PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ Years Seasoned Quality Assurance Specialist with experience in manual and automation testing and application lifecycle management for Desktop, web, client/server, n - tier architecture, mobile applications and web services testing and test management.
• Familiar with SDLC and STLC having worked through full lifecycle implementations.
• Strong understanding of various methodologies including Agile / Scrum / Kanban, Waterfall, RUP, V Model, BDD, TDD.
• Domain knowledge across multiple industries - Airline, Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Government, Insurance and Telecom
• Various Testing experience - Black Box / Functional, regression, system, end-to-end, performance, mobile, smoke, sanity, SOA Testing, System Integration, Web services Testing,
• Automation Experience includes building frameworks, writing scripts/code, and batch processing.
• Proficient in using Test Lifecycle & Test Management tools Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Center (QC).
• Expert in Test Planning, Test cycle estimation and Test strategy document creation and defining SQA processes.
• Adept Programmer in Web Development and designed web pages using HTML, CSS.
• Working knowledge of using QTP, Selenium for testing automation.
• Used gems like Page-Object, RSpec, water-launcher, Cucumber, RAutomation, Nokogiri, simple-spreadsheet, copy paste, roo, business-time, holidays etc. and worked with reading input from different file formats like EXCEL, CSV to YAML.
• Extensively created and executed SQL queries in Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL tables in order to validate data at the back end
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Business intelligence tools for various applications of ETL, Reporting, Data mining, Data Warehousing, and Analysis of data.
• Familiarity with Data modeling Tools like MySQL workbench, Erwin
• Understanding Of relational database concepts (RDBMS) and experience in query construction using SQL.
• Expertise on J2ee IDEs Eclipse and spring tool suite (STS)
• Good knowledge of using Spring IOC and Spring MVC
• Good knowledge of consuming as well as exposing JAX-WS web services and JAX-RS rest web services.
• Expertise on JUnit, Easy Mock for unit testing, SOAPUI for web services Testing, Selenium, QTP, Cucumber for automation testing.
• Good understanding of service delivery and service support process and functions.
• Knowledge of Web Application Security and Top 10 OWASP attacks
• Good understanding of Authentication & Authorization of WEB Applications
• Better understanding on Single Sign-On (SSO), SSL encryption technologies
• Good Analytical, Problem Solving, Communication & Strong Leadership skills
• Open to new ideas with a strong desire to expand knowledge of Systems and Processes
• Self-motivated and also worked in a technically challenging environment and excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: MS Project, MS SharePoint, HP Service Manager 7.x (Incident management, Change Management, Problem Management), Maven

Testing / QA: Quality Center (QC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Test Professional (QTP), Unified Functional Tester (UFT), Selenium, Bugzilla, JIRA, Cucumber, Rational ClearQuest, Trac, SoapUI, Junit,, EasyMock

Version Control: Subversion, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Programming: Java, C#, C, C++, C#, VB, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, XML, CSS, Jquery, Eclipse

Configuration Management Tools: Rational Clear Case, SVN

Application / Web servers: Apache, Tomcat, Tcserver

Integration/CI: Hudson, Jenkins

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL MongoDB, Access, Toad.

ERP: SAP, Oracle.

Business Intelligence: Splunk, Business Object, Tableaux, QlikView

Operating Systems: Windows, AS400/mainframe, VMWare

Office Suites & Other: MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat

Methodologies: Agile / Scrum / Kanban, Waterfall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended several walkthrough meetings with the Business Analysts, Project Manager and developers and gather Metrics, Source, Transformation and Reporting Requirements.
• Developed Various Test Cases for SAP APO DP and Execute Test Cases and Record the Test Results.
• Performed regression testing using Microstrategy Integrity Manager for the correctness of SQL and the Result set after migrations using Object Manager or Project Merge.
• Involved in writing scripts for the Microstrategy reports for the UAT using Data-Driven methodology using QTP.
• Performed Load Testing on the Clustered I-Server using Microstrategy web intelligence for the optimal break load analysis.
• Involved in Requirement gathering, Source System analysis, warehouse design.
• Extensively involved in Enterprise Manager Usage, Session, and Product Usability reports and based on the input developed scripts to identify the critical reports for the baseline testing for various fields.
• Expertise in Star Schema, Snowflake schema Data models, and Data Warehouse concepts.
• Prepared SQL scripts based on the requirements and test the warehouse data loaded by Informatica.
• Execution of the test scenarios and scripts and review of product functionality using Microstrategy Reporting Tool.
• Preparation of Functional Test Plan and writing actual Test Cases Running the test scripts using Test Director.
• Worked with offshore team members as Coordinator.
• Created Test Plans which describes the features and functions to be tested.

