RAJEEV CHAVAN

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SUMMARY:

Decisive, action-oriented and results-focused professional with vast experience in Quality Assurance and 10 years of experience in leading projects and teams by planning, estimating, executing and guiding projects from conception to launch.

Extensive experience in Manual Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Automation Testing, and Verification & Validation of Web based, Client Server, Mobile, CRM, Mainframe & ERP applications in Mortgage, Banking, Insurance, Education, Media & Marketing, Gaming and e-Commerce domains.

Vast experience in designing and developing Automation Frameworks with industry standard automation tools like HP – UFT, Selenium Web driver, HP - Load Runner, IBM- RFT, Protractor.

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Methodologies, Techniques, ASAP Methodology, Agile Methodology, CMM standards.

Expert in performing Functional, System, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Load, Stress, Security and Performance testing.

Strong experience in developing Test Plans, UAT Plans and Test cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.

Experience in building plans/tests for Continuous Integration (CI) process using Jenkins & Bamboo.

Strong experience in leading & managing software test engineers working in a cross-functional, multi-location, Agile software development environment.

Experience in end-to-end management of QA tasks in different SDLC process (Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall) and concurrent enterprise level system development.

Outstanding talent in resource loading (recruiting/staffing), resource leveling (sharing resources), team building, developing project scope (timelines, delivery dates), with continuous process improvements and status meetings.

Good understanding of SOAP and REST web services and developed automated tests for APIs.

Proven interpersonal and customer relational skills. Excellent Communication, Presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems\ Languages\

MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows 11, 9x \ C, C++, C#, Java, SQL, Ruby, UNIX Shell scripting\

Windows XP, Vista. iOS, Linux\

Web Technologies\ RDBMS\

HTML, ASP, Java Script, Java Servlets, Rspec \ Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server and DB2\

JSP, FrontPage. Web 2.0, TestWise IDE, Cucumber\

Selenium IDE, Adobe Experience Manager, (AEM)\

AWS, Git, GitHub, Sub Version Control (SVN)\

Packages\ GUI Tools\

MS-Office, MS-Access, MS Power Point, SAP R/3 4.7 \ Oracle Developer 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, JDeveloper\

Visio, Excel, MS Project Plan, Salesforce, and .Net 3.5\

Testing Tools\ Test Strategies\

Test Director 7.6/Quality Center 10, TFS, ActiveBatch\ Smoke, Functional, Black box, \

QTP 11 (UFT), Rational Functional Tester 7.0, ALM \ White box, System, Integration, \

e-CATT Win Runner 7.6, Load Runner 7.8, JMeter\ Regression, & UAT\

Shunra 4.0, Bugzilla, JIRA & HttpWatch Studio\

Selenium Web Driver, Watir, Test Studio, Jenkins\

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Freddie Mac, McLean VA. Jan ’18 – Till Date

Role: Test Automation Manager

Responsibilities:

Managing and leading a team of Manual & Automated test engineers, spearheading all quality assurance efforts including the development and implementation of automated quality assurance program for UAT services.

Established an automation center of excellence for all functional testing areas. Built an effective CI/CD process for Freddie’s new Mortgage underwriting application (ULAD) with a focus on code coverage, test planning and execution for a micro services based architecture.

Developed End2End test strategies, to help improve the overall application quality, providing input for a go/no-go decision on release readiness, reviews & communicating status to stake holders.

Hands on in designing and developing automation framework and scripts for APIs using Java REST assured libraries, mocking micro services using WireMock and for Web based applications using Protractor / JavaScript.

Managed staff workload by understanding project requirements, estimating and communicating project schedules, forecasting needed resources and usage for Modern Delivery and AGILE practice.

Prioritized, delegated, tracked quality assurance tasks, supervised work and provided guidance as required, to ensure quality changes are released to production with efficient achievement of quality assurance goals.

Trained resources from UAT and Operations on functional and technical aspects of Automation.

Collaborated with Testing Partners, Project Management, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Application Development and Support teams to foster a team based approach for quality solutions and drive appropriate changes, to ensure high quality deliverables.

