SUMMARY

• 7+ years of work experience in the field of IT with focus on Quality assurance with both manual and automation testing.
• Expertise in Functional Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression testing, Negative testing, Configuration Testing, Database Testing, Mobile, User Acceptance Testing, load testing and stress testing.
• Expertise in test automation using Selenium IDE/RC/GRID/Web Driver (with Eclipse & Junit), SoapUI.
• Extensively used Selenium RC for testing different browser, Selenium Grid for checking instance of server and Selenium IDE for record and playback and Selenium WebDriver for automating scripts.
• Strong knowledge in Software Development Life cycle, Testing Cycle and Defect Cycle.
• Proficient in business processes/requirements gathering.
• Well - versed in AGILE, Waterfall and iterative methodologies
• Experienced in white and black box testing in agile environment.
• Expert in Web Services testing using SoapUI and also using Cucumber for automation.
• Used defect management tools Quality Centre, TFS, JIRA, ClearQuest, etc
• Experience in customer facing applications, insurance, media entertainment and storage domains
• Experience in web automation testing framework using Cucumber and Selenium web driver
• Experience in Data Validation and Back End Testing of databases to check the integrity of data using SQL queries. including web API automation and database testing
• Highly experienced in documentation and generating business reports after monitoring test results.
• Experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as QTP (Quick Test Pro), LoadRunner, Quality Center, Selenium, JMeter, Junit, JIRA, WindowTester Pro, SOAPUI and Version One.
• Involved in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementing Agile, Waterfall, V-Model, and Iteration, Scrum methodologies.
• Expertise in problem solving and defect tracking using tools like Rational Jira, Bugzilla, HP Test Director and HP Quality Center
• Well versed with the networking concepts addressing, routing, DNS, Load Balancing, IPV4, IPV6
• Extensive knowledge of programming languages C, C++, Java, Python, C#.
• Experienced in the preparation of Test Data, preparation and execution of regression Test scripts.
• Scheduled Test case review meetings, Daily and weekly meetings with project team to ensure all functionality are captured in test cases.
• Extensively worked on relational database tools MySQL and Oracle.
• Experience in running Test cases and Test Scripts for Windows and UNIX environments.
• Exceptional understanding of the QA life cycle, from test plan, test execution, to reporting bugs.
• Strong expertise in leading local and off-shore teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving techniques, presentation skills, Quick learner and a team player, excellent leadership qualities with strong communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium IDE, TestNG framework, JMeter, LoadRunner, Appium, Selendriod

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic 6.0, RUBY, Python, C#

Databases: Oracle 11/12g, MS Access, SQL Server 2005, MySQL, Toad for MySql

Architectures: Client/Server, N-Tier, Web Services, E-Commerce.

Change Management: Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Test Director, REMEDY, JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, UNIX Shell Scripting

Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Visual Studio, TIBCO Designer, MS Office, and MS Visio

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Linux (Red Hat, Knoppix)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of features and user stories to prepare test plans and user scenarios for functional testing
• Prepare Test Plan and end-to-end test scenarios by closely working with insurance product owners
• Automate web service using cucumber and Selenium automation scripts that are Java based
• Perform database testing using Oracle SQL Developer Server/Scripts
• Create feature file and step definition using cucumber selenium scripts
• Verify the request and response for the API that were used by the web application for accuracy
• Experience with Selenium automation testing.
• Developed automation test cases, executed these test scripts from test lab and logged defects in JIRA.
• Design, develop and implement MVC Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, JUnit and Selenium WebDriver.
• Designed data-driven testing framework in Selenium and captured data dynamically from web controls.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium.
• Performed Integration and Regression testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application using Selenium.
• Involved in manual and automation of functional and regression testing.
• Build and maintain traceability matrix to ensure completeness of functional testing.
• Review the test cases and test data prepared by team members.
• Used SoapUI for webservices testing.
• Provide bug tracking, test reports and metrics for management review in terms of development quality
• Go through the Release notes for new features and bug fixes and verify them in the build.
• Verify the test results and issues reported by team members and report build testing status to scrum master and assign it back to the build engineer.
• Provide detailed defect analysis review at the end of UAT cycle and identify defects, which were missed during QA testing phase.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Investigates problems reported by customers and suggest solutions/provides alternatives to the posed problem.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Environment: Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Xpath, Selenium WebDriver, Web Services, SOAP UI, XML Eclipse, JUnit, Jira, Windows, Unix, Oracle 11g, Agile Methodology.

Confidential, Plano

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of system & functional requirements with the clients & team members
• Involved in preparing Test Objectives and Test Case Creation.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Conducted GUI Testing, Smoke, functionality, System, Regression testing, Load and stress testing.
• Tracking and Locking of Defects through JIRA.
• Defects Management and Re-testing of defects.
• Participated in Review meetings with project team.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, QA metrics and mentoring the team in testing methodologies.
• Manage life cycle ofautomationproject involving in hosting theautomationmeetings, coordinating, gathering theautomationrequirements, defining the scope ofautomationtesting.
• Extensively used Agile/Scrum methodology with User Stories, Story Points, Velocity, Scrum Meetings like Retrospective Meeting, Review Meeting, Kickoff Meeting.
• Developed the automated test scripts for Regression Test Suite in an application by usingSelenium, Maven and Jenkins.
• Createdautomationframework using Hybrid Framework -- Data Driven framework, POM Framework to test web application work flow. Thorough understanding of POM using Page Factory.
• Worked onSeleniumGrid for automationscripts in Java for cross browser testing.
• Conducted performance testing on various internal web applications using JMeter and identified bottlenecks on various servers.
• Developed Selenium scripts to find, verify, select, edit and perform various operations on web elements. Used Select class to perform operations on the dropdown list.
• Developed Continuous Integration pipeline for deployment and release activities for various projects using Jenkins
• Analysis of CRs with the client and Test Cases preparation for CRs.
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.
• Developing test scripts for the bugs found in exploratory testing.
• Generated Bug Reports and conducted Regression Testing for Recognize the changes

