SUMMARY

• Eight years of experience in Information Technology wif emphasis on Quality Assurance Expertise in (Manual and Automation) Testing of Client Server and Web based applications on Windows and UNIX environment. Seeking a permanent or consulting position as a Software Automation Test Engineer /Analyst/IV&V Analyst to utilize my expertise and further my noledge.
• Extensive hands on experience in diversified fields of Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies.
• Strong Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Spiral and Agile model.
• Experience in Data Conversion, Integration, System, Smoke, Functional, Modular, End to End, Regression, Negative, Boundary, Back End Testing and User Acceptance Testing Types.
• Created, updated and maintained documents like Test Plan, Test Case, Test Script, and Requirement Traceability Matrix and also involved in Gap Analysis.
• Experience wif Software Bug Tracking used PVCS Tracker, ALM, Quality Center and JIRA.
• Exposure wif QA Methodology to ensure good Quality Control.
• Reviewed Use Case to write Test Case for functional testing.
• In - depth noledge in the analysis of application’s higher-risk aspects, and determining scope and limitations of tests.
• Writing Test Scripts using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Experienced in designing, development and implementation of automation framework using Selenium in Java for Cross-Browser Testing as well as Smoke and Regression test suites and also used grid for parallel testing.
• Sound noledge on TestNG framework wif POM design pattern for Unit testing, Maven for Project building tool, Jenkins/Maven for Continuous Integration.
• Experienced in performing Functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Extensive experience in manual and automated testing for web based and Client Server applications using Quick Test Professional.
• Experience wif HP/Mercury's tool suite (ALM, Quality Center, and Test Director), Ability to develop solid and maintainable automated test scripts, manual test cases, test plans and test sets.
• Proactive communication wifin organization and ability to gather and understand technical requirements from different sources such as, Product Development, Operations, etc.
• Good experience wif writing and utilizing SQL Queries for Data Verification in databases like Oracle, DB2 and SQL server.
• Capable of conducting User Acceptance Testing before the initial release when the project reached the final phase prior to deployment.
• Very good Experience in xml files validation and verification.
• Excellent organizational ability, communication skill, analyzing skills, technical documentation and reporting skills.
• Proven ability to work independently or as a member of a team under pressure.
• Have excellent programming concepts of C++, C, Java, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS and VB.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000, server/XP/2003.

Programming Languages: Java, Java Script, C++, C, PL /SQL, Visual Basic, VB Script, HTML, XML.

Database: Oracle, Microsoft Access, SQL server, DB2, Sybase, TOAD.

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Image Composer, MS project.

Internet Tools: HTML, XML, UML, CSS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver/IDE/GRID, TestNG, Firebug, Fire Path, Jenkins, Maven, SOAPUI, and QTP.

Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking Tools: ALM, Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, and JIRA.

Methodologies: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Iterative, Agile.

Networking: LAN/WAN, FTP, TCP/IP, Telnet, Firewalls, Routers Modems, Hubs, Gateways, and Bridges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Automation test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between business stakeholders and teams throughout the organization dat provide technical solutions to meet business needs.
• Work wif business partners wifin business functions to ensure technology solutions align wif business strategies
• Perform analysis of Production issues to identify root causes and facilitate the design of solutions wif technical solutions team
• Reviewed business requirements and technical specification documents and Analyzed use cases, functional requirements to write detailed Test plans and Test scripts.
• Involved in setting up configuring the testing environment wif Eclipse, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver and Selenium Java client driver.
• Responsible for implementation of Hybrid Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Maven technologies under Java platform.
• Combined MVC Pattern architecture concept, POM (Page Object Model) and created a robust framework using Selenium WebDriver to automate Web Client.
• Created automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven approach like Cucumber. Extensively used Page Objects design and page navigation framework for readable test script and easy maintenance from developer perspectives.
• Collaborate wif management in solution development and design and develop test plans/coordinate software testing.
• Used Maven, SVN, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, .NET, Java and Selenium Grid to create nightly automation scripts.
• Created Automation script using Selenium WebDriver. Executed scripts on different browser and different platform.
• Test Automation Framework using Cucumber ATDD/BDD/TDD.
• Used Maven for building the WebDriver project. Integrated wif Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
• Contributed to the Continuous Integration pipeline running component builds, creating and running Deployment jobs on individual stages on Jenkins, and running automated and manual functional tests.
• Worked closely wif Agile Scrum team from several domains to ensure product testability while running Regression tests in Selenium WebDriver using TestNG and maintained test environments used for white box testing during new product releases.
• Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and End-to-End Testing.

Environment: Java, Java Script, .NET, Windows Server, Selenium, TestNG, Fire Path, Jenkins, Maven, Cucumber, JIRA, JDBC, Citrix, HP ALM, SQL, XML, MS Excel, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Automation test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile environment, closely wif the SCRUM team to discuss about the Issues and progress to ensure coverage of all areas of the project.
• Attained daily scrum, sprint planning, and review meetings to report status to the team and understand different aspects of the project.
• Worked wif developers to track and retest bugs and also worked on the issues logged by the client in the system.
• Designed, developed and implemented Automation framework using Selenium in Java for Cross-Browser Testing as well as Smoke and Regression test suites and also used grid for parallel testing.
• Performed Functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Performed Data conversion for mapping data from old build to new build.
• To ensure accurate coverage of requirements prepared test cases and test data using Excel and import them to HP ALM.
• Performed Different Type of testing in System Integration (SIT), QA, and UAT test environments.
• Wrote complex queries in SQL (test scripts) and used MS Excel functions to validate the data from Source and Target.
• Created various test reports such as Test Execution Status, Defect Status.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries. Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end by executing SQL scripts.
• Created test scripts in Java to run database testing using Java database connectivity (JDBC) API for their client site.

