SUMMARY:

• Over fourteen years of experience in Software Quality Management, Automation and Testing.
• Experience in creating and executing project plans which includes project successes in the areas of automation, project management and vendor contract implementation.
• Strengths in Healthcare and Financial domains backed by a Masters in Computer Engineering. Great communicator, an innovative architect, and problem solver with a proven track record in delivering complex projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT, Selenium, Fitnesse, Quality Center/ALM, Rational Robot, Win Runner, Load Runner

Test Reporting: JIRA, Rally, Clearquest and ALM

Agile technologies: Scrum and Kanban

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB, C#

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and Solaris

Web technologies: Sales force, Smart GWT, JavaScript, Flex, .NET, HTML, XML, CSS, ASP, VB Script

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008R2 and MS Access

AppServers/WebServers: WebSphere, Jetty, JRun, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Sun one, and IIS

Tools: STS, Eclipse, Subversion, Bit bucket, GIT, Jenkins, SoapUI, MS Project, MS Office, Sharepoint, Awesim Simulation, Mat lab, CCStudio

Networking: Socket Programming in C/C++, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Automation Architect/Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Redesign/Refactor existing UFT framework.
• Pilot program for Selenium Java automation.

Automation Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop Automation projects using Java/Selenium, UFT, C#, VB.
• Managed automation development, testing and maintenance within 5% budget variance
• Presented many training sessions/demos and technical deep - dives
• Go-to resource to present and lead team discussions on strategy and planning
• Managed the Confidential automation projects for various business initiatives across Credit BTO.
• Successfully motivated, coached and managed teams in accomplishing complex tasks and challenges through various business transformations resulting in 10% decrease in automation cost.
• Part of the interview panel for hiring new QA consultants.
• Mentor manual testing team on converting User Stories into feature files in Cucumber/Gherkin format.
• Created, configured and executed Jenkins jobs for Automated Smoke and Regression.
• Completed Lights-out automation for QAS and SMDU projects with data staging, regression and results upload which reduced the effort from Days to Hours.
• Successfully implemented In-sprint and out of sprint activities
• Experience in Scrum and Kanban agile models

Automation Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the Automation framework using QTP and selenium/fitnesse (Selenesse).
• Presented best practices and researched new tools for early adoption of new technology.
• Trained the QA team on selenium/fitnesse automation
• Successfully managed the automation projects across the Health solutions enterprise.
• Prepared LOE for automation efforts across multiple projects to optimize implementation timelines.
• Created automation guideline/training documentation for internal QA resources and project stakeholders.
• Conducted recurring automation design meetings
• Created java fixtures that were called from fitnesse.
• Moved data among different databases using DB unit
• Created a backup/restore java fixture that could be called from fitnesse to backup and restore gold data
• Design and Develop New Regression Suite for creating Reviews in CERMe
• Develop Data Driven Automation for Review creation
• Design and Develop Data driven Automation for validating HL7 messages against CERMe DB using ADO object (All business logic in the data sheet)
• Design and develop Data driven automation to verify single sign on .NET application (All business logic in the data sheet)
• Liaise with development on improving object identification for CERMe objects by providing unique static property values
• Conducted a Pilot program to determine the feasibility of Flex UI automation in CERMe

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project planning with Resource allocation and LOE estimation
• QA Project planning for meeting the GA release dates.
• From a Quality perspective managed CERMe related enterprise deployment and hosting.
• Allocate jobs for QA resources and track progress.
• Test strategy implementation and execution
• Liaise with development/product management to resolve issues.
• Metrics gathering and reporting
• Interface with product management in triage meetings for prioritization of defects and enhancements.
• Validated GA check list and Bill of Materials.
• Set up a Websphere 7.0 Linux/Windows cluster and Deployed CERMe war files.
• Set up apache webserver on windows and IBM HTTP server on linux.
• Set up Jetty cluster with Pen Load balancer
• Set up IIS/Jetty install for CERMe
• Set up SSL configurations on Apache, IBM HTTP server,Jetty and IIS
• Imported Self signed SSL certificates into various Key stores
• Participated in the Various JAD Sessions and the General Stakeholders’ walkthroughs.
• Developed Strategy and planning for Upgrade Testing
• Developed Strategy and planning for Testing Jasper and Crystal Reports
• Performed Regular and dump and restore of Oracle Schemas
• Designed, Developed and executed test cases for sending HL7 Messages from Symphonia and Validating in CareEnhance Review Manager
• Designed Developed and executed test cases for testing ActiveX and Javascript Integration with CareEnhance Review Manager
• Worked on Kanban model

Automation Architect/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed test plan and test strategy.
• Successfully Designed, Developed and executed QA Automation strategy.
• Led team of QA and Automation resources
• Mentored team on best practices and testing approach.
• Attended walkthrough on User stories from developers
• Worked on Agile Scrum methodology.