PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ Years experience in IT industry taking technologies to market.
• Experience with Requirement Documents, Test Strategy, creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, Creating Automation Test Scripts and Automation Test Execution.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Hands on experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using Selenium IDE to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs..
• Skilled at Software Development Life Cycles and Agile Programming Methodologies.
• Experience with Agile Methodology (BDD - Behavior Driven Development) and Cucumber / RSpec test framework)
• Extensive Experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft outlook, MS Access and SQL.
• Experience with testing on Mac and Windows environments.
• Expertise in Black Box testing and Mainframe White Box testing
• Extensive experience in Coordination, Communication, Management, Time Management and Problem Solving skills.
• Good analytical, problem solving, communication skills and have the ability to work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills, and a hard-working team player with a team leader with good problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP, Linux, UNIX, Windows NT,Windows2000, MS-DOS, Mac OS

Languages: C, C++, Python, JAVA

Team Collaboration: MS Project

Release/Project Management: MicrosoftProject

Database: My SQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

Automated Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Cucumber, Ruby

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared a detail test schedule on a day-to-day basis for the project members to know the status of the QA Process.
• Communicated with Developers, and business analyst on quality issues to ensure that the application is fully tested
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams during test preparation and execution.
• Created Automation test framework using Selenium.
• Created, executed and exported the Test case scripts using Java-Selenium RC and Prepared automation test frameworks in JUnit.
• Recorded and plays back test in Firefox using Selenium IDE.
• Added annotations to the test (Selenium).
• Also have used tools like Cucumber for browser based testing (Ruby based test tool) based with scenarios and situations.
• Performed tests using Selenium remote control in different browsers.
• Used Selenium GRID to execute test cases parallel on different target machines.
• Prepared test data for testing the application in various test phases.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining automation acceptance test suite using Selenium, Ruby and Cucumber framework.
• Used SQL analyzer to manipulate SQL queries to verify the data in the database.
• Checked the navigation and the links of the application.
• Performed bug tracking, including submitting and assigning defects to the application developers using JIRA.
• Tracked, Managed and documented the performance of the application during UAT.
• Interacted with Developers and System Analysts to understand the severity of the defects.

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Written test plans, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, hi-level test requirements, standard post test reports and procedures and necessary resources.
• Analyzes user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Involved in user requests and bug Scrubs meetings.
• Installed the Mercury tools software on windows.
• Performed build acceptance testing and smoke testing using Cucumber automation tool.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the functionality testing.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression testing.
• Followed Agile Process in this project.
• Involved in creation of automation framework in Selenium WebDriver using behavior driven approach like Cucumber.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Worked on auto acceptance test cases in cucumber.
• Worked on cucumber with Ruby.
• Create User Acceptance Test Scripts.
• Automated regression test cases using Selenium.
• Create data to support the User Acceptance test Cases.
• Executed Test phase Test Cases.
• Prepared Queries using SQL to retrieve data from database.
• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems.
• Test plan creation, Test Case creation, Test Script writing and execution (manual testing).

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Overall QA and release activity of WCM, an internal Web Content Management application for management of Confidential and sister websites.
• Develop and execute application software testing such as functional, integration, and regression testing to ensure the quality of WSI websites and related systems.
• Lead the local and remote QA team in co-ordinating QA activities and procedures.
• Created test cases scripts and plans to support specific software testing objectives, and assist team in creation, review, and finalization of agile stories and story acceptance criteria.
• Defined and tracked quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status using JIRA defect tracking system.
• Designed and automated the Web Content Management application using Selenium RC and Selenium IDE.
• Maintained the Selenium scripts for automation.
• Involved in Web Services Automation Testing.
• Performed Integration testing and End to End testing of the entire application.
• Participated in quality audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality standards, procedures, and Agile methodologies are being followed.
• Checked for Data integrity while migrating Spectra data into XML.
• Acted as an internal quality consultant to advice or influence business or technical partners.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the Software Development and Quality Assurance Lifecycle of the application.
• Interacted with Business teams to understand Business Logic and User Requirements.
• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specifications and use cases.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Reviewed manual testing methods and was involved in the developing and the execution of automation scripts
• Developed automated test scripts for functional testing using QTP.
• Conducted the system testing for the end-end process.
• Performed data driven tests by parameterization of fixed values with variables and linking the test with data.
• Involved in GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing to test each individual function/feature.
• Testing web applications using Load Runner, to measure response and through put rate for systems, testing functional and performance in any platform.
• Reported software defects in Quality Center and interacted with the developers to resolve issues.
• Documentation of Scripts, Analysis of results and Defect Tracking was managed in Quality Center 8.0.
• Worked closely with Development and Project Management to prioritize defects and assist in the timely resolution of defects.
• Analyzed test results, generated reports and graphs at various stages of testing