Sumit Kharkwal (Willing to Re-locate)

Phone: 512-***-**** E-mail: adiw3s@r.postjobfree.com

Address: *** ****** ****,

PA-19406, USA

LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumit-kharkwal-2043055b/

OBJECTIVE

A challenging career in software testing and quality assurance engineering and to establish a stable career with an organization of repute, wherein I am given challenging responsibilities to achieve highest standards of excellence, in order to help the organization, meet its corporate goals.

SYNOPSIS

Around 12+ Years of experience in the Functional Automation Software Testing

Having 7+ years of good experience in leading a testing team and providing solutions as an automation architect

Experience in projects following the Waterfall, SCRUM and SAFE Agile methodologies.

Expertise in Selenium Web Driver, Java, Java Script(Basic), SQL, CI/CD, Restful APIs Testing, Swagger, TestNG, Junit, Jenkins, MS Azure, Page Object Model, POI, Maven, Designing Automation Frameworks, Cucumber–BDD Framework, Microservices Architecture, SOAP UI, Postman.

Having good experience in implementing manual and test automation strategy, and other test tools.

Very well versed in driving innovation and integration of new technologies in the test engineering organization.

Good enough to do Effort estimations, Automation Test Planning, Automation feasibility analysis, Team handling, Process Review and Defect Prevention activities.

Hands on in tracking closure and analyzing Results and Reporting.

Experience in reviewing and evaluating product designs and project activities for compliance with technology and testing guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback based on results to improve quality and mitigate risk of product failure.

Experiencing in providing domain-specific expertise and overall test engineering leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs and activities.

Experience of working and delivering independently including reporting status of Testing Team

Experience of working with Onshore/Offshore model and different domains like Telecom, Healthcare and Financial Services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Testing Tool/Build Tool/CI Tool

Selenium Web Driver, Junit, Maven, TestNG, Jenkins, MS Azure, Cucumber API, Rest Assured, Postman, SOAPUI, UFT

Operating System

Windows, Linux-Unix

Database

SQL Server 2008, My SQL, Oracle

Software Q/A

SDLC, STLC, Bug Life Cycle and Agile methodologies

Bug Reporting Tool

Jira, HP ALM

Repositories

GitHub

Languages

Java, Java Script (Basic)

Test Management Tool

HP ALM, JIRA, Rally and RTC and RQM

Application

Web applications, Windows applications and mobile applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Currently working as Automation Test Lead from Dec 2016 to Till Date with Accenture LLP USA.

Worked as Senior Software Test Engineer –USA (Sep 2013 to Nov 2016)

Worked as Senior Software Test Engineer –India (Sep 2012 to Nov 2016)

Worked as Software Engineer in Test– India (Sep 2010 to Aug 2012)

Worked as Associate Software Engineer in Test -India (March 2008 to Aug 2010)

PROJECT DETAILS:

Automation Test Lead (Jan 2017 –Till Date)

Client: DLL, Philadelphia

Employer: Accenture LLP, USA

Project: OFx Next Gen and Digital APIs

Framework/Tools: Selenium Web Driver, Java, SQL, CI/CD, Restful Web Service, TestNG, Junit, Jenkins, MS Azure Page Object Model, POI, Maven, Designing Automation Frameworks, Cucumber–BDD Framework, Microservices Architecture, SOAP UI, Postman

Roles & Responsibilities:

Leading onshore and offshore testing team and providing solutions as an automation architect.

Involved in writing web automation code Selenium API, Java, BDD Automation Testing Framework.

Implemented Web services testing framework using SOAP UI, Postman, Rest Assured API.

Actively participated in RC Testing, UAT Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, SQL Database Testing, Preprod Testing, Daily Standup meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Retrospective meeting.

Implemented CI/CD using Microsoft Azure and Jenkins.

Micro services testing using Rest Assured framework along with SOPAUI and Postman.

