SUMMARY:

• I am highly motivated, IT Professional with over 11 years of experience in software and automation testing.
• I have experience in developing frameworks using Selenium in conjunction with Java, JUnit and TestNG, Also expertise in developing automation scripts using Confidential .
• I have excellent understanding of Object Oriented Concepts, and have worked throughout the entire SDLC project lifecycle.
• I have experience in following Waterfall and Agile methodologies. I am extremely well spoken, and have great attention to detail and a self - starter.
• My strong communication skills coupled with QA testing experience will make me a strong candidate for your project team.
• Possesses 11 years progressive professional IT experience in the insurance,Pharma,Retail,
• E-Commerce ( Confidential ).domain consisting of end to end testing of mission critical applications including both manual and automated testing using Selenium with Eclipse and Defect tracking with ALM, JIRA, Visual studio.
• Having experience in both Manual and Automation testing of software applications.
• 8+ years of experience in QA Automation.
• Experienced in development of Automation Framework from scratch.
• 3+ years of experience using Selenium and Java.
• Along with Selenium and Java, also used TestNG part of Automation Framework.
• Developed Page Object Model and implemented Data Driven Framework.
• Used Eclipse as the IDE for development of Automation scripts.
• Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programing (OOP) concepts.
• Experience in leading team of 16 members.
• Experience in working in Agile Methodology.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Database testing, Unit testing, UAT and Smoke Testing of Business Applications.
• Experienced with entire STLC and good at SDLC.
• Proven ability to understand functional requirements and design documents for use in the creation of test scenarios.
• Skilled in test management including mapping requirements to test cases using Quality Center.
• Good database and data retrieval knowledge in both DB2 and SQL Server databases for ETL testing.
• Demonstrated ability in utilizing SoapUI for testing web services.
• Utilize established problem solving skills to identify and track defects, reporting minor, major and critical program defects to the project team.
• Knowledge of other Test Management Tools like Quality Center (HP ALM), JIRA, Visual Studio (TFS),
• Experience in following SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile methodologies for use in project development.
• Ability to follow industry standards and procedures for testing web applications or client/server applications.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan and Test Strategies.
• Expertise in Automation Testing Tools like Selenium Web Driver, QTP and Confidential .
• Good written and verbal communication skills, leadership qualities, systematic approach and ability to work effectively in a fast paced team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team player, result oriented, hardworking and eager to learn new technologies.
• Effective defect tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• QA Testing - Automation and Manual
• QA Lead
• Web Services Testing
• Selenium & Core Java
• ETL Testing
• Test Lead
• Test Management
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Full Lifecycle SDLC

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Selenium WebDriver
• Confidential
• Jenkins
• JUnit
• TestNG
• Visual Studio
• SAP Testing
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Eclipse
• HP QTP
• Quality Center (ALM)
• HTML
• C, C++
• SOAP UI
• Fidler Tool
• Waterfall & Agile(Scrum)
• SQL Server
• DB2
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MY SQL
• Unix
• Windows 9x, NT, 200X, Vista & 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston MA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Load master data from IMS SP files in Confidential and DW
• Test ETL code to function in a production-like state
• Biltmore DW, etc schedule co-ordination, Weekly schedule of data exchange
• Published Master - continued rework
• Secondary search
• Dashboards/scorecards of Confidential data quality
• Involved in Functional Integration Testing, System testing and End-to-End, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, Co-existence Testing and Performance Testing to guarantee high quality software end products
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepare test cases for Regression testing and coordinated with offshore team.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Adhere to Customers SDLC process to define project scope, requirements, use cases, timeline, development, test, training, support and implementation plans for business system enhancements and/or changes to the related business processes.

