SUMMARY

• Around 15+ years of work experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Software Development and Software Quality Assurance includes analysis, design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of the complete Software Life Cycle (SLC).
• Performed various roles as a Developer, Manual Tester, SDET and Lead Automation Test Architect.
• Experience in Functional Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Security Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), E2E and Database Testing.
• Experience with Creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases.Expert level experience in Creating Use Cases.
• Work experience in working with water fall and agile methodologies.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Reviews and provided necessary feedback to the Business Analysts.
• Worked on Data Driven, Hybrid, Functional Decomposition (Modular) automation frameworks.
• Hands on experience in using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Quest, Jira for various testing activities.
• Experince in TOSCA Automation for Functional, Regression and E2E testing.
• Certified in AS1, AS2 and AE1 in TOSCA.
• Extensively used automated test tools like Quick Test Pro - QTP for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Written and executed QTP scripts using VB Script for maintaining and enhancing the regression suites.
• Hands on Experience in using Checkpoints, Object Repository, Functions, Actions.
• Experience in Descriptive Programming in Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Hands on Experience in using Regular Expressions, Disctionary Obejects.
• Good experience in Parameterization and Recovery Scenerios.
• Used various Location Strategies (SMART, Ordinal Identifiers) to indetify the elements in the application.
• Knowledge in testing Web Services applications using SOAPUI.
• Experience in Fiddler and Web Debugger for end point testing.
• Worked extensively in SQL, and database connectivity for back-end testing.
• Experienced in Database Testing using interfaces like Oracle, TOAD and MS SQL Server.
• Working experience in using Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Selenium Webdriver using C# for developing automation scripts in Visual Studio IDE.Experience in using NUnit.
• Experince in developing Selenium Scripts in Java using Junit. Hands on experience in using Eclipse, TestNG.
• Expereince in using Cucumber along with Selenium Webdriver in Jave using Eclipse IDE to develop framework from the beginning for new projects and retrofit the same for legacy applications.
• Knowledge in using Selenium grid.
• Worked on Page Objects to create interface to the pages in the application.
• Handled AJAX applications in Selenium automation. Good experience in handling Actions, Synchronization, Alerts.Used various Location Strategies to indetify the elements in the application.
• Experience on UNIX commands and Shell Scripting
• Ability to effectively and professionally interact with people at all levels of management in reporting.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, Verbal and Written Communication Skills.
• Exceptional skills in adapting to Industry Best Practices, new Technologies and Environment.
• Ability to work well in a dynamic fast paced team environment and plan activities without supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: Tosca, UFT, Selenium, Cucumber

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, C#, Gherkin

Scripting Languages: Unix Shell Scripting, VB Scripting

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Defect Tracking Tools: ALM/Quality Center, Jira, Xray

Other tools: Putty, Host Explorer, WinSCP, GEMS, Appian, main frames

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Lead Software Developer in Test

Responsibilities:

• During the long term of service, played different roles as automation tester and test automation lead architect.
• Performed Automation usinf UFT, Selenium, Cucumber, TOSCA.
• Practiced agile methodologies and certified in SAFe.
• Automation using WIN32 Engine, UIA Engine, Java Engine, Classic and TBox engines in Tricentis Tosca.
• Implementing recovery scenarios wherever applicable in TOSCA automation.
• Creating and managing test data using TDM effectively.
• Automating application using TOSCA.
• Knowledge on BI, RPA in TOSCA.
• Develop and Maintain test modules in TOSCA.Handling dynamic values in test cases in TOSCA
• Developed Data Driven Tests using TOSCA and automated functional testing.
• Build a TestCase-Design (TCD) TestSheet to help in creating structured TestCases.
• Performed GUI, DB, API automation using TOSCA. PDF and XML Validations in TOSCA.
• Developing Regression suite for various stories using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) in VBScript.
• As part of E2E testing, we worked with various applications like Java, Appian, Desktop, Mainrames and Unix with Terminal Emulators using TOSCA and UFT.
• Lead translation of manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple toolsets (Tosca, UFT, Selenium).
• Continous Integration (CI) using Jenkins for Selenium, TOSCA and UFT test scripts.
• BDD using Cucmber for selenium automation.
• Strong Experience in Java Programming, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit and TestNG.
• Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
• Integration with Jenkins for nightly execution.
• Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Developed Selenium automation framework and tests to support various web applications using Java in Eclipse.
• Experience in UAT testing, DB Testing, Regression Testing, Web Testing, SOAP UI Testing, SQL Queries.

