Qa Engineer Resume
New, JerseY
SUMMARY:
- A seasoned Quality Assurance Analyst / Engineer with 6+ years’ experience in writing test cases and executing test plans in agile environments.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), software test life cycle (STCL) and the Scrum framework.
- Experience with the various testing methodologies used to uncover system abnormalities. Strong experience in manual and automation testing.
- 6+ Years of working experience with several specialized development teams, various testing methodologies were applied to meet the team’s needs.
- Black Box, Functional, smoke, sanity and exploratory testing were performed to uncover defects and to improve the overall quality of the product.
- Coordinated testing efforts with remote and off - shore contractors as well as worked independently and remotely on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experienced in System, Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with hands-on experience in writing automated test scripts using Selenium, Asgard
- Discovered, investigated and tracked numerous critical defects, working closely with developers and QA teams to ensure defects were not leaked to clients.
- Collaborated to discuss why defects should not be set as “will not fix”, “cannot reproduce” or placed in the Product Backlog.
- Navigated the JIRA tracking system to manage defects during development and testing cycles.
- Wrote basic SQL statements to manipulate testing data, to verify back-end creation or deletion of objects and to obtain specific data for test cases.
- Deployed to test environments and completed set-up and preconditions for QA team to begin testing.
- Due to Product Development, it was necessary to interact with different multi-faceted teams. Daily conveyed concise and timely communications to stakeholders and team members. Made relevant inquiries to obtain clarity and confirmation on expectations. Exercised best communication practices in completing my tasks.
- Communicated meaningful suggestions to developers on ways to enhance the user experience
- Collaborated with stakeholders on mockups, functionality and expected behaviors
- Gave clear and substantive input on defect root causes
- Solicited help from others when issues need escalation
- Assisted the On-Call Team (after hours) to test escalated Client issues
- Communicated with off-shore members to reproduce defects and coordinate the testing efforts
- Updated defects with additional comments, images, links, attachments and action items.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Testing Tools/API: Selenium, HP Quality Center, Jira, Asgard, Confluence
Databases: SQL Server
Operating systems: Windows
Languages/Concepts: Java, JavaScript, HTML, Shell Scripts
SKILLS:
- Modified and imported testing data
- Deployed the latest code and upgraded applications on VMs and test environments
- Cloned repositories and created branches using Bitbucket
- Made API calls using Postman
- Used Git commands to pull/update, change branches and access defect fixes
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, New Jersey
QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Understand the requirements for various reports like Night Audit, Monthly Summary, Housekeeping and Receivable reports.
- Actively participating in preparation and execution of manual tests for WinDesk reporting module.
- Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases
- Working with the Developers and the Test Managers to verify the Test Cases.
- Analyzed and Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from the functional requirement for reporting module.
- Creation of Test Data according to the scenarios.
- Involved in Communication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.
- Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
- At present doing manual testing but focus is to have automation testing using Selenium Webdriver with Java
Technology / Application Experience: Manual testing, SQL, Jira.
Confidential, NY
QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Preparation and execution of manual and automated tests, involving in automation using Asgard test automation framework for and Desktop GUI interface testing and partly Selenium for Web-based applications.
- Working with clients along with business analyst to gather and understand requirements and any changes in the requirements.
- Deploying components in Windows environment and Collaborated with developers to investigate root causes of defects and also coordinating with various teams for testing end to end flow.
- Reported issues uncovered during examination of incoming POIs, including software bugs, localization errors, and suspect user activity.
- Actively involved in testing high-visibility reports like PNL reports, Position Reports, Tax Reports, and Transactions report.
- Fulfilled data requests when other content team members were unavailable, and assisted team members in query design as needed.
- Assisting UAT team in data setup and making latest build available in UAT environment.
- Logging defects and managing them in JIRA.
- Organizing defect triage calls and actively worked with developers and business owners to resolve any issues.
Technology / Application Experience: Selenium, Java, JIRA, Asgard, SQL, Maven, Jenkins, Leankit, TestNG, and GIT.
Confidential, Murray Hill, NJ
Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases
- Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.
- Analyzed and Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from the functional requirement for different modules.
- Assisted in creating the Traceability matrix based on the functional requirement in each module.
- Creation of Test Data according to the scenarios.
- Loaded the Test Data into the HPQC to prepare for the execution of Test Cases
- Involved in Communication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.
- Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
- Used Quality Center to load the scripts, execute the scripts, log and track the defects and store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.
- Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center
- Assisted in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stakeholders and the Project Management
- Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.
Technology / Application Experience: Oracle Primavera (P6), HP Quality Center, Manual Testing
Confidential, New Jersey
System Test Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Author, update, review and post review the scripts for MOONS, MARRS, METEOR, Interfaces, and ARIES.
- Dry run and Execute System Test scripts in HP Quality Center that is associated with different releases. This included the testing of MARRS, METEOR, MOONS, and ARIES as part of the GSIP solution.
- Participate in test preparation and execution of one or more test plans including System, Business and DVT test phases.
- Review appropriate project documentation to understand the requirements and design.
- Develop test artifacts including test conditions, test cases, test data, and expected results.
- Establishing requirements traceability and test coverage
- Author and update the various documents which will be used in the testing process.
- Loaded test scripts in Quality Center, added requirements and posted test scripts for review.
- Log the defects in Quality Center, and track through retest to closure.
- Co-ordinate with the offshore team & the onshore production team to finish tests on time without hindering production jobs.
- Execute tests and document test results.
- Record problems and issues in accordance with the project's problem and issue management plans.
- Work with the application team to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process.
- Escalate any risks and inform the Test Team Lead or Test Manager of any issues that may affect the schedule.
- Adhere to standard test methodology and processes.
- Helped UAT team address their post review comments.
Technology/Application Experience: HP Quality Center, TIBCO (Spotfire), Toad, Oracle 10g
Confidential, Florham Park, NJ
Software Developer
Responsibilities:
- Used the Eclipse IDE for Java development.
- Java Basics, branching and looping, Arrays
- Advanced class concepts, Exception handling, Stream I/O, Collections
- Multi-threading in Java
- Introduction to JDBC, JSP, and Servlets.
- Created database schema(MySQL) for storing employee information
- Created service layer classes
- Implemented database persistence layer using JDBC and DAOs
- Created JUnit test cases and TCERs
- Set up Subversion for source code repository
Technology/Application Experience: Eclipse IDE, Core Java, JDBC, JSPs, Servlets, JUnit, Subversion, MySQL, Tomcat, Tortoise
Confidential, Syosset, NY
Software Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Work with the development team to design the new label and the forms for the pharmacy.
- Work with the clients to understand their label requirements and suggest the appropriate printers and label templates for their label printing needs.
- Assisted the test team preparing the test data, mapping the requirements, executing scripts in HP Quality Center, logging and tracking the defects.
Technology/Application Experience: JavaScript, SQL, proprietary test automation script, Manual Testing, HP Quality Center.