Result focused and customer oriented QA lead with professional expertise in designing test strategy, test planning, estimation, leading testing effort for large/complex projects with around 11 years of experience
Sound knowledge of Agile methodologies such as SCRUM, SAFe, Kanban, Hybrid, Iterative, and Waterfall.
Proven ability to lead complex testing projects from initial conceptualization through implementation in Global delivery model with testing team globally located.
Working knowledge of Java , OOPS concepts, Collections with excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
Experience on Selenium Web Driver, Protractor, JUnit, TestNG, TDD, BDD, Cucumber, Page Object Model for test automation, Maven for project building, Git for version control, and Jenkins for Continuous Integration.
Experience on API automation using Java Rest Assured and Cucumber JUnit framework.
Firsthand experience in writing complex SQL queries to ensure Data Integrity.
Good knowledge of AWS concepts including Lambda, EC2 instances, Security Groups & S3 .
Experience automating AWS S3 flow to ensure Data Integrity.
Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Black-Box Testing, GUI/ UI Testing, Functional Testing, Cross Browser Testing, System Integration Testing, Boundary Value Testing, Database Testing, Web Service Testing, Negative Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Sound knowledge on Security concepts throughout SDLC, OWASP Java Top 10.
Experience creating Threat Model for applications including Secrets Inventory, Access Control Matrix, Data Flow Diagram, SD Elements.
Proficient in handling releases over the years including End to End Validation, creating TSR, reviewing Orchestrator and Post-Prod Validation.
Good knowledge of validating Power BI Applications and automating the application using DAX Query
Good knowledge in Performance Automation using Gatling.
Experience in reviewing Business Requirement Documents/User Stories, Technical Requirements, System Design Documents, and Business Use Cases.
Proficient in preparing Test Deliverables such as Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defect Logs, and Test Summary Report (TSR).
Proficient in interacting with End-Client, Development teams, Business teams, and Senior Management.
Proven leader with the ability to plan, prioritize and manage tasks to keep projects on schedule.
An adaptive learner with diligence, strong collaborator with critical thinking, analytical, and excellent communication skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior/Lead Developer in Test
FINRA
07.2022 - Current
Responsible for handling multiple QA teams as a Lead.
Helping SDETs throughout the process of SDLC right from Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, creating Test plans, executing test strategies to documenting test results.
Working towards improving Assurance Metrics which depicts the overall health of Quality Assurance of a project.
Tackle automation backlogs with precision and inspire teams to conquer the impossible.
Handling product releases efficiently which involves coordinating with teams, reviewing regression results, orchestrator pipelines, reviewing TSRs and post prod validation.
Creating Threat Model for applications including ACM, Secrets Inventory, DFD, SD Element Survey.
Participated in Security Platoon weekly meetings and provided insights on the application's security status
Transitioned recently as a Security Platoon leader, helping a group of Security Platoons in reviewing AGS specific security metrics and guiding them to finish their trainings.
Coordinating between Project TPMs and SDETs, submitting reports/documents to Practise Leads whenever required.
Participated in requirements gathering and system design sessions.
Designed Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework from scratch for test automation with Selenium, JUnit, Cucumber/ Gherkin Language.
Automated regression test suite for applications using Selenium Web Driver.
Contributed in development of BDD Protractor Cucumber- JS framework (Typescript) and automated UI test suite to implement continuous integration pipeline.
Automated Backend APIs using Java Rest Assured, Cucumber, JUnit framework.
Created SQL queries while automating API & UI for Data Integrity.
SME for the multiple applications across platforms including Report Center, MyFiles, ATS & OTCE..
Generated Test Plan and TSR for the release scope.
Communicated with multiple teams in gathering requirements and provide QA efforts for critical Marquee features.
Supported UAT efforts by providing user training and test artifacts.
Lead a small team and worked towards reducing QA Technical Debt to improve Quality.
Mentored new team members on functional and automation testing processes including application knowledge transfer.
Worked with operations and support team to perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of the Production issues.
Created Threat Model for the application including ACM, Secrets, DFD, SD Elements Survey.
Completed Shift Left Security Champion Associate training as part of Security Initiative.
Participated in Security Platoon weekly meetings and provided insights on the application's security status.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
09.2016 - 07.2018
Develop, maintenance and Execution of Automation Framework based on Fitnesse (a wiki-java based automation framework)
Functional testing of Web Services using SOAP-UI, POSTMAN, REST Client.
Involved in Security based testing for the product.
Verified the product with different Authentications including Single Sign-On, LDAP Auth, SSL certificates, OAuth.
Have done POC using Silk Test Automation Tool to automate the Policy Manager.
API Automation Tools : Rest Assured, SOAP UI, Postman
Power BI Automation Tools : DAX Studio, DAX Queries, SQL
Performance Tools : Gatling
Programming Languages : Java, Typescript
Agile Tools : Jira, Rally, Version One
Database Tool : PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
Test Management Tools : ALM 110, JIRA, TestRail
Source Control Tools : CA SCM, GitHub
Code Repository Tools : Bit Bucket, Maven
Certification
Shift Left Security Champion Associate (FINRA)
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL).
Safe Agile Certification (Safe Agilist).
Business English Communications (BEC) Vantage Certification from Cambridge University
Additional Information
AWARDS : ,
Submitted an idea as a team for the prestigious “Trailblazer Award” for the year 2017.
Received “Above and Beyond Award” for best performance in August 2012.
Received ‘Above and Beyond Award' for the second time for working on one of the Marquee features of the Release and successful Regression Maintenance in September 2013.
Received Star of the Sprint award multiple times for contributing to critical Service Pack Releases.
Received customer appreciations most of the times for the customer issues that I have handled.
Received appreciations from peers and management for continuously following processes.
Timeline
Senior/Lead Developer in Test
FINRA
07.2022 - Current
Software Developer in Test
FINRA
03.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
09.2016 - 07.2018
Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2016
Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
07.2011 - 06.2014
Master of Computer Applications -
Shri Vishnu Engg College For Women, JNTUK University
Associate Vice President, Delivery Lead, Project Manager, Service Manager, Project Leader, Team Leader, Test Manager, BA & Senior Developer at Mphasis LtdAssociate Vice President, Delivery Lead, Project Manager, Service Manager, Project Leader, Team Leader, Test Manager, BA & Senior Developer at Mphasis Ltd