SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of diverse experience in the Information Technology industry wif a focus on Software Quality Assurance (QA/Software Testing) activities
• Excellent understanding of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies. Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing the System Design Specifications (SDS), Business Requirements (BR), Design Documents, Change Requests (CRs) and Functional Specification documents
• Excellent in developing the Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Documentations for Various types of testing including Black - box, Functional, System testing, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Hands on Experience in Microsoft office tools like Word, Excel & MS Projects
• Solid experience of Defect/Test Management tools like JIRA, Quality Center/Test Director, Bugzilla, AOTs, Work Request and TDP (Technology Delivery Platform)
• Proven skills in leading and training teams, Test Management and Meeting the deadlines
• Strong communication and interaction wif Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, Management
• Possess a broad noledge of all testing events throughout the development lifecycle
• Assisted in the definition and implementation of quality standards, processes and quality improvement programs
• Demonstrated leadership & People Management skills on a regular basis
• Ability to work in a team environment. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact wif customers wif ease and professionalism
• Attention to detail and ability to work in tighter schedules and on different applications concurrently
• Strong Technical Expertise in PVT- Production Validation testing, Functional, Regression, System, Sanity, Integration, & User Acceptance Testing
• Expertise analytical and problem-solving skills wif proven records of organized and timely project completion
• Expertise in data analysis, data conversion, data migration and Testing
• Automation Testing and Manual Testing on Web-based applications. Experience in developing automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Jenkins. Excellent understanding and application of Agile practices, including TDD, BDD, continuous integration, pairing, iterative development, and retrospectives. Experience collaborating wif the business to understand requirements, value, prioritization, and acceptance criteria. Experience defining and automating acceptance tests
• Experience creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases and defect reports. Experience in Business Functionality Testing, Smoke testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, End-to-end Testing, UAT testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Documentation and Reporting
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SoapUI, XML, and WSDL. Providing required input data to request XML and get the required data from response XML and use the response data from another request XML using SOAPUI
• Good experience wif Restful Web Service Testing
• Knowledge in writing unique XPath using firebug and fire path to identify web elements
• Productively involved in Defects logging and managing Defect Life Cycle using HP Quality Center, JIRA
• Using Quality Center extensively for Establishing Traceability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and Reporting. Hands on experience using HP-ALM. Experienced writing Java, JavaScript, VB scripts and UNIX Shell Scripts
• Hands on experience wif configuration management tools like Tortoise SVN, GIT
• Well versed in Database Testing using SQL Queries wif multiple Databases, SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL. Experience writing complex SQL queries for retrieval of required data using TOAD or SQL Plus (Strong noledge of Oracle database required) and integrate into test automation suite or custom scripts/programs
• Accustomed wif Cross-Browser and Compatibility Testing to test whether the web applications are working as desired in different browsers and environments. Good Exposure and Ability to load and performance test many different server/protocol types: Web - HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP / REST, FTP, Database via JDBC, Mail - SMTP(S), POP3(S) and IMAP(S), Native commands or shell scripts, TCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr.QA Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• As software quality assurance Engineer, working wif business analysts to understand Business/System requirements in order to transform business requirements into functional test cases
• Responsible for reviewing Functional Specs, High Level Design (HLD) and use cases and developing manual test cases out of it
• Created test Plans, Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP-ALM) as per the business requirements and executed them
• Used HP Application Lifecycle Management and TDP (Technology Delivery Platform) for defect tracking
• Involved regular discussion wif developers regarding defects
• Developed simple SQL queries to extract data from the target tables
• Verifying Test Environment
• Communicated wif business and Management teams to discuss any issues related wif the testing, Test Env request or any other problems via communicator phones etc.
• Participated in Walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically
• Trained beginners and intermediate QAT Testers on testing methodologies
• Interacted wif developers to resolve the defects
• Performed Regression testing to verify that bug fixes did not break some other parts of the system
• Monitor defects so that they progress a timely manner and adhere to the defect tracking process
• Review system defects and ensure they are adequately re tested when fixed
• Host the daily triage call for defect tracking
• Performed Regression testing
• Wrote SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports
• Tested Connectiv1 platform & data syndication items
• Used Toad for Oracle to generate SQL queries
• Worked wif test data management team to provide data to offshore test teams
• Provided training to offshore test teams and led the entire team to acquire testing goals
• Communicated between offshore teams and onsite teams for issues raised while testing
• Participated in everyday standup meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing
• Identified weaknesses in QA Processes and implemented improvements

