SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of experience with Quality Assurance and Testing experience in fast paced complex Information Technology environments across various phases of SDLC, STLC and different methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall. Expertise in Software testing, Software Quality Assurance for Client/Server and Web based applications with different test tools focus on Automation, Manual, Functional and Backend Testing.
• Expertise with Agile methodology (Sprints, daily scrums, Product grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective) of project development and testing
• Extensive Experience inQAleadactivities like Test estimation/LOE's, scheduling, planning, reviews, defect management, status tracking and resource management
• Hands - on experienced in working on projects with Selenium, VSTS,CodedUITest, C#, NUnits, Java, JUnit, JavaScript, Continuous Integration, SQL, Web Services, REST, SOAP, JIRA, UFT, QTP, VBScript, TFS, MTM QA technologies and tools.
• Expertise in Test Automation Framework Design, Development & Enhancement Experience on Web as well as on windows applications.
• Lead Quality Control with good technical, coordination skills to assess needs, set priorities & meet deadlines.
• Experienced in open-source automation tools (Selenium), developing and running automation test scripts using Selenium Web Driver with Java/C#/Python.
• Experienced on Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, TFS and CodedUI Framework in creating automation script using C# with OOPS concepts and remote execution of test cases using Test Agent, Test controller, Test Manger in MTM.
• Expertise in Telerik Test Studio and Cucumber.
• REPORTING HP Suite of Automated Testing Tools - UFT/QTP, Quality Center (QC)/ ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA for communicating the test outcome to respective development teams and manage the defects.
• Generate periodic summary reports for Management to provide a status summary on the test results and defects.
• Knowledge in using Test Management & Defect Management tools e.g.
• Good Experience on Compatibility testing like Cross Browser and Devices testing on different Platforms and Operation Systems.
• Experience in submitting bugs and logged defects to bug tracking systems like JIRA, TFS, ALM Quality Center, MTMQuality Center and Bugzilla.
• Knowledge of working in a (CI) Continuous Integration environment like Hudson, Jenkins.
• Expertise in Windows, UNIX operating systems, Shell scripts, FTP, Virtualization
• Experience in preparation of Test Strategy, Test Methodology, Test plan, Test Scenarios, preparation and execution of Test Scripts, Test Cases.
• Hands on experience in developing Selenium IDE/ Web Driver/RC/Grid scripts using Java, JavaScript, C# Test Frame works is using Ant/ Maven build tools.
• Understanding and experience working on a variety of technologies Including SQL, HTML, CSS, JAVA SCRIPT and XML and Integration of HPALM.
• Created automation testing framework for API webservices test using RestAssured and JAVA or other API level testing framework.
• Experience in diverse domains in Capital Markets in areas such as Fixed Income, Equities, Risk, Over The Counter (OTC) Derivatives, Electronic Trading floor applications, Financial reporting using Business Objects, SAP BW and Spreadsheets, leading and managing Business Process
• Create, maintain, and execute test cases, functional, regression, system, and User Acceptance Testing. Meet the test schedule requirements.
• Experience working with Banking and Financial services, engineering and manufacturing and Retail Organizations.
• Technically resourceful in different types of testing such as Functional/Positive/ Negative/ Regression / Integration/ Black box/White box/Unit /Smoke /Usability/Volume/ Load/ System testing/ User Acceptance/ End-to-End Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium, CodedUI, HP Quality Center, ALM, UFT/QTP, ClearQuest5.0,WatiN

Databases: PL/SQL, T-SQL, MYSQL, MS SQLServer, Oracle,DB2 DB, MS Access.

Defect tracking tools: Jira, Bugzilla 2.0, MTM, TFS, Jenkins, Lean Testing, IBM Clear Quest, QC/ALM, Mantis.

Languages / Tools: C, C++,C#, JavaScript, Java, .NET, Shell, HTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, JMS,SharePoint.

Configuration Tools: TFS, MTM, Clear Case 5.0, CVS, VSS, Perforce.

Application Servers: JRun, Web Logic, Web Sphere.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT /2000/XP/Vista, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

