SUMMARY:

• 7+ Years of experience in IT Services primarily focused on Software Testing/Quality Assurance.
• Extensive experience in Software Test Automation using Java and Selenium.
• Highly Experienced in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, User Interface Testing, Regression Testing and Other Black Box testing types.
• Good experience in Data Base Testing and in using SQL (ORACLE) and PL/SQL for Data Base
• Testing activities. Has a very good knowledge in ETL testing process
• Hands on experience with UNIX/LINUX environment. Involved in deploying and running the applications on Servers with respect to testing activities.
• Experienced in testing RESTful web services using REST 
• Proficient with Software Development Life Cycles and Software Testing Life Cycles. Good working experience in Agile methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in SCRUM and XP agile methodologies. Worked in Test Driven Development (TDD) practice. Good working experience with BDD testing tools like JIRA, Maven, and Cucumber-Gherkin.
• Have a very good knowledge in ‘DevOps’ and ‘Continuous Integration’ concepts and in using SVN/GitHub & Jenkins for testing activities.
• Testing skills include Business Requirements Analysis, Business Requirements Traceability, Test Plan Preparation, Test Strategy Preparation, Test Scripts/Test Cases development and execution for application testing,Test Reports/Defect Reports Preparation, Software Metrics Preparation, etc.
• Well acquainted with HP ALM test management tool. Certified in HP UFT and HP ALM.
• Involved in training, planning, monitoring and guiding Quality Assurance teams.
• Roles delivered such as Test Lead, Senior Test Engineer, and Onsite & Offshore Coordinator.
• Exposure with QA Principles, SEI CMMI levels and ISO 9001.

SKILL SET PORTFOLIO:

• Test Automation (Selenium & Java)
• Functionality Testing
• User Interface Testing
• Regression Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• System Testing
• Ad hoc Testing
• Business Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Traceability
• Test Planning
• Leading Testing Teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Core Java

Scripting Languages: Worked with Java script

Internet Technologies: Worked with Tomcat Apache, DHTML, RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON, PHP

Testing Tools: Selenium, HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, Maven, Cucumber-Gherkin and HP UFT

Build Tools: Worked with Maven & Jenkins

Databases: RDBMS concepts and worked with Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata

Version Controls: Worked with SVN, GitHub and Visual SourceSafe 6.0Operating Systems Windows 2000/NT/XP, Windows Vista, MACOS, LINUX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Development Software: Java, AJAX, PHP, DHTML, XML, Web services, Tomcat Apache, Oracle, etc.

Testing Tools: Selenium, Atlassian JIRA, Maven, Cucumber-Gherkin and HP ALM

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all the SCRUM events i.e. Daily SCRUM, Sprint Review, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective and provide necessary inputs.
• Analyze the user stories in the product backlog and help Product Owner and SCRUM Master in building the sprint backlog.
• Analyze user stories in the sprint backlog and develop test cases and test automation scripts accordingly.
• Involve in test execution and in validating the user stories in sprint. Report the execution results and defects in HP ALM.
• Develop BDD test automation framework using Selenium, JIRA, Gherkin Acceptance Criteria, Maven and Cucumber.
• Work along with developers in developing test scripts first as part of XP-TDD practice.
• Involve in Test Plan preparation for various Releases in the project.
• Test Automation Transition, and help PMO Tools team in cleaning up the existing test scripts and re-building the Test Automation Framework using Selenium and Java.
• Analyzing the previous business scenarios, regression testing scenarios and data driven testing scenarios and developing test scripts using Selenium and Java.
• Using SQL/PLSQL, involved in verifying data storage and data consistency in PMO Tools data base systems and involved in validation of data from Source Tables to Target Tables.
• Assign work orders to off-shore team members, and monitoring & reporting the status.
• Involved in the discussions of work orders, defect reports and status reports with onsite manager and team.
• Review work of junior team members and mentor them.
• Involved in discussions with QA team and in deriving quality metrics for the team.

Confidential

Development Software: Java, JMS, Oracle, Tomcat Apache, IBM Mainframes & DB2 etc.

Testing Tools: Selenium, Java and HP ALM

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Study, evaluate and analyze Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Use Case documents, etc. as part of system design activities.
• Coordinate with technical team during technical specification documentation, during system design activities and during system implementation.
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Reports, Defect Reports, Test Metrics, etc. for different on-going system releases.
• Maintain Requirements Traceability, Test Scripts Development (Using Selenium), Test Scripts Execution, Defect Logging, Test Monitoring and Test Reporting using HP-ALM.
• Test Data creation and Test Data Management.
• Monitor and review work orders executed from off-shore.
• Generate reports - Defects and statuses.
• Develop test automation (Selenium & Java) scripts for regression test scenarios.

Confidential

Development Software: Java OAF, PHP, DHTML, Tomcat Apache, Oracle and LINUX, etc.

Testing Tools: HP-QTP and HP-QC

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in walkthroughs of requirements, functional specifications and use case documents
• Evaluate and analyze requirements, functional specifications and use case documents, etc. for planning and developing test scenarios/test scripts as part of quality assurance
• Developing and standardizing the test automation frame work using VB Script, HP-QTP and HP-QC
• Developing new test scripts using QTP/VB Script and updating the existing test scripts as per the new business requirements/releases
• Executing the test scripts and analyzing the test results
• Writing SQL/PLSQL statements and executing them towards Data Base Testing activities like Data Storage, Data Retrieval, Data Base Design and Data Manipulation validations
• Preparing test plan, test reports, defect reports, test metrics, etc.
• Maintaining RTM, Test Scripts Development, Test Scripts Execution, Defect Logging, Test Monitoring and Test Reporting using HP-QC
• Involved in different meetings with technical team and business team for application requirements and ambiguity reviews
• Monitoring and reviewing the work orders executed by other team members
• Training the new team members about the application, test automation frame work & Data Base testing process

Confidential

Development Software: .net, Oracle, LINUX, etc.

Testing Tools: HP-QC

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with customer’s business team and analyzing the functional specifications
• Participating in functionality implementation discussions with technical team and business team
• Estimating the testing timeframe for the implementation of EIS GL & XL Connect for different customers
• Involved in deploying code fixes/code changes builds in the test environments and checking the stability of the builds
• Manipulating the applications running on different servers for various positive and negative testing activities
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and test data
• Performing smoke testing, functionality/system testing, system integration testing, data base testing and regression testing
• Performing testing activities like maintaining RTM, executing the test cases, submitting the defects and generating test reports using HP-QC.
• Preparing the release metrics for the project releases of different clients

Confidential

Development Software: Java, Oracle, HTML, etc.

Testing Tools: TeamTrack

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding the requirement specifications
• Participating in review meetings and static testing
• Preparation of Test Cases and Test data
• Executing Functional and System Testing and validating the applications against defined requirements according to the documented test cases
• Involved in Functionality Testing, Regression Testing and System Testing
• Involved in testing Data Base (ORACLE) using SQL
• Generating program trouble reports (defect reports) for test cases that failed during testing
• Participating in defect triage meetings
• Developing final test reports
• Coordinating and supporting user acceptance testing