SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT Professional with more than six years of experience specializing in QA Automation Engineer for multiple industry sectors such as financial, healthcare industries and telecommunication.
• Hands on experience in all phases of SDLC & STLC. Experienced working in different business domain to assure the quality of application.
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing business requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, RTM, writing and executing Test Cases, reporting and tracking defects, preparing test report and build test automation suite using Selenium WebDriver automation tool.
• Performed functional, System, Integration & Regression testing. Experienced in managing Defect Life Cycle using HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Developed automated scripts for Regression testing, debug and enhance scripts, run scripts, wrote user - defined functions etc.
• Using Java, Selenium WebDriver and TestNG. Sound knowledge on Core Java and OOP (Object Oriented Programming) Concepts (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation) and Exception Handling.
• Experienced in designing customized framework using Page Object Model (POM) pattern in Java using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Apache POI.
• Expert in automation script development using Java in Eclipse IDE using Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in creating Property files to store all object locators (xpath /css locator/name/id), file path, test site URL and use them in Selenium Framework.
• Experience in using Version Control Tools like GIT and GitHub. Configured Maven build tool for JAVA automation projects by managing POM project in Maven. Integrated Selenium and Jenkins and scheduled the execution of scripts to perform regression testing and integration testing.
• Experienced in Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on relational databases. Testing Web Service using SOAPUI. Developed test suite and data driven framework using SOAPUI Pro for Web Service validation.
• Hands on experience in various software development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall. Experienced in managing Agile Project by creating story/defect, assigning task and tracking defect using JIRA.
• Excellent problem solving, coordination, documentation and project planning skills. An effective communicator, committed team player, quick learner and rapid problem solver with coordination, commitment and a strong work ethic with the ability to quickly adapt to new environments and capable of working efficiently under pressure by managing multiple projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, SOAP UI, Jenkins.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Reporting Tools: MS Report, Crystal Reports

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux

Business Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Excel

Programming Languages: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Java, Java script, VB Script, XML, HTML, DHTML, PHP, T-SQL, SQL Plus, PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts to verify reliability, accuracy and compatibility of application
• Interacting with Business Analysts and Developers and participating in risk analysis and gap analysis based on the requirements
• Analyzing business flow of application as well as reviewing business manuals and requirement documents in order to summarize system specific business rules and other operating conditions
• Actively working in all levels of Agile development and Scrum process throughout the project
• Participating in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and coordinating and supporting end users
• Extensively using JIRA, ALM/Quality Center for bug tracking and test reporting
• Conducting various meetings and walkthroughs, discussing existing defects and providing test status update to the QA Manager.
• Designing and executing automated test scripts for functional, GUI and navigational testing to identify errors within the applications using Selenium WebDriver
• Cross browser testing of projects to support IE/Edge, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Designing and developing TestNG driven Page Object Model (POM) framework using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Apache POI
• Integrating Selenium and Jenkins to schedule automatic execution of scripts
• Configuring Maven build tool for JAVA automation projects by managing Maven project
• Creating custom Xpath for identifying dynamic objects and using them in Selenium
• Creating property files to store all object locators (Xpath/CSS locator/name/id), file path, test site URL etc. and utilize them in the Selenium Framework
• Performing Functionality, GUI, Security testing and assisting Unit and Integration testing
• Building and designing Automation Framework for different web-based applications using Page Object Model (POM) design pattern to reduce code usage for better maintenance
• Implementing Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts like Polymorphism and Encapsulation to ensure efficiency and scalability in automation Framework
• Developing test case in BDD environment using Gherkin language
• Developing framework for UAT testing using Cucumber, Java and Selenium WebDriver
• Performing Web Service testing using SOAPUI besides developing test suite and data driven framework using SOAPUI Pro for Web Service validation

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirement specification and System Requirements specification and involved in design, development and execution of manual and automation test scripts.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Case, Test Scripts as per Functional and Business requirement for System/Functional Test Specification.
• Performed System, Integration, Regression, Failover and Compatibility Testing
• Worked on agile software development environment where performed testing in each sprint.
• Participated in Sprint Analysis Meeting, Sprint Retrospective, Showcase and Daily Scrum
• Designed and developed TestNG driven Page Object Model (POM) framework using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Apache POI for Smoke Test Suite.
• Designed the Test Strategy for multiple projects, defect management using QC/ALM.
• Worked closely with product and project managers on the implementation of new projects and infrastructures including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change QA validation
• Used all types of SQL queries like select, insert, update, delete and joining multiple tables based on business requirement to conduct backend testing.
• Constantly involved in the team to adopt QA Testing Standards. Logged and Traced defects using HP Quality Center
• Analyzed defects or test results and deducted the chain of events leading to a failure.
• Involved and responsible for creating Daily and weekly status reports regarding the progress of testing process.

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan Design and Test case design based on the system requirements/Business requirements.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing for overnight builds and reported the critical issues to the developers.
• Validate data persistence using SQL command
• Coordinate the entire end-to- end testing and QA sign off efforts
• Written Manual Test Script in HP Quality Center and executed them.
• Involved in documenting and resolving testing issues in the testing environment.
• Involved in implementing QA methodology and Test Metrics.
• Involved in Backend Testing using complex SQL Query for data integrity.
• Involved in Integration testing and reported issues to management.
• Performed through Database functionality tests and verified the Business Logic
• Implementation by constructing and executing several SQL statements.
• Execute the transactions manually and verify the back-end functionalities and data exploitation.
• Constantly involved in the team to adopt QA Testing Standards. Logged and traced defects using HP Quality Center and communicated to the developers using bug reporting tools.
• Worked on Selenium for creating and executing test cases for functionality testing of a web app.
• Involved in defining test automation strategy and test scenarios, created automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium RC.
• Used Selenium Grid to test the compatibility of the tests across multiple servers to save time.
• Worked on White-Box server-side System level test cases using JUNIT.