SUMMARY:

• Quality Assurance Specialist with more than 8+ years of enterprise software product quality assurance experience including test planning implementation and execution. Excellent at quickly identifying high level test strategies and problems. Collaborative but decisive personal style; effective communicator and problem solver.
• Expertise in Understanding and Analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and maintenances of Test Requirements
• Created business cases, Use Cases, and User Stories as a Requirement Analyst
• Experience in Insurance, Banking, Health Care and Market Research domains
• Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reporting and Test Summary Report
• Preparing the Test strategies, Test scripts, Test cases using Jira/QC
• Specialized in Agile/Waterfall Methodologies
• Well acquainted with all phases of SDLC and STLC
• Proficient in Test Automation using Selenium(Java) and HP QTP Tools
• Experience in Mobile application automation test tool Appium and BDD Cucumber/Gherkins with Java
• Involved in building regression suite on Jenkins
• Execute and maintaining the Automation Framework that can be used across multiple applications.Experience
• Well versed with handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver
• Writing test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features
• Using XPATH and CSS expressions in Selenium Web Driver to locate the elements on web pages in Data Driven testing, Cross Browser testing, and Parallel test execution using Selenium WebDriver
• Experience in implementation of Automation framework using Selenium - Hybrid, Keyword, Database
• Experience in Device based applications (M POS)
• Involvement in Test Estimations and Test Strategy implementation
• Executing test cases and Reporting Defects
• Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reporting and Test Summary Report
• Analyzing the regression failures from Jenkins run
• Experience in testing the Functionality, Compatibility, Regression and Server log files testing
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Automation Tools like Bugzilla 3.2, JIRA, HP QC 10.0, ALM, RQM(IBM) and RedMine
• Experiences in configuration tools like VSS, GIT,TFS, Sharepoint 2010, Tortoise SVN
• Exposure to Backend Testing using SQL.
• Coordinate with team members (Offshore and Onshore) for work activities.
• Involved in participation of regular weekly project status meetings to discuss the risks involved in ongoing projects within Agile teams also Business when needed

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, VB Script, Shell Scripts, PERL Scripts, XML, HTML

Operating System: Windows XP/2003/7/9, Mac 10.5/10.6, LINUX 2.4.9

RDBMS: SQL Server, ORACLE, TOAD 7.6

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium (IDE, WebDriver and RC), HP QTP, SOAP UI, APPIUM, Cucumber

Configuration Tools: SharePoint 2010, Tortoise SVN 1.6.16, TFS, MS Office, Outlook Express, VSS, Git

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, ALM

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, RedMine (Internal), ALM, RQM

