PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Results - driven technical professional with a career-long record of operations, project development, and management success for leading organizations
• Proven talent for aligning technical strategy and business objectives with established project development paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures.
• Detail-oriented leader with expertise spanning strategic planning, manual and automation testing, troubleshooting, problem solving, process improvement, root cause analysis, customized scripts, defect reports, requirement gathering, design specification, coding, maintenance, migration, web services, applications, databases, mobile devices, emulators, budget management, policy management, resource allocation, product development, and performance assessment.
• Exceptionally dedicated professional with keen interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Expert in Black Box (Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence partitioning) White Box (Data Flow Testing, Branch Testing), and Grey Box Testing (Regression Testing, Pattern Testing).
• Expertise in testing of web based applications, databases, Mobile testing devices and on Emulators finding defects using browserstack.com and saucelabs.com.
• Experienced with possible vulnerability testing techniques like XSS(cross-site scripting), Buffer overflow, session fixation and security testing too testing access levels.
• Good knowledge in phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
• Experienced with Agile Scrum for project execution and product development, as well as active participant in Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement, and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Have used Five Why’s, Fishbone Diagram, and Pareto Chart for root cause analysis.
• Utilized a variety of add-ons on Firefox and Chrome for automated browser testing like AXE, CSS and XPATH checker enabling significant time and money savings.
• Have written very good defect reports using screenshots helping developers to fix defect fast and maintain the speed of the project execution.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Languages: Java, C++, HTML, SQL, Python (Robot Framework)

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, IOS, Android

IDE: Eclipse, Pycharm

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver, JIRA (for Agile Testing), SOAP UI, Bugzilla, Jmeter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded projects from conceptualization through execution, ensuring compliance with established deadlines by monitoring progress through a Scrum burndown chart.
• Conducted UI testing, using Selenium automation: client service environment Confidential OTA STB (set-top) and mini vox .
• Enhanced apps through low battery, call interruption, screen size, portrait, landscape, shaking, and airplane mode tests.
• Supervised rest services and data-driven testing, as well as front-end, back-end, UI, full-functional, integration, and regression testing for a variety of products (e.g. DVR, front-end technologies), using SOAP UI, Java and other programs.
• Strategized tests plans, including estimating QA time in the sprint planning and updating scripts as necessary.
• Composed and implemented test cases based on PBIs, reporting effective QA procedures and processes while adhering to application code requirements.
• Tracked bugs in Jira, capturing screenshots and creating video files of the bugs to escalate the issues efficiently.
• Optimized user stories in Agile, including overseeing login and logout improvements, security testing, and accessibility testing for various levels.
• Work with development teams to investigate and fix software bugs/defects based on the test results.
• Collaborated with customers and onsite/offshore developers to execute full lifecycle software development projects.
• Designed, developed, maintained, and extended automated testing frameworks, including API-level, end-to-end, performance, component, security, and user acceptance tests.
• Partnered with developers on triaging and troubleshooting defects, as well as enhancing testing through in-depth understanding of the system and source code.
• Advanced company initiatives by discussing project progress and impediments in daily scrum meetings.
• Collaborated with the Scrum Master, product managers, and product developers on creating and executing innovative solutions according to product specifications.
• Performed testing (e.g. equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis) on web and mobile applications, enabling customers to receive accurate price quotes and smooth transaction process.
• Tested for possible vulnerabilities like cross scripting and session fixation and did regression tests as these websites are dynamically changing for enhanced user interactive experience.

Confidential

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Carried out testing on new payment bank involved end to end testing including user registration, log in to paying bills.
• Authored the manual and automation testing framework for most UI experience.
• Collaborated on the Confidential Payment Sandbox (Virtual Environment) and initiated application process that made requests to Confidential API’s without touching any live Confidential accounts.
• Tested the mobile application which involved in smooth transaction of recharging the prepaid cards and paying bills; evaluated the accurate recharge prices by doing BVA (Boundary Value) analysis.
• Implemented test cases on Product backlogs items and focused on functional testing and did regression testing in the test suite.
• Tracked and identified bugs in Jira; collaborated with developers to fix the defect and streamline the process in Agile methodology.
• Set up the environment and installation of releases on UNIX test servers in each sprint.
• Troubleshoot the environment set up and configuration issues.
• Partook in sprint meetings for preparing test plans, analyzing business requirements, functional requirements and technical design to develop test cases.
• Certified test coverage via Requirement Traceability Verification Matrix (RTVM).
• Performed database testing on Linux platform using SQL developer.
• Carried out mediation testing, telecom network data processing, analyzing, end to end data validation and testing using SQL queries.
• Entrusted with sending out test scope via email, daily testing status and final testing status of each sprint.
• Completed security testing using Burp Suite and Performance testing using Jmeter.
• Created test cases, systems and sanity testing, as well as regression testing.
• GUI Testing (Multi-monitor, Resolution, Multi-Browsers) and security testing using BURP tool.
• Performed load and stress testing using JMETER tool.
• Sent out test scope via email, daily testing status and final testing status along with exit report.