EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 6 years of experience in the Software Industry in QA Manual/Automation Testing of Web applications.
• Expertise in various aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle including Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Execution, and Maintenance.
• Hands on with Cucumber, TestNG, POM framework and extracted data from external files using Apache POI and loaded into the variables in the scripted code.
• Plan, write, and execute automated tests using scripts and/or record/playback tools.
• Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkins format.
• Experience in automating test cases using TestNG, Cucumber, GIT version control & Maven.
• Proficient in the creation and execution of test plans, defect tracking, and requirement coverage.
• Practical knowledge of Object - Oriented Programming Concepts (OOPS) and Java.
• Coordinated with users for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing.
• Actively involved in QA planning, testing and familiarity with Agile/Scrum/Sprint environment.
• Experienced in all phases of functional, regression UAT and Load testing.
• Familiar with Web Service (REST) for validating Web Services using Postman/Soap UI.
• Created and tested queries in the database to conduct data integrity testing.
• Interacted with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and developers in reviews and solving problems encountered in the application.
• Expertise in various types of testing like Smoke testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, Black-box testing, GUI testing and UAT testing.
• Writing optimized XPath and CSS to locate various web elements - static, dynamic objects.
• Managed and used defect management tool - JIRA for bug tracking and closures.
• Experienced with Jenkins as Continuous Integration server, Schedule jobs to run at regular intervals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database Systems: MS SQL Server- 2008/2012

Testing Hands-on: HP Quality Center/ALM - Test Plan, Test Lab

Programming Languages/Scripting: Core Java, C/C++, HTML5, Gherkins

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid

Web Service tools: Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, SOAP UI

Defect Tracking: JIRA, IBM Rational ClearQuest

SCM / Version Control: GitHub, Tortoise SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System specification documents, Business requirement documents to identify test requirements.
• Developed automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver and used Java frameworks to develop the manual test scripts and executed them using Cucumber framework.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements and performed gap analysis.
• Executed Web Services functional testing and created test suites for validating using Soap UI/JMeter.
• Used Maven to help manage project’s build, report and documentation across the network.
• Participated actively in continuous integration of the automation framework using Jenkins.
• Logging defects, tracking and working with developers to drive them to closure using JIRA.
• Generated Selenium test reports using Extent Reports and Logs for quality assurance.
• Developed and maintained reusable test scripts to ensure complete requirement test coverage.
• Experienced with agile software development, TFS and install best practices into the process.
• Collaborating with developers and other constituents involved in development, testing and release.
• Monitoring and analyzing the testing process, making recommendations for improvements.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Apache POI, REST, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, Rest Assured, MS Office, SQL, Maven, Jira, Cucumber, Gherkins, Eclipse IDE.

QA Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Writing, executing and maintenance of automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver.
• Design behavior driven framework for selenium automation using Webdriver, Java and Cucumber.
• Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver to develop automation scripts.
• Performed various testing activities - functional testing and cross-browser compatibility testing.
• Involved in performing integration and regression testing to check backward compatibility of new functionality/features along with end-to-end testing of the new releases in Workplace engagement.
• Experienced with Regression and functional testing with Selenium for Test Scenarios, Test Cases.
• Used Maven to help manage project’s build, report and documentation across the network.
• Participated actively in continuous integration of the automation framework using Jenkins.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, GRID, Cucumber, Gherkins, POM, Maven, Jenkins, Web Services, REST, Oracle Data base, Eclipse IDE, HTML.

Automation Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Testing web applications against functional requirements using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG framework.
• Execute automated/manual testing plans and document defects in defect tracking system (JIRA).
• Design and develop automated processes to increase testing efficiency and reliability.
• Support/Co-ordinate test automation through planning, analyzing, designing and executing test cases utilizing a variety frameworks/tools (TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Maven)
• Partnering with development to compare their code with the test automation code to ensure both will interact together.
• Conduct QA reviews and inspections to find potential defects and recommend corrective action.
• Design Object Repository in the Selenium framework using XPath and CSS locators.
• Used Jenkins as a continuous integration tool to schedule and run the automated test scripts.
• Interact with the Business Analysts for requirement analysis, test case reviews.
• Actively participated in daily scrum meetings and involved in bi-weekly Sprint releases.
• Perform Functional testing, Smoke testing and Regression testing.

Environment: MS Office, SQL, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jira, ClearQuest, HP ALM

QA Software Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Testing various beta Web applications through QC/ALM test plans/sprinter in Test Labs.
• Knowledgeable of creating VTM, DTM for quality assurance and requirement and test coverages.
• Recording and maintaining defects in JIRA for quality assurance and defect management.
• Hands-on with HP ALM for Requirement Spec/ Test Planning/ Execution/ Defect Tracking.
• Defect verification, bug reproduction to ensure a good quality product and defect closures.
• Following up with the development team for open defects and reporting status to Test Lead.
• Actively participating in CCB meetings to efficiently assign defects to respective teams.
• Importing data/test information from Excel sheets to ALM for various projects.
• Regression testing to ensure the defect has been addressed in the application to close the defects.
• Generating test reports and pie charts/ bar graphs through the completion of testing and verification.
• Reporting and sharing data disposition to team leads and communicating with different departments.

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM, DOORS, JIRA, SQL server, Windows 2003.