SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of immense experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in testing Client - server applications as well as Web-based applications.
• Strong experience in creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Setup of Test environments and Test Data in AS/400 and IBM mainframes systems.
• Proficient use of the Quality Center and Test Director to manage the software testing process.
• Good exposure to various bug tracking tools, such as BUGZILLA, JIRA, etc.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression and Black Box testing and having good idea on Whitebox testing.
• Experienced in all stages of testing, installation testing, smoke testing, regression testing, new feature testing, integration testing, security testing, browser testing, backend testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, GUI testing, configuration testing, and system testing and worked in Normalization support.
• Experience in Participation and driving of concept commit,execute commit,BRD reviews,FSD reviews,TDD reviews,Test scenarios review and Test cases review.
• Experience with end users to supporting UAT testing.
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Experience in using TOAD to access databases in order to retrieve data in the process of Backend testing.
• Fairly good knowledge testing the applications on multiple browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome, etc) for the purpose of Browser-compatibility testing.
• Experience with Agile Software methodologies.
• Proficient with tools such as MS Office, Visual Source Safe and CVS.
• Experience with testing on UNIX and LINUX environments.
• Experience in Testing Database Applications of RDBMS in Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server and MS Access.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Tester

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the smooth functioning of all ecommerce activities of the organization (eReceipts and eMarketing)
• Implemented automated testing framework using PySpark to validate the target system data in Hadoop
• Responsible for analyzing business, functional and IT requirement documents and prepare complete Test Plans including system test plan, integration test plan, QA project plans and resource planning and allocation.
• Prepared Test Plan, test Cases, Test scripts and Test Metrics for the application as well as for the database verification based on the functional requirements, portal redesigned and test specs.
• Used BDD with Cucumber, Java and created feature files with scenario and scenario outline.
• Involved in performing Automation testing with emulators & IOS Simulators and Mobile Application testing using Appium. Also tested scenarios on real - time devices with automation scripts developed using Appium.
• Developed Appium UI automation framework for native mobile application (Android OS).
• Designed, developed and implemented MVC Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.\
• Identified test data from Cassandra database; analyzed input and output of test data to identify discrepancies between requirements and test results
• Reviewed and analyzed the user acceptance criteria alongside with the business analysts to test the application for UAT using cucumber.
• Collected and analyzed logs from Kariba, Kafka sources, writing queries for data verification against Cassandra DB.
• Used Java as client library for Selenium and WebDriver to design and developed Automation test Framework using TestNG.
• Used Cucumber automated testing to test new and existing functionality.
• Development of automated scripts for angular JS application using Protractor and Java scripts.
• Mobile automation of android and windows applications using Appium and Selenium WebDriver
• Designed test cases in ROBOT Framework and developed java test classes using TestNG for testing the functionality.
• Developed test suites using Ruby at API level.
• Involved in Writing Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites.
• Performed white box testing using TestNG for class, method, & web services testing.
• Used Appium to facilitate mobile testing by creating mobile Driver class with the required Mobile capabilities.
• Involved in using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server to configure with Maven.
• Extensively used Selenium (data-driven, XPath locator) and Selenium WebDriver to test the web application.
• Performed the testing of Restful Webservice for mobile apps for the bank of west Using SOAP UI.
• Used Cucumber for browser-based testing with scenarios and situations.
• Created the BAT test scenarios with traceability to requirements and building the test scripts.
• Used Selenium WebDriver for writing test scripts for regression test coverage.
• Used Firebug and Firepath to write automated test scripts using XPATH.
• Performed Browser Compatibility testing on different platforms and data validations for all reports using Selenium.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL Queries on SQL Server database.
• Performed Back-End Testing, database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries manually.
• Test execution and Defects management.
• Used Firebug to select CSS selectors and XPath to identify UI elements.
• Traceability document update and Test management tool (Quality Center).
• Created Regression Document to track and report testing activities during each phase of testing, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, logged defects and their status, performance baselines.
• Helped the team in building the test execution summary report.
• Participated in Scrum / Project meetings.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Ruby, SOAP UI, Jenkins, Appium, Cucumber, Protractor, Maven, TestNG, XPath, Robot Framework, CSS Selectors, Eclipse, HTML, Firepath, Firebug, CSS, Quality Center, MS- Office (Excel, Word), Agile Scrum, SQL, Oracle and Windows.

QA Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business, functional and technical specifications to define test scope and test approach.
• Developed Test Strategy, detailed Test Plan and identifying risks/dependencies for the project.
• Wrote Test Scenarios, Test Cases and grouped them for Functional and Non - Functional Test Suits.
• Used MO Excel to organize and manage all phases of the Software Testing Process and creating Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Actively used Bugzilla to report defects and track all the defects to its closure.
• Perform Non-Functional and Functional Testing, such as Smoke/Sanity, Functionality and Back-end.
• Involved in selecting test cases to be automated based on order related data.
• Ran automated scripts for Regression and Performance testing throughout entire Trade Life Cycle.
• Performed End-to-End testing of new Functionalities of the application using Oracle DB Server and XML Server.
• Actively used XML Protocol API for extracting and converting data in Parser for validation purposes.
• Extensively used automation tools to perform Performance Testing.
• Attended daily and weekly meetings with Developers, Project Managers, QAs and BAs.
• Participated in running automated scripts and helping Automation Tester to determine loops for securities.

Environment: Linux, Oracle DB, Bugzilla, Microsoft Office 2010 Excel and Access with individuals at all levels.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed requirements/user stories to establish that technical specifications and functionality are incorporated.
• Responsible for managing all phases of software testing process, including planning and executing tests in HP ALM.
• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios and Test Cases for Functional Modules based on Functional Specifications.
• Collaborated with business analyst, user acceptance testers and offshore QA team in order to create detailed test cases.
• Fill out Requirement Traceability Matrix and performing coverage of all requirements for test cases.
• Perform Smoke/Sanity, Functionality, GUI, End - to-End, Back-End and Regression testing.
• Prepare and run Test Cases for Negative Testing Scenarios, using different methods.
• Involved in Automation Testing by selecting, updating and running Test Scripts, and comparing input and output values.
• Use Linux to extract FIX Messages data and analyze the messages and tag-values combinations.
• Extensive use VeriFIX to perform End-to-End and Performance testing for Trading Order Management System (TOMS).
• Write SQL statements using joins, sub-queries, aggregate functions and clauses for returning data from back-end.
• Conduct Transaction/Backend testing to verify the data inserted through front-end is reflected in appropriate tables on back-end.
• Actively involved in Walkthroughs of Business & System Requirements and requested Enhancement.
• Worked interactively with Business Analyst and Developers in Root Cause Analysis.
• Report, analyze and track Defects to closure through Jira with maximum attention to details.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.

Environment: HP ALM & QTP & Load Runner, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, Jira, MC Office 2010

QA Analyst

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Created User Stories in rally, Reviewed business requirements, SDD documents, Process Flow diagrams and sequence diagrams to determine necessary testing scenarios and test cases for testing end to end functional testing.
• Experience in managing test execution, writing test plan and test cases, load testing and performance testing
• Experience in handling testing of multiple applications
• Effectively used Selenium, Java, TestNG/Junit and Maven to perform end - to-end JUnit testing for all business requirements.
• Used CodeHub and tortoiseGit for source code mnagement.
• Used HP ALM and Rally for defect tracking management and to log the defects.
• Experience in managing test execution, writing test plan and test cases, load testing and performance testing
• Experience in handling testing of multiple applications
• Experience in writing queries to search the data in the MongoDB databese.
• Used SoapUI and Rest API to Performed end to end functional API testing and web Services testing
• Good exposure to JSON, XML, OSE Open Shift, X12 Claims file.
• Involved in two projects same time for QA task and END to END functional and integration testing.
• Attended Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Project Increment planning, Weekly scrum, and retrospective.
• Involved in smoke testing, Regression testing for the modified builds. Raise defects by giving validations and doing negative testing on applications.
• Attended Tester Tech Scrum meetings, coordinate and support integrations testing meetings, business requirement meetings with business and team folks and applied the thoughts and ideas shared across the teams.
• Well conversant with software testing methodologies including developing Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test procedures, Test reports and documenting manual and automation tests

Environment: Java, JUnit, HTML, CSS, Xpath, Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, Rest API, JSON, XML, Windows, Agile Methodology, Rally, Open Shift, CodeHub, MongoDB