Environment: HP ALM, HTML, SOAPUI, QC, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Git, SQL Server 2012, Firefox.

SDET

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and design/document detailed, aggressive testing strategies that are in accordance wif the Quality Assurance department's commitment to industry leading software quality
• Work wif the business stakeholders, developers and your QA teammates to identify and clearly document all appropriate test cases, dependent test data structures and test environment requirements
• Record detailed and highly organized test results
• Log detailed and accurate defect reports and aggressively follow the defects through resolution and closure
• Mentor junior team members and educate test team on all aspects of Assurance applications
• Assist in the identification and design of automated processes aimed at increased efficiency and reliability
• Develop, maintain and always be driving for improvements in our automation framework to ensure thatreleases are of consistently high quality
• Define, develop, and execute automation test scripts using Java that leverage black and white box testing across functional
• Designed and developed Hybrid automation framework and maintained the code in subversion (SVN) and used continuous integration tools to schedule the jobs
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium
• Implemented Test driven development (TDD and BDD) framework using cucumber tool wif Gherkins Language
• Automated Database validations using open source API like Apache poi and used jxl and poi library for fetching the data from Excel
• Tested REST and SOAP Services by using SOAP UI tools and Rest Clients and validated the responses against the database
• Compared data between Source (Oracle) to Target (SQL Server) or between any other source to target like Excel files, Comma-separated files using ETL Tool SSIS
• Designed and tested various Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) SSIS modules in order to fetch the data in the data staging environment based on the different types of incoming data wif different data types
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries to retrieve and verify information in the database
• Developed SQL queries to simulate data validation reports and to stage test data for ongoing testing
• Used SQL to test Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing for the arrangement of customer data
• Develop quarterly objectives for team, aligning wif roadmap and overall departmental vision
• Work wif engineering and DevOps teams to move toward continuous deployment
• Develop and monitor test metrics and provide timely communication to key stakeholders on a regular basis
• Involved in developing test automation scripts using UFT, Used UFT scripts for testing and Data Validation and Developed Modularity Driven Framework in UFT

Environment: Java, TestNG, Java Script, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver/IDE, JMeter, SQL, UNIX, ANT, SVN, Jenkins, Rally, SOAPUI, MySQL, UFT, Oracle 11g, Appium

SDET/QA

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing of Administration, Beginner and Certification modules
• Facilitated the Customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs
• Participated in the test environment setup and in ensuring that the facilities, tests and scripts are in place to successful performance of the required testing effort
• Conducted Regression testing for the changes made to the Web-based application
• Conducted manual testing to check the Functionality, Security and Regression during various phases of the development of the application
• Involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and wrote Test cases
• Prepared Test Scenarios and review of Test Cases
• Involved in updating and executing test cases according to requirements using Selenium wif java
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in HP Quality Center
• Performed GUI, Functional, Negative, Positive, Regression and User Acceptance Testing. Prepared various reports based on different stages of Testing
• Updated Reports and dashboards to display the status of test coverage including the number of test cases passing, failing or pending
• Worked wif the Business Users to conduct UAT Testing
• Used Test Director as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing
• Inserted Requirements in Test Director, Mapped Requirements wif Test Cases
• Extensively used SQL queries for validating data from front-end to back-end testing through SQL

