SUMMARY

• A technology driven Testing professional wif around 12 years of career reflecting strong leadership qualifications wif hands - on development and Test Analyst, Test Lead and Automation/ Virtualization /Secuity Testing .
• Currently Working as a full time employee for 9+years in CenturyLink Inc which is 3rd largest telecom company in USA next to At&t and Verizon.
• Extensive noledge and experience in Amdoc’s Ensemble Telecom Order Management, Billing, Customer care, Inventory management, Price plan, Auditing and controlling and is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing solutions to the Dev & test teams.
• Currently Part of Web Application Security/Virtualization COE (center of excellence) in the organization wif the team of 20 members. And provided trainings to 10 different teams in dis calendar, playing a key role in information and application security and Virtualization.
• Responsible for implementing a virtual environment using an CA LISA tool for faster delivery of critical and high priority functionalities for different applications which resulted in customer satisfaction and appreciations due to its high quality of availability.
• Performed US customer/ business facing role in a lead capacity.
• Expertise in managing complete SDLC including requirement gathering viz. Analysis, testing, debugging, integration, maintenance and support.
• Experience in Ethical Hacking and Security testing worked wif tools like IBM APP scan, HP Fortify Static Code Analyzer.
• Proven noledge in QTP, SOA web service testing, middleware testing (SOAP and HTTP), DB testing, API testing, Tandem Applications and web method Testing.
• 3 years of Programming experience/expertise, wif SQL, C, C++, VB, Java, VB.NET technologies and VB scripting.
• Proven experience in the planning, development and maintenance of automation frameworks like hybrid, keyword driven and custom frameworks.
• An out-of-the-box thinker wif excellent leadership skills and demonstrated abilities in evaluating / enhancing performance of the team against the set targets.
• Certified Penetration testing and web Ethical hacking tester (security testing) wif 32 PDU points, and DB certified professional.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills wif proven abilities in team management and planning; core experience of working on Java,Unix,Shell,QTP11.0, Remedy, Dimensions,SQL,TIBCO,SOAP UI and Quality center 11.0(ALM).
• Strong noledge of OWASP tools and methodologies and Experience wif variety of Application Security testing tools and open source tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Planning project activities viz. scope, estimation, tracking, change management & post implementation support and deadlines.
• Tracking status and reporting to the Management for decision-making about project schedules and any necessary adjustments of time schedule.
• Administrative skills on a UNIX, Apple Mac platforms, Web logic admin and web methods.
• Participated in technical design reviews, functional specification reviews, and contributes to test project estimates, scheduling, test plans, and Root cause analysis.
• Good understanding of Software Testing methodology, User Interface and Business Requirements Analysis and Project Planning.
• Experience in Intersystem testing, UAT support testing and flow through testing.:
• Developing the test plans including the detailed test cases and ensuring maximum test coverage.
• Proven experience in the planning, development and maintenance of automation frameworks wifin medium to large scale software development projects.
• Planning and execution of Automation tests in an efficient and organized way wif full coordination wif onshore teams.
• Accurately reporting test preparation and execution progress wif testing activities like functional, penetration, sanity, regression, IST and End-to-End testing according to the testing schedules and scope.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining the builds and environments using web logic and which is very unique skill where most of the testers are not involved in it.
• Troubleshooting the issues or defects which were raised in Inter system testing (IST) and UAT halp dev team wif the findings and logs to fix the issues quickly.
• Update status reports and maintain the Issue and risk trackers.
• Maintain traceability matrices of Test cases wif requirement.
• Penetration testing on the application using IBM app scan and WATCHER security tools. Applying manually SQL injection, Cross site scripting, cookie poisoning etc on web applications..
• Ability to highlight and drive issues forward from identification through to resolution
• Received multiple STAR awards and leadership IT award from CIO.
• Using the CA LISA/Service Virtualization tool: developed new scripts, modify them, and execute them
• Configure CA LISA virtualized scripts in test environments, working wif the QA test team to ensure readiness
• Design and implement frameworks for service virtualization using CA LISA

Confidential

Technical Lead/IT-Co-ordinator-II

Responsibilities:

• Understand requirements for the project release as defined.
• Responsible for creating virtual environments for the rapid development and E2EActivities using CA’s ITKO LISA tools.
• Co-ordinate the development and maintenance effort of automation framework and automation scripts for business scenarios using SOAP UI and QTP tools.
• Perform Security and ethical hacking on the critical flows and data.
• Participate in Build deployments and maintenance.
• Participate in the requirement walk-through wif Business Analyst and IT analyst.
• Analyze Change Requests (CR) and Implementation Requests (IR).
• Prepare relevant documents and engage in reviews.
• Participate in architectural and feature enhancement meetings for the subsequent release and in turn lead the offshore team to implement the agreed items.
• Support business users during user acceptance validations.
• Review and validate the deliverables before deploying them in production.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for issues raised by Business Users.
• Provide Project Estimates for Business Requirements for each phase of the Project Cycle .
• Measure Project Estimates-to-Actual and perform analysis for continual improvements in the ProjectParticipate and play a key role in Go/No-go meetings.
• Support post production release activities.
• Participating in deploying and maintaining the builds and virtual environment creation using different software’s/proparitoryTools.
• Automation framework development.
• Performing Penetration and ethical hacking on the applications to determine dat an information system protects data from intruders.
• Participating in End - End intersystem validation and representing Ensemble.
• Identify and address the project Risks, Issues and Dependencies.
• Provide quick turnaround for application/environment issues by coordinating wif other teams in SWAT mode.
• Mentor the team wif project specific trainings.
• Oversee and monitor the delivery of tasks assigned to the team .
• Monitor the project progress and report status as appropriate.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of project estimates for multiple releases
• Requirement reviews, test scenario reviews, test results reviews wif business
• Preparation of test scenarios, test cases and test cases execution in Quality Center
• Testing interfaces thru Bus Tester tool
• Identifying the scenarios for QTP automation scripts
• Development and maintenance of QTP scripts for regression test cases, test scripts for data creation from SDP QCentral portal, continuous improvement of QTP framework adopted
• Build migrations using WINCVS
• Mentoring team members in Technical and Functional Aspects and involving in Knowledge transfer activities
• Project improvement activities like developing solution repository which gives quick resolution of any issues occurred in the past
• Defect tracking and Bug reporting using Mercury Quality Center