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GURDEEP KAUR ARORA
Summary
●Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting with 11 years of experience in automation and manual testing with specialization in implementing automation frameworks on projects.
●Strong experience on various automation frameworks like Keyword, Hybrid, Functional and in setting up automation from scratch in implementing, designing automation framework to set up automation processes and best practices, integration of automation suite with CI tools.
●Extensive experience in creating end to end automated suite for Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration and Web services testing using Selenium, Appium, HP UFT(QTP), SoapUI.
● SPOC for automation thread of Testing CoE in Deloitte, leading work related to automation. Have also done trainings and workshops in test management and automation tools.
●Vast experience in managing teams in identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, training, defining test strategy, planning, creating testing artifacts, sending status reports to management, creating sign off documents.
●Extensive experience in test planning and estimation, creating test artifacts, test status reports, test summary reports, testing sign off reports and manage overall test deliverables.
●Led and mentor a team of 5-10 people on manual and automation testing projects. Have also helped hiring people for automation QA team.
●Extensive testing and management experience in Life Insurance, Retirement Systems, Pension and Banking Domain projects.
●Experience in on Agile and Waterfall testing methodologies.
●Good experience in Database Testing and SQL queries.
Automation Tools/ Languages
●Expert
Selenium, Java, HP UFT (QTP), VB Scripting, Web Service Automation using SoapUI, groovy, Maven, Jenkins, TestNG, Appium, HP ALM.
●Fluent
JIRA, Manual Testing, Oracle, SQL
Industry Expertise
●Life Insurance
●Retirement Plans
●Banking
Certifications
●LOMA 280 (Principles of Insurance)
●LOMA 290 (Insurance Company Operations)
●LOMA 380 (Employee Benefits- Health & Retirement)
●ISTQB- Foundation
●Oracle 9i SQL (1z0-007)
Education
●Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
●Post Graduate Degree in Economics
Awards
●Vice Chancellor award (Bronze Medal), Kanpur University, India.
Employment Details
Deloitte Experience [Senior Consultant] (Nov 2014 - Present)
Senior Consultant - responsible for managing end to end testing deliverables.
Specialized in creating automated scripts for Web/Desktop/Mobile/ API automation.
Worked with Head of Testing COE for creating frameworks, doing POCs, training people on automation tools, arranging workshops and provide mentorship.
Worked with automation manager to develop Test Plans and Estimates and assisted in setting up automation processes and best practices.
Created test status reports, test summary reports, testing sign off reports and manage overall test deliverables.
Perform and oversee testing, test case/ script writing and test cases/code review for manual and automated testing and consistently deliver quality client services by monitoring progress.
Created automated scripts for Regression, Smoke and Functional Testing and run them in QA, SIT and UAT environments, integrating automation suite with tool CI tool (Jenkins), maintaining scripts versioning in SVN, managing project defects in JIRA, ALM.
Create project documentation related to application, defect process, testing processes.
Principal Financial Group Experience [System Test Lead] (Jul 2008 - Sep 2014)
Project Lead - responsible for managing testing deliverables and teams.
Created test scenarios/ test cases for manual testing and automated scripts using HP UFT (QTP) tool and Selenium.
Vast experience in test management using HP ALM tool – creating requirements, test cases, managing releases, test cases, test execution, reporting, defect life cycle in ALM tool.
Test Planning and Estimation on manual and automation projects.
Participated in iteration planning, task planning and allocation, monitoring progress (schedule and effort) and reported any variance/escalations.
Have led project meetings, test status meeting, test scenario walkthrough, retrospective meeting and defect triage and created test reports – test plans, status reports, test summary reports, testing sign off documents.
Create automated scripts for Regression, Smoke and Functional testing and run them in QA, SIT and UAT environments.
Specialized in testing Retirement Systems (Pension domain). Hold LOMA 380 certification for Employee Benefits - Health & Retirement.
Experience in Life Insurance domain and hold LOMA certifications for Insurance -
LOMA 280 (Principles of Insurance) and LOMA 290 (Insurance Company Operations)
Good experience in writing sql queries for Database testing and for creating test data.
Nihilent Technologies Experience [System Analyst] (Jul 2007 - Jun 2008)
Software testing specialist - responsible for manual testing of Banking Solutions.
Involved in requirements analysis, writing test cases in HP Quality Center, test case execution, defect reporting.
Performed different kinds of testing – Smoke, Functional, Regression, Database Testing.
Assisted project lead in creating Knowledge Repository and project related documents.
Specialization into Banking domain.
Origin Softech Experience [Software Engineer] (2004 - 2006)
Software testing Specialist - responsible for requirement analysis, manual testing of the application, creating test cases, test execution, reporting defects.