PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A highly competent and results oriented QA Analyst with 7+ years of experience in Agile Methodology, Automation, JAVA/C#.Net web projects, Team leading & training, Client facing. Proven ability in Selenium Web Driver Automated testing & Frameworks, TDD, BDD using Cucumber, Web testing, Functional testing, Performance & Load testing, Excellent experience in each phase of Test Life Cycle, Test strategies & Test plans, UAT. Solid experience of Software Development Life Cycles, Selenium Web Driver & RC, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, JAVA, Junit.
• Experience working on various Development Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, V Model
• Good understanding of Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience in Automation Testing of web applications using Selenium Automation Tool and QTP
• Experience in performance of build validation and verification, positive and negative, boundary value analysis, smoke, functional, integration, system, regression, Adhoc, cross - browser, white/black box testing, user interface and user acceptance testing
• Experience working as a team lead and worked on change requests (CRs)/enhancements for a release .
• Experience working in GUI Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Strong knowledge in using test management and bug reporting tools such as Quality center,, JIRA
• Involved in QA Life Cycle which include analyzing the requirements, defining use cases, designing, developing and execution of the QA Process and documentation
• Have complete understanding of Test Process - defining testability requirements, test case development and test case reviews, test data preparation, test setup, test execution, test analysis, defect reporting and tracking
• Involved in end-to-end project life cycle and have good experience in delivering tasks
• Solid SQL skills, can write complex SQL queries, functions, triggers and stored procedures for back end testing and end-end testing
• Experience working in close association and interfacing between test teams and clients
• Experience in development of web Applications using Core Java, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Struts Framework
• Knowledge on ORM tools like Hibernate and Application Servers like Web Logic and Web Sphere
• Knowledge on JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XML, CSS
• Ability to adapt to new environment quickly, strong team player, good communication skills, good analytical and computational skills and an enthusiastic learner

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Waterfall model

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE 2.4, Quality Center, Load runner, Cucumber

Database: MS SQL

Defect tracking tools: JIRA, Test director, Quality center

Framework: Java, TestNG, C#.Net 4.0,J2EE

Operating systems: Windows 9x/2000/XP/NT, LINUX

Packages: Microsoft-Office 2000.

Programming/Scripting: HTML4.0, Java, VBScript, XML Ruby

Application Servers: Tomcat, Web Logic, Web Sphere, Jboss, HTTP Server

Management tools: SharePoint, Test Manager

Scheduling tools: Autosys, SVN

Version Control Tool: Perforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Requirement Documentation: Analyzed, developed, documented and validate the work product of the application with Business Analyst, against the use case and Business Requirement documents as part of SDLC activity. Tested web based farmers loan processing applications to be verify the borrower eligibility for the loan and execute necessary transaction from obligation to loan close.
• Executed Requirement: Used HP Quality Center and set traceability between requirements.
• Performed Functional Responsibilities: Performed GUI Testing, System Testing, Database testing, Usability testing, Regression testing. Worked on SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performed complete data verification of the application. Developed functionality test cases, defined exit criteria.
• Testing using Different browser: Tested different application functionality on different browser version(IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox)
• Used QTP: Worked on QTP script with standard, Text, Bitmap tables, checkpoints and synchronization point. Logged and followed through on defects tracking system using a defect tracking system (JIRA).
• Created Automation resources such as object repositories, function libraries. Handling of duplicate objects and dynamic objects using index property and regular expression.
• Created test scripts using keyword driven methodology or descriptive programming debugging and running test case.
• Conducted Bug review meeting: The reported bugs were tracked, tracked and compared using Quality Center.
• Performed Post Production Testing: Performed UAT Testing with the help of UAT Test plan and provide the exit criteria.
• Performed API Testing: Performed RESTful web services and API Testing in SOAPUI and validate response with assertions.
• Performed Monthly Patch testing: Executed and make sure that no bugs are found in different environment.
• Defect tracking using ALM: Reported and managed software defect using ALM and interacted with developer to resolve technical issues. Performed Regression testing to make sure that bugs have been fixed and application is running properly using HPALM.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web Sphere, SQL, Selenium, JIRA, Test Link, SOAP UI

