SUMMARY

• Hardworking Software QA Engineer offering 8 years of experience and expertise necessary to take on dynamic and complex software systems.
• Strong background in both manual and automation testing.
• Talented professional trained in numerous software tools. Desire to bring abilities to new role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Test Management Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Confluence, Dropbox, HP ALM/QC, REST, DevTools, HP QTP/UFT, SQL Developer, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Splunk, Dynatrace, JMeter, BlazeMeter, Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo, GIT, Postman, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, pgAdmin 3, Robo 3T, SoqlXplorer

Technologies: Java, XML, .Net, J2EE, J2ME, Perl, SQL, IIS, PL/SQL, HTML, JSP, ASPJavaScript, VBScript, Firebug, DevTools, Putty, JSON, JQuery, Python

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, 11g, SQL Server, MySql, DB2, MongoDB, PostgreSql, Salesforce

Tools and Apps: MS Office, UML, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio

Operating Systems: Mac, Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac, UNIX, DOS, iOS, Android

Browsers and Servers: IE, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Automation Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and maintained UI, DB, and API automation frameworks.
• Built out UI automation framework from scratch using Selenium, JAVA, SQL, Maven, TestNG, Page Object Model.
• Built out API automation framework from scratch using JAVA, Rest Assured, JSON Path.
• Reduced Manual Smoke test time from 90 mins to 7 mins with automation.
• Used Bitbucket to manage Pull Requests with Git for version control.
• Manually tested application with DevTools, Postman, JMeter, and BlazeMeter.
• Began process to move to Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline.
• Worked with Automation Engineers to teach best practices.
• Worked in Agile/Scrum methodology with team.
• Created test cases using Zephyr.

Software QA Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Automated API requests through PyCharm using python.
• Automated UI flows with python and Selenium.
• Added and managed Jenkins jobs to run automation test suite with SauceLabs.
• Queried various data through PostgreSql, MongoDB, and Salesforce using pgAdmin 3, Robo 3T, and SoqlXplorer respectively.
• Managed version control of automation repos through STASH, GIT.
• Tailed logs to follow application health and observe behavior at runtime.
• Created defect tickets in JIRA.
• Created test plans and test cases in Confluence.
• Created/Managed/ tested documents stored in MongoDB.
• On - boarded new QA's with testing process.
• Performed regression testing through various environments.

Software QA Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Used Maven as a build management tool and Selenium grid to execute automation suites on different browsers in parallel.
• Lead the identification and implementation of functional testing processes, directed the preparation of test data, and oversaw the preparation and development of test strategies and plans.
• Developed automated solutions using Java to generate readiness of bulk data for load/functional testing.
• Collected performance metrics of application by using Splunk, Dynatrace, JMeter and BlazeMeter.
• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.

QA Engineer

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed automated and manual testing on the application in various testing cycles.
• Created and maintained quality assurance metrics and tracking defects, defect counts and test results.
• Performed system, functional, integration, database, end to end, UI, ad hoc, smoke, cross-browsers, web service, UAT and regression testing.
• Performed API/Web Service Testing using RESTClient and validated XML/JSON variables.
• Developed, executed, and enhanced test automation scripts.
• Maintained and ran automated test scripts for smoke and regression testing in each release cycles.
• Assisted QA Lead in maintaining test suites and daily testing activities.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the early phases of projects to ensure that input into testing processes can be translated into a test plan and test cases.
• Designed test plans and scenarios for projects.
• Performed Exploratory Testing, black-box testing, UI testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Security Testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Used HP QC/ALM for test management, execution and bug tracking.
• Converted manual test cases from HP ALM/QC into automated test scripts in HP QTP/UFT.
• Studied analysis tests results in order to forecast application needs and limitations and to make sure requirements have been met.
• Monitored debugging process results and investigated causes of non-conforming software.

Jr. QA Tester

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed test activities.
• Designed and developed new detailed test plans and writing cases.
• Worked with other QA Analysts and Developers to ensure overall system functionality and behavior.
• Managed bug tracking database and helped with defect triaging.
• Assisted developers in implementing unit tests, developing and obtaining user requirements, and customer support for any issues that took place.