SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of professional experience in IT industry in diversified fields of the Software Life Cycle.
• Experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as Selenium and experience in Mainframe testing.
• Specialized in user requirement analysis, documenting test plans, execution of test cases to verify application functionality against business requirements, by using selenium WebDriver.
• Good experience in manual testing of web based Client/Server applications.
• Good Experience in creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and Automation testing using Selenium.
• Extensive experience in GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance (UAT).
• Create test plan, test scripts and execute the test cases manually for every sprint.
• Perform functional, regression and integration testing.
• Release testing is done for every sprint in agile methodology like a series of tests should be conducted to ensure the software runs as intended.
• Involved in webservices testing using post man tool for testing restful services.
• Exposure on Soap UI.
• Browser, Security and Database Testing using SQL queries.
• Prepare test data for the Clients to test in UAT using SQL’s and retrieve from the data base.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using JIRA and ALM Quality Center.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Test Cycle (STLC) methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
• Worked on a requirement which is repeatedly used by the users on daily basis.
• Have very good experience on testing (manual and automation).
• Excellent experience in Mainframe testing of all the maintenance of Mainframe Projects which involves JCL, DB2, CICS, COBOL, VSAM.
• Experience in QA testing of Client/Server and WEB Based applications.
• Adaptable to new software applications and products, self - starter, has excellent communication skills and understanding of business workflow.
• Experienced in the different types of testing that include System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black Box Testing, Manual and Regression Testing with automated testing tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Selenium WebDriver
• HP Quality Center
• SQL
• Jira
• Quality Center
• MS-Office Suite(Word
• Excel
• Access). SQL Server
• MS Access
• Oracle
• MySQL
• Windows 7
• Eclipse
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• SQL
• Tera data studio Express
• JCL
• MVS
• VSAM
• COBOL
• DB2
• Rational TestManager
• Rational Pro
• Rational Clear Quest
• RQM
• Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing.
• Create test plan, test scripts and execute the test cases manually for every sprint.
• Perform functional, regression and integration testing.
• Release testing is done for every sprint in agile methodology like a series of tests should be conducted to ensure the software runs as intended.
• For every release of Sprint, the automation regression scripts are run to ensure the defect free product before deploying in production.
• Execute SQL Queries to retrieve the data from database
• Conducted regression testing after every new build.
• Responsible for QA sign-off of the release to the production.
• Participated in Biweekly Sprint plans
• Coordinated with the developers to review the unit test cases
• Coordinated with the developers in writing unit test cases to improve the code coverage.
• Authored and Executed Automation and Manual Test Cases for Functional testing of various modules of the application.
• Prepared test data for testing the application in various test phases.
• Involved in QA team meetings and gave updates to the QA lead/Project Manager on a weekly basis.
• Reported the defects to JIRA in timely manner and followed up with the developer’s team and drive it to closure.
• Participate in defect prioritization sessions and also Report and document defects found during test cycles.
• Participated in Stand-up meeting, walkthrough meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with developers.
• Gathering the requirements with Client and Business Analyst’s.
• Utilize rational quality Management (RQM) to create and execute test cases.
• Configuring the Test Environments to execute the Test Cases.
• Performing Product, Integration, Functional and Regression testing.
• Collaborate with point lead and developers to resolve defects.
• Ensuring traceability for all requirements by utilizing Rational Requisite Pro tool.
• Working closely with the Business Analysts and Clients.
• Preparing weekly status report for senior management review.
• Participate with vendor and operations staff to discuss new requirements, enhancements and improvements.
• Manage the relationship with internal and external service providers to ensure the standards and requirements of Confidential are met.

Environment: Mainframes (CISC, JCL, TSO/ISPF), RQM, ALM, Clearquest, RequestPro, OSCAR, RENO, Adjustments, ICD-10, Jira

Confidential - Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Jira
• Create test plan, test scripts and execute the test cases manually for every sprint.
• Perform functional, regression and integration testing .
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Participate in defect prioritization sessions and also Report and document defects found during test cycles.
• Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing and Regression Testing.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting using QC.
• Gathering the requirements with Client and Business Analyst’s.
• Utilize rational quality Management (RQM) to create and execute test cases.
• Mapping the requirements in the tool as Test cases to cover the overall functionality.
• Configuring the Test Environments to execute the Test Cases.
• Performing Product, Integration, Functional and Regression testing.
• Raising defects and following it up with different teams for its resolution.
• Collaborate with point lead and developers to resolve defects.
• Ensuring traceability for all requirements by utilizing Rational Requisite Pro tool.
• Use SQL queries to retrieve data from production.
• Preparation for UAT and addressing any issues which comes up during UAT.
• Working closely with the Business Analysts and Clients.
• Preparing weekly status report for senior management review.

Environment: Mainframes (CISC, JCL, TSO/ISPF), RQM, Clearquest, RequestPro, OSCAR, RENO, Jira

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Jira
• Create test plan, test scripts and execute the test cases manually.
• Perform functional, regression and integration testing.
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Participate in defect prioritization sessions and also Report and document defects found during test cycles.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting using JIRA.
• Mapping the requirements in the tool as Test cases to cover the overall functionality.
• Configuring the Test Environments to execute the Test Cases.
• Raising defects and following it up with different teams for its resolution.
• Collaborate with point lead and developers to resolve defects.
• Use SQL queries to retrieve data from production.
• Preparation for UAT and addressing any issues which comes up during UAT.
• Working closely with the Business Analysts and Clients.
• Performed in UI and backend testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business requirement walk through, design walk through and analyzed business requirements.
• Installation of various software, for testing cross-platform stability.
• Followed Rational Unified Process RUP in executing different processes.
• Performed various types of Random and Adhoc testing to break into the system.