Web Technologies: HTML, XML and Webservices

Web, Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS, Jboss, Weblogic

ETL: Informatica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided high quality, cost-effective automated test functionality for use by IT areas to validate the quality of new and existing software applications by modifying and supporting existing or custom-built testing frameworks.
• Worked as a Requirement Analyst and prepared the requirement documents for few releases in Requirement Management(RRC)
• Created business cases, Use Cases, and User Stories as a RA for few releases
• Worked with the Stakeholders and other impacted teams of the project during both requirements and testing stages of the project
• Gathered requirements documents such as business requirements and design document and other related documents.
• Involved in the project kick off and requirement gathering meetings
• PreparedTest Strategy, Test Plan and initiated Test Planning activates for test cases design and encouraged the teams to hold review meetings and ensure that the reviews, comments are incorporated
• Preparing the Test strategies, Test scripts, Test cases using ALM
• Identified the testing efforts required by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the required effort
• Reviewed theTest Basis, Test Casesand check-in test deliverables in the SharePoint
• Responsible for writing and maintainingSelenium WebDriverscripts for regression andfunctional testing
• Developed test code in Java language usingEclipse IDE
• Developed test Scripts using Appium with Cucumber/Gherkins with Java
• UsingXPathand CSS expressions of the web elements andEclipse IDEfor Java development.
• Setup the Automation framework usingSeleniumto run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms
• Responsible for identifying/reviewing cases formanualandAutomationwithSelenium WebDriverfor Smoke Test, Functional and Regression Tests
• Involved in building regression suite on Jenkins
• Analyzing the regression failures from Jenkins run
• Participating in all agile ceremonies like Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings and also daily scrum meetings for project status update
• Developing Custom reports for test coverage, took ownership of defects usingQuality Centertest management tool in theQAPhase
• Communication with development team and business teams on System Testing, Test Reporting and Issue resolution
• Presented timely status to the stake holders and management
• Interface with business owners to obtain approvals requiring fantastic soft skills
• Prepared the reports any risk mitigation plans if in case any delays are foreseen
• Evaluated and implemented QA process improvements for ongoing testing.
• Handled the testing efforts during business sign off and release &implementation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided high quality, cost-effective automated test functionality for use by IT areas to validate the quality of new and existing software applications by modifying and supporting existing or custom-built testing frameworks.
• Executing and maintain the Automation Framework that can be used across multiple applications.
• Participated in scrum meeting to prioritize, identify and review user stories for sprint
• Worked collaboratively with scrum master, product owner, development and functional testing teams in testing complex projects, to enhance the overall quality of the product.
• Thorough understanding of systems and data processing polices, practices and procedures
• Through understanding in systems analysis and design techniques and extensive knowledge of the systems development life cycle.
• Involved in coordinating and conducting integration testing of various projects
• Preparing the Test strategies, Test scripts, Test cases
• Involved in writing and executing system test scenarios and test cases. The test cases were developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Developed and executedSQL queriesto verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the supporting tables
• Created Test sets in ALM Test Lab Component and executed all the Test sets
• Create and manage defects in ALM and track the defects to closure
• Participated in Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Test different Web Services using SOUP UI and REST Console
• Participate in the daily triage calls during execution Phase

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided high quality, cost-effective automated test functionality for use by IT areas to validate the quality of new and existing software applications by modifying and supporting existing packaged or custom-built testing frameworks.
• Executing and maintain the Automation Framework that can be used across multiple applications.
• Participated in scrum meeting to prioritize, identify and review user stories for sprint
• Worked collaboratively with business analysts, development and functional testing teams in testing complex projects, to enhance the overall quality of the product.
• Thorough understanding of systems and data processing polices, practices and procedures
• Through understanding in systems analysis and design techniques and extensive knowledge of the systems development life cycle.
• Created Gherkins based on the requirements provided
• Involved in coordinating and conducting integration testing of various projects
• Maintain the latest Automation framework using version control tool
• Involved in writing and executing system test scenarios and test cases. The test cases were developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Created Test sets in ALM Test Lab Component and executed all the Test sets
• Create and manage defects in ALM and track the defects to closure
• Develop macro functions in Excel that help track the testing status
• Participated in Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Test different Web Services using SOUP UI and REST Console
• Participate in the daily triage calls during execution phase

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test strategy and guiding the team
• Involvement in System Test Plan Preparation and Requirements Streamlining
• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios, cases and Test Data for Gnet
• Responsible for GUI and Functional testing, using Black box Testing Techniques
• Involvement in various black box testing Methodologies like Functionality Testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability Testing, and Regression Testing
• Involvement in Test Execution, Result Analyzing and Defect Reporting
• Involvement in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium and Sikuli
• Created Test Cases using Element locators and Selenium WebDrivers methods
• Enhanced Test cases Using Java Programming features
• Execution of Selenium Test cases and Reporting defects
• Executing test cases and analyzing test results and reporting
• Conducting DataDriven Testing, Cross Browser Testing
• Enhancing the Test Scripts for Global Execution
• Involved in Regression Testing Using Selenium
• Preparing Weekly and Monthly Status Reports
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using TFS
• Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software
• Verifying test checklist for various tests and maintain the test documents
• Analyzing test results and preparing summary reports