Actively performed in End to End testing activities like Requirements gathering, Test plan preparation, Scripting, Test execution and Reporting

Client Weekly Meetings to discuss the on-going automation status and to update the roadblocks.

Report test status and results to stakeholders, collect metrics around test effectiveness and user stories/test cases execution.

Involved in Automation Estimations and Deliverables

Work closely with management teams, development teams, business teams and other partner teams

Define and manage quality assurance processes such as error/problem identify, root cause analysis, risk management, complexity analysis, regression test scripts review

Logging defects in JIRA and designing confluence pages for automation utilities and framework

Automation Test Lead (Jan 2014 –Dec 2016)

Client: Express Scripts, NJ (USA)

Employer: Accenture LLP, USA

Project: Pharmaceutical Benefit Management

Framework/Tools: Hybrid Framework, Java, Selenium Web Driver, Jenkins, TestNG, GitHub and Maven, SOAP UI and JIRA

Roles & Responsibilities:

Developed work plans and delegated job responsibilities to Automation Test Engineers.

Coordinated with management to implement QA standards at Framework level

Automation Estimations and Deliverables

Define and manage quality assurance processes such as error/problem identify, root cause analysis, risk management, complexity analysis, regression test scripts review

Work closely with management teams, development teams, business teams and other partner teams

Creating automation script for smoke and regression test cases using Selenium WebDriver

Actively participated in Daily Standup meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Retrospective meeting

Involved in giving technical solutions in various projects for Selenium Testing Framework

Client Weekly Meetings to discuss the on-going automation status and to update the roadblocks.

Work closely with management teams, development teams, business teams and other partner teams

Web services testing using SOAPUI, Postman and Res Assured API

Wrote SQL queries for back-end testing

Automation Project Test Lead (May 2013 –Dec 2013)

Client: State of California (USA)

Project: CALHEERS

Employer: Accenture LLP USA

Framework/Tools: QTP, Hybrid Framework.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Acting as a test leading having 4 onshore members.

Developed work plans and delegated job responsibilities to Automation Test Engineers.

Coordinated with management to implement QA standards at Framework level

Automation Estimations and Deliverables

Define and manage quality assurance processes such as error/problem identify, root cause analysis, risk management, complexity analysis, regression test scripts review

Automated manual script for regression test cases as per assigned user stories using QTP/UFT.

Actively participated in Daily Standup meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Retrospective meeting

Involved in giving technical solutions in various projects for various Testing Framework

Client Weekly Meetings to discuss the on-going automation status and to update the roadblocks.

Work closely with management teams, development teams, business teams and other partner teams

Web services testing using SOAP UI.

Senior Software Engineer in Test (May 2011 –April 2013)

Client: Department of work and pension.

Employer: Accenture LLP USA

Project: ESA

Framework/Tools: Hybrid Framework, UFT/QTP

Roles & Responsibilities:

Developed work plans and delegated job responsibilities to Automation Test Engineers.

Coordinated with management to implement QA standards at Framework level

Automation Estimations and Deliverables

Define and manage quality assurance processes such as error/problem identify, root cause analysis, risk management, complexity analysis, regression test scripts review

Automated manual script for regression test cases as per assigned user stories using QTP/UFT.

Actively participated in Daily Standup meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Retrospective meeting

Involved in giving technical solutions in various projects for various Testing Framework

Client Weekly Meetings to discuss the on-going automation status and to update the roadblocks.

Work closely with management teams, development teams, business teams and other partner teams

Web services testing using SOAP UI.

Software Engineer in Test (March 2008 – April 2011)

Client: TELUS

Employer: Accenture India

Project: SyNOPsis

Framework/Tools: Manual Testing Frontend, middleware and backend systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Create Manual Test Scenarios Conditions and Expected Results in QC.

Performing test cases reviews with business.

Test Case Execution in QC 9.0 on different scenarios for different sprints of an application.

Client Interaction in weekly Meetings.

Status reporting to Onshore Lead on daily basis.

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