SUMMERY: 

Recognized as a savvy leader with strengths in managing and coordinating geographically distributed QA teams, good experience in SDLC Planning & Management, vendor management, Test automation, outsourcing by defining continuous improvement processes, presiding over lively brainstorming sessions, recognizing and accelerating peer's strengths, delegating the "right task” to the "right person", building powerful QA Team, and satisfying specific project needs of clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional & Performance Testing tools:  Quick Test Professional(QTP)or Unified Functional tester(UFT), Load Runner, FX cop, Style cop, App verifier, URL Snooper2, Middleman, Inject Crash, NANT, Cruise control, Magellan, Advent net QEngine, WTT, Ruby, Cucumber and Watir.

Defect Tracking:  Test Director/ Quality Center, Mantis, Jira, Product Studio

Databases:  SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, Access, DB2

Configuration Management:  Visual Source Safe, Rational Clear Case.

Scripting languages:  VB Script, HTML, XML, UNIX

Application environments:  C#, .NET Framework, AJAX, ASP.NET, PDF, Crystal, .NET WebServices, SSIS/ SSRS/ SSAS, SOA, CSS, Java, J2EE, Mainframe.

MS Suite/ Project Tools:  MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project

Methodologies:  Waterfall, V - Model, Agile, RUP, Scrum, RAD, UML, TDD.

Operating Systems/ Products:  Windows - 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003, 2000, 98, UNIX, UBUNTU,LINUX, IBM MF, Touch Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Automation Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibility:

• HP UFT / QTP (custom recovery scenarios, logging, standards and conventions, integration with OTA, ALM) and BPT (standards for reusable components, sizing of automation BPT component, scripted vs keyword based component, AOM etc.)
• Created Automation Test Strategy and Test Planning and created the automation infrastructure
• Handling entire team of offshore and onshore resources.

QA Automation Specialist/Manager

  Confidential,Columbus,Ohio

• Currently working on Claims Transformation project to replace legacy application with Guidewire products such as Claim Center and Contact Manager
• Automated Guidewire Claim Center and Contact Manager web application under Agile development methodology using QTP10.0/UFT and QC11.0
• Created Automation Test Strategy and Test Planning and created the automation infrastructure
• Responsible for Quality Control and Automation Process creation and improvement.
• Supervise Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers including the preparation and delivery of team performance evaluations and career development activities.
• Ensure delivery against QA department goals and objectives, i.e. meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule.
• Maintain product consistency throughout product cycle, to include the design, define and build phases through quality checkpoints and testing.
• Develop and manage quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams.

QA Manager

Confidential,Columbus, Ohio

• Created Automation/Manual test plan and estimation for all the projects.
• Supervised Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers including the preparation and delivery of team performance evaluations and career development activities.
• Performed Web Services Manual and Automation Testing.
• Used Business Process Testing - BPT Framework.
• Provided effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and performance to plan.
• Developed project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment, customer integration, and end to end test automation or validation.
• Developed the Hybrid framework which is a combination of data driven and user-defined Function Driven Approach for automation.
• Adept in Descriptive Programming approach of UFT/QTP whereby dynamic objects in the application were handled through scripting rather than the traditional object repository approach.
• Helped the Client is setting up and maintaining the QA processes in our team. I have involved in QA audits and implemented the QA best practices across various domains and projects.
• Managed the execution of multiple test automation projects with a globally distributed team (Onshore/Offshore)
• Standardized QA standards and practices across teams where possible
• Involved in Web services and Mobile automation testing.

QA/Test Lead

Confidential

• Supervised Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers including the preparation and delivery of team performance evaluations and career development activities.
• Developed and managed quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams.
• Investigated and recommended QA tools and process improvements. Created Automation test plan and estimation for all the projects.
• Create Automation test plan and estimation for all the projects.
• Added value to the team’s testing efforts by putting forth the idea of integrating QTP with Quality Center - a test management tool.
• Strived for value addition to the team’s testing efforts. Put forth the idea of using Quality Center tool for effective test management which was welcomed by client manager.
• Coordinated efforts between product development teams and onshore enterprise test team
• Architected and implemented QA processes (e.g., defect tracking, test case management, automated testing strategies, etc.