QA Lead with 12 years of experience leading quality assurance teams to deliver high-performing, reliable, and scalable software solutions. Skilled in designing and executing comprehensive test strategies, managing cross-functional
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
OpenText
10.2018 - Current
Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
Drove corrective actions to accomplish project closure and recurrence control.
Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
Constantly applying best practices of Software Quality Assurance while staying abreast of advances in practice.
Responsible for monitoring team members, driving them toward ownership, success, constant delivery of best quality with respect to deadlines.
Confluence tracking for IM/RFAs, retrospection learnings, dashboards for automation and security scans, production deployment guidelines, mind maps for test design, test classification
Driving the QA & Productivity metrics initiative across the project to help teams achieve the organization set metrics goals. DDR effectively brought down to 10% per release.
Driving quality calls and preparing necessary action reports to track customer complaints
Non-functional: Analysis of production data to plan performance test.
Disaster Recovery Testing, High Availability Testing for Trading Grid.
Experience with Black Duck & Fortify tool for running security scans.
Test management –Prepare and Review test plans, exit reports, release metrics
Risk analysis and RCAs for issues or problem statements
Senior Test Engineer
Emids
11.2014 - 09.2018
Translated product drawings into workable schematics, verifying proper adherence to standards.
Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
Published detailed engineering schematics and bills of material for new project commissions.
Reviewed results and produced daily reports for developers.
Analyzed system requirement specifications and develop test plans and test case to cover all the requirements.
Coordinated Test plan and Test script walkthrough with business, programmers and testers.
Worked of defect resolution with testing team and programmers.
Created, executed & reported performance scripting with J Meter against multiple product releases.
Worked in Agile Environment with 2–4-week sprints, daily scrum meetings, code-coverage against tests.
Performed Various types of testing, such as functional, smoke, regression, user acceptance, negative, end to end, load test.
Executed and maintained automation scripts using selenium, rest assured.
Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts
Experience in Core Java with OOPs concepts, written Selenium Test scripts, reusable functions and created the framework using POM Design Pattern and CRAFT framework using TestNG & Junit.
Experience in working on Hybrid driven, Keyword driven and Modular driven framework architecture.
Experience in Implementation of Continuous Integration of Automation Framework after build Deployment with Jenkins.
Experience in Implementation of Selenium Grid for Compatibility Testing on Browser Stack.
Consultant Engineer
Nizam Industries
07.2012 - 10.2014
Managed engineering engagement risk by employing simulations and rapid prototyping to reduce initial outlay and prevent costly mistakes.
Applied critical path method (CPM) to project planning, reducing dependencies and shortening overall completion timeframes.
Presented analysis of ongoing and completed projects in Quality at industry events.
Monitored project activities and verified team adherence to project budget, business standards and regulations.
Reviewed specifications and technical manuals for compliance with ongoing operational goals and conformity to applicable regulations.
Contributed to thought leadership by publishing literature on engineering innovations and presenting findings at industry events.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
AVRSVRCET
Nandyal
05.2012
Skills
Requirements analysis
Automated testing
Test scenarios
Continuous integration
Test plan development
API Automation
Web Automation
Rest Assures
Selenium WebDriver
Jenkins
Team City
Jira
Value Edge
GitHub, SVN
Accomplishments
2019 Employee of the year Award.
Awards of Excellence for the year -2021,2019. Distinction of having got most number of cash awards in a year.
Consistence performer over years, acknowledged with outstanding rating for 4 years and above expectations for 1 year.
Timeline
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
OpenText
10.2018 - Current
Senior Test Engineer
Emids
11.2014 - 09.2018
Consultant Engineer
Nizam Industries
07.2012 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
AVRSVRCET
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