Environment: Selenium, Java, HP Quality Center, C++, .Net, Windows NT and SQL Server.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Represented QA function in Agile Sprints
• Actively involved wif SCRUM and sprint meetings, managing product backlog, removing obstacles to progress, re-allocating resources where necessary, prioritizing and review milestones and accomplishments
• Involved in defining scope for testing wifin the context of each sprint / delivery
• Developed Selenium WebDriver test cases using Java, TestNG framework
• Developed automation framework for Selenium WebDriver in Page Object Model Framework
• Leveraged Java (Eclipse IDE) to access and test various operations. Performed Regression and Integration Testing using TestNG framework and executed assertions
• Implemented Test driven development (TDD and BDD) framework using cucumber tool wif Gherkins Language.
• Did white box testing and GUI testing
• Used JMeter Load Tester in conjunction wif New Relic analytics to implement a load test suite that runs alongside wif our pre-deployment automation
• Performed load, stress testing using open source tools like JMeter
• Automated regression test cases using Java Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility
• Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using selenium WebDriver Selenium RC and TestNG, using SVN as VCS for java-based web application, using Maven as Build tool
• Implemented properties files to read configurations and XPath of elements in the application for better readability of the code
• Integrated TestNG wif Selenium using Eclipse to generate test execution result
• Had regular meetings wif Developers to report various problems
• Developed ANT Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in Selenium WebDriver (java), Selenium RC
• Validated the database by executing SQL queries
• Developed Automation scripts for new enhancements using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG
• Performed SOA / web services testing using SoapUI, wrote adaptors to test / invoke web services
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API
• Utilized WSDL, XSD and XML inspectors to verify WSDL, schema and message content wif SOAP UI
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data wif complex SQL queries from oracle database
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries to retrieve and verify information in the database
• Developed SQL queries to simulate data validation reports and to stage test data for ongoing testing
• Performed ETL and Database testing, wrote complex SQL queries, for Data Profiling, Data validation, Source-2-Target Mapping and BI Report Testing
• SQL Queries writing to extract the data and define data to perform E2E testing
• Used SQL to test Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing for the arrangement of customer data
• Coordinated wif technical support associates to fix proprietary software issues
• Used Firebug, and XPath to work wif the application objects
• Involved wif other team in Writing Python scripts to monitor installed enterprise applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities and jobs
• Used Jira for bug tracking
• Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews. Prepared reports showing the testing efforts

Environment: Java, TestNG, Java Script, Selenium WebDriver/IDE, SOAPUI, Python, SQL, UNIX, Maven, Jira

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird requirements and application information from Business Area Managers (BAM) and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and developed test cases
• Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites
• Developed and implemented robust MVC Pattern base testing wif WebDriver which cut down the script development time in half
• Preparing test strategies for client-side verifications and validations
• Generated HTML & XSLT reports in Junit/TestNG along wif ANT
• Implemented Test driven development (TDD and BDD) framework using cucumber tool wif Gherkins Language
• Tested various types of payment methods like credit card, gift card by swiping cards at customer terminal for various stores like old navy etc. to supplement the automation work
• Automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver wif TestNG
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium
• Extensively worked on selenium web Driver wif the preferred Language Java
• Used Maven for building the WebDriver project. Integrated wif Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically
• Testing the application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology
• Performed functional, black box, negative, compatibility and recovery testing
• Tested the compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium
• Implemented open source web test tool Selenium WebDriver for cross browser and cross platform web testing
• Used Selenium Web Driver to test search results of Meta search engine
• Performed testing on Web Services SOAPUI on WSDL (SOAP) and WADL(REST) to check the communication between different web services
• Conducted oracle database tests by executing SQL queries to ensure the data integrity by checking various kinds of constraints
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data wif complex SQL queries from oracle database
• Prepared user documentation wif screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing)
• Performed regression tests on the application to assure proper functionality of the site after new builds using Clear Quest

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Java, Testing, Jenkins, Agile, SQL, DHTML, Quality center HTML, MS Word, MS Excel, PL/SQL Developer, Maven, UNIX, Windows 7.