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Ashwin Uplenchwar

Lewis Center,OH

Summary

Accomplished and result-driven Test Lead/Manager role with over 17 years experience in managing software testing projects and effectively leading multiple teams since 2005

Outstanding knowledge of project management best practices and methodologies

Strong influencing and communication skills

Track record of bug free application deployments

Expertise using different test automation tools: UFT, Selenium, Test Complete, Ruby Mine, Ready API




Accomplished and result-driven Test Automation Developer professional with over 14 years’ experience in quality assurance using and managing Automated testing projects and effectively leading multiple teams since 2007. Good experience on automation tools Ruby-Cucumber, Ready API/SOAP, Selenium-Cucumber, UFT12, UFT-BPT, VB, Java, JUNIT, QC, JIRA. Worked on different automation frameworks Page-Object (Ruby & Selenium), Keyword Driven (UFT), Hybrid (UFT). Worked on third party object models like Microsoft office. Experience in Window’s/Desktop applications, Web applications and API testing. Experience on VB script, Ruby scripts and knowledge of Java. Worked on Agile and Waterfall models. Strong influencing and communication skills. Can translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test scenario. Constantly maintaining high level of accuracy. Extensive knowledge of Payment and AML Compliance Programs. Extensive testing and management experience in Financial (Compliance AML, Money Transfer, Payments, Account Receivables, Mutual Funds, Fixed Income ETFS and Insurance domains) and Network domain projects. Familiar with MS Project, Visio and having good knowledge about CMM concepts. Actively and efficiently working on Test Planning, Test Estimation, Team Management, Client Reporting. Work on SIT and UAT verifications. Experienced in client facing roles and known for maintaining good rapport with client and Business partners resulting in good Business relationship and helps in getting more Business. Strong hands on knowledge of Testing Life Cycle and QMS Processes. Effectively involved in Daily Stand Ups, Scrum Planning and Retrospective meeting.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Test Lead

NetJets Inc.
09.2017 - Current

Developing Test Plan and Test Strategies

Managing resources and ensure timely delivery of deliverables

Involved in effort estimations

Collaborating with Cross-Functional teams

Identifying and mitigating risks related to software quality metrics

Test Automation Framework design

Test Coordination with internal IT teams and Business users

Presenting Demos and UAT sessions

Communicating with stakeholders to ensure alignment on testing goals and priorities

Opus Software Solutions

Opus Technologies
09.2011 - 01.2015

Managing Onsite-Offshore software testing resources

Involved into requirement discussions

Monitoring and Reporting testing testing progress and testing Metrics

Focused on zero defects in deployments

Participating in the hiring and onboarding of new team members

Coordinating with Business Teams, Developers and QA team

Managing testing resources and schedules to ensure high quality of testing results


Sr QA Engineer

Fidelity Investment Services
10.2006 - 12.2011

Preparing manual and Automated test cases/scripts

Preform Regression testing

Part of identifying QA best practices team and COE

Work closely with developers and cross functional teams

Reporting bugs and conduct bug scrub discussions to understand root cause of issues

Conduct performance testing to assess the scalability and responsiveness of applications



Software Test Engineer

Cybage Software
11.2004 - 09.2006
  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
  • Conducted regression testing, analyzed results, and submitted observations to development team.
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.

Education

Master of Science - Computers Science

Vivekanand College
India
06.2002

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

PN College
India
06.1998

Skills

  • Test Planning
  • Load and Stress testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Scrum Framework
  • Manual Testing
  • Automated testing
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Client Communication
  • Team Collaboration

Certification

Microsoft Certified Professional (VB-Desktop)

Educational Qualification

Aurangabad University, India, Amravati University, India

Areas Of Expertise

Automated Testing, Ruby-Cucumber, Gherkin, UFT12, BPT, Selenium Web Driver (Java), Ready API (SOAP UI Pro), Junit, Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT, SVN, ALM12, Team Track, TT Pro, JIRA, QC, Microsoft Project, Visio, Visual Basic (MCP), COM and ASP, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MDM, Windows

