TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experienced in all facets of testing with focus on End to End Scenarios, Front End GUI, Back End Server API, Vender Management, and Test Leadership.
• Well versed in common test tools and harnesses. Passionate Security/ ADA tester.
• UI Test Case automation with C# Webtests, Selenium, and Protractor/ Jasmine.
• Backend automation with Java, JUnit, and REST - assured.
• Load/Performance testing with Visual Studio Load, SoapUI, and Gatling.
• Database testing with Oracle SqlDeveloper, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL.
• VB application level programming. Visio, Wiki, Maven, Jenkins, Stash, GIT, Angular, JUnit, Agile, Scrum, Working knowledge UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SDET

Confidential

• Deployment of UI and Services rpm’s to QA and Stage environments in Jenkins. Created Jenkins jobs used in Continue Integration process.
• UI automation with Protractor/Jasmine framework for Angular applications in Secondary Flow (SF) purchase path utilizing a Page Object Model. API web service automation with Java and the REST-assured framework for SF (hundreds of endpoints across 9 modules). Unit tests with JUnit and Java for legacy code to help development team increase test coverage. Manual testing of tickets in browser or Swagger, for API’s, in the sprint as needed.
• Performance/load with various frameworks (SoapUI, Visual Studio, and Gatling). Security testing/ vulnerability scanning with OWASP. ADA testing with AMP tools.

Senior Software Test

Confidential

• Front End/ Back End, Release Night testing. Develop and implement Engineering Excellence Test Strategy based up industry best practices to bring testing into the organization. JIRA configuration for testing, championing use of Dashboards with advanced queries. Drove Wiki development and configuration in Confluence (30+ pages). Mentor team on Agile practices. Assisting with conversion of existing Selenium IDE automated tests to Java based Selenium WebDriver. Assisted with ADA initiative. Created ADA checklist/quick start guide used by developers and testers for verification.

Senior Software Consultant

Confidential

• All aspects of testing of a Microsoft internal proof of concept Silverlight based product and an internal production tool used in Customer Service. This was a small group working in Agile mode with almost no documentation and few test cases. Build out test cases from under 300 tests to over 1000. Setup test environments including installing and configuring SQL and IIS. Deployment of builds and BVT runs. Data validation using TSQL and scripts. Daily use of TFS, VSTS, SQL, and tools such as Fiddler.
• Collaborated with another team in testing web services (Windows and WCF) which retrieves URL metadata from the public Bing API with a backend database job processing. Embedded in with developers. Code reviews of Dev code. Discovered and fixed issues with help files which were checked directly into product code. Conducted Performance runs across several releases. Started test team Wiki, adding more than 60 pages across multiple projects. Used Wiki to Mentor new hires and helped bring them up to speed. Designed End to end role based scenarios catching numerous issues that would have been missed during sprints. C# Silverlight UI test case automation via KAF framework.

Test Lead- Project Lead

Confidential

• Brought scenario based test process to organization with creation and build out of test documentation and processes on Wiki. Administered Wiki for entire Organization. Responsible for all testing before building test team. Interview and creation of test team (with CTO & Dev Lead). Conducted test plan reviews and ensured test coverage. Sent status reports. Involved in moving from open source tools to VSTS 2008 with TFS. Created Automation Strategy used by automation consultant to build automation framework and user actions with TFS. Sheppard test team and review of testing for each story after move from Waterfall to Agile development.
• Management, Triage and Reporting of bugs. BVT C# Automation via Webtests and Unit Tests for backend web services. Saved costs by leveraging skill sets of existing employees to assist with testing and design work. Architected, initiated, and drove initial SEO strategy for company
• Project Lead for e-Commerce site driving redesign of each page across website saving thousands from external website Design Company. Developed and implemented plan to add new pages and content.
• Monitored and reported on Google Analytics to senior management with bi-monthly results reporting.
• Created and Championed corporate website blog, authoring 30 blog posts resulting in multiple top 5 and at least 15 first page results.

Software Test Engineer- Project Lead

Confidential

• Responsible for entire test cycle for all Community related components of the website including the Forums, Wiki (Guide), Registration, Reputation & Profiles, Directory, Local Pages, Dueling digs and 4 of the 6 tabs on the homepage.
• Vender management for Community components by creating test plans to be executed by our off shore team. Conducted online meetings to train and prepare off shore team for test pass. Assigned daily work items and bugs to be regressed with follow up and tracking of progress. Maintained and analysis of full manual test pass cases and legacy automated tests executed by vendors. Consistently received positive feedback and kudos from off shore team.
• Created and maintained BVT and smoke automation via several harnesses including WinRunner, HTTP Auto Framework, & Watir. Developed manual and automation strategies.
• Weekly/ daily reports to organization on status of testing and the release.
• Designed and implemented plan to bring security development lifecycle to Zillow by building test team security knowledge with the goal of threat modeling and security by design. Created “Security Central” wiki pages which consisted of 20+ topical pages. Conducted monthly 1 hour brownbag security trainings for the test and build team.
• Active in documentation of internal organizational wiki pages. Created many wiki pages including “Log Central” utilized by operation and test and a “Test Suite Template” adopted by the organization.
• Mentored new hires. Monitored live site error logs pre and post release netting around 200 bugs.
• Ran extensive link checking tools to find broken links across the site pre and post release.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

• Involved in entire test cycle from planning, developing, execution, and reporting for functionality, BVT, regression, smoke, and hot fix testing. Authored test plans and test cases for scenario testing and component testing. Component level and entire Service Security testing. Consistently placed 1st and 2nd place in group security contests. Assisted teammates with monthly security contests bug goals. Presented multiple attack types during one of organizational quarterly security trainings.
• Responsible for manual scenario based testing of Service with RoundTable devices based upon compelling real life customer situations and product usage.
• Generated 90% of the end to end scenario tests for the team. Created step by step documentation for scenarios which allowed easy tracking of pass/fail for each scenario.
• Generated reports for the entire organization for Daily Testing, Console Fitness and weekly team summaries. Owned entering team stats into reporting websites and test results into test case tracking software (WTT). Designed and moderated E2E focused bug bashes.
• Responsible for testing of five legacy and one new Console components. Created “one pager” template document used by test organization as summary test plans. Automated BVT’s using C#.
• Responsible for testing legacy audio backend component, new server logging components, data management migration tools needed to upgrade service, and setup and deployment of the service itself.
• Deployed Live Meeting Service datacenters during transition from UNIX to Windows and acted as a subject area expert for hosting team during upgrades to live production datacenter.
• Charted deployment process (14 foot Visio chart), which revealed numerous product design issues, and was used by developers and the product architect in redesigning the configuration program and processes for a datacenter.
• Charted Architecture of end to end customer experience (another Visio wall diagram, 20 foot) which melded concepts including physical components and processes from a customer perspective moving end to end through the user experience. Chart was used by Hosting, PM, and as a training aid for the India Development Center team and new hires.
• Authored many revisions to the datacenter deployment and setup guide to reduce complexity and ensure documentation completeness.

Developer Support Technical Router

Confidential

• Assisted a wide variety of Premier, Partner, MSDN, Professional, Developer, and personal customers.
• Provided initial trouble shooting of technical issues and case resolution or routing to specific support professional queues. Supported Visual Studio languages and technologies, Access, major servers including; SQL, Site, Commerce, BizTalk, ISA, Exchange.
• Learned to understand the customer and feel their pain. Mentored new hires as a Training Coach.