PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience in the field Software Quality Assurance Testing with diversified skills in Manual and Automated Testing of web based and client/server applications in Mortgage, Banking and Financial Institutions, Advertising Media Platforms like Facebook and Twitter
• Tasks involving test planning, test case development, Requirement Traceability matrix, Creating Test analysis report and test execution; seeking a consulting or permanent position as a Software Test Engineer /Quality Assurance Tester.
• Extensive Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall model, Agile and V - Model
• Excellent communication skills, ability to learn new things quickly and can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as a part of a team as well as independently
• Experience with TDD / BDD using Cucumber / Gherkin.
• Experienced in manual testing as well as Automation testing.
• Experience in analysis of Software Requirement Specifications(SRS),
• Involved in Test Plan and Control, Test Analysis and Design, Test Implementation and Execution, Test Closure Activities as part of various assignments.
• Hands on experience in generation of Bug (Defect) Reports, tracking the status of each defect (Open, fixed and New) and analyzing the bugs using Bugzilla and JIRA.
• Proven ability in designing and creating automation frameworks for Web based applications using Java, Selenium Web Driver, IDE and JUnit/Test NG.
• Experience in developing Test Frameworks using Modular(POM), Data Driven Approaches
• Experience in building freehand scripts using Java for Test Automation
• Expertise in developing Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Cases and procedures Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) and Test Analysis Report(TAR)
• Strong experience in Database/Backend testing using MSSQL Server, Oracle and SQL queries.
• Substantial experience in Loan processing, Mortgage banking and loan support
• Intensive/Extensive knowledge of Real Estate transactions, processes and principles
• Familiarity about lending regulations followed at state and federal level namely ECOA, Reg Z and RESPA Solid understanding of FNMA/FHLMC and industry standard guidelines
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities with a strong understanding of Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Validation
• With a combination of effective oral, written, interpersonal, organizational, professional skills have worked independently and as a team member for manual and automated testing using automated tools.
• Have the capability of multi-tasking and adjust to changes in schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Tools: Quality Center, JMeter, Selenium Web Driver, IDE, TestNG, Tomcat ServerCucumber / Gherkin for TDD and BDD:

Bug Tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, Quality Center

Scripting: JAVA, SQL, HTML, In depth knowledge expertise in locating Web Elements using Element Locators CSS, Firebug, Fire Path, Xpath, GIT, CVS

Databases: MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server

Operating Sys: Windows 8/7/XP/2000/NT, UNIX, MS-DOS

Web Services: Apache, IIS, Tomcat, SOAP UI, JSP Server PWS, WebLogic, Java Web Server

Application Tools: MS Office2010, Visio, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

QA Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QA Lead on several above mentioned projects at the same time.
• Tested API Contract using Swagger API, Postman and Eclipse IDE.
• Analyzed the backend impact on the DB’s while testing. Using Oracle DB and BosWeb
• Developed and executed JUnits for the REST services.
• Followed TDD approach for the testing of APIs.
• Found critical bugs and got appreciation from the Manager.
• Works as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and document requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems.
• Collaborates with developers to elicit, validate, and document pre-existing system functionality
• Creates both low fidelity and professional quality project artifacts such as requirement plans, business requirement documents, visual models (e.g., context diagrams, process maps, use cases, mind maps), traceability matrices, and others as appropriate
• Collaborates with technical team members, such as developers and architects, to ensure the testing design satisfies project objectives and business requirements
• Assisted the Product Owner and team in finding the Gaps or the requirements.
• Serves as a critical resource and liaison between subject matter experts and technologists throughout the project lifecycle
• Collaborates with business subject matter experts and technologists throughout the project lifecycle
• Identifies and communicates risks and issues as well as possible solutions
• Participates in peer reviews of business analysis artifacts
• Followed agile methodology using JIRA tool.
• Worked with and assisted quality assurance teams to ensure that the application is tested and meets the initial functional specifications
• Liaison between the end-to- end and my team’s unit test area to adapt an in-house Selenium Web Driver framework.
• Prepared a test suite of manual tests to be converted into the automated system.
• Assist other team members for any help I could provide with my product knowledge.

Environment: Postman, Swagger, Soap UI REST API, Java 1.8, RESTFUL Web Services, XML, XSD, Oracle 11g, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse IDE. HP ALM Quality Center.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis, design, and development and testing phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using Waterfall development methodology.
• Created automatic test suites and did manual testing.
• Suggested bi-weekly meeting between Dev team and QA team to understand the functionality and clarification on the issues.
• Worked with Business Owner and Business Analyst.
• Involved in business requirement gathering and technical specifications.
• Tested UI with Selenium WebDriver. Created Test Suites using TestNG Framework.
• Responsible in Debugging/Troubleshooting the issues and reporting the issues.
• Played an active role in testing the application by writing test cases for different scenarios.
• Participated in daily scrum and gave my feedback for improving the business application.
• Worked with in house UAT team to educate them about the functionality of app and answer there questions.
• Used Oracle DB to do the backend testing.