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios for Source Medical central
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements for AR work flow and Insurance verification modules and Reports.
• Involved in Peer Review of Test Cases for AR work flow and Insurance verification modules.
• Involved in Module Test plan Preparation
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrices for New Business module
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements
• Involvement in Test Design includes Test Data preparation and Reviews
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black box Testing Techniques
• Involved in Automation Environment Setup using Eclipse, Java Selenium WebDriver jars
• Designed Test cases using Selenium Web Driver
• Execution Test cases and Reporting Defects using TFS
• Enhancing the Selenium Test cases for Cross Browser testing
• Guiding the team members and handling the Risks
• Involved in Regression Testing using Selenium
• Analyzed test results and prepared summary reports
• Provided guidance and support to the documentation team to provide quality documents
• Preparing daily and weekly status reports

Environment: SharePoint 2010

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios for Source Medical central
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements for AR work flow and Insurance verification modules and Reports.
• Involved in Peer Review of Test Cases for AR work flow and Insurance verification modules.
• Involved in Module Test Plan Preparation
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrices for New Business module
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements
• Involvement in Test Design includes Test Data preparation and Reviews
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black box Testing Techniques
• Execution Test cases and Reporting Defects using TFS
• Involved in Automation Environment Setup using QTP
• Involved in Regression Testing using QTP
• Involved Conducting Data Driven Testing, Cross Browser Testing
• Involved in GUI, Functional and System Testing
• Involved in Compatibility Testing
• Involved in Peer Review of test cases
• Performed Database testing using SQL in order to check the Data validation and Data integrity
• Analyzing test results and reporting.
• Preparing daily and weekly status report
• Participated in project sign off
• Involvement in Automation Environment setup using HP QTP
• Provided guidance and support to the documentation team to provide quality documents

Environment: Visual Studio 2012, .NET Entity framework 4.0, SQL Server Reporting Service 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement Specification
• Communicates with Functional Analyst on any issue clarification in Requirement clarification note
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios for Tree map, AR and Staffing modules.
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements for Financial, Staffing modules.
• Involved in Peer Review of Test Cases for Tree map, AR modules.
• Performed various black box testing Methodologies like Functionality Testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability Testing, Regression Testing.
• Preparing Defect Reports as per Severity and Priority Active participation in Bug triage meetings
• Executing test cases and test scripts; analyzing test results and reporting.
• Verification and analysis of the Graphs, reusable components in Dashboard as per the design documents/communication.
• Modified the test cases according to the change request.
• Analysis the Source to Target mapping document and performed ETL testing using SSIS
• Executed SQL queries to handle and check the data in Xcelsius Dashboards and SSRS Reports generated.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Bugzilla
• Participation in Test closure Activities
• Participated in implementation of Quality center as Defect tracker
• Understanding the Business Requirement Specification
• Designing the Test Cases, Execution of Test cases and Reporting the defects
• Conducted Functional testing with valid and invalid inputs for positive and negative testing
• Communicates with Functional Analyst on any issue clarification
• Preparing Defect Report as per Severity and Priority Active participation in Bug triage meetings
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Bugzilla
• Participation in Test closure Activities
• Participation in Client Business Operation Study
• Involved in Requirements Streamlining along with Project Management

Environment: SAP BO Xcelsius, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software
• Identified Test Scenarios for POS(Point Of Sale)Machine And Enrollment Station.
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements.
• Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability Testing and Regression testing, Sever log testing on Windows mobile applications.
• Detecting the bugs and classifying them based on the severity and reporting
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Redmine/JIRA
• Analyzed test results and prepared a summary report.
• Provided guidance and support to the documentation team to provide quality documents.
• Reporting the coverage status of test performed on daily/weekly basis
• Attended Project meetings
• Participated in implementation of as JIRA Defect tracker
• Participated in implementation of VSS as Configuration tool

Environment: C Programming, Java, Windows XP and Toad