PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 Years of experience as a Software Automation Engineer in Test in both Functional and Automation Testing in various Client/Server and Web Application.
• Excellent understanding and experience of Software Testing life cycle(STLC) on all phases.
• Expert Knowledge of Software Development life cycle(SDLC), testing methodologies, testing tools.
• Hands - on writing and executing Testing Standards and Methodologies, Test Plan, Test Cases, and Scenarios, and analyzing Business and Functional Requirement in all phases.
• Experience in Backend Testing with API.
• Involved in Cross Browser/Parallel Testing, API Testing, and Database Testing.
• Experienced in writing and executing SQL queries on Databases for Backend Testing.
• Familiarity in Mobile App Testing of Native Apps, Web Apps, Hybrid Apps with Mobile Automation (Android and IOS) using Appium.
• Experience with QA processes, open source test frameworks, test design.
• Deep familiarity on performing Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing.
• Worked extensively on complete Defect Management Life Cycle all the way from executing Test Cases, identifying Defects, Logging Defects and verification of Bug Fixes.
• Deep knowledge on different software development modules for SCRUM and AGILE.
• Experienced in problem solving and tracking bugs using bug/defect tracking tools like JIRA.
• Good work experience in functional testing of Rest APIs using POSTMAN.
• Ability in handling Ajax calls using WebDriver methods waits like Implicit, Explicit, fluent waits and thread sleep.
• Knowledge of test methodology and tools, software testing standards, methods and conventions, build systems, and the product development cycle.
• Developed and maintained frameworks and libraries needed to quickly expand and scale existing automation suites.
• Experience in developing end to end automation using Selenium WebDriver/TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, Rest-Assured and JDBC libraries.
• Executed Smoke and Regression tests and generated reports through Jenkins.
• Deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming Java concepts: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Inheritance.
• Communication skills in developing frameworks and collaborating with developers in the creation of automated testing scripts for our product.
• Experienced in creating reusable methods, using Collections and file input streams to retrieve Data from Excel and Database using Apache POI.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in Java coding to write automation scripts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Maven, JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured,Postman, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Jira, JDBC

Databases: MySQL, SQL

Bug Tracking Tools: Jira

Frameworks: Cucumber BDD Using JUnit, Selenium Using TestNG

Languages: Java, SQL, HTML, Gherkin, XML, JSON

Continuous Integration: Jenkins

Version Control: Git, Github

Project Building Tools: Maven

Methodologies: Waterfall / Agile

Orienting Systems: Mac OS, Windows NT/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8

Software Skills: Project, Excel, PowerPoint

Mobile Testing: Appium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior SDT

Confidential, Illinois, IL

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience both in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Designed and Implemented BDD Test Automation Framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Junit and Maven with Java.
• Experienced in creation of step definitions and feature files using Gherkin language in an implemented BDD framework using Cucumber.
• Experienced with RESTful API and used HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data using RestAssured Library and Postman.
• Implemented JDBC and API testing functionality into the framework.
• Developed automation test script and extracted data from excel sheets using Apache POI library.
• Created SQL Queries and performed back-end testing to check compared UI and the database.
• Using Selenium WebDriver locator to identify Elements by writing CSS selector or Xpath for dynamic Web Elements.
• Successfully performing Continuous Integration Test using Jenkins.
• Used Jira for User Story management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and managing the defects and executing the test cases.
• Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines and attended User Story Sessions, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Grooming ceremonies.

SDET

Confidential, Illinois, IL

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Agile Scrum method, attended User Story Sessions, Sprint Planning Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Worked closely with the Business team and analyzed User Stories, Features for the application functionality.
• Involved test case design, test case review, code review meeting with the team.
• Involved in automation test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Junit and TestNG.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing.
• Implemented Page Object Model and Behavioral Driven in Selenium WebDriver and JAVA.
• Used Maven for Build management, Git as source repository and Jenkins for Continuous Integration.
• Involved in developing BDD features, scenarios and step definition using Cucumber, Gherkin and automated them using selenium WebDriver.
• Performed Back-end testing using MySQL.
• Used JIRA as project management tool and ALM as test case design and defect reporting.
• Experienced in Using JAVA database Connectivity (JDBC) API for SQL based database access.
• Experienced in testing Web services through Postman and REST- Assured using Java library.
• In depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming(OOP) concepts and skilled in developing automated test scripts in Java.

QA Automation/Manual Tester

Confidential, Illinois, IL

Responsibilities:

• Implemented quality software best practices to develop Test Strategy, Test Case and Test Automation and actively participated in process improvements.
• Effectively communicated with the application developers, project manager and other team members on application testing status ongoing basis when necessary.
• Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Sprint Demo and Daily Stand-Up Meetings.
• Extensively involved in creation of automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using Java with Cucumber and JUnit.
• Experience in writing feature files in Cucumber framework.
• Implemented a wide range of Functional Testing by various QA automation test frameworks like Behavior-Driven and Data-Driven to ensure the code reusability and code maintainability, which reduces the script development time.
• Set up jobs for Smoke and Regression Test using Continuous Integration tool, Jenkins.
• Involved in Back-end Testing to certify Data consistency on Front-end, by writing and executing SQL queries using JDBC.
• Performed Selenium Synchronization and applied Explicit and Implicit waits during testing in order to handle Synchronization issues.
• Used Actions Class to perform required mouse operations.
• Considerable experience in handling pop-ups, alerts, iframes, windows, dropdowns and so on using Selenium Web Driver.
• Experienced with XPath, CSS and other Selenium locators for locating web elements.
• Created reusable utility methods for testing framework.
• Tracked defect and enhancement requests as they entered into the defect-tracking system using JIRA.
• Experienced with Git/GitHub as a version control tool.