SUMMARY:

• Around 3 years of experience as Confidential Software Quality Assurance specialist in the financial industry.
• Testing techniques: white box, black box.
• Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile (Scrum).
• Strong knowledge on SDLC life cycles.
• Experience with financial instruments: Transactions, Gift cards.
• Expertise in creating test strategy, test plan, test scenario, designing manual test cases, test execution, test result analysis, test summary report, defect logging and reporting, defect analysis and requirement traceability matrix for defined business processes.
• Expertise in System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing on web apps in Financial domain.
• Proficiency of working with several financial tools and banking applications and strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Profound in working with various test & defect tracking tools - HP Quality Center/ALM, Jira, RTC and Confluence.
• Strong experience in working with business users for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and acting as SME between the business and project teams, generating and communicating status report for various stake holders.
• Ability to collaborate with testers, developers, project managers and other team members in testing complex projects.
• Experience with guiding and coordinating QA efforts with offshore resources.
• Ability to work methodically in Confidential fast-paced, deadline driven environments.
• Confidential quick learner, excellent team member and mentor with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Scrum, V-Model, Waterfall

Testing and Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Confluence, WSC calculator, CA Workload Control Center

Languages: Java, SQL

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/2000/XP/VISTA/ 7, UNIX

Others: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Camtasia, SnagIt

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Dover, NH

Responsibilities:

• Writing and modifying the automation test scripts according to requirement changes for every release using Selenium.
• Responsible to respond to immediate production issues, investigating fixes needed with developers and business and create test cases to test the changes made for immediate deployment in production.
• Responsibilities include Identification and implementation of optimization techniques for each test phase starting from requirement analysis phase to test closure phase. He is also responsible for scheduling defect triage calls to get Confidential quick turnaround time for the business critical defects.
• Closely worked with Project Manager and other leads to ensure project alignment and provide QA estimates on future work.
• Coordinated functional, regression, performance, downstream and user acceptance test efforts.
• Responsible in executing the smoke tests and developed an Automation strategy for IMO applications.
• Involved in Web Services Testing using READY API (SOAPUI NG PRO).
• Importing requirements, create test cases, validate requirements with test cases and generate reports using Quality Center
• Manage the testing process, schedule batch tests, log and track defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in daily meeting with Team members to keep track of defects and provided update on testing progress to the Team Lead.
• Responsible for creating Test Cases in Quality Center and execution of the same for assigned modules.
• Created defects to keep track of issues or software bugs which breaks the functionality or doesn’t meet the requirements.
• Involved in retesting the fixed defects and keep track of defects through defect life cycle.
• Involved in SOAP and Restful web services using READY API.
• Performed various types of assertions and Generated Reports Using the tool READY API.
• Troubleshooting the automation scenario issues and updating the script.
• Tests are triggered using Testrunner TestNG and reports are generated using Extent Reporting.
• Working on manual testing and build verification testing.
• Worked on Data driven automation, was also involved in covering different scenarios for different set of data.
• Created manual Test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.
• Written Data Driven test cases and Analyzed test results in TestNG reports.
• Data verification and data integration test was done using SQL queries.
• Participated regularly in walkthroughs and review meetings with PM, Project Architect and development teams.
• Gathering business requirements from the Business team and generating system workflows Involved in creating the targeted questionnaire for SMEs and Business users for elaborating requirements.

Environment: Win7, Selenium, SQL Server, XML, JAVA, JIRA, Test Plans, LISA, End to End Testing, Jenkins, Page Object, Page Factory, Jira, slf4 logger, Data Driven, HP ALM, SOAP UI, Regression Testing, Unit testing, TestNG.

