PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Software QA Architect with 14 years of extensive experience in Automating client server, Web services & API’s across various domains like, Annuities, Insurance, Health Care, Cash Logistics, Public Safety and Social Networking
• Proficient in designing, developing and implementing Test Automation Frameworks using HP UFT (QTP) and Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Web Driver) and Jenkins
• Extensively worked in developing Data driven, Keyword driven, Functional decomposition and Hybrid frameworks
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in different methodologies Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall, Test Estimations, Test Strategy/Planning and ROI Analysis
• Expertise in reviewing Software Requirements, designing Test Cases and performing System Testing, Integration Testing and Interface Testing
• Experience in Performance Testing (Planning, Scenario Designing, Scripting and analysis) using HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center and JMeter tools
• Expertise in SQL, Transformation Functions, testing of ETL Processes and ETL Mappings.
• Excellent Experience in performing Script Reviews and de - bugging
• Expert at Test management tools like HP Quality Center (ALM), IBM Rational Test manager, Bugzilla, JIRA
• Expertise in using various configuration management tools like MS Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Team Foundation Server(TFS), WinCVS, Subversion
• Excellent Coordination and Communication skills with onsite and offshore teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Areas of Expertise: Test Automation and Performance Testing, Functional testing, Integration Testing, Test Planning

Test Automation Tools: HP UFT(QTP), Selenium, HP Load Runner and Performance Center, Apache JMeter

Test Management Tools: HP ALM(QC), IBM Test Manager, Bugzilla, Rational ClearQuest, JIRA

Web Technologies / Languages: HTML, XML, JSON, VBScript, JavaScript, Java, C#

RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Other Utilities: MS TFS, Jenkins, WinCVS, Remedy, JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, Rumba, Actuate

Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed feasibility study, ROI analysis and developed a proof of concept on the Automation of rPay Plus suite
• Prepared an Automation Test Strategy and Plan for rPay suite
• Developed Hybrid(Functional Decomposition and Data Driven) Automation Framework using HP UFT
• Developed framework to automate the various types for put files and Adobe PDF's
• Integrated UFT and ALM to allow seamless execution by Funcational testing team, directly from ALM
• Created customized automation process chart, coding standards and defined design methodologies
• Developed comprehensive reporting framework which generates detailed test execution reports in Word and Excel along with the ALM reporting.
• Developed Automated Test Data Generators, whcihdirectly eliminated 70% of manual effort
• Coordinated with Functional testing team and SME's to resolve the application and test case ambiguities
• Performed reviews, de-bugging and walk throughs to ensure the highest quality on the automation deliverables
• Mentored team members, provided timely solutions and made sure they adhere to the processes and coding standards
• Tracked Automation deliverables and milestones and reported automation metrics on a weekly and monthly basis to project stakeholders and management
• Updating weekly and monthly status to project stake holders on project test strategy, plans and status of testing activities along with reporting automation metrics and measures

Confidential, New Hampshire

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Setting up the Test Tools and Test beds
• Designing and developing Automation Framework to suite the project needs
• Writing scripts for testing the dashboards on MicroStartegy Version 8 and 9
• Preparing Test Strategy and plan
• Providing support during the tests to continously monitor server performances
• Creating detailed test reports for better understanding of the application performance
• Responsible for weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the onsite manager

Confidential, Texas

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided Test Strategy for different sequential releases of IFS (Integrated Future state), functional, integration and conversion projects
• Developed Automation Framework to fit automation needs of Confidential systems and applications
• Automated the validation of feed files from various verdors to ADT like, Melon, PaymentTech, SM2K and latitude
• Analyzed ADT legacy systems and identified the data mapping between source and target systems
• Coordinated with business teams and provided support for UAT testing
• Acted as release coordinator for various releases. The releases include IFS 1.1 through IFS1.7, ADMIN CARMS and MTM billing conversion projects
• Conducted Defect Triage meetings and work with different groups for issue resolutions
• Provided daily updates to project stake holders on project test strategy, plans and status of testing activities

Confidential, Texas

Automation Engineer

Environemnt: This application is developed using VS.Net 2008, SharePoint, WCF, MS IIS and MS SQL Server 2005, AccelAuto Framework, QTP and Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing of Functional Specifications and Visual Designs
• Defining Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Designing and Review of Test Cases
• Manual Test Execution and Defect Verification
• Developing Automation Strategy
• Identifying Test cases for Automation
• Development and execution of Automation scripts
• Status update and tracking

Confidential, Virginia

Automation Engineer

Environment: This application was developed using Windows 2003 Server, MS IIS, VC++, VB, ASP, COM Components and Web App, QTP 9.0 and WinCVS.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing of Functional Specifications
• Scheduling and Planning
• Designing and Execution of Test cases
• Identifying Test cases for automation
• Designing and Developing Automation Framework
• Developing Test scripts using QTP 9.0
• Guiding the team in understanding and usage of AccelAuto framework
• Reviewing Test scripts
• De-bugging the automation scripts
• Execution of Test Scripts
• Client Communication and Team Coordination
• Created performance test scenarios based on Business-critical, Performance-intensive and High-visibility usage scenarios
• Developing test scripts using Jmeter
• Executing the scripts on different versions
• Configuring varous load testing scenarios for Normal Load, Spike Load and Endurance Test
• Analyzing Results and creating different graphs in excel using jtl and aggregate data reports
• Reporting the results to all stake holders.

Confidential, Texas

QA Engineer

Environment: This application was developed using VS.Net 2003, BizTalk, Crystal reports, Win’2003 Server, MS IIS and Oracle 9i.

Tools: used: Load Runner 7.8 and Visual Source Safe.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements, Technical Specification and design
• Analyzed mappings and understood the business rules and logic of the mappings
• Developing Test Cases and Test Strategy for testing the extracts
• Guiding the team in writing SQL queries and Database related issues
• Testing the ETL mappings that transfer data from the source system to the ODS
• Validated and tested data transformation procedures for ODS
• Performed Integration and ODS Testing
• Compared the extracted data with Reports data
• Performed data validation in Crystal Reports using SQL
• Ca ptured Load Test Requirements (non-functional)
• Developed of load test scripts
• Executed the load scripts for different scenarios
• Collected and reported the data for Analysis