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Resume of SONALI MEHTA

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
 Over ELEVEN years of experience in software industry in Quality Assurance Management and QA
Activities for Desktop, Web based applications, Digital Applications (Web Sites and Native Apps on iOS
& Android devices) & media applications using Manual testing and Automation testing.
 Demonstrated history of a passion for quality
 Experience with Waterfall, Agile and RUP methodologies, and strong expertise in software SDLC.
 Expertise in software test management, defining requirements, planning testing process, executing black
box testing.
 Good at informal and formal, manual and automated, data and functionality testing, analyzing and
reporting issues, discrepancies and results.
 Proficient in test design, development, and quality assurance of cost-effective enterprise level
application systems, middleware, and Web solutions that exceeds client’s defined business requirements
and expectations.
 Proven expertise of successfully completed software testing projects for financial, insurance domains.
 Experience in test management tools such as Quality Center 10 and Jira.
 Successfully completed projects utilizing automation testing tools such as Saucelabs (PHPUnit),
Selenium Web Driver, QTP, LoadRunner.
 Excellent communication and influence skills
 Proven track record in leading development of automation tools
 Comfortable with fast-paced, schedule driven development
 Strong management and leadership experience
 Expertise in testing Web services using SOAPUI.
 Experience in handling UAT sessions to explain functionality to real users.
 Experience in performance of build validation and verification, positive and negative, boundary value
analysis, functional, integresion, regression, GUI cross-browser and user acceptance tests.
 Proficient in review of all kinds of testability documents like requirement specification, functional
documents, conversion of the requirements documents into detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts.
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills (ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-
technical audience)

TECHNICAL SKILLS
QA Automation Tool: Saucelabs, Selenium Web Driver, Capybara, Appium, Robotium, Quick Test
Professional 10/9.2, Load Runner.
Test Process Tools: Quality Center 8.2/9.2/10.0, JIRA Kanban & Scrum.
Programming Languages: Java, PHP, JavaScript, Bootstrap JS, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Shell
Scripting.
Software Development: Lean, Agile, RAD, SCRUM.
Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture, Object programming, Client Server, Web
Application.
Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, MS SQL Server, MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Samsung, Ridgefield Park, NJ Sep 15 - Present
Sr. QA Analyst

Samsung SDS Americas:

Samsung SDS is growing to be a global ICT company with a competitive edge offering a variety of ICT
services including infrastructure construction, network services, business consulting, manufacturing IT,
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distribution IT, education IT, medical IT, security, mobility, cloud, and analytics based on its vast experience
and accumulated technological capabilities, as well as our excellent partnerships and human resources.
samsung.com [Selenium Test Automation, Jmeter Performance Automation Testing, Manual Testing
(samsung.com/us, samsung.com Business Site, Mobile Site, Tablets (Android devices & Apple devices)).

Responsibilities:
 Promoting QA Best practices in collaboration with software development leadership.
 Creating testing standards and ensure the testing team follows established standards.
 Managed manual and automation Quality Assurance activities for Samsung.com/us.
 Responsible for defining the Automation Test Planning and architecture for samsung.com/us using
Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Java.
 Responsible for designing automation test cases and test scripts using Java, Eclipse, Maven and
designing continuous integration using Jenkins for production builds.
 Responsible for designing Jmeter Test Plan for ‘404-Page not Found’ / Monitoring samsung.com/us B2B
and B2C sites. Scheduling automation build executing of Jmeter PNF Regression Test using Maven &
Jenkins. Responsible to create and maintain GitHub Repository for Jmeter PNF Regression Test Project.
 Responsible for designing Jmeter Performance Test Plan for samsung.com/us B2B and B2C sites.
Scheduling automation build executing of Jmeter Performance Test using Maven & Jenkins. Responsible
to create and maintain GitHub Repository for Jmeter Performance Test Project.
 Responsible to closely work with the QA Team and train them for quality assurance tasks (manual as
well as automation) and providing guidance to perform QA activities to achieve goal of good quality
product
 Review and approve the testing approach proposed by team members.
 Mentoring and working with team to have a deep understanding of the application technical domain,
communicate parameters of the test and desired outputs.

