CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position in Software QA that offers growth and new opportunities.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in software quality analysis and automation.
• Solid understanding of Health Care, Tele Communications, Banking and eLearning domains.
• Proven track record in Web automation testing with Selenium IDE/RC/WebDriver/Grid.
• Hands - on experience in developing Selenium framework using Java, SQL & Selenium; Using/testing SOAP & RESTful web services.
• Hands-on experience in design, development and execution of QA Test Plans, Scenario doc, Traceability and Test Strategies for Manual / Automation Testing. Identifying Automation Scenarios from the set of Test Cases / User stories.
• Expertise in all types of testing: smoke, unit, functional, integration, system, acceptance, regression, compatibility, black-box testing.
• Experience in working with JIRA, Jenkins, Subversion, and Maven.
• Strong experience in developing data driven framework, cucumber framework using selenium web driver and TestNG.
• Hands-on with page object models and expertise in developing core framework and page objects.
• Implemented different test strategies that checked the Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance and Supportability for Quality Assurance of Client/Server, Network and Web based applications.
• Hands-on in SoapUI tool for Testing Web Services, XML, SOAP, REST and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). Experience in XML testing.
• Involved in testing application on different mobile Platform such as iOS and Android devices.
• Written SQL queries for data extraction and validate it from front end application for specific business criteria.
• Experience in defect tracking and reporting using Jira, Bugzilla, ALM, Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest.
• Expertise in all phases of SDLC (software development life cycle) in both waterfall model and Agile\Scrum methodology.
• Capacity to identify Blockers, analyze test results, and investigating their root cause using log files, assigning to the concerned team and suggesting remedies while tracking till closure.
• Working closely with Developers/BA on the issues & design of the system and QA Team to implement quick solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivated, work/time management, process oriented team player with strong focus on Documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: SeleniumWeb Driver, IDE, RC, Junit, TestNG, JXL

Project / Defect Mgmt. tools: Jira, Bugzilla, ALM, QC and ClearQuest

Languages/ Script: Java, Java Script

SOA/Web services + tools: SOAP & REST API, XML, XPath, SoapUI

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, DHTML

App/Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic

Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/ 7, Linux, Solaris and iOS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum

Version Control Tools: SVN,GIT

Misc. Tools: WinSCP, Secure CRT, PuTTY, Firebug

IDEs: Eclipse, Net Beans

Build tools: Ant, Maven, Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, CA

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing the automation testing of “CAIR IZ PORTAL” and “CAIR NEW ENROLLMENT” portals.
• Along with Test cases automation using Selenium I also get involved in the test case design & documentation and peer reviewing those test plans & results with the developers and others in the Manual QA team.
• Analyzed business requirement document to formulate the test cases, test plan and extensively involved in the testing process.
• Writing Test case scripts in Java-SeleniumRC/Web driverusingEclipse IDEand maintained the selenium scripts and executed. Prepared automation test framework.
• Develop page object framework using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Used Firebug Tool to design element identificationusing Object's id, Name,XPath and CSSselectors to link in the application.
• CreatedMAVENbuild files and pom.xml to run the Selenium tests using Continuous Integration toolJenkins and created reports in HTML format.
• Tested backend with complex SQL commands on database using SQL Queries.
• Used numerous UNIX commands for various operations like manipulating the files for test data.
• Performed load testing using Jmeter tool.
• Involved in functional testing, regression testing and User Acceptance testing for various combinations.
• Participate in Requirements and Functional Spec reviews of new features to convert them to comprehensive Test Specifications.
• Reported and tracked defects in Jira. Worked closely with Developers, Business Analyst and User Representatives.

Environment: SCRUM, Windows, UNIX, IE8, Firefox, Eclipse, Jira, Selenium RC/Web Driver/Grid with Java, TestNG, MS SQL Server, MS Office.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I’m a member of the team that was responsible for automating the functional testing of Confidential Online Web Application on Windows PC.
• I was tasked with driving the automation for “My Shows” module and “Browse” module of Confidential Online web application.
• My Shows module allows the user to sign in to the online account and view user’s saved list under each of categories: Movies, Sports, Kids, TV Shows, All Shows, etc. My focus was testing Animated, Kids and Movies shows.
• Browse module lets the user to choose different Genres under TV/Movies/Sports categories, such as Animated, Comedy, Action, Drama, etc. I was responsible for TV and Movies.
• Implemented automation tests using the data driven framework, GUI testing, and workflow variances including negative scenarios. Used Cucumber and Junit for workflow validation.
• Cross browser compatibility testing was one of the primary focus.
• Used TestNG data providers, and XML based configurations to drive variations in data, and workflow.
• Tested Native app using Android SDK studio for automated mobile testing and the run the scripts for multiple Android devices.
• Used Firebug, Fire-finder add-ons to identify ObjectIDs, XPath locators for page objects updating.

Environment: Java, HTML, JavaScript, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, AutoIT, MS SQL Server, TOAD, JDBC, JIRA, Subversion, Windows 7/8

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation test cases for ‘Your Information’ module in Checking Account.
• Implemented 57 test cases for Your Information module using Page object Model Design and data driven Selenium framework on TestNG Platform using Java.
• Involved in development of system test plan using business and functional requirements documents.
• Identified test cases for automation and performed Regression testing.
• Performed Smoke testing for each new build of the application.
• Tested the application compatibility on various versions of Mozilla Fire Fox and IE browsers.
• Successfully tested web services using SoapUI Tool.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries.
• Integrated complete framework with CI Tool Jenkins for Scheduling the Test cases.
• Involved in bug tracking using Jira.
• Peer reviewed the scripts that have been developed by the teammates.
• Weekly reports, interim test reports, build status reports, Go/ No Go reports etc. preparation and presentation to management

Environment: SCRUM, Windows, UNIX, IE8, Firefox, Eclipse, Jira, ALM, Selenium RC/Web Driver/Grid with Java, TestNG, SoapUI, Oracle, Toad, MS Office.

Confidential, Pittsburgh

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive analysis of system and university requirements and rules.
• Implemented test cases for primary web modules like Student Management and Staff Management.
• Implemented functional testing, regression testing for MSIT Login Portal.
• Participate in Requirements and Functional Spec reviews of new features to convert them to comprehensive Test Specifications.
• Giving Demo of the functionality to the management and user base before Sprint signoff.
• Involved in executing Test Cases manually & worked with development teams and business teams in test cycles.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Created automated test scripts using QTP for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Worked with various checks points (GUI checkpoints, Database checkpoints, Text checkpoints and Bitmap checkpoints) in QTP to perform Regression testing.
• Reported and tracked defects on regular basis to help the project team to address them in the order of priority.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Quality Center according to bug life cycle standards

Environment: Java, WebLogic, QC, Web Services, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Script, SQL and Windows XP

Confidential

Jr GIS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As Jr. GIS engineer, I was actively involved in the production environment in mapping GIS information that helps to layout the cables for telecommunications.
• Created spatial database using GeoTools and provided regular support to maintain the geographical data.
• Developed automation programs that work with GIS MicroStation and Smallworld tools, which interpret Swisscom maps, manipulate and understand digital land data.

Environment: MicroStation, GeoTools, Smallworld Product Suite and Windows XP