Environment: Java, TestNG, Windows, XML, JSON, JIRA, Maven, SOAP and REST API, Selenium WebDriver. Trello.

Confidential

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Followed in Page Object Design Pattern for writing test cases in Junit
• Helped in creating the Feature files for TDD tests using Cucumber.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in agile environment.
• Involved in Test Strategy to be used for functional, regression, integration, and end to end smoke testing.
• Identified test cases to automate. Automate those test cases using Selenium, JUnit and Java
• Contributed in framework creation.
• Identified test cases to automate, Enhanced framework (pages & parts), Helpers
• Involved in creation of automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven (BDD) approach in Cucumber framework. Participate in testing activities, in collaboration with the development and production teams, to ensure satisfactory performance of end-user reporting.
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
• Utilized knowledge of Java to create automation test scripts.
• Tested SOAP and REST based web services using SOAP UI.
• Used Git to pull and push code into repository on Daily basis.
• Used Jira Defect Life Cycle, User story creation and Strategic planning.

Environment: Selenium, Eclipse, Java, JUnit, Cucumber, Window, XML, Maven, SOAP and REST WebServices.

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the application architects to develop a solid testing solution, working towards the future state of the application architecture that includes automated testing for continuous integration;
• Worked and coordinated with third party software team to help test the application which was being migrated to College Board.
• Developed automated test scripts for new features based on acceptance criteria and user stories during each development Sprint;
• Developed, implements, documents, and monitors best practices for test cases.
• Communicated automation goals, priorities, and status across the organization;
• Identified innovative solutions to solve complex test problems;
• Assists in the /mentoring of team members.
• Partnered with Agile Release Train to plan for new functionality, resolve defects, and in corporate error injection test methodologies;
• Provided input into improving the testing of the application for the organization;
• Defined automated test criteria to be used to determine which functionality should be automated;
• Developed automated test for all functionality that meets the specified automation criteria.

Environment: Java, JUnit, Window, XML, JIRA, Maven, SOAP and REST WebServices

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the requirements required to implement the test cases.
• Designed and implemented the automation testing framework for use in validating new and existing component releases using Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed automation scenarios using the functional test cases for components owned by the Risk Profile.
• Involved in setting up test environment for automated script execution on the stage machines.
• Performed cross-browser testing.
• Used Selenium WebDriver to execute test cases on multiple OSes. Build project using Maven.
• Responsible for updating and maintenance of existing selenium scripts.
• Monitored automation results and re-executed the failed tests to confirm the bugs.
• Managed a QA team of onsite and offshore resources.
• Tested the product for production issues.
• Involved in client interaction to understand the business requirements.
• Supported the testing for external teams that depended on the Risk component.
• Preparing the test schedule and allocated work to the team.
• Reporting and defect tracking using quality center
• Mentoring and guiding fresher’s in the team.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JUNIT, JavaScript, Eclipse IDE, Firebug, JIRA, Selenium RC and SQL Server 2008

Confidential -Rockville, Maryland

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Documented and executed Test plans, Test cases, Test schedule and Test scripts based on baseline requirements.
• Developed and executed Test Automation, cross browser functionality with Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed automated script for backend testing using Selenium WebDriver& wrote complex SQL queries for MySQL database.
• Performed web service testing using SOAPUI Pro.
• Verified all the possible permutation and combination using Data Driven testing manually.
• Followed Page Object Model for writing test cases& developed modularized framework on page level.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using WebDriver/TestNG framework.
• Used Ant build tool to trigger various builds available.
• Coordinate with developer to reproduce the bugs and helped to solve problem in an application.
• Identified defects, recreated them and maintained track of all defects.
• Prepared summary reports of configuration changes, test results and recommendations.

Environment: Java, J2EE, TestNG, JMeter, Selenium IDE/ Web Driver, SOAPUI Pro 4.5.1/4.5.2, SQL, JIRA, UNIX, Oracle 10G, XML, HTML

Confidential - Rockville, Maryland

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed Test Cases from the business requirements document.
• Execute the test case and report the status of the test cases.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing.
• Developed Selenium IDE/web driver based regression tests.
• Conducted Automated Sanity and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Backend Testing of the application by executing SQL commands.
• Involved in writing SQL queries the data validations and check constraints.
• Performed the volume testing to analyze the behavior of the application.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Involved in production patch upload and smoke testing.

Environment: Java, MS SQL Server, Bugzilla, Selenium RC/IDE