SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of Experience in Quality Assurance of applications in Telecommunication/Media industry. Testing of various web applications and device testing on iPad.
• Excellent experience and knowledge in defining test strategies, test planning, creating test cases, testing, defect reporting and creating test procedure documents.
• Hands - On experience in test automation using Selenium Webdriver with programming languages Java and Python.
• Expertise in testing web applications on desktop and iPad.
• Hands-On experience in Selenium, Jenkins and ATF reporter for automation testing.
• Experienced on Automated Testing using JAVA, Selenium Web Driver.
• Extensive experience in HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Selenium, SOAP UI, API, FTP.
• Participated in GUI testing, functionality testing, system testing, unit testing, integrated testing, performance testing and regression testing of client/server and web applications.
• Experienced with Jira Agile to track Scrum based projects.
• Automating sprint stories and important business scenarios using Java, Selenium Web Driver. Working closely with developers and product owners to automate test cases.
• Experience in SOA, Web Services, SOAP UI, REST, WSDL, Web API, technologies.
• Expertise in locating the web elements using XPath and CSS.
• Extensive experience in automation testing tools like Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/GRID.
• Experience in testing on LINUX, UNIX, Mac OS X and multiple Microsoft windows environments.
• Experience in working on Digital Phone Order Management, Intelligent Home Security Systems, Employee Performance Management System and Employee Management System.
• Expert on Billing Systems ICOMS (Netcracker) and ACP (CSG) -> 5 years’ experience
• Good domain knowledge and experience on various provisioning systems - Broadband Provisioning System, CLECs/ILECs and provisioning gateways
• Hands on experience in HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, TFS, Soap UI, Altova XMLspy, TOAD, SSMS, WebEx
• Strong experience of working in Waterfall (4 years) and Agile (4 years) methodologies
• Planning Test Strategy
• Identifying and designing test scenarios, test scripts and test cases
• Test execution and Defect reporting
• Tracking test schedule and Test Status reporting
• Managing Key Learnings and efficient release management
• Automation of Regression scenarios in Selenium Webdriver
• Ensure QA process is documented, communicated and is adequate to meet SLAs
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements and creating thorough Test Plans along with creating Test Strategy document for the Release
• Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements, working with the project Business Analyst to ensure all requirements are tested
• Hold test plan and test script review sessions with primary stakeholders
• Executing Smoke Tests prior to accepting builds and running Sanity tests prior to starting Functional Test Execution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain: Telecommunication, Media

Programming Languages: C, Java/J2EE, Python, SQL

Operating System: Windows, iOS

Tools: /DB: SQL*PLUS, Toad 9.5, Altova XMLspy, SOAP UI, WinSCP

Test Management: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, TFS, BugZilla, Mystropedia

Test Automation: Selenium, Jenkins, ATF Reporter

Types of Testing: Functional, Systems Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Automation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Senior QA - Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing & understanding of the user stories and requirements.
• Defining test plans and project LOEs (Level of Estimation).
• Writing functional test scenarios based on the requirements, involving corner cases & negative scenarios.
• Functional testing of all the features of tech ops applications.
• Planning test case execution activities.
• Automation of regression test cases with Selenium Webdriver (JAVA)
• Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse IDE
• Performed web services testing with SOAP UI by validating request and response for XML, JSON files
• Automated 200+ test cases in Firefox, Chrome and IE browsers
• Daily interaction with customer and stakeholders regarding project deadlines, test planning & execution and bug scrub.
• Performing sanity testing on software releases.
• Providing daily reporting on all test activities.
• Defect reporting, tracking and follow up.
• Updating and managing JIRA tracking boards for all the active stories in QA.
• Actively participating in improving test and scrum practices in agile model.
• Representing test team in Sprint planning for all the applications under test.
• Promoted to lead the testing for four scrum teams

Environment: JIRA, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Confluence (real time reporting), ICOMS, Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse, Java, HTML

Confidential, NJ

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing & understanding of the requirement documents.
• Writing quality test cases based on the requirements involving corner cases & negative scenarios.
• Taking complete responsibility of planning the test case execution activities and assigning the test cases.
• Expert in creating targeted regression.
• One to one interaction with the end Customer involving project deadlines, planning & execution and bug scrub, ensuring that product is delivered with utmost quality.
• Performing smoke testing on every new software build released.
• Provide daily reporting on all test activities.
• Created defects with complete details including logs, screenshots.
• Took initiative to participate in defect calls with development team and providing inputs about the reproducibility, criticality of the bugs.
• Worked on fields issues reported by customer and supported the team in resolving and closing the issue.
• Trained new joiners in the team and help them quickly come to speed.
• Appreciation for test reporting during different phases of testing.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Altova XMLSpy, SOAP UI

Confidential

Test Engineer and Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing order management system and peripheral systems such as order entry, gateways, provisioning system, CLEC gateways, network inventory management
• Requirement analysis, test planning, test execution, defect reporting
• Defect analysis, tracking and debugging
• Backend data testing using SQL queries
• Joint testing with 3rd party vendor CLECs - Sprint, Neustar
• Successfully handled and lead TWC’s Go It Alone initiative
• Coordination with client to carry out test process and defect resolution.
• Provided solutions for defect fix
• Task allocation to various team members and tracking the productivity of the team
• Root cause analysis of defects/production issues
• Support to client for major build and software release
• Daily Task Planning, Creating, Reviewing and reporting test reports to client
• Create and update test document, knowledge management documents and transition plan
• Developed an automation tool using LoadRunner to automation the order entry process

Environment: HP Quality Center, Altova XMLSpy, LoadRunner, WinSCP, SOAP UI, TOAD, SQL

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed XML parsing module
• Developed XML injection and reception module
• Developed a reporting tool which creates an HTML file at the end of each run stating passed and failed test cases
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve and process data from backend database
• Provided solutions to upgrade the automation tool to Sprint framework
• Created M&P document for tool usage

Environment: Altova XMLSpy, SOAP UI, TOAD, Eclipse, Java, SQL

Confidential

Systems Engineer Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Generic training on programming fundamentals, object oriented programming concepts, data structure and files, Relational Database Model using Oracle
• Mainframe training on COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2
• JAVA training on Basics of core java. J2EE with Persistence using JPA and Introduction of Spring Framework, Web designing using HTML/CSS

Environment: TOAD, Eclipse, Java, SQL