Environment: Protractor, AngularJS, Node.js, Selenium Web Driver, Chai, Mongo DB, JavaScript, Java, Kubernetes, PaaS, AWS, Version One, ALM, JIRA, Jenkins, REST APIs, APIGEE, POSTMAN, Cucumber, Junit, Maven, WireMock, GIT

Client: Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. Aug ’17 – Jan ‘18

Role: Test Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

Lead a 5 member automation team to develop and deliver Protractor and API automation scripts for clients ERAS/PDWS/Scheduler applications.

Oversaw coordination and scheduling of both outsourced and in-house testing services by reviewing testing strategies and documentation for IT efforts, monitoring progress of deliverables, and coordinating with direct reports.

Facilitated day-to-day team operations by developing and implementing short-term strategy and collaborated with senior department leaders to align with long-term initiatives and leveraged available resources for quality assurance initiatives

Developed and monitored Bamboo build plans to leverage automated scripts for CI.

Responsible for leading the effort to maintain a robust test management artifact using integration between various tools like JIRA, Bamboo, QTest Manager and Sauce Labs.

Hands on experience in developing API automation scripts using JMeter and GUI automation scripts in Protractor/Jasmine and leveraging these scripts to run parallel on Sauce Labs.

Environment: Protractor, AngularJS, Node.js, Selenium Web Driver, Jasmine2, Java Script, NPM, Oracle, QTest Manager, JIRA, Bamboo, SauceLabs.

Client: National Student Clearinghouse, Herndon, VA Feb ’17 – Jun ‘17

Role: Test Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

Responsible for reviewing existing automation setup and recommending appropriate automation infrastructure for the NSC’s applications using Selenium WebDriver and Java.

Developed End-2-End test strategies with a focus on automation and continuous integration / delivery.

Developed Keyword Driven and Behavior Driven automation frameworks in Java.

Developed various classes, libraries and utilities in JAVA to setup keyword automation framework, a framework independent of application and low on maintenance.

Coordinated with DevOps in developing POM files in Maven to extend automation framework for continuous integration (CI) using Jenkins on Linux.

Responsible for identifying and developing smoke, functional, regression suite for various applications.

Environment: Java, Oracle 12c, Selenium Webdriver 3.0, Cucumber, Jenkins, Rally, Oracle Developer, Eclipse, Maven, SharePoint, Rally, Linux.

Client: Gannett Company Inc, Mc Lean, VA Nov ’11 – Dec ‘16

Role: Test Automation Lead / Agile Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

As a QA Lead Developed test plans, test strategies and UAT plans for Materials, Layout, Salesforce & Order Entry applications. Performed verification and validation of requirements for GICS mainframe application.

QA Point of contact for company leadership and cross – functional teams and interviewed resources for building QA team.

Performed manual and automation testing of Salesforce application covering Accounts, Contacts, Cases, Opportunities, Products, Opportunity Line Items, Leads, Campaigns, Reports and Dashboard.

Performed integration testing on data mapping and migration of data between Salesforce and other legacy systems like Layout and Billing.

Analyzed and presented comparative study of different automation tools like QTP (UFT), Selenium, Watir and Test Studio to build automation scripts for clients Salesforce, Layout, GICS applications. The study was made with a focus on time to build scripts, ease of use, budget and maintenance cost.

As an Agile Lead chaired scrum and kick off meetings with project team stakeholders to layout roadmap for various sprints.

Developed automation scripts using Ruby/Rspec/Capybara in Linux environment of Ubuntu for achieving continuous integration via Jenkins for Amazon Web Services (AWS) applications.

Developed keyword library and re-usable functions in Ruby/Rspec/Java to build and execute automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver.

Developed proof of concept scripts with QTP (UFT), Selenium/Java, Watir/TestWise, Test Studio and Selenium/Ruby.

Designed and implemented keyword driven framework and hybrid framework which was independent of application, required very minimal maintenance and non-technical QA resources could build automation scripts using excel spread sheets.

Maintained the Selenium and Java/Ruby automation code and resources in source controls like SVN.

Proven ability in developing BDD scripts with Cucumber and writing step definitions for behavior.

