SUMMARY

• A software test engineer with 12 years of total IT experience which includes experience in Software Testing of various Web applications, mobile apps - iOS and Android and AWS based.
• 10+ years of QA experience including manual and automation testing with 5 years of experience as QA lead
• 10 months of experience as Data Analyst
• Highly proficient with Manual Testing
• Highly proficient in testing mobile apps- iOS and Android
• Highly proficient with AWS technologies- Spark, HDFS, SNS, STP, EMR, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch etc
• Experienced in working on Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Experienced in various industry domains, for ex. Banking & Financial, Telecommunications, Health Care, Insurance etc.
• Highly proficient in API testing
• Experienced in SOA Automation using tools SOAP UI, ITKO LISA and Parasoft SOATest.
• Have complete understanding of Current industry trend- DevOps and SDET
• Highly proficient in writing complex SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers etc.
• Experience in various types of testing including Functional Testing, Agile Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression testing, SOA Testing, Database testing and End to End testing
• Have knowledge of performance testing. Undergone training for Load Runner.
• Have worked on cloud based application testing
• Highly proficient with test management tools like- Jira, Rally and Quality Center/ ALM
• Experienced in Automated Testing using QTP
• Have knowledge of Selenium IDE
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test strategy based on the user Requirement Documents, design requirement document and System Requirement documents for the Functional, Regression, Load, Performance, User Acceptance Testing
• Expertise in implementing test approaches and test plans to test application enhancements and changes against documented business requirements and user stories and translate them to Test plans, Test scenarios, test scripts, test cases and executing them
• Sound knowledge of Software Engineering, SDLC and STLC principles and Database Management concepts and Business processes
• Has in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of testing methods, concepts and processes and practices
• Highly experienced in analyzing business requirements and system requirements. Used tool QC for requirements tracking
• Good experience in Data base validations and back end testing using SQL queries. Used Toad for the backend validations. Also used Splunk for validations where Cassandra was used as a database
• Experienced in Testing file transfers and file validations on UNIX.
• Have knowledge of Networking and protocols
• Experience of working under challenging conditions, and skillfully managing project communications, project scope & risks, multi-skilled teams, resources, vendors and stakeholders
• Self-driven team player with outstanding interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, highest levels of commitment, sincerity and willingness to learn and upgrade on knowledge and new systems
• Trained in testing tools like Load runner and Selenium
• SME for web services testing for MUP in CIGNA and CBBS in Washington Mutual Bank.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered/Analyzed test requirements from scrum team
• Worked on AWS console applications- S3, SNS, EMR, Lambda and Cloudwatch
• Interacted directly with the product owner to get details for test planning
• Performed the role of Data Analyst to study and analyze the various data flows in and out of the system. Also worked on to prepare DTS document to define rules for data
• Did sanity testing for each test build deployed by developers on QA test environment
• Interacted with Data Analyst on regular basis to be on track with any changes in system requirement

Environment: and tools: AWS iAAS, HDFS, RDS, CloudBerry, MySQL, Eclipse, MySQL

Global Supply Chain re- architecture

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered/Analyzed test requirements from scrum team
• Worked on Agile methodology attending daily stand up and scrum meeting
• Interacted directly with the product owner to get details for test planning
• Worked as onsite QA Lead to ensure all the project and test requirements are made available to offshore on timely basis
• Did sanity testing for each test build deployed by developers on QA test environment
• Interacted with Data Analyst on regular basis to be on track with any changes in system requirement

Environment: and tools: MongoDB, MySQL, Jira, WinSCP, Eclipse, Putty

Confidential software test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collected and analyzed test requirements from developers and system architecture
• Attended daily scrum as part of Agile methodology based project
• Prepare test requirement based on BRD and system architecture documents
• Prepared daily status report and distributed across team
• Managed offshore for tasks allocation, status report review and knowledge transfer

Environment: and tools: Rally, Agile, RDS, MySQL, AWS

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered/Analyzed test requirements from different teams and collaborate them as per Braves specifications
• Prepared test plan document and get it reviewed and approved by different stake holders of the project.
• Used Splunk for application logs for every action performed on STB boxes
• Worked on Agile methodology attending daily stand up and scrum meeting
• Interacted directly with the product owner to get details for test planning
• Direct interaction with the developers of multi teams involved to get details on the user stories and end to end testing
• Did sanity testing for APIs involved in the applications before proceeding with functional testing
• Used Bamboo to deploy code in local VM for testing
• Did debug of any reported issues in local lab and capture logs using Splunk. Also helped developers with more information to resolve the bug
• Co-ordinated with back-end and downstream application team for defect fixes and participate in their release testing for front-end testing
• Attended defect triage calls and weekly status meeting.

