PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A technology leader with 7 years of IT experience including 5+ years of Strong experience in Service Testing & Service Virtualization using CA DevTest /iTKO LISA
• Expertise in testing middleware / SOA services as a standalone component before they are consumed by external applications, to identify any integration, data & mapping issues ahead of time there by shifting quality to left in the overall SDLC
• Expertise in Testing & Virtualizing various types of SOA based services including Web Services (SOAP/HTTP(S)), REST Services (XML/JSON), MQ, JMS.
• Experienced in using XSD, WSDL, XPath, XML Spy for service testing & Virtualization.
• Experienced in understanding Service Virtualization needs/ Requirements & creating VSI’s using WSDL, WADL, Recording, Request & Response pairs
• Experience in working with various ESB teams that has used variegated integration tools like webMethods, IIB (IBM Integration Bus), Data Power, TIBCO & JBOSS for developing services.
• Experience in analyzing and supporting various teams for testing and debugging of SOA based services and applications.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.
• Excellent Analytical, Critical thinking, & Creative Problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively and efficiently in teams and individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: iTKO LISA, DevTest, SoapUI, UFT, QTP, Quality Center

Languages: Java, SQL, XML, HTML, VB Script, Java Script.

Databases/ Database front end tools: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, MS: Access, Toad & DbVisualizer.

Version Control Tools: Stash, Git, Subversion, Visual Safe Source.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, AIX, Hp: Ux, VMS/VAX, Pentium Systems, CitrixMetaframe Tools, IBM Compatible PC s.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

SOA Tester & Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Over 50 + services developed in the ESB layer using SOAP/HTTP(S), REST, MQ, JMS, Socket protocols were successfully tested & Service testing responsibilities include:
• Ensure that the service response adheres to the defined Data Mapping/XSLT.
• Boundary conditions, field length, type restrictions, optional & required field behavior is as expected
• Service handles errors gracefully
• Response validation against Schema / XSD to ensure the structure and underlying data conformity.
• Implemented procedures for installation and configuration of all tools in CA iTKO applications.
• Provided technical assistance to QA engineering teams in all phases of software quality assurance and development lifecycle.
• Leveraged various Filters & Assertions to validate actual response with expected response.
• Used Altova XMLSpy for reading schema definitions to understand the required, optional field definition, boundary conditions, enumerations, patterns & message structure.
• Leveraged DevTest Staging documents to emulate load on services and monitor average response time.
• Created custom program to read an XML/JSON, create a parameterized request, create an input data sheet with the parameters in the XML/JSON
• Performed tool upgrades from CA DevTest v7.5 to CA DevTest v8.5 & implemented LDAP authentication for users in DevTest v8.5.
• Trained and mentored resources on CA DevTest tool.

Environment: ITKO LISA, Altova XMLSpy, IBM Web Sphere, ESB, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Toad, Jira.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

SOA Tester & Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in performing stand - alone service testing using SoapUI, Schemas & SOAP/WSDL.
• Created mock/virtual services using SoapUI capabilities and deploy them using Tomcat server and make the virtual service endpoints and methods available to all the needed stakeholders
• Used schemas (XSD’s) to generate /mock request messages and ensured that the response conforms to schema definition and any defined mapping and transformation rules.
• Used Filters and Assertions (XPath Match) to compare the result of an XPath expression to an expected value
• Hands on experience using groovy scripting to develop custom utilities and for data driven testing in the SoapUI free version.
• Identified critical integration points, data relationships between different operations with in a service and other services and systems and developed test strategies & test cases accordingly for Integration testing.
• Evaluated tool capabilities of SoapUI and iTKO LISA 5.0 and gave a POC including service virtualization capabilities of ITKO LISA and built in support for MQ, JMS, TIBCO integrations.
• Coordinated with different teams involved in the project to get data required for Integration testing.
• Used Quality Center for Requirements Management, defect management.
• Developed web based automation test scripts using QTP
• Created Shared Repositories, Data tables, functional libraries for QTP test scripts

Environment: SoapUI 4.5, iTKO LISA v7.5, UFT 11.5, Oracle 11i, Toad, SQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. SOA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Virtual Service Images using Request & Response pairs
• Performed standalone testing of SOAP/HTTP services using Raw Soap Request step in iTKO LISA.
• Used XML-XML Comparison assertion to validate the expected XML with the actual XML response.
• Used XPATH filters and assertions to fetch and validate the desired data in the response.
• Requested WSDL’s & XSD’s from developers to understand the required and optional elements within a schema and developed the test scope and test data accordingly.
• Used the ‘Write Properties to Output File’ step to write the desired results of test execution into a csv file to be shared with the project stakeholders.
• Developed Test Plan document and Test Cases based on the requirements specified in the software requirements specification document.
• Conducted in test case review meetings with Business and Development teams to ensure complete coverage of business and functional requirements
• Extensively used SQL to perform backend testing and data validations.
• Analyzed the automation requirements, designed automation framework & developed automation scripts, reusable functions
• Coordination with client and status reporting

Environment: iTKO LISA 5.0, webMethods, ESB, Oracle, Toad, Quality Center.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with requirements to write the test plan and test cases.
• Manually executed the test cases and reported the results to development
• Performed defect tracking tool JIRA
• Worked closely with teams of clients, developers, SME’s and testers throughout the entire development
• Worked with Scrum Masters and Project managers for issues with project requirements.
• Checking the history data and infrastructure environment design
• Did integration test with updated data
• Oracle data base testing.
• Performed extensive back end testing on Oracle as well as DB2 databases using SQL queries to validate the data that was transferred from Oracle to DB2 during APRT project.
• Documented, implemented, monitored, enforced all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.

Environment: JIRA (Defect Tracking Tool), Office, Oracle, DB2, Java, J2EE Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Web sphere.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared requirement traceability matrix document and completed verification and validation of data
• Wrote test protocols for validating functional requirements
• Tested the document system to verify if the documents were updated based on the requirements
• Wrote test protocols for validating the document system if it reflected the right values in the report generation tool
• Involved in test case preparation, testing and debugging the application
• Preserved the business rules and logic required
• Involved in Project Documentation

Environment: ASP.Net, Windows NT/2000, Quality Center, SQL Server.