Environment: Manual Testing, Mantis, JIRA, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Java, Jmeter, Apache Maven,
Eclipse, Jenkins, SDLC, Waterfall Methodology, Agile Methodology, Apple device testing (iPhone 4/5/6/6+,
iPad 1/2/3/Mini/Air, iOS 6/7/9), Android devices Testing (Samsung Galaxy Notes / Mobiles /Tablets).

CONDE’ NAST, NYC, NY Oct 12 – Aug 15

Condé Nast is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's
most influential audiences. Attracting 115 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and
video brands, the company’s portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media: Vogue, Vanity Fair,
Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Details, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon
Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica and Style.com.

Vogue Runway (Apr 15 – Aug 15)

Sr. QA Manager

CN Test Automation Project

GQ - Autopilot
CondeNast Test Automation Project is to design and implement automated test suites for all the brands. Also
implement automation test suite and provide continuous integration to jenkins builds (ci/stag/prod).

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for defining the strategy for Quality Assurance for all the magazine brand teams
 Managed manual and automation Quality Assurance activities for VOGUE RUNWAY & Autopilot -
GQ project launched in September, 2015. Designed automation framework for VOGUE RUNWAY
using selenium Webdriver, TestNG. Implemented automation test script using JAVA language.

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 Responsible to closely work with the product managers and train them for quality assurance tasks and
providing guidance to perform QA activities to achieve goal of good quality product
 Designed the automation framework using Saucelabs and Selenium Webdriver. Designed automation
test plan, automation test suites and implemented them using Java and PHP language for all brands.
 Designed and implemented custom reporting and applied continuous integration using Jenkins for
staging and production environments.
 Implemented new quality assurance process by working with all brand teams and monitoring the QA
activities in different teams.

CMSG & Brands (Style.com Redesign, The NewYorker Paywall) (Jan 14 - Mar 15)
QA Manager

Consumer Marketing Solutions Group handles administrative tasks, login, registration and subscription in
their custom applications CondeNast Entitlement Engine (for all magazine brands of US & UK), Push
Notification Portal (for all magazine brands) and CondeNast Identitiy (login, registration using social share
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) Style.com redesinge project included new functionalities like SEO, Omniture
and Analytics integration and some new exciting features in fashion shows. The New Yorker Paywall was
desgined to introduce metered paywall on The New Yorker Website on Web and mobile.

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for defining the strategy for Quality Assurance for all the magazine brand teams
 Managed Manual and Automation QA activities for CMSG ( CNEE Admin, Storefront Digital Apps (for
all brands), CN Identitiy, Push Notification Portal)
 Excellent in leading a team of software QA and test development engineers, partnering with the
engineering teams responsible for these applications, creating innovative ways to automate and expand
software testing, compiling and presenting test results-ultimately driving and constantly improving
product quality.
 Designed the automation framework for CMSG - Push Notification Portal, CNEE Admin, CondeNast
Identity projects using Saucelabs and Selenium Webdriver. Designed automation test plan, automation
test suites and implemented them using JAVA and PHP language for all brands.
 Designed the automation framework for CMSG - Push Notification Portal, CNEE Admin, CondeNast
Identity projects using Saucelabs and Selenium Webdriver. Designed automation test plan, automation
test suites and implemented them using JAVA and PHP language for all brands.
 Managed manual and automation Quality Assurance activities for The NewYorker Paywall project
launched in Nov,2014. Designed automation framework for New Yorker Paywall using Saucelabs
(PHPUnit). Implemented automation test scripts using PHP language.
 Managed manual and automation Quality Assurance activities for Style.com Redesign project launched
in Sep,2014. Designed automation framework for Style.com using Saucelabs (PHPUnit). Implemented
automation test scripts using PHP language.
 Designed and implemented custom reporting and applied continuous integration using Jenkins for
staging and production environments.
 Implemented new quality assurance process by working with all brand teams and monitoring the QA
activities in different teams.

