QA Lead

SONAL PATEL

Phone: 732-***-****, Email: ********@*****.***, LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sonal026 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A highly motivated QA professional with extensive and varied testing expertise in fast paced multi-platform, multi-vendor and complex business environments offering

Full system development and testing lifecycle experience including project & resource planning & estimations, requirement gathering, design and developing test plans, risk analysis and escalations, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting

Expertise in performing all kinds of tests including Black box, White box, Smoke, SIT, UAT, End to End, Component, Integration, Functional, Regression, System, Data Driven, Performance. Experience with both manual and Automated Testing utilizing agile and waterfall methodologies

Strong foundation in Java, SQL, Linux/Unix

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, GitHub, TestNG, Junit, Rest API, Soap UI, Postman, HP Quality Center (ALM), JIRA, BUGZILLA, QTP (UFT)

Languages: Java, Python, SQL, Web Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML), C, C++, VB, MATLAB Database: Oracle, MySQL, FoxPro

Other tools: Eclipse, SVN, Maven, Log4j, Mockito

Data Analysis: R, SAS, Parameter estimation, Optimization Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, MAC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead / Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst, Hudson Bay Company (HBC), New York, NY October 2016 – October 2019

Report directly to Director of QA shared Services, leading (2 to 6) QA analysts located in Canada, US, India on various projects. Setting clear direction and expectations from resources, motivating for higher level of performance and working towards common goals/objectives resulting in improved testing performance by individuals and reducing testing time

Direct software development and testing lifecycle, solutions delivery and support for many high quality, complex applications projects involving POS (Point of Sale), Backend systems, APIs, Database, and web applications & mobile apps on different platforms, within plus or minus 5% of estimated time

Transform from manual to automated testing of web application, APIs by developing test scripts leveraging Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, Postman, Rest Assured API, SoapUI, JMeter to improve automation test cases by 50 percent

Working with internal and external stakeholders to gather information for creating project plans, help with grooming and critically analyzing requirements with BA’s resulting in finding and resolving problems early in S/W life cycle to improve testing time, deliver quality products, satisfy customer by resolving issues/concerns quickly leading to better efficiency and increased customer service levels

Utilize business cases, system requirements and design specifications documents to plan, develop and execute test strategies, save testing time by 20% by streamlining processes for test data preparation, functional design documents, creating dashboards for execution cycles and defects tracking, reusability and maintainability of regression scripts, status reports, confluence pages for proper documentations to reduce knowledge transfer time

Execute testing methods such as black box, functional, regression, user acceptance testing to validate requirements are met

Involve extensively in System, Integration, End to End, Confirmation, Regulation, Disaster Recovery, Maintenance testing for different projects

Configure test environment and create strategy for product development and certification. Develop test scripts for ETL testing. Proficient in writing SQL queries to setup test data, execute the use cases in SQL/Oracle backend, and validate ETL process

Participate in Agile sprint planning and coordinate individual and team testing throughout to ensure quality deliverables by the end of the sprint incorporating lessons learned from sprint reviews into the established processes at the end of each development sprint to improve overall delivery process and saving testing time in future sprints

Gain recognition for excellent problem solving and analytical skills by colleagues, project managers and supervisors. Promoted to Test lead with in few months and assigned to handle critical projects. Worked collaboratively with QA, development and business groups to complete comprehensive testing on different projects. Java Developer Program trainee, FDM Group, New York, NY March 2016– October 2016

Gain expertise in SQL, Unix, Java technologies: core Java fundamentals, Java Core (I/O) Eclipse, SVN, JUnit, TDD, UML, Object Oriented Principles, log4j, Mockito, Maven, Data access (using JDBC, JPA),

Experience with Web Development tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML), Java Web Applications on Tomcat (Servlets and JSP), Spring Framework (Core, Web MVC)

DIPPR Assistant Project Coordinator, Design Institute of Physical Properties (DIPPR), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT July 2013 – Jan 2014

Predict and estimate thermophysical properties, perform data analysis and evaluation, data regression for chemicals in evaluated pure chemical database (DIPPR 801) used by many major oil and chemical companies worldwide (Shell, BP, Dow Chemicals, Honeywell, DuPont and others for design and optimization of their chemical processes) and contribute to the project coordinator and principal investigator’s effort to direct the project

Enhance, control, and maintain the quality of the database; distribute, monitor, and respond to external panel reviews of the property values; and present results at meetings, organize technical events, prepare progress reports and policy manuals; and Graduate Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (Advisor: Dr. W. V. Wilding, Dr. R. L. Rowley) Sep 2005 – June 2012

Develop a new Monte Carlo simulation technique which is quick and straightforward to implement in code, can be easily and efficiently scaled to any molecular size or structural complexity and can be easily parallelized

Determine phase equilibria properties such as vapor pressure, heats of vaporization for different hydrocarbons and the Critical Point using Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Monte Carlo Sampling method; the new method allows simulations very close to critical points (within 3K to 4K); benchmark method successfully for simple LJ fluid and complex fluid Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Feb 2003 – Aug 2005

Determine kinetics and reaction mechanism for Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) by Carbon Monoxide to control emission of NOx pollutants from automotive and stationary sources

Perform catalyst discrimination based on activation energy analysis for each elementary steps obtained using Unity Bond Index- Quadratic Exponential Potential (UBI-QEP) method and Density Functional Theory (DFT) method to find minimum energy path and optimize the reactive systems

Graduate Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India Aug 2001 - Jan 2003

Determine performance of spiral wound membrane for separation of methyl violet dye from water (to recover dye by ultra filtration) in terms of permeate volumetric flux, percent rejection of the membrane and concentration of solute in the retenate stream

Develop a mass transfer model for prediction of permeate volumetric flux and rejection at different pressures and feed concentrations and a code in “Fortran” to solve the model equations

Model and Simulate Extraction Column and Polymerization Reactor for studying effect of various parameters PUBLICATIONS

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., J. Chemical Physics, 135, 234514, 2011. (See details in next page)

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., J. Chemical Physics, 134, 024101, 2011. (See details in next page) EDUCATION

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA GPA: 3.87/4.0 June 2012 Master of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India GPA: 8.27/10 January 2003 Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Orissa, India GPA: 78.8/100 June 2000 VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT

BYU Stop & Serve, Tutoring, Rural Housing Development, Habitat for Humanity, Provo City Library PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., “Critical and Phase-Equilibrium Properties of Methanol and 1-Propanol using Two Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, J. Chemical Physics, 135, 234514, 2011.

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., “The Use of Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Determine the Phase Behavior and Critical Point of Propane Molecular Models”, J. Chemical Physics, 134, 024101, 2011.

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., “Equilibrium Phase Dome and Critical Point of 1-Pentanol from Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Transferability of an Ab-initio Pair-Potential Model”, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 2011, Minneapolis, MN.

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., “Critical and Phase-Equilibrium Properties of Different Force-field Models for 1-Propanol using Two-phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2010, Salt Lake City, UT.

Patel, S., Wilding, W. V., Rowley, R. L., “Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations of n-Propane Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2009, Nashville, TN.

Patel, S., Mantri, D., Gon, S., Aghalayam, P., “Catalyst Discrimination for SCR of NO by CO”, 17th National Symposium on catalysis, January 2005, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, India.

Mantri, D., Patel, S., Gon, S., Aghalayam, P., “Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide by CO", International Symposium & 57th Annual Session of IIChE in association with AIChE (CHEMCON-2004), December 2004, Mumbai, India.

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