SUMMARY

• Around 5+ years of Software QA Experience, working in all phases of Test Life Cycle, including requirements gathering, Risk Analysis, Strategic Test Planning, Test Plans, Scheduling, Testing, Defect Tracking, Analyzing Metrics, Producing QA Reports
• Adept at using both Manual and Middleware Web Services Testing Tools to troubleshoot System Integration, User Acceptance, Positive and Negative, Functionality, Regression Testing.
• Involved in Agile projects using JIRA Tool and have been part of Sprint Grooming, daily Scrum Calls, and retrospective meetings.
• Involved in Sprint Planning, Story Discussion and engaging in testing once stories are developed.
• Experience in Cassandra Functional Testing
• Experience in Functional, Smoke, End to End, Database, Batch, & Middleware testing.
• Hands on Test automation using different Automation tools/techniques, Unit testing by using Selenium Web Driver/IDE/GRID, TestNG, Fire Path, running scripts, Debugging scripts in different environment, extracting Test results.
• Maintained testing artifacts during entire SDLC cycles like test plan, peer review, test cases, defect severity and ageing.
• Experience in SDLC like Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and V - model.
• Created and executed test plans, cases and scripts to test the data integrity and accuracy on the new platform.
• Developed Test Summary Reports and participated in Go No-Go meetings.
• Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for unit testing, Maven and ANT for project building and continuous Integration.
• Analyzing of Problem severity Defect tracking system and Defect reporting systems through defect tracking tools like Jira, Bugzila, QC and ALM.
• Web based experience in different types of testing that includes system testing, analyzing of Problem severity.
• Knowledge on developing Appium scripts for Mobile Testing.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to retrieve data from database.
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any complex projects and a quick learner.
• Performed Accessibility and Usability testing at early stage of product life cycle.
• Very comfortable with handling multiple priorities. Have excellent communication skills and fast learning capabilities. Excellent analytical, problem solving and technical skills.
• Well-developed Interpersonal and Communication skills with excellent Documentation and Presentation skills.
• Good team player with ability to grasp new concepts quickly, and implement them in a productive manner.
• Acted as Business Analyst and recorded requirements in details through interactions with client.
• Created Business requirement document according to client needs.
• Involved in setting up continuous integration system using Jenkins and working knowledge with cloud based code repository system like GitHub
• Assisted QA lead in documenting User Acceptance Test report and reporting defect resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manual/Automation Tester

Confidential (Maryland)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD), developed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under test.
• Conducting test plan review sessions as Team lead.
• Lead the team in analyzing performance test results and develop recommendations for the development of effort.
• Actively participated and Interacted with product management teams in the review and analysis of functional requirements.
• In depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming and skilled in developing automated test scripts.
• Created automation framework and test scripts using Web-Driver for multiple platforms and cross browser testing.
• Developed automation test cases, executed these test scripts and logged defects in JIRA/ALM.
• Used Several TestNG Annotations to take advantage of test lifecycle.
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from SQL Server.
• Designed data-driven testing framework and captured data dynamically from web controls.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium.
• Performed Integration and Regression testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application.
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML.
• A web service testing was done using SOAP UI tool and Postman App
• Managing the training activities for testers.
• Mentoring new team members and knowledge management.
• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions.
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium.

Environment: Java, SQL server 2008, GIT, VSS, HTML, XML, Windows XP,QC10, Junit, WebDriver, JIRA, SOAP UI, Cucumber

QA-Analyst

Confidential (New York)

Responsibilities

• Executing test scripts & conditioning data required for scripts for each sprints.
• Performing Sanity check and verifying the Performance of the systems in RIT Tool
• Executing the test cases, raising defects and following it up with the Component teams.
• Executing the automated scripts in RIT during regression or smoke suite
• Acted as Business Analyst for creation of Preliminary and Critical Design Review documents.
• Interaction with various Development & Vendor Teams for defect analysis and rectification.
• Interact directly with the Client to report daily progress, discuss deadlines and analyze issues in daily standup call.
• Interacting with scrum master during daily scrum meeting and discussing the issue and other updates required.
• Participate in Status and Vendor meetings to report test progress and discuss other issues like Schedule, adherence to Quality, scope of testing, etc.
• Perform the entire flow of testing from Test Case generation, Test Execution, Defect recording and Result reporting.
• Organized MySQL Database to support data gathered for Really Excelling Consulting.
• Developed automated scripts and frame works using VB script.
• Responsible for Test Automation using Quick Test Professional (QTP) /UFT, Design and create automation test harness and test bed to support multiple applications on multiple browsers in Lean UFT.
• Worked on coded UI Java web services based on SOA architecture with SOAP and WSDL
• Performed Xcode to capture and attach crash and/or log files to bug reports
• Designed and developed the REST web services using the JAX-RS API to communicate over the network
• Performed building the product binaries and installation packages and deploying the builds to the different platforms using XCode.
• Performed manual testing using the test cases developed and reported to developers in an excel format for easy understanding.
• Accessibility Testing to find the user needs.

Environment: QTP/UFT, VB Script, ALM quality Center, UFT, SQL Server 2000, SQL Query Enterprise

RIT Tool.

Manual Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases.
• Extensively used Quality Center for all the projects
• Involved in discussions with development teams and communicated any necessary changes where applicable.
• Used Firebug for logging and tracking the defects and test cases.
• Managed, researched and resolved defects during test execution and in production using defect tracking tools.
• Prepared test status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Prepared weekly status reports and communicated it to Team Lead and Project Manager.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, Boundary testing, negative testing, system testing and Smoke testing of the Application.
• Attended bi-weekly meetings and daily status meetings.
• Executing test scripts & conditioning data required for scripts.
• Performing Sanity check and verifying the Performance of the systems.
• Executing the test cases, raising defects and following it up with the Component teams.
• Interaction with various Development & Vendor Teams for defect analysis and rectification.
• Interact directly with the Client to report daily progress, discuss deadlines and analyze issues.
• Validating the results in different servers after batch process completes.
• Participate in Status and Vendor meetings to report test progress and discuss other issues like Schedule, adherence to Quality, scope of testing, etc.
• Perform the entire flow of testing from Test Case generation, Test Execution, Defect recording and Result reporting.
• Do a detailed analysis on the Rejected defects and Post Production Defects and take corrective measures to avoid the same in future
• Used Bugzila to report bugs.
• Educate the team on the analysis done on the Post Production Defects
• Update the Induction Manual on the new Change Controls after each release
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables.

Environment: Manual Testing,Regression Testing, GUI Testing, BVA analysis, BUGZILA, SDLC Model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, C, SQL, MYSQL, C#, HTML, VB Script

Testing tools: Quality Center, ALM, QTP/UFT, JIRA, Jasmine, JMeter, Cucumber, SAS, GIT, Load Runner

Frameworks: BDD, Key-Word Driven, Automation Framework, TestNg, Junit, Data driven

Database: MySQL, SQL Server

Development methodologies: Agile(Scrum), Waterfall

Web Services: SOAP, REST

Operating System: Windows, Unix, and Linux

Build tools: Ant, Maven and Jenkins