PROFILE:

Over 5+ years of Software Testing experience in various domains like Banking, Loans, Health Care, Insurance and Online Billing. Experience in Quality Assurance and testing of Client/Server and Web - based applications. Well acquainted with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing methodologies. Expertise includes reading the Functional and business requirements, assisting in preparing test plans, preparing test scripts and executing the test cases. Real-time experience working on Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, UAT, Regression test and Data Driven testing using various automation tools. I look forward to being part of an organization that works dynamically and innovatively towards market growth. I believe hard work and efficiency speak for themselves with no shortcuts.

SUMMARY:

• Experienced in designing and executing test cases based on Business requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Experience in Front-End Testing, Back-end Testing, and Web testing.
• Hands-on experience in Manual and Automation testing.
• Involved in Inception and Elaboration phases in planning, estimating scope and deadlines.
• Analysis of Functional Requirements to fully understand the entire scope of testing of both functional and non-functional requirements
• Liaising with Business Analysts and Developers to get Requirements and Bug Fixes.
• Agile (Scrum) method which included daily scrum meetings, identifying Sprint backlogs, receiving change requests, performing impact analysis and working on test effort estimates.
• Actively involved in designing of Test Cases based on Functional Design Documents / User Stories.
• Involved in Authoring, Reviewing and Executing Test Scripts.
• Experience in both BDD and TDD methods to derive user stories and test framework
• Preparing the Traceability Matrix / Burndown chart
• Risk-Based Testing of modules with high Risk.
• Exposure to logging bugs and triaging with the developers
• Experience in testing tools like JMeter, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, QTP (Quick Test Professional), Load Runner, Cucumber, HP Quality Center, SOAP UI.
• Proficient in testing of the web services using the SOAPUI and PARASOFT SOA testing tool.
• Experience in writing bugs reports.
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking using Team Foundation Server.
• Performed System, Integration and Regression Testing for various modules within a project.
• Involved in participating in the daily scrum meetings and updating Team members/developers about different the modules/status current projects and deadlines for better efficiency and faster resolutions.
• Good Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development life cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) including Agile, Scrum and Waterfall Model.
• Developed automation scripts for Mobile Native applications like IOS, Android using Appium, Java.
• Performed web services testing in selenium with SOAP UI and REST by validating request and response for XML, JSON files.
• Proficient in performing different test types like White box, Black box, Front -end and Back-end, Stress and Load, Regression, Functional, Configuration, Installation and Integration, Smoke and User acceptance testing(UAT).
• Hands on experience in Develop Automation Scripts, Execution and Analysis Test Results using Hybrid, Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework in Selenium.
• Logged and managed defects using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) defect management tool.
• Test all the API services using Cucumber and generate reports using Jenkins.
• Experience in testing different Databases like Oracle and writing SQL and No-SQL statements for a database.
• Involved in Witness Testing and Mobile Testing
• Worked on multi-role projects (team based) and individual projects while solely handling all responsibilities.
• Ad-Hoc testing on new and existing applications to ensure in-depth understanding.
• Good knowledge of core testing concepts like BVA, ECP, Error Guessing.
• Preparation of Status report, Burn Down charts, Help documents, FAQs and Defect reports.
• Proficient in preparing project documents like Test Strategy, Project Case Study, Estimations, Test Plan, Test Execution Report, Defect Status Report & Test Summary Report
• Assisted various test engineers with knowledge transfer on domain, process, and application.
• Performing Defect Analysis, Review and Reporting
• Performed GUI verification & validation and Browser Testing.
• Involved in Test Case and Test Script Executions based on the scenarios for Regression Testing, Service packs for weekly regression.
• Good Experience in SQL queries and managing data in databases (Search, Update, Delete, Add, Join and etc.)
• SQA activities involving FDR, Version Control, Monthly Audits and adherence to quality standards. Updating management document like Metrics, Effort Tracker, Time Sheet, Daily, and Weekly Status Reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, JavaScript, Shell Script, Python, C#, HTML, XML, VBScript (UFT)

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, LINUX, DOS

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver/IDE/RC/GRID, Cucumber, ClearQuest, Log4J, Firebug, FirePath, SOAP UI, Appium, NeoLoad, Postman, SpecFlow, Coded UI, Mercury Interactive Suite (Jmeter, LOAD RUNNER, QTP, TEST DIRECTOR- HP Quality Center/ALM), Zephyr, Manual Testing.

