PARTHA PATTANAIK

Contact Info: 415-***-****, adcrq7@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

• In 15 years of experience in Quality Assurance, I have managed QA teams -onshore and offshore model teams.

• Managed the delivery of Enhanced, Complicated system to improve infrastructure capabilities across interdependent, Multiple projects.

• Hands on Experience on Selenium web driver, for Web based Appium for Mobile Based Applications using TestNG framework. Have sound experience with Salesforce workflow. Tested CRM applications based on Salesforce. Automated the Report API- PUT, POST etc and validated the response.

• Did annual review of the reporting resources, budget review for the projects.

• Developed the Automation frame work for web based and Mobile based applications.

• Implemented, Organized and Maintained Schedules for more than 100 projects simultaneously. Have strong organizational skills to build, manage and execute multiple project teams simultaneously in a high speed to deliver high quality product. Have clear and concise status reporting methodology in a proactive manner to the key project stakeholders.

• Leading the Manual, Automation and Performance QA team to achieve the most stable system- which includes environment set up, procurement of servers, working with cross functional teams etc.

• Assessed the Scrum Progress and Maturity of various teams and coached them to reach achieve higher levels of maturity.

• Worked with 3rd party vendors, different cross functional teams to ensure our Schedules are adhered to, processes are followed.

• Have demonstrated outstanding track record of developing and grooming diversified teams.

• Have prepared and maintained budget of multiple projects / department.

• Have proven and successful track record in hiring, mentoring skilled professional, learning new technology and methodology of software development Waterfall and Agile methodology. Experience in Six Sigma Process.

• Have excellent management capability- have mentored the team members to grow in their professional career.

• Love to drive the initiative. I am a self motivated, highly organized and focused.

• Aggressive in closing loophole in process, tools and gap in knowledge of the product.

• Have hands on experience in JIRA, MS Project, Excel, Power Point, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting.,JAVA, Ruby, C++. Experienced in tools like ALM(QC), testrail,JIRA,QTP, Selenium with TestNG, Continuous integration (CI / CD), Google Cloud Platform(GCP) Jenkins, Maven, TOAD, LoadRunner, and SOAPUI. worked both in Windows and UNIX/Linux environment. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Automation Architect

Swych, Finablr- Richardson, TX Jun’18-Till Date

• Identified the regression suite, smoke suites and other candidates for automaton.

• Architected the Automation plan for Web (PHP/ .net based application) and Mobile Automation process to integrate with CI/CD.

• Automated the API with RestAssured, Mobile apps with Appium and Web application using Selenium.

• Planed the release activity for the Salesforce based CRM applications.

• Created and tested Salesforce Admin activities- User, roles, profiles, Apps, Objects, Tabs, Email etc.

• Established the Best practices od QA in the organization.

• Created QA Strategy and test plan documents, explored new tools and standards for the organization.

• Streamlined the Dev, QA, release processes and environments to stabilize the production migration.

• Used Maven, TestNG framework to automate various components.

• Tested the OMS, CA, CSC applications.

• Integrated the automated scripts in GIT, worked with DevOps engineer to setup CI/CD process using Jenkins.

• Worked with offshore teams spread over multiple counties to complete the Acquisition/Import process in time.

• Tested the applications which were hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure.

• Worked Product SEM, Chief Architects to get the test requirements, test cases reviewed and made sure that project timeline is adhered to.

• Worked with the marketing team, Product team to gather requirements and put them in an unambiguous manner in the JIRA tool.

• Identified probable risks, came up with mitigation plan to eradicate avoidable risk. SanDisk, Milpitas, CA

Validation QA Lead Jan’16-Jun’18

• Hired, managed and groomed new talent. Did the test effort estimation, test planning, implemented QA processes, tracked daily progress. Created automation test framework with JAVA,JENKIN.

• Worked with offshore teams in INDIA and Israel to Identify the gaps in current process and come up with plan for improvements and doing risk analysis.

• Maintained the Salesforce based CRM application and planned release activities.

