Test Automation Specialist

MANIK CHOPRA

Test Automation Specialist

(Finance domain)

402-***-****(m) *****.******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Above 6.5+ years of experience as Test Automation Lead, QA Lead and QA processes implementation.

• Extensive experience of setting up automation testing, automating existing manual testing, automation strategy, testing methodology, tools evaluation, designing Frameworks, and mentoring resources.

• Working knowledge of Agile (SCRUM) methodology and best practices.

• Proficient in Regression testing, Functional testing, Recovery testing, Performance testing, configuration testing, UI testing, Database Parallel testing, UAT either manual or automated.

• Worked on application(s) for ViSA consumer credit cards backend processing, Loan accounting software, Wealth management, Credit review and Credit approval for loans.

• Experience in Testing various web-based, server-client, mainframe and distributed multi-tier applications deployed on multiple platforms.

• Experience testing WCF services, Web Services, Remoting Services and windows services.

• Competence in writing and executing test plans, test strategies based on the Baseline Requirements and business needs.

• Actively involved in creating various testing artifacts like MLPs, LLPs, Capacity Plans, WBS, Status reports, Resource plans, and Traceability metrics

• Cross platform and cross browser testing experience with backend testing using SQL.

• Business/Domain knowledge of financial (Health and Life Insurance, Credit Approval & Financing) and Travel (air, hotel, car and Insurance) Industry.

• Extensive work experience with HP Quality Center Business Process Testing (BPT).

• Off-Shore, On-Shore and Near-shore resource management. Day-to-day interaction with development and infra teams.

• Cohesively working with business and development team(s) to identify opportunities for a more testable product.

• A self-motivated and organized individual with proven ability to interact effectively at all levels within a large industry with excellent communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Testing Tools HP QuickTest Pro 9.x-10.0 Add-ins extensibility, HP Quality Center 9.x-10.0 with BPT, Testdirector 8.0, LoadRunner 8.0, WinRunner 7.0, Test Partner 5.6, VersionOne and Bugzilla.

Operating Systems MS Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista, Redhat Linux, Apple MAC 9.2/OSX 10.1, DOS.

Programming Languages Visual Basic, C, C++, Core Java.

Others MS SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Red Gate SQL Tools, VB Script, Mainframe, TeamTrack, JiRA, Ant, MS Office, Visio, HTML, JavaScript, Infragistics TestAdvantage, Quikr, Panagon FileNet, XML, Web Services(SOAP), WCF Services and Amadeus Vista (GDS).

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor of Information System (Hons.) from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India (2003)

TRAININGS

• Received training in WinRunner and TestDirector from Enterprise Technology Solutions, Delhi.

• Rapid Software Testing by Michael Bolton (Omaha, NE - December-2007).

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE AND RECOMMENDATION(S)

http://www.linkedin.com/in/manikchopra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 Veriti Inc., Garnet Valley, PA March’09 to Present

Client: Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, NE

Industry: Financial (Life and Health Insurance)

Role: Lead Automation Analyst – Consultant

Automation Tools: HP QTP 10.0 and HP Quality Center 10.0

Playing vital role in setting up Enterprise Testing Center of Excellence(TCoE), Involved in setting up Automation strategy, Testing methodology, Evaluation and choosing right tools for complete test management for Enterprise, Designing and streamlining framework to work with different technologies like Mainframe, .Net, Java , Mentoring On-shore, off-shore and near-shore resources.

 Veriti Inc., Garnet Valley, PA Sept’07 to March’09

Client: Farm Credit Services of America, Omaha, NE

Industry: Financial (Loan, Insurance, Finance, Lease, Mortgage)

Role: QA Automation Engineer – Consultant

Automation Tools: QTP 9.5 and Quality Center 9.2

Project: C4 – AgriLytic (April’08 – March’09)

Farm Credit Services of America is part of the Farm Credit System, a $117-billion nationwide network of lending institutions, chartered in 1917 and a nationwide agricultural network providing credit and affiliated services to farm and ranch operators across the United States.

Project: AgriLytic (April’08 – March’09)

Project: Credit Review (Jan’08 – April’08)

Project: AgriBuy (ViSA consumer credit cards) (Sept’07 – Dec’07)

Responsibilities

o Played the role of automation specialist using BPT,

o Implemented the latest add-ins extensibility from HP QTP introduced in early 2008,

o Automation of process templates written by BAs in manual format,

o Integration of templates with framework,

o Day to day running and scheduling of automated tests,

o Designing and running of EOD, daily load and baseline database jobs for automation purpose.

Application Platform – C#, .Net 3.5, ASP Ajax, WCF, SQL Server 2005, and Infragistics controls.

 Vision Systems Group, Edison, NJ Mar’07 to Aug’07

Client: Farm Credit Services of America, Omaha, NE

Industry: Financial (Loan, Insurance, Finance, Lease, Mortgage)

Role: QA Automation Engineer – Consultant

Automation Tools: QTP 9.2 and Quality Center 9.0

Project: Tran$Act (Loan accounting application)

Responsibilities

o Played the role of automation specialist using BPT,

o Automation of process templates written by BAs,

o Integration of templates with framework,

o Day to day running and scheduling of automated tests,

o Designing and running of EOD, daily load and baseline database jobs for automation purpose.

Application Platform - .Net, SQL Server 2005 and Infragistics controls.

 Globallogic Inc. (formerly Induslogic), Noida, India Oct’06 to Feb’07

Client/Project: AcSellerate Solutions, Alexandria, VA

Industry: Sales Intelligence

Role: Sr. Associate Quality Analyst

Automation Tool: QTP 9.0, TestPartner, JiRA and SQL for ETL testing

Acsellerate.net is the world’s first subscription-based sales intelligence platform. Acsellerate empowers you to understand the health of your customer relationships and your business and to turn that understanding into bottom-line results.

