SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience in Automated tester, Software Testing, Quality Assurance, and Development of various business applications and well versed in all stages of testing aimed at providing complete business solutions.
• Professional self - motivated QA consultant with ability to consistently meet objectives and effectively work on multiple projects.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle. Extensively worked in Agile Scrum, Iterative and Waterfall models.
• Experience on preparing work estimates, resource allocation and managing offshore resources.
• Experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, Stress testing, Interface testing, Regression testing, Smoke Testing, Load Performance testing in a multi-tiered environment, and Integration testing using Black-Box testing.
• Experienced in Test planning, executing unit, functional, integration, regression and compatibility testing manually and using automated testing tools like Win Runner, Test Director, HP Quality Center, ALM, QTP, UFT, Microsoft Test Manager, Telerik, Selenium Webdrive, and SmartBear TestComplete.
• Experienced in QTP using Object Repository, Parameterization, Regular Expressions, Checkpoints, Descriptive Programming, Excel and Database for storing input and output values.
• Experienced on VB Script and extensively used in QTP for building test scripts.
• Experienced in SmartBear SoapUI, RestAPI, Postman tools on API testing.
• Extensive experience in testing web, data warehouse and Client/Server applications.
• Strong understanding of QA processes and methodologies.
• Experienced in database testing using TOAD, SQL-Station and SQL Developer for both Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle databases.
• Experienced in IVR application testing, Call center Agent application testing.
• Experienced in ETL tool DataStage and Informatica testing.
• Documentation Skills, Analyzing Information, Problem Solving, and Presenting Technical Information.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret a variety of documents such as technical specifications.
• Ability to effectively write reports, technical documents and other required documentation.
• Action oriented, adaptable team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: WinRunner, TestDirector, QTP 9.2/9.5/10.0 , UFT, Quality Center 8.0/9.2/10.0 , ALM, Microsoft Test Manager, Telerik, SmartBear TestComplete, SmartBear SoapUI, Postman, Jira, Selenium

Operating Systems: MS-DOS 6.22, MS Windows 3.11/95/98/2k, NT 4.0, Win2k, UNIX, LINUX, AS400.

Databases: Oracle 7.x/8.x/9i/10g, SQL Server 2005, DB2, and MS Access, Teradata, Hadoop.

ETL tool: DataStage, Informatica.

Languages: C++, C, SQL, PL/SQL, TSL.

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, DHTML, and XML.

Web Technologies: Java, JSP, ASP, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Visual InterDev.

IDE: Visual Basic6.0/5.0, Developer 2000.

Web Servers: Java Web Server, BEA Weblogic, IIS 4.0/5.0, WebSphere.

Reporting Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, Crystal Reports, WebFocus.

Other skills: Microsoft Office Tools., UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to QA the web and API driven cloud-based application.
• Created functional automation framework using open source tool, RobotFramework.
• Testing Web Service and API using Postman tool, building collections, running on production deployments.
• Writing SQL queries against relational databases and validate the data.
• Doing Manual Testing User Interfaces, Web services, API’s, Application whenever needed.
• Participated agile Kanban methodology.
• Created API performance tests using JMeter tool.
• Worked on existing cypress scripts.
• Utilized automated CI environments and tools
• Worked on Azure DevOps development environment, manage the deployments, validating AppInsight logs etc.,
• Test Automation demos to the team.
• Scheduling the Kickoff meetings, Defect triage meeting and providing Automation status dashboard on daily basis.
• Test estimates and Test execution reports in Excel sheet my using Macros etc.,
• Managing Story tasks and issue tracking in Jira.

Environment: Agile, Postman, Fiddler Jira, Azure, Cypress, JMeter, RobotFramework, Git, Bitbucket.

Sr. Automation Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review endpoints in swagger and prepared postman automation collections.
• Integrated with GitHub & Jenkins.
• Test Automation demos to the team.
• Test Automation plans in Excel spreadsheet
• Managing Story tasks and issue tracking in Jira.
• Validated database using SQL queries.
• Scheduling the Kickoff meetings, Defect triage meeting and providing Automation status dashboard on daily basis.

Environment: Agile, Postman, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Javascript.

