SUMMARY

• Well qualified, highly motivated Software QA Analyst with experience in quality assurance planning, product development and testing lifecycle of Web and Mobile applications. To obtain a challenging and rewarding position as a QA Analyst position in an organization that offers professional growth and development.
• Experienced Quality Assurance Analyst with 6 years of working experience in software development and quality assurance testing of web - based and Mobile applications using manual and automation testing.
• Experience and domain knowledge in Banking, Healthcare and Insurance domains, and their workflow.
• Experienced in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from initiation and definition to deployment and support.
• Experienced working in an Agile development environment.
• Analyzed user stories in order to create manual and automated test cases that cover a broad profile of client configurations.
• Proficient in preparing test plans, scripts and test cases by analyzing Business Requirements.
• Experienced in defining and tracking Quality Assurance metrics and reporting on team status and progress through release cycles
• Experienced in defining and executing test data acquisition, including production data set selection and extraction and test data generation, as well as manual data preparation.
• Experienced in using JIRA and Zephyr tools for Project and Test Management purposes.
• Proficient in processing of defects in JIRA and generating required status reports for all phases of testing.
• Good programming skills in SQL and experience in RDBMS including MS SQL Server and Oracle Databases.
• Extensively used Oracle SQL *Plus command prompt and Oracle SQL Developer to write and execute SQL Queries against Oracle Database.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Back end testing of databases to check the integrity of data.
• Experienced in Test Driven (TDD), Behavior Driven (BDD), using Gherkin language, JAVA, Selenium in both TestNG and Cucumber Automation Frameworks
• Experience in the improvement ofData driven and Hybrid Automationframeworks using JAVA
• Good knowledge on JAVA fundamental programming.
• Extensively used JAVA and Selenium WebDriver for test case automation.
• Sound understanding inTestNGframework,Mavenas a build project tool, Jenkins for CICD and Git/GitHub for version controlling.
• Excellent knowledge in writing unique XPath without using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
• Experienced with Structured Query Language (SQL), HTML, GIT, JAVA, and Selenium WebDriver.
• Proficient in the use of test automation tools such asSelenium WebDriver to improve automation process.
• Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/ Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, Boundary Value Testing.
• Ability to adapt to a new environment quickly, good communication, good analytical and computation skills, enthusiastic learner, confident, sincere and committed.
• Outstanding communicator with extensive experience in customer service as well as ability to identify, develop and enhance client relationships.
• Effective in handling multitasks, with a sense of urgency for rapid issue resolutions
• Attended project/scrum meetings and discussed with management and team members on meeting content.
• Versatile Team player with strong interpersonal communication skills and proven track record of academic and professional achievements.
• Ability to triage software defects providing development staff with adequate information for remediation.
• Ability to be up-to-date with new technologies, operating systems, automated testing tools, etc. in order to maintain an awareness of technological advances.
• U.S. Citizen and authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Application: JIRA, Zephyr, Quality Center and Micros Focus ALM

