PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of immense experience in Software Quality Assurance utilizing both Manual and Automation methods.
• Experience in Software Testing in Manual, Selenium Automation, and Database Testing, Web base application and Client/Server based applications.
• Well exposed to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software development methodologies such as Agile, V Model and Waterfall.
• Involvement in Project Planning, Coordination and implementing various QA methodologies.
• Excellent experience in Software Testing in Client Server Application and Web based application using Manual Testing Techniques and Automated open source Testing Tools.
• Tested Web services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of web services
• Experienced in using Selenium, WebDriver, RC, Selenium Grid, JAVA and TestNG.
• Excellent in developing Test Plans and Outlines, writing Test Cases and generating Test scripts.
• Experienced in Testing of Real Time Transaction processing.
• Strong experience in all levels of Testing such as Positive testing, Negative testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing, Data Migration testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Database testing, Security and Usability testing.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Quality Center, JIRA, IBM Clear Quest and Bugzilla.
• Experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in Oracle, My - SQL and SQLServer by executing SQL Queries.
• Ability to take proactive initiatives related to application performance improvement using Automation and different frameworks. Also adept in exploring new business opportunities.
• Responsible for ensuring the thorough testing of the product against business requirements, non-functional requirements ensuring the critical business goals and requirements are met.
• Ability in working individually or as a part of team, Problem solving, Analytical skills, Reporting and Assisting to Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Frameworks: JAVA, API, SQL HTML

QA Tools: SELENIUM IDE/ GRID /RC/ Web Driver, QTP, JUNIT, TEST NG, Firebug, Fire Path, XPath, JSON, Apache POI.

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center and Bugzilla

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins and Gerrit

Web Technology: HTML, CSS, Java Script and XML

RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Server

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS and LINUX

API testing: SOAP UI, REST and CURL

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari

IDE: Eclipse IDE and PyCharm

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements Documents to get better understanding of the system both on technical and business perspectives.
• Worked in the agile environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on functional specifications and user requirements.
• Evaluated all technical documents applicable to tests. Developed various test techniques for software applications
• Tracking and logging defects using Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Created Test plan, High level scenarios, test case construction and test estimates, resource estimates and weekly status reports.
• 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.
• Experienced in writing SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System, Regression tests based on Analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications, and end-user needs.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using.
• 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.
• Prepared the data to cover various scenarios and wrote SQL scripts to verify the database updates, inserts and deletion of the records.
• Used Quality Center/ALM for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Reported software defects using ALM and interacted with the developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Java, Manual Testing, Quality Center/ALM, SQL, Microsoft TFS(Team Foundation Software), SOAP UI, Windows.

Confidential, George, Utah

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Product backlogs and Sprints using Agile Methodology
• Attend daily standup meetings and report the status to SCRUM master.
• 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.
• Executed test cases manually and tracked the bugs by entering in the Defect Tracking System with appropriate severity, priority and details.
• Executed test cases in TFS, tracked defects and coordinated with developers to fix defects
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API.
• Prepared Test Data and executed Test Cases from Quality Center.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using.
• 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.
• Interacting with development and testing team to improve overall quality of the application.
• Writing SQL queries and statements to test database for retrieving information, editing data and inserting data.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Environment: Java, ALM, XML, SQL, SOAP UI, Microsoft TFS(Team Foundation Server), HTML, agile, Oracle, Windows.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system requirements and created test plan, test scripts and test scenarios for various modules of the application.
• Used QC for logging defects identified for each build and assisted developers with defect resolution.
• Performed defect analysis, Validation activities, reported defects & tracked defects through to resolution.
• Developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases after analyzing the requirement documents.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the Test plan.
• End to End testing for daily operations at Handheld palm POS which involved various functions such as inventory in-stock, price changes, clearance markdowns, customer service help with exchanges credit card payments answer phone and also for Credit card, Debit card and Gift card authorization validation at POS and backend.
• Performed manual testing for the GUI functionality of the application.
• Monitored and planned tests and test scripts using Quality Center and used its bug reporting capabilities to document bugs.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Documented Test cases, Test results and Test procedures in Quality Center(QC)
• Created, updated and maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) in QC
• Involved in manual test execution and compared expected and actual test results.
• Performed Functionality test, smoke and sanity test, Integration test, Regression test and End to End testing.
• Generated comprehensive reports (test progress, test coverage, defect status ensuring QA activities were properly established in QC.
• Used SharePoint to maintain document testing document libraries and wikis.
• Proactively supported QA managers in the management of the testing phase.

Environment: Windows XP/NT, Waterfall, Quality Center, Bugzilla, DB2, TOAD, UNIX, SOAPUI, REST API SKILLS, HTML, Microsoft Office