SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of experience in Software analysis, Software Quality Assurance Testing of Web, Web Services, Client/Server applications and databases.
• Experience in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and worked on Agile project environment.
• Experience in designing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts & Test reports based on client requirements and technical specification documents.
• Working experience with defect tracking tools like Jira, HP ALM/Quality Center, qTest, Azure ADO.
• Hands on experience in writing Queries, extract data from MS - SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, MongoDB.
• Knowledge of Web Development technologies in general, including HTML, JSON, CSS, XML..
• Experience in creating reports to display detailed test execution reports with pie chart along with screenshots of corresponding failed test cases.
• Experience in functional testing, Regression Testing, user acceptance testing(UAT), integration testing, system testing, performance testing, Stress and Load, White Box Testing, Black Box testing, Smoke testing, API Testing, Cross browser testing, compatibility testing & security testing.
• Expertise in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Daily/Weekly Status Report, Defect Report, and Project Report.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Approaches: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Bug life cycle.

Testing Tools: REST, Postman, Manual Testing

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, Jira, qTest, Azure Ado

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo.

Types of Testing: Manual Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functional Testing, Performance, Stress and Load, Smoke, Sanity, API, and Unit testing

Database Tools: MS-SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, MongoDB.

Operating System: Windows, Unix, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements and technical specification documents and Analyze use cases, functional requirements to write detailed Test plans and Test cases.
• Verify new and changed features across different API’s.
• Write test scripts in the postman tool and set predefined variables and environmentvariables.
• Test different API’s, Validate Request and Response XML, SOAP Calls, Restful calls and WSDL using SOAPUI tool.
• Validate End Points in WSDL File, XML Schema.
• Used Azure ADO for writing the test cases.
• Add data related assertions to validate response XML in Web Services.
• Verify the logic tier integrity and reliability ofAPI’s and Restful servicesby testing
• REST protocol to ensure APIs return the right data and by verifying the format and content ofAPI calls.
• Perform the API Testing using Swagger, Postman to make sure the end points are working fine.
• Perform Mobile testing and Load testing.
• Validate the API request and response by providing test data and validate it with SQL Server database.
• Plan and execute Backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.
• Examine the issues and recommending solutions for the bottlenecks, defects and trailing the defect via JIRA.
• Log defects using JIRA applications and communicate the defect status updates with the team.
• Used Splunk to verify the logs.
• Perform Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression tests based on analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications, and end-user needs.
• Follow Agileproject management methodology.

Environment: Azure ADO, SQL Server, Soap UI, Splunk, JIRA, Postman, Jenkins.

Confidential, Newport News, VA

Manual Tester / Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creating detail Test cases for each test phase to ensure complete coverage. Test Cases were incorporated both positive and negative conditions.
• Development of Manual test cases by decomposing use cases from BRD.
• Used Mongo DB to analyse and validate the data.
• Validated test cases using Postman to verify is reaching AMQ queues.
• Involved in Regression Testing.
• Cross browser testing across different browsers like IE, Firefox and Google Chrome.
• Documenting detail test plans, test cases, test scripts and expected results in HP Quality Centre (ALM) and tracing the test cases to the requirements.
• Created defects in HP ALM/QC and assigned to developer .
• Retesting the defects once it is fixed.
• Raise any impediments in daily status call which affects the project deliverables. Track defects in chorus and updated the defects status to development team and follow the defect life cycle.
• Interaction with Business teams, Dev Team to understand requirements & bug fixes
• Perform Root Cause Analysis for the defects identified in UAT and PROD.
• Used to Splunk to verify logs.
• Migrated to qTest to create test cases, test design and raise defects and attach it to qtest.
• Define the Functional Scripts for UAT with business and Assist the UAT testers for UAT testing.
• Analysed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents.
• Analyze the User stories and prepare Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Participate and contribute to SCRUM Ceremonies (daily stand up, backlog refinement, retrospective).

Environment: HP ALM/QC 12.21, Oracle SQL Developer, MongoDB, SVN, Splunk, RED HAT JBOSS Active Message Queue, JIRA, Postman, Jenkins.

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed the efficient manual test cases based on analysis of Business Requirements, Functional Specs, Technical design documents, Use Cases, Supporting documents.
• Development of Manual test cases by decomposing use cases for specific functional requirements.
• Reviewed and analyzed Detail Designed Specification and Technical Specification documents, SRS-System Requirement Specifications and developed Test Suites to cover the overall quality assurance testing.
• Performed Manual Testing on the entire application.Responsible for Defect management (defect logging, tracking, triaging and status maintenance) Deliverables and Report generation.
• Extensively used DB to perform Backend testing and Data Integrity testing.
• Interacted with developers to follow up on Opened Bugs and involved in complete QA Life Cycles.Used Quality Center as a bug tracking system.
• Created and executed Regression test cases based on Workflow process.
• Documenting detail test plans, test cases, test scripts and expected results in HP Quality Centre (ALM) and tracing the test cases to the requirements.
• Developed and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure all conditions are covered.Performed ManualTesting to check flow of the application.
• During testing life cycle, performed different types of testing like Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration& Regression Testing.
• Creation of Status reports and Sending the status to the upper management as required.
• Generated Defect Reports and progress graphs for the application. Participated in QA Team meetings and weekly QA testing reviews.

Environment: HP QC/ALM, Oracle, HTML, Oracle, Windows and Unix.