SUMMARY:

• Software professional with over 8 years of experience in QA testing, methodologies and object - Oriented Software testing. Strong experience in Financial, Education, Shopping, Retail applications/products.
• Proven experience in all phases and stages of Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with good working knowledge of testing methodologies, disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling.
• Experience in Waterfall, Iterative, Agile Testing methodologies (Scrum).
• Knowledge and Implementation experience of QA Testing Principles and Configuration and Change management Disciplines
• Expertise in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Risk Assessment Document, Test Summary Reports, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Harness for Manual and Automated Testing based on the User Requirement Document and System Requirement documents for the Functional, System, Performance, Integration, Regression, GUI, UAT, Database, and UAT testing.
• Develop full life cycle Test Plans including business rule and business model testing with full function testing; develop User interfaces and requirements session
• Experience in using test automation tool Selenium Webdriver and Selenium IDE.
• Experience in Data Driven Testing, Cross Browser and Parallel test Execution using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Selenium Grid.
• Experience in Automated Testing and Proficient in Manual Testing on Client/server and web-based services.
• Expert in identifying problems, investigate their cause and analyze automated test results.
• Participated in Code Reviews and Brainstorming sessions with developers.
• Performed manual testing on both client-server and web-based applications.
• Knowledge in database programming and Development using MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 10g/9i/7x and good experience in SQL, PL/SQL, Triggers, Views and Stored procedures
• Conducted GUI, performance, and Security testing during the various phases of the development.
• Good Understanding of Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Proficient in analyzing Business/System requirements and Use cases. Identifying test scenarios, Test conditions and Test scripts. Maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs on multiple projects and interacting with team members to track bugs until closure.
• Expertise in defect tracking tools: HP-ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), Quality-Centre, Test Director).
• Conducted GUI, performance, and Security testing during the various phases of the development.
• Participate in daily SCRUM meetings and gave the daily status of testing to Team member and Scrum master.
• Adept in different phases of Testing like System Testing, Unit testing and Integration Testing.
• Good team player and with excellent interaction skills.
• Ability to learn and adapt new tools and technologies effectively.
• Good team player with the ability to lead, manage and work independently in a time sensitive environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver, HP ALM, Performance Center, HP QC/QTP, HP UTP, HP Analyzer, JIRA, SOAPUI, TFS (TeamFoundation Server), MTM(Microsoft Test Manager)

Languages: JAVA, JDBC, HTML, XML, C, VB, VBScript

RDBMS: DB2, SQL, Oracle

Monitoring Tools: Team quest, Site scope

Design Tool: MS Visio

Debugging Tools: Splunk, Putty

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla

Operating Systems: MVS 5.1.0, OS390, WINDOWS NT, 2000, Unix

Project Planner: MS Project

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements documents to get better understanding of the system both on technical and business perspectives.
• Created & maintained Selenium automation scripts for the Scrum Stories
• Setup the Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Created Java based scripts for Selenium WebDriver with Testing as automation framework.
• Used different Selenium functionalities such as Window handlers, popup windows handling and handling cookies information etc.
• Changed the automation test scripts from Junit framework to TestNG frame work.
• Involved in converting Junit automation test cases to TestNG automation test cases.
• Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG).
• Created both Manual and Automation Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver and JAVA Technologies (Eclipse IDE).
• Configured Data driven framework with Apache POI to read and write to Excel file and Created POM.
• Developed automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing and reducing manual testing using Selenium, Testing.
• Verified the UI elements using XPath and CSS values
• Tested Enterprise SOAP and Restful Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Involved in creating input XMLs for testing web services.
• As part of web services testing extensively involved in verifying the output XML files.
• Verified the output XML results with the online screen values and SQL database values.
• Involved in backlog grooming sessions, retrospective sessions, scrum of scrums and daily stand-up meetings.
• Used JIRA for storing, managing and executing the test cases and for maintaining user stories.
• Gather execution results from team members and analyzing the Test Metrics for the purpose of reporting.
• Extensively used SQL query statements to verify the data integrity and validation between the front-end values with the backend database values of the application.
• Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed enhancement and modification request issues and defects in the application.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, XPath, POM, HTML, Java, Eclipse, SQL, Oracle, SCRUM, REST, TestNG, GIT, JIRA, XML, SOAP, SOAP UI

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Software Quality Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business requirement documents to interpret the requirements and provide input during requirement walkthrough sessions with system, business analysts & developers.
• Involved in Test Case walkthrough sessions with developers and other testers to ensure functional coverage through test execution.
• Responsible to recommend and implement changes to enhance the effectiveness of QA strategies.
• Responsible for Test data Preparation in Standalone, Integrated and Distributed Test Environments during test execution.
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro Check points (Object Property, text, table, XML, HTML and database).
• Tested the Functionality of each screen to monitor proper navigation in the application.
• Tested functionality including layout, colors, font sizes, labels, text boxes, text formatting, captions, buttons, icons, links and content on all the browser (IE8, IE10, Safari, and Chrome
• & Firefox).
• Coordinated with other applications to test and ensure the End-to-End functionality of the application.
• Responsible for Compliance testing to ensure the standards of the company.
• Performed Adhoc testing on engineering releases to help minimize and uncover any major issues.
• Provided training and support to other testing teams on any new or existing functionality and prepare the training documents.
• Created test plan and detailed test cases in Quality Center.
• Prepared automated weekly progress chart in Excel and uploaded for everyone’s access.
• Categorized bugs/defects based on Priority & Severity.
• Responsible for keeping track of all issues/defects for every release.
• Created test execution status and summary test report to managers
• HP Quality Center is used for Defect Reporting and Defect Verification.
• Tracked quality metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts by working closely with the development team to ensure that all defects are brought to resolution

Environment: HP Quality Centre 10.0, JIRA, HTML, XML, SQL, UNIX, Quick Test Professional (10.0), Mercury Tools, MS Visio, MS FrontPage, SQA.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Strategy meeting for developing test strategy, team strategy.
• Created Test Scenarios for different users. Work closely with the development team to understand more about the users.
• Defect management and reporting.
• Key role in transition of manual testing to Automation testing. Created and extended support in creating and developing Frameworks.
• Daily/weekly stand up meetings actively involved in training and support of end users about the new functionality of the product after major releases.

Environment: Selenium, Test NG, MS-Excel, Oracle

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform Regression testing to ensure that the changes deployed through the release do not negatively impact the application
• Key member in all the support release in validating the customer issues and reproducing the customer issues in different environments and give inputs to development team.
• Reporting and tracking of bugs through a bug reporting tool - ALM.
• Revalidating the defects once it is fixed or resolved with different scenarios and performed regression testing to find the impacted areas by fixing the defect.
• Involved in UAT testing for different customer builds and giving early report to the developer team.

Environment: QC, Selenium Webdriver

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with business and tech teams to understand functionalities focusing more on which may not be documented.
• Analysing and reviewing the documentation, test cases, and see if it is aligned with actual requirements.
• Developed Test plans, Test cases, scripts and Test Data. Performed extensive Data driven testing.
• Test Management activities like maintaining test scripts and raising defects using HP Quality Center or HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
• Preparing Test case execution status reports and reporting them to the leadership team.
• Test those defects which are fixed and perform Regression testing.

Environment: Waterfall, Quality Center