SUMMARY

• 12+ years of experience in Software Testing
• Around 4 years of experience as QA Lead
• Experience leading offshore and onsite teams
• Expert in functional automation testing using Win Runner and QTP.
• Mercury Certified QTP 8.2 Specialist
• Expert at designing test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Acquainted with various Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC), Defect Life Cycles (DLC), Software Testing Lifecycles (STLC)
• Developed test utilities using VBA and VB script to help the business users schedule test execution, schedule back up of test scripts.
• Extensive experience working with large complex software applications
• Experience in testing web based, windows client server applications
• Experience with XML, PDF, and Database test automation.
• In - depth knowledge on test management tools - Test Director, Quality Center, ALM
• Extensive experience in using Open Test Architecture (OTA) to work on QC/ALM test utilities.
• Involved in POC, research on new test tools implementations
• Ability to work individually or as part of the team
• Experience in testing Oracle Apps, .Net applications and Client/Server application
• Experience on Facets application test automation using QTP.
• Mentored QTP automation team to facilitate growth within the team including training on QTP, providing solutions to complex QTP code issues, minimizing the test execution time
• Extensive experience in various automation frameworks like Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven and Hybrid approaches.
• Worked extensively on descriptive programming, file system objects and excel objects
• Conducted interviews on test automation, to recruit new resources
• Developed performance scripts using QTP to calculate the server response times.
• Maintained around 12 test automation machines which are used as remote machines for test automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Windows 98/200/XP/Vista/8

Test Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.2/9.0/ 9.2/9.5/10/11 , Win Runner, Test Director, Quality Center 9.0/9.5/10, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11, Rational Suite

Languages: VB script, VBA, C, C++

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome

Methods: Waterfall, V model, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a senior QA Engineer
• Analysis and review of functional design and business requirements.
• Review existing QTP test automation framework.
• Develop new QTP automation hybrid framework.
• POC on new QTP test automation framework and demo the abilities of framework.
• Developed several VBScript functions using OTA, Excel/Word/PDF application object model.
• Identify possibility of browser compatibility testing using QTP test automation.
• Develop manual test cases for new functionality
• Effectively involved in creating stories, subtasks and Defects in JIRA.
• Identify data needs and develop data request sheets for testing.
• Conducted interviews to add new resources to team.
• Involved in daily scrum meetings and sprint planning sessions.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a senior QTP automation engineer.
• Training offshore resource on QTP and automation framework.
• Co-ordination with offshore resource on a daily basis to check status and to resolve any technical or application specific issues.
• Developed test data generator utility using VB script, Excel, QTP application object, DB connection object & OTA. This utility will gather required test data from DB and create test data excel file
• Developed new components for new requirements.
• Test machines setup after windows 7 upgrade. This involves QTP, ALM and related patches installation and default settings setup.
• Involved in testing and updating test scripts for Windows 7 upgrade.
• Maintenance of performance scripts developed using QTP.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QTP and automation engineer
• Utilized existing automation framework to develop data creation scripts for business users.
• Developed and updated existing components for every new release of EPIC application.
• Provided technical assistance to script users to resolve test execution issues.
• Suggested various developments to existing automation framework.
• Involved in design, implementation and documentation of automation process.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Automation Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Acted in a senior role in leading automation testing team and helped in setting up a global test automation framework
• Maintained existing automation frameworks and scripts. Involved in upgrading the existing scripts to new framework
• Developed test utilities using Visual Basic, VB script to help QA team schedule QTP automation tests from ALM and to maintain daily back up of test scripts
• Developed new framework and automated several tests for various Confidential internal applications using QTP, VB script, ALM/QC.
• Involved in ALM upgrade testing by verifying the QTP tests behavior.
• Mentored, trained team members on QTP and framework.
• Conducted Test Automation Forum to identify areas of improvement and to discuss various new techniques, best practices and also to provide solutions for any major QTP code issues.
• Supported regression testing cycles by updating, executing test automation scripts.
• Involved in framework documentation, library maintenance.
• Developed many test scripts, reusable actions, function libraries for various Confidential internal applications.
• Developed test data capture scripts using VB script to capture test data from DB2 database.
• Maintenance of around 12 remote test machines which includes install, uninstall, upgrade QTP and ALM
• Developed performance test scripts using QTP to capture server response times for each critical scenarios.
• Involved in conducting interviews on test automation

Confidential, El Dorado Hills, CA

Facets Test Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served a Facets automation consultant role by educating the team with automation framework implementation details.
• Developed, implemented test automation framework using QTP, QC and VB script for Facets application.
• Developed various data production scripts to help the UAT data management team with the test data requirements.
• Involved in UAT Test Data Management process development
• Task allocation and status tracking on a daily basis
• Analyze, identify and automate possible scenarios for Test Data Management team.
• Trained business users and QA team on QTP data template usage.
• Developed complex automation tests using QTP, VBScript and Microsoft XMLDOM object to validate xml files.
• Create, update and maintain various regression tests for claims processing scenarios.

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Served as a QA automation team lead for 5 offshore resources and served as a QA team lead for 2 offshore manual testing resources.
• Analyze regression scenarios to identify automatable scenarios
• Developed automation test plan and road map
• Design and develop hybrid automation framework using QTP, QC and VB script.
• Developed and maintained various automation components like object repositories, functional libraries, recovery scenarios, reusable actions.
• Developed test data creation scripts
• Co-ordination with offshore team on a daily basis to check status and to resolve any technical or application specific issues.
• Review and certify components developed by offshore team.
• Weekly status and metrics projection

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved as a part of test automation team and also served as a member of center of excellence testing team.
• Worked on automation POCs, test effort estimations, provide training to team on automation tools.
• Developed tool to calculate test effort estimation using use case points.
• Involved with implementing Rational Suite, license management and trained team on Rational Suite implementation.
• Developed ICS automation framework using QTP, QC and VB script.
• Involved in developing automation tests for Oracle Apps.
• Task assignments, monitoring and status reporting
• Provided technical and functional support to team on QTP and Oracle Apps.

Confidential

Assistant Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migrating scripts from WinRunner to QTP.
• Developed several automation tests using WinRunner and QTP.
• Involved in test automation framework development.
• Scheduled WinRunner test scripts execution
• Conducted weekly technical issues review meeting
• Developed and executed QTP scripts and executed from QC.
• Developed automation test plan and involved in developing automation road map.

Confidential

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in identifying a test automation framework using WinRunner.
• Developed automation test using WinRunner and executed them from Test Director.
• Developed data driven tests to execute tests with different sets of data.
• Provided training on WinRunner to new team members
• Responsible to identify changes for each release and update automation test scripts accordingly.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing web applications using existing test cases.
• Develop new test cases based on the new requirements.
• Undergone WinRunner hands on training.
• Developed few functions and test scripts using WinRunner.
• Manually testing the web application for broken links
• Involved in smoke, regression and system testing.