PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strong and passionate QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Automation and Manual, excellent leadership, communication, software analysis, and technical skills seeking to thrive in a team - oriented environment.
• Expertise in White Box Testing, Manual Testing, Automated Testing using tools Selenium IDE/ WebDriver, HP Quality Center/ALM, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, SOAP UI.
• Strong Knowledge and experience of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience writing and executing manual and automated test cases.
• Experience writing test plans based on business requirement documents, stories, and mock ups.
• Good experience on Selenium Automation using WebDriver and Server. Heavy programming using Java, TestNG.
• Work experience in integrating Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) on Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for nightly batch run of the Script.
• Good experience in creating automation framework along with developing, executing and maintaining automation testing script with Selenium WebDriver.
• Strong knowledge and experience using Selenium WebDriver in order to develop automation frameworks for functional testing.
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI, XML, & WSDL. Providing required input data to request XML & get the required data from response XML & use the response data from other request XML using SOAP UI.
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development.
• Experience providing customer support and assistance to end-users.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills used to keep the team on track to meet important deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of GIT and Source version control.
• Strong knowledge of Java, and SQL.
• Strong experience in Test planning, Test design, Test Status Reports, Execution and Defect management.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, System, Integration, Smoke, Functional, Back-end, GUI Testing, Regression and Performance testing.
• Excellent knowledge on different testing frame works like Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid frame works.
• Experience communicating with and assisting key business stakeholders and clients.
• Strong knowledge and experience using JIRA and HP ALM for defect and sprint management.
• Experience testing web, desktop, and mobile applications both manually and with automation.
• Experience working in a very fast-paced agile environment.
• Able to adjust when requirements change frequently to cater to client needs.
• Has a “Test to break” attitude.
• Detail-oriented and ability to learn quickly.
• Good analytical, presentation and communication skills and Experience in handling multiple projects at the same time within deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/WebDriver/Grid, TestNG, Quality Center, SOAP UI

Languages: Core Java

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java script

Defect Tracking Tools: ClearQuest, BugZilla, Jira

Build Tools: Maven

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins

Versioning Tools: GIT, SVN

Database: Oracle, MySQL

Operating System: Windows Variants, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Walla Walla, WA

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated all technical documents applicable to tests. Developed various test techniques for software applications.
• Conducted manual execution of test cases for new features with each release cycle to check application functionality.
• Designed, developed and implemented MVC Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.
• Created Test plan, High level scenarios, test case construction and test estimates, resource estimates and weekly status reports.
• Implemented Page Object Model Automation framework with Java, Selenium WebDriver.
• Performed Data driven testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG functions and JDBC Connections which reads data from scripts using property and XML files.
• Used TestNG framework to run unit test and Maven to build the Project.
• Used Java language and TestNG framework for scripting. Used Maven for building the WebDriver project. Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
• Involved in Functional Testing as Unit test, Method test, Test Suite, Integration Testing using different TestNG methods.
• Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in Selenium Web Driver.
• Wrote Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites.
• Monitored the test execution in Jenkins once the code pushed into CI.
• Contributed to the Continuous Integration pipeline running component builds, creating and running Deployment jobs on individual stages on Jenkins, and running automated and manual functional tests.
• Created data-driven automation scripts for testing API Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Testing a complex Web based application with backend validation in mainframes and using SOAP UI.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Used GIT for code repositories and Maven for the dependencies.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Jenkins, TestNG, SOAP UI, Firebug, Eclipse, ALM (QC11.5), XML, HTML, agile, Oracle, GIT, Windows.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated all technical documents applicable to tests. Developed various test techniques for software applications
• Created Test plan, High level scenarios, test case construction and test estimates, resource estimates and weekly status reports.
• Prepared detailed test scenarios and test cases to validate the functionality of the features by studying the user stories and mock-up documents.
• Executed test cases manually and tracked the bugs by entering in the Defect Tracking System with appropriate severity, priority and details.
• Prepared Test Data and executed Test Cases from Quality Center.
• Stimulated financial calculations for a given formula for a given period.
• Involved in Life cycle test for various products.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using.
• Worked on parameterizations, calling/copying, Check points heavily.
• Performed Database testing by writing SQL Statements for various Business transactions on Oracle.
• Extensively performed manual testing using Quality Center.
• Involved in defect reporting and bug tracking using Quality Center and Share point.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports.
• Conducted various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status reports.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Environment: Java, Firebug, Eclipse, SVN, ALM (QC11.5), XML, HTML, Git, agile, Oracle, Windows.

Confidential

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans and test cases in concert with system engineers and web designers.
• Involved validating sites across browsers and operating systems, the accuracy of links, visual presentation and its alignment with design specifications, and database updates.
• Tested the application manually prior to automation for functional testing.
• Performed Manual performance testing to identify various critical points in the application.
• Created Test Cases Test Plans and Test labs using Quality Centre.
• Supported new and existing products by configuring and testing software products and software components of a website.
• Provided Estimates for testing and updated the Project Plan with the testing timelines.
• Wrote SQL queries and statements to test database for retrieving information.
• Coordinated the walkthrough and kickoff meetings with developers and project managers.

Environment: Java, Quality Center, Oracle, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows.