SUMMARY:

• QA Manager/Lead with over 12+ years of experience in software testing. Handled varied roles within a dynamic environment as a tester, lead, and quality assurance manager. Strengthened working relationships with clients, utilizing excellent technical and communication techniques. Experienced in managing cross functional teams, cross country, test management and tracking. Have a good experience in testing of web and desktop applications.Handled the end to end testing activities across multiple projects. Proficient in quality control and quality assurance management.Efficient in maintaining relationship with clients, associates and senior management.
• Test Planning & Test Management People Leadership
• System & Integration testing Customer Relationship
• Agile test methodoloy Team Management
• Functional Test Automation Offshore/Onshore Delivery model

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain Expertise: QA Account Management, Client Communication, Effort Estimation, Resource Planning and Resource Management, Onshore - Offshore team co-ordination,Risk Management, Release Co-Ordination, Test Planning and Test Management, Process Adherence, Test metrics, Status Reporting

Management Skills: Selenium WebDriver

Functional Test Automation Tools: Data Driven,TestNG Framework

Automation Frameworks: soapUI,REST Client

WebService testing tools: Java, Selenium Webdriver,Auto IT

Programming Languages: Eclipse

IDE: JIRA,Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager

Test Management Tools: Microsoft Project Plan

Project Management Tools: Agile, Waterfall

Testing Methodologies: Ant, Maven

Build Deployment Tools: Jenkins

Continous Integration Tools: MSSQL Server,Oracle

Databases:: FireBug,Firepath,Xpath Miscellaneous

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Livermore

Test Manager

Tools: Test manager, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse

Responsibilities:

• Participate in sprint planning & review meetings
• Review business requirements and create testing strategy and plans based on business needs
• Identify the risks and come up with a mitigation plan
• Prepare effort estimates for test case design and execution tasks
• Involved in test case design and execution tasks
• Accountable for testing deliverables for manual and automation testing activities
• Provide daily status updates to all the project stakeholders
• Overlap with offshore teams to ensure quick turn around time for any issues/clarifications

Confidential, SFO

Test Manager

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Ant,JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Managing customer centric operations & ensuring client satisfaction by achieving delivery & service while maintaining adherence to quality standards and catering to client’s specific technical needs
• Interact with customers to understand their business and consult with them on QA strategies for testing their application
• Manage QA teams involving manual and automation testers
• Participated in Requirement and design analysis
• Involved in test case design and execution tasks
• Team co-ordination for test planning and scheduling
• Accountable for test delivery and single point of escalation for customer
• Review business requirements and create testing strategy and plans based on business needs
• Participate in full life-cycle business system development with teams of high end developers, analysts, and testers.

Confidential, Minneapolis

Onsite QA Co-Ordinator

Tools: SaopUI,RestClient,Microsoft Test Manager, TFS

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Sprint Planning & Review sessions and provide test estimates for the user stories
• Web services testing using soapUI
• Co-Ordinate with offshore teams for issue clarifications, status updates

Confidential, Berwyn

Test Manager

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Ant, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 26 member offshore team
• Define test strategy and lead the offshore test planning and test execution efforts
• Interface with onshore test teams and co-ordinate for System and integration testing efforts
• Co-Ordinate for test automation (Selenium Webdriver) efforts
• Co-Ordinate with offshore teams for issue clarifications,status updates
• Send weekly QA dashboard with overall testing status and key test metrics
• Escalate any risks/issues and come up with the mitigation plans

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Tools: JIRA,soapUI

Responsibilities:

• Understand User stories
• Create User acceptance test cases
• Execution of System & Integration test cases
• Web services testing using soapUI
• Status Reporting

Confidential

Test Lead

Tools: Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Define test strategy
• Come up with the test estimates for system&integration testing
• Design & execute system test cases
• Interface with onshore test teams and co-ordinate for integration testing efforts
• Status Reporting
• Escalate any risks/issues and come up with the mitigation plans

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Tools: Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Define test strategy
• Come up with the test estimates for system&integration testing
• Design & execute system test cases
• Interface with onshore test teams and co-ordinate for integration testing efforts
• Status Reporting
• Escalate any risks/issues and come up with the mitigation plans
• Involved in UAT and production system testing