PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Nearly 9 years of IT Industry experience in Software Testing with proficiency in both Manual and Automated testing including the UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with strong knowledge of Software QA methodologies and experience with multiple phases of testing.
• Strong knowledge in Agile methodology.
• Hands on experience in developing Test plans and strategies for testing web applications.
• Have used Core Java with Selenium Web Driver with TestNG framework.
• Good Knowledge on Selenium Grid.
• Used Eclipse as the IDE for Java Programming.
• Working knowledge on deployments using tools like Putty.
• Working Knowledge on BDD techniques using Jbehave.
• Good Knowledge on testing Web Services using Soap UI.
• Working Knowledge on testing REST API services using POSTMAN.
• Knowledge on Agile Methodology. Experience working with Agile Management tools like Rally and Jira.
• 4 years of professional experience in Automation testing using Selenium Web Driver.
• Good Knowledge on Automation frameworks like Robot.
• Good knowledge on Version Control tools like SVN.
• Hands on experience in developing automation scripts using TestNG Framework and Selenium Web Driver.
• Hands on Knowledge on Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Hands on knowledge on version control tools like GIT.
• Good knowledge on testing with various Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome).
• Experience in various Black Box Testing types such as Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, UAT Testing and Browser compatibility testing.
• Creation of UAT test cases and preparation of test data for UAT testing by the business users.
• Strong experience in creating Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Procedures and Test Beds and development & implementation of automated test scripts to identify software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality.
• Working knowledge on Creating SQL queries to validate the database.
• Flexibility and ability to take initiatives to adjust QA activities on an ongoing basis to meet the challenging demands of a very fast - paced development environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional Testing Tools: Selenium Web driver 2.0, Jbehave, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE

Management & Bug Tracking: HP Quality Center, Rally, JIRA

Languages: Core Java

Databases: Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Sr. QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Participating in the Sprint Planning before start of the sprint.
• Participating in the Daily stand up meetings.
• Involved in Designing and writing Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Involved in Functional testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Security Testing, Ad-hoc testing.
• Involved in Mainframes testing for the service validation.
• Adding the experience records using Mainframes for all users.
• Involved in web services soap UI testing.
• Automating the Regression test cases using BDD techniques like Jbehave.
• Participate in the Collaborative Specs meeting to discuss the requirements.
• Deploying the latest builds on test servers after the development team has checked in the code.
• Participated in the Sprint demo and Retrospective meetings.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Creation of test cases as per the User Stories.
• Execution of test cases and logging defects in Jira.
• Retesting of Defects and closing them accordingly.
• Participating in Daily stand up meetings.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

QA Engineer (Manual & Automation testing)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Performed both the Manual and Automation tester roles including the UAT testing.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Played a key role in identifying, developing, configuring and executing the automated Test Scripts for regression testing using TestNG Unit testing Framework.
• Used Core Java and Selenium Web driver with TestNG framework to automate all the regression test cases.
• Identified the test cases that need to be automated, ideal framework suited for the current project requirements and functional automation tool that fits within the allocated project budget.
• Parameterized test cases using different annotations.
• Exporting the Manual test cases into Quality Center.
• Executing the Manual test cases in QC and documenting test results.
• Reporting and tracking defects through QC.
• Conducting various types of testing like System, Regression, Sanity and UAT testing.
• Identifying the UAT scenarios for the business users and send them for approval to the Business analyst.
• Creation of UAT test cases and test data for UAT testing by business users.
• Executed the UAT test cases along with the client to help the business in UAT testing.
• Coordinated with developers and business analysts for product improvements; with timely suggestions and helped resolve the gap between requirements and technical issues.
• Designed a ‘Defect Logging Template’ and logged project related issues in the document that were identified in the project and trained the team members in using the defect tracking template.
• Documented, implemented, monitored, and enforced all processes and procedures of testing as per the client’s established standards

Environment: Java2.0, Firefox 32.0 on Windows 7,selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

QA Engineer(Manual & Automation Tester)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Performed both the Manual and Automation tester roles including the UAT testing.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Exporting the Manual test cases into Quality Center.
• Executing the Manual test cases in QC and documenting test results.
• Reporting and tracking defects through QC.
• Conducting various types of testing like System, Regression, Sanity and UAT testing.
• Identifying the UAT scenarios for the business users and send them for approval to the Business analyst.
• Creation of UAT test cases and test data for UAT testing by business users.
• Executed the UAT test cases along with the client to help the business in UAT testing.
• Identified the test cases that need to be automated, ideal framework suited for the current project requirements and functional automation tool that fits within the allocated project budget.
• Coordinated with developers and business analysts for product improvements; with timely suggestions and helped resolve the gap between requirements and technical issues.
• Tracked and reported testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, resource estimations, defects that were discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Designed a ‘Defect Logging Template’ and logged project related issues in the document that were identified in the project and trained the team members in using the defect tracking template.
• Pro-actively escalated new issues after each test execution to the Client.
• Documented, implemented, monitored, and enforced all processes and procedures of testing as per the client’s established standards.

Environment: Java2.0, Firefox 32.0 on Windows 7,selenium-server-standalone-2.39.0.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

QA Tester(Manual & UAT)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Exporting the Manual test cases into Quality Center.
• Executing the Manual test cases in QC and documenting test results.
• Reporting and tracking defects through QC.
• Conducting various types of testing like System, Regression, Sanity etc.
• Identifying the UAT scenarios for the business users and send them for approval to the Business analyst.
• Creation of UAT test cases and test data for UAT testing by business users.
• Executed the UAT test cases along with the client to help the business in UAT testing.

Environment: Java

Confidential

QA Analyst (Manual & UAT)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Used the Microsoft Application life cycle management like Team Foundation Server to keep track of the application.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Exporting the test cases in Test Manager and mapping with requirements.
• Executing test scripts in Test Managerand documenting test results.
• Conducting various types of testing like system, regression, ad-hoc, etc.
• Identifying the UAT scenarios for the business users and send them for approval to the Business analyst.
• Creation of UAT test cases and test data for UAT testing by business users.
• Executed the UAT test cases along with the client to help the business in UAT testing.

Environment: .Net

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding system requirements and identification of Test scenarios and test cases.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases as per the Business requirements.
• Updating the queries in RCR.
• Exporting the test cases in QC and mapping with requirements.
• Executing test scripts in QC and documenting test results.
• Conducting various types of testing like system, regression, ad-hoc, etc.
• Identifying the UAT scenarios for the business users and send them for approval to the Business analyst.
• Creation of UAT test cases and test data for UAT testing by business users.
• Executed the UAT test cases along with the client to help the business in UAT testing.

Environment: Java