Nisha Garg

**** *** *** ****, ***********, TN ***35

Tel: +1-615-***-****

E-Mail: ad3tfv@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisha-garg-b6658713b/

Carrier Objective

Seeking a challenging leadership role to leverage expertise in driving excellence in software testing processes and fostering a collaborative testing environment.

Career Summary

Results-driven and seasoned Testing Team Lead having 15 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance. Proven track record of successfully leading and managing testing teams, implementing effective testing strategies, and ensuring delivery of high-quality software products.

Expertise in creating Test Plan, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports, Checklists, Job Aids, Test Readiness Review Documents, Test Summary Reports and Status Reports.

Experience in test automation using Selenium Web Driver with Java and TestNG.

Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from scratch like Page.

Objects framework, Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework and Hybrid framework.

Extensive Experience in interaction with client and functional team for gathering the business requirements & functional specifications.

Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, back end testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive and Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/ Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, Web Services, Boundary Value Testing.

Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Task Scheduling.

Good exposure to Microsoft SQL server and API Testing using postman and swagger.

Technical Expertise

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver/GRID

Development Languages: JAVA, HTML, XML, SQL, JavaScript, Gherkin

Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, IntelliJ

Test Framework: Junit, TestNG, Data Driven Framework, BDD

Build Management Tool: Maven

Bug Tracking Tools: MTM, Bugzilla, QC- ALM, JIRA

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins

Project Management Tool: TFS, Rally, Top Team, Confluence

Version Control: GIT

Cross Browser Platform: - Selenium Grid, Sauce Lab

Data Bases: Microsoft® SQL 2008, Flat files, Teradata

Tools & Utilities: Postman, XML Notepad, Azure DevOps, Share Portal, Help Maker, Confluence, QNXT

Employment History and Project Details

Customer Organization: DaVita

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Employer: Innova Solutions, Inc. (October’19 to 1st Dec 2023)

Role: Team Lead

Domain: Healthcare

Project Description: Pharos is a web application used by every clinic in DaVita to submit formulary and non-formulary exceptions request for approval and ordering.

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsible for the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards and procedures, processes, and best practices related to software quality.

Collaborated with project manager, product owner, business analyst, developers, to plan testing for delivery of software and enhancements to assure product meets requirement and quality standard.

Manage multiple functional and automation teams across different projects and different vendors.

Spearheaded the automation strategy for complex web applications, resulting in a 30% reduction in release cycles.

Implemented behavior-driven development (BDD) practices using Cucumber with Java, enhancing collaboration between development and testing teams.

Approve Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specifications.

Planned and defined testing approach, providing advice on prioritization of testing activity in support of identified risks in project schedules.

Providing Estimates, Resource plans based on the Business requirements.

Customer Organization: HealthTrust

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Employer: Insight Global (March’19 to October’19)

Role: Team Lead

Domain: Healthcare GPO

Project Description: Member Experience Portal is a web application for healthcare providers for searching and getting all the information regarding various contracts that are available for a specific item.

Roles & Responsibilities

Work with team to plan and prioritize automation test scripts to test Web UI (Selenium WebDriver/Java), APIs (Postman/JavaScript. Rest Assured/Java) and database testing using JDBC.

Active participation in all the Agile ceremonies like User story Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Sprint review meetings

Facilitating defect Triage meeting and informing Senior Management of Risks/Issues discovered while testing.

Work closely with the Product owner and discuss all the user stories and defects.

Responsible for executing automation test scripts in QA and UAT environment using Jenkins.

Documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Rally.

Customer Organization: Cigna Health-Spring

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Employer: ACS Group (Aug’17 to May’18), Wipro (May’18 to Mar’19)

Role: Senior Quality Analyst

Domain: Health Care and Insurance

Project Description: Cigna Health Spring runs AEP and CMS audit programs to make sure that data submitted by Cigna Health Spring is accurate, efficient and is compliant with CMS audit regulations and control Specifications.

Roles & Responsibilities

Business requirements validations for various processes which include Medicare and Medicaid line of business and pre authorizations.

Condition data from different source systems and process them through the data pipeline from flat files to staging to Teradata and universe extract to make them complaint with the CMS protocols.

Created test data by editing the EDI 834 files manually.

Assisted extensively on HIPPA EDI 837 ip,835 and 820 270/271 for different business users.

Identifying automation scenarios from the set of test cases/user stories using concepts like ROI, Reusability.

Designed page object model automation framework in java to test web application enhancing maintainability of test suites and improving code robustness. (TestNG and Maven).

Designed and implemented Selenium WebDriver scripts in Java, significantly increasing test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts by 40%.

Prepare Test Summary Report at the end of the project and make the GO/NO-GO decision by working closely with business and technical team.

Worked on CMS Universe Audit Validation for ODAG and CDAG universes and built business cases using the latest CMS guidelines.

Involved in detailed project analysis and effort estimation by analyzing the Business Requirement documents.

Plan and Involved in Integration, End to End and UAT Testing of Projects

Creating various Test documents like Test Plan, RTM, Test Summary, Daily Status report

Knowledge transition and project induction to new team members

Employer: Emerson Exports & Engineering (Sep’12 to Dec’16)

Location: Pune, India

Role: Senior Quality Analyst

Domain: Instrumentation Project Estimations

Project Description: “Enterprise Estimation Tool” is a web application that provides the facility of estimating all the financial needs of an instrumentation.

Roles & Responsibilities

Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification.

Prepared Test Plans and test scripts describing the features and functions to be tested.

Developing Test scripts using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming

features and TestNG Annotations.

Knowledge transition and project induction to new team members

Involved in detailed project analysis and effort estimation by analyzing the Business Requirement Documents.

Involved in Integration, End to End and UAT Testing of Projects

Running smoke and regression suite after every build and publish the detailed reports with the bugs detected.

Presenting demo to clients of each module on its completion

Employer: iGATE (Jan’11 to Aug’12)

Location: Pune, India

Role: - Senior Quality Analyst

Domain: Plant & Marine

Project Description: Schematic 3D Integrator provides data consistency between 2D design diagrams and 3D design model.

Roles & Responsibilities

Coordinated and worked closely with business analysts during gathering requirements for the product.

Preparing Test case scenario and Test cases Test for module, integration, and system testing

Analyzing and Reviewing the Test Cases prepared by other team members.

Understand Requirement specifications and converted them into Test Scenarios

Preparing Test Cases and test data for module, integration, and system testing

Performed GUI testing, Unit testing, Regression testing and Black Box testing.

Submitted weekly status reports to QA Lead.

Logging Bugs in Defect Management tool and tracking the status of those on daily basis.

Performed backend testing of application by developing SQL queries and joins for validating integrity and accuracy of data.

Employer: Pan India Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. (July’07 to Dec’10)

Location: Gurugram, India

Role: Quality Analyst

Domain: Hydrography

Project Description: ‘Hydas Pro’ is a hydrographic real-time data acquisition, logging and navigation Software in Microsoft Windows® environment.

Roles & Responsibility

Understand Requirement specifications and converted them into Test Scenarios

Preparing Test Cases and test data for module, integration, and system testing

Performed GUI testing, Unit testing, Regression testing and Black Box testing.

Submitted weekly status reports to QA Lead.

Logging Bugs in Defect Management tool and tracking the status of those on daily basis.

Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.

Academics

M.Tech. (Software Engineering)

B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication)

Professional Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM -1)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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