SUMMARY:

• A Lead Software Developer in Test (SDET), possessing in - depth technical and business knowledge of Banking, Insurance, Web and telecommunication industry derived over 11 years of work experience as a Techno-Manager and Automation lead.
• Expertise on Selenium Web Driver Test automation with JAVA, Confidential and Cucumber, RESTful and SOAP services testing and Agile/Scrum.

• Selenium WebDriver, Java, Gherkins and Cucumber JVM
• JUnit, TestNG, Data driven, Behavior Driven Development, Keyword driven and Page Object Patterns.
• Core Java programming skills
• Selenium Web-driver with Java.
• REST and SOAP services using ReadyAPI
• Automated script integration using Bamboo

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Frameworks: TestNG, JUnit, Data Driven, Keyword driven, Hybrid

CI Tool: Bamboo

Test Automation Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Web Driver, QTP

IDE: Eclipse, Selenium

Test Management Tools: ALM (Quality Center), Test Director, JIRA

Defect Management Tools: JIRA and Bugzilla, ALM

Programming Languages: C, Java, HTML, XML, SQL

Scripting Languages: VB Scripting, JavaScript

Operating Systems: Windows Family

Databases: Oracle 10g, MySQL, MS SQL, MS - Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston

Responsibilities:

• Playing the role of automation seal on 4 pilot teams to implement Confidential.
• Critically involved in setting up in-sprint automation for the different scrum teams for the client.
• Help improve user stories to have Who, What and Why along with good acceptance criteria stated.
• Introduce the pre-grooming step to create the feature files
• Preparing Cucumber test scripts for automation
• Automated test execution and reporting
• Code review and pair programming with developer, to groom the team on test automation.
• Build and enhance the automation framework
• Manage and execute integration testing across applications for critical production deployments by Booking Trades (Bonds, Swaps, and Repos etc.) through various applications of Invsys.
• Perform Disaster Recovery, Production turnovers for Project.
• Handling on-boarding and off-boarding co-ordination, timesheet management, resource allocation and effort tracking.
• Creating Monthly / Quarterly / Yearly revenue projections for the project
• Delegation tasks to team based upon the calls with onshore coordinator for project update
• Sending Weekly Status Report and Monthly Dashboard (delivery status).
• Owning quality assurance for a scrum team as a tester and attending all agile scrum meetings.
• Managing and monitoring testing artifacts in JIRA.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple teams of 7-8 offshore test team members each at same point of time, with no Onsite coordinator
• Creating and maintaining Test Strategy.
• Responsible for daily/weekly/monthly touch base with client project managers & updating them about the work done
• Managed and ensured timely delivery with performance.
• Supported the client on HP ALM tool
• Responsible for leading the team in testing in SIT environment, defect logging, re-testing of defects & occasional UAT.
• Driving the Defect triage call with BA, Client Project Manager and E&Y testing teams
• Coordinated Automation testing for all the project apart from the functional testing and ensured delivering within all the quality milestone target dates
• Responsible for status reporting and metrics generation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 5-7 offshore testing members as project leader.
• Responsible for defect logging, re-testing of defects after a QA release & occasional manual testing.
• Estimation of test efforts for the assigned work item, test planning and execution.
• Creating and maintaining Test Strategy & delivering Test Summary Report after Testing completes
• Driving the Defect triage call with BA/Client Project Manager/ Line of Business (LOB) teams
• Responsible for daily/weekly/monthly touch base with client project managers/BA/LOB & updating them about the work done
• Managed and ensured timely delivery & supported the client on HP ALM tool
• Performed a Gap analysis of the existing requirements for couple of projects, got the gap filled through BA with current requirements & lead the testing team to design test cases
• Responsible for leading the team in testing in SIT environment, defect logging, re-testing of defects
• Occasionally supported UAT in execution and defect logging.
• Smoke test validation after every build during the release cycle.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple teams of 2-3 offshore test team members each at same point of time, with no Onsite coordinator
• Creating and maintaining Test Strategy & delivering Test Summary Report after Testing completes
• Single-handedly planned the testing effort for the entire project duration, determine dollars needed & get the same approved
• Got into the role of BA, gathered requirements, got approval from LOB, and gave the KT to test team once team is formed.
• Coordinated Automation, Performance & Security testing for all the projects apart from the functional testing and ensured delivering within all the quality milestone target dates
• Responsible for daily/weekly/monthly touch base with client project managers/BA/LOB & updating them about the work done
• Managed and ensured timely delivery with performance above stipulated SLA & KPI targets
• Supported the client on HP ALM tool
• Responsible for leading the team in testing in SIT environment, defect logging, re-testing of defects & occasional UAT.
• Driving the Defect triage call with BA/Client Project Manager/ Line of Business (LOB) teams

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple teams of 3-5 offshore test team members each at same point of time
• Single-handedly planned the testing effort for the entire project duration, determine dollars needed & get the same approved
• Creating and maintaining Test Strategy & delivering Test Summary Report after Testing completes
• Coordinated Automation, Performance & Security testing for all the projects apart from the functional testing and ensured delivering within all the quality milestone target dates
• Driving the Defect triage call with BA/Client Project Manager/ Line of Business (LOB) teams
• Responsible for daily/weekly/monthly touch base with client project managers/BA/LOB & updating them about the work done
• Managed and ensured timely delivery & supported the client on HP ALM tool
• Performed a Gap analysis of the existing requirements for couple of projects, got the gap filled through BA with current requirements & lead the testing team to design test cases
• Responsible for leading the team in testing in SIT environment, defect logging, re-testing of defects & occasional UAT.