SUMMARY

• US Citizen, 7 + (Seven) Years of experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing.
• Worked on various platforms and environments in Financial, Insurance, E - Commerce.
• Extensive experience in client -Server, Web based Application Manual and Automated software testing techniques.
• Proficient in Java and has sound noledge on OOP (Object Oriented Programming).
• Coordinated and organized testing efforts between offshore and onsite team (QA, Dev, PM, BA, SME).
• Strong expertise in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive work experience on Functional (Positive + Negative), GUI, Regression, Integration, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box and Back End testing.
• Experienced in developing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts, using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Expertise in Test Strategy, Test Plan, Requirement analysis, Unit, Integration, System, Regression and UAT planning and execution, Estimations, Testing in SOA, Defect Management, Defect Life Cycle, Test Metrics.
• Solid understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile (Scrum).
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation testing tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center (ALM), JIRA, Selenium, Soap UI.
• Extensive use of bug tracking using HP QC for reporting teh Modification Requests and collecting Test Metrics In order to Keep track of teh test progress and test execution.
• Expert using open source bug tracking tool JIRA.
• Sound noledge in writing automation scripts using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Cucumber framework.
• Great Test Scenario writing experience using Gherkin from User Story / Acceptance Criteria.
• Good Experience of testing Web services with SOAP UI tool.
• Quality Assurance Automation Testing expert inSelenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver,SeleniumRC.
• Expertise in setting up and carrying out browser Compatibility testing environment with different browsers and versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, on different Operating Systems.
• Experienced using web debugging tool like Fire Path and Firebug for finding elements locator.
• Experienced in designing customized Hybrid framework (Keyword Driven & Data Driven) using Selenium WebDriver, TesNG & Apache POI.
• Create project as Apache Maven which is helpful to keep repository.
• Excellent experience with source version control tools such as GIT.
• Worked extensively withSelenium WebDriver to automate Test Scenarios and generate reports using Jenkins. Jenkins Continuous Integration.
• Good work experience in using SQL Queries in verifies teh data from teh Oracle DB (backend validation).
• Experience in all types of SQL queries like select, insert, update, delete records.
• Strong analytical and problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills, self-starter, quick learner and able to adopt new technologies as needed in rapidly changing IT environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center/ALM, Soap UI, Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber .

Test Frameworks: Data Driven, Hybrid, TestNG, Page Object Model(POM), BDD Cucumber.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, QC, Bugzilla, Junit, TestNG.

CI Tool: GIT, Maven, Jenkins

Scripting Language: VBScript, Java, .Net

Database: Oracle, SQL Server

DB Tools: SQL * Plus, TOAD, SQL Developer

Web Technology: HTML, XML, CSS

Operating System: Windows, Linux, UNIX

Microsoft Tools: MS Office Suite - MS Excel, Power point, Outlook.

Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile(Scrum).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Explored teh application to acquire teh product noledge.
• Worked on complete life cycle ofQA (including Test Planning, Test Execution, and Defect Resolution etc).
• Developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Test strategy, Test Scenario, Test Reports.
• Performed project related different kinds of testing such as Smoke testing, Functional testing, Positive, Negative, Regression testing, Integration testing.
• Practicing full facing AGILE methodology with SCRUM Meeting, Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Retrospective Meeting etc.
• Functional test new products and regression test old products during each QA release cycle.
• Performed Manual Testing by using HP Quality Center (ALM) to develop test cases, test scripts, executing and logging defects.
• Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to teh different Stake holders of teh project using HP Quality Center.
• Prepared a regression and functional test scripts usingSelenium IDE.
• Exported Test case Scripts (Java-Selenium RC) in Eclipse IDE and modified theSelenium scripts and executed.
• Prepared automation test framework TestNG and Maven.
• Created automation scripts in Eclipse, Java,Selenium Web Driver, running them as TestNG scripts.
• Implemented Page Object Model (POM) design pattern. Created re-usable component, shared class as jar file and collaborated with team members.
• Implemented Dynamic Object/Element identification by XPath, CSS Selector etc.
• Performed Data driven testing usingSelenium WebDriver and TestNG functions which reads data from property and XML files.
• Used For loops, conditional statements to handle application Logic.
• Integrated automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tool (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of teh Script.
• Used Jenkins as a continuous Integration server to configure with Git and Maven as well as in testing.
• Used Git for version control. Familiar with creating branches, pull requests, merge, pull, push etc.
• Performed Web Services Testing for (SOAP and REST) web services by creating test case suite using SOAPUI
• Used SOAP UI to test Web Services using WSDL file given by development team.
• Involved in creating and executing SQL queries, using aggregate functions, Group By, having clause, where clause, Inner/Outer Joins etc.
• Worked closely with teh developers to resolve teh design and development errorand to get teh software released for system testing.

