SUMMARY:

• QA Lead with total experience of over 11 years in Manual Testing with specialization in HP testing tool Quality Center and Automation Testing.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Experience in various domains like Insurance, Financial, Banking, Retail, Taxation, Mortgage, Fleet Management and Asset and Wealth Management.
• Proficient in Automation testing using Selenium Webdriver.
• Experience in Mobile Application Testing and Mobile App Automation Testing using Appium.
• Experienced in writing SQL queries for back - end testing and validation of data. Good understanding of implementing test processes and best practices based on ISO 9001:2000 standards, ISO 27001 standards and SEI-CMMI guidelines.
• Excellent knowledge of complete Software Development Life Cycle, Test Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle. Well experienced in Test Management activities using HP Quality Center (QC) / ALM. Proficient in BPT (Business Process Testing) concept and writing test cases in BPT format.
• Good Exposure in Creating, Maintaining and Tracking Test cases Microsoft Test Management Tool (MTM)
• Actively Involved in review Phase for the clients’ requirements and creation of the Test Strategy and Test Plan (includes timelines, dependencies, assumptions & risks, adherence to testing standards etc.).
• Proficient in Agile Scrum Methodology - Story writing and narratives in JIRA and tracking bugs before official QA cycle begins. Coordinating between the different stakeholders and providing the necessary UAT support.
• Expertise in Test Scheduling, Test Effort Estimation, Test Designing and Specification, Test Execution, Defect Reporting, Status Reporting, Test Coverage, Traceability Matrix, Test Data and other Test Artifacts.
• Good knowledge in Creation, Tracking of defects, Defect Triage done using TFS
• Strong Skills in performing various tests such as Usability Testing, Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Functional, Regression, GUI, Web and Black Box. Well experienced in managing projects where requirements change frequently or loosely defined.
• Experienced in using Version Control Tools like CVS, SVN and GitHub, BitBucket.
• Suggests improvement areas in internal processes along with possible solutions. Collecting Test Metrics on monthly basis to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the test team and implemented quality processes.
• Monitor team’s progress in the various phases of testing and ensure release/project testing deliverables are met within the stipulated timelines. Identifying project risks and proposing corresponding mitigation/contingency plan.
• Communicate potential impacts to target dates to the QA & Delivery Manager. Software quality process improvement practices, Software testing practices and Team Management.
• Experienced in Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber in Gherkin.
• Experienced in using Junit and TestNG testing Framework as a test runner with Selenium.
• Experienced in developing and implementing Data Driven and Keyword Driven automation testing framework with Selenium WebDriver.
• Expertise in developing test scripts using Page Object Model (POM), Page Factory Model
• Experience in Mobile Application testing using Real Device (Mobile and IPad) and Emulator / Simulators (Genymotion and Xcode)
• Good Knowledge in Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber.
• Experience in Web Service testing using Restful API of C#
• Excellent Communication and Trouble shooting skills with ability to adapt to new technologies in real-time environment.

SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Mobile App Testing.

Secondary Skills: Data Base Testing, Webservices Testing, Security Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management and Issue Tracing Tool: JIRA.

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center 10 / ALM, MTM.

Automation Tool: Selenium, QTP.

Mobile Automation Tool: Appium.

Database: Oracle.

Language: Java.

Bug Tracking Tools: TFS, Bugzilla, JIRA.

Version Control: VSS, CVS, GitHub, BitBucket

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Lead QA

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Successfully leading of QA Team for the Testing Activities both manual and automation.
• Involved in evaluation of Business Requirement Document and Software Requirement Specification.
• Created Test Plan for identifying Scope, determining Testing Methods, decides on timeline, forecast Risk & Assumption and also declares Entry & Exit Criteria for Testing Phase.
• Preparing resource loading sheet and Cost Estimation.
• Involved in Setup and implementation of Cucumber framework.
• Involved in automating the regression test cases using Cucumber and Selenium Web Driver and executing the scripts.
• Add, Commit and Push the automation scripts on BitBucket.
• Integrate test suite with Jenkins Build server.
• Work closely with production team, designers and developers to ensure application development meet user’s expectations.
• Serves as a resource and communication point for decisions about test schedule changes
• Involved in Preparation, Review and Execution of Test Cases. Closely tracking of Traceability Matrix, Test Activities and Metrics Collection Analysis.
• Defect logging and tracking in JIRA.
• Preparing Test logs and Defect reports and Regularly published Project Matrices like Defect Reports, Test Coverage and Test Execution Reports.
• Involved in writing End to End scripts. Co Ordinates and lead the End to End Testing Process with various systems.
• Involved in Web service API’s requests and responses using SoapUI.
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the daily and weekly meeting.
• Coordinated Defect life Cycle and daily Defect tracking meetings

Environment: Software: Java, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Project Management and Issue Tracing Tool: JIRA, Methodology: Agile Scrum. Test Management: ALM, Automation Tools: Selenium.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Successfully leading of QA Team for the Testing Activities both manual and automation.
• Conducted walkthroughs and reviews with designers and developers to establish quality policy conformance.
• Involved in the development of system Test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents.
• Participate in Daily Agile Scrum "Stand-up", Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions.
• Involved in reviewing the requirements with the business team Preparation of Test planning and scheduling. Conducted all types of manual testing including functional and system Testing.
• Worked with all Agile Development and SCRUM process throughout the entire project.
• Involved in various phases of functionality, regression testing, integration testing and system testing.
• Involved in implementation of Cucumber framework.
• Integrate test suite with Jenkins Build server.
• Involved in creating and executing the automation test scripts using the Cucumber and Selenium Web Driver and Selenium Grid
• Involved in Preparation, Review and Execution of Test Cases.
• Prepared test status reports and Execution plan during test execution process. Written SQL scripts to pull the data from the existing database based on the business rules and updating the database tables for the Backend Testing.
• Interacted diplomatically with developers and other team members to ensure high quality software.
• Closely tracking of Traceability Matrix, Test Activities and Metrics Collection Analysis.
• Prepared Test logs and Defect reports. Coordinating with Offshore Test team.

Environment: Software: Java, Operating System: Windows, Test Management: ALM, Methodology: Agile Scrum, Database: SQL Server 2012.

Confidential

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in analyzing business and functional requirements. Involved in preparing Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Test data. Involved in reviewed the Use Cases and other functional requirement documents for testability.
• Successfully leading of QA Team for the Testing Activities. Involved in reviewing the requirements with the business team and sometimes directly with the clients.
• Created Test Plan for identifying Scope, determining Testing Methods, decides on timeline, forecast Risk & Assumption and also declares Entry & Exit Criteria for Testing Phase.
• Involved in Test Execution and defect reporting.
• Involved development and implementation of Keyword Driven Framework.
• Involved in automating the regression test cases using Selenium Web Driver.
• Involved in automating the Mobile app regression test cases using Appium tool.
• Involved in Preparation, Review and Execution of Test Cases.
• Extensively involved in Mobile Site testing on IOS(Mobile and IPad) and Android Device
• Test Data preparation
• IUT testing (Independent Unit Testing)
• Sending clarifications to the client and documenting their responses for the development team(IOS and Android) and QA manual Team
• Participate in Daily Agile Scrum "Stand-up", Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions.
• Closely tracking of Traceability Matrix, Test Activities and Metrics Collection Analysis.
• Prepared Test logs and Defect reports.
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the daily and weekly meeting.
• Coordinated Defect Life Cycle and daily Defect tracking meetings

Environment: Software: C#, Operating System: Windows-XP, IDE: Visual Studio 2013, Database: SQL Server 2008 R2, FW: NUnit 2.4.2, CI: Jenkins, Methodology: Agile Scrum.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Script Automation on OneSource Products’ Rest Web Services
• Execution and Debugging
• Test Data preparation
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the daily and weekly meeting.

Environment: Software: C#, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Other Technical Tools: Selenium.

Test Management: MTM

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of automation Test Bed
• Test Script Preparation using C#
• Execution and Debugging
• Build Management
• Optimizing Test Scripts

Environment: Software: Java, Jsp, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Test Management Tool: ALM.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Writing and customizing Automation Test Scripts using Selenium with Java/Test Ng Frame work.
• Created reusable components in the framework
• Developed Auto IT Scripts and prepared Test Environment Setup
• Involved in Effort Estimation and Time lines
• Reviewing and Executing Automated Test Scripts
• Reporting the Automation defects and re-testing the fixed defects
• Giving Knowledge Transfer to new team members regarding the specification as well as the testing process and the automation framework.
• Interaction with product owner for Business requirement clarifications Involved in Preparation

Environment: Software: Mainframe, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Test Management Tool: QC.

Confidential

Senior Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing the requirements with the business team and sometimes directly with the clients. Preparation of Test planning & scheduling.
• Conducted all types of manual testing including functional and system Testing.
• Involved in Preparation, Review and Execution of Test Cases.
• Closely tracking of Traceability Matrix, Test Activities and Metrics Collection Analysis.
• Prepared Test logs and Defect reports. Defect tracking, Defect analysis and Defect reporting using QC.

Environment: Software: Java, Jsp, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Other Technical Tools: QC.

Confidential

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed test scripts for all interface testing for manual testing
• Performed both System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Performed web site security testing i.e., single sign-on, cookies, source code, user privileges, session expiration and Password Reset functionality.
• Assisting business users in UAT
• Manage Quality Center setup, including Test Requirements, Test Cases & Test Sets
• Maintaining regression suite in HP Quality Center 10
• Interacted with Dev team in planning for each Sprint (Agile), and Product Managers to give quality approvals.
• Helping and guiding other team members by means of Knowledge sharing sessions
• Interact with the Support Team to setup an infrastructure to glean problems in the field-deployed products to ensure removal and triage of bugs

Environment: Software: Java, Jsp, Operating System: Windows, Database: Oracle, Other Technical Tools: Test Track Pro.

Confidential

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in preparing Test Plans
• Preparing Unit Test Scenarios, integration and system testing
• Preparing Test Environment to execute the test cases
• Analyzing the Test Cases prepared by other team members
• Executing the Test Cases & Defect Tracking
• Communication with the Test Lead / Test Manager