Automation Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review all product applications and prepared automation test plans.
• Participate in agile sessions, backlog grooming by providing estimation, sprint retrospect and planning sessions.
• Built the automation framework with smartbear testcomplete.
• Integrated with Bitbucket & Jenkins, set the overnight test run builds.
• Divide the work and assign resource to each module, review their test scripts.
• Test Automation demos to Product owner, rest of the team.
• Scheduling the Kickoff meetings, Defect triage meeting and providing Automation status dashboard on daily basis.
• Managing Story tasks and issue tracking in Jira.

Environment: Agile, Jira, Smartbear TestComplete, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket.

Sr.QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review the project requirements and provide the QA effort and resource estimations.
• Develop Automation Test Plan, and traceability matrix.
• Participate in agile sessions, backlog grooming by providing estimation, sprint retrospect and planning sessions.
• Divide the work and assign resource to each module, review their test scripts. Provide feedback and correct them when needed.
• Responsible to PI Demo to the bigger audiences.
• Scheduling the Kickoff meetings, Defect triage meeting and providing Automation status dashboard on daily basis.
• Developed UI automated tests in Selenium Webdrive and RestAPI automation using Postman.
• Building scripts on Rest GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods.
• Building collections and environments in Postman.
• Maintain source code in bitbucket repositories.
• Integrate with Jenkins, schedule nightly builds and troubleshooting on failed builds.
• Checking the event logs in Kibana for test and production environment.
• Deploying the builds in lower environment when builds are ready.
• CI/CD with Jenkins to trigger the smoke tests when builds are deployed.
• Managing Story tasks and issue tracking in Jira.
• Database testing by running SQLs.

Environment: Agile, Jira, Selenium Webdrive, Postman, Kibana, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Confluence.

QA Lead

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Review the project requirements and provide the QA effort and resource estimations.
• Develop Test Plan, Test Strategy and QA risks and mitigations.
• Participate in agile sessions, backlog grooming by providing estimation, sprint retrospect and planning sessions.
• Divide the work and assign resource to each module, review their test case. Provide feedback and correct them when needed.
• Responsible to Demo the user story developed & tested in the sprint.
• Assist developer in troubleshooting defects. Recommend resolutions to fix problems identified during testing.
• Testing application on mobile devices.
• Scheduling the Kickoff meetings, Defect triage meeting and providing QA status dashboard on daily basis.
• Developed automated tests in Selenium Webdrive.
• Working BA’s on UAT testing, helping them in any technically queries and review their issues, and assign to developer to fix those.

Environment: Agile, Salesforce, Rally, ALM, Selenium webdrive.

QA Lead Consultant

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Attending daily agile scrum standups and provide QA updates to the team and call out any roadblock and issues.
• Estimated the testing effort, risks and prepare Test schedules and testing milestones.
• Developed the Test Strategy, Identified Test Stages, methods and goals for each stage of testing.
• Determined the test requirements, test details for each stage.
• Described the management of defect activities and identified Metrics Analysis.
• Involved in Smoke, Functional, System, System Integration and End to End Testing.
• Test scenario development and reviewing, and Development of test data for test cases.
• Leading 3 different projects and 9 offshore resources.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL’s on databases, UNIX level script execution and ETL jobs execution.
• Review testing tasks in the Jira, approve the results and change task to done.
• Analyzed automation tools, presented the demo to manager and finalized the Selenium Web drive for web automation.
• Built automation framework, assign work to offshore resources.
• Web services testing using SoapUI tool.
• Using cucumber for behavior driven development approach to write automation scripts and utilize those in selenium.
• Building automation test automation for smoke, and regression.
• Supported the user in the User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: Agile, Jira, MS Office, Selenium Webdrive, Cucumber, UFT, SoapUI, Informatica, Teredata, Tableau, UNIX.

Sr. QA Consultant

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Introduced and Developed the Test Plans.
• Estimated the REST API testing Automation efforts,
• Working with Service & support team to understand new changes requested by the clients.
• Test Case documentation and Defect Tracking using Rally.
• Testing application on Cross browser and mobile devices (e.g.iPads)
• Developed automated RestAPI tests in SmartBear SOAPUI tool.
• Building scripts on Rest GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods.
• Developed automated scripts using TestComplete for Web UI testing.
• DB testing by using SQL Server management, manipulating data by using SQL queries, validating store procedures, etc.
• Attending daily agile scrum standups.

