PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Over 15 Years of diversified experience in Quality Assurance and leading test efforts.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life (STLC) and the Role of Analyst.
• Strong experienced in Manual testing & Tracking defects using HP Quality Center.
• Well versed in Automation Testing with the knowledge of testing tools like QTP and Selenium.
• PMP trained. Hands - on Project lead, who fulfils all the duties and responsibilities and managed successful completion of a project within boundaries of quality, time and budget.
• Solutions-driven Quality Analyst with experience leading cross-functional teams in the development, documentation and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals.
• Extensively experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts, andTest Cases.
• Strong experience in all levels of Testing such as Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, End-to-End validation and verification testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Smoke Testing, Black box testing, Cross Browsers testing.
• Well experienced working in offshore and onshore model, day to day testing activities of QA team.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and team management skills.
• Experience in maintaining Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix & performing GAP analysis to verify that test cases meets the end client requirements.
• Knowledge of cross browser testing (IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari), Mobile Emulator and Simulators.
• Strong knowledge of guidelines of agile flavor of scrum methodology in software development phases.
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Hardworking team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing and Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center8.2, HP ALM, RTC, JIRA, Jenkins, Junit, TestNG, Maven, Clear Quest, SoapUI

Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), HP QTP, Selenium

Languages: HTML, SQL, JAVA, CSS3, XML

Database: SQL Server, Microsoft Access

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, Android and IOS

Cross Browser Testing: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, Mobile Emulator, Simulator

Methodologies: Agile-Scrum and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Expert

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Responsibilities:

• Completed Java programing course, and Selenium Web Automation .
• Tested visible design elements such as the size, color, formatting of screen features like buttons, menus, icons, and toolbars.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java.
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object’s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Used Selenium to perform various testing activities like GUI testing, functional testing, cross browser compatibility testing.
• Used JIRA to report incidents.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Line Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the test team to validate defects coming of production, and work request completion.
• Drive test scenarios, assisting ongoing investigation of underlying defect coming of production. Work with external team and vendors to align the testing efforts.
• Reviewed, analyze business requirements document to document business rules as per user needs.
• Created functionality test cases after establishing critical values and workflow.
• Manually performed system integration, and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementation.
• Identified test cases to automate, prioritized suitable candidates for automation.
• Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG/JUnit.
• Participate in test automation, create, enhanced, modify regression automation scripts and Automation of functional testing framework for all modules using Selenium WebDriver.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java.
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object’s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Automated UI tests with different use cases and each use case to test ‘Look and Feel’ of the page.
• Used Selenium to perform various testing activities like GUI testing, functional testing, cross browser compatibility testing.
• Involved in creation of different automation framework like POM framework for various projects.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium IDE.
• Used Web Services through SOAP UI. Written SQL Queries and executed them using DB Visualizer.
• Worked on Mobile/Web-based Application Testing and coordinating with internal stake holders and vendors for deliverables.
• Coordinated with Release Test Managers, Internal customer, vendors to ensure efficient development processes are being followed and those business priorities are met.
• Worked with business analysts to developed concrete User Acceptance Test criteria and coordinated UAT testing efforts for deliverables.
• Utilized Quality Assurance best practices to ensure the software quality of the product.
• Maintain excellent communication across different teams and management to achieve quick solution.
• Participated in various meetings (Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog review) and Defect Triage meeting.
• Used GUI checkpoints to check the attributes of the application across several builds and versions.
• Identified and documented all the defects to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Project Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the entire product/feature cycle and planned testing efforts with cross-functional teams in various regions including Poland, China, and India.
• Responsibilities included requirement Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement. Hosts meetings, coordinating test efforts, creating Test strategy and Test plan document.
• Resource planning and on boarding on time with required Skill set.
• Managed Integration, functional, System, Regression and coordinating UAT testing efforts.
• Delivered well-documented Software Test Plans, designed Test Cases based on User Requirements Specification, Use case documents and production defects.
• Engaging the team members for the project with required skill set.
• Provide senior management oversight for all activities performed by the team. Managed individual and team workload to deliver to agreed release milestone.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical team. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown and shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Used multiple QA tools and technology JIRA, HP Quality Center, and HP QTP
• Participate in test automation. Learn the automation tools in use, script automated tests, and extend the automation infrastructure.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Senior Test ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with testing team analyzing test cases, scenarios and scripts via standard testing techniques of 1x CDMA and EV-DO networks.
• Evaluated all project technical specifications and documentation.
• Wrote regular progress reports in coordination with software engineers and system engineers.
• Analyzed and reviewed functional requirements to derive test scripts based on the approved requirements.
• Gathered specifications and requirements to develop Test Plans and to create Test Cases.
• Converted functional requirements into detailed scenarios and test cases.
• Performed extensive Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, and Performance testing.
• Identified bugs, issues, risks, and bottlenecks within the software.
• Created and maintained the traceability matrix to ensure that all test cases are passed and met the given requirements.
• Evaluated the quality of the software product being developed in terms of functionality, usability, compatibility, reliability, performance and supportability.