Environment: Oracle 9i, Excel, Microstrategy, SAP, TOAD, PL/SQL, QTP8.2, Test Director.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with teams to convert Business Requirements into Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Interacted with development teams to ensure applications met requirements, business rules, and high quality and SDLC standards. Involved with testing team to plan and implement testing efforts
• Analyzed system requirements, developed & executed detailed Test plans, Test cases, and Test Scripts.
• Developed test plans, cases, resource plans, reports and related schedules for all existing applications.
• Coordinated with product management teams in an agile environment to develop comprehensive test cases for web-based applications.
• Experienced in different types of testing such as Functional, Regression, Integration, System, (UAT) on the application.
• Automation testing using selenium web driver.
• Behavior-driven development using cucumber,junit and selenium.
• Experience in Web service testing Data migration testing, System testing, functional testing, support UAT testing, turning data into information.
• Executed Test cases manually and reported defects in Quality center.
• Creating SQL statements, validating test case results using SQL Queries.
• Performed Web Service testing with SOAP UI.
• Executed the test cases manually and used test automation as necessary.
• Developed automation test scripts using JUnit framework and Selenium Web driver.
• Involved in creating and executing test cases for different browsers on various versions of IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome using Add-On like Firebug using Selenium.
• Performed Regression testing for new build and every modification in the application using Selenium web driver in eclipse.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement Request issues.
• Continuous Integration of Build, Deploy and Test using Jenkins
• Prepared traceability matrix for requirements coverage to ensure quality and completeness.

Environment: Java, JUnit, Webservices, XML, HTML, Excel, Oracle, TOAD, SoapUI, Selenium web driver, Eclipse, Quality Center, JIRA.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Quality Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in gathering requirements and creating test plan documents for more than 5 maintenance applications
• Developed and modified SQL validation scripts
• Performed front-end/GUI and functionality testing.
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, backend functionality and performed data-driven testing on the applications inserting variable data using Selenium web driver
• Used Quality Center to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing, as well as, organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries to access the main database.
• Modified Test Scripts based on new requirements during development phases.
• Interacted with developers in fixing the bugs and retested the application and reported the issues.
• Involved in performing Black box Testing.
• Involved in-group meetings with users and interacted with them for changes in applications.
• Used Quality Center, for test planning.
• Prepared weekly status reports.
• Developed Test Execution Matrices during the test cycle
• Reviewing the test scripts for report fixes, new reports and to verify that issues were sufficiently tested and documented.
• Created and executed test plans that improved data warehouse report quality using Word, Excel, and Access. Manually tested Oracle Application forms and reports
• Performed Beta Testing (UAT) to satisfy the end user requirements.
• Developed SQL scripts to verify the database transactions.
• Extensive experience in testing applications implemented in .NET, XML, HTM, SOAP.

Environment: Trac, Selenium web driver, NET, Crystal Reports, Delphi, HTML, SQL Server, UNIX, Win XP.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing Test Plan as per Business Specifications.
• Made key decisions on the test automation approach and updated the properties file as per the coverage conditions.
• Maintained requirements traceability matrix for automation Testing Results within ALM/Quality Center projects.
• Revamped the role of ALM/Quality Center in the reporting and invocation of the UFT Test plans, Test Lab Test Sets in Test case execution of UFT Test scripts required for testing.
• Involved in automation of Test Cases using iTKO Lisa Tool.
• Created custom self-documenting and scripting reporting function for automated preparation of Test summary reports via ALM/Quality Center after every shakeout and submitted it to the managers.
• Created Automated SQL Validation scripts for backend validation using dynamic SQL Join scripts.
• Enhanced the existing automation scripts to better functional coverage and scenarios to performance tune and add self-handling exception criteria using UFT.
• Created custom Keywords invoking function/subroutine developed with overridden methods to allow for self-documenting code and auto-documenting test scripts using custom QTP libraries for existing test case.
• Developed and maintained Functional Libraries, Object repositories and Descriptive programming techniques in automation testing.
• Developed automated test scripts using UFT for functional and regression testing for data synchronization ensuring pub/sub model verification.
• Created reusable actions using UFT for existing test case request-response web services for enterprise integration.
• Architected and created Virtualization Environment for Upgrading and configuring of the HP Functional Testing Suite creating a virtual test lab for UFT functional testing with multiple scripts running simultaneously.
• Developed both Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework to automate regression test Scripts through UFT.
• Upgraded patches, versions and test scripts on the latest version of UFT and vice versa for latest HP libraries and add-ins to keep Automation as versatile as possible.
• Involved in testing jobs in UNIX server and verifying file formats.

Environment: ALM/Quality center, UFT/QTP, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Office, Java, VB.Net, JavaScript, XML, VBScript, Sun Solaris, Windows.