Environment: Agile, .Net, CA Rally, SmartBear SOAPUI, MS Office, TestComplete.

QA Lead Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Manual Test Plan and Automaton Plan.
• Develop the Test Strategy and process for testing based upon Confidential ’s standard test process.
• Estimated the Automation efforts, and WorkRequest testing efforts.
• Working with 3rd Party vendor on troubleshooting defects.
• Test Case documentation and Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
• Developed automated tests in UFT tool.
• Performed Rest API testing using SoapUI tool
• Working with an Agile team of Business Systems Analyst to build Test Strategy for the Marketing and Ecommerce applications
• Connecting Unix servers and trigger jobs.
• Executing ETL jobs and validating source and destination data.

Environment: Agile, .Net, DataStage, Unix, Quality Center, ALM, UFT, SoapUI, MS Office.

QA Lead/Coordinator

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans, and Test Scenarios.
• Preparing work estimations and allocation of offshore resource for each WO.
• Managing offsite resources, planning the resource capacity, assigning work, tracking the schedules.
• Executing System, Regression and Stage Testing.
• Test Case documentation and Defect Tracking using ALM 11.
• Exported test cases in VISIO to ALM 11and Developed / maintained traceability in ALM

Environment: ALM 11, QTP 11, Voiyager, Visio.

QA Lead / Tester

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test Plan, Test Strategy and process for testing based upon Confidential ’s standard test process.
• Estimated the QA efforts, risks.
• Described the management of agile defect activities and identified Metrics Analysis.
• Assist developer in troubleshooting defects. Recommend resolutions to fix problems identified during testing.
• Initiated using Test Manger tool, for test case documentation and Defect Tracking & TFS.
• Testing application on mobile devices (e.g. smart phones, iPads)
• Developed automated tests in Telerik tool.
• Working with an Agile team of Business Systems Analyst and developers to create a Test Strategy for the Marketing and Ecommerce applications

Environment: Agile, Ektron - CMS, Telerik, ASP.Net, TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, Sybase, Jazz.

Test Lead / Onsite Tester

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test Strategy, Identified Test Stages, methods and goals for each stage of testing.
• Determined the test requirements, test details for each stage.
• Estimated the testing effort, risks and prepare Test schedules and testing milestones.
• Described the management of defect activities and identified Metrics Analysis.
• Involved in Functional, System, System Integration and End to End Testing.
• Coordinates both onsite/offsite testing resources.
• Test scenario development and reviewing, and Development of test data for test cases.
• Working on configuring the WMS /EIS application for business user requests.
• Performing SDN regression testing.
• Assist Manhattan developer in troubleshooting defects.
• Lead 2 different project offshore resources, 4 resources for one project and 5 resources for another project.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL’s on databases, UNIX level script execution and ETL jobs execution.
• Performed RF device, Conveyor (CORS) testing.
• Created automated scripts to configure locations, adding users into WMS application using QTP 10.0.
• Supported the user in the User Acceptance Testing.
• Supported the users after Go-Live.

Environment: MA WMS/LM/EIS/Slotting app, CORS app, SQL Developer, Qpasa, SQL Server, Unix, QC, QTP, HPSD. i2 TM app, Java, Web focus, DataStage.

QA / BA

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans, and Test Scenarios.
• Involved in Integration, Functional, System, Regression Testing.
• Test Case documentation and Defect Tracking using Excel 2003 and Quality Center 9.2.
• Exported test cases in Excel sheets to Quality Center.
• Developed and maintained traceability in Quality Center.
• Assist developers in troubleshooting defects.
• Involved on Release validations.

Environment: .Net, Ms-Office 2003, Quality Center 9.2.

Automated Tester

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Scripts developed for sovereign conversion project to pull the entire Sovereign bank HSA customer’s accounts data and stored into Confidential share drive.
• Maintained Share Object Repository for each project.
• For HBS Group, Uninstalled QTP 9.5 and Installed QTP 10.0 and Uninstalled QC 9.2 and Installed QC 10.0
• Upgraded all scripts developed in QTP 9.5 to QTP 10.0
• Created customized functions in functional library file and Batch processes.
• Maintained all automation scripts in Quality center for each test stage.
• Performed Sovereign Historical data validations in MS Access.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2/10.0, Quick Test Professional 9.5/10.0. MS Access.