Senior QA Lead

NIKHIL SOLAN

**** ****** ****** **** #***, Torrance, CA 90503

310-***-**** ************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilsolan

SENIOR SOFTWARE QA TESTER

**-**** *********** ******** *esting ISTQB Certified Test Manager & Technical Tester Six Sigma Green Belt

●Excellent knowledge on software engineering process models and standards, Agile model and STLC

●Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills, risk management, time and people management.

●Specialized in Functional, Integration, Regression, Compatibility, Database, Exploratory, Web UI, Mobile, Web Accessibility Testing methodologies

●Rich experience in Automation and Performance Testing methodologies

●Proficient in Test Plan writing and Test Cases creation and execution

●Proficient in set up of QA procedures, guidelines, configurations, stress tests and regression suites.

●Rich experience in Project specifications review, generating Requirement Traceability Matrix

●Rich experience in debugging and Root cause analysis (RCA). Have analyzed code logs

●Experience in Resource Planning and involved in interviewing process

●Exceptional presentation skills. Involved in conducting knowledge transfer sessions for technical, functional, testing processes to Cross-Organization, Vendor Support teams

●Mentoring new joiners on the project and QA activities overview

●Received applause awards from Client CEO, Project Partners & Senior Global Managers for high performance on multiple engagements

Skills

●Test Strategy & Procedures

●Test Plans, Cases & Processes

●Functional Requirements

●Scripting & Documentation

●Test Strategies & Coverages

●QA & QC Standards

●Regression & Negative Testing

●UI & Compatibility Testing

●Data Interface & Migration Testing

●Performance Testing

●Mobile Testing

●Testing Automation

●Defect/Bug Tracking

●Industry Experience: Telecom, Telematics, Finance, Insurance, Public Sector, Media

Experience

DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP (May 2008 - Jan 2016)

Senior Consultant

Anthem Blue Cross - Large Groups Migration

Technical Project Test Lead Los Angeles, CA (Jul 2015 - Jan 2016)

●Lead and participate in Requirements, Data Mapping and Design sessions for Business POCs and IT SMEs

●Collaborates with Client Business and IT SMEs to define High Level Business and detailed requirements

●Develop Use cases for all the detailed requirements to assist Impacted systems design teams

●Develop work plans for Requirement gathering, ETL Design, Development, Testing and Production Deployment

●Collaborated with client’s IT leads and vendor partners to determine capacity and resource allocations

●Provide status reports on project progress and listing down issues and risks logged

Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles - Modernization Project

Integration & UAT Test Lead Boston, MA (Jan 2015 - Jun 2015)

●Project planning, work allocation, Team management, Mentoring Team members

●Set up QA procedures, guidelines, configurations, smoke tests and regression suites

●Review functional documentation for functional accuracy and develop test cases

●Define and develop System Test, Integration Test, and UAT Test Plans and Test results summary reports

●Review test team deliverables and collaboratively work with Client for final sign-off

●Manage resource-wise work allocation for onsite team

●Manage daily and weekly dashboards for execution progress and defect summary

●Define, develop and implement Change Management and Defect Management

●Lead meetings with Business Users to give High-level and Low-level Test Scenarios walkthrough

●Reviewed test cases by data testing team members and worked closely with business users to get final sign-off

●Work with development team to understand new product features for the purpose of developing test cases

●Develop and update end-to end scenarios for verification of different Entity associations and large databases

●Execute test scripts / procedures for validation and document test results within allocated timeframe

●Develop consolidated test execution Summary report and defect reports highlighting high priority defects

●Co-ordinated Test execution and defect retesting efforts

CNO Financials - Dynamic Indicative Table

UAT & Performance Test Lead Bengaluru, INDIA (Sep 2013 - Dec 2014)

●Develop functional knowledge for Life/Annuity and Health Insurance domain

●Develop test cases and test scripts / procedures with expected results from requirement documentation, specification documentation, and/or business scenarios

