SUMMARY:

• I am a QA Tester with over 7+ years of experience (all in the United States). I have worked in various testing environments on a variety of projects. I have experience working with different types of testing tools. I have extensive experience in both Manual and Automated Testing, while working for companies in the banking/finance industry, law and public policy industry.
• Certified Software Tester
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile and Non - Agile: Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
• Excellent knowledge of SDLC and QA Methodology.
• Defect tracking skills to ensure the issue is completed from beginning to end.
• Strong knowledge of Testing Automation, Performance and best practices in QA Process.
• Extensive experience in functional, unit, integration, regression testing, Automation testing, and Black box testing in different stage of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in creating and executing very large and complex End to End Test Scripts across different
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, defect testing, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile developmental environment.
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies such as Scrum/Agile.
• Excellent communication skills, team attitude and ability to work in fast pace environment.
• Extensively knowledge in creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Proficient in Requirement Analysis and Metrics Collection, Preparing Status Reports and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Extensively experienced in System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black Box Testing, Integration Testing, Positive Testing and Negative Testing.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plans from the requirements using Jira and IBM CLM. .
• Skilled in writing Test Cases in Excel or Word with import into the Jira and IBM CLM. Experienced in logging defects and assigning the criticality of Defects, Root Cause Analysis, and Bug Verification using Jira and IBM CLM.
• Conversant in developing Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test procedures, Test reports and documenting Manual and begin Automation Testing.
• Experience in Black Box testing for functionality and structural flow of an application.
• Experience using Google Suite (Gmail, Google Docs, etc.)
• Organizing and Documented testing processes such as Developing Test Conditions, Test Scripts as well as Weekly Status Reports. Used multiple defect tracking tools such as Jira, CLM and Visual Studio.
• Experienced in performing functional and regression testing using automated test scripts.
• Experienced in using Java for writing automation script.
• Expertise on using selenium webdriver libraries to convert test cases to automated test scripts.
• Competence in building data driven, keyword driven frameworks.
• Experienced in working with testing framework including Junit and TestNG.
• Experienced in creating data driven framework using Apache POI library.
• Familiar with Behavior driven development using cucumber.
• Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management, Excellent interpersonal, communication & writing skills.
• Proven ability to Assure Quality Project/Product in on time and on budget.
• Strong knowledge of Testing Automation, Performance and best practices in QA Process.
• Extensive experience in functional, unit, integration, regression testing, Automation testing, and Black box testing in different stage of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in creating and executing very large and complex End to End Test Scripts across different application Interfaces Automated, Performance, 508 and Manual.
• Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual testing strategies to identify risks and issues, design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.
• Experienced in error-reporting and bug-tracking by using test management tools such as Jira and ALM.
• Enthusiastic team player, goal-oriented, and self-motivated. Able to work independently to achieve complex objectives and be able to meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Junit, TestNG, Apache Poi, Jenkins, Maven, Jira, eclipse, Git, Telerik Test Studio

Defect Tracking Tool: Jira, Visual Studio, CLM

Operating Systems: Windows 2k/03, XP, Vista,07,08, Linux, Mac

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle 10g, MSSQL 2k/05/08

Languages: Java, C#, C++, XML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Software: MS Project, MS Office Suite, Google Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Engineer

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirement.
• Wrote Test Cases using MS Excel.
• Created Test Cases for each module based on the Design Document, then presented to the client accordingly.
• Gathered requirements from the client to edit and create new versions of Design Document for testing.
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirement .
• Wrote Test Cases using MS Excel.
• Assisted in setting up automated testing framework from scratch with the use of open source tools, selenium web driver
• Implemented TestNG as the main framework, with the use of annotations I organized and ran our test cases
• Created smoke, and regressions suite for the automation framework, and generate reports showing the test results.
• Implemented Page Object Model for better reusability of code.
• Team used Jira in the initial phases of the project, then switched over to IBM’s CLM
• Performed data driven testing by data driver wizard and parameterization.
• Monitored and reviewed the test cases prepared by the team.
• Conducted and participated in weekly status meetings with testing team.
• Executed the test scripts and logged the defects using Jira.
• Conducted and participated in defects review meetings with team.
• Tested this application on devices.
• Performed data verification and validation of UI.
• Creating and updating test cases based on new and/or /updated functional or interface requirements
• Performed software web testing for multi-family lending group commercial loan origination packages .
• Performed manual functional and regression testing as well as automated testing in Web applications for aggregate debt, commercial data warehouse and automated appraisal and schedules of real estate owned.
• Performed requirement traceability by setting automatic alerts for tracing changes in the requirements and system maintenance.
• Penned and executed automated test cases using Selenium ID and WebDriver to automate.
• Functioned on creating test case for Object -driven framework for selenium WebDriver.
• Complicated in automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirement.
• Wrote Test Cases using MS Excel and uploaded them onto our product development tool (CLM)
• Performed SIT on the Position Reconciliation module which enables agencies to reconcile their position counts, salaries and fringe benefits to that in the Enterprise Budgeting System.
• Performed manual testing, positive and negative testing as well as a lot of regression testing throughout the project.
• Responsible for reporting bugs to the corporate bug tracking system, verified them against new builds.
• Team used Selenium for Automation Testing, along with the QA Lead I help build framework using TestNG, responsibilities included working with the QA Lead to automate the main functionalities of the software when called upon.
• Designed manual test case template using Excel and Word.
• Performed requirement traceability (RTM) for tracing changes in the requirements and system maintenance, and updated as required.
• Created Test cases and Test plans. Used Jira initially in the project, Managed defect resolution life cycle using IBM Rational Collaboration Life Cycle Management (CLM) tool, but also have used Jira initially in this project.
• Created Test Data for testing different Use Case scenarios.
• Worked with the Developers suggesting enhancements and Test Lead to verify each modules and preformed intergradation and end to end testing .
• Performing User Acceptance Testing to make sure that components are working before engaging users.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress update status.
• Fast learner and well organized, able to prioritize work load based on business needs and exceptional professionalism along with great communication skills.
• Team introduced Selenium Webdriver an open source automation tool.
• I assisted in creating the automation framework, implemented TestNG and Page object module for code reusability.
• Used different element locators to inspect elements, such as Xpath and CSS selector .
• Performed Functional, Regression, Performance, Smoke, Integration, End to End and Browser compatibility testing.

QA Engineer

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

Responsibilities:

• Defined the scope of the project gathering business requirements and documents them textually or within models.
• Defined input requirements to document the Business Requirements Specifications and developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Worked on the improvement of QA Process by reviewing and evaluating existing practices with standard testing guidelines.
• Performed manual testing, positive and negative testing.
• Designed manual test case template using Excel and Word.
• Created Test cases and Test plans.
• Created Test Data for testing different Use Case scenarios.
• Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.
• Converted manual test cases to automation using Selenium Web Driver.
• Used Junit as testing Framework to maintain and execute test scripts.
• Created the strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.