SUMMARY:

• Detail - oriented software tester with over 9 years’ success devising innovative and tailored work experience tackling changing business requirements and specifications within diverse industries.
• Advanced skill sets with leading-edge testing tools complemented by proven ability to assimilate and rapidly utilize emerging open source software automation testing technologies.
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Organized test review meetings, defect review meetings, walk through, training sessions to discuss requirements, test status, issues and open defects, retested defects and close defects.
• Extensive working experience in Cross Browser, Cross Platform, Security, Black box, Functionality, System, Unit, Integration, Front-End, GUI, Back-End, End-to-End, Compatibility, Regression, Performance, Load, Stress, UAT and Configuration testing.
• Experience in testing tools like HP (QTP, Quality Center, and LoadRunner), Rational Clear Quest, TOAD, Selenium WebDriver and with SoapUI on applications using Java, .Net and databases (SQL, Oracle, MS Access & DB2).
• Skilled in understanding business processes, analyzing and optimizing the process, defining scope of the project and converting business requirements into detailed test plans and test specifications. Ability to translate Use Cases into detailed Test Cases to ensure test coverage.
• Expertise in writing, maintaining and executing Test Strategies, Test procedures, Test plans, Test Cases, Test Results and generating software defect reports.
• Strong skills in the backend testing using SQL Queries on RDBMS SQL Server, MS Access and UNIX shell scripts, VB script and XML.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications developed in wide variety of environments (.net, mainframe. Java) viz., Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, work independently, establishes priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

System Development Life Cycle: Agile, Scrum, Hybrid (Agile Development Certified) Traditional Water Fall

Software QA Tests: Functional, User Interface, User Experience, Black-box, White-box, Unit, Back End Database Testing, API testing, System Integration, E2E (End to End), Smoke, Regression, Cross Browser, Compatibility, ETL, Load, Stress, Adhoc, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Non-Functional - Performance Testing

QA Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (QC) Testing Module (Resources, Test Plan & Test Lab) Defects Module, Microsoft Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server(TFS), JIRA Atlassian

QA Automation Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium Product suite, IDE, RC Server, WebDriver, Selenium Grid, ANT, MAVEN, SoapUI, HP LoadRunner, GIT,SVN, TFS, Eclipse, Visual Studio

Internet Tools: HTTPS, ODBC, JDBC, MS Site Server, TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, jQuery, Angular JS, AJAX, SOAP, REST, AS/400

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, Squirrel, SQL Client

Script and Language: Java, VBScript, Visual Basic, JavaScript, .NET, C++, ASP/ASP.NET, SQL, XML, HTML, XHTML, Hibernate 3.0

Environment: s: Windows, UNIX Sun Solaris, Linux (Red Hat), VMware, PAAS, SAAS, AS/400

Miscellaneous: Microsoft Office Communicator, Cisco, AnyConnect Secure Mobility, Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, WebEx, MS Office

Industry:: Financial, Mortgage, Govt,Telecom, Airlines

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Scale and distribute scripts across many environments.
• Create detailed test cases for functionality testing, web service testing and database validation.
• Create test data to cover functional testing
• Analyzed the stories(Requiremetns) and created test cases for each sprint.
• Created folder structure in HP ALM to differentiate between the sprints and sub folders for each of the stories
• Created test cases in Excel worksheets and export them to HP ALM.
• Performed System and Integration testing
• Performed End to End Testing (Originating loan to Funding Status.)
• Participated in daily defect triage meetings
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform backend validations.
• Interacted with end-users to help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Use the Web Service’s tool to send a request of Loan Number and receive the corresponding response from a web service to track the Approval / Data of the Loan.
• Involved in creating test data for customers with high assets and performed validations related to special pricing adjusters for preferred customers.

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Data mapping and validation Used Selenium’s key features to support test execution on multiple browser platforms.
• Generated, executed, scaled and distributed test scripts across different rules using Selenium Product Suite with Java language binding.
• Implemented mainstream software test automation tool / framework, adopting Selenium WebDriver and Selenium Standalone Server with Java language binding
• Continuous Integration (CI): Jenkins
• Successfully used Apache Maven as well as ANT for version control, build and test automation
• Successfully used ANT build tool to schedule test execution & report generation
• Played a significant role in the creation of use and test case documents to meet users' needs and validate environment setup in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) testing tool
• Created, Resolved and Administered Defects in JIRA tracking tool
• Create test data to cover functional testing, development testing, QA, and UAT testing needs using database query tool such as SQL Server 2008.
• Attending daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning/Kickoff, Story Grooming/Backlog, Sprint Review + Retrospective meetings and Daily Defect Triage Meetings
• Performed Integration, System, GUI, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Created Maven projects as well as repositories streamlining version controls for open source Jar files
• Used ANT build tool to manage & execute builds

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design test scenarios based on the Business case and requirements documentation for UAT using TFS 2012 and Visual Studio 2012
• Writing/Updating/Editing/Reviewing test strategy, test plans, test cases and test scripts based on diverse scenarios stipulated in Business Specification, Requirements and Configuration documents
• Create detailed test cases for functionality testing, web service testing and database validation.
• Create test data to cover functional testing, development testing, QA, and UAT testing needs using database query tool such as SQL Server 2008.
• Performing smoke test for the software.
• Collaborating with: Offshore teams, the Line of Business, developers, system engineers, build managers, configuration management teams to fix the defects.
• Attending daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning/Kickoff, Story Grooming/Backlog, Sprint Review + Retrospective meetings and Daily Defect Triage Meetings
• Performed Integration, System, GUI, UAT and Regression Testing.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Sr. Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Selenium Web driver used for maintain and running automated regression test script per iteration releases
• Reviewing, analyzing and attending the walkthroughs for Business Requirement Document, High Level Design & Low Level Design Documents.
• Writing/Updating/Editing/Reviewing test strategy, test plans, test cases and test scripts based on diverse scenarios stipulated in Business Specification, Requirements and Configuration documents to test the Decision Management AUS (Automated Underwriting System), Product & Pricing and Condition Management charter per business requirements’ configuration and specifications.
• Gap Analysis as well as data staging.
• Working on creating functional and integration End to End test cases based upon the requirements
• Performing web specific testing like Browser page testing, Application Testing and Security Testing.
• Working writing Automation Test Scripts in QTP following a hybrid framework constituting Key Word and Data Driven Framework (DDF) for test automation in QTP
• Performing clean load and deployment of applications under the SIT (System Integration Testing) and CIT (Component Integration Testing) test environment.
• Identifying defects, showstoppers, impediments, blockers and raised defects in the Defects module in QC.
• Working and communicating as well as collaborating with the Line of Business, developers, system engineers, build managers, configuration management teams to fix the defects.
• Performed Integration, System, GUI, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Testing XML documents for requests & appropriate responses using SoapUI tool.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the project team in an agile environment.
• Participate in daily standups, weekly and bi-weekly scrum meetings as a QA representative for the project together with technical teams and project stake holders.
• Gather functional specs and business requirements documents from different sources such as Rally, QC, project SharePoint site and analyze them before test planning.
• Provide detailed Test Plan with scope, deliverables, entry and exit criteria, test schedule, test execution and bug tracking mechanisms used.
• Design test scenarios based on the Business case and requirements documentation for UAT using QC 11.0
• Create detailed test cases for functionality testing, web service testing and database validation.
• Create test data to cover functional testing, development testing, QA, and UAT testing needs using database query tool such as SQL developer.
• Preform Functional, web service, UI, Integration, Usability, Compatibility and Security testing on the application using QC 11.0 and SOAPUI 4.5.5.
• Performed backend testing by writing test harness queries using SQL developer to ensure data validity and integrity.
• Perform testing in different phases of the project to ensure regression in cross-platform and operations environments.

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Written test strategy, test plans, test cases and test scripts based on diverse scenarios to test the application system qualification testing (SQT) per requirements and specifications.
• Working in Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and JUnit framework for test automation in SQT
• Performed smoke test for the software under tests.
• Performed clean load and deployment of applications under the test environment.
• Identified defects, impediments, blockers and reported defects in Jira
• Worked towards automating testing of Web Services using SoapUI.
• Worked with the Lead System Engineers (LSEs), Build Integration as well as Configuration Management team to test the deployment and clean installation of application under test (AUT) in PaaS (Platform as service) node in VMWare which comprises the CANES (Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System) ACS server and Linux Operating system.
• Created wiki documenting the procedure of a clean deployment of the application in SQT (Software Quality Testing) environment
• Working in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, HTTP/XML adopting agile software development practices.
• Working in automated build, continuous build integration(Jenkins), version control systems(GIT), automated deployment scaling application architectures.

Confidential, Dedham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Written test plans, test cases and test scripts based on diverse scenarios to test the application function per requirements and specifications stipulated in use cases.
• Written SQL queries for back end testing.
• Used Squirrel SQL Client to query data.
• Supported systems analysis
• Supported and worked on streamlining systems architecture
• Provided logistics, equipment and technology stack support
• Facilitated and participated in test team meeting for requirements and specifications for Loss Mitigation Work Station (LMWS) utilizing Dynamic Object Oriented Requirement Systems (DOORS).
• Wrote simple to complex SQL queries to verify the database tables for the data inserted from the GUI.
• Improved the Synchronization of the scripts by writing appropriate function.