SUMMARY

• Expert in QA Processes, SDLC, 7 years’ career leading the appropriate testing and delivery of quality software, products, systems, and applications to meet business, market and customer needs, utilizing blended onshore/offshore delivery model.
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile and Non - Agile: Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Extensive and diversified experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance
• Automation Testing, Web, and Client/Server based Commercial Applications.
• Good experience as a Test Lead for successfully delivered projects and able to work in a team environment and individually with minimal supervision.
• Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management, Excellent interpersonal, communication & writing skills.
• Proven ability to Assure Quality Project/Product in on time and on budget.
• Excellent written, verbal and communication skills.
• Experience in writing Test Scripts, and have experience in VBScript for QTP.
• Strong knowledge of Testing Automation and best practices in QA Process.
• Extensive experience in functional, unit, integration, regression testing and Black box testing in different stage of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in creating and executing very large and complex End to End Test Scripts across different application Interfaces both Automated and Manual.
• Experience with Cucumber automation tool including Gherkin, Ruby and ATDD, TDD, BDD
• Experience with Selenium automation tool including Java with Selenium webdriver
• Experience in writing SQL Queries.
• Excellent experience in SOAP UI Testing
• Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual testing strategies to identify risks and issues, design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/7, UNIX, LINUX

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, BO Reports, Java, Ruby

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle

Web Related: HTML, ASPAutomation Tools Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner 8.1, QTP 10

Front End Apps: Outlook Express

Multimedia: Flash, Adobe Photo shop

Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Agile Methodology and its best practices
• The team stays on track by holding brief daily meetings called the “Daily Stand Up”
• Followed ATDD and BDD process for project Automation.
• Setup Jenkins CI job for continuous integration
• Responsible to demo the sprint work to business/product owners.
• Identifying Defects and writing story cards and prioritizing them.
• Working closely with business, analysts, developers and owners.
• Test caseexecution inSystem Testenvironment and defects logging in defect tracking tool.
• Writing Gherkin files with all the scenarios of the requirements
• Configured Cucumber from scratch installing gems, and project required support ruby files.
• Used Ruby MINE to Create Scenarios and Step Definitions for the story cards using Selenium/ Watir Web driver, Ruby Rails Language and Gems.
• Used Page Objects Gem while developing step definitions and Page Objects.
• Used active object Gems to connect to database
• Used Rspec Gem for validate the data
• Responsible to demo the sprint work to business/product owners.
• Identifying Defects and writing story cards and prioritizing them.
• Working closely with business, analysts, developers and owners.
• Applying time-boxed, iterative approach to software development
• Product progresses in a series time-boxed segments called ‘Iterations’ (generally 2 weeks each)
• Requirements are managed as items in product backlog called a Master Story List (MSL)
• Requirements are detailed in Story Cards
• Attended Release Planning Meetings and Iteration Planning Meetings (IPM) and Status Meetings
• Conducted Manual Test for entire applications using manual scripts, which are designed specifically
• Data Driven Testing for the large amount of data were implemented with QTP
• Actively involved in automating test cases using QTP, Cucumber and Ruby Identified, defined and reviewed Test Execution schedules and created Test Scripts in Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Ruby, Rails, Java, Cucumber, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, SQL Server, Rational Application Developer, Web sphere 6.1, Start UML, XML, Web services, SOAP UI, CI

