OBJECTIVE

• Experience in the IT Industry with Manual, Automation and Performance testing on web based, windows, cloud, and Client/Server applications looking for a Automation QA Engineer position in New York City, NY.

SUMMARY

• US Citizen with Over 7 Years of Software Testing / Quality Assurance experience; Manual, Automated and Performance.
• Experience in SDLC process and STLC processes
• Experience in test planning, test execution, test management with software teams including analyzing, integrating and deploying a wide range of software solutions
• Expertise in quality assurance methodologies, multiple databases, testing techniques, and defect resolutions.
• Experience implementing Page Objects, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit.
• Expertise in writing test plans, test cases, test scenarios, test scripts and reports from the scratch.
• Ability to comprehend various architectures in order to identify performance concerns and assist with defining performance improvements
• A sound understanding of business processes and troubleshooting
• Experienced coordinating and working with offshore and onsite team(QA, Dev, PM, BA, SME)
• Knowledge of internet architecture, web services, security principles, firewalls and network systems
• Hands on experience in analysis, design and development of test case for SOA based applications
• Experienced in testing software’s/applications for Compatibility, User Acceptance (UAT), Smoke, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, end to end, Load, Performance and Stress Testing.
• Strong ability to document processes in a clear and easily understood method
• Experience testing and supporting SaaS Services
• Able to function at a senior management level while maintaining awareness of technology details
• Excellent coaching, counselling, mentoring and leadership skills
• Effective under aggressive timelines and high - pressure situations
• Proven ability to identify and remove large obstacles and barriers on behalf of the team
• Experience facilitating discussions with business users to identify, develop and prioritize business requirements
• Strong analytical skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Highly experience in QTP/UFT, LoadRunner, QualityCenter, Test Director, SQL queries and VBScript
• Ability to serve as the conduit between customer community and software development team
• Highly skilled and experienced in Automated testing of Client/Server, JAVA GUI based, Web
• Knowledge and experience with version control systems
• Experience in multi-platform testing (Windows, web, UNIX, LINUX)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver/RC/Grid, Cucumber, Maven, HP QTP, LoadRunner, HP ALM/QC, Eclipse

Languages/Frameworks: JAVA, JUnit, TestNG, C#.Net, NUnit, Cucumber

Defect Management: JIRA, HP QC/ALM, TeamTrack

Technologies: C#.Net, VB.Net, ADO.NET, WCF, SOAP, WPF, Java, J2EE, J2ME, Perl, SQL, IIS, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, JSP, VB, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, REST

RDSMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, MS Access and DB2

Other Tools/Applications: MS Office, UML, Adobe Acrobat, MS Visio, MS Project

Browsers & Servers: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Safari, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, Linux, Mac and DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior QA Engineer (Automation)

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Designing and executing extensive automation and manual testing on the applications.
• Conducting walkthroughs with the Agile team, reviewing the test plans and test cases for team input and base lining the test plan using the Agile test Methodology
• Using Selenium WebDriver to automate highly transactional web applications.
• Implemented Page Objects, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, and Hybrid automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, TestNG and JUnit.
• Used Fire Bug and Fire Path to identify object.
• Xpath, CSS, ID, Name locators are used to identify objects.
• Set up frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and Databases (ODBC).
• Responsible for MQ, Message Broker and Security testing (using IBM AppScan).
• Involve with Failover testing on different Cloud Servers.
• Creating test documentations (test plans, test cases and automated test scripts)
• Performing Smoke, Functional, UI, integration, ad hoc, cross-browsers, Performance, Load, Stress & GUI Regression testing and internal verification throughout the system development and test life cycle
• Involved in post-release management and quality assurance processes and methodologies.
• Tracking & Managing defects in JIRA and generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.
• Using Selenium Grid, NUnit test scripts to run automated test cases in parallel on different environments.
• Performed load testing onCitrix, VM ware, Hyper-V and Cloud environment.
• Involved in designing scenarios using Load Runner Controller depending on Business Requirement Document and System Specification Document.
• Performing Mobile browser testing using user agent adapter for Android devices.
• Conducted various test on the system such as Baseline test, Scalability test, Stress test and Stability test.
• Used LoadRunner for planning load test, created Vuser scripts and created scenarios.
• Measured Hits per second and Response time using LoadRunner Analysis.
• Worked with Virtual Table Server in centralizing the data and parameters which can be used across different LR scripts and Vusers maintaining uniqueness of data.
• Modifying the scripts, Parameterize and correlating the static & dynamic values in the script to emulate the real time actions and business requirements.
• Analysis IIS logs, Performance Monitor, SQL trace to find out the bottleneck of the application
• Identified and recommended changes to enhance the effectiveness of IT system quality assurance strategies including testing, release management, and deployments
• Made recommendations, assessed industry best practices and strived for constant improvements to ensure most effective performance testing and engineering approach
• Perform Web Services testing to meet the application Performance matrix
• Analysis HIPAA, HL 7, EMR, RTLS etc. healthcare related terminology for verified the application with making automation scenario by Descriptive programming.
• Developed SQL queries (view, stored procedure and function) for database testing
• Performed database testing on RDBMS like Oracle, MYSQL using influx of SQLqueries
• Performed CRUD operations and verified ACID properties with the SQL queries on databases
• Involved in modeling, simulating and day to day tasks that perform with cutting edge performance engineering technologies like LoadRunner and QTP
• Applied performance testing techniques to ensure predictive performance engineering focus for company's application solutions

