QA Lead with 14+ years of experience oversees the quality testing of product(s) to ensure adherence to an Agile industry and the organization's methodologies standards. Responsible for assuring the delivery of defect free software products and software services that are compliant with business requirement acceptance criteria and technical specifications through continuous testing in a manual and/or automated environments. Work collaboratively through the product life cycle with both business and technically oriented project teams onshore and offshore. Provide innovative and creative solutions to validate the quality of the deliverables that meet business objectives and deliver on-time with a high degree of quality. Ensure that all appropriate firm delivery QA standards and guidelines are met. Provides support and guidance daily to the QA Analysts in performing their assignments, monitoring the successful delivery, and adherence to policies and procedures.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Atlanta
06.2017 - Current
Design & develop test plans and test cases to ensure and gauge product quality, while effectively minimizing manual testing - manage creation of test plans, test scripts and test cases and lead in their execution (Manual & Automation)
Develop procedures, templates, and work instructions for implementing Quality Assurance best practices and testing standards for team/project
Participate in cross functional teams to develop comprehensive functional and systems level solution test strategy that accounts for common aspects of solutions, including cross functional review for such plan and during product architecture and design phase
Drive Test scoping of new features and releases with input from cross-carrier test team members
Identify and adopt new testing methodologies, best practices, and tools from appropriate sources, to improve test coverage
Effectively delegate, schedule and prioritize testing tasks to be completed by team while ensuring completion of own tasks
Review work done by team members and assume ownership for quality of deliverables
Develop reports based on risk assessment, summarize testing results and observations to business leadership team and other key stakeholders
Provide guidance, training and mentoring to Quality Assurance and project teams
End to end ownership and accountability on Functionality, Integration, System, Regression testing
Working with performance and security teams to support Performance testing and DAST for application assigned
Implement continuous improvement activities including new tools and automation in coordination with QE COE practice
Utilize appropriate automation tools, write automation scripts, identify process enhancements wherever necessary to be able to continuously improve test effectiveness and productivity (Rest Assured with Java)
Perform Production and test environments smoke testing for patch, Production release and deployments
Responsible for conducting analysis of defects with development team, BA and other stakeholders, replicating issues for analysis and resolution.
QA Lead
The Home Depot Inc
Atlanta
08.2012 - 05.2017
Onsite Co-coordinator for QA Team
Identified suitable Regression test cases for automation and achieve more that 75% automation using Selenium Web driver with Java language
Using Homer BDD framework developed Automation scripts in Gherkin format using page object model
Made scripts capable of running in different browsers and platforms including cloud-based Sauce Lab
Integrated Appium server with existing framework and developed scripts to run on Android mobile devices
Also created necessary set up to run same script in Chrome emulator to test on iPhone
Set up made on GitHub to store and maintain code repository for automation scripts
Trigger and monitor test execution using Jenkins and SQ Hub
Used Test Management tools QC, ALM for defect tracking and JIRA, Pivotal tracker for stories tracking
Development of automation test plan, feasibility study, risk analysis
Maintain and execution of Manual and Automated Test cases
Analyzing and reporting Defects.
Test Lead
United Health Group (UHG)
Hyderbad
05.2011 - 07.2012
Creating test strategy document and walkthrough with Project Team
Identifying test resources, preparing estimations using TCP methodology, defining test schedules and milestones
Preparing Test Plans and conduct walkthrough with project team
Review of Test Conditions and Cases
Onsite - Offshore coordination during every phase of testing
Preparing execution scorecards and reporting status to project team
Conducting defect triage meetings and bring issues to closure to meet SLA's
Collecting metrics on weekly and monthly basis
Preparing test summary reports and conduct Root Cause Analysis on issues.
QA Specialist
American Express
Hyderbad
03.2010 - 04.2011
equirements gathering and Preparing Test Strategy document
Preparation of test cases based on the requirements
Calculating performance of clients based on Pershing data from database
Generating reports from Wealth Manager tool and verifying data against requirements
Coordinating with clients, Development teams and team members
Preparation of Daily & Weekly Status Reports
Collecting metrics on weekly basis and calculating application stability.
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