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Performed all levels of testing such as Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Backend Testing
• Executed the developed test cases and test scenarios in HPQC
• Wrote Features and scenarios in Gherkin language
• Implementing cucumber step definitions using Ruby language
• Implemented Page object gems for step definitions
• Deployed application to production environment and monitoring.
• Used Selenium web driver for Web elements navigations
• Used Java program to implement step definitions
• Used JDBC to connect to Database
• Developing interactive user interface usingPHP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS
• Designed Master Test Plan &Test Estimations using WBS
• Test caseexecution inSystem Testenvironment and defects logging in defect tracking tool.
• Status Reporting by scheduling the calls on daily basis
• Coordinating with the UAT Testers
• Responsible for uploading all testing deliverables in Share Point
• Performed database testing using SQL Queries on SQL Server
• Responsible for Daily Defect status calls and Defect Reports
• Automating test cases using UFTwith descriptive programming, VBScript and Regular Expression.
• Expertise in writing theUFTframeworks for new projects.
• Involved in all Production Releases and Post Production testing with Business Users
• Involved in communicating to the groups and focus on the requirements keeping in view of the specifications given by the end user
• Excellent experience in integrating the ALM withUFTand run the automation test cases and generate reports.
• Prepared Executive Summary reports on weekly bases and Organized Daily scrum status meetings with Functional Team & Development Team
• Used Cucumber for automation.
• SpirentSTC & Smart Bits SMB6000B/C & SMB2000) Network Performance Analysis. Adtech (AX-4000) Broadband Test System with OC-192 & OC-48 & GUI applications. Abacus 5000 VOIP test systems with ICG3, PCG3, TCG3, ECG3 cards & GUI applications
• Developed GPS/INS system simulation capability withSpirentand Nav lab GPS simulators.
• Magnetometer integration into the GPS/INS systems
• Consultation to other company implemented GPS/INS integration algorithms.
• Used Pythonunit and functional testing modules such as unit test, unittest2, mock, and custom frameworks inline with Agile Software Development methodologies.
• Converted Visual basic Application toPython, MSQL.
• UsedPythonscripts to update content in the database and manipulate files.
• UsedPythonscripts to update content in the database and manipulate files.
• GeneratedPythonDjango Forms to record data of online users
• Writing Gherkin files with all the scenarios of the requirements
• Configured Cucumber from scratch installing gems, and project required support supporting files.
• Followed ATDD and BDD process for project Automation.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, UNIX, Windows2000/XP, XML Spy, XML, PHP, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL, SVN, Quality Center/ALM,, Cucumber and Selenium, Java, SOAP UI, GIT, Genkins CI

Confidential, Arlington, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Use Cases based on the business requirement document
• Responsible for all deliverables such as Test Plan, Test Case Document, Test Script, Test Data, Testing Strategy, Test Results, Test Summary Report, Test Traceability Matrix, Defect Report
• Performed Functional, System Integration, Regression testing for all functional work flows(Supervisor work flow, Lead Craft work flow, Cruse Work flow)
• Involved in Planning, coordinating, developingTestPlans,TestProcedures, andTest cases based on the Requirements andDeignedDocuments
• Designed manual test casesbased on functional requirements and technical documents, and executedtest casesduringSystem, Regression and User Acceptance testing
• Performed all levels of testing on Work order creation, Purchase Order creation and Asset Management
• Executed the developed test cases and test scenarios in HPQC
• Involved in daily Scrum meetings for different Sprints and focus on the requirements keeping in view of the specifications given by the end user
• Execute Test Scripts based on the requirement document by using QTP 10
• Performed Web Service testing using SOAP tool to make sure all methods are functioning according to the functionality
• Experience with COB (coordination of benefits) application with infacets, testing of claims status for selected subscribers.
• Test data entry intoFACETSapplication in the test environment for creating groups, subscribers and family members.
• Front-end validations of user requests carried out using Java Script
• D evelop full stack applications for internal development using Node.JS
• UsedNode.JSas a proxy to interact with Rest services and also interacting with Database.
• Used Java with Selenium WebDriver to implement automation tests
• Status Reporting by scheduling the calls on daily basis
• Worked closely with functional team to understand the each form of functionality in MAXIMO application and the External Interfaces(Pyxis(AP, GL),epic, Primavera)
• Performed Functional testing & Integration Testing (MAXIMO to External Interfaces (ePic, Pyxis, Primavera) and Log the defects in Quality center

Environment: Load Runner 8.1, Maximo 6.2, MEA 6.2, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Toad, Mercury Quality Center, Agile Process, TIBCO, Selenium, Java, Facets, TFS, .Net, C#

Confidential

Jr QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire Testing Life Cycle such as Requirements gathering, Analysis, Test Scripting, Test Execution, Test Results and Report
• Associated Requirements to Test Cases in QC
• Responsible for all deliverables such as Test Plan, Test Case Document, Test Script, Test Data, Testing Strategy, Test Results, Test Summary Report, Test Traceability Matrix, Defect Report
• Performed all levels of testing such as Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Backend Testing
• Written SQL Queries to test backend data using TOAD
• Report defects using Quality Center
• Preparation of Bug summary reports and Preparation of Test Summary reports
• Attended meetings to find out the requirements and identify the issues
• Developed SQL queries and stored procedures to perform database testing.
• Provided management with daily status reports.

Environment: Toad, Mercury Quality Center, Agile Process