SUMMARY:

• Quality Assurance Professional with Over 9 years of experience in Software Industry with Quality Assurance and Manual, Functional, Automation Testing of Web applications, Window Application and Mobile applications developed in Web, Mobile, Client/Server environment using Agile and Scrum test methodologies.
• Proficient as a Senior QA Test Engineer in both Manual and Automation with experience in Retail domain and Investment banking domain.
• Expertise in Web and Mobile App testing (Native and Hybrid) apps on iOS and Android Platforms.
• Well conversant in performing White, Black and Grey Box testing on both functional and non - functional requirements.
• Expertise in Automation Testing using Selenium, Appium, Java, Visual Studio C#.NET and HPQC .
• Proficient in writing, executing and managing Test Cases, Bug Reporting and Tracking Defects using HP Quality Center, TFS and JIRA .
• Good Knowledge of Rest API Web Services and SOA.
• Experience using Continuous Integration tool Jenkins, build tool Maven and cloud testing using Saucelabs.
• Experience in performance testing using JMeter.
• Thorough hands on experience in designing test cases, converting Manual test cases to automated test cases, covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplication.
• Good experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of the application to be Regression tested.
• Proficient in Cross Browser testing of applications on Google Chrome, Internet explorer, Safari and Firefox browsers and Cross Platform testing on Windows, iOS, Android.
• Extensive hands on experience in executing automation testing tasks automation testing requirements, preparing automation test scripts, running tests, monitoring/ analyzing results, collecting test metrics and conducting test reporting.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from business, technical and functional specification documents for manual and automated requirements in QA Life cycle using Quality Center and Application Life Cycle Management ALM.
• Thorough hands on experience with all levels of testing including Sanity, Usability, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Well versed with Exploratory Testing, Mobile testing, Database Testing SQL, Localization Testing .
• Actively involved in Software Testing and Documentation, Analysis of the Business Requirements and functional specifications.
• Team Leading, Project Management Ability, Team Player, Self-motivated, Highly productive, Continuous Learner, Commitment and Enjoy working as a part of Result driven Team and Individual Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Selenium, Appium, TestNG, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Java, Chrome RESTfull API Plugin, Mercurial, GIT, FIX protocol 4.2/4.4, C, C++, C#.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, JIRA, HP Quality Center, QTP, iOS v5 /6 /7 /8, Android OS v1.5 /4 /5.0, Archiva, Jenkins, JMeter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milford, CT

Sr. QA Engineer / Automation tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in daily stand-up meetings for project status update and kept all the stakeholders informed about critical issues.
• Analysed Requirements document and wireframes and provided valuable suggestions compared to market competitors.
• Developed manual and automation test cases based on Test Plan.
• Mapped Business scenarios to Test Cases and uploaded them in TFS.
• Performed responsibilities of object identification and Data Driven Testing.
• Developed, Executed and maintained automated Test Cases for each test cycle and propagated daily updates to Mercurial for version control.
• Solely accountable for automating and running Functional, Regression, GUI, and Usability test cases using Selenium 2.0 with Java (IntelliJ) using Page Object Model in TestNG framework.
• Dramatically reduced the Time to release cycle by 40% by using Continuous Integration with Jenkins to ensure each iOS/Android build runs automated tests before the build is accepted. This prevented the developers to push bad code to the QA cycles.
• Diminished production issues up to 30% by performing Cross-platform, Functional, Regression testing, UI testing of mobile app using about 300 odd test cases automated on Appium, Selenium and Java.
• Continuously enhanced the automation suite with the issues identified in production.
• Actively performed peer code review to improve code quality and identified defects early on.
• Created and modified functions/methods for new functionality in the master framework.
• Eliminated test execution time by 60% by creating a service framework using Rest API calls.
• Customized and enhanced the Test Scripts defining various Checkpoints, Synchronization points, Logging and Reporting.
• Integrated Maven build tool in framework to streamline build process and provide visibility at all levels of SDLC.
• Added support for Cloud Testing by running test scripts on SauceLabs for iOS and Android simulators via automation. Saved the company money wasted on procuring real devices.
• Logged defects in Jira and interacted with the development team for issue clarification and bug fixes.
• Evaluated and implemented QA process improvements for ongoing testing. Actively contributed to team wide DevOps initiatives.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed exploratory testing on existing Subway applications, reviewed existing user requirement documentation and gained retail business domain knowledge to identify critical functionalities.
• Prepared Test requirement specifications & Test cases.
• Developed a Keyword Driven Framework and designed generic functions for Application.
• Collaborated team effort using Git repository for version control.
• Coded and enhanced suite of automated test scripts for continuous execution as releases emerge from development teams.
• Created and maintained Regression test suite using Ranorex and Winium for Windows based POS and Selenium with C#.NET in Visual Studio for Web application.
• Created an Archiva repository to store all the Maven dependencies and framework code to promote code reusability among multiple projects.
• Extensively used JIRA to manage bugs, test reports and statistics.
• Assumed the role of Jira administrator. Added users, projects, screens and filters and updated the workflows to meet the project needs.
• Performed Integration testing to verify the data interface between various application modules.
• Worked with developers to reproduce errors and resolve software anomalies
• Coordinated communication between various teams to ensure consistency and accuracy across test plans, user manuals and training materials
• Identified and managed scheduling and delivery of all dependent work that crossed product boundaries, closely collaborating and communicating with product owners to ensure timely delivery of all components.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

