PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years of experience in Information Technology, with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, proficient in testing on Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies and process.
• Proven ability in designing and creating automation frameworks for J2EE based applications using Junit/TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, IDE, Grid, ANT/Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, Jbehave/Cucumber and SOAP UI.
• Experienced in making DataDriven and MVC Framework to maintain Test Suites.
• Experience in developing selenium automation framework using Junit/TestNG and developing ANT/Maven targets to execute automation suites from command line.
• Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven and Ant for Project building tool, Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Integration.
• Work experience in integrating Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) on Continuous Integration tools Hudson/Jenkins for nightly batch run of the Script.
• Proficient in creating automation script from scratch. Extensive knowledge of developing different type of framework like Modular, Test Driven, Data driven and Hybrid framework by using Junit.
• Experience in creating Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Cases, Test Estimation, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in preparation of Test Summary Report, User Guide & Training.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing, Backed end Testing, Black - Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Boundary Value Testing.
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI, XML, & WSDL. Providing required input data to request XML & get the required data from response XML & use the response data from other request XML using SOAP UI.
• Strong experience with SOA architecture which include SOAP Web Service and RestFul Web Service Testing.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Quality Center, JIRA, IBM Clear Quest, BugZilla etc.
• Understanding and experience with technologies including Java, Python, SQL, HTML, XML, VBScript and JavaScript.
• Excellent experience with source version control tools such as Subversion (SVN) & Git.
• Expertise in back end testing and writing SQL queries, Joins, Procedures using Oracle and SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and waterfall models and TDD.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
• Highly motivated team player with analytical, organizational and technical skills, unique ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver/IDE/ RC/GRID, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Test Link, Test Manager, Jbehave, Cucumber, SOAP UI

Languages: JAVA, Python, VB Script, Java Script, HTML, XML

Test Framework: JUnit, TestNG, Data Driven Framework, MVC

Build Tools: Ant, Maven

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, Hudson

Agile: Scrum, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla & IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC)

