SUMMARY:

• Software Professional with 9 yrs of test automation experience.
• Currently working as a SDET LEAD at Confidential .
• Worked as an SDE II and SDET II at Confidential .
• Worked at Confidential for 3 years as a software design engineer in Test.
• Worked at Confidential for 2.5yr as a software design engineer in test.
• Worked at Confidential for 1 yr as a software test engineer in contract role.
• Dedicated professional with broad background in software testing, test automation framework and test tool development in C#, with a sound knowledge of SDLC and a keen interest in breaking code. Excellent knowledge of test practices.
• Experience designing and developing test specs, test plans and automated test cases for Windows Mobile, android and web applications.
• Experience designing and developing automation frameworks and test tools for Windows Mobile and Android platforms.
• Keen ability to initiate, learn, code, Debug and troubleshoot failures and excel in new areas with strong problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills and a team player with an ability to take on projects individually if necessary.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Hands on development experience in Java , C#, C++, WCF, Hibernate, JDBC, spring, mysql, cassandra, mongodb, Hbase, hadoop, aerospike, Json, Protostuff, XML, XPath, LinQ, Lua scripting, Java script, C++ unit test framework, Nunit, NCrunch (code coverage tool), Junit, TFS, Azure, test driven development, Agile development, windows mobile app testing and test automation development, android app testing and test automation development with testng and jenkins, SQL Server 2010 and Tsql, adobe photoshop.
• Experience with webservice testing, API and UI testing, writing functional and regression tests, creating test plans, writing detailed test cases.
• Designing and Developing in house test automation frameworks and test tools.
• Mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior testers in the team.
• Lead test projects involving cross group collaboration and coordination with dev, test and PM across various geos in offsite and onsite locations. Scoping test projects into assignable and trackable(status reporting) tasks to the testers in the team.
• Providing weekly, milestone project status reports to project teams and higher management.
• Experience investigating, triaging, fixing live site customer issues\bugs and driving them to resolution as per the priority and severity as per the defined protocol by working with the devs and PM with root cause analysis performed and fixed as and when necessary.
• Experience carrying pager and performing on call dev\test duties as per defined on call protocol and responsibilities.
• Experience writing tests with Maui and Meta UI test framework.
• Experience with Visual studio, TFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SDET LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop test framework, write automated test cases and test suites, write test plans for java webservice API testing using Json and Protostuff with rest client on new features and develop automated test cases in Java on testng and in corporate testing with Jenkins and handoff test jobs to QA team.
• As a test owner for APIs write automated regression test cases and update tests when functionality changes. Setting up test suites to run with Jenkins.
• Design overall test automation strategy when leading and testing projects with medium to large scope and guiding SDETs on the projects with automation strategy.
• Redesigning and cleaning up automation framework as and when required to make it more scalable and maintainable.
• Development involves working with hibernate and spring framework, core java and multi threading, testng, maven, git, jenkins, jbehave, cucumber, development with jdbc, development with java client for mongodb, Hbase hadoop, cassandra and aerospike.
• Manage overall QA resources, timelines, responsible for test plan reviews and test automation development review, test execution reporting to stakeholders for projects owned.
• Working with developers and PM driving bug fixes in appropropriate milestones,clarifying feature requirements as and when required, participating in feature design discussions with devs on projects owned.
• Conduct daily standups\scrum with test team to discuss project status, design changes, or new feature requests, bug fixes, test blockers and identify action items for each test team member and issues if any currently in the project that need to be worked with dev or PM, following up and driving those issues so they are addressed appropriately with the right owners in a timely manner.
• Working with Production support teams as part of release planning process and ensuring there are no loose ends in the process.

Software design engineer 2

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on creating a monitoring setup with Azure and fine tuning alerts for live site issues.
• Investigating and fixing live site bugs. Analyzing root cause and wherever needed fixed the root cause issues. Presenting weekly API\ component health status to the higher management.
• Worked on various feature development projects adding new functionality\ APIs and modifying existing feature functionality\APIs.Provided testability hooks so that automated testing is possible for the feature(s).
• Participated in spec and design reviews.
• Participated in code reviews.
• Writing effective bug reports and driving to get them fixed, collaborating across teams to ensure dependencies are in place for feature developemnt and testing.
• Worked with dev, test and PM in Shanghai for integrating with payment related Services.
• Developing detailed test plans and test cases for components owned as a Dev in a devops model and various features\projects worked on.
• Worked on test automation and test planning for projects involving adding direct debit for China, prepaid cards and migrating from external billing platform to a common billing platform (CTP, internal to MS), currency migration.

