SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of IT Experience in Quality Assurance.
• Experienced in working with open source tools Selenium Web Driver, Maven, TestNG, Eclipse.
• Hands - on expertise in a wide range of Testing and QA Tools like Selenium WebDriver/ TestNG, Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Quality Center, ALM, iConnect, Bugzilla, Jira.
• Have experience in executing the project in various types of SDLC, STLC methodologies including Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, Test-Driven Development and V-model.
• Experience in Agile technology, working in Sprint, Story, Estimation, backlog and Daily Scrum updates.
• Experience in FRD walkthrough, Requirements Analysis and Estimates for all the milestones of the project. Identifying priorities in consultation with the client and changing the schedule.
• Experience in Test Artifacts, Test Traceability Matrix, Test Specification, Test Report, Project Closure report.
• Solid experience in Defect tracking & reporting and conducting Bug Triage meetings.
• Responsible for development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases for functional, regression testing based on business requirements for manual and Automation testing.
• Analyzed Business and Functional Requirements and created test plans for Banking, Finance, Retail, Insurance and Capital Market.
• Working knowledge of Test Plans, Traceability Matrix, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on business and functional requirements. Documented all phases of QA process.
• Experience in Planning/Implementing Testing Standards and Guidelines for Functional/ Static & Dynamic Black-box / Smoke / Integration / System/ User Acceptance/Regression/ Retesting / Build Verification / Usability, Exploratory, Ad-hoc testing and disaster Recovery Testing.
• Experienced in Production Deployment Testing to validate and certify new changes rolled into production successfully w.r.t projects, change request’s & emergency change orders.
• Experienced in Securities & Capital Market and Brokerage (BFS).
• Experienced in onsite-offshore delivery model.
• Providing work direction and leadership to multiple teams, including the tracking, monitoring, communicating and review of the project work.
• Identifying and implementing strategies for building team effectiveness.
• Determining needs of employees & conducting suitable programs to enhance their skills leading to increased productivity.
• Good Knowledge on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment using tools like Jenkins.
• Excellent technical and personal communication, team management, and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TOOLS: & TECHNOLOGIES |Selenium WebDriver |QTP/UFT |Win Runner |Jira |Clear quest |Quality Centre |ALM |Keyword Driven Framework |Hybrid Framework |Data Driven Framework |BDD - Cucumber Framework| |MS SQL| VBScript |UNIX | Citrix |SVN |GIT hub |Eclipse |Putty |XML |Python |LDAP |SQL Server |Jenkins |Maven |Apache Ant |Selenium Grid |Continuous Integration |Continuous Delivery Cucumber |Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Working as an Automation Tester/ Lead, Responsible for Managing team at Offshore.
• Preparing Automation Hybrid Framework Architecture for Docupace and salesforce workflows.
• Developing test framework, test scripts, test log, test reports with Selenium Web driver. Analyzing and writing test standards and procedures.
• Doing a decent Test Framework design and coding (product independent) which could be used across the products.
• Preparation of test scripts for web applications using Selenium Web-driver with Java for functional regression test cases.
• Preparing Test data, Test suite for Regression, Ready for Business (RFB), Common function action scripts, User defined function, Environment files and global variable files.
• Developing test framework, test scripts, test log, test reports with Selenium Web driver. Analyzing and writing test standards and procedures.
• Responsible for Analyzing and identifying test cases for automation
• Responsible for Creating QA Metrics and providing to the higher management for Visibility.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Execute automation scripts using data driven & TestNG and generate Extent reports
• Performing failure analysis for the scripts after every build is ran and reporting any issues / modifying the test scripts accordingly
• Executing SQL queries to retrieve the test data from back end data base and compare it with the data available in the web application

ENVIRONMENT: Hybrid Automation Framework, Java, Selenium Web driver, ALM, TestNG, Extent Report, Maven, SVN, Oracle SQL Developer, Windows 7.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of an Onsite QA Lead, responsible for managing team at offshore.
• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Business.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Test scenarios and test cases design and test data setup/creation
• Peer review on test documentation
• Giving a walkthrough on test plan and test cases to the whole project team (includes Business and Development teams)
• Performing test cases execution, defects reporting and defects tracking in Quality Center
• Running the defect triage meetings with vendor development team and getting the closure on the open defects.
• Production verification during production deployment
• Responsible for Creating QA Metrics and providing to the higher management for Visibility.
• Executing SQL queries to retrieve the test data from back end data base and compare it with the data available in the web application
• Tasks assignment to offshore team
• Monitoring the status of the assigned tasks and review of test scenarios & test cases, test execution, defects reported by the offshore team
• Addressing the clarifications raised by team
• Frequent follow-up meetings with offshore to track the project progress
• Organize weekly meetings with offshore leads to discuss on the status of the project and challenges/issues faced and finding the solutions
• Sharing daily project status report to team (Business, Tech & QA management)

