SUMMARY

• Technically adept, multifaceted, detailed oriented and dedicated professional equipped with comprehensive in - depth knowledge and expertise in performing diverse responsibilities in the area of Software quality assurance management.
• Exceptionally skilled at Building and managing SQA teams, Team lead in Agile/Scrum. Train lead and motivate teams.
• SQA Manager with 15+ years of experience in Manual, Automation, Performance, Web services. BDD Gherkin.
• Good experience in: Functional, Regression, GUI, Compatibility, Performance and web services testing financial apps
• Experience in documenting & preparing Use Cases, System Test Scenarios & Test Scripts, design test cases, test data, test plans and execute test runs, Experience in leading on/off shore teams. Experience as BA.
• Experience in Selenium and HP Testing Tools like Quality Center (QC), Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT), Loadrunner, Webservices Soap/Rest testing SoapUI, Visual Studio 2013, TFS. Cucumber and Protractor
• Excellent knowledge of SQL queries. EDI Financial/Health and insurance Transactions. PCI Compliance Security testing. SAP testing experience. Expert in SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience in providing consultation and Support in different types of testing that include system testing, integration testing, functional testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Black Box Testing, manual and regression testing with automated testingtools, automation frameworks, Leading team projects, Project status reporting,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and knowledge of good documentation practices which proven to co-ordinate with team to get efficient results and also Capable to adopt and learn new tools, techniques and approaches. Project, management and Resources training and mentoring. Build automation teams from scratch.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Manual testing-Excel 2010 2013 and Quality Center 10 11 and 11.5
• Appium
• Git
• SVN
• Jenkin
• Maven
• Ant
• TesntNG
• Junit
• AutoIT
• Skullie
• Builder
• Descriptive Programming/VB Scripting/Java/angular JS/ C# ATDD
• BDD
• AGILE
• SQL Server 2008 and 2012 | Oracle Database 11g
• Microsoft Access
• DB2
• SoapUi
• Groovy scripting
• Loadrunner
• JMeter EDI Transactions PCI Security testing
• ETL testing informatica powerceter
• SAP testing. CodedUI
• VS2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Petersburg, FL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Build a High performance team by Hiring, Training and coaching/mentoring QA Engineers. Created standards for functional/performance testing detailed and accurate reports for stakeholders. Performance reviews of team.
• Created Master Test plan for team. Developed and implemented advanced frameworks for Cucumber/Selenium/UFT
• Lead Functional and manual testing team to create Regression suite using QTP-UFT/Selenium for mobile application..
• Create and maintain existing keyword(descriptive programming) and data driven frameworks for SoapUI and QTP
• Mentored Load and performance team to load test applications using (Loadrunner/VS2013).
• Webservices/API Functional and load testing Soapui/Loadui and VS2013. Groovy Scripting/data driven framework automation in Soapui Pro for Rest/JSON and Soap application. Advanced level of experience in Groovy Scripting.
• Provide SME opinion on any bottlenecks/Defects. Performance testing of SiteMinder user authentication process/IAM through VPN and LAN connections. Managed complexed projects like Mas data compare from SQL Server to Oracle.
• Mobile application functional and performance testing. ETL testing- informatica power center 9.2. Project estimation
• Build teams and enhanced team skills/training. Hire train and manage off shore teams to adopt to agile. UAT.
• Trained team on newest technologies to use Cucumber/Protractor to test Angular JS developed application.

