SUMMARY

• Around 20 years of strong professional experience in Test automation using various tools, Mobile automation using various tools, Test automation framework architecture, WebService testing, API testing, Program management, Project management, Test management, Mobile testing (manual), mostly in teh BFSI segment
• Recent experience in Ranorex tool (using C# interface),DevOps,Continous integration using Microsoft TFS and Jenkins
• Head of teh automation center of excellence for teh 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
• 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
• Test requirements gathering and Analysis through client interaction, translating them into test scenarios, test cases and driving their execution

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation tools: HP QTP/UFT (all versions), Winrunner, Selenium, Ranorex (C# interface)

DevOps & Continuous integration tools: Microsoft TFS,Jenkins,Maven,Bamboo

Mobile automation tools: SeeTest by Experitest, Mobile labs, Perfecto mobile, Device anywhere

API / Webservice testing tools: SOAP UI,HP Service Test

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

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

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

Database: Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase, My SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Owner & Founder

Responsibilities:

• Program management (QA)
• Test management
• Project management
• DevOps and Continuous integration using Jenkins, Microsoft team foundation server (TFS)
• Setting up Test center of excellence (TCoE)
• Building QA organization from teh 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

Head of QA delivery head, Automation framework architect

Responsibilities:

• Direct client interaction wif teh QA teams, Business analysts, stakeholders to understand and analyze teh automation requirements
• Planning, forecasting and budgeting for teh projects
• Strategize & Implement of DevOps / Continuous integration using Jenkins
• Owner of teh ‘Integrated automation’ theme for teh “Transformation” program wif target savings of 3.1 GBP
• Presenting Confidential ’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 teh project specific pain points and providing delivery resolution
• Create automation specific intellectual properties
• Designing and implementing teh ‘Best in class automation frameworks’ for measuring teh current state of teh account level QA
• Track to closure and report various BIC parameters like script coverage, utilization, ROI
• Capability building around teh 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, automation framework architect

Responsibilities:

• Direct interaction wif teh 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 teh correctness of requirements wif co coordinating wif Business and internal IT stakeholders.
• Support business during UAT
• Execute and maintain automated daily morning healthchecks
• Defining, designing, deploying and maintaining teh test automation framework
• Prepare test summary report and defect metrics
• Preparing teh automated regression test suite using QTP
• Creating reusable automation libraries
• Identifying and defining ‘Areas of Automation’
• Writing application specific functions
• Chairing teh QA status call
• Resolving automation related queries of teh team
• Developing test scenarios as per teh 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 teh Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Use case documents to carry out teh testing activities
• Participate in Team Planning Sessions and Walkthrough Meetings
• Preparing and executing run plan
• Responsible for testing teh interfaces of PRIME 3.0
• Defect management
• Contribute QA part of teh consolidated project plans
• Report Test status to PMO and stakeholders periodically
• Worked closely wif 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

Senior QA engineer, Automation specialist

Responsibilities:

• Preparing teh 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 teh overall GUI of SGD
• Automating teh Smoke/Sanity Test wif 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 teh Load balancer, Web server, and Application server
• Quality assurance of teh overall GUI of SGD
• Automating teh Smoke/Sanity Test wif Winrunner using TSL
• Testing of teh Idle sessions in disconnect and logout scenarios
• Testing of Printer Driver Management utility of SGD
• Testing of teh Implementation of IFS over teh Client
• Web Testing of teh SGD server over IIS
• Server Backup verification
• Execution of teh SWAT (System wide acceptability test)
• Testing of teh Single Port Relay and validating using Netstat

Confidential

QA engineer, Systems QA engineer (Trainee)

Responsibilities:

• System testing of teh ‘Real Backup’ Utility
• QA of teh overall GUI of Real Backup
• Execution & Upgrade of Test cases & Test plans
• Testing of data archival on FTP servers, Domain controllers, Domain members &
• Workgroup Members
• Testing across different Operating systems like Windows 95, 98, ME, Win NT, 2000 Prof.