SUMMARY:

• Have more than 7.5 years’ experience in IT and 7.5 years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance with a good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Possess Good functional knowledge in Telecom, Financial and Retail industries.
• Experience in mobile web application testing on smart phones that include IPhone 3GS, 4GS, Android 2.2, IPad 2.0 and BlackBerry 5.0
• Knowledge of navigational flows for web based and mobile based applications.
• Strong Expertise in Software Development Methodologies like Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Extensive QA experience in gathering, analyzing, reviewing and understanding the Business Requirements, Project Planning, Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Extensive Knowledge of writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Responsible for running SQL queries and performing data validation.
• Have extensive experience in Black Box Testing.
• Strong knowledge of Functional, Integration, Smoke, System and Regression Testing .
• Participated in UAT Test Plan to record the customer’s sign off of the documented scenarios and also detailed Test Plans to record the results of User Testing.
• Updated and circulated change requests, identified open issues and prioritized issues, weekly status reports.
• Prepared and updated documents like Environment checklist, Patch testing, Build deployment checklist, Build acceptance checklist, Test Summary Report for every build release.
• Submitted the status reports of projects to client and management.
• Logged and tracked defects using JIRA and QC.
• Excellent analytical skills and taking initiatives to produce high quality work.
• Reliable, detailed oriented, energetic candidate, a team player and possess good written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Defect Tracking Tools: Excel, JIRA and QC

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/2003/ XP/Vista/7, MS DOS

MS Suite: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio

Programming Languages: SQL, HTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, C#, C++, XML

Browsers: Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome

Mobile: Android / iOS

Automation Framework: Maven, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, UI Automator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Sr. Software Engineer QA Automation

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducted development and testing manual and automated using the existing software test environment and processes for all aspects of embedded system testing. The environment is also Agile, test - driven development (TDD), behavioral-driven development (BDD) and continuous integration .
• Used Java, JSON and REST API to encrypt and decrypt Event messages pushed to Command Central and stored in Mango DB.
• Performed Automation on Command Central Vault, web-based Platform and Automation on PSX Mobile Applications such as (PSX Stream, PSX Messenger, PSX PTT and PSX Cockpit).
• Planned the software test approach and scope, reviewed project requirements and provided feedback.
• Documented all technical design decisions and code in design documents and developed integrated test scenarios.
• Designed and develop automated test scripts that are repeatable, reusable and thoughtful testing strategy using Java Selenium.
• Used Google Chrome to execute the Web-Based test cases and Appium to Execute Android test cases.
• Used UI Automator test framework and GitLab to store, manage and share the Automation scripts
• Recorded and managed defects using Jira and communicated issues, risks and status on a timely basis.
• Troubleshoot, debugged and resolved issues identified and document test results.
• Initiated and participated in production rollout processes.
• Researched new technologies and implemented them to make business processes and interactions easier for users.
• Used Wireshark to analyze and troubleshoot the network.
• Performed System level testing that includes Fault Tolerance Fault Management and Geo Redundancy.
• Used VMware to manage the Vydio Components.
• Tested the performance of the system using Vydio bulk tool and JMeter;
• Used Java and JSCh library to Automate the bulk tool to establish Putty SSH sessions.
• Collaborated within the team and outside with other teams within IT/Company.
• Maintained a level of urgency towards timelines and results and assessed the severity, strengths, and weaknesses of solutions.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality with a passion for testing.

Confidential, Addison, IL

Sr. QA Analyst (Contract)

RESPONSIBILITES:

• Perform day-to-day testing on US and International sites to insure promotions are properly working from front and back-end pulling proper uploaded prices & information
• Perform cross browser testing through IE, Safari, Chrome & Firefox including web and Mobile devices and tools
• Work with business teams to test all seasonal promotions on cross organization sites in test and production environments
• Attend and Conduct weekly business and stakeholder meetings for current & future projects
• Review of Test Cases to ensure the requirements are-meted to their expectations.
• Preparing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Task Prioritization, Task Assignments to the team and Status Reporting to Managers.
• Preparing and Executing Selenium Test Scripts.
• Perform web Performance testing in Eclipse & Selenium, JMeter using developed Java Scripts to expedite the testing process if needed to meet deadlines
• Attended & Conduct daily Scrum meetings
• Created & Presented Weekly UAT Demo’s to business teams and stakeholders to provide status on current reporting/ promotions and projects in progress
• Trained & Coached QA & UAT teams on promotions including BI & OBIEE Tools
• Created and translated business requirements into test plans, epics & stories in JIRA
• Perform back-end testing using TOAD, SQL, PL-SQL in various environments including but not limited to DEV, TEST and Prod environments
• Review and approve BI Promotions, SQL insert statements & ATD documentations for back-end testing
• Performed front and back-end testing
• Created business reports from real and mock up data with the help of multiple internal tools
• Proficient in using tools like” HMC, Ipartner, COGNOS, OBIEE, EBTEST” for web, and front-end.
• Worked on SOA and HMC short term release projects.
• Took part in daily, weekly or monthly promotion deployments and IT maintenance.