Frameworks: TestNG, Junit, TDD, BDD

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS 2008, 2010, 2012), Rational Clear quest, Bamboo, Bugzilla, Confluence.

Build/ CI Tools: Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Hudson.

Version Control Tools: Git, Apache Subversion SVN.

Microsoft Tools: MS-WORD, MS-PROJECT, MS-EXCEL, MS-VISIO

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, J2EE, MVS, VB.NET, Visual Studio.Net, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, XML, VB Script

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC, Waterfall, V Model

SOA Technologies: SOAP, REST, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP UI, Parasoft.

Database Technologies: No-SQL, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server, MS ACCESS 2000, TOAD, MYSQL, TSQL, Oracle PL/SQL, My SQL Server OLAP and OLTP.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile methodology. Attended Daily stand up meetings.
• Multiple device and browser testing with Sauce Labs integration, including iOS and Android hybrid mobile apps.
• Thorough knowledge of requirements gathering, requirement planning and analysis of Functional, User and Design requirement specification (FRS, URS, D R S) .
• Created sprint planning documents, convert BRD ’s into Epics, Features and User stories into JIRA.
• Well versed with creating use case diagrams, high level and detailed sequence diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams, software system architecture diagrams using Microsoft Visio .
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the user stories(Functional requirements)
• Detected Defects, Communicated to the developers using Bug report tool.
• Executed manual test cases and identified the test cases to be automated.
• Extensively used JIRA for test planning, bug tracking, and reporting.
• Conducted daily triage meeting to address the defects logged.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases to Zephyr/Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries to compare the data in the database with GUI and web services.
• Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, UAT, Smoke Testing, Integration testing.
• Involved in Browser compatibility testing.
• Generate reports for test case execution and defect status reports.
• Worked with automation team to identify regression test cases.
• Executed automation test scripts developed in Java/Selenium and validated the results.
• Strong Experience in Java/C# Programming, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit and TestNG.
• Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
• Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Involved in creating automation test scripts using selenium, cucumber built on Eclipse IDE .
• Involved in writing test scripts using java and executed it through selenium cucumber.
• Triggered the automation jobs using Jenkins to get the cucumber JSON reports.

Confidential

Senior QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed off-shore team across time zones as well as on-site intern resources.
• Worked as a resource in troubleshooting production issues reported by business side personnel as well as middle tier development teams, differentiating user errors from software defects while guiding the development team in root cause analysis and pinpoint the solution.
• Expertise in cross-team end to end integration testing efforts from multiple data sources through middle-tier services to a user-facing application on the desktop and mobile platforms.
• Responsible for resting the Mobile applications across various platforms Android, IOS, and Windows.
• Expertise in writing the test cases using Cucumber.
• Expertise in developing, documenting, and executing test cases manually as well as generating automated scripts using Selenium.
• Worked on Automation testing using Selenium IDE, and Selenium RC Server, Web Driver, TestNG and JUnit.
• Designed and executed QA plan for desktop and web applications.
• Worked in conjunction with clients and Product management team to define clear technical requirements for new features.
• Collaborated with Product and Project management teams to provide accurate estimation and prioritization of all tasks of each development cycle.
• Prepared Test Data Controls and Inputs using Coded UI Test Builder.
• Designed and executed deployment plan, promoting production build candidates from development, QA, pre-production to production.
• Devised systematic application processor usage and memory leaks monitoring to provide overall application performance improvement.
• Generated dashboards to monitor user volume and error spikes in order to allow team’s quick response to production issues.
• Troubleshoot and test application in an environment where data changes every second from multiple data sources.
• Experience working with .net frameworks.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans based on an understanding of the business functionality and the software testing methodology.
• Reviewed the User Requirements Document and prepare the detailed Test Plan and Test Criteria for the testing effort using Quality Center.
• All the issues that came up during the testing process were tracked and logged as defects in HP QC.
• Used Quality Center for execution of manual test scripts.
• Performed extensive Black-box testing. Designed Stored Procedures to extract and manipulate data from the back end database using SQL Queries.
• Performed extensive End-To-End testing and UAT of the process by working in coordination with the customers.