Projects

Netjets Aviation Inc, 07/2017, Present, Key QA, Ruby, Cucumber, RSpec, Ruby-Mine (Ruby IDE), Ready API (SOAPUI Pro), UFT, GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Netjets is an Executive Jet Aviation Private company. It sells fractional ownership of private business jets to the individuals and private organizations. Acting as Test Automation Developer (Technical QA) for one of the most challenging project Mission Delivery. Implemented Webservices Testing through Ready API for quicker turnaround. Handling multiple Web, Webservices and Desktop automation projects. Work with team to analyze and convert functional scenarios into automation scripts. Working with different teams to discuss and understand the different integrated web-services and identifying the end to end test automation scenarios. Involved in to Sprint planning, Card estimations, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting. Working on Page-Object frameworks with Ruby, Cucumber & Rspec. Nationwide Insurance, 11/2015, 07/2017, Test Automation Developer, Ruby, Cucumber, Ruby-Mine (Ruby IDE), UFT, QC, SVN, Jenkins, Nationwide Insurance offers full range of insurance and financial services across the country, including car, motorcycle, boat, homeowners, pet, farm, life and commercial insurance, as well as administrative services, annuities, mortgages, mutual funds, pensions, long-term savings plans and specialty health services. Having good exposure to BDD automation framework and its components like Ruby, Cucumber, Gerkin, Ruby Gems. Involved into requirement discussions, identifying automation test scenarios/test cases from the finalized user stories/requirements. Writing automation scripts to cover the functional scenarios and reduce the manual efforts during the regression test on different environments. Working with different teams to discuss automation frameworks and helping them into their automation activities. Managing and maintaining different automation project scripts and frameworks. Implemented Page-Object frameworks using Ruby Cucumber for different projects/teams. Utilized different Ruby Gems while working on the frameworks. Worked on UFT-hybrid framework for IT Applications. Implemented descriptive programming in UFT projects and tried less use of OR. Worked with different teams to resolve the automation challenges. Erie Insurance, 01/2015, 11/2015, Automation Test Lead (Functional and Performance), UFT12, BPT, HP Service Test, Ruby, Cucumber, SOAP, GIT, SOAP, .Net, XML, MDM, Erie Insurance Group is an American multi-line insurance company, offering auto, home, commercial and life insurance through a network of independent insurance agents. Worked as Automation lead and handled multiple automation projects. Worked in Agile environments. Performed acceptance test for each release. Using UFT12 and BPT components automating different test scenarios which help to UAT and QA teams to perform their regression test. Prepared reusable function libraries. Prepared Gherkin scenarios and automating them through Ruby and Cucumber. Requirement discussion with users, Task planning, Defect reporting and Testing/Quality matrix communication. Tested web services using SOAP (XML & REST) and UFT Service Test. Verified the application performance using SOAP UI. Actively and efficiently worked on Test Planning, Test Estimation, Team Management, Client Reporting. Identified test scenarios and worked with different teams for data preparation. Western Union, 09/2011, 01/2015, Test Lead, UFT, Service Test, JIRA, HP-ALM, Junit, Ruby and Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver (with Java), .Net, XML, SQL Server 2000, Western Union's Global Monitoring group is seeking an AML Investigator to be responsible for conducting enhanced, in-depth, specialized investigations of complex Anti-Money Laundering (AML) issues, primarily in the U.S./Mexico Southwest Border. Our AML Investigators independently determine the investigative approach, scope and outcome/action(s) of investigations and/or high risk issues. Our AML Investigators act as a subject matter expert encompassing a wide-array of Western Union product knowledge and the inherent AML risks presented by each product for our Consumer Protection, Compliance and Ethics (CPCE) department and other Western Union departments. Automated Agent, and Reporting modules which are desktop applications using UFT. Used Selenium Webdriver, AutoIT, and Ruby-Cucumber for automating part of the application (Web Applications). Expertise in project management skills by handling all meetings, data analysis, documentation and business reports. Serving as Subject Matter Expert for most of the AML matters including transaction monitoring and global field officer activities. Automated Agent, and Reporting modules which are desktop applications using QTP. Used Selenium Web-driver, AutoIT, and Ruby-Cucumber for automating part of the application. Prepared reusable libraries and batch file for nightly run of test suite. Working with user group to report and file SAR’s and CTR’s with different Federal Regulators. Understand and define the testing effort and defining test strategy by analyzing the requirements of project. Working with business users very closely while defining BRW’s and query resolution of different teams. Keep track of the new requirements / change requests of the Project. Develop test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan. Involved in requirement discussions and helped users in writing BRW’s. Closely worked with Dev, SIT and QA teams in End-To-End testing and was responsible for the testing activities of this application to complete in an estimated time. Following up on any outstanding open issues/risks. Prepared work flow charts and diagrams to understand functional flow of each modules that helped all teams (Dev, QA, SIT) to understand actual business flow. Team mentoring on Test Designing and Reviews. Requirement discussion with users, Task planning, Defect reporting and Testing/Quality matrix communication. Involved in Post Deployment verifications with User/Client teams. Work Delegation based on Team competency for different modules. Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones. Implemented all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization. Closely working with Production Support team at functional level. Store Financial, 01/2011, 08/2011, Test Lead, Selenium, NUnit, QTP, JIRA, .Net, XML, SQL Server 2000, Store Financial offers both card processing, Insurance and program management services to clients and partners in multiple markets. Store Financial is specially payments processor that has carved out an international and award-winning reputation by providing excellence in Restricted Authorization Network (RAN), Close and Open Loop services for affiliated and unaffiliated merchant groups. To date, we provide customized gift card product and programs to more than 700 clients worldwide. Leading a testing team and involved in all the testing activities right from the requirements evolution to System Testing. Ability to work with the cross functional team, assign tasks, track, monitor and provide status updates. Client interfacing in daily calls and stand ups for requirement discussion, task planning, defect reporting and testing/quality matrix communication. Responsible for Planning testing activities, Training and Team Mentoring. Involved in Automation activities and planning. Work Delegation based on Team competency for different modules. Reviewed Test cases, Automation Test Scripts and Approved test runs. Prepared test schedules and formulated deadlines and strategies. Following up any outstanding open test risks / issues. Sungard Inc, Avantgard GETPAID, 10/2006, 12/2011, Sr. QA, QTP9.5, Jameleon, JIRA, JAVA, XML, SQL Server 2000, 2000 server, XP, I worked here on Mutual Fund (Fixed Income ETFS) and Account Receivables projects. AVANTGARD GETPAID is the Accounts Receivable component that links key activities in the financial value chain, including credit analysis & approval, Cash collections, Dispute resolutions, Cash Applications & Financial Analysis & reports. GETPAID interfaces with many different systems. Analyzing the requirement and scope of testing modules. Prepared automation framework using QTP to reduce the manual execution load during releases. Prepared reusable Function Libraries. Identified test scenarios and wrote test cases for Automation scripts. Integrated test scripts developed in different tools (Jameleon and QTP). Reviewed test scripts of each team members and helped team in their technical challenges. Execution of test packs and Bug Reporting. Design of QA Checklists, Regression, Smoke & Sanity Test Suites and Quality Control Checklists for QA and Processing teams. Involved in the post deployment activities. Ability to work with the cross functional team. Sungard Inc, Avantgard Agency Placement, 10/2006, 12/2011, Sr. QA, QTP9.5, Jameleon, JIRA, JAVA, XML, SQL Server 2000, 2000 server, XP, SunGard’s AvantGard Agency Placement Portal helps in improving and automating the collection of revenues that are assigned to collection agencies. The solution manages the placement of accounts and invoices, as well as puts controls into place for the tracking, reporting and reconciliation of all collections data that is placed at an agency. This can positively impact an organization by offering it a means of reducing the operational and management expenses required to monitor and manage a relationship with any given agency. Analyzing the requirement and scope of testing modules. Suggested enhancements in the application during requirement discussions. Prepared SQL scripts for back-end and data integrity testing. Prepared Automation test suite for internal utilities which helped in preparing test data for different modules. Execution of automation test packs and Bug Reporting. Took the ownership of multiple modules and was responsible for maintaining test suite. Execution of test cases and defect Reporting. Responsible for collecting the test data in the pre-testing phase for positive and negative scenarios. Worked closely with developers on requirements and defects. Altris, 11/2004, 09/2006, Test Engineer, TTPro (Defect Tracking), XML, SQL Server 2000, Windows 9x, 2000 server, XP, Altiris solutions provide a modular and future-proof approach to managing highly diverse and widely distributed IT infrastructures. Altiris provides open solutions that enable lifecycle integration of client, handheld, server, network and other IT assets with audit-ready security and automated operation. Altiris solutions snap directly into the Altiris service-oriented architecture, enabling fast, cost-effective IT asset lifecycle management from desktop to the data center. Involved in carrying out the localization testing on different environments. Performed System Upgrade Testing, Report Testing, and Resource Manager Testing. Preparing and Executing the Functional Test Cases. Performing cross-browser testing using different browsers like IE, Firefox Mozilla. Performing Integration Testing. Reviewed Test cases of peer team members. Tracking and documenting defects using TTPro. Responsible for Preparing Defect Reports & Test Summary Reports. Played an Active role in Weekly Status Meeting with the Counterpart Team and Client. Seacom Solutions, Smart Shop Express, 05/2003, 10/2004, Test Engineer, VB, COM, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, Smart Shop is fully automated Integrated Systems Retail Solution for Retailers. This Solution is fully integrated package, which is divided into two main modules. 1. Point of Sales (POS): Allows user to perform the billing operations, System allows to perform standard sell either through scanning or by item look up facility. 2. Back Office (BO): System generates the cash reconciliation statement for specified criterion. User will able to get the bill information from back office module. All masters are maintained in this module. Audit trial data are tracked for all activities and various sales Report generations. Requirement Analysis and Clarifications with end users. Test Cases Preparation & Execution. Effectively handled testing of multiple modules. Performed Integration and System Testing. Defect Reporting and Verifications.

Timeline

Software Test Lead

NetJets Inc.
09.2017 - Current

Opus Software Solutions

Opus Technologies
09.2011 - 01.2015

Sr QA Engineer

Fidelity Investment Services
10.2006 - 12.2011

Software Test Engineer

Cybage Software
11.2004 - 09.2006

Master of Science - Computers Science

Vivekanand College

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

PN College

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