●Resource planning, Training and mentoring the new team members on the project and QA activities overview

●Estimation and risk management- provided work hours for each piece of requirement

●Work collaboratively with Onsite Test Lead to set up Quality Center Test Labs

●Report daily test execution and defect status reports and document customized daily dashboard reports

●Develop Test cases with SQL Queries to be used for test execution

●Develop Performance test scripts using HP Load-runner 11.5 for simulating 400 concurrent users

●Analyzed performance test results and server behavior

●implement parameterization and synchronization using Load-runner diagnostic tool for load testing

●Lead in preliminary analysis of performance results for UI application with onsite Deloitte leadership team

●Execute test scripts / procedures for validation and document test results within allocated timeframe

Toyota Motor Sales - Telematics Solution - Connected Services Apps

Telematics Product Test Lead Los Angeles, CA (Jun 2012 - Sep 2013)

●Design, develop and implement test strategy & overall approach for Functional, Integration and UAT phases

●Develop Integration and UAT Test Plan

●Setup the work plan for Integration and UAT phases

●Manage resource-wise allocation for test script creation and test execution

●Work with development team to understand new product features for the purpose of developing test cases

●Documented proposals and projected test plans to be presented to client executives

●Lead UAT and Drive Test phases for overall testing of final software release

●Develop & update E2E test scenarios and test cases development

●Execute test scripts and document test results within allocated timeframe

●Mobile testing of Connected Services App on Android and iOS mobile devices

●Lead weekly status meetings for vendor teams on functional testing and non-functional activities

●Document daily pre-Integration(Kobeya) status update reporting

●Document executive weekly test execution summary reports and defect dashboards

●Develop daily defect status dashboard

●Conduct walkthrough of open defects, test scripts and BRD documents to Post-Production support team

Waste Management - OTC Data Conversion

Data Conversion Test Lead Houston, TX (Oct 2011 - Jun 2012)

●Set up QA procedures, guidelines and regression suites

●Develop Data Conversion Testing Strategy and Test Plan

●Project stakeholder management, project planning, work allocation, Team management, Mentoring of team members

●Co-ordinate and assist in Triaging Data related defects with Data Onsite Team

●Manage multiple cycles of Data Conversion Testing and maintaining deliverables

●Develop test cases and test scripts / procedures with expected results from requirement documentation

●Execute test scripts / procedures for validation and document test results within allocated timeframe

●Conducted Build Verification Testing, Functional, regression and exploratory testing

●Provide status reports on progress and logged issues to Client leadership teams

Alltel Wireless - B/OSS solution implementation

Integration & UAT Test Lead Little Rock, AR (Jun 2010 - Oct 2011)

●Develop test cases and test scripts / procedures with expected results from requirement documentation

●Verification of Proof of test for all peer-to-peer interface test case execution

●Manage and track SIT execution

●Prepare and publish the SIT execution progress report

●Coordinate with IT POCs and vendors for the test readiness, data requirements and environment availability

●Lead SIT execution readiness weekly meetings

●Define and Implement Defect Management Process for Production Shakeout testing phase

●Lead daily Defect meetings with third party vendors to discuss the defect fixes and resolution

●Lead SIT command center daily meetings post-production

●Planning and managing B/OSS solution implementation Phase 2 requirements

●Managing Test team for writing Test Cases, execution and deployment progress

●Reporting on overall progress for phase II to Client leadership

Canadian Medical Association - Automate Wealth management system

Automation Test Lead Ottawa, CANADA (Nov 2009 - May 2010)

●Implement hybrid framework for Automation phase II project

●Develop QTP script/functions to test the application

●Unit testing of the developed script and defect fixing

●Implementation of process/standards in the project

●Training and mentoring new team members in the project

●Configuration Manager for Function repository

●Assisted onsite Client users with the Framework and Execution based guidelines

●Resolve Run-time issues and high priority defects raised by client users

●Work collaboratively with Onsite Project Manager and offshore resources to resolve queries, help them understand business perspective of requirement

●Lead knowledge transfer meetings with Client team to understand technical flow of the scripts

Avaya - Project Neptune

SAP Functional Test Lead Mumbai, INDIA (Sep 2009 - Nov 2009)

●Design, develop and implement test strategy for Functional testing

●Develop test cases and test scripts / procedures with expected results from requirement documentation

●Define, develop and implement Defect Management

●Execution of Functional and Regression Testing in Dev and Testing environment of SAP-HR implemented system

●Training and mentoring new team members in the project

●UAT Sign off documents creation.