Developed and executed parallel tests for running tests in multiple environments using Sauce Labs for SOA and PaaS applications.

Developed and executed exploratory performance automation scripts using JMeter for Ad Sales pro.

REST API calls to fetch and create test data and to interact with Sauce Labs API.

Involved in reviewing test cases and supervising testing of Deal Chicken mobile application on iOS and Android platform.

As an Agile Lead Worked with SME’s to build project requirements and aligned them into bi weekly sprint iterations. Built milestones, project roadmap, for senior level management and delivered all functionality within time and budget.

Trained users and testers to understand hybrid framework and also helped them build automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver.

Environment: QTP (UFT), Selenium Web Driver, Ruby, Ubuntu, TestWise IDE, Selenium IDE, Watir, Capybara, Firebug, .Net, Salesforce, Cucumber, Test Studio, JAVA, MY SQL, AS400, Sales force, iOS, Android, Jenkins, JMeter, JIRA

Client: World Bank, Washington DC Dec 2008 – Oct ‘11

Role: SAP QA Lead Consultant.

Responsibilities:

As an Lead I was responsible for developing strategies, processes, procedures and delivering automated test scripts using e-CATT and QTP (now known as UFT) tools for Loan Processing System developed at ISG in World Bank

Created comprehensive Requirement Traceability Matrix template for the most complex Loan Processing System & maintained clear traceability between requirements, use cases & business docs.

Proposed AGILE test methodology and Release Cycle for ISG-EB unit of World Bank Group and efficiently handled successful releases using Quality Center

Designed, developed and executed hybrid automation framework in QTP (now known as UFT) for iLAP, eDisbursement and Travel Applications developed in .Net.

Documented RFPs and proposed various engagement models based on time-lines and budget constraints.

Developed test plans, UAT plans and verified content authoring and regular site maintenance jobs on AEM sites.

Developed and reviewed shared object repositories (OR), function libraries, recovery scenarios using QTP (UFT).

Developed & Documented business, technical and test docs (SRS, HLD and Test Cases) for effective execution of project development in Microsoft Test Manager & Team Foundation server (TFS).

Developed load runner script in VUGEN and designed scenarios in Controller for load testing of World Bank Applications.

Reviewed and migrated scripts written in RFT / Java to QTP (UFT) / VB Script.

Effectively managed onsite and offshore activities by constant interacting and monitoring team activities.

Environment:

SAP Net weaver, SAP R/3 4.7, QTP (UFT), e-CATT, QC, Rational Requisite Pro, JIRA, Web 2.0, Load Runner, TFS, MTM, Shunra, HttpWatch 6.1, Java, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), .Net, VB Script

Client: Party Gaming Plc Nov ‘04 – Mar ‘08

Role: Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Participated in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, and schedules for all party gaming products.

Analyzed the business documents, drafted the requirement specifications and mapped it to BRD’s

Developed test cases and scripts in Test Director and performed manual testing for Integration, System, Functional and Regression tests for poker, bingo and casino games.

Automated functional testing of Rest API’s using SOAP UI.

Involved in automating functionalities of Party Account and Ez Cash applications using vb scripts in Quick test Pro (now known as UFT)

Involved in (i18n) Internationalization testing of Party Account on Windows and Mac OS.

Environment:

Mercury Interactive Suite7.0/7.5, Quick Test Pro (UFT), TestDirector7.5, Load Runner, UNIX, Windows NT, C#, MS-Access, MS SQL Server, Java, XML, SOAP UI, HTML.

Client Nipuna – A Satyam Company Nov ‘03 – Aug ‘04

Role: Tech Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provide technical support on application software and hardware issues of Internet related queries to ecommerce websites.

Troubleshooting guidelines on basic hardware and operating system.

Resolved problems pertaining to Web Browsers (IE & Netscape), Outlook, MS Office and other front end related and supported applications.

Identified issues related to java script on browsers and reported them to technology team for fix.

Created Metrics related to call volumes and Issue resolving techniques to improve customer satisfaction.

Environment:

MS-Word, MS-Excel, Java Script, Windows98/NT, Remedy

EDUCATION: 1999 – 2003

B. Tech, in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.

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