SUMMARY

• 11 years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing of Web - based and Mobile applications.
• Proficient in Automation and Manual Testing.
• Extensive experience in Property and Casualty Insurance & Health Care domains.
• Co-ordinates the testing efforts of multiple projects executed from near shore and offshore.
• Experience in performing System Integration(SIT), Functional, Regression, Data Validation and User acceptance (UAT)
• Sound knowledge of QA processes and methodologies - Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Experience in using Selenium’s Tool Suite such as Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG and Page Object Model framework creation.
• Experienced in creating automation test scripts using Selenium-JavaScript
• Experienced in performing QA role- CI/CD in DevOps environment.
• Experienced in web services (SOAP/REST) validation using SOAPUI and Postman.
• Expert in writing QA user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Hands on experience in TDD and BDD testing.
• Good knowledge in using QC ALM, VSTS and Rational Team Concert (RTC) test management tools.
• Proficient in Mobile APP validation using the Perfecto tool and Real Devices (ioS & Android).
• Strong skills in back-end testing and data validation using ETL Tools, PLSQL queries in DB2 and using UNIX (Putty).
• Proficient in creation of Master Test Plan, Test strategy, Design and execution of Test cases through different stages of software testing lifecycle.
• Hands on experienced in light weight management activities defect tracking, status reporting, Metrics collection and documentation.
• Excellent understanding and working knowledge of Quality Management and “best practices” of testing techniques, methodologies, processes, procedures and measurement.
• Good Planning and Organization skills in coordinating with clients in all aspects of project from inception through completion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools/Utilities: Perfecto, Selenium, SoapUI, Junit, TestNG, Postman, Jenkins, Git Hub, Data Stage, Cucumber, putty and Control-M.

Database: SQL Server and DB2

Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

Test Management: HP ALM, Rational Team Concert(RTC), VSTS, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer,Austin, TX

• Participating in Requirements Definition meeting (Business, Functional and Non-Functional) by attending BRP's with BA team and other stake holders.
• Define Quality Assurance process in SDLC.
• Converting the requirements to QA Stories and add Acceptance Criteria for each Functional point during backlog refining.
• Develop Master Test Plans which includes Test Strategy and Effort Estimation.
• Create & Enhance Hybrid Automation Framework using Page Object Model as per the functional changes.
• Create Automation Test scripts using Selenium -JavaScript in hybrid automation framework.
• Create and maintain different Automation Test suits for Smoke, Regression and functional validation testing.
• Assist developers in creating Junit scripts for unit testing.
• Created custom JSON/XML Assertors for validation of REST API calls.
• Create test result report using TestNG in Selenium WebDriver.
• Attend Iteration planning, daily Sprint and Retrospective meetings.
• Create As-Is and To-Be system documentation and present it to APO.
• Reporting the QA weekly status to higher management and client Management.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, tools and implementation of the best practices.
• Conduct KT sessions to juniors on new products and technologies.
• Assist business team in UAT and production validation.
• Conducted QA Team meetings and defect report meetings periodically.
• Conduct/ Participate in audit at various stages, as required.
• Understand pinpoints and recommend solution to the client

Confidential

Lead QA Engineer,San Antonio, TX

• Participating in Requirement Analysis meeting.
• Create Test Strategy and Master Test Plan based on the business requirements and project milestones.
• Prepare Test cases based on the Functional specification, End to End design and use cases.
• Review Test data preparation and Test scenario creation.
• Develop Automation scripts using Java Script in selenium framework and Gherkin in Cucumber framework.
• Perform API Web services validation using Postman tool.
• Perform CI/CD operations using Git Hub & Jenkins tool.
• Perform validation using real devices IPhone, IPad, tablets and Android handsets.
• Validating Mobile Apps using iOS & Android devices.
• Validating older versions of IOS and Android devices using Perfecto tool.
• Create the SQL scripts to verify and validate the data flow from source to target and to the downstream systems.
• Used ALM for Test Management life cycle and to store test artifacts.
• Validate both Web and Native APP.
• Validate back-end data using SQL queries in DB2.
• Coordinate with Performance team to carry out the Performance validation of the application.
• Worked on defining an end-to-end continuous integration workflow using Jenkins.
• Walk through the scenarios with project stakeholders and seek signoff.
• Perform Smoke and Sanity validation before commencing the actual validation.
• Managing a team of 8 resources at offshore.
• Perform multi browser validation for validating the browser compatibility.
• Using Borland Star Team for bug tracking and test management.
• Conduct Quality Inspections with Programmers, Analysts and Project Leads to identify and resolve any issues
• Maintain test Logs, test summary reports, test metrics and participated in defect review meetings.

Confidential

QA Tester

• Analyze Business Requirements Documents.
• Develop detailed test cases for GUI and Functional Testing
• Reviewing the Test Cases.
• Modifying the test cases according to the change requests.
• Executing GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing.
• Validated various EDI Inbound- Outbound transaction documents.
• Interacting with Developers for assisting them in Identifying, Simulating, Resolving and Tracking of problem events
• Ensure reviews are conducted in the project as per the review plan.