Kanhaiya Prasad

TEST ARCHITECT/AUTOMATION LEAD/SDET

adcmc6@r.postjobfree.com 203-***-**** [Green Card holder]

SUMMARY:

●16 years of Software Industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets and roles. Performed Test Automation Architect & Automation Lead/SDET role for 10+ years.

●8+ years of experience at client site, US.

●Experience in design and architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions to satisfy client requirements

●Sound experience in developing framework using Selenium and C# (.Net technology).

●Substantial Expertise in Test Automation & Framework development for UI, Services/API/Mobile testing, Integration, E2E & Performance Testing using Selenium Web Driver, Soap UI, RestAssured, Java, Groovy Scripting, Test NG, Cucumber, Jenkins, VSTS/Coded UI (C#), Ruby, Appium, UFT, Silk Test, Load Runner, VBA and Microsoft Internal tools like KAF & RNP.

●Experience in Cloud Technology (AWS) and CICD (using Jenkins, Git Hub, BitBucket etc)

●Experience in integrating Smoke/Regression test suites in CI/CD pipelines

●Evaluation of systems and applications and organizational tools to determine candidates for test automation..

●Experience in SOA/Micro services, Hadoop Big Data and Tableau reporting tool

●Experience in Functional testing

●Experience in developing Test Automation frameworks from scratch using programming languages like Java, C# & various Automation tools.

●Experience in framework development for SQL/NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, SQL Server) testing using C# and Java.

●Designed and managed test data creation

●Proven experience with defining, developing and implementing manufacturing test strategy for new products.

●Experience in testing Data Warehouse Systems

●Expertise in writing stored procedure using SQL Server.

●Experience working with Log Aggregation Tools like Splunk etc

●Experience in using Cloud based infrastructure (AWS) for testing.

●Experience in closely working with Product Owners and help them define the requirements

●Lead multiple project teams developing and maintaining detailed test plans, managing test deliverables in line with the test plans

●Substantial experience in tools like JIRA, VersionOne, QTest ALM, Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearQuest and Bugzilla.

●Experience in Software Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, TFS, Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearCase and SVN Tortoise.

●Substantial experience in performing Service/API Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Performance Testing, D.B Testing, Regression Testing and UI testing

●Experience in developing Test Strategy document & Effort estimation for the projects

●Sound knowledge in Web-based applications

●Understand client issues and drives root cause analysis (RCA) and implementation of processes that improve quality of releases

●Mentored the test automation teams and managed various test environments.

●Developed and maintained planning model to estimate the ROI of test automation

●Experience with AWS DevOps, Team Foundation Server, Jenkins and other continuous integration software

●Managed multiple projects simultaneously

●Worked with various scrum teams to identify key quality metrics per team and accumulate quality metrics across the entire tech organization

●A keen ability to plan clearly and strategically in a complex environment and build effective organizational processes that support these plans.

●10.5 years of experience of implementing projects using Agile methodologies and 5.5 years of experience in Waterfall methodology.

●Experience in Banking and Finance, Insurance, HealthCare, Industrial Automation and Semi Conductor domains.

Education:

Master of Computer Applications

Key skills

Testing Tools

Selenium Web Driver, SOAP UI,RestAssured, Coded UI, Silk Test, UFT

Languages

Java, C#, Ruby, Python

Software Configuration Management Tools

Bit Bucket, VersionOne, GitHub, Team Foundation Server, IBM ClearCase, Tortoise SVN

CICD Tool

Jenkins

BDD

Cucumber

Data bases

Mongo DB, SQL Server, Oracle

Build Automation Tool

Maven

Code Coverage Tools

VSTS, Rational Pure Coverage

Unit Testing & Reporting Framework

N Unit, JUnit, TestNG

Data Analysis and Reporting Tools

Hadoop, Tableau

Other tools

ALM, Bugzilla, Cucumber, Rational Team Concert

Employment History:

Cognizant Technologies Test Architect Oct 2009 - Present

HCL Technologies Technical Test Lead Mar 2004 - Sept 2009

Project implementations:

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Project Title: Provider Piers Network Richardson, TX June, 2019 – Current

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Lead the UI and API Testing teams from onsite. Role encompasses activities like design, architect and develop automation Framework for Functional,Regression and E2E testing using Selenium Web driver, Java, & RestAssured etc

●Created Test Strategy document

●Performed Functional testing

●In Sprint automation and Regression testing

●DevOps implementation using Jenkins, GitHub

●Driving ceremonies like Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and Stand up, conduct Defect Triage meeting, Effort estimation etc.

●Lead teams of engineers on evaluating new tools and automation technologies along with evaluation report

●Established design principles for QA automation and Performance Testing Present options and recommendations as needed

●Designed and maintained the test automation frameworks

●Worked closely with Business Analysts, dev architects and business owners to understand the requirements

●Mentored the test automation teams and contributed to managing of test environments.

●Mentored multiple teams simultaneously and helped the team members resolve critical issues.

Prudential Insurance

Project Title: Annuity IIS (Integrated Income Solutions) Iselin, NJ Nov, 2017 – May 2019

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Lead the IIS Testing team from onsite. Role encompasses activities like Framework development using SoapUI/Groovy Scripting/Java for API testing and Selenium/Java for UI testing, Automation script development using SoapUI, Python, Selenium Web driver/Java for IIS project.

●Developed framework using C# and Selenium

●DevOps implementation using Jenkins, BitBucket, GitHub, Test design and Unit testing (using Python packages), Test design for Infrastructure evaluation and Performance testing, Driving ceremonies like Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and Stand up, conduct Defect Triage meeting, Effort estimation etc.

●Lead a team of engineers on evaluating new tools and automation technologies along with evaluation report

●Performed Functional and Performance testing

●Analyzed data using Hadoop and Tableau reporting tool

●Developed Test Strategy document

●Responsible for conducting various training on technology aspects to keep team members up to date

●Lead QA strategy engagements to provide the blueprint for the QA automation and Regression Strategy

Bank of New York Mellon

Project Title: BOTx IL Westport, CT Sept 2013 – Jun 2017

Roles and Responsibilities:

●The role encompasses activities like understanding requirements and defining business uses cases, developing Automation framework for BDQ (Business data query) execution and tables comparisons between 2 databases using SQL Server and C#, developing test framework for applications like Cash Projection etc.

●Developed framework using C# and Selenium

●Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, developing various utilities using C#, VBScripts, for Trade file generation, Job scheduling etc.,

●Developing test plan, acting as the key liaison between Front office and the vendors, coordinating project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables.

●Conducted POC for DI Hub application and developed Automation Framework using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG under Java platform.

●Involved in performing Functional testing, Regression testing etc. He was extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Agile’ s Scrum methodologies.

Invensys Inc

Project Title: Sagittarius Hyderabad, India Oct, 2012 – Sept 2013

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Lead and managed Sagittarius project from Offshore.

●Role encompasses many activities including developing and maintaining a detailed project plan, managing project deliverables in line with the project plan, recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary review of design specification, setting-up infrastructure required for implementation and support of each working group.

●Directly managed the offshore project team in charge of setting up and supporting the development environments.

●Developed Test Strategy document

●Acted as the key liaison between the client management team and the offshore teams, coordinating all project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables and timeliness of the project schedule.

Invensys Inc

Project Title: Supervisory Platform Visualization, Lake Forest, California Jan 2012 – Sept 2012

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Managing and leading the Cognizant Supervisory Platform – Visualization. R

●Responsibilities include effort estimation, task allocation, test framework development, overall design of the application set-up as well as the infrastructure required for implementation and support of each working group.

●Acted as the key liaison between the client management team and the offshore teams, coordinating all project activities and ensuring quality of deliverables and timeliness of the project schedule to facilitate a seamless development environment for the project around the clock between the onsite and offshore teams.

Invensys Inc

Project Title: Gran Turismo (Visualization) Hyderabad, India Dec 2010 – Dec 2011

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Responsible for Design, Development, System testing and bugs verifications for different modules like Memory Management and Runtime Tag Viewer.

●Responsible for developing InTouch test applications and developing the automated system testing framework for the managed code.

●Involved in authoring test case documents, Test design documents, setting up test machines and developing autotest scripts using WWFAST and Coded UI tools.

●Involved in code review, generating code coverage report and validating performance metrics.

Invensys Inc

Project Title: Taurus Hyderabad, India Apr 2010 – Nov 2010

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Responsible for leading the project team, planning, effort estimation, task allocation, developing test automation framework using Visual Studio 2010, authoring and executing test cases, test automation using Coded UI Test and MTM, generating code coverage using Visual Studio 2010 and bugs verification.

Invensys Inc

Project Title: AOLT Hyderabad, India Oct 2009 – Mar 2010

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Responsible for managing and leading AOLT project from offshore.

●Estimation and resource planning, design reviewing, developing test automation framework using Visual Studio 2010, Authoring and executing test cases, test automation using Coded UI Test and generating code coverage using Visual Studio 2010 and bugs verifications.

●Responsible for developing the design documents, code review and validating performance metrics.

Teradyne Inc

Project Title: IGXL Teradyne Chennai & North Reading, MA Mar 2004 - Sep 2009

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Responsible for Requirement analysis and Test case authoring, developing Automation test scripts using Silk Test, VBA, Perl etc,

●Bugs Automation, GUI/Functional/Integration Testing, Preparing code coverage report, Investigation and fixing auto test failures on different branches.

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