SUMMARY

• Currently serving a healthcare industry’s application as a Software QA Automation Engineer at Confidential .
• Served Confidential and Confidential in the past as Software Test Engineer with overall testing experience of over 5 years.
• Experienced in collaborating testing activities with both onshore and offshore teams and had achieved successful project outcomes that welcomed new project opportunities from sponsors while working with Confidential .
• Seeking a position that would utilize both my business acumen, technical and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional: SDLC (Agile & Waterfall), STLC, Functional Testing, TESTNG hybrid framework, CICD pipeline, UFT hybrid framework, Performance Test, Business Requirement Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Text Mining, Data warehouse, Project Management

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Quality Center (ALM), JIRA, JAMA, Git, bitbucket, SourceTree, Jenkins

Languages: VBScript, Java, R, SQL, C

Software Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, UFT, SOAPUI, Unix Shell, Advanced Excel, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Oracle SQL Plus, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Software QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Communicate functional teams to understand the business requirements
• Implement System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and testing life - cycle, testing procedures, and methodologies for various MAGI and non-MAGI programs to meet its business requirements using JIRA and JAMA
• Implemented hybrid automation framework using Selenium Webdriver with TestNG and Microfocus UFT using VBscripting to automate the manual test execution which reduced the overall manual execution effort by 80%
• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipeline using Selenium Webdriver, Maven & Jenkins
• Responsible for creating automation test scripts which is part of standard regression suite that is executed for any new functional change or new addition made to the application. Also responsible for developing methods to create test data (5000 numbers) for the training team.
• Responsible for automating & executing SMOKE scenarios to deliver healthy deployments on daily basis
• Experienced in writing strong SQL queries to retrieve the data that suffice the test automation execution needs

Confidential

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 3 members and was responsible for test planning, test preparation, test execution of various Pega Nextgen G&A application for Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial & Federal markets to meet the business requirements in Agile setup
• Was responsible for validating the requirements & identify gaps in requirement by following up with the business team
• Attended daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint plannings & business demos to identify and understand the Nextgen Pega Application requirements
• Coordinated with the development team to resolve the identified defects until the go live
• Developed automated test scripts using selenium webdriver to perform data validation and to automate the supported features which reduced the overall manual effort by 70% of execution time

Confidential

QA (Functional Tester - Manual & Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for conducting BRD review, gap analysis, test planning, test preparation, RTM preparation and test execution of various project web applications (.net based and groovy-grails based applications)
• Experienced in building and designing test cases, maintaining test data, delivering high quality of functionality & user interface by testing the project web apps on different platforms of windows and mobile handsets including MacOS & iOS
• One year of QA lead experience where I was given an opportunity to handle (Using Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies) Ethernet Services Commercial Portal until its go live. Received client appreciation for delivering quality product
• Led a team of 3 members to perform day to day testing activity that is assigned and then to send the final collated testing reports to the internal stakeholders and client
• Handled production deployments, ensured on time delivery of projects, given solutions to production issues to address the end customer issues
• Documented functional specifications and application's user manual that allowed new resources to work on the project and helped development team to implement the features
• Trained resources on project tools and applications that enabled the increase in quality workforce and thus increased the project's overall productivity
• Performed UAT of Ethernet Services portal and tracked defects in JIRA that enabled easy assignment of defects to onshore development team
• Performed regression testing of Apollo portal and assisted development team to recover its functionality as per the business requirements and was actively involved in portal’s end-to-end testing for some of its complex features
• Subject matter expert of TWC project applications (for Apollo, Ethernet Services, VoiceZone, CSRs’ web applications)
• Gained hands-on experience in selenium webdriver using java to develop automated test scripts that reduced overall manual testing cycle effort by 75%. Trained in automation testing tools using QTP (HP UFT), RFT and performance testing tool Load Runner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted usability testing of the existing Ryanair website with 10 users in natural settings
• User were then given with set of questionnaires after they interacted with the existing Ryanair website
• The survey responses were recorded in the Likert scale format which was analyzed and user comments were taken
• Based on the user recommendations, developed a prototype with responsive design using HTML, CSS, Javascript with bootstrap framework
• After the prototype design, the usability study was conducted again to compare the usability of prototype with its existing Ryanair website