Confidential, Fredericksburg, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plans and Test Strategy from teh Business Requirement Document(BRD).
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test teh Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Created various Test Artifacts/Test Documentations like Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Execution Report and Weekly Status Report.
• Maintained and managed Test Assets in HP Quality Center using Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defect Modules for Defect Tracking.
• Determined conditions under which tests were executed based on Severity vs. Priority withinHP QC.
• Designed and developed automated scripts for Functional, Regression, Sanity, usingSelenium WebDriver.
• Analyzed requirements wrote test scripts using Java and automated tests usingSelenium WebDriver.
• Created User-defined functions to check teh different functionalities of teh application using Selenium WebDriver.
• ImplementedSelenium Grid and executed tests in parallel dat helped reduce teh execution times significantly.
• Optimized and maintained existing automation framework viaSelenium.
• Performed Data-Driven Tests to validate teh same scenario with different test data usingSelenium.
• Extensively involved in writing and testing teh test cases using TestNG.
• Compiled code to run batch jobs dat will kick off executions of teh scripts in Jenkins Server.
• Provided testing supports during weekend and nights for enhancement & Go-Live with Off-shore team.
• Performed backend testing by using SQL queries to verify teh integrity of teh database.
• Created, modified, extracted and deleted data using Data Definition, Data Manipulation and Data Control languages.
• Coordinated with teh developers for defect resolutions and with business to coordinate change requests.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement and discussed with Development team to understand and analyzed teh Product Requirements thoroughly.
• Involved in implementing and writing of Test Plans based on teh requirements.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for teh product across different releases and also by CrossBrowser-1.2">updating teh Requirement traceability matrix timely with teh changes.
• Created Scenarios and performed scenario based testing, designed, updated and reviewed Test Cases.
• Developed detailed Test scenario, Entrance and Exit criteria for teh application being tested and ensured dat standards for documentation were followed.
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of teh application and according to teh changing system requirements.
• Performed Smoke testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, System testing, Back - end, User Acceptance and Regression testing.
• Created Test scripts for teh Test Execution and Documented teh Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Proficient in overall Defect Management/Problem solving including tracking bugs and reporting using Quality Center and Jira.
• Created and enhanced automation test scripts using Quickest Professional (QTP).
• Conducted functional regression testing for each build and version using QTP.
• Developed external custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP.
• Created automation scripts using HPQTPfor different scenarios, used Smart Identification feature ofQTPto identify unique properties of objects, created user defined functions, reusable actions, and managed shared object repositories.
• UsedQTP checkpoints for checking web pages, images, texts, tables and various UI elements.
• Creating teh standard library for functions and sub-procedures.
• Developed both Data-driven and Keyword-driven Framework using QTP.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform teh Backend testing of teh Database.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports and Customize Summary Reports.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automated testing on internal and end-user application or Systems.
• Developed teh application in teh Waterfall methodology for software development
• Developed Automation Scripts dat runs around teh test cases in a single run without any exceptions for regression testing.
• Migrated manual test cases into Quick Test Professional (QTP) for Regression testing using Web functions using VB Script.
• Created Reusable Actions and Functions in descriptive Programming to add teh new feature with teh existing test suite.
• Maintained Error Handlings and adding Recovery Scenarios.
• Maintained QTP Test Resources files as (.vbs, .txt, .qfl, .tsr, .qrs) to increase reusability of teh test resources.
• Developed Functional Libraries for Cleanup, setting up test environments and application for Regression testing and Importing Production data for Validation using QTP.
• Identify Report, Track and Monitor Defects in defect tracking system using JIRA.
• Generated Project status reports through Quality Center and Document Generator for team meetings and Management review.
• Automate defect fix for high priority and high severity based on teh Team Lead's decision.
• Works with developer as a team to discuss about system specification and desired results and to fix reported defects for teh iteration.
• Attended teh Product planning meeting to get idea which User Stories and defects are going to be developed and fixed in teh current iteration and wat product owner is expecting from dat user stories.
• Documented teh test results and prepared Test Summary report based on those results.