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

SR. AUTOMATION TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Translate requirements, designs and functional specifications into effective test plans and test cases
• Involved in scrum, iteration planning, and design meetings in order to understand the business requirements and also for the task duration estimation
• Involved in writing user stories and also updating tasks in user stories using JIRA (Agile or Scrum planning tool)
• Attended walkthroughs with Business Analysts and Developers
• Written test automation scripts QTP to debugging test and fixing error.
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test Metrics for the purpose of reporting
• Verifying the correctness of the software calculations and creating test data files (valid and invalid) to thoroughly test program logic and system flow
• Conducted Regression testing using various browser versions
• Defect reporting and re-testing as the defects are fixed
• Reporting the status to the Leads and Test Manager on test progress
• Evaluated the quality of the software product being developed in terms of functionality, usability, compatibility, reliability, performance and supportability
• Good Knowledge and experience on Web services testing using REST and SOAP UI
• Verification of data stored in backend Database SQL Server using SQL Queries
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration of automation tests

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web Sphere, SQL, Selenium, JIRA, Test Link, Jenkins, SOAP UI

Confidential

QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Requirement Documentation: Analyzed, developed, documented and validate the work product of the application with Business Analyst, against the use case and Business Requirement documents as part of SDLC activity. Tested web based farmers loan processing applications to be verify the borrower eligibility for the loan and execute necessary transaction from obligation to loan close.
• Executed Requirement: Used HP Quality Center and set traceability between requirements.
• Performed Functional Responsibilities: Performed GUI Testing, System Testing, Database testing, Usability testing, Regression testing. Worked on SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performed complete data verification of the application.
• Performed API Testing: Performed RESTful web services and API Testing in SOAPUI and validate response with assertions.­­
• QTP script with standard, Text, Bitmap tables, checkpoints and synchronization point. Logged and followed through on defects tracking system using a defect tracking system (JIRA).
• Performed Post Production Testing: Performed UAT Testing with the help of UAT Test plan and provide the exit criteria.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web Sphere, SQL, Selenium, JIRA, Test Link, Cucumber, SOAP UI

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the team to create feature wise test plan from the master test plan.
• Planned test strategy and selecting the test cases for Smoke Testing and Regression Testing.
• Installation of QAR on UNIX boxes in the QA environment and clearing the QAR to Production.
• Furnished QA/test skills to Functionality, Regression, Integration, Compatibility, Security and related testing of a wide variety of web-based application at American Online and related software products on Windows (using Install Shield, Ghost, and Microsoft Windows unattended installation technologies).
• Used BLT (Bug Logging and Tracking) for logging Defects.
• Used Agile Methodology to work
• Created Automation Script: Generate Automation test Script using Selenium IDE
• Selenium Web driver. Automate regression and functional test suite by developing test cases using Selenium Web driver, TestNG. Logged and followed through on defects tracking system using a defect tracking system (JIRA).
• Interacted with developers to resolve the defects. Responsible to validate the bug fixes.
• Experience in working with Python automation tool. Benefited from comprehensive internal training program in software testing theories, procedures and methods.
• Python win editor used to create Python scripts for test valid tasks associated migration of Confidential and MapQuest tool bars.
• Improved Python testing quality by creating more tests & longer test cases, adding subtests to cases, using two test groups in parallel, testing more scenarios and combinatorial test focus.

Environment: Test Case Manager, BLT, Python 2.X, JavaScript, HTML, Apache Tomcat, Win2K/ XP/Me/98 with IE 6.0/SP1/SP2, Client Tracking System, Sybase, Internet Explorer, Netscape 8.0, Firefox browsers.