SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of professional experience with specialization in Software Quality Assurance and Testing, extensive experience with web - based applications, web logs, and web data analysis.
• Handsome experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle/ Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC) and their interrelationships.
• Solid experience of Waterfall Model, AGILE Methodologies and Scrum processes
• Solid experience of Defect/Test Management tools Quality Center
• Strong experience as an Automation QA analyst with Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, JAVA, TestNG & Selenium Grid and other manual and automation tools.
• Expertise in writing Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in JAVA for highly transactional E-commerce websites.
• Experience in developing end to end automation using Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/Grid, Junit/TestNG
• Key expertise includes testing & debugging GUI& Multi-Applications environment & automated testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in customizing Selenium API to suit in testing environment
• Experience in developing and executing manual and automated tests in different platforms using Java and the Selenium library
• Experience in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using Selenium
• Involved in Section 508 Compliance Testing
• Strong experience in cross browser, cross platform web testing with Selenium RC and Web Driver
• Experience in developing Keyword-Driven & Hybrid Framework using Selenium WebDriver
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team and track the bugs till closure
• Good Knowledge in writing SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performing Database testing
• Proficient knowledge in using basic SQL queries to perform back end testing for data integrity.
• Strong communication & interaction with Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, Management
• Strong experience of E-commerce, Insurance, Trading and Hospital Management domains
• Extensive technical and management experience in process development and polymer processing for various applications in the medical devices and petrochemical industries.
• Experience with system development lifecycle experience including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes.
• Proven as a creative analytical thinker to resolve and work on new/undefined challenges in various technologies & products and considered subject matter expert by peers.

STRENGTHS:

• Several years of customer interface experience to solve critical problems - Software Testing, New process and product development of medical devices
• Strong verbal, written and presentational skills.
• Possess ability to tune my mind-set with the requirements of the situations.
• Ability to support and sustain a positive work environment that fosters team performance with strong communication and relationship management skills
• Action oriented and result-focused
• Lead and work as a team in an organized way
• Experience working as a QA manager in the polymer industry
• 20+ years of polymer processing expertise including working with Styrene, Silicone and Urethane processes and products
• Developed polymer-based films, components and assemblies for medical device applications
• Experience with process and product development, quality control and material validation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/RC/WebDriver/GRID, Test Link

Languages: Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS

Scripting Languages: Java Script, SQL

Test Framework: TestNG, Linear, Modular, Keyword Driven, Data Driven, BPT and Hybrid

Web Debugging Tools: Eclipse, XPath, AutoIT, FireBug, FirePath

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Fire Fox

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/8/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Landover, MD

Selenium/Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Business Requirement Analysis by thoroughly understanding Project Design Document and Business Requirement Document.
• Designed and developed Automation framework both Data driven and Hybrid using Selenium WebDriver in Java and performing unit testing by using TestNG.
• Developed/Updated System Test Plan, Test scenarios and Test Scripts as per the requirements
• Developed Selenium Automation framework - Created a hybrid framework (Keyword and Data driven) on Selenium using TestNG.
• Used Java language and TestNG framework for scripting.
• Developed and executed White box test cases of the Java API using TestNG framework & Eclipse.
• Identified test cases to automate. Automate those test cases using Selenium WebDriver and Java (Eclipse IDE)
• Performed Section 508 Compliance Testing using JAWS
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and created selenium automation scripts in Java
• Used XPath to work with dynamic and static objects in Selenium
• Used Selenium WebDriver used to test search results of search engine

Environment: J2EE, Selenium (IDE WebDriver), Selenium (2.42.0), TestNG, Eclipse, XPATH, HTML, JavaScript, MS Excel, Mozilla Firefox.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Selenium QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases based on the all the requirement documents.
• Raised Queries/Ambiguities for the requirements in QC.
• Planning for Test Execution activities to accomplish tasks on daily/weekly basis.
• Tested the complete Java based web application.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and created selenium automation scripts in Java
• Involved in automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG.
• Restful Web Service testing using Http Client Java library.
• Responsible for Test Execution with Functional testing , Regression and End to End.
• Execute test cases and logged defects in QC. Regression testing once bug is fixed.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from oracle database
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end SQL Server.
• Prepared daily Execution status reports, defect analysis, test summary report and Sign off documents.
• Interacted with team and manager for testing issues and test progress reporting.
• Attended defect call and follow up defect for quick resolution.

Environment: Manual Testing, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, SQL, Windows.

Confidential, Apex, NC

Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed new methods and applications using Dip Molding of polyurethanes/silicones for medical device industry
• Worked extensively with polymer films and laminates, medical tubing, medical balloons, polymer bags and bladder for diverse medical device applications
• Developed silicone balloon processes for Uterus applications
• Experience with new film development for controlled gas release for wound care products
• Extensive experience with coating and formulation development for several medical device applications - Stents, Wound Care, Breast Implant applications
• Worked on various process development roles including proof of concept, building prototypes and continuous improvement

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Facilities planning and equipment procurement

Confidential

Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for polystryrene (EPS/GPPS/HIPS) product development
• Served as a key account technologist and helped customers from Middle-East and Europe to resolve, troubleshoot and improve EPS/GPPS/HIPS processes
• Studied kinetics of polystyrene polymerization and understood influence of impurities on product performance in polystyrene recycle stream - Elucidated structure-property-processing relationships in polystyrene processing
• Worked on GPPS/SBS blends to improve product sales
• Maintained and troubleshooted styrene process equipment to reduce downtime and improve cycle time
• Studied the shelf life of packaged products under typical warehouse conditions to improve profitability
• Performed coating formulation studies to improve process/product performance and cost improvement
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures, trained technicians and gave technical presentations to operations/sales personnel

Confidential

Manager - Quality Control

Responsibilities:

• Supervised 19 personnel working in the quality control department
• Responsible for study of raw material requirements, operations, flow sheets, final product specifications for ethyl benzene, styrene, polystyrene, Confidential plants
• Developed new test methods and served as a key customer technical support interface for styrene process
• Established formulation process development and operations line for high impact polystyrene product line
• Vendor qualification of polybutadiene rubbers and other materials from companies including Enichem, Ashai, IPCL and Bayer
• Introduced initiator process chemistry into the product formulations for improving productivity

Confidential

Operations Assistance Chemist

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for EPS/GPPS/HIPS (various polystryrenes) product development
• Technical lead for shifting from Alumina to Zeolite catalyst for ethyl benzene, styrene and polystyrene processes
• Assisted with revamp of Ethylbutadiene process development
• Evaluated retarders for ethyl benzene and styrene column preparation