Environment: Windows Server, Selenium, TestNG, Firebug, Fire Path, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, JDBC, Citrix, HP ALM, SQL, XML, MS Excel, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Automation test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed backend testing based on the mapping document for data movement from source to target.
• Prepared test cases and test data using Excel and import them to HP ALM to ensure accurate coverage of requirements.
• Wrote complex queries in SQL (test scripts) and used MS Excel functions to validate the data from Source and Target.
• Worked in Agile environment, closely wif the SCRUM team to discuss about the tickets and progress to ensure coverage of all areas of the project.
• Attained daily scrum, sprint planning, and review meetings to report status to the team and understand different aspects of the project.
• Created various test reports such as Test Execution Status, Defect Status.
• Worked wif developers to track and retest bugs and also worked on the defects logged by the client in the system.
• Designed, developed and implemented Automation framework using Selenium in Java for Cross-Browser Testing as well as Smoke and Regression test suites and also used grid for parallel testing.
• Performed Functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Executed automated Functional test cases using REST Assure to test WEB Service API testing.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries. Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end by executing SQL scripts.
• Created test scripts in Java to run database testing using Java database connectivity (JDBC) Api for their client site.

Environment: Windows Server, Citrix, HP ALM, SQL, XML, MS Excel, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server, Selenium, TestNG, Firebug, Fire Path, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, JDBC.

Confidential, New York

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan, Test case based on the user requirements and system requirements document for functional, Regression and Back end testing.
• Involved in QA Life Cycle to enhance the work flow get going.
• Evaluated requirements verifiability and created test scenarios from business scenarios.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute baseline tests.
• Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium.
• Created Test cases Using Element locators and Selenium Webdriver methods.
• Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Developed Manual test cases for specific functional requirements.
• Performed manual testing of the website to determine ease of usability of the website.
• Written user-defined functions and generated Test Matrix.
• Performed Regression testing to weekly builds.
• ALM is used for managing project, executing TC and reporting the Defects.
• Developed complex SQL queries to test the database values for data integrity
• Executed Unix command to perform back end test
• Inserted checkpoints to capture and verified properties such as Number of links, HTML content, Page load time, Number of images, Image Source, Broken links.
• Prepared and submitted IV&V Review Reports based on finding, observations and recommendation.
• Analyzing Test Results, Interacting wif developers and supporting developments
• Involved in Peer Reviews, Weekly Status Meetings, and Bug Review Meetings.

Environment: ALM, Oracle, PL/SQL, VB Script, Selenium, TestNG, XML, HTML, UNIX, Windows Vista, MS Office Tools.

Confidential, New Jersey

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Created and executed Test Cases for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT) using Quality Center.
• Documented the daily defect status using Quality Center.
• Responsible for defect tracking and management metrics, defects are logged and change requests are submitted using Quality Center.
• Participated actively in Functional testing, System testing and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify the functionality wif the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Quick Test Pro.
• Created user-defined functions, functions libraries and maintained the initialization scripts to set-up the work environment using Quick Test Pro.
• Created automated VB scripts for new functionality using QTP.
• Conducted traceability matrix between Requirements, design, use cases and test cases.
• Participated in the Test Case Peer Review to ensure test cases appropriately translate and map to requirements.
• Regular interaction wif developers, business analyst and Logic Unit Workgroup.
• Prepared documentation for all stages according to company standards.
• Tracked and reported defect using Quality Center.
• Implemented Test Case and Test Process wif project time frames.
• Participated Weekly meeting and Daily 4.pm defect prioritization meetings.
• Prepared Test summary report after every build Release and submit it to the Mangers.
• Participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA testing review.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, MS Office, MS SharePoint, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, DB2

Confidential, Rockville, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan, Test case based on the user requirements and system requirements document for functional, Regression and Back end testing.
• Involved in QA Life Cycle to enhance the work flow get going.
• Evaluated requirements verifiability and created test scenarios from business scenarios.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute baseline tests.
• Developed Manual test cases for specific functional requirements.
• Performed manual testing of the website to determine ease of usability of the website.
• Written user-defined functions and generated Test Matrix.
• Performed Regression testing to weekly builds.
• Quality Center is used for reporting the bugs and writing the test plans. Also used PVCS tracker for bug reporting before QC.
• Developed complex SQL queries to test the database values for data integrity
• Executed Unix command to perform back end test
• Inserted checkpoints to capture and verified properties such as Number of links, HTML content, Page load time, Number of images, Image Source, Broken links.
• Prepared and submitted IV&V Review Reports based on finding, observations and recommendation.
• Analyzing Test Results, Interacting wif developers and supporting developments
• Involved in Peer Reviews, Weekly Status Meetings, and Bug Review Meetings.

Environment: QC, Oracle, PL/SQL, VB Script, XML, HTML, UNIX, Windows XP, MS Office Tools, J2EE, PVCS.