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver and TestNG

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Hudson

Programing Languages: SQL, Java

Operating Systems: Windows 8.1/10, Windows Server

Business Tools: MS Office, MS Visio and MS Excel

IDE: Eclipse and IntelliJ IDE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business specifications and use cases for designing, developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrices, and Defect Reports and provided quality feedback to QA team & manager.
• Created and executed test cases manually to verify complex system Requirements and involved in database testing for transaction verification using SQL queries.
• Responsible for implementing effective quality assurance processes and practices.
• Participated in Daily Standup Meeting, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Retrospectives and Story grooming sessions.
• Participated in story grooming sessions with development team, QA Testing team and Business Analyst
• Participated in biweekly sprint meetingsas well.
• Created Test documentation for different components for delivering to the client
• Created test plans outlining the scope, approach, schedule, resources and deliverables.
• Developed a test case template and implemented the template within the testing team to write test cases on a systematic basis.
• Executed test cases manually and updated test run status accordingly.
• Developed, documented and maintained functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Isolated test cases for manual and automated testing, and also established a regression test suite, both manual and automation, to assure the stability of SUT.
• Performed backend testing to validate the data using Oracle SQL Developer and added SQL queries to the required Test cases.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to validate backend functionality of the application.
• Involved in building and developing automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and TestNG.
• Using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and cross Platforms.
• Performing UI, Functional and Regression testing by automating using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber Maven, and Jenkins.
• Integrating Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly consignment run of the Script.
• Utilizing JIRA as a defect tracking tool on the project.
• Examining the Business Requirements Document (BRD), designed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under examination.
• Designing the test scripts and analyzing the results in various levels of the application including integration, regression, functional and acceptance testing using Selenium.
• Implementing Regression and Smoke test execution as a discrete step of the deployment process by using Selenium WebDriver.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and enhancing scripts using various checkpoints.
• Created Data Driven Framework to reduce automated scripts maintenance time.
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing UAT, Database Checkpoints, and Data Driven Test Scripts for all the projects using Selenium.
• Used various script enhancement mechanisms to develop error free, robust scripts.
• Configured TestNG with Selenium WebDriver for better reporting purposes.
• Identified potential quality issues per defined process and defined defects.
• Ensured validated delivered application to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Isolated, reproduced, and reported defects and verified defect fixes.
• Proficiency working with Java/J2EE web applications deployed on WebSphere/Tomcat application servers.
• Participating in Stand-up meeting, walk-through meeting, weekly automation meeting with all other QA, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Jenkins, MAVEN, Oracle DB, Eclipse, XML, HTML, SQL, XPath, Oracle SQL Developer, SDLC, STLC, XML, JSON and HTML, Windows 8.1, 10.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document and system specifications and identified the test requirements.
• Created Test Requirements Specification documents, Test plan and Test Result documentation.
• Involved in SDLC, Agile Process, Business Process Design and Implementation.
• Wrote and executed test cases manually and automated.
• Performed Functional, Integration, regression, positive, negative and UAT testing.
• Performed Regression test using automated testing tool Selenium.
• Automating End to End Testing using automation Tools.
• Created the Automation framework from scratch.
• Used JIRA and Zephyr for creating coverage between requirements and test cases
• Provided training for other newly hired team members.
• Creating and maintaining all Test automation environments.
• Attending and involving day -day scrum meetings.
• Conducting project reviews to improve project implementations.
• Working with the QA Director to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
• Extensively used SQL *plus and Oracle SQL Developer tools to access and manipulate Oracle 11G database and validated back-end testing.
• Configured the connection between MS Excel and JIRA to store requirements and test cases into JIRA.
• Isolated test cases for manual and automated testing and also established a regression test suite, both manual and automation, to assure the stability of AUT.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and enhancing scripts using various checkpoints.
• Created Test Automation Resources e.g. reusable functions.
• Managed and handled duplicate objects and dynamic objects using index property and Regular expressions.
• Created and collected Test Data for Data Driven Testing.
• Creating Test Scripts using Selenium Webdriver, Java and TestNG Annotations.
• Used Input Parameter, Synchronization and define Test results.
• Actively debugged and ran tests
• Analyzing Test Results and providing test status to the management.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using any Defect Management Tool.
• Participated in reviews of user interface; assess the usability of assigned subsystems
• Generated automated defects, metrics, and reports.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.
• Coordinated application defects and enhancements to ensure proper escalation.

Environment: Java/J2EE, VBScript, JIRA, Selenium, Zephyr, Oracle 11g/12c, MS SQL Server 2008/2014, SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, Windows Server 2008/2012 and IIS.

Software Test Specialist

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Performed composite analysis of business requirements and system specifications.
• Prepared, created and implemented systems quality assurance reviews for numerous applications.
• Created comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, and other needed documentation to ensure high quality QA deliverables and accurate projected timelines.
• Conducted test planning on assigned projects and ensured all needed test artifacts (test plans, test scripts, traceability matrix, etc.) were produced in the needed time frame with expected quality.
• Performed moderately complex to complex test data, regression testing and testing validation.
• Validated & enhanced test scenarios, test scripts with additional negative cases, boundary value analysis.
• Participated in end-to-end testing activities with numerous interface partners
• Reviewed cross-functional testing coverage to ensure integration coverage
• Identified and executed clear automation strategies with meaningful ROI’s.
• Provided specific guidance on defects to developers.
• Provided direction to less experienced analysts.
• Effectively logged, tracked, and verified resolution of software and specification defects.
• Documents all phases of the Systems QA process.
• Participated in bug review meetings and provided QA estimates.
• Actively participated in QA Team meetings to discuss the testing process and resolve issues.
• Ensured that all defects are logged and resolved prior to production deployment.
• Provided test demos and conduct test result walkthrough for key stakeholders.
• Set-up, coordinated system and UAT testing with Business Analysts and end-field users after the applications were all set.
• Assisted QA Manager with creating project resource estimates, metrics to track completion, defect reports, defect prevention, development efficiency and quality.

Environment: .NET, Java/J2EE, VBScript, ALM, HP UFT, Oracle 11g/12c, MS SQL Server 2014, SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, Windows Server 2008 and IIS.