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used extensively QC to write and execute test cases on daily basis.
• Done Cross Browser Testing.
• Performed some Back end testing by running SQL Queries to perform data validation.
• Performed Manual Testing on different modules of the application.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Smoke, System and Regression Testing.
• Performed specific Web Testing such as: Link Checking, Browser Page Testing, Application Testing, Security Testing and Database Testing.
• Attended defect review meetings on weekly basis.
• Held meetings with management and team players to discuss any priority issues to resolve.
• Reviewed test cases for requirements coverage, ambiguity, and completeness.
• Reviewed any issues occurred during Dev/QA/UAT & Production environments and logged the defects.
• Recorded defects using QC in a manner which the developers could easily understand and uploaded screenshots when necessary.
• Performed Test Environment Setup & the creation of Test Data.

Tools : Microsoft office, QC, SQL Database.

Confidential, IL

UAT QA

Responsibilities:

• Developed testing processes and approaches according to Confidential standards.
• Worked with appropriate business and technology leads to determine appropriate data for testing, the acceptable range for test results and performance and used that data to write test cases.
• Developed Test Cases and followed Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Created functional Test cases based on the software requirements.
• Verified the correctness of the software and created test data files (valid and invalid) to meticulously test the program’s logic and the system’s flow.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries to check backend data.
• Performed Positive, Negative, and Integration Testing.
• Worked closely with developers to understand, solve and fix the issue.
• Performed complete End to End Testing of the GUI scripting.
• Identified bugs and logged the bugs using JIRA.
• Participated with Business Analyst and developers to resolve the technical issues and Defects.
• Reported the defects to development team on periodic basis and retested the defects once they were fixed.
• Reported testing progress to the upper management and documented test procedures and findings.

Tools: Microsoft office, JIRA.

Technical environment : JAVA, J2EE, .Net. C++, SQL Server database 2008/Windows platform.

Confidential, VA

QA Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile/ Scrum methodologies.
• Worked with the Business Analysts to understand the User Stories.
• Actively involved in the preparation of Test Plans and Test Cases documents.
• Created Test conditions, Identified and captured Test Data to support the Test Cases defined for the application.
• Performed functional and Regression Testing extensively in order to deliver Software Quality.
• Created SQL queries for searching, creating and updating Test Data and ensured Data Quality.
• Interacted with DBA's, Developers, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers during testing to identify the problems at different levels and solve them.
• Interacted with the Development Team to resolve the defects and tracked them using JIRA.
• Provided regular test and defect Status Reports to the QA Manager.
• Prepared Test Summary Report.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Eclipse IDE, JIRA, Windows 8, IE, Firefox, Chrome, HTML, XML, XML Web services, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Full SDLC Test experience, analyzed business requirements and functional specifications to develop and execute test plans.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, executed and documented Test Cases.
• Gathered functional requirements and performed Positive and Negative Testing.
• Performed Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT Testing, Compatibility Testing, Retesting Testing, and Regression Testing on web based applications.
• Performed Mobile Testing on devices such as: IPAD, IPhone and Android.
• Positively contributed toward establishing and maintain Software Quality.
• Assisted developers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving problems.
• Used JIRA as Defect Tracking tool for tracking and storing defects.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JDBC, Tomcat 6, Windows XP, Microsoft SQL server, Toad, Windows Server 2008, IIS, IE, Firefox, SOAP, XML, HTML, Web Services, JIRA

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities :

• Analyzed project’s functional requirements and performed Functional Testing.
• Prepared Test Plans that describes the features and functions to be tested and wrote Test Cases.
• Managed, executed the Test Cases and documented all the Test Cases.
• Tested the entire process including Reports and Backend Data Validation.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries to check Backend Data and Data integrity.
• Performed Regression, Positive Negative, Smoke and Sanity testing.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing, Usability Testing and UI Testing.
• Participated in Test Plan and Test Cases Review meetings.
• Attended daily meeting and prepared Testing Status Progress.
• Tracked and reported bugs using JIRA.

Tools : Microsoft office, JIRA, SQL Database.