SUMMARY:

• 6 years of professional experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance in both Manual and Automation testing of web applications as an SDET.
• Java OCA Certified.
• Hands on experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participated in Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.
• In depth understanding of Defect Life Cycle, and analyze, report and track defects using Jira.
• Automated the Test Cases using Java, Selenium, Maven, JUnit, Cucumber, GitHub, Jenkins, TestNG, JDBC, and Rest Assured.
• Experience in Smoke testing, Regression testing, Positive and Negative testing, End - to-End testing, UI testing, API testing, and Backend testing.
• Solid ability on managing Java automation projects using Maven.
• Proficient in creating automation framework from scratch.
• Experienced in executing SQL queries for back-end testing in order to view successful transactions of data and validating data.
• Deep knowledge in OOP Java: Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction.
• Ability in developing BDD scripts with Cucumber using Gherkin language.
• Deep knowledge of using TestNG and JUnit to organize the flow of scripts by using annotations.
• Developing and executing Test Suite using testng.xml file.
• Experience in creating Page Object Model (POM) to centralize the Web Elements using Selenium for maintainability and reusability.
• Successfully performed Parallel test execution to check browser compatibility.
• Automated test reports using HTML reports attached with failed scenarios screenshots.
• Solid experience of handling Web Elements with dynamic properties and writing customized Xpath, and CSS to identify them using Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in creating Maven project to centralize all dependencies in pom.xml file and also to get an organized folder structure to build the framework.
• Strong experience in testing for Restful API with Rest Assured library and also very comfortable to use Postman for Manually API testing.
• Scheduling Smoke testing and periodically build in Jenkins.
• Ability of understanding of HTML code and XML files.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong problem solving, decision-making skills.
• Dedicated, Self-motivated, Cross functional team player and Detail oriented.
• Quick learner, strong capability to adapt and learn new tools, techniques, and approaches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Certificates: Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JDBC, Rest Assured, Postman

Languages: Java, HTML, SQL

Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, ALM

Test Management Tools: Maven

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins

Version Control Tools: GitHub

Databases: Oracle, MySQL

Testing Frameworks: TestNG, JUnitIDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Des Plaines, IL

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business analysts and developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in agile environment.
• Performed automated testing of a web-based application.
• Analyzed requirement document to create automated test cases.
• Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Provided daily updates to project management in meetings, provided test estimates and gathered information from planning meetings for every release.
• Created Automation Testing Framework with Java, Selenium and Cucumber.
• Wrote test scenarios in Cucumber using Gherkin language in Jira and integrated it with Eclipse.
• Developed reusable methods in order to avoid wasting time for repetitive actions in application.
• Used Selenium and Java to handle the textbox, dropdown, checkbox, buttons, popup controls, iframes and web tables.
• Created Page Object Model (POM) for each page of application to centralize the web elements in one place and update them with Selenium when their properties change.
• Performed API Testing using Postman and Rest Assured Library.
• Utilized Jira as a defect/bug tracking tool.
• Implemented JDBC (Java Data Base Connection) into framework to connect to the database, retrieve and process the results received from the database in answer to the queries.
• Wrote test scenarios in Cucumber feature file using Gherkin language to make it business readable and implement these scenarios in Step Definition class using Java language.
• Implemented multi browser testing to ensure cross browser compatibility.
• Prepared HTML reports.
• Executed Smoke, Functional, Positive, Negative, Regression Testing.
• Used Jenkins as continuous integration server to run Regression and Smoke tests.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Implemented Continues Integration of Test Runs hosted on GitHub.
• Generated Cucumber reports and emailed them during each run using Continues Integration.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed user stories to ensure that requirements are testable.
• Worked closely with business team and software developers to understand application functionality.
• Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Designed and maintained framework using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Page Object Design, TestNG, and Maven build tool.
• Involved in developing the test cases and test data.
• Identified elements by locators and add them to the page classes of POM using Selenium.
• Used Jira for working on user stories and defect tracking.
• Performed Data Driven, Behavior driven and Hybrid Testing.
• Involved in Testing Web Services using REST Assured and Postman
• Generated Defect Reports and Customized Summary Reports.
• Tested the application for browser compatibility using Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox.
• Performed Smoke, Positive, Negative and Regression testing.
• Lead complex test automation efforts using Cucumber and Java for Agile software projects.
• Developed Automation Scripts in Selenium WebDriver for Regression Testing.
• Performed Backend Testing with the help of JDBC.
• Performed Integration testing to check the flow of application.
• Maintained automation builds on Jenkins - Continuous Integration (CI) tool.
• Ran SQL queries to validate that frontend data matching with backend data.
• Implemented RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to make sure all the requirements are covered by test cases.
• Created Maven pom.xml to get the needed artifacts and integrated with Jenkins.
• As a cross functional teammember helped manual testers when it is required.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Requirements in Requirement Phase, analyzed requirements, identified the priority functions to test and developed detailed test cases.
• Worked closely with business analysts and developers for requirements review and developing test scenarios.
• Maintained testing framework having Java, JUnit, Maven, Selenium and Open Source Java libraries.
• Experienced in Functional Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Developed data driven framework to retrieve test data from Excel files.
• Developed automation test scripts using Selenium.
• Validated test cases using JUnit Framework.
• Used ALM as a defect reporting and tracking tool.
• Created SQL queries to perform Backend testing in MySQL, SQL developer.
• Communicated with Development Team to resolve and retest defects.
• Involved in creation and execution of manual test cases and analyzed the test results.
• Manually verified the validity of the failed test cases, logged the defects and assigned them to development team.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings.