SUMMARY:

• Over ten years of experience in the field of Information Technology as Senior QA Automation Engineer/QA Automation Lead.
• In depth technical knowledge and understanding of Data Warehousing, Data Validations, UNIX, SQL, PL/SQL, OLAP, XML, SQL Server, ETL, Ruby and JAVA
• Implemented REST/SOAP Web services Framework using SOAPUI, Jmeter, JAVA Guardian Framework for Backend API
• Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirements, System Requirement Specifications(SRS), Functional Requirement specification(FRS), Design Documents and AUC (Application Use Cases) to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Cases for Manual as well as Automated Testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Used SOAP UI/JMETER, JAVA Guardian Framework to test web services and automation of web services.
• Experience with testing different Set - Top Boxes (STB - cable, satellite, IPTV).
• Used REST-Client tool to test web services and to test variety of HTTP/HTTPS Communications.
• Prepared and documented Manual/Automated Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Use cases based test case design and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated testing.
• Involved in Agile methodology with Scrum Process for the product development.
• Extensive Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and QA Life cycle.
• Experience in Black Box Testing of applications related to Insurance, Healthcare, Finance, Automobile and Banking verticals.
• Expertise in software management tools, Quality center, TestRail, Rally, Test Director for Defect tracking and reporting.
• Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Extensive knowledge of QA Methodology, Standards and procedures such as creating Test Plans and executing Test Scripts.
• Experience in UNIX commands and executing them on different LINUX Flavors.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results.
• Posses a unique mixture of management, technical and people skills critical to the success of IT projects.
• Strong experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts from Requirements and Use Cases.
• Experience in testing of Client/Server & Web-based applications on windows and UNIX platforms
• Extensive knowledge of QA Methodology, Standards and procedures such as creating Test Plans and executing Test Scripts
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, Cross Site Scripting, SQL injection, Cross Plat form and Cross Browser Testing.
• Experience in working with business analysts, development groups in analyzing business specifications and in Working with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Organized weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings
• Proven ability to support multiple projects, under tight deadlines, often with competing priorities and complexities
• Skilled in data manipulation using SQL queries and writing PL/SQL procedures
• Personal skills including Excellent Communication, strong sense of organization and effective time management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Cross-browser, cross-platform and functionality testing of Flash/Flex

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, LOS ANGELES

Sr. QA Automation Engineer/QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed Automated Tests for both the Back end and the Front-end applications. Backend (API/Databases), Front-End (UI, Web/Mobile/Android/IOS applications)
• Extensively used Groovy Scripts, Bean shell, java for SOAPUI PRO/JMETER to test web services
• Performed Functional and Performance Testing using JMETER and SOAPUI for APIS/UI With JMETER (PROXY).
• Created Automated test scripts for the Front end Applications and Data base applications using SELENIUM Web Driver, APPIUM, and CUCUMBER.
• Involved in UAT, End to End Testing of the Applications, cross-browser testing
• Responsible for identifying, logging, tracking and escalating bugs/Defects and verifying the bug fixes through Regression testing and updating the QA documents.
• Worked with Mobile Applications (IOS, Android) and Automated the applications using APPIUM/Selenium Web driver, Simulators, XCODE, BREW.
• Worked with JENKINS Build Server, GITHUB, PERFORCE, MAVEN, ANT and Created Jobs for the Automated Tests in JENKINS and Running the tests on a daily basis.
• Worked on Deploying the New Builds Daily and Checking the Logs for any Deployment errors
• Worked on Verifying the Logs to give Detailed analysis of the issues to the developer which helps in identifying where the issue is exactly present in the code.
• Fully integrated with RALLY/JIRA/TestRail for Test Management activities, created separate test sets for each release based on the severity.
• Participated in Defect Review Board meetings to verify and review various defects logged against the application.
• Participated in daily and weekly meetings to discuss the various development levels of the project.
• Submitted weekly Status reports to the VP and made timely escalations to the management.

Environment: MAC, SELENIUM Web Driver, UNIX, PERLSOAPUI, RUBY, WATIR, CUCUMBER, JMETER, RALLY, HTML5.0, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL, INFORMIX, ANDROID, ALL MOBILE PLATFORMS, Appium, Linux, Apache, SVN, Perforce, JENKINS, MAVEN, PERL, JENKINS, XCODE, BREW,RUBY,JAVA,PHP,Node.Js,ANGULAR,GITHUB,Mongo DB,HADOOP.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Sr. QA Automation Engineer/QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Integrity testing on to validate Data
• Extensively used Groovy Scripts and SOAPUI PRO to test web services and Database Validation utilizing JDBC Connections, XPath, response assertions, Schema assertions, Script Assertions and completing the workflow.
• Designed and Developed Backend Web services Data driven SOAPUI Automation Framework By using Groovy Scripting and Validating the Services data against Oracle database.
• Created Automated test scripts for the Front end Applications and Data base applications using SELENIUM Web Driver.
• Involved in UAT, End to End Testing of the Applications, cross-browser testing
• Responsible for identifying, logging, tracking and escalating bugs/Defects and verifying the bug fixes through Regression testing and updating the QA documents.
• Deployed code to the QA DEV, QA, Staging and UAT environments and package up software for production .
• Participated in design reviews, project team meetings and status meetings of the project including providing a status update of my own work progress and provide QA estimates.
• Used JMeter scripts to test the Performance of the Front End and Backend Applications.
• Created Test Plans for Application Interfaces and Data Interfaces Modules by referring to the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Created test scenarios and test cases. Planned for test execution and resources.
• Designed, implemented, and executed a quality focused software infrastructure that emphasizes test automation, unit testing, and regular code reviews.
• Interact with both the product management team, the software architect, and the rest of the software engineering team on a daily basis to influence and enforce a high quality culture in every aspect of the PDLC and SDLC Performed Regression testing as and when required to ensure the stability of the application

Environment: Windows XP, SELENIUM Web Driver, UNIX, PERL, Quality Center 11.0 8.0, Load Runner 10.0, SOAPUI 4.02, JMETER, RALLY, HTML5.0, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL,INFORMIX,ANDROID,ALL MOBILE PLATFORMS, SELENIUM, Test Complete, Linux, Apache, SVN, Perforce, JENKINS,MAVEN,PERL

Confidential, Los Angeles

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Management, Test planning, Resource planning & code walkthroughs, Release Management, Risk analysis, Point-to-Point Coordination.
• Created Traceability Metrics for requirements coverage.
• Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Integrity testing on to validate and test data using TOAD.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries.
• Worked with SQL Queries to validate data.
• Performed testing for various Application Interfaces and Validated the reports from third party vendors
• Interacting with the Client directly and understanding the Business Requirements.
• Extensively used SOAP UI/Jmeter/PERL to test web services and Database Validation utilizing JDBC Connections, XPath, response assertions, Schema assertions, Script Assertions and completing the workflow.
• Designed and Developed Backend Web services (SOAP and REST) Data driven SOPUI Automation Framework By using Groovy Scripting and Validating the Services data against Oracle database.
• Created Automated test scripts using Key word driven/Module oriented frame works for web applications, Siebel application, Unix applications, Web services, Flash/Flex, web/mobile applications and Data base applications
• Created and Executed Test Plans, test cases, test scripts, test matrixes and test procedures as per the user stories, business requirement docs
• Created Manual and Automated test scripts using Key word driven/Module oriented frame works for web applications, Siebel application, Unix applications, Web services, Flash/Flex, web/mobile applications and Data base applications
• Involved in Black Box/Grey Box Testing against large-scale database systems.
• Responsible for identifying, logging, tracking and escalating bugs/Defects and verifying the bug fixes through Regression testing and updating the QA documents.
• Participated in gathering all business and functional requirements to develop test plan and test cases for manual, strategies and scenarios for automation testing
• Used Rally (Agile Project Management tool) for creating user stories, test cases, tracking defects.
• Used JMeter scripts to test the Tablet applications on a Motorola set top box and cable television head end at the Cable Labs, Colorado.

Environment: Windows XP, QTP 11.0, UNIX, Quality Center 11.0 8.0, Load Runner 10.0, SOAPUI 4.02, JMETER, RALLY, HTML5.0, XML, Oracle, SQLServer, MYSQL, FLASH/FLEX,ANDROID,ALL MOBILE PLATFORMS, SELENIUM, Test Complete, Linux, Apache, SVN,PERL,INFORMIX.

Confidential,Los Angeles

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in reviews for the functional and business updates to the product.
• Participated in gathering all business and functional requirements to develop test plan and test cases for manual, strategies and scenarios for automation testing.
• Developed Test Plan and scenarios for the testing from the business and functional requirements. Preparing and reviewing the Test cases for all functional Requirements in QC. Uploading the Test cases which already exist in Excel to QC.
• Design and Developing the Test scenarios for the Web services testing.
• Execution of all the web service test scenarios by using SOAPUI. Involved in creating the Excel sheets with all the data to be used in manual test cases.
• Designing the Test Architecture and the Scenarios for the Automation using QTP on stand alone and QC.
• Preparing the work allocation for team and status reports to the management.
• Participated in walkthroughs for the evaluation of the test plan with the QA Lead and design and development team. Participated in development configuration management
• Developed a lot of user defined functions using VB Script for reusability and easy maintenance.
• Developed user defined functions for the Data base testing using ODBC connections in QTP.
• Involved in the conversion of Manual regression test cases to Automation Test Scripts.
• Developed User defined function for custom results and frame work set-up for test batch execution. Developed the scripts using Descriptive programming for some scripts.
• Involved in all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, system testing of the Application, its interfaces and Client-Server Utilities using Mercury Interactive Tools.
• Executed test scripts with multiple Test data using Data driven testing and Key-word driven testing for functional and regression testing.
• Conducted batch testing for automation programs using actions as well as using functions
• Handled Exceptions using Recovery scenarios Functions.
• Performed Data Base testing by using TOAD and SQL in each and every step of License Generation, License Transfer and IB-Sync.
• Worked with UNIX and LDAP for checking the Authentication and roles.
• Developed test data depends on the Test Scenarios as per the functionality of the application for the automation as well as for the manual.
• Automated the test scripts for the GUI, Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed several coverage and Test results reports in Quality Center for reporting.
• Developed the scripts using Descriptive programming for some scripts.
• Developed Automation test scripts for Verifying the functionality and GUI of the application using QTP.

Environment: Windows XP, QTP 9.2, UNIX, LINUX, LINUXSUSE10, SOLARISHPUX (TRUSTEDNDUNTRUSTED), AIX, Winrunner8.0, TestDirector8.0, Load Runner 9.0

Confidential, Jacksonville

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in both Manual and Automations Testing.
• Developed automated scripts using QTP for performing Regression testing
• Performed Data-driven testing by taking Test data from front-end objects, Keyboard Excel and from flat files
• Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners, document analysis and represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Created Automated test scripts using Key word driven/Module oriented frame works for web applications, Siebel application, Unix applications and Data base applications .
• Involved in all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, system testing and integration testing and User Acceptance test. of the Application, its interfaces and Client-Server Utilities.
• Formulate Test Plan that contains test scenarios for testing the functionality, navigation, stress, security, recovery of the application.
• Developed SQL Queries to check data validity and database Integrity.
• Involved in development and implementation test scripts using Mercury Interactive tools for the Application.
• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts using both manually and using VB Script Language.
• Configuration and use of the bug-tracking tool

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2003, QTP 8.0/8.2 Winrunner8.0, Siebel, TestDirector8.0

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system requirements and developed detailed test plans and test cases and provided the documentation.
• Responsible for designing, writing and reviewing of Functional Test Cases for the application. Performed GAP analysis of Use Cases/Requirements.
• Established test data setup criteria to test all scenarios.
• Divided various functional areas of the application into various Risk Levels for effective testing of the application, also risk leveled all the test cases accordingly.
• Developed vast number of test cases based on the risk level criteria.
• Regularly participated in Technical and Use Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application. Created and maintained Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio
• Followed the adaptive RUP framework throughout the Project life cycle (PLC)
• Involved with the QA team to conceptualize, determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration and functional testing and usability testing according to the application complexity and test requirements.
• Fully integrated with Test Director for Test Management activities, created separate test sets for each release based on the severity.
• Participated in Defect Review Board meetings to verify and review various defects logged against the application.
• Participated in daily and weekly meetings to discuss the various development levels of the project.
• Submitted weekly Status reports to the Manager and made timely escalations to the management.
• Conducted functional, System and Regression testing of the application using Win runner
• Developed automated test scripts for Functionality testing using Win Runner.
• Performed Validation testing on the application navigation for various scenarios and reported the errors
• Performed Manual Testing of some of the sub modules/components of the application as per the requirements.
• Manage individual tests, report bugs and coordinate with the developers to resolve the bugs.
• Created and executed functional and system test cases manually
• Performed Sanity Testing for each new build of the application
• Performed regression testing by executing the scripts, identified software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues

Environment: Win Runner 8.0, Test Director, Quick Test Professional, e-ManagerServers tarts, Manual Testing, HTML4.0, XML, Oracle8.0, ASP, Javascript, ActiveXSQLServer7.0, Windows NT, COM/DCOM, IIS, VB Script, Windows NT, ASP.NET

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing the Personal Finance Module application, this is an online application. Personal Finance Module is a part of Banking Finance Application.
• Involved in testing the Module at Development, Production and Maintenance stages
• Provide customized reporting to meet the needs of collateral managers/investors
• Offer real-time access to cash and collateral positions through web-based technology.
• Analyzed Business and Functional specifications and developed Test cases for testing the Personal Finance Management Module.
• Developed Test Objectives, Test Plans and Test Procedures.
• Created and configured the GUI Map.
• Verified application’s Stress and Performance by using Data - Driven tests.
• Synchronization Tests were added in the Test script.
• Performed regression testing using Batch tests.
• Developed SQL Queries to check the database Integrity.
• Automated the Testing process by using Win Runner for functionality and Regression Testing.
• Manage individual tests, report bugs and coordinate with the developers to resolve the bugs.
• Preparation of daily status reports and submission to management for their review

Environment: Win Runner 7.6, Test Director, Manual Testing, HTML4.0, XML, Oracle 8.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Active-X, SQL Server 7.0, Windows NT, VB Script, JSP, UNIX.