• Created User, Emails, tabs, Objects, Emails, Business Hours, Fiscal years etc in Salesforce as admin.

• Set up the automation framework, Provided guidance and Automated mobile app test cases with APPIUM- ios and Android platform. Automated the web based test cases using Selenium web driver in Page Object Model, Maven, TestNG framework. Used Jenkin-Docker for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

• Validated the expected result in the backend by checking the UNIX log using SCP and putty.

• Provided estimation. Did planning for the budget for the upcoming releases.

• Follow up JIRA issues in timely and efficient manner. Conducted the defect triage meeting, weekly sync up meeting, 1:1 with team members, Annual personal review meeting, sprint review meeting.

• Used different KPI metrics to come up with test execution status and decide Go / No GO decision.

• Performing the cross platform testing, conducting the defect triage meeting, crating and executing new test cases.

• Working with UAT / end users, partner clients to get their feedback and help them in their execution.

• Tested the application using micro service on Google Cloud Platform(GCP).

• Drove the initiative to develop the Mobile automate framework, execute the automation suite and maintain it.

• Introduced new KPIs to track quality of the product, productivity of the organization.

• Adhere to the quality process and ensuring that products are released in a timely manner with assuring quality.

• Participated in the code review sessions. Created Test Matrices for each sprint and distributed among key stakeholders.

• Developed a mentoring plan to improve the skill set of team members, guide them in their daily work, prioritize their assignments, resolve internal issues.

• Used Agile methodology. Conducted defect triage meeting, touch base meeting for 2 different teams. Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA Dec’13 – Jan’16 SQA Lead- SDET

• Created the test plan, test strategy document for the whole application. Conducted Defect triage meeting, weekly touch base meeting for different teams- as big as 70 people spread over 3 different teams.

• Established TCoE- Testing Center of Excellence to consolidate/merger the QA organization and implement the Best practices in other areas.

• Did the DW (Dataware house) – testing .net based application, API level testing to validate the application.

• Worked with UAT team to create test case, test data and help then in execution.

• Followed Agile process and Helped the Integration, UAT Testing Team to execute test cases in ALM (QC).

• Mentored the directly reporting members personally and professionally.

• Automated the test cases with Selenium web driver- TestNG framework (Page Object Model –POM) and Shell Scripting for the application based on JAVA/J2EE. Did continuous integration with Jenkins, Maven framework.

• Did the test estimation and project planning. Hiring new resources, taking interviews, working with different teams to understand and suggest improvements wherever applicable.

• Hired new resources, Mentoring and helping team members grow by proper grooming, providing career development, technical leadership, and management of objectives, priorities.

• Worked collaboratively with product owner, development manager, leads and scrum masters and with the leadership team on product strategy, roadmap, resource allocations, process improvements.

• Proposed, designed, and implemented QA process, strategy, and documentation. Precisely and concisely communicated the quality trade-off with respect to timeline, skill set, and environment availability.

• Participate in release planning, sprint planning, as well as daily scrum team meetings. GAP, San Francisco, CA Mar’12 – Dec’13

QA Lead– BI reporting

• Assigned areas of ownership, ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources.

• In an Agile environment, Participated in release planning, sprint planning, as well as daily scrum team meetings. Defining and Prioritizing the release schedule.

• Introduced quality systems, methodology, standards, required to track, follow up and report issues to project stakeholders.

• Resolved the issues inside the team, following up the tasks of the resources, approving the timesheets Escalate QA related issues in a timely/ appropriate manner. Created test strategy and test plan document for BI reporting

• Helped the UAT team to write test cases, create data and execute the test cases and triage the bugs.

• Created and executed comprehensive test cases for BI reporting- for both DW (Dataware house) ETL and MicroStrategy. Used SOAP UI for SOAP Webservice testing. Used Teradata with SQL Developer to validate the ETL part. Used JIRA to create manual test cases. Automated the regression test cases with Selenium web driver for front end and did continuous integration with Maven, Jenkins.