TOOLS: USED: ALM, Oracle SQL Developer, iConnect.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of Team Lead.
• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Business/Dev.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Test scenarios and test cases design and test data setup/creation
• Giving a walkthrough on test plan and test cases to the whole project team (includes Business and Development teams)
• Performing test cases execution, defects reporting and defects tracking in Quality Center
• Running the defect triage meetings with vendor development team and getting the closure on the open defects.
• Production verification during production deployment.
• Setting up the data for Business Testing and helping them in their User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Business/Dev.
• Preparing Test Plan, Test Cases and getting signed off by the Business.
• Walking through the test cases to Development team and Business.
• Performing test cases execution and defect reporting.
• Discussing with the Dev Lead on the open defects and getting the closure.
• Handling business queries on the application and analyzing the issues faced by them and logging the same in QC.
• Setting up the data for Business Testing and helping them in their User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Team lead.
• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Business/Dev.
• Assigning tasks to the offshore team and tracking the status of the task assigned.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Test scenarios and test cases design and test data setup/creation
• Giving a walkthrough on test plan and test cases to the whole project team (includes Business and Development teams)
• Performing test cases execution, defects reporting and defects tracking in Quality Center
• Running the defect triage meetings with vendor development team and getting the closure on the open defects.
• Production verification during production deployment.
• Handling Business’s UAT testing queries. Logging the genuine issues in QC.
• Setting up the data for Business Testing and helping them in their User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of Manual Tester.
• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Business/Dev.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Test scenarios and test cases design and test data setup/creation
• Giving a walkthrough on test plan and test cases to the whole project team (includes Business and Development teams)
• Performing test cases execution, defects reporting and defects tracking in Quality Center
• Running the defect triage meetings with vendor development team and getting the closure on the open defects.
• Production verification during production deployment.
• Setting up the data for Business Testing and helping them in their User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential, CA & NJ.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple roles starting from Manual Tester, Team Lead, Onsite QA Lead, Automation Tester and responsible for managing team at offshore.
• Involved in FRD Walkthrough, Understanding the requirements, raising the clarifications and getting them clarified from Product.
• Preparing Project Planning, estimating the activities, test plan and monitoring the project.
• Test scenarios and test cases design and test data setup/creation
• Peer review on test documentation
• Giving a walkthrough on test plan and test cases to the whole project team (includes Business and Development teams)
• Performing test cases execution, defects reporting and defects tracking in Quality Center
• Production verification during production deployment
• Worked in Waterfall & Agile Model project-SCRUM Model.
• Responsible for Creating QA Metrics and providing to the higher management for Visibility.
• Monitoring the status of the assigned tasks and review of test scenarios & test cases, test execution, defects reported by the offshore team
• Addressing the clarifications raised by team
• Frequent follow-up meetings with offshore to track the project progress
• Sharing daily project status report to team (Business, Tech & QA management)
• Regression testing after every production roll/deployment
• Test case design & execution of CR’s (Change Request)
• Production scenarios verification during the production deployment
• Analyzing and identifying test cases for automation.
• Preparation of test scripts for web applications using UFT (automation tool) for functional test cases
• Execution of automated scripts using page data driven and keyword driven framework
• Performing the failure analysis for failed automated cases
• Tasks assignment to offshore team
• Monitoring the status of the assigned tasks and review of test scenarios & test cases, test execution, defects reported by the offshore team
• Addressing the clarifications raised by team

TOOLS: USED: ALM, Oracle SQL Developer, Putty, Citrix, UFT, JIRA, JIRA Confluence, SVN.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allow more favorable day trade buying power charges for customers with option trades that can be hedged intraday, as permitted by FINRA rule 4210.
• Allow day traders to mark trades as non-day trades, if they are planning to keep those trades open overnight and thereby exclude them from day-trade buying power (DTBP) charges.
• Enhance real-time NYSE Excess computations to provide margin relief for protective and covered option combinations as allowed under FINRA rule 4210.
• Change the calculation of the start of the day NYSE Excess received from Confidential when we have Corporate Action that is already reflected in T++ but not yet in ADP.
• Resolve major clients dissatisfies and help drive down the number of customer service calls related to overnight hold trades for PDT clients
• Increase DARTS in PDT accts by giving clients more favorable pairing for the DTBP calculations while complying with industry regulations and internal risk procedures.