SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing of Client/Server Applications and Web based applications in various domains.
• Strong skills in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) concepts with thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
• Analyzed and reviewed business requirement documents, Software requirement specifications to create test plan, test case for manual testing.
• Good experience in Manual testing (HP ALM), ETL testing (INFORMATICA) and Automated testing (Selenium).
• Experience in Functional testing, System, Regression, Integration, Positive/Negative testing and Smoke testing.
• Used SOAP UI tool to test web services.
• Experience in testing XML requests and responses of web services using SOAPUI.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in Oracle and SQL Server.
• Used Selenium Web - Driver extensively to automate testing the functionalities of the application and used the scripts for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Possess a good understanding about different phases of Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Methodologies and worked with Agile and SCRUM, Waterfall models in projects and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience with testing web-based applications developed in J2EE (Java) and .NET framework.
• Proven success in testing large scale, multi-tiered, integrated systems.
• Extensive Experience in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle including: Requirements Gathering, Feasibility study, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance.
• Good experience with writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in database like Oracle and SQL server.
• Experience in logging and tracking Defects using defect tracking tools like Quality Center, ALM & Jira.
• Used HP-ALM/QC to list requirements, write test cases and log defects.
• Experience working with Oracle and SQLSERVER, and writing and executing SQL queries for data verification, data validation and data integrity.
• Experience in Waterfall model and Agile, SCRUM development methodologies.
• Experience in analyzing the Defects and interacting with developers and team members in fixing the defects.
• Experience in Linux RHEL 5.x & 6.x, Windows 2008.
• Team player with good written and communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationship with all levels of management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium Web driver, HP ALM (HP Quality Center), INFORMATICA, Test NG, Eclipse, TOAD, JIRA, SOAP UI, QTP/UFT.

Testing Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Functional, Regression, Integration, Positive/Negative, Smoke testing.

Database: Oracle, SQL server.

Language: SQL, VB script, Java.

Application: WebLogic, .Net

Operating System: Linux, Windows.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements review, Design review to develop test plan and test cases scenarios.
• Ensured all test plans, test cases, and documentation were traceable to original requirements.
• Executed and analyzed actual to expected results and report all bugs to development team using Quality Center for different category of Credit cards like Business, Balance transfer, cash back and Reward credit card check and compare all the validation prequalifying conditions for customer.
• Experience in Designing and executing the automation scripts using Selenium-WebDriver.
• Design, develop and implement Page Object Model Driven automation testing framework (POM) utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium Web-Driver.
• Used firebug to identify object's ids, Name, XPaths, links in the application.
• Developed automation scripts using Selenium Web driver for smoke tests and regression tests.
• Used Selenium Web Driver for automating Cross Browser Testing on IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Developed Test Scripts for Automation of the web-based application in Selenium.
• Used Smart Identification feature of Selenium to identify unique properties of objects.
• Tested GUI and functionality of the application under test using multiple browsers such as IE, FIREFOX and Chrome on multi platforms and interpreted the positive and negative results
• Experience in Designing and executing the automation scripts using Selenium-WebDriver.
• Test the applications compatibility with all browsers.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Quality Center for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the website.
• Prepared reports and test results after each release cycle for management planning.
• Performed back-end testing by developing and executing SQL Queries using TOAD.
• QA weekly meetings, Defect Review meetings, proposals for resolving the conflicts.

Environment: Selenium, TestNG, Quality Center, SOAP UI, Windows, UNIX, Oracle, SQL Script, IE, JAVA.

Confidential, Carbondale, IL

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Walkthrough Sessions, Business Requirement Document Reviews, System Requirement Review meetings.
• Preparation of Test plan, Traceability Metrics & Test cases based on the requirements from BRD & SRD.
• Internal & External review of Test plan and Test cases.
• Executing Build Verification Test cases for validating the Build.
• Used Quality Center to execute tests, and maintain scripts.
• Executing the Test cases in Quality center and comparing the actual result with expected result.
• Logging the issues found during pre-test reviews and during testing the application in Quality center.
• Used Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and Platforms.
• Created Java based scripts for Selenium WebDriver with TestNG as automation frame work.
• Involved in writing and executing automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver, JAVA and Eclipse.
• Involved in running Test scripts on different browsers using the Selenium Web driver.
• Identify the queries which were taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance.
• Performing quality assurance functions covering the full software development life cycle, including development and implementation of test plans, test infrastructure and project plans.
• Conducted overall quality assurance responsibilities including writing test plans, detailed test cases, test scripts, test data, test execution, defect reporting and tracking, full documentation, and supervision.
• Wrote Test Plans in MS Word for Manual Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing & reviewed their consistency with the business requirements.
• Designed ETL jobs for extracting data from heterogeneous source systems, transform and finally load into the Data Marts.
• Wrote Test Cases in MS Excel for user registration, access to training material, and activity log-in, reviewed the test cases and finalized.
• Coordinated and ensured environment setup and availability of infrastructure required for testing.
• Used SQL to test various reports and ETL load jobs in development and QA environment.
• Extensive database backend testing using SQL queries and TOAD.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the data Warehouse supporting tables.
• Performed End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications.

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Agile, Quality Center, TOAD, SQL Server, XML, UNIX, Windows, Informatica.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Technical requirement documents.
• Prepared and tracked defect reports using defect tracking tool JIRA.
• Defect logging and tracking using JIRA.
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop test validation matrix, test cases, test data in ALM and manually test the web application.
• Follow up for fixes and verification, defect tracking and reporting using JIRA.
• Validated Request / Response WSDL/SOAP using SOAPUI.
• Worked on Web Services and Tested XML data for validity. As part of Web Testing used Soap UI for verifying Request-Response data.
• Created and Executed Test Cases manually as well as verify the actual results based on expected results.
• Implemented traceability to increase / improve the coverage.
• Prepared the test cases and test scenarios detailed in Microsoft Excel.
• Transformation of use cases to test scenarios and designing test plans and test cases.
• Analysis of Test results and defects to estimate progress on a daily basis.
• Good experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Worked with TOAD to write queries and validate the data from different tables.
• Executed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional to check the functionality of the system.
• Recording automated test cases in QTP and running them via Quality Center.
• Performed Regression testing using Quick Test Pro(QTP).

Environment: HTML, MS Office Suite, SQL and Windows. HP - ALM, Unix, JIRA, SOAP UI, TOAD, Agile, QTP.

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement documents to design quality test cases.
• Involved in generating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for functional requirements.
• Extensively used Quality Center for Test planning, Bug tracking, and Reporting.
• Analyzed test results, identified issues and reported it to the developers and project manager through QC.
• Testing of new software for Point of Sale Systems (POS).
• Tested the Login, Look and Feel, Shopping Cart, Order Status and Check out functionality.
• Written various SQL queries and performed backend validations.
• Worked with TOAD to write queries and validate the data from different tables.
• Created Test data based on the test cases.
• Conducted the Smoke testing to check the High level functionality of the application.
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Functional, GUI, Integration, Backend, Regression and System Testing.
• Participated in Weekly meetings and walk through to discuss Defect Priorities.
• Attended Business Analyst, QA and Software Developer meetings for bug review.
• Performed End-to-End Testing Manually before Automated Testing.
• Extensively used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting.
• Adaptable, organized, detail-oriented with professional work ethic.
• Proven ability in working as a part of team or individually, problem solving, process improvement activities.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, HP Quality Center, Waterfall, XML, TOAD, UNIX, SQL Server.