Confidential, Bensenville, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Detailed experience with the AMDOCS CRM Application, on the telecom domain in creating the data required for testing the application which is a Java Application.
• Experience with User Acceptance testing, Functional, System and Regression Testing techniques.
• Followed the Agile Methodology thoroughly as the requirements are frequently added according to the present Marketing Strategy.
• Comprehensive knowledge of telecommunications, including ISDN,SONET, and ATM.
• Good Knowledge of Source Data Environments: TIRKS, BAAIS, and IVAPP.
• Thorough experience with the SQL Database and TOAD as the backend. Executed the SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the Database relating to the different environments.
• Exposure towards the Batch Processing testing including ETL jobs.
• Developed Test plans and accordingly created Test scenarios and Test cases in a detail.
• Performed Integration Testing to test the different screens within the application and also integration with the application and Data Base.
• Executed the test cases and used the Trac to log defects, retested when the code fix has been done.
• Worked with the real Pharmacy stores to understand the application and get the real-time experience to understand the production issues.
• Automated test cases using selenium web driver.
• Introduced to all the newest applications from multiple releases and tested all the application requirements from the older to the newest versions, to understand the Business requirements before reaching the Market.
• Worked with the real-time modules related used for production environments in latest releases.
• Exposure to Enterprise Product Catalogue to configure products for use by CSRs in call centers.
• Actively involved in all the meetings and communicated well with the team and worked as a good team player.

Environment: Trac, Selenium Web driver, TOAD, SQL Developer, VB, UNIX, HTML, XML, Oracle, Windows NT.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plan, Test Cases by analyzing Business Requirement Document.
• Analyzed Software and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Responsible for creating Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Managed a team of 11 members
• Gathered requirements from Users, tracked the minutes of the meeting and updated in the SharePoint with the requirements and the business rules.
• Performed Smoke testing for every new build, Positive testing, Negative testing, Regression Testing Configuration testing, Performance Testing, Security testing, Integration testing and UAT.
• Manually tested modules for compliance with functional requirements.
• Updated the Test Scripts for Regression build based on the enhancements to the application.
• Conducted Business, Functional, User Acceptance and Usability testing.
• Validated the process of Application manually whether the application is get approved when the consumer directly submits an application for an Insurance plan.
• Written and executing manual test cases.
• Validated XML and 824 files based on the Data captured from the Application.
• Reported and managed issues through a formal bug tracking system.
• Logged the defects in Clear Quest and keeping track of the Defect throughout its life cycle.
• Assigning, reporting and tracking of defects making sure that the Defects are prioritized based on the severity of the Defect.
• Involving in QA team meeting and bug tracking meetings.
• Proactively interacted with Business Analysts and Developers leads regarding testing status and defect triage.
• Wrote SQL queries for backend verification and validation using several SQL statements and joins.
• Validated different feeds in the mainframe application and verified the actual results in the database.
• Verified the data between GUI and database are reflected correctly.
• Extensively involved in validating the Business Rules for the different modules.
• Performing Integration testing of Special programs like 2013 and 2014 flows of the application.

Environment: ASP. Net, JBoss, EBS, VB.Net, C, C++, Agile Methodology, and Share point, SQL 11, Clear Quest, Windows XP/Vista.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA automation Engineer Selenium

Responsibilities:

• Manage the team size of 7.
• Creation of Test strategy for automation and manual testing
• Assigning task to team members and reporting the work progress to Product owner/ Scrum Master/ QA Manager
• Review of the test cases created by the team.
• Review of the automation test scripts.
• Understanding table structure and creating test data
• Automated regression test cases and positive scenarios in Selenium web driver C#.
• Defect management using Microsoft test Manager 2010
• Validation of concept before implementation (Visualization and interlinking)
• Validation of functionality changes

Environment: Windows XP, VSTS, DOT NET, MVC 3, SQL- Server 2008, Selenium web driver C#

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in all phases of the testing lifecycle (Design, Planning, Development, and Results).
• Coordinated with Development and Business team to develop high-level Business and Technical documents.
• Design Test Plan and test strategies based on high-level business and technical documents.
• Implemented Standardized and Unified process throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Conducted Database Schema Testing, Software Procedure Testing and Trigger Tests using SQL queries.
• Wrote complex SQL Queries using Joins and Sub-Queries to test the reports generated by the different modules.
• Written Unit, Integration and System Test cases using HP Quality Centre from Functional, Technical and other high-level design documents.
• Performed both manual and automated testing.
• Manually Conducted Positive and Negative testing.
• Extensively involved in using HP Quick test professional to perform Manual and Automation testing on the UAT.
• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing of the application manually after each build.
• Performed back-end testing and verified the data between GUI and database are reflected correctly.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Used QC for the reporting and tracking of defects.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Microsoft Excel, Oracle, LINUX, MySQL.