OBJECTIVE

• Seeking a position of Software QA Automation/Manual Tester

SUMMARY

• Strong knowledge of software development processes and methodologies (SDLC)
• Familiarity with testing distributed application in large Web - based environments
• Strong knowledge of SQA and testing philosophies and methodologies
• Ability to design and implement customized test fixtures
• Solid experience with manual testing, including test planning and execution
• Familiarity with the process for releasing a test set into production
• Expertise experience with STLC management tools Quality Center and Test Director
• Experience in authoring load, performance, and endurance test scripts in Load Runner
• Experience in working with test automation frameworks, such as keyword and data-driven with Quick Test Professional
• Solid analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Knowledge and experience working in an iterative/agile test process
• Expert in industry standard software development methodologies and life cycles
• Knowledge in test planning, product verification, product validation, and test automation; implementation phases of the development methodology and life cycle
• Ability and desire to work in a spirited, collaborative environment
• Ability to identify and prioritize important tasks independently
• Self-motivated, willing to learn new concepts, technologies, and ability to produce quickly

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Software: HP ALM| JMeter| HP Load Runner| HP UFT/QTP |Selenium| Jira

Databases: Oracle | MS Access | DB2 | MS SQL Server

Languages: SQL | Java| JSP |.Net | JavaScript | VB Script| C++

MS Tools: MS Visio | MS Project | MS Office |MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Active participation in daily SCRUM, weekly and monthly status meetings, pre-planning meetings, product planning meetings (involvement with product owners along with clients), bug bash (testing with team members including developers), retrospective meetings, automation script presentations to the teams providing suggestions.
• Manual and automation testing with involvement in different projects such as Ellipsis, Anglerfish, Subscriptions and several others for integration testing, user acceptance testing, smoke testing, regression testing, testing in staging environment, production environment testing, and pre-production testing.
• Working on testing web and mobile applications developed in Agile development cycle.
• Transitioned user stories and collected test requirements in creating test cases and test procedures with emphasis on automation testing and scripting
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment
• Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental)
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process.
• Performed various automated tests and ensured continuous regression tests on applications
• Applied the set of operations, and disciplines for the planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization
• Participated in test case coverage, test case design, and script design and reviews
• Developed test scripts along with maintaining and enhancing the automated test framework supporting a continuous integration environment with automated smoke and regression testing
• Ensured high test and code coverage, maintainability of scripts, reliability of equipment, and overall robustness of environment and solution during the entire development cycle
• Responsible for performing analysis of requirements, writing requirements verification points, and providing feedback on requirement testability
• Responsible for having a thorough understanding of the projects test environment(s) and the projects policies for working in the test environment(s)
• Responsible for installing software into and upgrading test environments (hardware and software) including in-house applications and 3rd party applications
• Responsible for integration testing applications as appropriate to use on the internet portal
• Responsible for working with a team including development, system engineering and customer representatives in combined integration test efforts
• Involved in continuous support of overall software quality and testing with continuing refactoring of scripts and test cases as required and enhanced test coverage (system, performance, interoperability, stress, negative testing, etc.)
• Clearly logged defects, maintained test data and results, and monitored/analyzed automated test runs and reports
• Supported the identification and debugged of software defects and champion the resolution of bugs and issues
• Responsible for developing manual test cases in HP Quality Center and executing tests according to software test processes and procedures
• Responsible for developing automated test cases within Selenium WebDriver and custom scripting as appropriate to the test case
• Used Quality Center to manage and organize STLC activities like Requirements coverage, Test Case Management, Test Execution Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Automation
• Performed manual and light selenium WebDriver script-driven sanity and regression, cross-browser testing to ensure consistency.
• ImplementedBDDthroughCucumber.
• Created theFeatureFilesfor Cucumber Automation.
• Created Test Automation Framework withCucumberandSelenium WebDriver.
• Automated test cases using Selenium Hybrid Framework using WebDriver
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation with Selenium WebDriver
• Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium to conduct systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression tests.
• Involved in writing Manual & Automation scripts and frameworks using Java, JavaScript.
• Built web applications with ASP.Net MVC 5, Entity Framework 6, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, Razor View Engine.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Selenium WebDriver and JavaScript, enhanced the scriptsby adding user-defined functions.

Confidential, Washington DC

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment
• Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental)
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process.
• Performed various automated tests and ensured continuous regression tests on applications
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to assess functional requirements
• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and RTM and involved with the process of analyzing the expected and actual results
• Test system requirements for bugs and glitches using various web-based test management software such as TFS
• Documented test plans and test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements. Manually performed Smoke, Functional and Regression test of the system
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts. Also reported and tracked defects, updated E-mail notifications to test lead, business analyst and developers
• Write and execute automation test script for UFT
• Participate in the automated testing tool vendor selection process. Conduct a Pros & Cons analysis of HP UFT
• Performed manual and light selenium IDE script-driven sanity and regression, cross-browser testing to ensure consistency.
• Automated test cases using Selenium TestNG Framework
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation with Selenium
• Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium to conduct systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression tests.
• Create solutions to improve scripts by designing new functions, synchronization threads and processes, and check points
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation with UFT
• Analyze system designs, requirements, and documentation to effectively develop test scripts, and test specific scenarios for required levels of security and quality-control testing
• Collaborate with business users and customers to clarify system requirements to improve the user interface and the design and development of the system processes
• Perform complex analysis and testing support for clients by executing regression and system testing and manually integrate system improvements
• Analyze physical system designs to develop system test plans and outline an estimated timeline for test schedules
• Examine business and operational requirements for new and modified systems
• Review system specifications for design functionality and user documentation ensuring functionality coordinates with user instructions
• Work closely with development team to identify and resolve any system-related problems; discuss solutions and make recommendations to senior leaders; implement and test these solutions
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment
• Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process.
• Performed various automated tests and ensured continuous regression tests on applications
• Integration Usability and GUI Testing of the enhanced web-based applications based on the .NET technology.
• Tested a large application rewrite to Microsoft .NET.
• Tested conversion of C#.Net windows application to browser based 'Flex' application.
• Develop/execution of automated scripts using Microsoft custom .NET framework in VSTS

Confidential, Washington DC

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Perform quality assurance, quality control, and security tests for system designs, processes, and security features
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation with UFT
• Worked as an Automation Tester, responsible for development and maintenance of Automation Frameworks, tools and solutions. Managed and coordinated onsite/offshore functional test efforts and Automated functional testing.
• Work closely with Developers, Business Analyst, Architects and Project Manager to understand Portal Project.
• Use ALM Quality Center for requirements management (User Stories), planning, scheduling, and running tests, defect tracking and managed the defects and executed the test cases
• Review requirements from ALM in order to create test scenarios, test cases, test plans/test scripts.
• Work as ALM support to ensure efficient services to the team and the client.
• Analyze and validate requirements to develop development and test cycles.
• Work as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Perform Functional testing manually and use of descriptive programming in UFT-Unified Functional Testing.
• Perform web-based testing using UFT for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Responsible for developing Test plans based on Functional Specification and Technical Specification Documents of the application.
• Execute the test cases manually using ALM, enter defects and conduct regression testing after fixing the defect.
• Create customized Automated Test scripts using UFT & VB Script testing tool for the web-based applications while performing Sanity, Integration, System, Functional, and Regression testing.