Software design engineer in Test 2

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Developing detailed test plans and test cases for components owned and various features\projects worked on.
• Worked on test automation and test planning for projects involving adding direct debit for China, prepaid cards and migrating from external billing platform to a common billing platform (CTP, internal to MS), currency migration.
• Writing effective bug reports and driving to get them fixed, collaborating across teams to ensure dependencies are in place for feature and integration testing and development.
• Managed E2E integration test passes for the projects owned involving various partners like O365, Intune, VLSC and CTP.
• Worked on creating a monitoring setup with Azure and fine tuning alerts for live site issues.
• Investigating and fixing live site bugs. Analyzing root cause and wherever needed fixed the root cause issues.
• Participated in spec and design reviews.
• Worked with dev, test and PM in Shanghai for payment related Services.
• Took initiative to improve test processes for effective test coverage.
• Designed and developed test automation tools using C#.

Software design engineer in Test

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Developing detailed test plans and test cases for Messaging for Confidential Diamond software.
• Designed and developed test automation tools using C#.net and XML.
• Designed and developed C++ unit test framework that best catered to the needs of the dev and test team.
• Developed automation framework for applications developed on Windows mobile and Android.
• Writing test plans and test tools for API testing on windows mobile 6, 6.5 and Android 1.0, 2.2.1 .
• Writing effective bug reports and driving to get them fixed.
• Helped successfully shipped the Confidential diamond project on schedule.
• Worked effectively and efficiently on aggressive schedules and deadlines for Confidential diamond project, Document experience project for Confidential LEO, Fusion framework for windows mobile and android.
• Track bugs, design test cases for test follow ups.
• Investigating Operator issues, interacting with developers and PMs for understanding, identifying spec and design issues.
• Participated in spec and design reviews.
• Worked with the Taiwan team to setup a common knowledge base and transfer knowledge.
• Took initiative to improve test processes for effective test coverage.

Environment: C++, C# .NET, JAVA, XML, Lua scripting, CPP unit test framework, Windows Mobile 6, 6.5 professional,.Net compact framework 3.0, Android 1.0, 2.2.1, adobe photoshop.

Software design engineer in Test

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Developing detailed test plans and test cases.
• Designed and developed test automation tools using C#.net and XML.
• Maintain and enhance functionality of existing automation tools and framework in C#.
• Writing test plans and tools for API level and web service testing.
• Lead and worked on critical projects and successfully met all test deadlines and milestones of SDLC.
• Experience working with worldspan, amadeus and Sabre GDS systems.
• Writing effective bug reports and driving to get them fixed.
• Successfully shipped four projects on schedule.
• Track bugs, design test cases for test follow ups.
• Investigating customer issues, interacting with developers and PMs for understanding, solving spec and design issues.
• Participated in spec and design reviews.
• Involved in cross group collaboration and task management among multiple test teams.
• Took initiative to improve test processes for effective test coverage.

Environment: TFX automation framework, C# .NET, XML, SQL SERVER 2005.

Software design engineer in Test

Confidential, Redmond, WA 

Responsibilities:

• Developing detailed test plans and test cases.
• Designed and developed test automation tools using C#.net and XML.
• Maintain and enhance functionality of existing automation tools and framework in C#.
• Writing test plans and tools for API level and web service testing.
• Lead and worked on critical projects and successfully met all test deadlines and milestones of SDLC.
• Writing effective bug reports and driving to get them fixed.
• Successfully shipped four projects on schedule.
• Track bugs, design test cases for test follow ups.
• Investigating customer issues, interacting with developers and PMs for understanding, solving spec and design issues.
• Participated in spec and design reviews.
• Involved in cross group collaboration and task management among multiple test teams.
• Took initiative to improve test processes for effective test coverage.

Environment: MAUI UI automation framework, C#.NET, XML.