Environment: Jira, SQL, Quality Center, IIS, HTML, Selenium, Maven and Jenkins, Jscript, Oracle, Agile methodolody

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of system & functional requirements with the clients & team members
• Involved in preparing Test Objectives, Test Case Creation and Review and Execution.
• Analyzed and identified the Test Objectives based on requirement document of the application
• Conducted GUI Testing, Localization Testing, smoke, functionality, system, database and regression testing.
• Updating, Executing and Maintenance of manual scripts in Mercury Quality Center and SVN.
• Tracking and Locking of Defects through Bugzilla.
• Defects Management and Re-testing of defects.
• Participated in Review meetings with project team.
• Analysis of CRs with the clients &team members and Test Cases preparation for CRs.
• Provided production support using triage.
• Involved in preparing Master Test Plans, QA metrics and mentoring the team in testing methodologies.
• Implementedautomationframework using Hybrid model framework and Data Driven framework to test web application.
• Worked onSeleniumWebDriverautomationscript in Java for cross browser testing. Used TestNG annotations to group the test methods and for cross browser.
• Implemented test automation for handling Popups windows and Alerts using WebDriver and Alert interface class.
• Used FireBug, FirePath to debug, edit and locate the objects based on ID, Name, XPath, CssSelector, Link, Partial Link, Attributes and Tags.
• Use Firepath and Firebug Firefox plugins for identifying all the web elements using locators.
• Maintaining theSeleniumand Javaautomationcode and resources in the SVN source control.
• WroteSeleniumscript for taking screen shots and implemented Action class to perform mouse movement.
• Design and BuildAutomationFramework from scratch usingSeleniumWebDriver, Eclipse, TestNG and Java in Windows platform.
• Ability in handling Ajax calls using WebDriver methods waits like Implicit, Explicit, fluent waits and thread sleep.
• Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkins format.
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from Oracle database.
• Used Appium for Mobile testing.
• Configured Jenkins for continues integration and also for regression testing.
• Involved in Developing Test Scripts for Integration Testing.
• Developing test scripts for the bugs found in exploratory testing.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for preparing test data.
• Creation of test set in Mercury Quality Center for executing the test suites.
• Generating test result reports after completion of test cycle execution on newly deployed build.
• Executing the test cases in MQC Test Lab and checking for the defects blocked against Test Cases.
• Delivering of the Daily Status (DSR) and Weekly Status reports (WSR).
• Generated Bug Reports and conducted Regression Testing for Recognize the changes.

Environment: SQL, JIRA, Quality Center, SQL, FirePath, Cucumber, Jenkins, DSR, WSR, Appuim, Eclipse, TestNG.

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended Review meetings to discuss Use-Cases, Business Rules, message rules, alternate flows and exceptions paths.
• Developed Use Case driven test scripts using Mercury’s Quality Center.
• Reviewed Supplements Specs and Business Documents for Use Case Entitlements.
• Involved in identifying the test cases that are affecting the basic and major functionality of the application in order to Smoke Test the application.
• Extensively used Quality center to manage and execute test scripts.
• Interacted with the project team to assign priority to Projects based on dependency and criticality.
• Created automated VB scripts using QTP.
• Attended meetings with logical data modelers to enhance knowledge of Back-end Testing, like acquiring the data from different data bases by using Informatica.
• Written SQL queries using TOAD to unit test and developed code base.
• Assisted in documenting screen mock-ups in HTML and designing of applications.
• Generated test data for automation scripts in Excel.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, TOAD, COBOL, Java, UNIX, SOA, QTP, Zephyr, SOAP UI, Quick Test Pro, Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, Restful Web services, Netscape Navigator

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and system requirements to create test plan for high traffic customer facing website.
• Writing SQL queries to retrieve data from database
• Analysis of the Business and System Requirements.
• Implementation of the RUP Methodology in the SDLC processing.
• Developing QA Test plans for Functional, Integration and System Testing.
• Developing SQL Queries to perform Database testing.
• Performing Backend Tests Manually with SQL.
• Development of automated scripts in Quick Test Professional for regression testing.
• Performance Testing using JMeter.
• Prepared test data for conducting testing on various applications.
• Handled and performed testing on various applications simultaneously.
• Performed JVM tuning and conducted thread dump and heap dump as and when required
• Used agile methodology by providing timely deliverables for every sprint.
• Identified performance bottlenecks on web, application and database servers.
• Interaction with the Development and QA Teams to ensure the overall quality of the software.
• Actively participated in the Scrum Meetings.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JDBC, HTML, XHTML, UNIX, SQL, AJAX, XML, XSLT, CSS, JMeter, Oracle

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analysis of business requirement documents to prepare test plans and user scenarios for optimal end-to-end coverage
• Reviewing and writing test cases to build test suites across multiple platforms
• Execute functional and regression tests based on the test plan and test suites
• Involved in manual testing on Windows platform
• Bug tracking and triaging, building test reports, Quality matrices and Traceability Matrix to ensure testing coverage
• Interact with business managers to transform requirements into technical solutions.
• Involved in various SDLC phases like Design, Development and Testing.
• Used Oracle as the backend database.
• Developed project in Eclipse IDE.
• Written PL/SQL Queries on Oracle database.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, Oracle, J2EE, JAVA, Html, Quality Center, MS Word, Ms Excel, LINUX, Windows XP, XML, VB Script