Source Version Control Tool: Subversion (SVN), Git

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8) Linux, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created the test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Involved in writing Test Case by using Wireframe, Design docs and Acceptance criteria.
• Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules.
• Developed Automation framework using Selenium Web Driver.
• Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium Web-Driver with TestNG.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed automation framework for Selenium WebDriver in Modular Framework model.
• Tested applications developed in Java with J2EE framework.
• Used Selenium WebDriver for writing test scripts for regression test coverage.
• Design & Develop data driven framework using Selenium WebDriver, TestNg and Apache POI API.
• Create scripts Python for new functionalities and update the existing scripts for upgraded functionalities.
• Created Selenium web-driver automation scripts using Python to validate functionality on various browsers.
• Developed and Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver and Java. Used Eclipse IDE to develop & debug the code.
• Used Maven to build and run the Selenium automation framework. Once the script got over, framework used to send the automation reports over email.
• Involved in the Continuous Integration of the automation framework with Jenkins.
• Integrated the test suites to Jenkins to execute them automatically after every successful deployment.
• Worked on Data Driven Framework and MVC for Automation test scripts.
• Implemented Selenium GRID for compatibility testing.
• Used XPath and DOM to work with dynamic and static objects in Selenium.
• Performed functional testing of SOAP and RESTFUL Web Services using SOAP UI Tool.
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called SOAP UI and using this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases and run them
• Validated SOAP responses by using assertions like XPath match, schema compliance, contains, SOAP fault etc.
• Designed data-driven testing framework in Selenium and captured data dynamically from web controls.
• Created manual test cases, reviewed with different stakeholders to validate the functionality.
• The entire Ruby scripting done using Cucumber framework Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify the data updates to various tables and ensure data integrity.
• Worked with SOA architecture which includes Soap Web Service and RestFul Web Service Testing Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database.
• Verified, edited and update test data in new or existing systems before testing.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, Maven, Cucumber, Python, SOAP UI, RestFul, XPath, Eclipse, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Ruby, Quality Center, SQL, agile, Oracle and Windows.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping requirement specifications interacting with client, developers and QA team.
• Created and implemented Test Plan and Test Strategy Document outlining the scope, objectives, timeline and focus of software testing effort for functional, regression, user acceptance and stress testing.
• Involved in analyzing system specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for Manual and Automated testing.
• Design and Developed automated functional Test suite using Selenium WebDriver.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium .
• Developed automation scenarios using the functional test cases.
• Extended TestNG framework by adding some helper classes and methods.
• Performed API Level testing for web services, enhanced the Test harness and developed many Test suites using XML , Python .
• Developed Selenium test cases using TestNG framework.
• Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in Selenium WebDriver.
• Involved in Writing Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites for VIN service, common data service, admin UI and java client modules.
• Created automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven approach like Cucumber.
• Used Python codes to handle textbox, dropdown, checkbox, buttons and popup controls.
• Implemented Data-Driven test to verify the same functionality with multiple sets of data.
• Developed Automation scripts for new enhancements using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Defect testing and exploratory testing/Ad-hoc testing was performed after each build.
• Used Firebug and Firepath to write automated test scripts using XPATH.
• Used Jenkins continuous integration server to run automated test suites.
• Performed UI testing, Database testing after reviewing the story cards and database diagram.
• Created automation scripts in SOAP UI using Groovy Script for web services testing.
• Involved in SOAP & RESTFUL based web services testing using SOAPUIPRO web services testing tool.
• Validate the RESTful Web Service using REST client.
• Extensively executed SQL Queries on database tables to verify the database.
• Involved in testing the database and data validation using SQL Queries.
• Worked with developer to reproduce the bugs and to resolve usability issues during UAT.
• Worked closely with development and project management teams for effective defect management and verify resolved bugs and track enhancements made to product.
• Worked with source version control tool such as Subversion (SVN).
• Created Regression Document to track and report testing activities during each phase of testing, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, logged defects and their status, performance baselines.
• Participated in Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Jira, Java, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, Python, XPath, Fire Path, RESTful, SOAP UI, Firebug, HTML, JavaScript, XML, Subversion (SVN), SQL, Oracle and Windows.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Selenium Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document, put input in Test Plan and prepared detailed Test Cases for new functionality.
• Associated with development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.
• Regression test cases were written and automated using Selenium RC and IDE.
• Created whole test framework using Selenium for further test creation and execution.
• Developed automation framework for Selenium RC in Modular Framework model.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to ensure the adequate coverage of the test cases.
• Integrated Selenium RC with existing API to test framework.
• Participated in Daily Scrum meeting, Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.
• Attended, discussed and submitting work progress report of the week to Project Manager.
• Worked with source version control tool such as Subversion (SVN).
• Assigned, Monitored and Tracked Tasks of Team Members.
• Successful discussion with all members, Project manager and QA Lead to collect data for automation.
• Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.
• Connected to database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.
• Performed back end testing on Oracle Database by writing SQL quarries.
• Created SQL views to aggregate data before moving to targeted database from legacy database to simulate results.
• Uploaded test cases executed test cases and logged defects in Mercury Quality Center.

Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Jira, JUnit, Fire Path, Firebug, HTML, Java, JavaScript, XML, Apache-Subversion (SVN), Git, MS EXCEL, SQL, MS Access, Apache-Ant, Windows.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements and specifications and provided input during requirements and specification walkthroughs.
• Analyzed system requirements specifications, developed test plans, test cases, and test data for testing the functionality, GUI, usability, user acceptance tests with both Positive and Negative Scenarios, especially focused on logical scenarios of the application.
• Created and updated test cases in Excel sheets and generate Traceability Matrix.
• Executed the test cases manually and automation as necessary and worked on XML.
• Used Quality Center to define requirements, design test steps, run as test set, report, track and close bugs.
• Executed test cases compared with expected values and pass/fail reports updated through Quality Center.
• Involved in UAT Testing and Used Quality Center to report bugs.
• Prioritized Identified defects and monitored bugs fixing status through Out Look Express, which was configured through Quality Center.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the testing life cycle.
• Maintained close and strong working relationship with teammates and management staff.
• Worked with development teams investigated and corrected software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.
• Involved in developing test methodologies, test plans and manual test cases for the application and prepared UAT test Plan.
• Created and executed SQL queries against Oracle database compared the results and analyzed discrepancies.
• Manually performed back end testing by writing SQL queries.
• Loaded data into Oracle using SQL loader and validated data.
• Performed database testing by passing PL/SQL queries and also executed the regression test cases before handed over to UAT.
• Communicated with Manager, Team lead daily for testing efforts and sent Status Reports as needed like Daily and Weekly.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Java, HTML, VBScript, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows XP, UNIX, MS Outlook.