SUMMARY

• Six + years of experience in Software testing of enterprise wide web - based applications and custom client server applications.
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies involving Requirement Analysis, Designing, Development, Software Testing, Deployment and Documentation to ensure Quality Assurance Control.
• Well versed in Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) starting from creating Test Plans, Test Cases to performing different types of testing and validation in Agile Methodology (Scrum) and Waterfall Model.
• Extensive experience in manual and automated White-Box/Black-Box testing with hands-on experience in Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Database Testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing and Exploratory Testing.
• Thorough knowledge in creating manual and automated Test Plans, Test Cases, T est Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect reports, Risk Assessment documents, Risk Mitigation Plan., developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts.
• Experience in automated tools like Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, SOAPUI
• Experience in Cross browser testing and Mobile testing.
• Experience on writing complex SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Experience in web service testing including SOAP based and RESTful services using SOPUI.
• Expertise in test management tools like Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP Quality Center (QC), Version One, JIRA, Trello, Rational Team Center etc.
• Experience in Scrum Master and Business Analyst

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, SOAPUI

Defect Tracking Tools: HP-QC, JIRA, Trello, RTC

Languages& Tools: Java, C, C++, Microsoft .NET (C#), HTML, XML

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Mac, Mainframes

Database: DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Mainframe Hierarchical database

Work Flow Tools: Trello, Rational Team Center, Top Team, MS Office, Version One, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Portland, OR

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attend requirement gathering meetings with business users and walkthrough meetings with development team.
• Perform requirement analysis and document business requirements as User Stories in Trello for development purpose.
• Evaluating Business process, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, developing, and implementing solutions.
• Participate in brainstorm sessions between team members to understand the functionality and to come up with development and testing strategy.
• Prepared and Review Technical and Functional documents of the project.
• Develop and Execute test plan, test scenarios, manual as well as automated test cases and Test Scripts.
• Work in Agile (Scrum) methodology, participate in the Sprint planning meetings and daily standup meetings to provide daily status, attend Retrospective meetings as well as defect review meetings.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Sprint grooming, Sprint Review, Daily stand up, Retrospective meetings, prepared Burn-down charts as stand-in Scrum Master.
• Coordinate and conduct User Acceptance Testing with business users and capture their feedback.
• Design and execute test cases and reported various defects, which improved the quality of the system.
• Implement SQL queries to perform backend testing to ensure data accuracy, integrity and consistency.
• Create different user-friendly reports for defects to report the status of Testing and Document the testing during the Testing Phase.

Environment: Java, Eclipse, Mainframes, IBM Rational Team Concert, SOPUI, DB2 database, Mainframe Hierarchical database, Agile and waterfall methodology, Trello, GIT, Urban Code, Top Team, SharePoint, JIRA

Confidential

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended the functional requirements review meetings and walkthrough meetings with business analysts and development team.
• Conducted the brain storming sessions between team members to understand the functionality and to come up with testing strategy.
• Developed test plan, test scenarios, manual as well as automated test cases.
• Worked in Agile (Scrum) methodology, participated in the Sprint planning meetings and daily standup meetings to provide daily status, and attended Retrospective meetings as well as defect review meetings.
• Used functional and object driven approach for designing selenium scripts using selenium web driver and C# language
• Tested web application on various browsers like IE, Chrome, and Firefox & Safari.
• Tested web application on various mobile devices like smart phones & tablets.
• Designed and executed test cases and reported various defects by using Quality Centre.
• Analyzed Web Services Specification documents to design test cases for web services.
• Designed and executed functional, data driven test cases for web services testing in SOAP UI.
• Implemented SQL queries in Oracle to perform back end testing to ensure data accuracy, integrity and consistency.
• Created different user-friendly reports for defects, test reports for batch testing to see the status of the application.
• Participated in Test Process Improvement discussions and advised the training and Strategies to implement and enhance the Testing process.
• Gave knowledge transfer to newly joined QA’s to solve the queries about the functionality and workflow of the application.

Environment: Quality Centre, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium IDE, XML, SOA, Visual Studio 2013, .Net, C#, MS Office tools, SOAPUI, Oracle, Windows, Mac, Unix, Agile Methodology.

Confidential, Modesto, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements for testability and usability, consulted development staff about system functionality.
• Implemented SDLC waterfall methodology for project management.
• Documented Test Strategy, Test plans and Test Matrixes.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability between Requirements to Test Cases/Scripts using HP Quality Center.
• Understanding the Business Requirements for Writing & Executing test cases.
• Provided support to Users during UAT testing.
• Performed Functional, Regression and Integration testing on multiple OS machines.
• Coordinating with the developers in resolving the testing defects.
• Planning on regression testing for needed modules based on the number of defects.
• Executed SQL queries to extract the data from the database and verified the data flow from front end to backend.

Environment: SQL server, HP Quality Center, .Net, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and executed manual test cases based on test plan and the Functional Requirements Document (FRD).
• Performed extensive backend testing to ensure data integrity and accuracy by designing SQL queries.
• Conducted thorough smoke, functional, regression, integration and system testing.
• Reported various defects in user-friendly format using Quality Center as test management tool.
• Performed Ad hoc-Testing of the website.
• Worked with Release Management Team to define the scope of release.
• Participated in weekly team meetings with business users, developers and QA to get updates on the status and raise any issues to the management.
• Prepared and implemented test plan, test case scenarios, test cases based on the requirements.
• Experience of maintaining the test documentation in SharePoint.
• Reported defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Oracle, Windows, MS Office, SharePoint, Quality Center, Waterfall Methodology