SUMMARY

• 5+ years of IT professional work experience in analyzing, implementing and defining best practices in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle.
• Specialized in Manual and Automated Testing for Client/Server and Web - based applications for Insurance, Retail, Healthcare, and Banking Industries.
• Extensive work experience in Manual, Automation and Load/Performance Testing covering a wide range of technologies and platforms.
• Expertise in developing test plans, executing test cases, and publishing test results.
• Proven skills in Selenium, QTP, Load runner, JIRA and Quality Center.
• Experience in working with open source toolsof Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, and Selenium Grid) and preparation of automation test framework.
• Proficiency in Defect management using Quality Center.
• Performed defect creation, modification, tracking and reporting using JIRA.
• Expertise in Black box testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Acceptance testing, Integration testing, Database testing, Stress testing, Load testing, and Regression testing.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Scheduling, Traceability Matrix, Test Summary and Defect Summary reports.
• Exposed to different software methodologies including Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Extensive experience working with onsite-offshore teams.
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting Skills
• Strong leadership skills, experience and ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Testing Tools: QTP, Load Runner, Selenium

Internet/Intranet Tools: HTML, DHTML, XML, VB Script, JavaScript, SQL

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows XP/ Windows Vista Windows7/ Windows 8

Bug Tracking/Managing Tools: JIRA, Quality Center

MS Office: Microsoft Office Suite, Excel Certification

Programming Language: JAVA, C#

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grand Rapids MI

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts for testing the application.
• Followed the SDLC approach and implemented Agile methodology.
• Responsible for writing manual test cases for regression testing.
• Automation of functional testing framework for all modules using Selenium Web driver.
• Responsible for setting up of Selenium Web driver using Eclipse IDE, created JAR files for automating the system test cases of LIMS application in Eclipse IDE.
• Configured windows server to run multiple VMware instances for selenium grid based testing against Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
• Performed validation of Front end applications and Back end testing of table, Views, Index validations
• Authored automation scripts using JAVA for Selenium.
• Performed black box testing on certain web based applications.
• Provided status to project management during regular meetings.
• Performed system integration tests, functional and regression tests for S/W products (Web and Client/Server Application), documented results in test reports and synchronized these test activities with the full qualification process.
• Performed regression testing for fixes using QTP and identified and managed the defects.
• Tested the functionality of applications by using QTP and also automated the application for Regression testing.
• Documented and communicated testing efforts and technical aspects of projects for internal customers and users.
• Utilized JIRA for reporting software defects and for monitoring their resolution status.
• Performed execution of SQL queries, Stored Procedures and functions to validate the data in the back end.

Environment: Windows 7, Java, VB 6.0, SQL Server 2012, Selenium Web driver, Grid, Quick Test Pro, JIRA, Agile

Confidential, Chicago IL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Regularly participated in Technical and Use Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application.
• Involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and its technical specifications.
• Analyzed the Test plan which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.
• Followed Agile Methodology
• Recorded and played back tests in Firefox using Selenium and added annotations.
• Run tests using Selenium Remote Control in different browsers.
• Performed Build Verification testing by recording and executing test scripts using Selenium.
• Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium RC on different modules.
• Adding transactions and recording end to end response times of specific steps in the business process of Load Runner.
• Created and maintained reporting dashboards in Performance Center.
• Developed and implemented test scripts for Load and Performance testing.
• Created Virtual users scripts and test scenarios, executed and monitored that scenario and analyzed the test results using Load Runner.
• Analyze Load/Performance/capacity needs from user requirements and developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Identified existing Performance Bottlenecks.
• Developed Performance Capacity Model.
• Performed Parameterization, Correlation, and adding and recording of the transactions in Load Runner.
• Developed and delivered performance testing summary reports.
• Scheduled and assigned computing resources to support load testing.
• Involved in configuring Virtual User Generator’s Run-Time settings based on load testing goals.
• Performed detailed testing and write/execute test plans for regression and functional testing.
• Defects were identified, managed, and reported to the development team using Quality Center.
• Loaded data into an Oracle database and did database testing through SQL queries.
• Involved in weekly meetings with the development team to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Windows 7, C#, SQL Server 2008, Oracle Database, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, HP Load runner, HP Performance Center 11.5, Quality Center, Agile

Confidential, Long Island, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified quality needs of functional feature, performance and service requirements/components.
• Analyzed the Business, Functional Requirements and Streamlined the Testing Activities.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Detailed Test Cases based on the Use Case Documents, Business Requirements, and Functional Specifications.
• Responsible for providing leadership in the design/development of product testing/quality processes and in developing testing architecture equal to that of commercial quality software.
• Established quality architecture as business and technical conditions change to assure quality and collected testing/product quality data.
• Performed tests for Functionality, Security, GUI, System, Configuration and Backend.
• Used the QTP object spy to study about new objects and associated them to repositories to further usage.
• Used data table to run data driven test cases.
• Performed backend testing for the applications search engine using SQL queries.
• Customized the scripts according to the requirements by inserting conditional statements and loops.
• Performed unit testing on the web application and tested the web services using QTP.
• Analyzed the results, tracked the defects and generated reports using Quality Center.
• Performed Regression test to ensure product integrity after modification and enhancements.
• Validated site to work on various browsers by doing Multi Browser Compatibility Testing.
• Worked with technical staff to validate test requirements, resolve design issues and software defects.
• Used to run tests in QTP through QC and logged the defects in QC.
• Executed queries in test databases using SQL queries.
• Involved in creating UAT Test Plan and subset of Functional test cases for UAT test.
• Generated code in VB script functions and made them reusable and generalized for better code usage.

Environment: HTML, XML, QTP, QC, SQL Server, VB Scripting, HP Quality Center

Confidential, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and refined stakeholder requirements, defined the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery, during the entire SDLC
• Regularly participated in Technical and Use Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application.
• Involved in Functional, Regression testing of different software applications and products.
• Designed daily, weekly, and monthly trending reports containing transaction information.
• Developed risk management strategies based on assessment of program improvements.
• Correlating the dynamic values thrown by the server.
• Conducted Database testing using SQL queries.
• Created different types of scenarios to run with the available virtual users.
• Created analysis sessions and collated execution results.
• Responsible for preparing Weekly/Monthly Status Reports for upper management
• Conducted frequent IT-related meetings with vendors, business operations, and engineering teams to ensure thorough understanding of project requirements.

Environment: HTML, SQL Server 2008, Win runner, Windows XP, load runner