SUMMARY

• Experienced Test Engineering Manager with more than 12 years of experience in testing innovative platform applications and embedded system devices for hi - tech IT organizations.
• Good work experience in the area of requirement analysis, test automation coverage and User Acceptance qualification while ensuring a high standard quality product to the end users. Maximized QA productivity by heavily involving mix of white box, grey box and black box test execution by providing continues build and integration support for Agile based releases.
• Collaborated with different stakeholders by planning system solution analysis to ensure end to end implementation and testing. Meets and exceeds challenging expectations consistently on team or independent basis by devising innovative solutions for unique needs.
• Skilled QA professional with hands on experience on Web-Based, client server, enterprise middleware and Mobile Application testing.
• Thorough understanding in implementation of software throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in execution of different QA methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, TDD, BDD) in ensuring Software Quality.
• Interacted heavily with business stakeholders by proposing and driving resolutions. Good at identifying bottlenecks and increasing team productivity by changing operational workflow.
• Took the ownership of product quality with a strong ability to work closely with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the testability for providing complete test coverage.
• Responsibility involves ownership of Test Plan/Test Strategy/Test Cases/Test Scripts based on BRDs and generation of traceability matrix.
• Proficient in different phases of Testing like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Modular Testing, Backend Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance testing and High availability testing.
• Built quality certification strategies by continuously innovating on QA platforms to achieve 90% UI automation and 100% API with certification turn-around time of < 8 hours for business critical applications.
• Executed peer review of the Test Plan/Test Strategy with the onshore/offshore QA teams in ensuring QA best practices like pairwise testing, RBT and priority based test automation.
• Delivered product specific quality compliance needs by working with external parties like TL9K, Telcordia OSMINE, InfoSec..etc
• Managed quality engineering team through the full life cycle of development including reviewing requirements and specifications, managing test resources, test planning, design, review and execution for both small and large size teams across the globe.
• Standardized the certification process and effectively communicate QA metrics to help PMO to arrive and measure Organization Quality KPIs.
• Established non-functional testing organizations including security testing, performance testing and continuous code quality improvements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Business Domain: Enterprise Web Apps, Cloud, SOA, eDiscovery, Desktop application and Mobile Applications (iOS) Access Management, Clinical Trial Platform, Consumer & Provider healthcare apps, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Open API s, Monitoring & instrumentation and Cisco ONS platforms
• Operating Systems: Mac, Linux, Sun - Solaris Unix and Windows XP/2007
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, C#/.NET, Cucumber, XML, TCL, Python, junit, MySQL, Shell scripting.
• QA/Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, AppPerfect, Raft, SoapUI, Jenkins, Emma, jMeter, CA LISA, Swagger, Protractor/AngularJS, TestComplete, Geb framework, Frisby, Instruments,Appium Perfecto Mobile.
• Test management and Engineering Tools: DOORS, DDTS, Bugzilla, JIRA, RADAR, DevOps, Splunk, MPP, Nagios, DevOps, Puppet, Wiki, Rackspace, HP service desk, HP ALM/QC, SAAS/Rackspace, Seapine TestTrack
• Security and Non-functional tools: IDMS, ZAP, BURP,Fortify 360, IBM App Scan. Gatling, jMeter, Neoload, SonarQube
• Standards: OTN/SONET, DWDM, SDH, OTN, TL1, SNMP, TCP/IP, BSD Sockets, TMN, OSPF, BGP, GSR1208/16, OSMINE, TL9K, PHI, EMR, 21CFRPart11, GCP/GLP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Automation Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and executing test automation roadmap for set of Clinical Trial Portals offered as services from ePharmaSolutions group.
• Re-engineered and delivered transformation of legacy (Xaft) framework built by vendor team in to a new BDD driven cucumber based framework to be owned in-house.
• Evaluated and piloted frameworks based on CodedUi vs Cucumber and presented to the senior management to drive the decision process.
• Re-use and migration of reusable artifacts from current framework from DB driven model.
• Established API testing approach for .Net/C# based services built on top of Microsoft Azure service bus.
• Performance testing support using commercial product (Neoload and JMeter) by customizing to the ePS needs.
• Security code quality and penetration testing using - ZAP and BURP.
• QA release support for migration / upgrade and roll-back testing.
• Continuous integration and deployment using Octopus / BitBucket / Jenkins based solution.

Environment: JAVA/C#/Windows, Cucumber, Microsoft SharePoint, Selenium, XML, REST services, Neoload, Jenkins.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Responsibilities:

• Owner of QA activities to help raising the quality levels of Health care applications, primarily involving mobile based social healthcare application, Analytics framework based on big data and multiple health care applications both Provider and payer side applications.
• Engaged different automation technologies to address the need of higher turnaround time with build certification
• Built TestComplete based framework for automation of legacy application, which has frequent maintenance releases in SAAS based release cycle.
• Running App Scan and reporting security vulnerabilities in the Application.
• Built automation framework to cater to the needs of both web and rest API test automation. This had capabilities to extend to mobile testing as well.
• Worked with third party interfacing products (CERME, CareWebQi, HLI) to ensure end to end testing establishment for the user scenarios.
• Tested letters and reports by setting up both custom solution and third part letter solution like CinCom3.3.
• Analyzed customer workflows as part of test coverage using tools like Dynatrace and Splunk in production environments.
• Managed vendor teams and did evaluation of prospective new vendors for better partnership

Environment: JAVA, Python, Selenium WebDriver, XML, webServices, SoapUI, TestComplete, Jenkins, Rackspace.

Technical Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead QA efforts to meet up with the future technology roadmap by innovating the test strategy with regard to skill, process and platform.
• Acted as a liaison between Business team and engineering teams in ensuring smooth QA/UAT certifications.
• Built QA framework platform for meeting the needs of technology landscape of ETS application suite to cover various kind of technologies ( Including web apps, desktop apps, middleware APIs and Mobile Apps)
• Designing test plan and building traceability matrix for releases by engaging early with engineering teams and business groups
• Preparing of test cases, test data, tests scripts while Engineering team is coming up with intermittent milestones for verification
• Identify requirements and implement technical solution for the framework to support better automation feasibility
• Automation of testing and running the CI based test suites using Selenium WebDriver and SoapUI suites.
• Built custom made / NMR based test suite based on XLS provided with multiple levels of data objects for a SOA based platform.
• Identification of better reusable automation approaches like keyword driven automation, data driven and headless/browser less test automation to increase the maintainability.
• Building Jenkins CI / CD jobs and continuously adding test scripts (UI and jUnit)
• Implemented virtualized test environment for web services testing for SOA based application for SSP
• Implementation of automation for APIs and UI for Rover and DS applications using virtualization tool CA LISA
• Performed RCA to analyses and identifying the issues with releases certification.
• Shared leading metrics and reports on timely manner to the management and also built Quality metrics dashboard
• Worked on quality metrics, code coverage and ensuring builds are meeting quality criteria by analyzing via code quality tools (Find bugs, PMD, Sonar)
• Implemented Mobile automation for iOS internal platform using Appium, Instruments and Tapster.
• Running security code quality tools and analysis for OWASP 10 vulnerabilities in ensuring application security  Environment: JAVA, C++, Python, Selenium WebDriver, XML, Instruments/Appium, web Services, App perfect, Jenkins