Consumer Marketing Solutions Group (Oct 12 - Dec 13)

Sr. QA Analyst

Consumer Marketing Solutions Group handles administrative tasks, login, registration and subscription in
their custom applications CondeNast Entitlement Engine (for all magazine brands of US & UK), Push
Notification Portal (for all magazine brands) and CondeNast Identitiy (login, registration using social share
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)

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Responsibilities:
 Responsible for defining the strategy for Quality Assurance activities for CMSG
 Managed Manual and Automation QA activities for CMSG (CNEE Admin, Storefront Digital Apps (for
all brands), CN Identitiy, Push Notification Portal)
 Designed test plans and test cases for CMSG projects
 Provided guidance and mentoring software QA for manual and automation testing by working with them

Environment: Manual Testing, Selenium Webdriver, Saucelabs, PHPUnit, PHP, Atlassian JIRA, Windows
XP/7/8/10, SDLC, Waterfall Methodology, Agile Methodology, Apple device testing (iPhone 4/5/6/6+, iPad
1/2/3/Mini/Air, iOS 6/7/9), Android devices Testing (Samsung Galaxy Notes / Mobiles /Tablets), Digital
App testing.

Standard &Poor's, NYC, NY Sep 11 - Sep 12

Sr. QA Analyst, Computer Programmer Analyst

Rating Process Manager:

RPM SF – Rating Process Management (Structured Finance) and CGS – Corporate Governance Services are
two initiatives, which were done for automated rating process for Structured Finance department and
Corporate Governance Services department. VOLUME is the initiative taken by S&P to bring in common
functionalities of both SF and CGS to take the product from a department level to Global Market. This
Process involves base-lining the product to accommodate basic functionalities for Rating Process
Management. Customizations to the base-lined product would be incorporated based on the needs of the
Individual Business Units hence introducing plug-in to the base-lined product. JR Indicator is a project
specifically to provide ratings and review the ratings of Japanese clients.

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for creation and execution of test scenarios and test cases, participating in the functional
meetings with members of project management team as well as development team.
 Responsible to communicate with the managers who are in Japan and team located in Japan and
Hongkong in Asia Pacific region. Responsible to submit test reports and test the application in provided
deadline by Japan Managers.
 Responsible for assisting in requirement analysis and data analysis.
 Interacting with users to determine application data access requirements, volume analysis, and other
information required to develop.
 Testing Web-based Rating application to be used by the customers/clients for Presentation of Credit
Ratings.
 Analysis of BRDs and communicated Business Analysts for understanding of requirements and business
rules.
 Writing and executing automatedTest Cases, Test Scripts and reporting defects using QTP for the PCRs
of Europe, Hong Kong and Japan regions.
 Responsible to test data and compare databases of applications.
 Responsible for functional, regression and stress testing for Presentation of Credit Ratings.
 Writing SQL queries to test data with the Oracle database.
 Performing Web services testing using SOAP UI.
 Performing User Acceptance Testing.
 Responsible for handling UAT sessions.
 Responsible for Performance testing using LoadRunner for Presentation of Credit Ratings.
 Performing Volume testing for the Presentation of Credit Ratings and RAMP Online.
 Responsible for handling the user stories for Presentation of Credit Ratings.
 Communicating with BA, development team, UAT teams for particular user stories.
 Responsible for handling and mentoring onsite and offshore resources.
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Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center 10.0, SQL, TOAD, FGR (Web services)
Java, Pegaworks, Agile, Scrum, TDD.

Citi Group Jul 10 - Feb 11

Lead QA Analyst (Consultant)

Online Brokerage Application allows the customer to View the Account status, Asset allocation chart, order
status, and current market.

