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SUMMARY

IT professional with about 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Automation Testing in Investments/Securities/Trading and Retail domains.
Extensive experience with GUI based Client - Server & Web Based applications and Web Services (REST APIs) using Manual and Automated testing procedures.
Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).
Experienced in Agile/Scrum, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
Proficient in developing/designing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business Requirements and also User Stories in agile world.
Experienced in performing Smoke Testing, Functional, Integration, Regression, GUI testing, Back End Testing and coordinating UAT.
Experienced in applying Risk Based Testing (RBT) techniques for optimal and effective testing.
In the role of Defect Triage Coordinator chaired Defect Triage Meetings with the Project Teams and Business Teams and has extensive experience in using ALM/Quality Center and Bugzilla.
Experienced in playing the roles of UAT coordinator in the UAT phase and Deployment Test coordinator to support test activities / checkouts in Deployment phase.
Knowledge of databases SecDB and Oracle Database to validate data in backend using SQL Queries.
Hands-on experience in using SoapUI/ReadyAPI for testing Web Services (SOAP & REST) and leveraged Java JARs (reusable classes) to dynamically create unique identifiers. Also skilled at using Postman for validating REST APIs.
Skilled at writing Automated Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver (TestNG and Data Driven frameworks).
Experienced in Onshore-Offshore model. Effectively able to work as a team member and independently as well.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: SoapUI/ReadyAPI, Postman, Selenium WebDriver

Defect Tracking & Agile Tools: HP ALM/Quality Center, Bugzilla, TFS and VersionOne

Version Control: GitLab and TFS

Programming Languages: Java, VBScript, C and C++

Databases: SecDB and Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

Involved in all aspects of Test Life Cycle and worked in-tandem with offshore through all phases of 2 weeks Sprints.
Created Test Plans and Test Scenarios and got Test Cases derived for the same from offshore.
Besides system testing activities for PEP, also performed system integration testing with upstream and downstream teams by analyzing the external dependencies.
Logged, retested and tracked to closure the Defects in defect tracker Bugzilla and later in Confluence portal.
Coordinated User Acceptance Testing with Middle Office Business team.
Worked on providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for critical issues reported from testing.
Used SoapUI for testing REST APIs and messaging over JMS infrastructure as well. Built Feature-wise Test Suites and also Regression Test Suites.
Proactively solved teams’ problem of not being able to document requirements & learnings with Business by proposing, setting up and moving documentation to OneNote.
Involved and participated in agile ceremonies - daily standup, refinement, planning, review and retrospective.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Quality Assurance Engineer & Offshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Started as individual contributor and grew onto becoming responsible for testing activities from inception to production deployment.
Represented offshore team in all Sprint ceremonies starting from Feature & Backlog Refinements to Sprint Planning.
Created and executed Agile style Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the User Stories.
Played the role of defect triage coordinator to represent bugs reported by offshore (2 manual + 1 automation).
Identified test cases for Regression Test Suite to kick off and implement Automation using Selenium to reduce test cycle time by 70%.
Provided test estimates for developing automated test scripts for test cases of multiple modules.
Coordinated User Acceptance Testing with the users from Restaurants, Distributions Centers and Warehouses.
Created Post Test Analysis document post the deployment from with the lessons learnt from the issues around Test Data across the systems, Test Environments, offshore effectiveness and etc.
Worked closely with Scrum Master, Product Owner and Product Management by providing test reports and RISK assessments at different phases of development.

Confidential

Software Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

Got trained with Java and SVN version control system and then moved into Testing Team.
Analyzed Business Requirements and created & executed Test Cases against the same.
Performed smoke testing to ensure stability of the build, then UI, Regression & cross browser compatibility testing.
Logged, retested and closed/reopened the defects in defect tracker.

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