Responsibilities

o Played the role of senior QA member,

o Automation of existing manual scripts and implementing automation framework,

o Prepared the automated regression and smoke test packs,

o Creation of Test Plans and test strategy documents,

o Backend ETL testing using SQL,

o Test harness creation for various dealers to be used as input to test application against different dealers,

o Off-shore team interaction and query resolution,

o Mapping requirements with tasks and sub tasks in JiRA,

o Tracking bugs and generating reports using JiRA.

Application Platform –MS .Net, XML, SQL server reporting services and SQL Server.

 Globallogic Inc. (formerly Induslogic), Noida, India Mar’06 to Sept’06

Client/Project: NorthStar – San Francisco, CA

Industry: Financial (Wealth management)

Role: Sr. Associate Quality Analyst

Automation Tools: QTP 9.0 and Quality Center 9.0

NORTHSTAR is a leading provider of enterprise-class advisory software solutions for financial services institutions, including broker dealers, banks & trusts, asset managers, and service providers to Registered Investment Advisors. NorthStar offers an integrated suite of advisory solutions built on an enterprise wealth management platform.

Responsibilities

o Played the role of senior automation specialist,

o Detailed study of requirement specifications, brain storming with the team on same and preparing queries. Thus finally base lining the requirements with the Business analysts,

o Designing the Test Strategy and test plan,

o Preparing capacity plans, traceability matrices, and test reports,

o Assisted in defining the acceptance criteria for UAT with business,

o Writing and executing QA test cases,

o Mapping requirements in QC with test scripts,

o Implemented automation scripts, and custom made automation framework,

o Preparing Sanity and regression automated scripts pack,

o Automated scripts/framework walkthroughs,

o Generating graph based bug reports thru Quality Center,

o Organizing the bug review meetings and working closely with development team,

o Maintaining the test lab including various test machines running automation tools, different OS and different browsers.

Application Platform – Java, J2ee, JSP/Servlet, EJB, Struts, XML, Ajax, Spring, Weblogic, WebSphere, Jboss, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and DB2.

 Sapient, Gurgaon, India Oct’04 to Mar’06

Client/Project: Opodo, London, UK

Industry: Travel Portal

Role: Associate QA, L2

Automation Tools: QTP 8.2 and TestDirector 8.0

Opodo is on of the top most travel sites of Europe having major presence in UK, Germany, France and Italy. Opodo and Sapient, along with a number of suppliers, have designed a consumer portal built on cross-market business systems integrated with all partners, which quickly established Opodo as one of the top travel sites and the first pan-European travel portal.

Responsibilities

o Played the role of a Test Analyst,

o Risk Analysis while gathering requirements,

o Creation of test plans(LLP and MLP),

o UAT testing and creation of UAT plans for the team and making sure acceptance criteria is met during UAT set by the business,

o Creation and execution of test cases/scripts both manual and automated,

o Defect tracking and reporting using automated tools or manually as per the requirement,

o Client interaction on day-to-day basis for testing status, functionality clarification and testing progress,

o Conducting internal and external TAR/bug calls,

o Day-to-day interaction with development and infra teams,

o Regression testing, Sanity testing, Functional testing, Recovery testing, Performance testing, configuration testing and GUI testing either manual or automated,

o Setting up test systems with different OS, browsers and configurations etc.

o Played the role of Lead for a team of 4 resources,

o All the above has been done to test the http://Opodo.com, http://Opodo.co.uk, http://Opodo.de, http://Opodo.fr, http://Opodo.it and the call center application for all the above sites called OTTO.

ONSITE EXPERIENCE – Worked on Financial back office testing in London (UK) client office.

o Got trained on revenue model of Opodo for Hotels product.

o Back end commissions and tax calculations testing for hotels sale.

o Financial interaction with different suppliers for hotels like Worldres, Utell, Otedis,

Synexis and Amadeus through Bibit and Net Trans.

o Hand off handler creation and various ACE remarks.

o Creation of test harness for hotels back-end testing.

o Feeds testing for all the products.

Application Platform –Java, J2ee, JSP, JavaScript, XML, iPlanet, Apache, Tomcat, Broadvision, Jboss, Weblogic, Oracle, and GDS.

 Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd.,Gurgaon, India Apr’03 to Sep’04

Projects: Learning Management System and Bandwidth Manager

Industry: VSAT communication – DiRECWAY/HughesNet

Role: Test Engineer

Automation Tool: Winrunner 6.5

Responsibilities

o Was leading a small team of 2 persons.

o Involved in creating test plans, executing test cases, defect tracking and bug reporting using automated tools or manually as per the requirement.

o Testing and implementation of new products (Software) as and when required.

o Level two troubleshooting of consumer group sites at hub.

o Maintenance/Administration of the servers running various consumer group software’s. Platform – Linux, Windows Server, Windows Advanced Server.

o Was involved in designing the UI flows and testing of Learning Management System used for live interactive training over VSAT networks. Platform ASP, JavaScript, MS-SQL.

o Testing of Bandwidth Management System used at hub level to control the usage of VSATs in terms of data transfer rate, time and volume. Platform Pearl, Linux.

o Done testing of http://dwbp.com/mon.

o Backup scripts for Bandwidth Monitoring System

o Worked on state of the art MPEG-4 encoders and multicast servers like Vbrick, Windows media sever and encoder, Optibase and Minerva.

Application Platform – ASP, JavaScript, MS-SQL, Pearl, postgresSQL and Linux.

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