System Analyst / QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Examined existing applications at Confidential, including client interfaces, order management systems, change control, reporting, and compliance.
• Participated in creation of different versions of requirement specification documents, project plans, and PowerPoint presentations for IT, traders, and other stakeholders in agile development environment.
• Designed, developed Test scenarios and Test cases for various routes and performed manual testing using HPQC.
• Enhanced the VB Scripts in QTP with checkpoints, output values, recovery scenarios, synchronization points and data driven testing using parameterization.
• Executed SQL queries in Source database and the target database as per the mapping documents.
• Participated in Test Case Walk-through and defect report meetings periodically.
• Detected Defects communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and tracked the Defects using Quality Center.
• Prepared regression test cases using existing DMA Canada routes and ran test cases on new consolidated Smart Order Routing to Canadian broker.
• Worked on automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Created a normalized technical specification for clients and vendors.

Business Analyst / System Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attended BRD discussion and design meetings with Business team and technology team
• Captured as-is processes, design to-be processes, and performed gap analysis.
• Prepared test scenarios, test cases and test script using Quality Center by coordinating with operations, business units and technology department.
• Developed test plan and wrote test cases for the existing functionality and performed peer review of the test scripts and verify if they have been covered as per the requirements.
• Created requirements traceability matrix to link the test cases with the actual business requirements.
• Execute User Acceptance Test scripts in a controlled testing environment and preparing pre & post-testing documentation in compliance with change control policies
• Entered defects using JIRA for the IQ teams - Defect tracking tool providing adequate information to recreate the issue and tracked them to completion.
• Performed functional, GUI and System testing using Quality Center to ensure delivery against QA goals.
• Published Test summary report and Test results documents to the stakeholders and to get their sign-off

Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile methodology with a fast paced environment.
• Performed ad-hoc testing to understand the IQ platform and documented results. Shared gap analysis report with manager and stake holders.
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the user stories (Functional requirements) and existing user manuals.
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, bug tracking and reporting. Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects to Quality Center
• Executed manual test cases on new and existing functionality and identified areas for automation for regression testing.
• Identified bottlenecks, and discussed the same with the business analysis team, developers and technical architects and attended meetings.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed thorough knowledge of client system and processes
• Created Traceability metrics mapping Functional and Business Requirements with Test Cases
• Conducted walkthroughs and reviews with designers and developers
• Coordinated with onsite and offsite DEV teams
• Wrote Test cases and Test scenarios in HP Quality Center
• Executed and validated the Test scripts
• Recreated the issues and tracked them to completion.