Objective

To obtain a challenging Quality Assurance/Automation opportunity in a software organization where my technical strengths, automation experience,exposure to agile environment, SQA processes experience and customers interactions can be used for improving customer satisfaction and the overall quality of the software.

Summary

• 8 years experience in testing software for various domains like networking, advertisement, automobile and telecom industry.
• 5 years of experience working in United States and interacting with distributed teams in India and China
• Developed java application for generating test cases from architecture design UML statechart
• Experience in UI Automation Framework Design using Selenium WebDriver,Selenium grid, TestNG , ReportNG , and Jenkins
• Experience in Automation of Test Environments installations in Perl and integrations with build systems Jenkins
• Experience in Web Testing, Database Testing, Security Testing and Performance Testing. Experienced in Client-Server architecture, distributed platform, SaaS,Amazon cloud and UNIX/ Solaris platforms
• Experienced in defining SQA processes, Test planning, Test Case development, Use Case understanding, documents review and mapping and Defect Life Cycle
• Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and Software Testing Functional, Regression, Installation, Upgrade, Integration, Performance, Smoke, Ad-hoc, browser compatibility and UAT
• Extensive experience in coordinating test effort , tacking test deliverables, status reporting and issue escalations
• Excellent communication and administration skills, self-motivator, quick learner and efficient team player.

Technical Skills

Employment History

Confidential

Position: Automation Lead

Contributions:

• Automation framework architecture design and implementation using Selenium Webdriver and Java. Integration with nightly build
• Automation consultant for the client for various product lines
• Integration of selenium scripts with cloud based application, SauceLabs, which provides multiple OS, browsers and platforms for the scripts to run
• Analyzing and implementing cross browser/OS testing strategy
• Hiring, budgeting and resource management
• Building and mentoring teams

Confidential

Contributions:

• Automation framework architecture design and implementation using Selenium and Java. Integration with nightly build
• Integration of selenium scripts with cloud based application, SauceLabs, which provides multiple OS, browsers and platforms for the scripts to run
• Performance test design and implementation using Jmeter.
• Analyzing and implementing cross browser/OS testing strategy
• QA Lead across product lines, defining test strategy, analyzing tools, process improvement, effort estimations, project coordination and bug triages
• Hiring, budgeting and resource management
• Building and mentoring teams

Confidential

Position: Principal SQA Engineer Operative One

Contributions:

SQA lead for a business module Performance testing initiatives using JMeter Design and implement GUI automation using Selenium Webdriver and Java Designing test plans and test strategy, interacting with distributed teams, distributing workload, mentoring juniors and improving SQA process

Confidential

Position: Sr. SQA Engineer

Contributions:

• Automation of test Environment installations and setups on Solaris zones/Containers using Shell,Perl,Expect
• Created performance benchmarking and stress testing tool in Perl
• White box testing of several key features for IPv6 support.
• Functionality testing on various Cable Modem Termination Systems CMTS and different versions of Cisco IOS
• Coordination and mentoring overseas team for functionality testing ,and GUI automation in Selenium
• Participate in Defect Triages and cross-functional meetings
• Analysis of customer tickets and creating defect analysis report for ISO qualification.

Position: Sr. SQA Engineer ServAssure Enterprise

Confidential

Contributions:

• Integration testing with external ticketing systems for notifications services.
• Worked on certifying the product for compliance with Motorola devices
• Backend Testing.

Position: Sr. SQA Engineer Policy Server Manager/Fair Bandwidth Manager

Policy Service Manager provides dynamic, on-demand bandwidth management for multimedia applications. The software ensures standards-based quality of service based upon, and allows customers to prioritize or de-prioritize specific data packets as needed, providing Bandwidth Management, Event-Based Billing, Quality of Service, Subscriber Profiling, Scalability, Application-Specific Traffic Prioritization and Reports

Contributions:

• Lead overseas QA team for creating functional test strategy mapping to requirements.
• Performed acceptance and integration testing with multimedia devices Xbox, Video phones
• Worked on PacketCable Multimedia PCMM certification

Position: Sr. SQA Engineer Service Activation Manager

Service Activation Manager is a provisioning system for Cable Modems and customer endpoints for providing high speed data and telephony. It had integrations with the MSO billing systems and provided web services support for integration with external applications.

Contributions:

• Developing Automation tool for web service operations
• Manual testing
• Support customer operations and deployment groups as an escalation point of contact when complex problems arise.

Confidential

Position: Research Intern

Developed algorithm for generating Test cases from UMS state chard designs. The project was developed in Java

Contributions:

• Develop a parser for parsing state-chart diagrams
• Develop algorithm for path traversal and generating unique paths.

Other Experience:

Confidential

Position: Lecturer

Teaching Bachelor of Engineer CS E course

Contributions:

• Taught Advanced Database
• Taught Enterprise Resource and Planning
• Taught Artificial Intelligence

References: On Request