SUMMARY:

• Over 5+ years of diverse experience in the Information Technology industry with a focus on Software Quality Assurance (Software Testing) activities.
• Excellent understanding of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies.
• Good understanding of AGILE, Kanban, Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Experience in Automation Testing and Exploratory Manual Testing on Web - based and Window-based applications.
• Well acquainted in Creating Test Plans, Designing & Writing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and Automated Test Execution.
• Experience in Smoke Testing, User Interface Testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, End-to-end Testing, UAT Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Documentation and Reporting.
• Good working knowledge in developing end to end automation using Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE, SOAP UI, Quick Test Pro. and Ranorex.
• Good working knowledge of Java coding in Eclipse IDE for functional testing and regression testing for web based N-Tier applications.
• Well versed in VB scripting and C Sharp scripts.
• Proficiency in writing SQL queries for database testing.
• Experience in using Quality Center and Rally extensively for establishing Traceability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and Reporting.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE, Soap UI, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro., HP Quality Center and Ranorex

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center and Rally

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Microsoft PowerPoint, Agile (Scrum), Kanban and Waterfall

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari

Databases: SQL Server and Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Employed complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Effectively implemented different QA methodologies, policies, strategies and plans in all stages of SDLC.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts to ensure consistency with strategic direction, goals and objectives of QA resources working on the project with Kanban methodology.
• Used automated scripts and performed Smoke Testing and Regression Testing during the various phases of the application development using Ranorex.
• Wrote Test Cases, implemented, added versions and iterations using Rally for Positive, Negative and End-To-End Test cases.
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Rally.
• Performed Regression Testing of applications after defects are fixed and any new functionality is implemented in to the QA. Supported the Business team for executing UAT Test Cases.
• Performed Database testing using SQL queries.
• Daily status, Stand-up meetings, Estimation meetings, Development, and Test team to report the test status planned, accomplished and issues.
• Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews.
• Prepared reports showing the testing efforts.

Environment: Kanban, Ranorex, Rally, SQL, MS Office Suite and Windows.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Project manager, Business Analysts and Developers to understand the application design and functional specifications.
• Actively participated in testing the application utilizing the Waterfall methodology.
• Worked in Manual and Automated testing of applications.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Black Box Testing, Negative Testing, and Compatibility Testing.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Designed and Developed Test Cases for automated testing using Selenium and Eclipse IDE.
• Created automated Test Suite using Selenium and WebDriver.
• Performed Manual Testing of web application and automated it by using Selenium RC.
• Executed Test scripts, analyzed Test results, and Report identified problems/bugs using Quality Centre.
• Interacted with Developers to follow up on Defects and Issues followed by the Defect Life Cycle.
• Involved in estimation and preparation of test case scenarios and test plan documentation for validating and reporting.
• Attended Defect Review meetings with Developers, Team Lead and Project Manager to discuss issues regarding the Open defects, resolved defects and all other defects associated to the Source system.

Environment: Waterfall, Selenium RC/IDE, Quality center, MSWord, MS Excel and Windows.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the scrum based formal Agile methodology.
• Coordinated with the Business Analyst and Test Lead to review test requirements, develop test plans, test data and expected results necessary to thoroughly test the business requirements.
• Constructed templates for Test plan, Test cases, Test report and Bug life cycle report for the company.
• Analyzed the functionality needs to be automated based on the Manual Test cases and estimated time and efforts for the required functionality.
• Performed data accuracy, data validation and data integrity testing by querying the database using SQL queries to check the data table on server.
• Created HP Quick Test Pro. (QTP) automated Test Cases for Sanity and Regression Testing.
• Mapped system requirements with test cases, ensured traceability of test cases back to the business requirements using Quality Center (QC).
• Maintained Defect tracking by defect logging, analyzing, prioritizing and discussing the defects with the Project Manager and development team members.

Environment: Agile, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP), SQL Server and Windows.