Rahul parashar resume

8231 Crestwood Heights Dr, #1011,Mclean, VA, 22102 Contact No: - 8044329248Rahul Parashar
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Implement Agile best practices
 Reduced the total development cycle time by 30% through automation for hadoop projects.
 Integration the automation with Jenkinsand udeploy to implement ATDD.
 Streamline QA processto increase efficiencyand reduce newproduct rollout time by3 days.
 Pilot BDD/TDD/ATDD in hadoop projects in capital one
 Publish a library of reusable python functionsfor testing automation.
 Enforced agile principles asa scrum master that resulted in reduction ofCycle time by 20% thus increasing team's
throughputin lessthan 8 weeks.
SKILLS
Hadoop Skills HDFS, Hive, Pig, Hadoop Streaming,Spark,Map-Reduce
Automation Cucumber, Python,Pyunit,Python Behave, Ruby,
Testing skills ATDD, BDD, HP ALM, Microsoft VSTS
Databases Oracle 9i/10g, Teradata, SQL server 2008
No SQL database Mongo DB
Source Control Github, MicrosoftVisual Studio
Operating Systems Mac OS, Windows
Scripting languages Shell scripting, Python
Programming languages Python, Java, Ruby
WORK HISTORY
QA Lead/Scrum Master
AOL – Dulles, VA 03/2016-Current
Test Lead
 Design and develop test automation strategyfor the various APItesting.
 Implement agile-testing methodologiesincluding ATDD and CICD.
 Testing for internal Job execution Tool in AWS and Localenvironments.
 Lead testing team to complete testing and that meets the acceptance criteria.
Scrum Master
 Implement Agile best practices like ATDD and BDD.
 Lead Daily Scrum
 Coordinate with external teams to resolve the impediments.
Sr. Automation Engineer/Scrum Master
VA State Dept. of Tax - Richmond,VA 10/2015 – 03/2016
Automation
 Design and develop test automation strategyfor the varioustaxforms.
 Introduce and pilot Agile-testing methodologies in state department including ATDD and CICD.
 XML forms automation using ruby (WATIR web driver).
 Web forms automation in excel using complexexcelformulas.
 Web automation using Selenium web driver with ruby and Java.

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Rahul Parashar
Scrum Master
 Enforced agile principles asa scrum master that resulted in reduction ofCycle time by 20% thus increasing team's
throughputin lessthan 8 weeks.
 Enabled improvement in team deliverycommitments and capacityplanning for sprints byidentifying & tracking hidden
tasks thatincreased customer satisfaction.
 Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teamswith outcome
resulting in enhanced performance.
 Removed obstacle for the team byescalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue
solution.Customer provided positive feedback.
 Coached newSM and trained globalteams,which resulted in earlydeliveryofproject and reduced process waste
caused by lackof common understanding.
Sr. Associate/Hadoop Automation QA lead
Capital One - Richmond,VA 04/2014 - 10/2015
 Leading the automation effort for hadoop based projects, automated testing using tools like python, pig and hive.
 Leading the testing efforts for multiple projects in advance technologies in hadoop including technologieslike Spark
and Hbase.
 Integration test lead for testing and validating the data flowbetween multiple applications.
 Integrated CICD with ATDDand implemented it for projects in capital one Automated hadoop testing in hive using
Python which reduced the development cycle time by 30 %.
QA lead
Affinion Loyalty - Richmond,VA 09/2012 - 1/2014
 Coordinating with the development and business team to perform the testing activities
 Lead group of testers to successfully deliver the project with minimal postproduction defects.
 Test Planning and Execution using VSTS and HP ALM.
 Resource planning and management for varioustesting projects.
 Web services testing using SOAP UI.
QA Consultant
Cognizant technology solutions – Richmond VA 10/2011 – 8/2012
 Requirement analysisand understanding ofbusiness scenarios& applicationsand successfully testthe same.
 Create and define test plansand test strategies.
 Create SQL queriesin Teradata to validate the data received.
 Offshore test team coordination, reviewand approve the testdocumentations created byteam members.
 Shell scripting to validate the data in files in Unix.
QA Consultant
Wipro technology solutions – Richmond VA 03/2008 – 09/2011
Requirementanalysisand understanding of business scenarios& applicationsand successfully testthe same.
 Create and define test plansand test strategies.
 Create SQL queriesin Teradata to validate the data received.
 Offshore test team coordination, reviewand approve the testdocumentations created byteam members.
 Shell scripting to validate the data in files in Unix.
EDUCATION
Punjab Technical University-Punjab 2003- 2007
Electronics and communication Jalandhar

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