SUMMARY

• 13+ years of overall experience in Manual testing, Automation testing web application using Selenium Web Driver., Hardware testing, Mainframe Development and Testing, API testing.
• 3+ years of Automation testing with Selenium, QTP.
• 1+ Year of SAP Application Testing.
• Experienced in Implementing SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK (SAFe), Agile (“scrum” based) and Waterfall, testing practices providing rapid delivery of business value and dynamic response.
• Complete understanding of all phases of Software Development and Testing Life Cycle (SDLC and STLC) including Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing and Evaluation on a diverse range of IT projects.
• Hands on Experience in domains Ecommerce, Manufacturing, Banking and Financial, and Retail POS (with Point of Sale).
• Extensively involved in Requirement analysis, Design, Development and Quality Assurance.
• Experience attending Scrum meetings to discuss daily sprint activities and objectives
• Proficient in writing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Summary Reports for Manual, Automation and Mainframe Testing.
• Managed and conducted System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, UAT, Smoke testing and Regression testing.
• Good understanding of Cloud Services like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience on Web Driver methods, Java Programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Parallel Test execution using Selenium TestNG, Selenium Grid.
• Developed POC project with BDD framework using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA forCucumber.
• Experienced and good knowledge in Defect/Bug Life Cycle.
• Strong skills in Web services testing Client/Server testing.
• Experience with source version control tools such as Git.
• Worked with Chrome extension Advanced REST Client, an HTTP client for testing web services.
• Good knowledge on Grey Box Testing (Black - box and White-box testing), GUItesting, Back-endtesting,
• Proficient in using Jira, Agile Craft, Rational Clear Quest and Clear Case, Quality Center, Remedy & Lotus Notes for task management, test case execution and defect tracking.
• Experience in IBM Mainframes using COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS DB/DC, SPUFI, on TSO/ISPF environment.
• Expert programmer in Mainframe languages COBOL, EASYTRIEVE and JCL (Job Control Language).
• Scheduling Mainframe Jobs using Zeke Scheduler and Creating DB2 stored procedures.
• Extensive experience fixing JCL errors like space aborts, program contentions.
• Good knowledge on the IMS error codes.
• Working knowledge in FTP tool, PUTTY for the file transfers.
• Extensive experience MS-Visio, MS Project and MS office tools Like MS-Word, PowerPoint, MS-Excel, and Access.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Architecture: Core JAVA, HTML, VB SCRIPT, COBOL, IMS-DB, PL/SQL, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, SPUFI.

Tools: SAP Business Client 6.5, Selenium, Cucumber, Service Now, REST Client, SoapUI, JIRA, Agile Craft, QC, Test Rail, SPIRA, Rational Clear quest, Clear Case, Remedy, Requisite Pro, Helios Text Pad 3.2.5, Requirement Traceability matrix, Adobe Browser Lab, Lotus notes, Endeavor, Expeditor, Quick base, File Aid, FTP, PUTTY, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point and MS Project. Amazon Web Service console.

Web Debugging: XPath. Firebug. Chrome Path

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ, GIT

Test Framework: TestNG, Hybrid Framework, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development

Databases: Oracle 8i, IBM DB2, IMS, MySQL, Microsoft SQL server, MS-Access.

Reporting Tools: RMDS (Report management and distribution systems), Clear View.

Build tracking tool: Jenkins and maven.

Operating system: 8ZOS, TSO\ISPF, UNIX, SHELL, Windows XP/7, Windows 2000/ NT/95/98, MS-DOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Lead IT Testing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Working in Scaled Agile environment and delivered the stories in a two-week cycle.
• Participated in PI Planning events, support Agile Release Trains (ARTs), Grooming Sessions, Iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups.
• Working closely with Scrum Master, Dev, BAs and Other QA members to resolve impediments.
• Lead the team to Design, manage, and document functional and regression tests.
• Responsible for automating the Self-service module (Next Gen Project).
• Responsible for Manual testing on Direct application and SAP application using SAP Business Client.
• Used JAVA OOP’s concepts for developing Automation Frameworks using IntelliJ, Maven, Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• UsedJenkinsas continuous integration server to run automated test suites
• Experience with source version control tools such asGit.
• Coordinate quality assurance testing: work with sales support, finance, procurement, technical development team and others to ensure end to end system availability prior to new code roll out Create Test Plan for each release and participate in designing, documenting, and executing functional and regression test cases.
• Lead the offshore team, assign QA activities to the offshore QA team members and work closely with the offshore lead/team to track those activities to completion.
• Document and submit detailed defect tickets using Service Now, Agile Craft, Jira, Quality Centre.
• Track and report testing progress.
• Assist with scoping and coordination of UAT by working with Work with the regional user community to understand and address regional testing concerns for each release.
• Lead the post-implementation review sessions after each release. Conduct knowledge transfer sessions periodically and identify lessons learned and process improvement opportunities.
• Mentor the offshore QA team members and coach for future growth.
• Identify and update regression testing scope and specific test cases with each release.
• Developed API testing Framework using Rest-Assured Client.
• Used Postman API to get convenient, visual display of query results. Used Chrome extension Postman REST Client, an HTTP client for testing web services.
• Monitor day to day project activities of junior team members.
• Support and document established QA processes and best practices and influence continuous improvement of the QA function.