Environment: Quick Test Pro (QTP 10.0) and Unified Function Testing(UFT) 12.0, Clear quest, Quality Center (QC 10.0) and Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) 11.5, VB Script,Selenium,Cucumber,WebDriver,Junit, TestNG,Java,Eclipse, SOAP UI,Windows XP and Windows 8,Mainframes,Humming bird,Terminal Emulators, VB Macros, Excel,Clear Quest,TOSCA, Appian .

Confidential, MN

Sr. Software Developer in Test

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and System Requirements of Westlaw Application.
• Followed Agile Methodology for application Implementation.
• Developed Test Plan Document for numerous Releases.
• Developing Regression suite for various stories using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) in VBScript.
• Using Application LifeCycle Management for testing sprint stories and entering the Bugs.
• Using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for running automation tests on lab.
• Used Descriptive programming to handle effective test scenerios.
• Used various recovery Scenarios for exceptional handling.
• Used Hybrid framework for the automation.
• Running test scripts in lab daily and reporting bugs to developer.
• Responsible for Web Services testing by validating the XML messages using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
• Working on different module of the project in Selenium.
• Developing Regression suite for various stories using Selenium Webdriver and C# in Visual Studio 2012.
• Using Team Foundation Server (TFS) for testing sprint stories and entering the Bugs.
• Using Visual Studio Test Explorer for running automation tests.
• Using inhouse tool for Continuous Integration (CI) testing.
• Handling AJAX elements in the test scripts.
• Using inhouse tool for Test Suites deployements on Test Agents in the lab.
• Used Fiddler, Web Debuggers for Endpoint testing.
• Participating in daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective Meetings.
• Working with for Sprint Stories and Bugs filling and verifications.
• Coordinate the Capture, Review, Maintenance, And Submission to regulators of all test artifacts
• Improved Quality Processes in software development by establishing a program of formal Technical Reviews resulting in increased deliverable quality and acceptance.
• Categorized defects based on severity and interfaced with developers to resolve assigning the defects to concern team members. Involved in the documentation of the complete testing process.
• Involved in Test Case review meetings. Preparing Test Summary, Test Metrics reports.
• Involved in discussions with Business and System Analysts to understand requirements properly and if any issues with requirements. Participating Bug Triage meetings. Conducting Testing Parties with various stake holders.

Environment: WFC, Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Application Lifcycle Management (ALM), VB Script, XML, XML Editor, Windows, Selenium RC, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Visual Studio 2012, Team Foudnation Server (TFS), Fire Bug, Fire Path.

Confidential, CA

Lead Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases for System, Integration and Regression Testing from Business Requirements, System Requirements, Technical Design Documents.
• Highly involved in System, Regression, Integration, End-to-End (E2E), GUI testing and UAT testing.
• Followed and Implemented WaterFall Methodology guidelines throughout application development and testing.
• Used Quality Center 9.0 for Test Cases Documentation and updating the Test Results.
• Involved in Functionality Testing for the modules and Regression Testing during the various phases of the development using Mercury Quick Test Pro for automated test scripts using VB Script.
• Used various available features of VB Script and Quick Test Pro to develop efficient and error free automated test scripts.
• Used XML Editor to change profile setting in the XML file to change the behavior of the application manually.
• Verfied the XML files to validate the data migration are taking place correctly.
• Strong Experience in Java Programming, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit and TestNG.
• Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
• Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Used various features of the QTP like Recovery Scenarios, Object repositiories, Actions, Descripting Programming, Dictionary Obejctes etc.
• Used Quality Center and Clear Quest for Defect Tracking.Involved in UAT and End-to-End testing.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts for testing purpose. Extensively used and executed SQL and PL/SQL to validate functionality. Developed SQL Queries and Procedures to perform database testing.
• Involved in the documentation of the complete testing process. Created Test Completion reports. Created RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) document.
• Always used to interact with Developers to escalate testing issues and to take their valuable inputs for successful completion of Testing.Developed various reports to communicate testing issues with the project manager.

Environment: Windows XP Professional, HP UNIX, SQL, clear case, Oracle 9i, Quick Test Pro(QTP 9.0), Quality Center (QC 9.0),VB Script,Clear Quest, SQL Server, Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse, Junit, Quality Center (QC 10.0), Java, Windows, SOAP UI, XML editor, XPath Checker.