SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing in Web based, windows application.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing and Automation testing including different types of testing types like Functional, User Interface, Regression testing, Sanity testing, GUI testing System Testing, Positive and Negative testing of the Application Software.
• Proficient in writing Test plan, Test strategies, Test Matrix executing testing procedures and creating Test Reports.
• Experience with tools Selenium IDE/WebDriver, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center (QC), Jira and TestDirector, Confidential Team foundation server
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts in Selenium WebDriver using TestNG, Maven,GIT using java program in Eclipse IDE.
• Proficient in using locators like CSS, Xpath and DOM for locating the elements in Selenium.
• Experienced in developing VBScript and descriptive programming in QTP
• Experienced in designing standard QA reports for bug tracking and reporting using Quality Center tool.
• Experienced Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology.
• Experience in working on different Windows platforms like Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows - 7.
• Good experience in Project Management activities like Estimation, Resource allocation, CMMi level compliance, Milestone reports, generating quarterly project reports, Setting goals in the project and Quality control activities
• Good interactions with developers, managers and team members to coordinate job tasks in an efficient manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/WebDriver/RC, Firepath, Firebug, TestNG, Jira, QTP 11, Quality Center, TestDirector, Visual Studio Test Framework

Languages: Java, VBScript

Database: SQL Server 2005, MySQL

IDE: Eclipse

Web Technology: HTML, XML, CSS

Other: Agile and Waterfall methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Analyst

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans based on software requirement specification
• Independently executes test plans and test scripts based on planned project schedules and in accordance with QA methodology.
• Performed end-to-end testing on release versions for the software application, detected and reported bugs.
• Developed and communicated the test strategy, software test plans within the Agile development process.
• Identify and develop test scenarios and test cases in HP Quality Center
• Developed automated scripts using Selenium WebDriver and conducted testing like functional, integration and regression testing for the application. Automation testing using Maven, TestNG framework to create test cases in WebDriver.
• Developed the automated test script in QTP
• Experience in GIT as a version controlling and repository tool.
• Experience in using continuous integration tool like Jenkins for monitoring the execution of repeated jobs.
• Used Firebug, CSS, Html and DOM to locate objects in Selenium.
• Records and tracks defects uncovered during the execution of tests scripts. Drives defect towards resolution; proposes and designs retest cases, scripts and data. Contributes to the defect management: defect status, root cause, daily triage meeting.
• Tested the application for functionality and documented all pass-fail reports, created modification requests, assigned modification requests to respective developers and verified bug fixes.
• Performed screen navigation test to ensure that the links are established as per the requirement documentation provided.

QA Lead

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans based on software requirement specification
• Independently executes test plans and test scripts based on planned project schedules and in accordance with QA methodology.
• Performed end-to-end testing on release versions for the software application, detected and reported bugs.
• Developed and communicated the test strategy, software test plans within the Agile development process.
• Identify and develop test scenarios and test cases in HP Quality Center
• Developed automated scripts using Selenium WebDriver and conducted testing like functional, integration and regression testing for the application. Automation testing using TestNG framework to create test cases in WebDriver.
• Used Firebug, CSS, Html and DOM to locate objects in Selenium.
• Records and tracks defects uncovered during the execution of tests scripts. Drives defect towards resolution; proposes and designs retest cases, scripts and data. Contributes to the defect management: defect status, root cause, daily triage meeting.
• Tested the application for functionality and documented all pass-fail reports, created modification requests, assigned modification requests to respective developers and verified bug fixes.
• Performed screen navigation test to ensure that the links are established as per the requirement documentation provided.
• Worked with the stakeholders of the project to analyze the test data and results.
• Provided QA approvals and signoff.

Quality Assurance Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a QA lead, handled a complete ownership of testing of various modules in the project.
• Analyzing the Functional Design Documents, Understanding and elaborating the requirement
• Was responsible for conducting various types of testing like functional, Regression, Sanity, Database testing.
• Creating test strategy and test plan for the modules including software test data requirements to establish test environment criteria within the Agile development process.
• Identify and develop test scenarios, test cases, Bug filing and tracking in HP Quality Center
• Testing of applications both in QA and Production environment
• Created and maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirement to test cases to ensure complete test coverage in Quality Center tool. Provide periodic status to the project manager (Weekly Status report)
• Developed automated scripts using Quick Test Professional tool and conducted testing like functional, integration and regression testing for the application.
• Records and tracks defects uncovered during the execution of tests scripts. Drives defect towards resolution; proposes and designs retest cases, scripts and data. Contributes to the defect management: defect status, root cause, daily triage meeting.
• Tested the application for functionality and documented all pass-fail reports, created modification requests, assigned modification requests to respective developers and verified bug fixes.
• Worked with the stakeholders of the project to analyze the test data and results.
• Provided QA approvals and signoff.
• Worked on project management activities Resource allocation, CMMi level compliance, generating quarterly project reports, setting goals in the project and Quality control activities. Developed and communicated the test strategy, software test plans within the Agile development process.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Requirements, Understanding and elaborating the requirement provided
• Estimating the test effort and determining the effort required for completing test pass.
• Preparing the test setup, Traceability matrix, writing test cases using Confidential VSTF(Visual Studio Test Framework)
• Reviewing test cases, preparing the Training & Knowledge transfer activities within the offshore team.
• Created and enhanced automation test script using QTP and conducting different types of testing like system, functional, sanity, regression testing
• Reporting Bugs, participating in bug review meetings with development team.
• Generating the test report of the test cases being executed successfully and with failures with Confidential Excel
• Handled a complete ownership of networking component like Bridge on Windows OS
• Creation of test cases, Manual and Automated Testing of different OS Updates
• Performing functional, performance, stress and code coverage testing on the various components of Windows vista, Server 2008.Bug filing and bug tracking using product studio

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing the test cases using TestDirector tool
• Bug logging and Tracking in TestDirector tool and in Confidential Excel
• Maintaining the traceability matrix to track requirements to test cases to ensure complete test coverage

Software Tester

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing the test cases using TestDirector tool
• Bug logging and Tracking in TestDirector tool and in Confidential Excel
• Maintaining the traceability matrix to track requirements to test cases to ensure complete test coverage