QA Lead Test Automation Developer

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owners/ Stakeholders to understand & finalize functional requirements to deliver stable automation suites
• Enhance test automation scripts & test automation framework to fit needs and provide multiple approaches to automate & suggest the best one
• Develop integration, system, user acceptance test schedules per the agile methodology.
• Facilitating bi-weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings and end of Sprint Retrospectives for the Agile Teams
• Facilitating Leading in Sprint planning and make effort estimation and discussing requirements with the BA and Product owners.
• Help establish test planning, test strategy and build manual & automated test suites
• Do code reviews & maintaining deliverable quality & maintain the Test Automation Framework
• Prepared Daily & Weekly Status to Project Manager and Stake holders by extracting customized reports on defects and execution status fromALM, JIRA, and TFS.
• Used GIT, TFS for version control and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Designed & Developed Page Object Model & Page Factory Framework in Selenium Web Driver, JUnit and TestNG framework.
• Involved in designing the framework to integrate HP ALM to cucumber using the newly released version of HP ALM rest API
• Involved in creating automation test scripts usingselenium, cucumber built on Eclipse IDE
• Used javascript for creating the automated test scrips in selenium web browser.
• Proficient in Functional Testing tool Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT) and the various frameworks in QTP/UFT.
• Responsible for development of new tools using QTP and VB scripts useful for business needs.
• Extensively used VB Scripts to write scripts for testing certain functionalities in the unit.
• Write SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.
• Analyzed Business Requirements / Features preparing & automating the Test conditions in JI
• Monitored tests, fix, enhance tests using Continuous Integration tools viz. Bamboo, JIRA, Maven, SVN
• Contributed to automation in Selenium Web Driver, Java, JUnit, Python.
• Performed multiple SOA architecture web services validation using SOAP UI Pro.
• Performed Web Service API testing for UI content verification and validation with business logic XML using SOAP UI.
• Configured Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java, python and c# using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Added performance measurements for Oracle, Web Logic, IIS in LoadRunner TestCenter.
• Analyzed results using LoadRunner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle DB connections, sessions, Web Logic log files.
• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations
• Worked with App-Dev, Production, Technical and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests.

Environment: Java, Selenium, HPALM Rest API, VB scripts,TFS, MTM, QTP/UFT, XML, SVN, JavaScript, Python, Eclipse, Maven, TestNG, SOAP UI, JXL, Agile, JIRA, SQL, UNIX, MS Office, Excel.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Application development QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans (SIT, UAT), test scenarios and detailed test scripts for multi-generational releases.
• Define UAT test Entrance, Exit, Success and Escalation criteria. Participate in UAT testing and validation of requirements.
• Prioritize the test schedule, queue Component-testing pipeline by coordinating with the development team.
• Created and maintained the Python deployment scripts for Web Sphere web application server.
• Developed over 3000 test scripts to validate the various functional and transaction scenarios. Identified the corresponding Test Data.
• Developed Hybrid framework (Keyword and Data Driven frameworks) to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
• Implemented TestNG automation framework for the smoke test.
• Used FireBug, FirePath to debug, edit and locate the objects based on ID, Name, XPath, CssSelector, Link, Partial Link, Attributes, and Tags.
• Handled Selenium WebDriver features like implicit wait and explicit wait under synchronization.
• Handled the special mouse events and selected the options from the tab menu using Selenium Actions builder, mouse hover, and synchronization.
• Implemented Test Automation Framework using Visual studio 2010 - CodedUI Using C# -4.0 and make Test agent, test controllers in MTM for test case execution.
• Manage test Scripts via Quality Center and perform testing for Component, System, Integration, Functional, Performance and UAT.
• Defect management via Quality Center (reporting, tracking, re-testing. Closing), Reported over Severity defects resulting in Design changes for the system functionality.
• Daily reporting on the QC test status/progress to the Sr. Management (Testing and Development)
• Checked the web applications on selenium using python.
• Used Soap UI for testing web-services and XML, XSL/XSLT, JMS based applications.
• Excellent experience in Web Services using SOAP UI/WSDL.
• Created/Updated test data in the backend database using SQL queries.
• Used SQL Server and DB2 DB for Database Conversion.
• Performed Web Services testing, Functional, Integration and Regression, Database testing.
• Performed the end-to-end testing by verifying the logs and results from the backend systems.
• Performed Mobile testing for Android and IOS testing MobileTestingincludes Device, Tablet and AppTesting.
• Developed test scripts for mobile applications on Android, Apple, BREW, RIM & WinMplatformsusing Device Anywhere.
• Validated Web Services Request and Response data manually and using XML Spy.
• Tested our application on variouswindows, CDMA, Blackberry and iPhones.
• Used Rational Clear Case/ Clear Quest to manage requirement updates and defect tracking.
• Perform Web Services, End to End testing, Functional, Integration and Regression, Database testing by verifying the logs.
• Report bugs/defects in the HP ALMand ensure problem resolution is communicated in a timely and effective manner between Developers, LeadQAand Project Manager.
• Modified the QTP VB Script wherever required to accomplish few of the critical tasks.
• Used VB Script & Descriptive programming to develop Data Driven Framework in QTP.

