SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Quality Assurance having key strengths like self - motivation, detail orientation, and team playing.
• Proven success in software testing (system/Regression), setting up of the test environment, creation of test scripts/cases, execution of tests and tracking of defects using various tools Quality Center/Bugzilla/Rally/Jira.
• Extensive experience in API Testing, Functional, Regression, GUI, User Acceptance system, Integration testing and WebServices (SOAP / REST) testing.
• Expertise with Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) process and Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Experience with Test driven development and Behavior driven Development.
• Good knowledge in Core JAVA and SQL.
• Participated in planning, estimating, scheduling, retrospectives and any other team activities.
• Experience with MS Word, MS Excel for writing Test Plans, Test Cases, weekly status reports
• Experience in manual backend database testing of the PL/SQL programs and scripts.
• Experience in Data Analysis, Data Migration, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Verification and performing root cause analysis for Data Mismatch.
• Possess excellent analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent team player with good logical reasoning ability, coordination and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming and Scripting Languages: VBScript, Visual C#, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP, JavaScript, HTML, XML etc..

Testing tools: Selenium Webdriver, SOAP UI, WebAii framework and QTP.

Bug Tracking Tools: ALM/Quality center, Bugzilla.

Agile tracking tools: JIRA, Version One, Rally & TFS.

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows Series, MS-DOS, UNIX/Linux, OS/400.

Software, Utilities and Network Protocols: Eclipse,Java, GITHUB, SVN,TFS, MS Office 2000/XP/2003, MS Project, MS Visio, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and Telnet.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Agile Automation QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed test plans as part of sprint commitment
• Worked System testing, Performance testing, GUI testing and Regression testing.
• Participated in daily standups, sprint grooming, planning, demo, and retrospectives as part of Agile Methodology.
• Kept project tracking software JIRA current with task/story status and time spent.
• Corrected issues when they arise during sprint and between sprints via retrospective.
• Worked on automating Atlas (test construction and Publication)website for USMLE and Step exams using Selenium Webdriver and Java
• Closely work with developers as part of Test Driven Development.
• Developed BDD/TDD tests using Cucumber, gherkin by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.
• Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like SVN over the time for improvements and new features

Environment: Agile Methodology, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber/Java, BDD, PL/SQL, Web application, JIRA,Sub version.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Software Engineer in Test

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed test plans as part of sprint commitment
• Worked System testing, Performance testing, GUI testing and Regression testing.
• Participated in daily standups, sprint grooming, planning, demo, and retrospectives as part of Agile Methodology.
• Kept project tracking software JIRA current with task/story status and time spent.
• Corrected issues when they arise during sprint and between sprints via retrospective
• Worked on automating desktop application using automation tool Ranorex and web application using Selenium Webdriver.
• Writing automated test scripts in Eclipse using Selenium Web Driver/Testng framework.
• Executed SQL scripts and Stored procedures in SQL Server Database to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database
• Closely worked with Database team and took ownership of backend testing.
• Used Team Foundation server(TFS) for Source code repository and as Continuous Integration tool.
• Closely work with developers as part of Test Driven Development.
• Good understanding of Loan Processing Cycle - Processing, Origination, Underwriting and Closing.

Environment: Agile Methodology, Ranorex, Selenium Webdriver, SQL Server 2012, Web application, JIRA, TFS, Sub version.

Confidential , San Diego, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression and extensive GUI Testing of the Web application using Agile/SCRUM process.
• Review & provide QA estimates for user stories / Bugs based on content, complexity, testability and thoroughness.
• Writing automated test scripts in Eclipse using Selenium Web Driver/Testng.
• Worked 30% of my time on Manual Testing.
• Performed verifications on fixes in multiple environments. Clearly documented and/or communicates fix success, failures and status updates, as appropriate.
• Experience working with REST API technologies and HTTP.
• Attended design reviews, prepared test matrices, performed testing, and coordinated external dependencies in leading the testing of complex technical projects.
• Part of Bi - Weekly product releases.
• Used Octopus Deploy as a part of continuous Integration and also managed QA Environment.
• Provided status of a project release readiness and judged whether defects are blocking a release
• Performed regression testing for the application and maintained a database of regression Scripts.
• Used Agile tool Rally to add acceptance criteria and to track work status.
• Multi browser and cross browser testing.
• Validated product apps on IOS devices.
• Consistently recognized by team members as a fast learner with excellent problem solving and technical troubleshooting abilities

Environment: Win 7, Html 5, Java, Selenium Webdriver, SQL, REST, virtual servers,Rally, GITHUB.

Confidential , Madison, WI

Quality Assurance Technician

Responsibilities:

• Writing automated tests for Java application using selenium Webdriver.
• Integrating new automated unit test plans into development code streams.
• Provided status of a project release readiness and judged whether defects are blocking a release
• Attended design reviews, prepared test matrices, performed testing, and coordinated external dependencies in leading the testing of complex technical projects.
• Responsible for GUI testing for the website, suggesting improvements to performance of website in terms of web-page loading, image optimization etc.

Environment: Win 7, SQL Server, Selenium Webdriver, Java, Cucumber, virtual servers, hp Quality Center 11.0.

Confidential

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created fully-automated cross-browser regression framework using Unit, Java and Selenium
• Fully automated GUI smoke test for banking project, reliably executing in 5 minutes where manual testing previously took over an hour
• Performed Web services testing using SOAP UI pro.
• Worked closely with Developers and Business Analysts to communicate QA issues, testing status and with the testing teams.
• Worked on SAP Automation using SAP TAO / Selenium.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing for system validations.
• Implemented bug tracking and test case management using Quality Center
• Reported the status of the testing of the application to the upper management at regular intervals
• Used Quality Center for Bug reporting and Tracking

Environment: Win XP Pro,Selenium,Java, SQL.

Confidential

QA Assurance Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design review meeting with business analysts and developers.
• Assisted Manager in test estimates.
• Coordinating releases with the development team to ensure deadlines are achieved.
• Status updates to development team, Management team and key stake holders.
• Executed SQL scripts and Stored procedures in SQL Server Database to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database
• Generated Data driven scripts to access the backend database.
• Performed regression testing for the application and maintained a database of regression Scripts.
• Used Bugzilla for Bug reporting and Tracking.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.

Environment: Win XP Pro, VS 2008 (C#), Bugzilla, SQL Server

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create and update test case documentation.
• Execute test cases and record results.
• Raise anomalies (bug reports) as necessary in JIRA.
• Performed System Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing of a new Web application.
• Produce a weekly status report for the team leader.
• Create test conditions and test cases for PAYE functional testing.
• Test data preparation using Ingres SQL.
• Functional test execution.
• Escalating, tracking and resolution of defects and issues recorded.
• Review test plans written by business users and system test team.
• Link between development and business test.
• Knowledge transfer and of new test support team members.
• Building effective relationships with business users and third party suppliers.

Environment: Java, JIRA, Ingres, Oracle 9, web-based application,Unix/Linux.