Environment: SAP Business Client 6.5, Selenium, Cucumber, Service Now, REST Client, SoapUI, JIRA, Agile Craft, QC, Test Rail, SPIRA, Eclipse, IntelliJ, GIT, XPath. Firebug. Chrome Path, Oracle 8i, Jenkins and maven, Azure server.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements, module specific functionalities, identified testing requirements and formulated Test plans.
• Developed test cases, and test scripts for the newly developed modules.
• Identified the scope of the functional and non-functional testing, Identified business scenario and test cases from the Business Design document and Technical Design document.
• Strictly Implemented* **Agile* (SCRUM) Methodology that includes daily scrum meetings discussing progress of Stories and open issues if any, weekly meetings with business analysts and bi-weekly sprint reviews with the client. Involved in Iteration/Sprint Planning meetings to discuss the Stories planned for that Iteration
• Set-up and executed test scenarios for system, regression testing as and when new builds was rolled in.
• Tested the GUI functionality according to the guidelines of the test plans.
• Extensive testing on the UNIX environment, written & tested the shell scripts & batch jobs.
• Responsible for FTP jobs to transfer data between UNIX servers.
• Participated actively in requirements reviews and managed test requirements using Test Director.
• Responsible lead for End-to-End testing of the application.
• Performed windows 7 application testing using Helios TextPad, Adobe Products.
• Performed cross browser testing to test the application in different browsers such as Chrome, Safari, IE and Firefox using Adobe Browser Lab.
• Ensured all project goals were achieved and client expectations met.
• Managed project timelines estimates and escalated issues to management in a timely fashion.
• Testing the oracle databases by writing complex queries, Ran SQL queries in databases to verify the transaction logs.
• Coordinated Test Lab setup and status meeting as part of testing coordination.
• Responsible for Test data readiness before system testing.
• Used Quality Center effectively to write test cases and log defects
• Raise defects and track them until closure, prepare Defects Report at the end of testing
• Training business for User acceptance testing.
• Extensive testing in the UNIX environment, written & tested the shell scripts.
• Performed Load, Stress, Reliability and Redundancy testing in all the releases.
• Performed Disaster and Takeover testing in each & every release.

Environment: NCR Register, Quality Center9.2, Oracle 8i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2005, Quick Base, Windows XP/2000/ NT/95/98, MS Excel, MS Word. Oracle10g, UNIX, EXCEED, Quality Center, QTP, Toad, PUTTY, (Dimensions), Remedy.

Confidential, Stamford CT

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing Programs (COBOL, IMS DB) to create the order details from online screens and create order with shipment details.
• Writing JCL’s to collect the order in a file, generate invoices, to get card detail authorization.
• Scheduling the jobs in zeke and tracking the jobs to run successfully.
• Submitted jobs to check the invoice details printed in the required format and with right invoice details.
• Create a design document for the Enhancement.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Integration testing, end-to end testing, System testing, Function testing, Performance testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Also involved in disaster recovery testing.
• Done interface testing as this module has an interface with systems like SAP, Middle ware, Seibel, Unisys.
• Using Expeditor for checking the flow of the program and finding bugs in existing programs when a issue is reported in remedy.
• Using IBM Endeavor for creating packages to move JCL to production.

Environment: Mainframe ZOS, Front end application, Unix, Quality Center, Req pro, File-Aid, Cobol, JCL, Endeavor, SPUFI, Zeke, IMS, DB2, PL-SQL, Oracle 8.0, Test Director 6.0.