Environment: Microsoft CodedUI, selenium, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Pro 9.5, TFS, MTM, Load Runner, Waterfall methodology, SOAP UI, XML, SQL Server, DB2 Database, .NET, Windows, Java/J2EE, JavaScript, Python, PL/SQL, Oracle, WebLogic, VSS, Android and iOS devices, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office SharePoint.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Test Automation engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing the System Specifications, which included functional specifications and the product requirements, and preparing the Detailed Test Plan on the basis of the Use Cases.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases based on Requirements.
• Worked with the Business Users through interviews and (Joint Application Development) JAD sessions.
• Used Quality Center for running tests, components, reporting and tracking defects.
• Managed requirements, test cases and test scripts using Quality center. Executed automated scripts using QTP.
• Developed User Defined Functions to support the automated scripts using QTP.
• Involved in weekly status meetings with the rest of the team members to discuss any enhancements in the system.
• Performed manual testing and Front-end Web based Functionality testing, for Smoke testing, Regression tests, Integration tests and System testing.
• Involved in testing compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium.
• Sole performance of API testing with different sub-systems as a part of Back-end test.
• Loaded insurance plans using SOAP UI. Plans are Certified and verified to make plans available to the Users.
• Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using selenium WebDriver and TestNG for java based web application.
• I also helped them in optimizing existing testing framework design as a result test case development work got drastically simplified. This required me to work closely with Telerik technical support team.
• Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix in Requisite Pro for traceability of requirements through test cases.
• Performed functional testing, system testing, integration testing, data validation testing, regression testing, and User Interface testing.
• Provided data to business analyst during user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Preparation and submission of the Daily as well as Weekly Status Reports to QA Manager.

Environment: Quality Center 8.2, Telerik, HP QTP 8.2, SOAP UI, Java, J2EE, Java Script, UML,SQL, MS Office, Oracle, Windows, UNIX.

Confidential - Morrisville, NC

Quality Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Effectively planned tests for the stories and executed respective functional and integration tests successfully.
• Established clear set goals and deadlines, pursued to complete the deliverables with focus on use cases, consumability and end userquality.
• Actively participated in Kanban/scrums, followed agile process/methodologies to keep the product/solution up-to-date with the market demands and changes.
• Collaborated with development on various QA process/methodologies and coordinated with developers to help reproduce issues and fix the bugs
• Developed thorough test plans, test cases, test scenarios for Functional, Regression testing.
• Extensively interacted with developers, business& management teams to understand the OPM project business requirements and ETL design document specifications.
• Uploaded and configured WSDL file to SOAPUI and JMeter applications to test the web service application.Actively participated in the various review and Defect triage meetings.
• Used Appium to facilitate mobile testing by creating mobile Driver class with the required mobile capabilities. Involve in web UI application over HTTP client request protocol.
• Developed Manual test cases by decomposing use cases for specific functional requirements. Worked with Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios.
• Performed functional testing of SOAP &RESTful Web Services using SOAPUI Tool Used Java/Junit to run Cucumber feature and scenarios and generating report daily basis.Testing JavaScript web based applications.
• Developed automation scripts using Load Runner,UFT (QTP) and Selenium to make them flexible and useful for Regression testing.
• Extensive knowledge on working with development of QNXBoard SupportPackages for multiple Intel (x86) and ARM development as well as productionboards.
• Perform unit and integration testing for various applications using C++,Shell Scripting and Python.
• ManagingPostgreSQLwith PostGIS database systems that support high traffic web sites (LAPP stack), database backup and recovery, performance monitoring and capacity planning.
• Used NoSQL database MangoDB and Cassandra for storing and retrieving data.
• Extensive knowledge in NoSQL databases like Hbase, MangoDB, and Cassandra.
• Involved in writing optimization techniques for more accuracy of Macros in C/C++, C++ routines and OracleSQL, PL/SQL.
• Worked with team across different time-zones and participated/contributed to continuous agile planning, demo and retrospective meetings.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, FileZilla, LINQpad, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Slack, Skype

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Quality Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and System Design Specification (SDS)
• Involved in reviewing the System Specifications, which included functional specifications and the product requirements, and preparing the Detailed Test Plan on the basis of the Use Cases
• Derived test cases and test scenarios for automation
• Prepared Test Data and verified test results for testing
• Reviewed test scripts, test runs, and maintained test result reports
• Ensure that all the test cases are written (Coverage Analysis) and uploaded to Quality Center using excel Add-ins.
• Executed test cases from test lab. Maintained defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Logged the defects and tracked them using Quality Center and coordinated efforts with the development teams.
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with 'SOAP UI'.
• Validated the Web Services (SOAPUI)for both Request and Response messages
• Participated in Weekly Project Status meetings with the Project Manager and the business units.
• Participated in Defect and root cause meetings with Developers, Users and Project Manager.
• Retested the defects and followed Bug life cycle until they were fixed, retested and closed.
• Created LoadRunner scenarios and scheduled the Virtual Users to generate realistic load on the server using LoadRunner (Load generator machine)
• Gathering the Test Input data. Test Input data includes Pre-condition, Test Input, Test Result, Test Regression data.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for mapping requirements against test cases
• Performed Functional, Regression and Integration tests during different developmental phases.
• Involved in extensive communication with developers and clients as part of agile model.

Environment: QC, Agile, MS Excel, .NET Framework, MS SQL Server, XML Spy, AJAX