SUMMARY

• 6+ years experienced Certified Selenium Testing Engineer highly skilled in leading Test Planning & Execution and managing Defect Reporting.
• Adept at deploying expertise in Test Automation via API & Selenium methodologies.
• Proficient in Automating Web Application Testing via Selenium WebDriver and delivering business value to the clients.
• Planned & strategized test schedules in accordance with project scope and delivery deadlines
• Identified, analyzed & reported application defects and rendered assistance with resolution via JIRA
• Interacted with customers & internal stakeholders to ensure complete & thorough understanding of all requirements.
• Defined, implemented and maintained test plans, test specifications, and test suites.
• Implemented and executed test strategies to improve the overall quality and boost test code coverage.
• Directed Performance and Load Testing, and administered System performance & health monitoring.
• Appointed in - charge of testing web services in SOAP/REST with JSON/XML data to enhance customer-facing apps/APIs.
• Developed & executed test cases to boost automated test coverage for existing functionality
• Deployed both functional and automation testing to successfully integrate backend with Restful APIs.
• Enhanced and maintained the test automation framework that is built using widely used, open-source frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin.
• Integrate new libraries and frameworks as the mobile test automation landscape matures
• Work with the software development and manual test team to build, maintain, and monitor the existing suite of automated tests.
• Understand the business domain and customers we support to ensure that the test suite catches defects before they reach the customer.
• Independently developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Specification documents.
• Assesses and evaluated the coverage of all aspects of requirements in the test design
• Defined functional test cases based on technical design/functional design for verifying accuracy of developed features
• Documented testing results & performed root cause analysis to initiate corrective action for meeting quality objectives.
• Led manual, compatibility, performance and security testing for web applications
• Deployed expertise in test planning, test design, test strategy & execution in addition to Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Conducted Test Planning, strategized system testing & methodologies and developed system integration test cases.
• Formulated scalable automated test frameworks and test suites across technologies for the entire product portfolio
• Rendered assistance to conduct design/code inspections & performed manual testing encompassing all functionalities.
• Stakeholder Management & Webpage Development
• Collaborated with developers and QA leads to enhance testing performance, automation, and tools
• Automated and resolved defects for developing an end-to-end testing solution
• Devised processes for high-quality releases with clearly defined test phase entrance and exit criteria
• Scripted detailed test scenarios via advanced test automation frameworks like Cucumber/BDD frameworks, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS | Windows | macOS | Linux | UNIX | iOS | Android

Methodology: Waterfall | Agile (Scrum) | V-Model (Software Development)

Databases: Microsoft Access | Oracle | Microsoft SQL Server

Testing Tool and Framework Plugins: Selenium Web Driver | Eclipse | Test-NG | J-Unit | Maven | J-Meter | Postman | Rest Assured | Swagger UI | GIO | Active MQ | DIV | Appium |Jenkins | Git | Firebug | Cucumber | Apache POI |

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM | JIRA | TFS |

Programming Languages: Java | JavaScript | Gherkins | SQL | HTML |

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rochester, NY

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in peer reviews of software requirements, designs and test procedures.
• Documented test plans and test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements
• Experience in writing test plans, test cases/scenarios, test strategy and analyzing test results.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and role of QA.
• Performed System, UAT, Functional, Cross Browser and Retesting.
• Work closely with Test Lead during the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) by ensuring full test coverage of the assigned test cases
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using Quality Center/ALM.
• Preparation of test cases based on requirements using HP Quality Center and involved in internal and external test case reviews.
• Reported & tracked the bugs, performed E-mail notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.
• Tracked the defects using HP Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.
• Experience in using Selenium Web driver, Eclipse, Java and TestNG frameworks in creating test scripts, Annotation, Parameterization, Data providers, Test suites and HTML reports.
• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behavior and step definitions & developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.
• Involved in GUI testing, functional testing, Regression testing, Load testing, End to End testing, Cross Browser testing, User Acceptance Testing and Database testing
• Strong experience in data validation and manipulation in SQL Server databases using SQL queries.
• Provided backend testing for data validation using complex SQL Queries joining multiple tables developed complex SQL scripts for Oracle database using SQL Developer
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches
• Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs
• Proposed improvements to development and testing processes to positively impact usability, function, and performance
• Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands
• Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands
• Produced and maintained consistent technical documentation

Confidential, One shore driver, CT

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in release planning, sprint planning, retrospective and daily scrum for agile scrum development.
• Extensively worked throughout the defect life cycle from opening to closure using JIRA and ALM.
• Developed Behavior Driven Development (BDD) scripts with Cucumber and written step definitions for behavior.
• Used Gherkin Syntax to test the behavior of the Application (BDD) using Cucumber with Selenium (WebDriver).
• Involved in planning, preparing, creating, debugging and running automated test scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java, Maven, GIT, JUnit and TestNG framework.
• Developed Data driven, Keyword driven test framework with Page Object Model approach.
• Used TestNG, Apache POI frameworks to develop test suite and Data Driven Testing.
• Cross-Browser Testing was involved for browser compatibility.
• Analyzed automated test results, maintained and sent reports to the management.
• Conducted different type of testing (smoke, black box, functional, integration, UI, data, interface, regression, UAT, etc.) for Web and Client-Server based applications.
• Performed mobile app and mobile web testing for Android and iOS devices.
• Developed and executed test for usability testing, interface testing, low level resource testing, service testing, and compatibility testing for mobile devices.
• Developed Oracle SQL Queries to validate data from the database tables and performed Back-End Testing.
• Developed an automated test framework in Selenium and deployed source code to GitHub.
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration and development.
• Reviewed along with the team all necessary documents and ensured that all scripts and documents are updated.
• Prepared test strategy and test schedule for new, upgraded application and services.
• Identified, tracked, resolved all defects and ensured resolution prior to implementation of software.
• Supported and worked with team to prioritize work requests and reported issues/results on a daily/weekly basis.
• Coordinated with management, development team, operations and clients for any outstanding issues and ensured the implementation of software in the correct environment.
• Presented drawings to project managers and incorporated recommended changes
• Kept the project on schedule and within budget while serving as project leader
• Led project scheduling and budgeting to successfully and quickly complete engineering projects
• Verified construction documentation conformed to quality assurance standards and client requirements
• Documented meeting minutes and distributed to staff to facilitate follow-up and permanent record

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plan, Test cases, and Test Scripts.
• Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Design Specification documents.
• Worked closely with software developers, business analysts and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Attended design review conference meetings with off-site team.
• Communicated with developers and QA Team members to resolve issues.
• Manually performed Positive, Negative, Integration, Boundary, Sanity, Functional, Cross Brower, Regression, UAT and End-To-End Testing for billing applications.
• Used HP Quality Center to ensure efficient documentation of QA activities.
• Performed Back-End testing by verifying the data in the Microsoft SQL Server Database.
• Managed the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Participated actively in team meetings with Functional/Development Team for fixing bugs.
• Reviewed along with the team all necessary documents and ensured that all scripts and documents are updated.
• Prepared test strategy and test schedule for new, upgraded applications and services.
• Identified, tracked, resolved all defects and ensured resolution prior to the implementation of the software.
• Supported and worked with team to prioritize work requests and reported issues/results on a daily/weekly basis.
• Coordinated with management, development team, operations and clients for any outstanding issues and ensured the implementation of software in correct environment.
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches
• Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs
• Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands
• Produced and maintained consistent technical documentation