Responsibilities:
 Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification documents.
 Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
 Created test data for data driven testing.
 Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression and data driven testing
 Checked for navigational flow and broken links using Automatic check points.
 Developed re-usable code to share functionality with different tests, thereby providing easy to maintain
and modular test scripts
 Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from
the database
 Performed Regression testing to check the Bug fixes.
 Used Quality center to log defects, track and generate defect reports and graphs.
 Used Ramp Up/Ramp Down, Rendezvous point, Start and End Transaction, Parameterization,
Correlation features of Load Runner
 Interacted with real users for user acceptance testing.
 Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.
 Coordinated with UAT team by providing them with test cases and test data.
 Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix.
 Used Traceability matrix to check all test cases covered as per the business requirement.
 Interacted with the team on a regular basis and attended meetings on a daily for status updates.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP 10.0, Load Runner, Agile, Scrum, XML, HTML, SQL, TOAD, Java,
J2EE, C++, UNIX, Oracle 10g, MS Project and Quality center 10.

Lancashire SAW Mar 08 - Jun 10

Programmer Analyst, Computer Programmer

AK System is developing an application for Lancashire SAW company that consists of the following
requirement: Develop a CMS Site with online shopping, Integrating with their existing accounting
application ‘Pegasus Opera II’, Develop an automated service to import data from opera, Microsoft share
point implementation.

Responsibilities:
 Gather the project requirements from client
 Develop the functional specification documents
 Design the database for the project in MS SQL 2005
 Design the HTML pages for the project
 Coding and development of the application as per functional requirement document
 Integration with the Client accounting application ‘Pegasus Opera’
 Unit testing the code prior to test phase
 Coordinating with the QA Team and resolving defects
 Updating defect tracking database
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 Reporting to manager on project status and timelines

Environment: Manual Testing, Pegasus Opera, Agile, Scrum, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL 2005,
C++, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle 10g, MS Project and Quality center 10.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Feb 06 - Feb 08

Sr. Quality Analyst, Software Engineer

NovaHealth performing quality assurance activities for the Website, which is a membership site involving
self-help and personal growth content. Site contains two membership options, Gold Membership and
Platinum Memberships. Gold is the standard one, for which users cannot add their own images & sound etc.
In the system we also have some images loaded under different categories so that people can select it
depending on the type of Goal they are setting. In platinum membership they are able to add an Image &
Sound by clicking on a Browse button and selecting from their computer.

Responsibilities:
 Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Use Cases and Business Rules to identify
Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data.
 Involved in Coding Test Cases, Functions and Data Driven Test Cases
 Responsible for developing test plan.
 Responsible for writing test cases for registering users on the site
 Responsible for checking user authorization and login and reports for the site
 Involved in automated testing using QTP.
 Involved in backend testing using SQL Queries.
 Used Mercury Quality center to capture requirements, create test plan and test cases.
 Communicated bugs status well to across all engineering teams
 Worked with developers to resolve defects and issues.
 Participated in technical team meetings, from the beginning of the project through the entire lifecycle.
 Prepare Defect Report, weekly status Report, and Bug Tracking.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, Quality Center, Java, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP.

Net4Nuts Inc. Jun 03 - Jan 06

QA Analyst, Software Engineer

Worked as a System Tester at Net4Nuts. Net4Nuts has developed a billing system to generate invoices and
customer bills on quarterly basis. This application has various modules like meter reading, rate per call,
number of calls/minutes used etc. This entire system was developed using C/C++ running on Windows 95.
Database used is Oracle running on UNIX platform.

Responsibilities:
 Gathering the specifications for the application.
 Testing GUI for the standalone application.
 Unit testing each of the GUI objects (Front end Testing)
 Checking the database for data entry and retrieval (Backend Testing)
 Conducted data integrity testing by extensive use of SQL.
 Involved in Security Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Parallel Testing and Regression
Testing
 Tracking the bugs found using in house developed tool

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Director, Quality Center, QTP, WinRunner, LOADRunner, Oracle,
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SQL, Windows 2000/2003, Visual Basic, MS Office, HTML, CSS, VB Script, Java Script, J2EE, Struts,
Spring framework, MS Visio, Waterfall, Agile.

EDUCATION
Master in Computer Application, GLSICT College, Gujarat University, India, Jul 00 - Jun 03.
Bachelor of Science (Physics), Gujarat University, India, May 97 - Jun 00.

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