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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

● In-charge of leading project teams to successfully complete high-tech projects within tight timelines.● Coordinating among cross-functional project teams.● Employing Waterfall methodology for long term projects.● Using Agile framework for management of short-term, IT related projects.● Responsible for leading mobile application development projects for WM Fleet Leadership Team.● Performing risk analysis and coming up with necessary solutions.● Using Scrum methodologies to ensure transparency and adaptability of projects.● Monitoring external contractors and ensuring on-time delivery of projects.● Communicating with team members over the course of the day to get to know their requirements and supplying resources as needed.● Managing an offshore and onsite team of 22 members for supporting 11 critical internal applications to 34K field users at WM USA and Canada sites.● Responsible for the mobile platform for WM technicians responsible for repairing WM fleet.

Houston, Texas, Us

● Responsible for management of complex IT projects involving software and web development.● Developed comprehensive project plans.● Handled all stages of IT projects from initiation to closure.● Lead meetings between project teams and other stakeholders.● Distributed and delegated tasks among project team.● Monitored and controlled the work for the time, cost, and quality.● Held weekly project meetings to communicate with project team and track progress.● Working in collaboration with other company departments for successful project closure.● Lead an offshore team of 15 members for supporting 8 critical applications at WM.● Worked with business partners and delivered the requested enhancements for our 26K drivers.● Implemented COUPA with our Asset Management application for procurement process.● Provided the mobile platform for WM technicians responsible for repairing WM fleet.● Handled support for ATLASSIAN JIRA and Confluence applications at WM.

Houston, Texas, Us

● Lead an offshore team of 8 including both Automation, Performance Testers and Functional Testers.● Lead the daily status meeting with the offshore team and go over the tasks, issues, expectations and goals.● Responsible for interviewing, hiring and creating a training schedule/plan for new QA team members and keep track of their progress.● Reducing cost by migrating from licensed to open source Automation Tools like Selenium & Appium.● Strong understanding of Virtualization and Cloud computing (AWS).● Ability to motivate teams to ensure on time and high quality project delivery.● Create test plans, test strategies and test methodologies, execution plans, providing input in Project planning, defect meeting, monthly status meeting and provide sign off documents for several projects.● Gather metrics from project teams to create the Automation ROI chart.● Participate and present the Automation progress in monthly and quarterly QA meetings to senior management (Directors and Vice President). ● Participate in Release Planning to prioritize requirements according to sprint period.● Identify and add critical scenarios which were not covered in the Regression Inventory using GAP analysis.● Involve in Impact Analysis and Estimation for Requirement Change Notice (RCN) and Change Request (CR).● Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.● Strong Experience in Java Programming, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Maven and TestNG.● Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.● Experience in Data driven Testing, Cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Selenium Grid.● Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining and executing automated scripts using Mobile Automation & AWS Device Farm for an in-house Android App.

Arlington, Va, Us

● Enhanced the in house Automation Framework (LEAP) to increase coverage and productivity.● Designed and documented Test plans and Use case specifications.● Designed and developed schedule runs for regression and maintenance purpose by using QTP.● Identified Testing Scenarios to Automate; created Business and Generic functions/scripts using VBScript.● Prepared and Executed Test Script, Complex Functions, Parameterized the data, and used Windows scripting and handlers at scripting part of un-identified objects by QTP.● Identified and developed Reusable functions using QTP.● Reviewed team developed scripts to meet the Company’s scripting standards.● Extensively implemented user-defined and pre-defined check points for Images, Text Area and UI functionalities.● Created User friendly GUI’s, Business and Generic reusable functions in VBScript and JavaScript using File system object, Outlook, Excel, database, Internet. Application, mercury clipboard, etc. objects and AOM according to the requirements.● Reviewed Manual and Automation Process & Approach as per the framework standards defined.● Extensively used Error objects and recovery scenarios to handle unexpected events that occur during a test run.● Prepared Defect Analysis Report for every release.

Washington, Dc, Us

● Participated in the System Test Plan reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review and modified the documents with respect to the review comments.● Responsible for Executing and Maintenance of Automated and Manual Test scripts for utilities domain.● Analyzed Business Requirements and System Specification documents and created Test cases and executed Test cases in Quality Center.● Mapped Test Cases to Requirements using Requirements Coverage; and maintained Test Cases, reports etc. in Quality Center.● Wrote SQL queries to test the oracle database and validate the data integrity.● Wrote test scripts for Functional testing & Regression testing procedure using QuickTest Pro.● Developed Function libraries, Shared repository, Descriptive programming, Recovery scenarios using QTP.● Developed Environmental Variables, Startup Script, Driver Script, and Utility Functions using VBScript in QTP.● Modified the Automated QTP Scripts for regular release screen changes and to support regular functional changes.● Developed and Designed of a Hybrid Framework in QTP using VBScript.● Actively participated in regular Walkthroughs and Agile Meetings.● Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes and documented all the issues during the process.

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● Involved in creating project plan, test plans, estimations, and development and tracking projects.● Created Test runs, Test cases, Mockups, Process Flow diagrams from the functional documents.● Created RTM, ensured the Test Planning, Testing Strategy, Test cases, Flows are capturing and covering all the Functional/Non Functional requirements.● Performed various kinds of testing, such as Exploratory, Smoke box, Regression, Integrated, System, Backend validation, End to End, UAT.● Logged new defects; tracked and updated the status of previously filed bugs. Prioritized and retested the defects in HP Quality Center; Participated in the daily defect meeting. ● Created Regression suite for various test scenarios. Tested and executed the suite whenever a code was changed using QuickTest Professional (QTP).

Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Us

● Involved in analyzing Requirement Specifications and development of Test Scenarios.● Closely interacted with Business Analysts, designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.● Performed regression, functionality, System, Interface, front end, back end, negative, positive and user acceptance Testing using manual testing.● Involved in all aspects of test planning development designing Test Plans and writing Test Cases and Created and executed Manual test cases to test the system.● Executed Manual Test cases and responsible to track and log the defects using TestDirector. ● Performed Smoke Testing of the entire application and performed regression testing against the various build of the applications using QTP.