SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience in various domains like Cable & Media, Insurance and Retail.
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Analysis, Planning, Design, Execution and Reporting.
• Worked on various development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall models.
• Skilled in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Root Cause Analysis.
• Involved in all different types of testing on the applications - Smoke testing, Black Box testing, Functional testing, UI testing, Integration testing, Sanity Testing, API Testing, System testing, Exploratory testing and Regression testing. Comprehensive knowledge in Defect Tracking and Prevention and Reporting
• Experience in automation scripts execution and analysis as well as manual testing. Basic knowledge on Unix and SNMP commands.
• Experience in UI testing and data collection from Splunk
• Hands-on experience of using HP/Mercury Interactive Test Suite (Quick Test Pro, Quality Center).
• Good experience of using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test Manager.
• Worked on SOAP UI for web services testing
• Proficient in developing and executing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts from Requirements documents, Design documents, Use Cases and Wireframes.
• Very good experience in creating test scenarios requirement documents and preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Experience with checking Log files using UNIX commands.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and helped them for UAT.
• Knowledge on Cable & Media- Video Management domain and have conducted knowledge management and training programs in the project organizational level.
• Very good experience in writing SQL queries to verify database validations and also to gather the test data required for testing.
• Worked with different teams on the project and executed End-to-End testing.
• Experience conducting defect review meetings with development team and business analysts.
• Experienced in Configuration Management and served as Project CC (Configuration Controller) responsible in performing monthly CC audits and documentation.
• Good communication and analytical skills, hardworking, quick learner, yearning to take challenging tasks and zest to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows, Windows XP and MAC.

Bug Tracking Tool: HP QC, HP ALM, JIRA

Other Tools: Jenkins, Confluence, Splunk, SOAP UI, Putty, QTP, TFS, MTM, JIRA, SharePoint, Tortoise SVN, Eclipse IDE,GitHub

Automation and Coding Knowledge: Selenium Webdriver, TestComplete and Java

CPE devices: Video gateways, Broadband Gateways, Wifi Clients, Smart Home Equipments

DB Tools: MySQL, Oracle XE

Testing: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, API Testing, Stability Testing, Automation Testing.

Domain: Cable&Media, Insurance and Retail.

Testing Methodology: Agile and waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed automation scripting of the entire web application using TAW (Test Automation Web) which is an In-house tool written in Selenium that uses XPATH
• Automation script (3000) was used for regression testing which were run on daily basis to ensure the application is stable
• Adding to performing regression, new scripts were also created on daily basis whenever the application has brought in new features or changes in existing features.
• The TAW tool was built in such a way that once regression is completed the results will be automatically triggered as a mail to the Scrum Master/Product Owner.
• I have also written lot of common functionalities that can be reused by other team members which saved considerable amount of development effort.
• Mentoring and managing the team and involved in Reviewing Test Data and Test Scenarios

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis from the given User Stories
• Preparation of Test cases based on the acceptance criteria.
• Developed SQL Queries to validate business conditions for Life Insurances.
• Automated certain calculation of different types of funds through Macros.
• E2E testing in the end of each Sprint, defect reporting and tracking in JIRA on daily basis
• Reviewed existing documentation on the testing application and communicate issues with other teams (development, other life insurance applications team within LFAB like Ettliv, Kundalslagret)
• Managing weekly Grooming session and Sprint Planning
• Reporting the Sprint test status in Sprint and preparation of test reports for each Sprint

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional, Regression, Stability, Performance and Adhoc testing of the X1 devices.
• Performed manual test execution for mDVR and WHDVR involving various home network configurations.
• Involved in VOD and PPV testing. Testing of Smart Home configurations and devices.
• Involved in Playback, Recording, Tuners and Trickplay testing of X1 devices.
• Deft in giving knowledge transfer sessions about X1 devices to the team.
• Responsible for gathering requirements from client and giving analysis report.
• Execution of automated scripts of mDVR functionalities based out of Java environment which involves performing ingest activity, bulk result analysis, script and log analysis
• Monitored and performed analysis on MoCA stability across different home networks
• Involved in testing of Tuners in an MDVR set up for X1 devices.
• Created and executed the smoke tests in the pre-production and "go live" environment.
• Freeze and audio monitoring of the X1 devices
• Involved in defect reporting, tracking, triaging and retest.
• Preparing Test beds for each firmware release and creation of test cases on new feature release
• Preparing Weekly Status Report for X1 devices
• Responsible for preparing test reports for each firmware release
• Responsible for daily Scrum calls and preparing status reports

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Sanity and Adhoc testing of the DTA devices connected to Arris and Cisco Headends
• Performed Stability testing of the DTA devices from different vendors on various load levels
• Experience in Authorization and De-authorization of the channels in various channel maps from both DAC (CASMR - Arris) and DNCS (DTACS - Cisco) controllers
• Performed Closed Captioning, EAS and Video resolution testing of DTA devices
• Performed Channel map testing on various vendors of DTAs
• Involved in Functional and Regression testing of the DTAs for each firmware release
• Involved in defect reporting, tracking, triaging and retest.
• Preparing Test beds for each firmware release and creation of test cases on new feature release
• Preparing Weekly Status Report for DTA devices
• Responsible for preparing test reports for each firmware release
• Responsible for daily Scrum calls and preparing status reports

Confidential

Agile Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Product Owner, Developers and Scrum Master to carry out the testing within the sprint effectively
• Responsible for defect identification, writing test procedures, and reporting metrics
• Collaborated with all stakeholders in the quality assurance and development process
• Performed planning and estimation of efforts in each sprint, had daily interaction with clients, developers and stakeholders in daily sync up calls
• Responsible for executing test strategy, writing test scripts, and creating automated GUI.
• Responsible for conducting manual exploratory testing under the guidelines of senior testers
• Analysing UAT issues root cause to improve the quality of testing and the product delivered
• Logged all the defects and tracked the efforts and requirements using JIRA Tool