SDET

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Writing and modifying the automation test scripts according to requirement changes for every release using Selenium.
• Used TestNG as Confidential test runner for running complete test suite (Test Case’s).
• Created scripts and tested in Eclipse IDE.
• Troubleshooting the automation scenario issues and updating the script.
• Tests are triggered using Testrunner TestNG and reports are generated using Extent Reporting.
• Working on manual testing and build verification testing.
• Worked on Data driven automation, was also involved in covering different scenarios for different set of data.
• Created manual Test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.
• Re architect Confidential legacy SVN repository from pure script dependency and no representation of releases to clear direction regarding where code resides and the difference between releases.
• Used Java to automate Scripts in Web Application.
• Followed in Page Object Design Pattern for writing test cases in TestNG.
• Experience in identifying object locators and creating PageFactory for all the pages.
• Reviewing Business Requirements and functional specification document.
• Tracked bugs using Quality Center/ALM and performed Regression Testing of the entire application once the bugs are fixed.
• Performed Cross Browser testing to run scripts in various Browsers(Google, Firfox)
• Performs Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance testing, and End to End Testing.
• Contribute to the functional automation suite for project features for sanity, smoke, and regression runs using Java and Selenium. Perform failure analysis of the test runs and fixing failed scripts.
• Have built Confidential test automation framework based on Page Object Model, TestNG and Selenium Webdriver.
• Written Data Driven test cases and Analyzed test results in TestNG reports.
• Data verification and data integration test was done using SQL queries.
• Participated regularly in walkthroughs and review meetings with PM, Project Architect and development teams.
• Gathering business requirements from the Business team and generating system workflows Involved in creating the targeted questionnaire for SMEs and Business users for elaborating requirements.

Environment: Win7, Selenium, SQL Server, XML, JAVA, JIRA, Test Plans, LISA, End to End Testing, Jenkins, Page Object, Page Factory, Jira, slf4 logger, Data Driven, HP ALM, SOAP UI, Regression Testing, Unit testing, TestNG.

SDET

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Writing and modifying the automation test scripts according to requirement changes for every release using Selenium.
• Running the scripts for validation and stabilization, analyzing the errors and issues.
• Running performance timings on environments and reporting about the time laggings based on log reports using WARP tool.
• Created SOAP UI Scripts for the Web Services testing.
• Created test scripts using VB Script and by Creating Checkpoints, Synchronization points and Output values. Enhanced the test scripts if necessary.
• Troubleshooting the automation scenario issues and updating the script.
• Running and updating manual comments in Scenario Builder.
• Working on manual testing and build verification testing.
• Created manual Test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.
• Perform responsibilities of developing test scripts by using SOA test tools and responsible for estimating required resource and components for SOA testing
• Test case automation using Cucumber test automation tool and Gherkin scripting language.
• Executed acceptance criteria for epics and stories using the Gherkin domain specific language for both mobile and web platforms.
• Involved in Unit Testing using JAVA.
• Worked on distributed test automation execution on different environment as part of Continuous Integration Process using Selenium Grid and Jenkins.
• Reviewing Business Requirements and functional specification document.
• Tracked bugs using Quality Center/ALM and performed Regression Testing of
• The entire application once the bugs are fixed.
• Responsible for performing regression testing on environments to ensure that it is complete and that it provides acceptable coverage of business critical functionality.
• Performs Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing.
• Proactively leading analysis to identify, evaluate and resolve complex problems during testing.
• Involved in creating test strategy,Expertise in developing Test Plans and Test Cases based upon the business requirements.
• Validated web services manually and through automation using SOAP UI.
• Data verification and data integration test was done using SQL queries.
• Written shell scripts to invoke the SQL Loader to load the data into oracle DB from flat files using control files.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Involved in creating oracle SQL tables and PL/SQL procedures.
• Performed MobileTesting and Automated Mobile Simulator using Selenium.
• Extensively worked on creating the XML's for DDS testing and responsible for validating the XML file based on the XSD.

Environment: Win7, Selenium, SQL Server, Oracle, XML, SOA testing, JAVA, J2E, Gherkin scripting language, JIRA, WARP, Shell Scripting, Visual Studio2010, Test Plans, Cucumber, Quality Centre, UFT, LISA, End to End Testing, Jenkins, HP ALM, UAT, Coded UI, C#, SOAP UI, MobileTesting, VB Script, Regression Testing, T-SQL, TestNG.