Test Lead Resume North Carolina - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

12 years of IT Experience with Highly Skilled in Functional Testing and Automation Testing and hold extensive knowledge in preparing test strategies and quality assurance schedule management
Good exposure to Waterfall and Confidential testing methodologies
Have 4 years of Automation Experience in Selenium, Cucumber, Robot - Framework and have good knowledge in C#, Ruby and Python
Good hands on-experience in testing the applications developed in Java, .Net, Python etc.
Hands on experience in Web Services testing using SOAP and REST API
Expertise in leading a team and managed teams in onsite-offshore model
Build cohesive teams and develop their skills & abilities to fulfill current and/or future roles
Tasks allocation, monitoring, and tracking and resource management
Formulate and implement software testing strategies
Review test plan, test estimates and test schedule
Work on quality processes improvements
Manage issues and dependencies in coordination with client management
Prepare and share monthly metrics dashboard with client and Cognizant senior management
Standardization of testing artifacts
Organize weekly meetings with client management and respective project stakeholders
Day to day coordination with offshore test team to get the work done on time
ISTQB Certified test engineer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, VSTS, Robot-Framework

Hardware/Platforms: Windows/ Linux

Programming/Scripting Languages: Ruby, C#, Python

Test Management Tools: QC 9.2, QC ALM, VersionOne, JIRA, TFS

Data Bases: PostgreSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Test Lead

Confidential

Language: Python

Tools: Robot Framework, Eclipse, RIDE

Responsibilities:

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential, North Carolina

Language: C#

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Visual Studio, Jira, TFS, HP ALM

Responsibilities:

Participate in the user story refinements and understand the business needs
Participate in the Sprint planning
Plan and schedule the capacity and tasks for every three weeks sprint
Write test cases in Gherkin and convert them to automation test scripts during the sprint
Execute and log defects in VSTS
Attend the daily stand-up meeting and provide the status update on the tasks
Prepare the testing metrics and share with the customer
Provide solutions to the customer whenever/wherever needed
Managed the offshore team

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Language: Ruby

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Cucumber, VersionOne, SOAP UI, JIRA, HP QC/ALM

Responsibilities:

Understand business requirement from the JIRA
Raising clarifications and clearing them to understand the requests better
Learnt selenium and developed automation test scripts for the test cases.
Execution of the automated test scripts.
Log defects against the failed functionalities during the execution and follow till their closure.
Prepare and share the daily status reports to the customer
Prepare and share the weekly status reports to the customer
Providing sign-off after every release testing, updating the Test Strategy wiki
Automated the regression suite which had 600+ manual test cases

Functional Test Lead

Confidential

Tools: HP QC, MS Office

Responsibilities:

Senior Tester

Confidential

Tools: HP QC, MS Office

Responsibilities:

Preparing test scenarios, test cases and test data.
Planning and design of functional test cases covering the entire business.
Execution of functional test cases, log the defects and follow up until their closure.
Preparing execution plan.
Preparing the status reports and sharing with client