Environment: and tools: Zephyr, STB boxes, Jira, Spunk, Bamboo, CADA

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created Test scenarios and test cases for MyAccount mobile app for xifinity on both iOS and Android
• Monitored the device logs using Charles tool for any crashes in the app
• Used Splunk tool for monitoring production data for any incorrect user behavior
• Gathered and consolidated test status reports from team members and sent them to different stake holders of project in more business readable format.
• Worked on Agile methodology attending daily stand- ups
• Interacted directly with the product owner to get details for test planning
• Escalated any project related bottlenecks faced by QA team to concerned people to get them resolved ASAP as part of QA lead role
• Guided cross platform team for similar functionality testing and provide them test scenarios
• Did API testing involved in apps before proceeding with functional testing of app.
• Co-ordinated with back-end and downstream application team for defect fixes and participate in their release testing for front-end apps
• Written feature files using Cucumber framework using Eclipse IDE for automation team.
• Used Jenkins for merging test scripts
• Attended weekly defect triage calls
• Zero escape defect in every sprint

Environment: and tools: Zephyr, Android, iOS, Jira, Charles, Splunk, Web Services, Jenkins, Cucumber, Agile, Continuous Integration (GIT)

Confidential

Onsite co-ordinator- Manual Testing

Responsibilities:

• Created Test scenarios and test cases for Xfinity TV mobile app on both iOS and Android
• Monitored the device logs using Charles tool for any crashes in the app and report them immediately to developers
• Used Splunk tool for monitoring production data for any incorrect user behavior
• Sent EOD test status report to the QA manager and other stake holders of the product.
• Worked on Agile methodology attending daily stand-ups
• Direct interaction with the developers to get details on the user stories
• Guided cross platform team for similar functionality testing and provide them test scenarios
• Performed web services testing using SOAP UI tool that were involved in app
• Co-ordinated with video uploading teams for all the streaming issues and make sure they are fix in a timely manner
• Written feature files using Cucumber framework using Eclipse IDE for automation team.
• Used Jenkins for merging test scripts
• Managed off-shore team of 6 people by assigning them daily tasks, resolve any queries and issues, review status report sent by them, provide knowledge transfer sessions timely.
• Trained automation team for in-detail app functionality and review automation coverage and test reports before giving sign-off to the test scripts
• Attended defect triage calls
• Took ownership of several modules in the app and make sure zero escape defect in each sprint for those modules

Environment: and tools: Android, iOS, Charles, SOAP UI, Quality Centre 10.0, XIP, Splunk, Cucumber

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead and SME for MUP application for all the web services involved in main application
• Effort Estimation and planning for new Releases
• Trained a team of 8 people for web services automation tool ITKO Lisa
• Prepared test strategy and test plan documents and get it reviewed by QA Manager, Project Manager, Vendors’ POC and others.
• Wrote detailed Test cases without the application being ready on SIT environment by taking help from the developers and SA and reviewed test cases and did verification testing
• Created Help documents for the new team members to have a better understanding of the application
• Test management tool used was QC for entire testing flow
• Prepared daily status reports, attended Daily status and defect triage calls
• Was the single POC for all automation testing related defects, issues and queries
• Prepared end to end test scenarios including Vendors’ application and get them reviewed by all the stake holders as part of UAT testing
• Prepared test data by creating several Excel Macros

Environment: and tools used: Web Services, Quality Centre 10.0, Windows XP, ITKO Lisa, SQL, Excel

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Did Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing and Dry Run at different phases
• Coordinated with the offshore and onsite business team for creating the test data for the test scripts
• Prepared and feed the test data into data driven automation framework
• Created automated test scripts using QTP 9.2
• Executed test scripts and generates reports using Quality Center.
• Managed test scripts thoroughly i.e. from design to report generation and defect logging from Quality Center.
• Had Communication and co-ordination with client and team members, preparation of Daily status report, Weekly status report
• Attended Defect Triage Calls
• Maintained Daily execution and planning trackers and sent daily status reports to client
• Coordinated KT sessions and meetings between various vendors involved in a project
• Worked on UNIX and tested files using WinSCP i.e. UNIX interface
• Did back-end testing using Toad for Data validations
• Extraction of data from the database in the form of queries and did database validations using SQL queries by using TOAD

Environment: and tools used: UNIX, Quality Centre, QTP 9.2, XP, PL/SQL, TOAD

Confidential

Offshore co-ordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the offshore and onsite business team for creating the test data, and better understanding of the application
• Prepared and feed the test data into data driven automation framework
• Created automated test scripts using QTP 9.2
• Executed of test scripts and generates reports using Quality Center.
• Managed test scripts thoroughly i.e. from design to report generation and defect logging from Quality Center.
• Sent daily test status report to onsite co-ordinator

Environment: and tools used: SharePoint, QTP, Windows XP, Excel for Test Management

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Automated web services testing of non-WSDL/WSDL compliant services using Parasoft’s SOAtest tool 5.5.2 and SOAPUI
• Learnt to use Parasoft test tool which was being used for the first time in the company
• Attended after office hours training sessions provided by Parasoft’s help team
• Execution of test scripts.
• Generated HTML Reports from SOAtest 5.5.2 tool and sending as Test Execution Report
• Used test management tool Quality Center to log defects.
• Communication and co-ordination with client and team members, preparation of Daily status report, Weekly status report
• Received lots of appreciation from higher QA management for using Parasoft and SOAP UI tools for automation.

Environment: and tools used: Parasoft SOA Test tool, Soap UI, .NET, HOGAN, QC for Test Management