Environment: Load Runner 11.0/11.5/12.0 , Quality Center 9.5x/10,ALM, HP QTP 11.0/UFT, Jira, TeamTrack, HP SiteScope11.20, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Windows XP, ASP.NET, Web services, Fiddler, Dynatrace, Oracle, SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 ,, XML, HTML, XML, SOAP.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created, maintained and presented detailed technology roadmaps for application testing
• Analyzed documentation and technical specifications of any new application under deployment and consideration to determine its intended functionality
• Created Test cases and Test Scripts for both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Acted as a bridge between systems and applications personnel for technical issues
• Provided various teams (Infrastructure, Architecture and Development) with recommendations on tuning all aspect of STLC
• Ensured that testing activities will allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolvesystems issues
• Ensured that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications
• Ensured project approaches comply with the quality assurance and release managementapproach and strategy
• Created test scenarios and implemented automated functional test for enhancements and new applications
• Identified and recommended changes to enhance the effectiveness of IT system quality assurancestrategies including testing, release management, and deployments
• Produced reports and documentation for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging, and tracking
• Involved in post-release management and quality assurance processes and methodologies
• Provided test management actions (requirements, work distributions and defects) using QualityCenter
• Created, enhanced and maintained high-end test scripts for various functional and regression using Quick Test Professional and VBScript
• Developed and maintained test harness, reusable functions, actions and Object Repositories via Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Performed standard checkpoints and also database checkpoints in Quick Test Professional in order to verify and validate data on web based application with Visual Basic programming.
• Developed parameterized test scripts to test same functionality with multiple sets of data using HP QTP
• Performed database testing on RDBMS like Oracle, MSSQL, MYSQL and FireBird using influx of SQLqueries
• Performed performance/stress/endurance and competence characteristics testing with LoadRunnerto varying loads to determine application breaking point andto improve its efficiency and scalability.
• Used LoadRunner for planning load test, created Vuserscripts and created scenarios.
• Measured Hits per second and Response time using LoadRunner Analysis.
• Attended daily status meeting and gave status report of the manual and Automation testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Conducted walkthroughs for team members, and documenting the proceedings.

Environment: Load Runner11.0, Windows server 2003/XP, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, Adobe Flex, AJAX, HP J2EE Diagnostics, web services, UNIX, MS Office Tools,Java, SOAP, HTML, DHTML

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Work on Different Project and passed very good time with Confidential
• Conducted research and analysis of business requirements, and developed testing scenarios and test cases which were linked back for requirements coverage
• Developed matrix of contemporary technology list that used to the business areas supported and addressed testing requirements with high quality, timeliness, and cost-justified testing solutions
• Defined Test Objectives & Scope of the test engagement based on the project requirements
• Created test documentations (test plans, test cases and automated test scripts)
• Performed Smoke, Functional, UI, integration, ad hoc, Regression testing and internal verification throughout the system development and test life cycle
• Involved in planning testing approach, executing tests and reporting the results according to Performance Testing standards
• Wrote and revised automated test scripts and test documentation for a variety of applications, working with other performance engineers, business analysts, product managers and developers to ensure adequate coverage for upcoming production releases
• Responsible for architecting, designing and developing test cases and scenarios that enable developing application to maintain more quality at a minimum leverage
• Involved in modeling, simulating and day to day tasks that perform with cutting edge performance engineering technologies like LoadRunner and QTP
• Wrote highly detailed test plans and writing test cases using Quality Center
• Used JIRA for bug reporting and bug tracking.
• Used automated test scripts, user-defined functions to check the different functionalities of the application using QTP
• Conducted performance and stress testing using LoadRunner to depict the application bottlenecks
• Performed re-test and verified bug fixes as needed
• Managed client expectations for test results and outputs
• Provided extra testing support where necessary and on release days, including special off-hours
• Communicated project status to varying levels of management
• Implemented changes to enhance the effectiveness of IT system quality assurance strategies including release management, deployments, and testing
• Coordinated with users to plan user acceptance testing
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.

Environment: Load Runner9.5, Windows server 2003, Quality Center, Visual Studio 9, Apache, .NET, SQL Server 2005, XML, Adobe Flex, AJAX, Jscript, XML, web services, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, MS Office Tools, Java, VBScript, SOAP, HTML, DHTML

Test Engineer

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviews of requirements, test cases, and other projectartefacts
• Evaluated requirements and defines testing objectives and approaches
• Developed strategy for test automation
• Developed and maintained test automation frameworks
• Evaluated and recommended automated testing tools
• Created and executed automated test cases based on test strategy and test plans
• Developed documentation to facilitate usage of test automation framework
• Participated in reviews of system architecture, and design documents
• Effectively communicated testing activities and findings in oral and written formats
• Continued review and improvement of the testing and quality assurance methodologies and measurement of these processes
• Managed testing tools and environments, test preparation, execution, and automation
• Coordinated with developer and QA teams
• Participated in operational readiness review including pre- and post- implementation to ensure a successful business system solution for the client
• Assisted the successful completion of software projects by executing on software quality activities throughout the software development life cycle
• Actively involved in creation and implementation of test automation solution, which includes defining strategies, architecture, implementation, deployment and
• Used Test Director for tracking requirements and communicated them to the team during the test process and translated the information to test procedures
• Transformed manual test cases into functional, sanity, and regression test scripts using automation tools using Quick Test Professional
• Developed SQL queries (view, stored procedure and function) for database testing

Environment: Visual Studio.NET 2003, C#.NET 2.0, VB.NET, ASP.NET 2.0, Windows, HTML, XML, Oracle 9i.