• Helped the UAT team members in creating and executing test cases. Was present at the site when UAT was being performed. Did POC on SAHI, Watir, QTP, Test Complete to finalize the tool for automation. Automated the test cases with Test Complete tool.

• Manually tested the BI reporting on Android and IOS platforms. The product team did make lot research on the market trend and came up with IPhone, IPad, Samsung galaxy series, LG set. We used both emulators and real device for testing.

• Helped in performance team doing the performance test.

• Conducted defect triage meeting, team meetings for 4 different teams.

• Provided production move support – providing Go / No Go report, Summary report.

• Worked with cross functional teams- Release management, Product management, Development teams to ensure that the testing phase and production migrations are smooth. Wal-Mart, Brisbane, CA May’10 – Feb’12

Sr. SQA– Backend System

• Created the Test plan document for Sam’s China implementation for ATG, EAI, OMS and full fillment.

• Worked with different teams in different geographical location to create test cases, reviewed them with al project stake holders. Conducted the defect triage meeting for 6 different teams. Created test plan and test strategy document for the application. Was involved in VUDU integration testing for Walmart US.

• Identified, implemented, developed, evolved, maintained enterprise wide quality management system and methods to test SCMT(Supply Chain), Customer specific issues to achieve timely delivery of projects and achieve cost savings.

• Implemented Agile methodology and continuous integration with Jenkin, Maven.

• Had hands on experience in writing test cases, test strategy document, automated the test cases with Selenium web driver. Tested the platforms based on web, desktop, APIs, backend systems, mobile- Android based applications.

• Worked collaboratively with product owner, development manager, leads and scrum masters and with the leadership team on product strategy, roadmap, resource allocations, and process improvements.

• Worked with cross functional teams- Product management, Development teams, Release management to ensure that the SDLC is smooth.

• Worked with end users and UAT team to validate test case.

• Assigned areas of ownership, ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources- offshore teams were in INDIA and china

• Managed multiple projects- Creating test strategy document, effort estimation, test plan, test exit report.

• Defined and developed comprehensive QA process, documents, tools to ensure that QA coverage is 100% for both mobile- iOS and web platforms

• Participated in release planning, sprint planning, as well as daily scrum team meetings.

• Performed cross-platform (Windows-IE6, IE7, IE8, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox & Mac - Safari) browsers. Java, VB .net, API based testing, mobile application testing. EAI, TIBCO, IBM MQ validation and expert in systems like – SCMT, payment system, fraud analysis, item set up and other technologies.

• Hired new resources, Mentoring and helping team members grow by proper grooming, providing career development, technical leadership, and management of objectives, priorities. Resolving the issues inside the team, following up the tasks of the resources, approving the timesheets. USAA, San Antonio, TX Sep’07 – Apr’10

Sr. SQA Test Lead- Life and Property Insurance

• Led and managed the onshore and offshore team. Building the team in INDIA for the first time USAA.

• Helped in gathering and baselining requirements for the new Property and Life Insurance UNDERWRITING system, rating system and Product Simplification system.

• Tested the system migration from main frame based application to web based systems- have experience in Annuity, Claims, Rating, Pricing, Documents validation.

• Created custom tools for test validation.

• Maintained automated scripts in QTP.

• Wrote test plan, test strategy, manual test cases with - SQL and Shell Scripts for Web based and mobile-iOS and android applications.

• Worked closely with different cross functional teams.

• Did web based testing with SOAPUI, performance testing using JMeter.

• Participated in release planning, sprint planning, as well as daily scrum team meetings .

• Conducted the defect triage meeting, weekly touch base meeting for 3 different teams. GE Health Care Jul’04 – Aug’07

Quality Assurance Engineer

• Developed System Test and Regression Test Plans and Test Cases for applications based on JAVA, XML and Mainframe and PHP based code.

• Did browser compatibility testing and release management- clear quest, Appworx.

• Performed both GUI and Web testing

• Did programming in C++, Shell Scripting, SQL, VB scripting.

• Created and executed test cases in Test Director (QC/ALM). EDUCATION

• B. Tech. in Electronics, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha - 2004.

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