SUMMARY:

• QA Automation Engineer II with complete system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes resulting in fault - free product delivery.
• Qualifications include 10 years of QA software testing experience and 4 years of Selenium web driver Automation testing experience.
• Qualifications 2 years of API Automation testing experience.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum methodologies. Participating in Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Review meeting and Sprint Retrospectives with all stakeholders - Scrum master, Product owner, Developers and Quality Engineers.
• Experience working in Waterfall methodology - Requirement gathering and analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing.
• Hands on experience in estimating user stories through product backlog grooming and planning poker sessions based on complexity of the user story.
• Extensive experience in creation of Test Cases/Test Scenarios/Step by Step Procedure for testing each Test Scenario using tools like HP Quality Center and Test Link and QTest.
• Performed Functional/Regression/Browser Compatibility testing in web application as per the test Cases, Reporting of the Results, Identifying and reporting the Defects using tools like HP Quality Center and JIRA, Retesting the fixes.
• Hands on Experience in backend database testing using SQL databases like mysql and NoSQL databases like Couchbase.
• Hands on Experience in automation testing using selenium web driver
• Hands on Experience in testing RESTful API web services using Ready API 5.2.2
• Experience in automating RESTful web services.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Strong team player with an ability to quickly adapt to change.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Mac OS X

Testing: Manual/Automation/Integration

Defect Tracking Tool: Clear quest, Quality Center 10,Jira

Languages: Oracle 9i,Mysql, Java, SQL, HTML

Others: Caliber, ALM 11,Test Link, QTest, Jenkins, and DevOps

Tools: QTP 11, Selenium Web Driver, Ready API (SoapUI NG Pro), Postman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Sprint planning/Stand ups and Sprint Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Participated in Agile scrum meetings every day, working with a cross functional team to meet deadlines.
• Involved in creating API test scripts using Ready API to test RESTful API web services.
• Created API automation scripts using SmartBear Ready API to test the services.
• Involved in creating assertions using Groovy scripting to validate the status codes and content returned in the JSON response of the web services.
• Involved in creating an on-demand job in Jenkins for the API automation regression suite to be run when a new build is triggered.
• Maintained repositories in Stash for the API automation suites and used GIT Bash to version control the API automation suite in Stash by creating pull requests.
• Involved in functional testing of the web application once the web services were integrated with the user interface.
• Involved in Regression testing of the application as a part of Pre and post release activities.
• Cross browser testing of the application using a cross browser testing tool simulator to verify its compatibility on various web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Participated in sprint retrospectives as a part of the continuous feedback cycle to get feedback from the previous sprint and create action items to be implemented in the coming sprint.
• Involved in the Design meetings to understand technical details
• Creating test cases based on stories and mapping of test cases to stories in JIRA
• Execution of Test cases and creating defects efficiently in JIRA
• Adding automation scripts for Regression test suites using Selenium Webdriver
• Adding/Updating automation scripts for Regression tests suites using SoapUI NG Pro
• Initiated a Tester Hack Day meeting to Review test scripts and discuss possible room for improvements.
• Mentoring team members on Automation
• Involved in Testing cutting edge technologies like Single Page Application on Smart TV’s
• Involved in Testing GetWellNetwork Mobile application
• Involved in testing web services for all the integration projects across the cross continuum teams.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating post sales Web based applications and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Involved in analysis of Business Requirement Documents, created the test plan and prepared detailed test cases for new Functionality
• Involved in developing Manual test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality in ALM
• Involved in creation and execution of manual test cases using ALM and reviewed test cases developed by other testers
• Involved in performing GUI, Functional, System and Regression Testing
• Involved in performing Root Cause Analysis for all the assigned issues for existing functionality such as (Corrupted Data, Code Error)
• Involved in executing the test cases, recorded the results and documented defects, questionable functions, as well as inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content
• Involved in Test Automation, Scripts Preparation and execution within the framework
• Onsite Coordination for requirement clarification
• Mapping of test cases to Requirements
• Involved in Preparing the Test Data
• Attending meetings twice a week to discuss defects and other issues
• Execution of Test cases and defect reporting to client
• Preparing daily status report and update to the client
• Leading the meeting in the absence of test lead/manager
• In the regression phase, the project was automated using Selenium Web Driver. I was part of developing a dynamic data driven framework to automate the test cases.
• Used ANT to build and run the Selenium Web Driver automation framework. Once the script got over, framework used to send the automation reports over email
• Executed test cases using both manual processes and automated test tools

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning the test activities and testing team effort estimations
• Test case Design and uploading the test cases in ALM
• Onsite Coordination for requirement clarification
• Mapping of test cases to Requirements
• Involved in Preparing the Test Data
• Attending meetings twice a week to discuss defects and other issues
• Execution of Test cases and defect reporting to client
• Preparing daily status report and update to the client
• Leading the meeting in the absence of test lead/manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the Functional Aspects of the Applications
• Involved in understanding the Business requirements of the Application
• Involved in Functional, Integration and Regression testing
• Analyzing the requirements and the critical areas of application and make sure all requirements are covered by test cases
• Involved in preparing Test cases and responsible for executing the test cases
• Involved in Analyzing and Preparing the Test Data

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the Functional Aspects of the Applications
• Involved in understanding the Business requirements of the Application
• Involved in Testing of the Customizations
• Involved in preparing Test cases and responsible for executing the test cases
• Review the Test case Documents
• Analyzing the requirements and the critical areas of application and make sure all requirements are covered by test cases
• Involved in Analyzing and Preparing the Test Data

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project design based on Use case document
• Involved in the development of POC (Proof of Concept)
• Involved in the development of application in Java/J2EE
• Involved in writing the SQL Queries
• Involved in unit testing using JUnit
• Involved in UAT and Bug fixing