SUMMARY

• 14+ years of progressive working experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing with diverse projects, clients and industries with a total of 15+ years of IT Industry.
• A strong T - shaped QA resource with proven ability of wearing from strategic/leadership hat to doer hat to Automation Developer hat.
• Worked for giant companies like Confidential, General Electricals, Microsoft, Gillette, Lexmark, Northwestern Mutual and currently ADT/Tyco Integrated Security.
• Agile/Scrum, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development).
• Expertise in performing Automation Tool Evaluation, preparing detailed Automation POC, Test Proposals, Test Estimates, Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Execution Plan, Test Cases and Test Data Requirements document(s).
• Manage End User (Business) Testing with optimized scheduling and usage of Test Lab while coordinating User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in applying Risk Based Testing (RBT) techniques for optimal testing.
• In the role of Defect Triage Coordinator chaired Defect Triage Meetings with the Project Teams and Business Teams and has extensive experience in using HP ALM, Rally, Test Director and TFS.
• Hands-on experience in working with UFT/QTP, SOAP UI and Selenium WebDriver for regression testing.
• Expertise in writing SQL queries and performing backend testing.
• Experience in communicating with Business Customers, Technical Project Teams, third party Vendor/Implementer teams and Multi National Team members.
• Trained Interns, Employees and Contractors on the Automated Testing tools. Educated various areas within an organization the advantages and benefits of Automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TESTING Tools : UFT/QTP, Selenium Web Driver (NightWatchJS and NUnit), Cucumber (SpecFlow), Postman and Newman, SOAP UI, LoadRunner, Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code

Version Control and Defect Tracking T ools : HP ALM, TFS, JIRA, Rally and SharePoint

P ROGRAMMING L anguages : Groovy, JavaScript, C# (Beginner), Core Java, C, C++, NPM Packages, VBScript, HTML and XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and create corresponding Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Perform System, System-Integration, Functional, Positive, Negative, Smoke, Regression and End to End Testing.
• Execute Test Cases; log, retest and close defects.
• Support Go Live activities in the deployment weekend.
• While working in Scrum projects lay out the User Stories and Tasks on HP Agile Manager tool and participate in Sprint Planning, daily stand-up, Sprint Refinements, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Build the automation test framework and automate functional test cases using automation test tools SOAP UI for testing Web Services (APIs).
• Integrate the SOAP UI tests with Jenkins as part of CI/Cd pipeline.
• Architect and own the Test Suites and Test frameworks and give the recommendations to Management on the best test practices.
• Evaluate QA Processes, detect the gaps and streamline those processes.

Software and Tools used on the Job: Java, Groovy, Oracle, SharePoint, HP Unified Functional Testing, Postman, SOAP UI, HP Agile Manager, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, etc

Confidential

QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Preparing Test Estimates
• Analyze business requirements and create corresponding Test Estimates, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Perform Integration, Functional, Positive, Negative, Smoke, Regression and End to End Testing.
• Create Test Scenarios and Review Test Cases created and work delivered by offshore team to adhere to Business requirements.
• Execute Test Cases; log, retest and close defects and Chairing Defect Triage Meetings as Defect Triage Coordinator
• Overseeing the Test Execution and generating daily and weekly test execution and defect reports for Project Management.
• Support Go Live activities in the deployment weekend.
• While working in Scrum projects lay out the PBIs and Tasks on TFS tool and participate in Sprint Planning, daily stand-up, Sprint Refinements, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Apply Risk Based Testing techniques like Function Decision Tree and Risk Poker for efficient testing.
• Build the automation test framework and automate functional test cases using automation test tools HP UFT/QTP and Selenium WebDriver for regression testing purposes.
• Use defect tracking & test management tools HP ALM, Test Manager, Rally & TFS..

Software and Tools used on the Job: Siebel, Java, Oracle, SharePoint, HP Unified Functional Testing, HP ALM, Selenium WebDriver, NightwatchJS, NodeJS, Postman & Newman, SOAP UI, Rally, TFS, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, etc

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Preparing Test Estimates
• Creating Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the assigned project
• Chairing Defect Triage Meetings as Defect Triage Coordinator
• Preparing Deployment Test Plan as Deployment Test Coordinator
• Preparing Project Closure Documentation
• Automate Test Cases using Tool HP Quick Test Professional and perform Test Case Management and Defect Tracking using HP Quality Center
• Leading and coordinating Onshore as well as Offshore QA Teams
• Identifying gaps in QA Processes and implementing the solutions

Software and Tools used on the Job: Siebel, Java, Oracle, SharePoint, HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, and etc.

Confidential

QA/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering and Analysis for which used IBM Rational RequisitePro for few projects
• Preparing Test Estimates and submit the Test Proposal to Program Management
• Creating Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the assigned project
• Chairing Defect Triage Meetings as Defect Triage Coordinator
• Create Test Lab and manage the same as User Acceptance Test Coordinator
• Preparing Deployment Test Plan as Deployment Test Coordinator
• Preparing Project Closure Documentation
• Automate Test Cases using HP Quick Test Professional, IBM Rational Functional Tester and TestComplete Automations tools for multiple applications built on different technologies like.NET, Java, Siebel, etc
• Test Case management and Defect tracking using HP Quality Center where HP Quick Test Professional was used for functional automation testing and also ClearQuest tool for some of the projects where IBM Rational Functional Tester was used for functional automation testing
• Managing and Leading Onshore as well as Offshore QA Teams

Software and Tools used on the Job: Siebel, Java, Oracle, SharePoint, HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM ClearQuest, IBM Rational RequisitePro, TestComplete, Microsoft WTT, Microsoft Product Studio, Test Director, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, HP Loadrunner, etc

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and participate in Requirements clarification meetings with Business Analyst at Onshore
• Design and review Test Cases against the requirements. Logging, retesting and closing the defects
• Also prepared Mercury Winrunner automated test scripts for Application Support team's needs
• Trained and mentored new team members coming into the team