QA Software Testing & Automation Testing

Worked as Test Consultant with 16 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance. 

• Software testing experience covering complete SDLC using traditional Waterfall as well SCRUM and Agile methodologies. 
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Mobile Testing, API Testing and Performance Testing:

1. Manual Testing : Functional Testing (Smoke, Regression, System, Integration, End 2 End, UAT)
2. Automation Testing : Web Application, Windows Application, Mobile App and API Automation 
3. Mobile Testing : Native App, Mobile Web App and Hybrid App : Platforms, Devices, OS, Form Factors
4. Load Testing : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Soak Testing
5. API Testing : Functional and Load Testing of API

• Provide technological consultation for Functional Automation Testing and Mobile App Automation. 
• Exposure in Test Automation requirements understanding, test scope and coverage Identification. 
• Engage with client and stakeholders for technical discussions. 
• Providing technical consultation for Automation Tools, Techniques, POCs, Feasibility and Implementation. 
• Review of existing Automation Framework tooling, Design and Processes. 
• Experience in analyzing existing challenges and identifying gaps in test automation. 
• Involved in ‘Test Automation’ proposal preparation to the prospective clients 
• Experience in Test Strategy, Test planning, Requirement understanding, Test case design, Test scripting, Review, Test execution, Bug logging and Reporting. 
• Experience of estimating projects using Function Point, Task Based approach and Size based estimation.
• Hands on experience on different Test Management and Bug/Defect Management Tools.

• Exposure in different tools and technologies:

1. Automation Testing (Web/Windows/Mobile) : Selenium, Appium, Ranorex, Katalon Studio, WinAppDriver, PlayWright, WebDriverIO, Protractor, Cypress, Cucumber, SpecFlow 
2. Load and Performance Testing : JMeter, VSTS Webperformance Test
3. API Testing Tools : Postman, RestShar, RestAssured, SoapUI
4. Behavior Driven Development Tools (BDD) : Cucumber, Specflow
5. Programming Language (for test automation framework) : C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
6. ALM Tools : Visual Studio Online – Azure DevOps, Atlassian Jira, HP ALM, Team Foundation Server (TFS)
7. Test Management Tools : TFS, Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira with Xray / Zephyr, TestLink, HP QC
8. Bug Management Tools : TFS, Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira, BugZilla, Mentis
9. CI/CD Tools : Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI
10. Source Code Management (SCM) Tools : TFS, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub
11. Cloud (Web and Mobile Testing Platform) : BrowserStack, SauceLabs
12. Cloud (Computing platform) : Microsoft Azure
13. Containerization : Docker

• Managed team size of 20+ and involved in multiple projects (Manual and Automation).
• Guiding the testers in best practices and processes implantation.
• Effective in working independently and collaboratively in teams.