OBJECTIVE:

To achieve the highest level of professional expertise in the field of Information Technology, utilizing teamwork, leadership and technical skills. Interest area includes Software Quality Engineering.

SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology as QA Tester with Manual & Automated Testing of Client/Server and WEB based applications.
• Expertise in communicating with different teams and gathering the requirements as per the project guide lines.
• Involved in all phases of the SDLC and performed all activities in QA life cycle.
• Experience in various QA Methodologies like White Box Testing and Black Box Testing.
• Extensive hands on experience in performing Manual, White Box, Business functionality, Volume and Stress testing.
• Expertise includes Testing Web Services, Functionality, Integration, Regression, System testing, Multi - tier Application, GUI and Black box testing.
• Experience in conducting Requirement Review meetings with Business& QA teams.
• Experienced in writing Test Plans and Test Cases for automated testing procedures using Java, Junit and selenium.
• Experience in implementing Automation using Selenium(RC/IDE/Grid) using JUnit/TestNG
• Extensively used SQL to test the Data level verification.
• Experienced at performing V&V (Verification and Validation).
• Experienced in various models of project as Development, Maintenance projects.
• Experience in working with Agile Methodology for implementing rapid and high co-ordination environment among Development and QA teams using SCRUM model.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and management skills
• Knowledge of Descriptive Programming, key word driven framework, Data driven framework.
• Working knowledge of Agile environment and testing Web services and REST API., Hadoop, Map Reduce
• Review Process using the various techniques like Peer Review, Audit, Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence Partitioning. Exposure to Agile Methodology and Orthogonal Array.
• Worked as a Defect Manager and well versed with life cycle of a defect.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Automation Tools: Selenium IDE/ RC, JUnit, Quick Test Pro 9.x

Bug tacking Tool: Test Director, Quality Center9.2, JIRA

Languages: Java, C, C++, JSP, HTML, XML, Shell Scripts, SQL, PL/SQL.

Databases: ORACLE9i/10G, SQL Server2000.

Operating System: Unix, Linux,Windows NT/2000 and Mac.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior QA Tester

Confidential, Boston

Responsibilities:

• Develop automated test scripts using Selenium, WebDriver framework, for both web pages and Restful APIs
• Played vital role in End to End testing using Agile methodology.
• Closely worked with Architecture leads and PM’s (Product Manger) to understand the feature and gather requirements.
• Involved in setting up test data required.
• Responsible for creating test plans.
• Played vital role in developing Traceability Matrix covering business requirements and Test plan.
• Involved in UI, Functional Testing of application .
• Writing integration tests using JUnit in a AWS environment
• Contributed to the entire software development life cycle from initial business requirements to deployment & production support. Contribute estimations of required QA effort for stories/features
• Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects
• Enhance team momentum through attentive collaboration in daily stand-ups, team-ups with developers on test reviews, active participation in sprint retrospectives and test framework design documents with diagrams on Confluence wiki.
• Maintained the Regression suite of 2500 test with daily triaging and fixing and adding tests in different environments as necessary.
• Tested REST API and parsed and validated JSON responses; updated specs on Confluence wiki while testing.

Senior Test Engineer (QA Lead)

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data and Test Execution.
• Understanding the business requirement and validating application as per requirement.
• Wrote detailed test cases analyzing usecases, UI specs and supplemental specs
• Involved in setting up the test environment
• Tested the application for defects in GUI, functionality for every construction cycle
• Wrote smoke test sets and regression test sets.
• Automated Tests for Smoke, Functionality, Regression Testing using QTP
• Plugged in various check points (GUI, Bitmap, Database, Text) to check whether various GUI and field objects meet the requirement specifications
• Performed Data-driven testing using Quick Test Pro to insert multiple sets of data into the application
• Scripted re usable scripts by using QTP’s call to actions and inserting copy of actions
• Ran the scripts in batch mode by creating various recovery scenarios
• Used Test director as a repository to store QTP scripts.
• Performed migration testing by running SQL queries to check if the data is migrated
• Without any discrepancies from legacy systems to the new systems
• Assisted the users in UAT at the end of every cycle
• Performed security testing of the application
• Performed Regression testing of the application after the fixes
• Logged all the defects including documentation defects in Test director
• Involved in discussion with developers for resolving the bugs
• Was responsible for Defect Management Activity, which includes Defect Logging & Defect tracking.

Senior Test Engineer (QA Lead)

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Team and participating in business requirements & analysis meetings.
• Working closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of the product and its specifications using Agile-testing methodology.
• Interact with business analyst to discuss about the requirements
• Wrote detailed test cases analyzing usecases, UI specs and supplemental specs
• Involved in setting up the test environment
• Tested the application for defects in GUI, functionality for every construction cycle
• Wrote smoke test sets and regression test sets.
• Automated Tests for Smoke, Functionality, Regression Testing using QTP
• Developed SQL Queries for testing various Database validation
• Responsible for creating test status reports during and after test execution process.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking, issue tracking and Project management.
• Implemented Team City as Continuous Integration System and integrated it with ANT that runs selenium scripts
• Communicate with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defect

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Team and participating in business requirements & analysis meeting
• Used Quality Center to manage the testing process (Planning Tests, Executing Tests, Bug Tracking)
• Creation of the Test Scenarios from the Business Functional Requirement.
• Creation of the Test Condition from the Test Scenarios for the maximum test coverage.
• Formation and execution of Test Scripts for System Integration and Regression Testing.
• Was responsible for Defect Management Activity, which includes Defect Logging & Defect tracking in the Test Director.
• Performed Data-driven testing using Quick Test Pro to insert multiple sets of data into the application
• Scripted re usable scripts by using QTP’s call to actions and inserting copy of actions
• Ran the scripts in batch mode by creating various recovery scenarios
• Used Test director as a repository to store QTP scripts.
• Performed migration testing by running SQL queries to check if the data is migrated
• Preparing the various reporting documents like DSR (Daily Status Report) and WSR (Weekly Status Report), RAIDs documents (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and dependencies) and send it to the Onshore Team, Confidential Management and Confidential, India management.
• Prepared the Testing Control Cycle Sheet (TCCS) for the timely execution of the project.
• Imparted functional knowledge to new team members.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating test plans for enhancements
• Played vital role in developing Traceability Matrix covering business requirements and Test Plans.
• Creating Test cases ensuring that the developed software performs as detailed by the business requirements
• Used Quality Center to manage the testing process (Planning Tests, Executing Tests, Bug Tracking)
• Execution of Mainframe Batch run which comprises running of around 2000 jobs depending on the number of optional networks selected.
• Setting and executing the entire overnight batch.
• Analyse the reason for the job abend and resolve it which requires knowledge of COBOL,JCL,DB2,IMS etc.
• Created JCL’s for the project
• Worked on DB2 and IMS databases
• Worked on Data preparation in Mainframes
• Created REXX tools which helped the project to increase the productivity.
• Raising Defects in Mercury Test Director related to Mainframes and also resolve it.
• Creation of the Test Scenarios from the Business Functional Requirement.
• Creation of the Test Condition from the Test Scenarios for the maximum test coverage.
• Formation and execution of Test Scripts for System Integration and Regression Testing.
• Was responsible for Defect Management Activity, which includes Defect Logging & Defect tracking in the Test Director.
• Preparing the various reporting documents like DSR (Daily Status Report) and WSR (Weekly Status Report), RAIDs documents (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and dependencies) and send it to the Onshore Team, Confidential Management and Confidential, India management.
• Prepared the Testing Control Cycle Sheet (TCCS) for the timely execution of the project.
• Imparted functional knowledge to new team members