SUMMARY

• Over 5.8 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Functional and Nonfunctional testing of systems in Client/Server, Web environments and Backend Applications.
• Good noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Testing Methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile Methodology etc.
• Experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Browser compatibility testing, Ad - hoc Testing, Black box testing, Backend testing, Sanity Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in bug-reporting tools like Bug Zilla, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center 10 and 11.0 and JIRA.
• Experience of Web Service testing in Rational Software Architect.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with developers in fixing the errors.
• Experience in back-end testing using SQL queries and query analyzing tools like Toad, SQL Developer.
• Experience in Designing and executing the automation scripts using Selenium.
• Experience of testing within Agile Projects using SCRUM methodology.
• Expertise in analyzing User Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player and having analytical, technical and debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in Retail, Media and Entertainment and Telecom domains.
• Hands on Experience in Web Application Testing like Siebel and CRM and experience in IVR testing.
• Involved in Test data preparation for Cross Functional teams and Root cause analysis for Customer reported defects.
• Involved in status reporting, project meetings and project planning with team, modification of reports and preparation of schedules for meeting and the deadlines.
• Well versed in testing scripting languages such as C and basic Java
• Work Authorization: L2 Visa with EAD. Eligible to work in US

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: and Languages: Java, C, SQL Selenium web driver, Selenium IDE, Toad Quality Center, JIRA, Rational clear quest, Bugzilla Putty, Citrix, VMWare

Web browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Database: Oracle, DB2

Platforms: MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows® (7, Server), Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Sprint planning meetings, retrospective meetings, daily stand up their by helping the team spot issues early in the design process.
• Worked on Combinatorial test design and collaborative defect management tools which were new initiations from IBM research lab.
• Prepared test deliverables like Test plan, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test report.
• Preparing System test Cases (Functional, Negative, Boundary, GUI, Interface, Regression, Database test cases) in Quality center and prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts in Quality center.
• Executed test cases, logged defects, tracked defects up to closure in Quality center and responsible for review the test cases written by other team members.
• Having hands on experience on various testing types like Sanity testing, Smoke testing, System testing, cross browser testing, Regression testing, Database testing, System Integration testing and User acceptance testing.
• Received awards like Quality champion and Service excellence from clients.
• Hands on experience with JIRA, Quality center.
• Developed the automation test scripts and executed the test scripts using selenium.
• Prepared test data as well as coordinating test data preparation with other teams for
• Responsible to send status report to all stake holders and on-site & off-shore management teams and preparation of test summary report.
• Member of Event Organizing Team in the project.

Confidential

Test specialist

Responsibilities:

• I was leading the offshore test team and was responsible for providing the Knowledge transfer about the application and the test cases to the newly joined test engineer to the test team.
• Implemented test cases in quality center with different techniques like Equivalence partitioning, boundary level analysis and responsible for preparing the test data for different test cases.
• Preparation of Web service test cases and executing the test cases in Rational Software Architect.
• Handled multiple projects, roles and responsibilities as Manual Test Engineer.
• Responsible for maintain the Traceability matrix in the project.
• Extensively worked on Test plan, Test case preparation, Test scenarios, Execution of test cases, Bug reporting and tracking as the only Test Engineer for the Agile Team.
• Worked on Sanity testing, Comprehensive testing, Functionality testing, Cross browser testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing.
• Development of test automation suite for functional testing.
• Browser Seal for multiple browser Testing
• Maintenance of Selenium test scripts
• Prepared test data for System testing and Regression testing as per the requirements.
• Hands on experience with Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest.
• Recognized as “Outstanding Contributor” in 2011.
• Participated in daily stand up calls, defect debugging calls, status calls with onsite and off shore managers.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the static testing like reviewing the requirements and comparing them with use case documents.
• Worked with Business Analysts and make sure dat the defects are fixed.
• Creation of test plan, test cases based on the testing requirements.
• Responsible for creating the Business components in the HP Quality Center by understanding the core areas, dis includes writing the manual test cases.
• Involved in the preparation of test cases and executing them on the application to verify if application is working as per the functionality.
• Involved in Defect Reporting and Defect tracking process through Quality Center.
• Received “Employee of the month” title in Oct 2010.
• Attended weekly scheduled meetings with Manager and take up work as per directions.