SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in testing software life cycle activities: requirement analysis, test plan development and reviews, preparation of test estimates, test scenario creation, review of test cases, risk based prioritization, test case execution, tracking of test case execution and defect management and test progress reporting.
• Experience ranges from test case preparation, testing to effort estimation, status monitoring, reporting, smoke testing, functional testing, system testing, regression testing, coding, development and enhancement.
• Managing QA activities and defects backlog, working with cross functional teams for smooth product delivery.
• Experience in Manual as well as automated testing using tools like selenium and SOAP UI.
• Experience in application development, maintenance and support using ASP.NET (1.1/2.0/3.5/4 ), C#, Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005, ORACLE 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005/2008, HTML, JavaScript, XML, WCF, Web Services, Windows Services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology/Languages: ASP.Net, C#, Java, ADO.Net, HTML, XML, UML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports

Software/Products: Selenium, Soap UI, Bugzilla, Jira, Behat Framework, Pivotal Tracker, Version One, Test Track, TFS Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005, Visual Studio Team Suite, IIS, Toad, SQL Server Management Studio, Eclipse, Confluence

Version Control: SVN, Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, Surround SCM

Databases: Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008

Modeling Patterns/Concepts: UML, E - R diagrams and Normalization, Design Patterns, Datastructures

STLC model: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall model

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2003/NT, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Software Test Engineer (Visual Studio, C#)

Responsibilities:

• Developed validation plans, test plans, test cases and validation reports.
• Participated and facilitated audits.
• Performed validation and developed strategies to facilitate validation process.
• Reviewed SOPs and created validation documents in compliance with FDA.
• Lead and mentored teams with transition to Agile.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer (Visual Studio, C#, Agile)

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined QA process in conjunction with product manager.
• Collaborated with QA managers for defect triage and prioritization of bugs.
• Created test cases to test web applications as well as mobile apps for iPod for lululemon retail apps.
• Performed Functional, Regression and User interface testing.
• Mentored and lead team of junior QAs.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer (Visual Studio, C#, Spec flow, Agile, Selenium)

Responsibilities:

• Acted as scrum master for daily scrums.
• Worked with Product manager, developers and UX team for requirement clarifications.
• Wrote acceptance tests and spec-flow feature files for automation using selenium.
• Performed risk and root cause analysis for stories and defects.
• Acted as point of contact for all product related inquiries.
• Worked with QA managers for defect triage and prioritization of bugs.
• Performed Functional, Regression, User interface testing and responsive design checks.
• Continuous integration with teamcity and daily use of Visual studio for automation.

Confidential

Intermediate Quality Assurance Analyst (Drupal, PHP, Agile, Selenium, Behat)

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an agile environment to analyze requirements and create test cases to test web applications as well as mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and android devices.
• Created test scripts using Behat framework with selenium.
• Managed a team of junior QAs and intern.
• Provided product demos to client.
• Performed Functional, Regression, User interface testing and responsive design checks.
• Followed standard QA methodologies from test case creation to bug tracking and release of the product.
• Created Regression as well as User Acceptance test plans/test scripts.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst (Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Xpath)

Responsibilities:

• Followed agile software development life cycle to design, develop and create new test scripts to be integrated within the existing test suite.
• Worked with product managers and business analysts to understand requirements and translate them to test cases.
• User interface test automation using Selenium IDE and Back-end test automation using web services using SOAP UI.
• Assisted in development by fixing bugs.
• Continuous integration with anthill.
• Worked closely with the development team, business analysts, and the project manager daily.

Confidential

Systems Engineer ( ASP.Net, C#, WCF, XML, Sql Server, XML )

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, estimated and coded more than 2500 lines for a WCF web service using ASP.Net 2.0, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio for creating a test tool for testing different business functions exposed by the web service.
• Wrote test scripts and performed unit testing and system integration testing and reported bugs using test track.
• Resolved performance issues in the code during system integration testing.
• Executed the Test cases to perform functional testing, conducted regression testing on builds, identified software errors and interacted with developers to resolve the issues.
• End-to-end testing of the complete business process involving multiple applications.
• Completed 5 months of training program that lent exposure to various software development concepts and programming languages.