PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing (Manual & Automation), proficient in testing on Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall Model.
• Experience in applying Testing Methodologies, creating Test Plans, Test Automation Planning, Developing and Execution of Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Tracking and Custom Report Generation.
• Independently analyzes issues, recommends software changes and writes detailed bug reports. Creates and maintains ownership of test cases and test results throughout SDLC
• Expertise in Smoke Testing, Backed end Testing, Black - Box/White Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Boundary Value Testing.
• Experience in developing end to end automation using Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/Grid, Junit/TestNG, Maven, Jenkins and Cucumber.
• Key expertise includes testing & debugging GUI & Multi-Applications environment & automated testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Experienced in developing and executing manual and automated tests in different platforms using Java and the Selenium library.
• Good Knowledge in Web Service testing by using SoapUI.
• Experienced in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using Selenium.
• Experienced in using Maven build tools to manage framework dependency jar files.
• Experience in using Jenkins/Hudson as a Continuous Integration server to configure with Maven.
• Experience in the development of Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium.
• Proficient in Back-end Database Testing and writing SQL queries, Joins, Procedures using Oracle and SQL Server.
• Excellent knowledge in writing unique XPath using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
• Expert using open source bug tracking tool JIRA, Quality Center and BugZilla.
• Provided process leadership and projects management within the Quality Assurance Team, including researching, recommending and implementing quality process improvements and automation tools, and mentoring other Quality Assurance staff.
• Experience in using Version One.
• Exposure to all aspects of Testing, Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Production Support.
• Proven strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills and great attention to details.
• Excellent experience in troubleshooting software applications for business functions in major areas of the business and enterprise-wide.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Communication and Presentation skills, and always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform Environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/GRID, QTP, Quality Center, Soap UI, ALM, Cucumber

Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, XML, Shell Script

Test Framework: Junit, TestNG

AgileScrum, Waterfall, V: Model

Defect Tracking Tools: Jira, BugZilla, IBM Rational ClearQuest

Build Tools: Ant, Maven

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity

MS: Office Suite(Word, Excel, Access), MS-Project and MS-Visual Studio

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows variants, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Sprint Reviews
• Interacted with business users and different teams for understanding of the business and better application development.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, sprint planning and Refinement sessions.
• Participated in Sprint Retro.
• Prepare test cases from User stories.
• Performed complete System and Regression testing.
• Involved in creating Test data from Hogan.
• Worked in Onshore/Offshore delivery model.
• Responsible for providing test cases and executing them within an AGILE software development SCRUM environment
• Directly Interact with Project Teams, Developers, Business Analysts and Clients for Test requirements, clarifications and Testing.
• Provide daily status report, defect matrices, daily updates in standup meeting; Provide daily status report on task assigned to the Project Manager/Client.
• Extensive experience in test execution and preparation of test summary report.
• Designed and Executed Test cases in QC.
• Raising defects and following till the defect closure.
• Actively involved with scrum and sprint meetings, managing product backlog, removing obstacles to progress, re-allocating resources where necessary, prioritizing and review milestones and s

Confidential, FL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Functional/regression Test Cases/Scripts in HP Quality Center under Test Plan, And Review Test Requirements, Creating Test Plans and Test Strategy documents.
• Developed project plan, business requirements through information gathering with business owners.
• Designed specification, test plan, test scripts for UAT, traceability matrix, and validation summary report.
• This project also involved migration of all user, data from a legacy application to Sum Total LMS.
• Responsible for providing test cases and executing them within an AGILE software development SCRUM environment
• Directly Interact with Project Teams, Developers, Business Analysts and Clients for Test requirements, clarifications and Testing.
• Provide daily status report, defect matrices, daily updates to lead; Provide daily status report on task assigned to the Project Manager/Client.
• Extensive experience in test execution and preparation of test summary report.
• Prepared the traceability matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered.
• Developed automated scripts for performing Regression Testing through Selenium WebDriver.
• Hands on experience in Develop Automation Scripts, Execution and Analysis.
• Raising defects and following till the defect closure.
• Actively involved with scrum and sprint meetings, managing product backlog, removing obstacles to progress, re-allocating resources where necessary, prioritizing and review milestones and s
• Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG and Maven).
• Developed and Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver and Java. Used Eclipse IDE to develop & debug the code.
• Tested applications in different types of browsers and versions, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome to simulate production environment.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database.
• Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.
• Worked in the form of sprint team with business analysts and developers in Agile methodology.
• Run Regression and Functional Testing in an Agile-Scrum environment.
• Attend Daily Sync meetings to discuss feature priorities and test timelines.
• Reran failed assessments if needed; notified team and investigated failures as needed
• Experience with the SDLC in an AGILE testing environment
• Experience with lifecycle defect management.
• Conducting functional, ad-hoc and exploratory testing across different operating systems, browsers, mobile devices.
• Recording and reporting defects while working closely with QA Leads and Project Managers.
• Involved in UAT testing in UAT environment, Prepared UAT test cases and testing estimates.
• Involved on testing the new functionality based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues, Defect Management by Logging and Tracking bugs during execution in Test lab.

Environment: .Net, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Quality Center, XPath, DOM, WebServices, agile, Apache, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, SQL, Windows.

Confidential, MA

Automation Tester/Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes complex requirements and implement appropriate test strategy and test cases.
• Contributes to project planning, estimation and project tracking
• Design, develop and implemented Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.
• Designed and Developed Test Cases for automated testing using Selenium, TestNG and Eclipse IDE.
• Provided and mentoring to testers on areas of expertise.
• Develops, documents, debugs and maintains automated test scripts in accordance with requirements
• Extensively involved in identifying test cases to automate. Automate those test cases using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Java (Eclipse IDE).
• Participated in Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Confidential

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Specification, System Requirements Specification and User Interface Specification documents.
• Developed Test Plans, Test scenarios, Test Cases.
• Involved in setting up different configuration environment for compatibility testing and manual testing.
• Designed and executed test plans and test cases, generate test scripts and test scenarios.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Wrote and executed test cases and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Prepared test cases, according to the business specification and wrote test scripts and maintained them.
• Executed manual testing to perform functional testing on the user interface.
• Performed Integration testing, Acceptance testing manually.
• Performed ad-hoc, Functional, Regression, Integration and Compatibility Testing of Web-based Application.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Quality Center, for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up of the bug life cycle.
• Carried out extensive Backend Testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data by Writing SQL queries using Management Studio Tool.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports.

Environment : Java, Manual testing, SQL, Quality Center, Windows.

Confidential

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Specification, System Requirements Specification and User Interface Specification documents.
• Developed Test Plans, Test scenarios, Test Cases.
• Involved in setting up different configuration environment for compatibility testing and manual testing.
• Designed and executed test plans and test cases, generate test scripts and test scenarios.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Wrote and executed test cases and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Hands on experience on 508 compliance Testing.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports