PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of Quality Assurance/ Software Automation Testing experience both in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Successfully performed manual and automation testing I both web based and client server applications.
• In - Depth knowledge of product release processes and quality assurance goals
• Actively participated in Agile Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Scrum meetings
• Deep knowledge of Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development
• Solid experience in Automating Test Cases using different Automation Tools like Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG using Java programming language
• Experienced in creating Maven/Ant projects and configuring Maven Project Object Model file (POM.xml).
• Experience in developing SQL queries to successfully retrieve and manipulate data for database validation.
• Experienced in creating automated tests for SOAP and REST Web Services using RESTful and SOAPUI testing tools.
• Hands on experience working on defect tracking tools like JIRA, ALM QC, Bugzilla, and YouTrack
• Solid background designing and creating Test cases, Test plans, test scenarios, Test scripts
• Maintained and developed automation frameworks using Java and Selenium WebDriver like Data Driven, Keyword Drive, BDD, TDD.
• Successfully created Page Object Design for web based application writing XPATH and CSS Selector and other locators for element identification
• Solid understanding of HTML and XML files
• Extensive experience in developing BDD scripts with Cucumber and writing step definitions using Gherkin language and Selenium WebDriver
• Deep knowledge of using JUnit and TestNG to organize the execution flow, by using annotations and performing parallel executions in various types of browsers and platforms
• Successfully used Jenkins to schedule Smoke and Regression test running.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming languages: Java, SQL, XML, HTML

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Selenium GRID, Soap UI, Cucumber.

Testing Framework: JUnit, TestNG

Databases: MySQL

Bug Tacking Tools: JIRA, ALM

Operation Systems: Windows, Mac OS, UNIX

IDE: Eclipse

Project building tools: Maven

Continuous Integration: Jenkins

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Version Control: Git, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Automation and Manual Testing for the web based application.
• Actively participated in Daily scrum meeting, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Participated in requirement specification and documentation review meetings with developers and BA team.
• Analyzed and contributed requirement documentations, test plans and created test cases.
• Participated Production support and user feedback sessions.
• Applied Page Object Model to framework to centralize web elements of the application; increased reusability and maintainability of the code.
• Developed Test Scripts to test functionality of the application and execute automation scripts on different browsers/environments and reported defects through JIRA.
• Maintained Maven project written in Java and executed Tests in Cucumber feature files.
• Automated test reports using Cucumber plugin HTML reports and Json reports attached with failed scenario screenshots using Selenium WebDriver.
• Created SQL queries and connected to various Databases using JDBC and applied to my test scripts for database validation.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Positive, Negative, Integration, Regression, Front-end and Backend Tests using Selenium WebDriver, Java and JDBC.
• Actively dealt with datatables, calendars, iframes, pop ups and alerts on the application using Selenium WebDriver.
• Created Feature files and test scenarios in Cucumber using Gherkin language.
• Performed parallel execution using TestNG.
• Developed reusable Methods and maintained in the Utility class using Java.
• Performed extensive Cross Browser Compatibility testing on various web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, using Selenium WebDriver.
• Aggressively pursued the resolution of high-level defects in the project to facilitate smooth functioning of the test execution.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Automation

Responsibilities:

• Directly involved in planning and analyzing the application requirements and creating Test Plan, Test Cases, and developing Test Scripts
• Manually tested test cases and developed Automated Test Scripts using Selenium Webdriver
• Executed Functional, regression, integration and smoke tests
• Anticipated test reports and tracked logged defects through JIRA and retested resolved defects
• Configured and controlled all dependencies of project and tool versions using maven POM file
• Automated Web Services testing using Restful and SOAP UI
• Used JDBC to do Database testing with Java Programming Language
• Executed parallel tests using TestNG
• Conducted Front-end and Functional Testing of the GUI by inserting various checkpoints in the Automated task cases, Using Selenium WebDriver and Junit Assertions
• Developed Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative testing requirements
• Wrote complex SQL queries to verify and validate the exact targets for email and direct mail campaigns
• Performed Data Driven testing by fetching data from Excel sheets and Databases to verify the application's behavior for different data inputs
• Responsible for entering, Tracking bugs in HP ALM and reporting the defects to the developers for Modification Request
• Participated all agile ceremonies, meetings with BA and Developers to resolve defect

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Automation and Manual Testing in an internal web based application
• Actively participated in Daily scrum meeting, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Participated in requirement specification and documentation review meetings with developers and BA team
• Analyzed and contributed requirement documentations, test plans and created test cases
• Participated Production support and user feedback sessions
• Applied Page Object Model to framework to centralize web elements of the application; increased reusability and maintainability of the code
• Developed Test Scripts to test functionality of the application and execute automation scripts on different browsers/environments and reported defects through HP ALM