SUMMARY:

• Seasoned QA/Automation Architect with 11+ years of global exposure and experience across product and service provider organizations.
• Handled E2E test automation engagements and developed automation frameworks under minimal supervision.
• Managed, trained and coached local and distributed QA teams.
• A proactive, results - driven, team-oriented professional, acknowledged often for being resourceful, adaptable, and self-directed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with technical teams, non-technical teams and senior business partners.
• Proven ability to meet even the most challenging goals due to outstanding IT troubleshooting, organizational, problem solving, and customer support skills.
• Authorized to work in USA, holds H1b.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Models and Methodologies: Iterative(DevOps, Agile, RAD), V-Model, Waterfall

Domains: Healthcare, Capital Market, ITIL, ITSM, Retail, Sales, e-Learning, School-MIS

Project Management Tools: IBM Rational Team Concert, HPE ALM Octane, Microsoft Project

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL, DB2, Sybase, MS Access

Bug Tracking Tools: HP ALM / Quality Center, JIRA, Sharepoint, Confluence

Languages: Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Gherkin, VBScript, VB, VBA, XML

Version Control Tools: Tortoise SVN, GIT, GitHub

Platforms: Windows, Linux

Generic Automation Frameworks: TestNG, Cognizant's CRAFT(Cognizant Reusable Automation Framework) and Wipro's TAF (Tool Agnostic Framework)

DevOps Tools: Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, Jfrog, Ansible

Automation Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, HPE UFT/QTP, LeanFT

Known Technologies: ERP, EAI, ETL, Cloud, Analytics, BigData, IoT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced and implemented LEAN practices in test automation lifecycle wherever applicable.
• Trained and coached 50+ test staff member across multiple projects to have up-skilled and agile resources.
• Evaluated popular testing tools and assisted in designing and implementing it in processes for 10+ projects.
• Developed automation roadmap and detailed implementation plan for test automation framework, test strategy, test plan, test scheduling, and test summary report with respect to the project.
• Solved team’s technical issues with practical and customized solutions.
• Focused on employee growth to give test engineers visibility and accountability for their work.
• Ensured compliance to all automation engineering standards and maintained optimal quality of products.
• Monitored automation projects from various geographical locations across the world.
• Supervised a dedicated team of Test Leads, Test Analysts, and Testers along with managing day to day testing tasks.

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Responsibilities:

• Principle QA Architect for an entire LOB of ~40 products and 100+ members in various cities in US.
• Standardized and enhanced Wipro’s Tool Agnostic Framework automation framework for the wide use across organization and other LOBs.
• Synched best practices, procedures, and test responsibilities along with reuse of test components for and within teams per projects.
• Benchmarked the current state maturity of the ongoing automation in the LOB.
• Identified Automation opportunities in 40% non-automated area and defined future road map for the same.
• Setup and implemented a version control tool and practices across the teams.
• Re-enforced the communication strategies across and within the teams which reduced the issue resolution time by 30%.
• Automated Regression and Smoke test suite of Currency Management Platform, a legacy application being used by 75+ Business Users in US and UK head-offices to handle customized global trading for high profiled financial clients.
• Achieved benefits of automation in ‘n’th iteration itself by
• Training 3 Manual resources on the automation tasks.
• Proactive collaboration with product owners and business in story creation, backlog grooming and building code reusable components.
• Pushing for improvements in software development practices to increase software maturity prior to delivery to test team.
• Developed a utility to create a custom dataset using Bloomberg reference data and production static data for business users to perform UAT.
• Introduced Continuous Integration process to the project.
• Studied and consulted 6 supply chain related products for the automation feasibility, tool selection followed by consultation on the automation setup to the respective product teams.

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• Optimized existing automation setup in CRAFT (Cognizant Reusable Automation Framework), saved 70% execution time.
• Developed VBA functions separately to validate approx ~10k sensitive data items per trade in Excel.
• Created Test Artifacts like Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Case, Traceability Matrix, Test Report for an EAI based global platform for publishing its research and other reports which also enabled Confidential to implement global workflow across the regions.
• Created detailed project plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks using MS Project.
• Improved efficiency and reduced test cycle by increasing automating test script execution by 60%.

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• Played a key role in entire automation lifecycle through consulting, designing POC and developing automation framework for Confidential -Medicare project.
• Led automation and quality efforts in multi-vendor, agile project setup.
• Early automation and regression run saved 40 man hours per sprint and also increased defect density by 40% than earlier.
• Automation solution accepted by client as a standard across enterprise for future agile projects.

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• Led and mentored India automation team of 6 for the application a GE Centricity Pacs application.
• Reviewed TCs and identified additional 20% automation opportunities in the non-automated area.

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• Led E2E Interoperability, UAT Testing and Build Release Management for ITSM group’s 14 products across multiple teams spread across globe.
• Automated 40% of the build deployment processes using VBS, C# and Python.
• Released 3 major ITSM solutions to pre-sales and marketing team in a year’s tenure.
• Worked with cross-functional project teams like Technical marketing team, Sale Representative to prepare demos based on current technologies in market like Cloud Computing, Automation in Service Provisioning, Application Portfolio management, Auto Compliance to name a few.
• Created and maintained Clusters, VMs, templates using Vsphere for Enablement Data Project’s Interop Lab.

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• Involved in automation core framework design, along with the migration of automation suit activity during tool version up-gradation.
• Owned design, documentation, review, maintenance and execution of test scripts, sets, and suites for 5 major modules.
• Established an automated test environment, deploying and preparing builds for Regression run.
• Staffed and managed team of 5 automation engineers.
• Educated team members on test automation and drove adoption.

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• Implemented automation for Web-Based analytics based product.
• Performed additional task of configuring of Cognos, deployment of builds on 3 web-servers for 3 databases before each regression run.

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• As an application developer, active involvement in all phases of Waterfall Software Development model including the implementation at Client side and post-production support.