Confidential, Los angeles, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handled Initial load and Ongoing Confidential Implementation
• Automated Regression Suite Using Selenium WebDriver (using Eclipse). TestNG for Test Suite.
• Testing E2E web services using SOAP UI
• Utilized ALM extensively for Bug & Test Case Management
• Handling Data warehouse testing using SQL scripts
• Handled white box testing for java code behind
• Expertise in handling DSUI
• Confidential Tools - IBM InfoSphere, IBM Initiate, Informatica Confidential .
• Sound knowledge in Testing Batch processing trough ETL /Informatica
• Co-ordinating within BA / Client requirements and implementations
• Handling team from Onshore (California LA - USA)
• Bug Triages
• Driving Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specifications Reviews in the team
• Managing Team across multiple releases and projects
• Risk & Issue Management.
• Conducting Post Mortems after each release end to find root cause and prevention steps.
• Test Reporting and metrics.
• Involved in Functional Integration Testing, System testing and End-to-End, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, Co-existence Testing and Performance Testing to guarantee high quality software end products
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepare test cases for Regression testing and coordinated with offshore team.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Adhere to Customers SDLC process to define project scope, requirements, use cases, timeline, development, test, training, support and implementation plans for business system enhancements and/or changes to the related business processes.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Micro strategy reports validation
• Automation using Selenium WebDriver
• Gathering required metrics and statistics working closely with client
• Managing offshore team and co-coordinating with Onshore
• Providing Test Estimates (PreBaseLine and Baseline ROMs), contributed towards Test Plans i.e. both Master Test Plan & Detailed Test Plan and Creating Traceability Matrix.
• Having Strong Agile process knowledge.
• Handling Reports created using Micro strategy from Data warehouse using Teradata scripts
• Load Testing Using JMeter web services testing using Restful client
• Testing Micro strategy using Tera Data as back end
• Driving Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specifications Reviews in the team
• Bug & Test Case Management using Application Life Management and JIRA and ALM
• Compatibility testing
• Risk & SQL Testing
• Issue Management.
• Conducting Post Mortems after each release end to find root cause and prevention steps.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Project team to understand requirements in order to effectively plan and execute Test Cases.
• Validated XML requests and responses of Confidential web services using FIDLER tool
• IBM Confidential Integration with Confidential application white box testing for dot net application (C# code behind).
• Participated in the translation of Functional Requirement Specifications, Business Requirement Specifications and Detail Design Specifications into, Use Cases and Test Scripts
• Involved in Functional Integration Testing, System testing and End-to-End, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, Co-existence Testing and Performance Testing to guarantee high quality software end products
• Automation using Confidential, Glider Framework
• Involved in Onsite-offshore co-ordination.
• Used TFS (Team foundation Server) Confidential Visual studio 2012(administrator) to track defects.
• Created Work Item templates for Bugs, Test cases, Issues, Tasks, and User stories for various projects and shared with all project team members.
• Created customized queries in TFS to track the work items associated with different projects
• Performed Backend testing by writing various SQL Queries to verify that the Data in the Database using DB Confidential SQL server 2008.
• Involved in writing Test Requirements and Change Requests in the whole SDLC.
• Used TFS 2010(Team Foundation Server) for bug tracking, Work Item Tracking and published test results in TFS to share with the team members.
• Involved in effective co-ordination between development, business & system testing team
• Created and maintained Test Scripts and Test Cases based on High Level Functional Requirements Document (FRD) utilizing Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010, Team Foundation Server (TFS), for manual, automated(Functional & Regression), and performance/stress testing
• Thoroughly involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and UAT
• Analyzed the Functional requirements to fully understand the scope of the testing
• Strong experience in conducting Gap Analysis (GAP), Functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and System Integration testing (SIT)
• Interaction with the Team members and client, in daily SCRUM meeting
• Architected and implemented Agile processes and practices including defect and test Management
• Provide mentoring, coaching, training and other support for clients introducing agile methods
• Worked in Agile Scrum environment.
• Tested the application on different web browser as Mozilla fire fox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, IE 7.0, 8.0 Compatibility and 9.0.
• Tested web application for vulnerabilities such as injection, Broken Authentication and Session Management, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Sensitive Data Exposure and Missing Function Level Access Control
• Monitored and track progress of vulnerabilities found and maintained the history

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and Requirement Specifications Documents
• Participated in the IT Kick Off meeting to set expectations based on requirements and ensure a timely delivery
• Automated Test scripts using Confidential .
• SAP integration and validating E2E scenarios.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts (BA), IEE Vendor personnel, Developers and SCE Architect team to determine and identify contents and flow of various business processes.
• Prepared Test Conditions based on business requirements and UI (User interface) Specifications grouped the similar Test Conditions and assigned sequence numbers for them.
• Designed the Test Scripts and reviewed them for correctness and completeness.
• Once Test Script design is done, organized Test Script review meetings with Developers, Subject matter experts, Business Analysts and Test Data team for their approval before Test Script execution.
• Identified the Test data and requested the same from test data team.
• Executed the Test Scripts and logged the Defects as found and tracked the Defects at all the stages of Defect life Cycle.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, System, and Performance, helped in User acceptance testing.
• Performed regression testing when the environment changes.
• Did Smoke testing after implementation of new Hot Fixes.
• Involved in Production Support. Tested Mainframe CIS Application, submitted jobs in mainframe
• Tested the application on different web browser as Mozilla fire fox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, IE 7.0, 8.0 Compatibility and 9.0.
• Used Web Sphere MQ for messaging purpose to communicate between different applications
• Support the application whenever latest Confidential security patch installed on lab SmartConnect servers. Servers must be rebooted to install the latest Confidential security patch. By making sure the respective services are brought down before the patch work and bring services back up after latest MS Security patch installed.
• Keep track of table counts and make sure stats are up to date by automatically running the last analyzed query using Perl script
• Identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve weak areas of development.
• Provided training for new team.

Confidential, Redmond

Member of Test team

Responsibilities:

• Did the requirement analysis and prepared high level test scenarios
• Involved in functionality, Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Create reports for tracking defects or issues in the code.
• Used Pre-Execution checklist to verify that the environment is ready for testing.
• Documented the successful or unsuccessful completion of each test case in the Test Director script Repository.
• Gathered and properly stored all testing evidence and documentation.
• Followed-up on defect status with developers and project managers.
• Developed ability to manage "defect portfolio" - Keeping track of QA metrics, e.g.: number of defects discovered - today, in past week, since project began number of defects resolved - today, in past week, since project began
• Trends: are we keeping up with defects and resolving as fast as they are discovered?
• Is number of defects going up? Down?
• Relative number of defects per developer? know all metrics above broken out in terms of "types of defects" above (fatal vs. cosmetic, etc)
• Coordinated application builds.
• Attended regular iteration product/project meetings.
• Assisted in maintaining Quality Assurance test lab.
• Verify Actual results against Business Requirement to ensure accuracy
• Regression Testing for Search Engine of portal to enable users to search information on the tables and fields and tables in the database.
• Investigate any discrepancies between the requirements and the application