SUMMARY:

• Qualified Information Technology Professional, seeking assignments in Software Testing / Quality Assurance /Business Analysis / with an organisation of repute
• Results - driven, customer-focused, and analytical Professional offering 5+ years of experience in QA, software testing, business analysis, and application development. Possess strong skills geared towards Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework and Confidential Testing (SFDC) alongside exceptional abilities in designing test cases, manual testing, and basics in SQL Queries and Java, and well versed with Agile Methodology.
• Adept at driving a full spectrum of technical operations including software testing, quality assurance, software test life cycle (STLC), business analysis, software development life cycle planning (SDLC), and management, as well as designing procedures to ensure timely availability of business information needed to facilitate the critical decision-making process.
• Possess exceptional abilities in designing best strategies in testing the product; experienced in various types of testing - Functional, Regression, Multi-tier Client-server applications, Sanity, Web based and in various phases of testing (UAT, SIT)
• Good knowledge in database testing with the ability to read, write and execute Intermediate level SQL queries and understand the logic of stored procedures. Basic knowledge of relational databases
• Successfully executed strategic projects undertaken by the company for delivering technological solutions to the clients. Possess strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Parallelly held a Junior position of managing the quality assurance program in the organization; worked on quality metrics, software industry metric data collection and analysis techniques.

IT SKILLS:

Technology/Framework: Manual Testing, Confidential, Test Scripts - Selenium IDE, TestNG Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server (2008)

Configuration Management: Quality Center (QC), JIRA, Bugzilla

Project Management Tools: HP ALM (HP Application Life Cycle Management)

Methodology: Waterfall/Agile/Scrum/QA

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/8/10, Linux (RedHat)

Database: SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL

Languages: Basic Java, SQL Queries, HTML, CSS

Others: QA Methodologies, Putty, WINSCP, Mantis, Kali LINUX, Eclipse IDE, Movie Studio Platinum 13, WordPress

SKILL SET:

• QA Strategy
• Automation Testing
• Product Testing Automation
• Issue Life Cycle Management
• Defect Management & Risk Management
• Project Planning & Management
• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Leadership & Teambuilding
• Interpersonal Skills
• Written & Verbal Communication Skills
• Organization Skills
• Multitasking
• Customer Service Savvy

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA and Software Tester

Confidential, Missouri

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Versed in tracing requirements, understanding user cases, preparing test plans/test cases, conducting functional, compatibility & regression testing, and analyzing reported defects.
• Proven track record of working on projects that emphasized both “White Box” and “Black Box” testing strategies in driving Quality Assurance and Testing responsibilities
• Significantly reduced the time spent on quarterly and yearly commission pay-out by developing a test script which automated a major accounting process.
• Proficient knowledge of Defect Life Cycle including the creation and follow up with the development team, tracking the status and report, while prioritizing the review with functional leads.
• Took up an initiative in the organization with a proposal to implement a new practice of involving testing and QA teams in the early stages of SDLC, along with developers’ team to increase the domain knowledge and ins-outs of the business. This ensured in-depth testing which resulted in easier understanding of use cases in TDD, simpler approaches to derive test data, extensive base field for testing which statistically reduced missing defects in testing phase laying roadmap to successful production of product.
• I held the Junior position of managing the quality assurance program in the organisation; overseeing metrics data collection, calculation, software audits & reviews and documentation; determining flow charts and generating manuals for each process area
• Found crucial bugs in the product that reduced the maintenance cost
• As a part of the newly owned Confidential ( Confidential -CRM) system team, I have worked on understanding business needs, designing a roadmap for further development and extending post-implementation support; mapping business requirements through As-Is, To-Be and GAP analysis.
• Proven success in mapping clients’ requirements, performing system analysis and finalization of technical/functional specifications, and designing high-level documents for the project.
• Worked with senior management to implement the practice of involving Testing/ QA team in earlier stages of Product development which has made it possible to be major part of mapping client’s requirements, performing system analysis and finalisation of technical / functional specifications and high-level design documents for the project

Confidential, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Adapted ‘Proof of concept’ based test case preparation and relatively implemented test execution.
• Gathered detailed requirements by performing document analysis, conference calls, business process descriptions, and use cases to prepare a test documentation.
• Developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements and user stories.
• Conducted the preparation and execution of the Functional/Regression Test cases based on SRS/FS (Functional Specification about feature)/Change request Specification.
• Actively involved in Retest and Regression Testing, performing UI Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Attended daily meetings and staff meeting to discuss with QA Manager about bugs, which are promoted in the release. Finding bugs and reporting bugs through ALM Quality Center.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with business analysts for requirements gathering (At Chicago) and worked with SMEs (At Carmel) in drawing test possibilities and scenarios, paving the way to accomplish detailed overview of the future strategy to be adapted in the team to attain End-End quality product.
• Displayed a strong understanding of the functional requirements, feature changes and creating a complete test plan to cover all possible scenarios. Functional test planning, preparation and execution of the complete product functionality and features changes.
• Assisted with design and execution of manual tests for new and existing products
• Created functional test cases for enhancements, based on requirements and design documents and collaboration with project managers, business analysis, architects, and developers.
• Create and execute regression & UAT cases.
• Coordinate user testing with requestor/business testers
• Manage test schedules, track and monitor distribution of work & effectively communicate test progress
• Reporting and documenting technical issues
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Evaluated the best strategies in testing the product.
• Followed up with Engineering and Product team members to see bug fixes through completion.
• Set up software defects lifecycle and defect tracking tools, then analyze rates, identify trends and recommend options
• Interact with cross-organizational teams to address the big picture
• Work with the development team and others to isolate issues by collecting and analyzing detailed process steps, log files, and data input
• Arranged for meetings with team members to brainstorm about the ideas for testing during every milestone.

Confidential

OS Used: Windows Technology/Tools: Test Case design, TestNG Selenium Framework, Test case

Responsibilities:

• Associated in the System Test Plan Preparation and Requirements adaption
• Designed test cases using the Selenium Web driver methods. Implemented Page Objects, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA.
• Enhanced the test scripts and executed the selenium test cases.
• Progressively involved in regression and re- testing using Selenium.
• Preparation of weekly reports on meeting between onshore and offshore teams, monthly status reports on team’s assigned AR’s (application requests)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Teamed up with business analysts for requirements gathering.
• Designed Project’s User Interface & Back-end Product Functionality.
• Designed UML to depict the system’s behaviour & interactions among a set of objects.
• Designed the database schemas to represent the data structures of the Entity information.
• Illustrated procedures and tools best suited to the project. Depending on the Project Technicalities and Client Objectives, progressed between Waterfall and Agile approaches building elaborate project road maps, work plans and schedules.
• Developed ‘Authorized Organization’ module using .Net Framework & involved in development of other modules.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the application with .NET Framework on frontend with MS Access in Backend
• Designed a Confidential (Printed circuit board) to connect the remote device to the PC.