Manager, I was responsible for managing, planning, scheduling and tracking tasks of various App Dev maintenance, enhancement and new development projects, Infrastructure Upgrades, Security enhancement releases using both traditional and agile methodologies using Trello, JIRA and Microsoft Project
  • Managing global projects including the Data migration while working with onsite as well as offshore/offsite team members from India, USA, UK, France, Spain and Ireland.
  • Leading a team of development staff (both internal and external staffs) responsible for developing application solutions for various products.
  • Collaborating with Business Sponsors and other IT teams to understand requirements, identifying application enhancements and overseeing the implementation and deployment of those changes
  • Coordinating with different teams to get the required resource and knowledge to help the development team finishing the project on time.
  • Led all stages of project life cycle (initiation, planning (WBS), execution, monitoring, control and closure including final handover to operations) successfully using project lifecycle methodologies (PMO) and the tools like Microsoft Project, Trello and JIRA.
  • Helping the product owner and team managing the Product Backlog, creating Stories/Epics in JIRA, adding details and acceptance criteria.
  • Conducting Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Risk Assessment, Sprint Review, Planning poker/Story point voting, Sprint Retrospective.
  • Responsible for clearing obstacles, establishing an environment where the team can be effective, addressing team dynamics, and protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
  • Managing multiple teams/sprints by starting the sprint, sprint kickoff, moving the JIRAs through the statuses in JIRA board and defining “Done”.
  • Considering the velocity and sprint capacity while estimating through story point and calculating the sprint burndown.
  • Creating JIRA Dashboard to communicate the status to Senior Management.
  • Create the release plan and Orchestration Plan to deploy the fully tested final build into production
  • Performing Team testing and UAT with Business Sponsors

Environment: Windows, Java, JSP, Weblogic, struts, spring, hibernate, Tomcat, Oracle, GitHub/Maven/Jenkins/BitBucket, Clear Case, Clear Quest, MS-Office, MS Project, Trello, JIRA

Software Engineer Lead/Lead Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • As a Software Engineer Lead/Lead Test Engineer, I automated various applications using Rational Functional Tester. Interacted with the Manual Testing team and analyzing the test cases to come up with the automation scenarios.
  • Preparing Test Coverage Document that clearly reflects what the automation script covers
  • Designing the test input database in MS Access and creating the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
  • Provide automation cost estimate to the development team, scheduling the task and managing the project using Microsoft Project.
  • Prepare Data needed document and sending to development in case we need a special set of input data
  • Create Automation Test Plan
  • Identify the individual Page scripts and test scripts and prepare the Script Flow document to help identify the Shell scripts as per the in-house developed object oriented automation framework.
  • Coding the scripts and coaching and mentoring others while they code
  • Responsible for integrating the main Shell script and testing
  • Preparing the Script Transition, Quick setup, Test Database Details and Test Summary documents as part of automation script deployment effort.
  • Maintaining the scripts for maintenance projects and executing them for different builds
  • Continuously improving the automation process and documenting them
  • Created a tool to create two layers of our Automation Framework by reading the tables from MS Access Database.
  • Performing people management activities including career planning/support, training, interviewing, hiring, rewarding, disciplining, coaching, mentoring, and performance and salary reviews for my 7 member team.

Environment: Windows, Java, IBM Rational Functional Tester, Eclipse, Test Manager, Clear Case, Clear Quest, MS-Office, MS Project

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • As a Senior Test Engineer, I performed all QA activities including test planning, test case designing, test execution, status reporting and test summary for various applications.
  • Created automation scripts for Vehicle Studio and Enterprise.com® using RFT and Rational Robot.
  • Interacted with the developers, team members and Business Analysts.
  • Involved in the complete QA Lifecycle activities like Pre-testing phase, acceptance testing phase and testing phase.
  • Analyzed system requirements from RequisitePro and wrote test cases for different levels of testing
  • Analyzed system requirements specifications, developed & executed detailed test plans, test cases, and test data, automated scripts for testing the functionality, GUI, security, and usability.
  • Executed test cases manually to verify actual results against expected results.
  • Reviewing analysis and design artifacts, documented test cases, test data planning, capture and conditioning, test results, test procedure and reported to Test Lead
  • Involved in testing of Web-application screens
  • Created automated test scripts for Regression testing and System testing with the help of Rational Tools such as Rational XDE Tester/Rational Functional Tester, Rational Robot and Test Manager
  • Performed Data-Driven testing using Rational Robot and Rational XDE/Functional Tester
  • Leading a team of 4 testers involved in Test Automation and distributing the workload among them.
  • Used SQL commands to test the integrity of the database
  • Creating verification points e.g., objects data, object properties, window and image verification, database verifications
  • Bugs were reported in the Clear Quest Bug Reporting Tool
  • Provide test estimates and assist the Project Manager in acquiring needed testing staff
  • Create the Testing Strategy, Test Plan and Test Summary documents
  • Managing the version of automated test scripts, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Summary and other test deliverables by using ClearCase
  • Ensure resolution and documentation of testing issues and assumed risks
  • Ensure the use of enterprise testing process, defect tracking, and defect resolution
  • Provide feedback on testability of business requirements
  • Monitor and control test execution and provide project-testing status
  • Prepared a tool in MS Excel to maintain the test inventory and test cases for different levels of testing

Environment: Windows XP/2000, Java, J2EE, Web logic, JSP, AS/400, Informix, Java Script, Test Manager, Clear Case, Clear Quest, MS-Office

Confidential

Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Leading a team of 12 testers involved in Integration testing, System and Acceptance Testing and distributing the workload among them.
  • Leading the defect verification team to verify the defects of previous releases in the current release and analyzing the current defects for the future releases.
  • Assist the Project Manager in acquiring needed testing staff.
  • Ensure the use of enterprise testing process, defect tracking, and defect resolution.
  • Coordinate the creation of numerous testing deliverables, including test cases.
  • Provide feedback on testability of business requirements.
  • Giving direction for Incremental Testing
  • Working with team to help define and create Stubs and Drivers (Test Harness)
  • Attending daily status meeting and presenting the progress of the test case execution and defect verification.
  • Opening the defects in Lotus Notes database and tracking the defects to closure
  • Assisting the Performance team during Performance test using Silk Performer 6.0.1

Environment: Windows XP, Visual Basic, ASP, VB Script, Java Script, IIS, MTS, DB2, Microsoft .Net, Lotus Notes, Silk Performer, MS-Office.

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