Jan 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Develop test plans and evaluating functional specifications of software products. Design test cases and strategies by gathering and reviewing business requirements. Conduct functional and regression testing for successful implementation of QA process.
• Work in an Agile environment, interact with Business Analysts and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, testing, and documentation for application developed in an agile environment. Coordinate with project team to prepare for release and
• implementation of revised code.
• Manage various functions and accountable for Oracle to Mongo migration testing, Automation of Web-based application with Selenium, and Validation of SOAP-based and JSON-based services thru SOAP UI and Postman.
• Create, update, and maintain computer programs or software systems to correct identified defects or required enhancements.
• Identify document software defects using a bug tracking system, and report defects to test engineers and software developers.
• Create a solid automation strategy to automate regression test cases. Work on automate regression test cases. Perform Final Practice Run (FPR) and Go live smoke testing.
• Monitor Logs in Kibana and Splunk. Provide Post production QA support to enable smooth normalization of new requirements on the production environments.
• Review software documentation and technical design documents to ensure technical accuracy, compliance or completeness or to mitigate risk.

Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 · 3 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed and executed test strategy, test plans, schedules, test executions. Reviewed requirement/design documentation. Created Automation code for functional and regression test cases.
• Spearheaded the design, development and implementation of effective QA testing strategies for complex enterprise application
• Attended Scrum call and provided daily progress updates to the team. Reviewed peer Pull Request in git and provided comments.
• Involved on Selenium and Cucumber testing, defined the test scenarios, and created the test cases in ALM/Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining test creation or execution. Communicated plans, project status, project risks and project metrics to all levels of project teams including support teams wherever applicable.
• Identified, communicated, and proactively managed project risks as well as those for supporting teams and able to advocate for quality assurance and automation throughout the project life cycle.

Feb 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

•  Setting up Release plan in form of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Project Plan etc. for release
•  Creation of Automation Object Repository with Java.
•  Create Automation Strategy and work towards automation of regression test cases with Selenium Web Drivers
•  Functional and regression testing with Rest client and SOAP UI
•  Monitor Logs in Kibana and Splunk
•  Data Analysis and validation of data prior to test execution.
•  Interacting with Development team for defect fix and technical detail understanding
•  Defining testing life cycle for functional testing & automation testing
•  Identifies areas for improving efficiency, shortening of test cycles, and automation of test scripts
•  FSD and BRD Review and Sign off from QA. Discussion with stakeholders for business impact analysis
•  Resource management skill which will include resource forecasting, planning and allocation along with Vendor Management.
•  Planning for delivery dates and code drops on Build release and patches.
•  Chairing Defect calls with development teams.
•  Attending Daily Stand up scrum calls with Scrum master/PMO
•  Automating regression suite with Selenium, Key word driven (KDF) framework

Nov 2008 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs 2 mos

•  Understand the Business process, Functionality, Requirements and to translate them to System requirement
•  Create Automation Strategy for automation of regression test cases
•  Helping Automation Team in terms of explaining Business Capability model
•  FSD (Functional Specification Document) review with Dev and Business Analyst Team
•  Co-ordinate with Business/Dev team to review and approve test scenarios. Assist in System Integration Testing.
•  Co-ordinate with Business team for Theatre Reviews and Trainings, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Business Acceptance testing (BAT).
•  Provide Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly metrics to Managers, Business teams, etc.
•  Provides effort estimation and resourcing
•  Defining Test Data approach
•  On boarding different applications for POC/Smoke Test delivery.
•  Facilitates implementation of automated test scripts.