SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in Software testing in teh areas of Web based, Client - Server applications using Manual and Automation testing techniques.
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug life Cycle.
• Good experience of working in Agile Scrum Environment, worked closely wif teh End Users, Business analysts, Project Managers and Developers to understand requirements for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Extensively experienced in Software QA performing Manual and Automated Software Testing, writing Test plans and Test cases using various Automation Tools.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, smoke testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, exploratory testing, browser compatibility testing, in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Well versed in analyzing business requirements, design documents and use cases.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, unit testing, sanity testing, integration testing, smoke testing, system testing, regression testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing.
• Proficiency in process of handling/logging defects in JIRA & HP ALM, generating required status reports for all phases of testing.
• Highly experienced in using java (OOP, data structures) for creating automation test scripts.
• Developed Test Scripts to implement BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber and maintained automated regression test cases wif Selenium Web Driver in Java, Maven and Junit.
• Used TestNG parameters, data providers, suites, parallel suites, groups in Automation wif Selenium, Maven, Java (as programming language), TestNG XML to create test results.
• Good experience in creating framework from scratch for Automation test.
• Expertise on Testing REST API using postman and soap UI.
• Experience in using Automation Testing tools like Selenium Web Driver, develop automation testing scripts for web & client server applications.
• Experienced in using Maven, used GIT to handle different versions of teh source code and GitHub as repository.
• Expertise in creating java reusable methods dat were utilized throughout projects.
• Good understanding of 508 testing and compliance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Cucumber, Postman, Maven, Git, Methodologies Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, SDLC, STLC

Programming Languages: Java, Gherkin, SQL, JavaScript

Build Tools: Maven

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, HP ALM, MS Azure

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL.

MS Office tools: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documentation, implementation, monitoring and enforcing all processes and procedures for testing While working in an Agile Scrum Environment.
• Participated in teh agile development environment wif sprint meetings and story grooming sessions.
• Collaborated wif teh Product Owner to clarify application requirements for teh initiative.
• Participated in teh Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Stand-up calls and Scrum calls.
• Involved in Test planning and Test execution and performed Functionality Testing and Regression Testing.
• Created Manual Test cases out of user stories using plugin Zephyr in Jira.
• Defect reporting, verifying their fixes and closing them using Atlassian tool Jira.
• Produced Traceability Metrics showing teh number of test cases analyzed, number of test cases fixed, number failed number left to analyze and Fix in weekly meetings.
• Created cucumber feature file to create test scenarios for functional testing of teh application.
• Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber Features and Step Definitions in Gherkin format.
• Created step-definition using java to execute teh cucumber features for automated testing.
• Developed Selenium scripts to find, verify, select, edit and perform various operations on web elements.
• Used postman for testing teh web services Rest API.
• Involved in 508 testing.
• Performed back-end testing for data validation using SQL.

Confidential, McLean, VA

QA Tester/Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interact wif cross functional teams to facilitate gathering of testing requirements.
• Assist wif teh weekly daily scrum meetings wif offshore and onshore teams.
• Implemented Agile methodology throughout teh QA process.
• Worked wif QA Lead to modify test plans and test procedure templates and guidelines to be used by teh QA team.
• Reviewed business requirements document and technical specification.
• Responsible for preparing test plan and test strategies describing teh features and functions to be tested and writing test cases manually for Smoke, Regression and Sanity Testing based on User stories.
• Documented bugs and worked wif teh development team to resolve issues and reported defects in JIRA.
• Carried out various types of testing at teh deployment of each build including regression, Sanity, & Smoke Testing
• Provided teh management wif test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary using MS Project and participated in teh design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Worked wif teh clients on teh final signing process in teh User Acceptance stages.
• Analyzed teh Business Requirements Document (BRD), developed Test cases and Test scripts for teh application under test.
• Actively participated and interacted wif product management teams in teh review and analysis of functional requirements.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Sanity, Integration Testing and UAT.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Cases and involved in teh Test Data creation.
• Worked in Manual Validation of Test Results of automated scripts in Agile methodology
• Collaborated wif business analysts to clarify application requirements for teh initiative.
• Coordinating wif teh Development team to judge teh impact on teh applications.
• Set up test data, executing, reporting and tracking defects for each possible functionality
• Create test requirement surveys and communicate test needs to Pipeline Management.
• Experience in creating Test plans, Defining Test cases. Developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing teh results of scripts.
• Executing Scripts and Tracking Defects using "Defect tracking" Tool HP ALM.
• Involved in analysis of business requirements. Performed Sanity testing and Ad-hoc testing when required.
• Found Defects, prepare Defect reports and Status reporting, Bug Triage, Defect tracking using Jira.
• Share Daily Status Report wif all teh team members, Team Leads, Managers and Clients.
• Executed some test cases using TestNG parameters, data providers, suites, parallel suites, groups.
• Involved in teh enhancement of Hybrid framework using Eclipse and Java.
• Performed testing on Web Services using postman to check teh communication between devices over networks.
• Created test cases and performed Database testing to check teh data is being migrated properly.
• Wrote SQL Queries to connect to teh database and retrieve data for a specified set of test requirements