SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation Processes in the IT industry including, Client/Server , Web - based Applications with proficiency in both Manual and Automation testing.
• Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Bug/Defect Life Cycle and QA Life Cycle .
• Well versed in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall models .
• Extensive working experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), attended Sprint Planning and Sprint Grooming meeting to analyze the Sprint Backlog items.
• Experienced with Automating Smoke Test , Functional Test and Regression test using UFT with VB Script and exposure to Selenium with Java
• Professional Experience in Health Care , Finance applications .
• Experienced in automation Outlook and Application Object Model (AOM).
• Extensively used Quality Center / ALM for test planning , bug tracking, and reporting.
• Automation scripts execution through ALM , updating test results and uploading relevant files/screenshots back to ALM .
• Experienced in Test Automation framework design , development and expert in developing Data Driven , Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks in Quick Test Professional /UFT/QTP and Unified Functional Testing (QTP and UFT).
• Proficient in creating an Automation script from scratch.
• Developed and executed test automation scripts using Quick Test Professional and Unified Functional Testing with Parallel Execution in VM (Virtual Machine) .
• Experienced in developing VB Script Functions and maintaining Function Libraries in QTP/UFT .
• Proficient in VB Script, developed using Descriptive programming and working with shared and local Object repositories in UFT / QTP .
• Experienced in Test Cases Preparation, Execution, Traceability matrix, Bug analysis and Reporting using HP Quality Center.
• Experienced with automated API/Web-Services , backend testing, UI/front testing through UFT/QTP.
• Experience with cross-browser compatibility testing using various browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera , and Safari .
• Excellent knowledge of writing unique XPath using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
• Strong skills in backend testing using SQL Queries on Oracle and SQL Server.
• Experienced in testing REST , SOAP
• Developed Data Driven Frameworks, Keyword Driven Frameworks, and Hybrid Frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills, time management skills, self-motivated team member .
• Managed and reviewed Hadoop log files.
• Shared responsibilities for administration of Hadoop .
• Experience designing, reviewing, implementing and optimizing data transformation processes in the Hadoop
• Capable of extracting data from an existing database , Web sources or APIs .
• Loaded the aggregate data into a relational database for reporting, dash boarding and ad-hoc analyses , which revealed ways to lower operating costs and offset the rising cost of programming.

SKILLS :

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Selenium, Postman

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, JIRA, Rally

Operating Systems: Windows 2007/Vista/7/8/10, Linux, Mac OS

Database: Oracle, My SQL, SQL Server

Languages: VBScript, CSS, XML, HTML, SQL, Java

Framework: Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test scripts based on the User stories as specified by the Business side and Requirement document.
• Worked in Agile (Scrum) environments
• Participated in Daily Scrum, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retrospective and Demo meetings.
• Extensively used Quality Center / ALM for test planning, bug tracking, and reporting.
• Developed and Executed Manual test cases for Functional testing of various modules of the application.
• Created and maintained regression scripts for automated testing using ALM .
• Created Hybrid Framework from scratch.
• Performed Smoke , Functional , and Regression testing.
• Worked with Object Repository, Object Identification , Set Environment variables , recovery scenario.
• Performed data accuracy, data validation, and data integrity testing by querying the database using SQL queries to check the data table on the server.
• Used Regex Pattern , Error Handling and conditional loops to enhance the automation scripts.
• Used XPath and DOM to work with dynamic and static objects in UFT .
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for the database.
• Involved in testing with REST/SOAP Web Services.
• Created entire architecture for backend testing internal and third-party API using SOAP UI.
• Gave demo of the working product at the end of the release cycle to development team, Business team and stakeholders.
• Analyzed and communicated test results to management.
• Made recommendations for product improvements wherever necessary.
• Participated in Hadoop training and development as part of a cross-training program.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analyzing Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document(URD).
• Developed Test Plan , Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative testing requirements.
• Performed bug tracking, reporting defects in JIRA , and communicate with the development team to prioritize the bug fixes.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to verify and validate the exact targets for email and direct mail campaigns.
• Designed and Developed Hybrid Framework in UFT to perform automation testing for UAT.
• Created user-defined functions with VB Script and Descriptive Programming in UFT to increase the reusability and maintainability of the test automation framework.
• Used Regular Expressions in identifying objects with varying names and titles every time a test is run in UFT.
• Performed Data Driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Framework using UFT and managing data in QC.
• Executed scripts in QA and UAT Environment
• Performed Regression Testing using UFT.