PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of IT Experience as Quality Assurance Engineer in designing, developing and testing in Insurance, Health care and Banking on Windows and Linux/UNIX environment.
• Worked on different Software development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Extensive experience in the entire application Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Installation and Maintenance Phases.
• Extensively performed System, Functional, Integration, GUI, Regression, and UAT testing.
• Hands on experience in writing test cases and developing test scripts for automated tests.
• Experience with Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
• Experience in web applications automation testing with TestNG, JUnit, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid & IDE and Firebug.
• Good experience in creating automation framework along with developing, executing and maintaining automation testing script with Selenium WebDriver.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver Grid. Created functional automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Grid and developed Selenium Data driven Automation framework.
• Experience in testing Web Services both SOAP and REST Based testing using SoapUI.
• Extensive experience in using Open Source Tools like Selenium, Firebug, SOAPUI and Eclipse Editor.
• Experience in automating unit testing framework using JUnit and TestNG.
• Experience in defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, creating test data, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team members in fixing errors using Quality Center.
• Expertise in manual testing and in automation testing tools like Quick Test Professional.
• Strong VBScripting Skills.
• Hands on experience in Keyword Driven, Data Driven and Hybrid Automation Framework.
• Exported test cases from Excel and requirements from MS Word to Quality Center.
• Extensive use of defect tracking tools like Quality Center.
• Expertise in Relational DBMS like Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Expertise in writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Hands on experience in testing of Web based, Web Services and Client/Server Applications.
• Experience in working in a team and independently to resolve technical issues of a project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL

Platforms: Windows 2000/XP, Linux and UNIX

RDBMS: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Web Technologies HTML, Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages, Web services:

Application Tools: MS Office, MS Visio

Test Scripting: VB Script, Java Script

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Quick Test ProfessionalSelenium Web Driver, IDE, Grid, SOAP UI, TestNG, JUnit:

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS

Others: XML, XSDMethodologies: Waterfall, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Business and System Requirement Document (SRS), Explaining requirement to team members and review Test Cases, Test Strategy created by Team Members.
• Actively involved with scrum and sprint meetings, assisted product with backlog grooming and delivered story demo to product.
• Written test cases based on the User and Business Requirements.
• Worked on creating and executing test cases using Selenium for web app functionality testing of web application. Involved in defining test automation strategy and test scenarios, created automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium Web Driver.
• Worked on distributed test automation execution on different environment as part of Continuous Integration Process using Selenium Grid.
• Verified the application on different web browsers such as IE, Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.
• Tested the application in highly dynamic environment with sprint team using agile methodology.
• Tested web - based application on different operating systems.
• Automated the Test cases using Selenium for Regression testing and TestNG for grouping the tests
• Performed automated regression testing to check the new functionality, bug fixes, and fix packs. Tracked the bugs accordingly using Quality Center and JIRA.
• Tested SOAP API Web Services using SoapUI.
• Involved in implementation of Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, JUnit/TestNG under Java platform utilizing industry leading harness design patterns and approaches.
• Defect Tracking and Release sign off for Continuous Delivery cycles.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for the database testing to validate specific Business Process for UI testing, functional, Integration testing.
• Worked closely with Release team during staging and production deployments and monitored the logs.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Eclipse, JAVA, JUnit, TestNG, Oracle 10g, JIRA, Soap UI, XPath, CSS,HTML, SQL, MS Excel and Windows, PL/SQL, Quality Center.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing, reviewing and executing test cases and maintaining defect tracking logs for open issues
• Conducted various types of testing like Functionality, Integration and Regression
• Developed automated scripts using Quick Test Pro to perform functional and regression testing
• Interacted with developers and subject matter experts to narrow down the cause of the defects
• Developed test schedule to coordinate testing of different sub systems and writing bug report for failed test cases
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP
• Manually checked important features of application before going for automation testing
• Responsible for Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements
• Regression testing was implemented at various phases of development and test cycles
• Version control and configuration management was done using VSS
• Extensively performed manual testing process to ensure quality of software
• Responsible for logging defects, monitoring their status and tracking them to closure
• Participated in Weekly Project status meetings with client and updated the process accordingly
• Involved in Test plan preparation and Test Cases review
• Regularly attended walkthroughs and review meetings to discuss the requirements and test

Environment: Quality Center 10, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, Oracle, VSS, UNIX and Windows

Confidential, Harrisburg PA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user stories based on detail acceptance criteria for the corresponding Sprint.
• Run Defect Triaging and review the Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases with Project Team.
• Involved in creating, updating and executing of test cases according to requirements.
• Executed the test cases and reviewed the results with Business to get the Business approval for UAT.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and used SQL queries for retrieving data from database for executing user specific test cases.
• Involved in the regression test planning for the project and identified the critical regression tests.
• Performed multi browser testing to check application can work on IE, Firefox and Chrome browsers
• Experience working in Agile/ Scrum methodology for SDLC and working on Test management tools like Quality center(QC).
• Coordinate with developers to prioritize defects and rectify them.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings.
• Involved in preparing monthly QA metrics and Weekly status reports.

Environment:: Quality Center, AGILE, HTML, Java Script, Oracle, Windows, UNIX/LINUX, MS Word.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and designed the Test Cases and Test Scenarios
• Defined steps for the test process by providing the actions to be performed, the inputs to be entered, and the expected output Involved in Smoke, functional and System testing
• Involved in Integration and Regression testing using QTP
• Developed and executed test scripts for Automation testing using QTP
• Executing test scripts using Test Director and uploading test scripts into Test Director
• Defects were Tracked, Reviewed, Analyzed and Verified using Test Director
• Executing SQL Queries for Backend data validation
• Involved in facilitating formal review meetings with project teams and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution of issues discovered during testing

Environment: QTP, Test Director, Java, JSP, XML, Oracle, SQL, Web Logic Server, Windows

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of client requirements & project functionalities
• Prepared test cases based on SRS and design document
• Used Test Director to create and maintain Test Requirements
• Involved extensively in the Functional Testing, Regression Testing
• Extensively involved in Testing Manually the GUI functionality
• Conducted manual testing, compared actual and expected results and logged defects using Test director
• Detecting bugs and classifying them based on the severity
• Involved in testing using backend SQL queries
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director
• Executed all the test cases in different platforms using different browser configurations

Environment: ASP, IIS, SQL Server, Test Director, Windows