Confidential, St. Petersburg, FL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project manager, business analysts, Developers and stake holders to identify and enhanced critical requirements, Project estimates and resources management(Hiring and training)
• Lead developing Test plans, Test cases review meetings, Implemented BDD/cucumber frameworks.
• Lead manual/automation of functional, integration and performance testing. Hands on complex testing.
• Daily and weekly updates to management on projects. Build QA team’s skills in advanced automation.
• Daily meetings with stake holders to provide SME opinion to deliver error free product.
• Daily stand ups/scrum meetings and sprint planning’s as scrum master.
• SAP testing of SD MM FI and Portals. Off shore team management
• Provided SME support in any road blocks in projects. Created and maintained QTP automation frameworks.
• Executed complex testing and resolved team issues and set clear path for team.
• Testing procedure’s enhancement and testing tools evaluation. Project estimation.
• Worked weekends and late shifts to meet project deadlines.
• Executed complex tests and trained testers on QTP/UFT, Selenium, Loadrunner,JMeter,SoapUI, QC, Jira, Agile etc.
• Managed teams for Database testing, release procedures, UAT, Mobile application testing.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Lead QA Analyst/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained automation frameworks for functional testing. Trained testers to utilize frameworks.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing on the web-based application.
• Worked with QA Manager in estimating the testing effort of assigned projects based on the requirements
• Developed test cases and test steps from business requirements and documented in Quality Center in accordance with QA standards and processes and used QTP/UFT and Selenium to automate those manual test cases
• Created test data and set up test environment, wrote test cases, executed them and tracked Defects in Quality Center and helped resolving technical issues with developers. SAP portal testing.
• Provided status updates to QA manager and attended Monthly Test case review Meetings
• Prepared test data, test environment, plan for test and production deployment; Conducted post deployment validation and regular health checks. P&C software for internal agents testing .
• Written SQL queries to perform database testing and also to verify data using Advantage database and PL/SQL Developer.
• Determined user requirements and goals by conducting meetings with client as functional QA team lead.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures for test changes.
• Designed, scheduled and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe
• Set Up Test Environment for testing of the application
• Performed Functionality Testing manually
• Conducted Backend testing writing extensive SQL queries
• Developed Base line scripts in order to test the future releases of the application
• Manually conducted Positive/Negative Testing
• Performed software compatibility tests on various hardware platforms
• Recorded results and reported defects to development team
• Worked closely with developers, business Analysts, product owner to open/resolve issues, troubleshoot issues, support for root cause analysis.
• Organized test case reviews and results walkthroughs with stakeholders, raise and maintain defects and obtain needed signoff as per standards.
• Interacted with UAT testers and further modified the application based on the user requirements, recommendations
• Utilized HP Quality center as a test management tool for planning and executing Manual scripts and for defect reporting and tracking.
• Conducted Functional testing using QTP /Selenium with Valid/Invalid inputs on different browsers and Communicated with Functional Analysts on any issue clarifications.
• Performed manual testing of the application. Automated Functional and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Developed Automation scripts with Data Driven, parameterization and Regular expressions.
• Performed Regression testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly.

Environment: - Manual Testing, Windows XP, SQL, .Net, ASP,PL/SQL Developer, Mercury Quality Center 10.0 and QTP 10.0, DB2, Linux Unix Apache MySQL PHP.

Confidential, Woodhills CA

QA LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements document and developed test plan, test objectives, test strategies, test priorities, test cases etc PCI compliance.
• Communicated effectively with project team members, stakeholders and made recommendations to the management on process and test approach.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Participated in design walkthroughs and reviews
• Designed and developed test cases in Quality Center and QTP for BPT and SAP. Selenium for web testing.
• Performed extensive Regression testing
• Reported and Tracked defects using Quality Center
• Developed and executed test cases and test scripts.
• Monitored Quality Center to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fixed the bugs.
• Reported the failed test cases, tracked the defects and verified the fixes in multiple environments.
• Maintained Test Matrices and Traceability Matrices.
• Used HP Quality Center as test management tool.
• Worked with Developers on Defects until the test case is passed.
• Effectively coordinated with the development team for closing a defect.
• Participated in go/no-go meetings.QA team lead role.
• Mentoring the test team in their tasks in accomplishing the targets and meeting the deadlines of the project.

Environment: Manual Testing, HP Quality Center, J2EE, XML, Web Services, Web Logic, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL and LAMP

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with development team to resolve various issues. Help review and contribute to product documentation
• Manually tested the web application to ensure the flow of the application functionality
• Developed and maintainedTest & Traceability Matrices. Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing manually
• Reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and used SQL Queries to extract the data from the database.
• Parameterized Steps, Checkpoints and Variables in the QTP script with the help of the Data Driver property
• Recorded scripts in QTP to perform Functionality testing.
• Developed automation test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTPand selenium.
• Inserted Check Points to check the broken Links, Text, tables and standard properties of an object using QTP
• Quality Center was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.

Environment: LAMP, Oracle, SQL, Windows, QTP, J2EE, JAVA,IIS, Quality Center