SUMMARY:

• Software Testing professional with over 9 years of experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Mobile Application Testing.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis: Elicitation, Validation, Specification and Verification.
• Experience in creating Test Strategy, designing Test Plan, writing Test Charter, Identifying Test Scenarios and designing Test Cases following different Test Design Techniques for Manual Testing. Well versed with IEEE 829 Standards.
• Experience in Agile Projects. Well versed with Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Backlog, Scrum Meetings, Final Acceptance Meeting, Sprint Retro Meeting.
• Involved in Peer Reviews of Test cases/Defects and prepared Minutes of Meeting.
• Experience in conducting Review meetings (Inspections & Walkthroughs).
• Experience in giving estimates and performing impact analysis.
• Experience in Integration, Smoke, System, Database, Adhoc, Compatibility, GUI, Performance and Regression testing types.
• Experience in preparing various Metrics in Test Design Phase and Test Execution Phase.
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC).
• Proficient in using Test Management tool Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting
• Experience in writing Test scripts in QTP using Hybrid Framework.
• Extensive experience in testing Web based applications and Mobile Applications Testing on Android, ios and Symbian Platforms.
• Experience in automating Web Application testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.
• Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
• Writing test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Experience in Data Driven testing, cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Selenium Grid.
• Having experience in Testing XML files.
• Having experience in writing and executing basic SQL queries and Linux commands.
• Skilled in Tableau Desktop for data visualization, Reporting and Analysis; Cross tab, Scatter Plots, Geographic Map, Pie Charts and Bar Charts, Page Trails and Density Chart.
• Proficient in creating Calculations (Table Calculations, Hide Columns, Creating/Using Parameter, Totals) and Formatting (Annotations, Layout Containers, Mark Labels, Rich Text Formatting, Shared Encoding) using Tableau Desktop.
• Expert in tableau server commands like synchronization, Tabcmd and Tableau server backup activity.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities, effective in working independently and an exceptional team player.
• Having experience in conducting s to new team members.
• Having experience in leading Onsite and Offshore team.
• ISTQB certified professional.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/XP/7,Linux

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 2005,2008, MS - Access

Languages: Java, C, SQL

Internet Technologies: HTML, VB Script, Java Script

Testing Tools: QTP (UFT) and Selenium 2.0

Defect Trackers Tool: Quality Center (ALM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client requirements and coordinating with the team.
• Preparing Test Plan.
• Participated in design reviews and quality inspections for each release.
• Prioritize test cases execution based on requirements priority and complexity
• Review and update Regression Test cases for impacted features.
• Used java with TestNG framework for automating scripts.
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing using selenium Web Driver.
• Recorded and re-run smoke test suite in various modules using selenium IDE during every patch release.
• Identifying Test Scenarios
• Attend Daily Status meetings and reported the test status and plan for the day.
• Attend Defects Scrub meeting, go over open defects and disposition as per the business decision.
• Engage with Deployment, and provide QA Test activities dependencies and test timelines.
• Designing Test Cases using different Test Design Techniques
• Review of test cases prepared by team
• Getting signoff from Development Team for Unit Testing
• Perform smoke test before start off with system testing by team
• Execution of test cases from QC
• Performing Regression Testing using Selenium
• Executing status calls on daily basis with team
• Updating to stakeholders on execution progress
• Tracking Defect Management process on each release
• Dashboard preparation / Reports generation to share with client
• Preparing Traceability Matrix.
• Creating various Metrics.
• Database testing using SQL
• Giving Sign Off from QA Team
• Performing Post Production Testing

Environment: Windows XP, Java, Eclipse, Oracle 10g, Toad, QTP10.0, QC10.0, Selenium 2.0

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. Test Engineer, my role involved in below tasks:
• Actively Involved in Software Development Life Cycle and Test Life Cycle, Test strategies, Methodologies and processes.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures, Requirements Traceability Matrix and managing the Defects as per the Business requirements.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for back-end testing using Toad.
• Scheduled and run the Jobs on daily basis.
• Designed and developed automation test scripts using Quick test Professional and managed testing activities using Mercury Quality Center.
• Design and Implementation of the Automation framework, formulating the driver script and the requisites.
• Designed Functions Library, Functions, Subroutine's, Common functions, Utilities functions, and Regular Expressions and Environmental variables using QTP in VB scripts.
• Executed automated test scripts, analyzed the results and reported bugs in Quality center.
• Modified and executed automated and manual test scripts for different modules using QTP.
• Followed a Hybrid framework to adopt key word driven, data-driven and script modularity methods.
• Created repeatable user defined functions and stored them as function libraries (.vbs files)
• Required to use Descriptive Programming at certain situations to complete the scripts.
• Created Recovery Files using Recovery Scenario Manager, associated the recovery scenarios to tests to instruct QTP with specified trigger action on unexpected event/popup.
• Involved in maintaining and uploading the QTP Scripts to Quality Center.
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing and Usability Testing.
• Coordinated with Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts to set up the pre-validation and validation environment to execute the scripts.
• Worked closely with Development as well as Requirement teams to ensure testing issues are resolved on timely manner.
• Performed Back end testing by executing SQL Queries.

Environment: Windows XP, C, ProC, oracle 10g, QC 10.0, QTP10.0,Ticket Smith, Tapir, PL, CH-Explorer

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Smoke Testing, Regression testing, System testing, Integration testing and end-to-end testing, User Interface testing.
• Gathered test data requirements for data conditioning from Business Units to test total application functionality.
• Created test scenarios for System testing and Regression testing.
• Prepared test cases for both positive and negative scenarios and mapped the same to requirements.
• Executed test cases and analysed the test results.
• Used HP Quality Center as a central repository for all the test activity.
• Attended meetings with developers in the discussion on resolving the issues, priority of bugs and updating the status of bugs once they are fixed.
• Responsible for writing the SQL queries to verify GUI front-end results and to extract and to manipulate the data to satisfy test cases/ requirements.
• Tested Web page presentation manually for different browser compatibility.
• Tested broken links and inter application links in Stage, Test and Production environments.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build.
• Performed Back-end testing using TOAD.

Environment: Java, Tuxedo, web sphere, oracle 10g, IBM AIX, Focus, TOAD, QC10.0,QTP10.0

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client requirements and coordinating with the team
• Understanding Test Cases written by Test Analyst
• Validated IRAPP application's compatibility on S60 mobile devices
• Tested App installation, accessibility, navigation, Functionality, Regression and end to end functionality of the application.
• Attended meetings like Requirement Review, Defects Triage, Go no Go meetings and effectively contributed for successful application delivery within the deadlines.
• Used Quality Center for Defect Reporting and Tracking and also for managing the test documentation like Requirements Management and Test Execution & Generation of the required reports.

Environment: Symbian C++, Windows XP, code warrior, QC10.0, Nokia S60 devices