●Provide status reports on progress and logged issues to Client leadership teams

Deloitte Applied Finance Group - Value Analytics

Functional Test Lead Mumbai, INDIA (Dec 2008 - Aug 2009)

●Develop Subject Matter Expertise on the product and assisted business users with Tool troubleshooting

●Analyze business requirements and creation of Test Cases

●Configuration Management of test Cases in Quality Center

●Execution of Test Cases using QC Test lab on multiple environments

●Compatibility Testing on Windows XP and Windows VISTA

●Defect Management and Reporting in QC

●Lead the defect management call with Business analysts, Dev teams, SMEs and Client PM

●Conducted UAT test cases review

●Create consolidated defect report highlighting high priority defects for different region users with different software environments

●UAT Support Activities - Examined UAT Test results to check for defects

Conde Nast - e-Commerce ATG Integration

Functional Tester Mumbai, INDIA (May 2008 - Dec 2008)

●Develop test cases and test scripts / procedures with expected results from requirement documentation

●Conducted peer review of test cases

●Execution of Functional, Integration and Regression Testing

●Upload and manage test Cases in Quality Center

●Execution of Test Cases using QC Test lab on multiple environments

●Defect Management and Reporting in QC

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES PVT LTD (OCT 2005 - MAY 2008)

Functional & Automation Tester Mumbai, INDIA (Oct 2005 - May 2008)

●Studied Functional Specifications for the consolidation project and prepared the business scenarios using QTP

●Execute functional and database testing.

●Automate Regression test suite and execute while defect retest

●Coordinate with functional and technical team to fix the defects

●Update Automated regression test scripts for new enhancements

●Estimate Automation Testing Effort for monthly releases

●Training and mentoring team members in the project

●Reporting, logging and tracking of defects testing in Quality Centre

Technology Skills

●Automation Tools - HP (Mercury) QuickTest Professional – Hybrid Framework using VB Scripting

●Performance Engineering Tools - HP Load Runner 11.5

●Test Management Tools - HP (Mercury) Quality Centre, ALM 11.0, IBM Rational Quality Manager

●Mobile Testing - iOS 8, 9; Android 5.0, 4.0.4, 4.1.1; UIE Player

●Data Tools - Toad for Oracle 10.5, Oracle 11G, MS SQL Server

●Defect Management Tools - HP (Mercury) Quality Centre, JIRA-Zephyr Integration

●Development Tools / Languages - JavaScript, VB Script

●Microsoft Tools - Microsoft Word 2016, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office Project 2016

Education

●Corporate-MBA Diploma (with honors) in CRM - Symbiosis Institute of Distance Learning, India

●Bachelor of Engineering (with honors) in Information Technology - Maharishi Dayanand University, India

Presentations

●EVD(Enterprise Value Delivery) for SI - Documented tasks and work items frameworks for User Acceptance Testing Plan and Data Conversion Testing Plan

●Deployed OID on enhanced automation framework which improved productivity and ROI was measured through reference of past and current Automation projects as Pilot and Deployment projects.

●Developed and Compiled Functional Testing Training material and conducted Functional Testing Training sessions for Deloitte Testing New Hires batch.

●Automation-Best Practices & Challenges for Automation - Deloitte Testing COE

●ISTQB Functional Level Tester Certification Training – TCS

●Functional Testing Techniques - Fresher's Batch Training, Deloitte Testing COE

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