SUMMARY

• Six plus years of experience as a creative and professional team player in Software Application Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with emphasis on testing of web and Client / Server based applications in multiple verticals like Health care, Telecom, Insurance and Finance applications, Consumer.
• Specializing in Quality Assurance/Testing of Client/Server, GUI, Database and Web based applications on Windows and UNIX platforms using SQL.
• Solid understanding and participation in all the phases of Software Development Life cycle and testing processes.
• Proficient in the area of Requirements, Analysis, Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Bug Tracking, and Execution of projects with manual testing and/or Automated Testing Tools using Selenium (Web Driver), Selenium IDE, Selenium - RC in Web-Based, Client-Server and n-tier applications.
• Testing expertise includes Functional & Non Functional testing- Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back-end testing, Compatibility testing, Ad-hoc testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in validating relational database systems (My SQL Server, Oracle) by querying through SQL.
• Well versed in conducting Functional Research & Analysis; Preparation of workflow diagrams, Test specification, Traceability Matrix and Project related artifacts.
• Experienced in testing various applications in core Java, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access environments.
• Extensive experienced in Agile and Scrum model.
• Has good knowledge of web technologies like Web Services, XML and HTML.
• Experienced in setting and configuringQAEnvironments, build deployments.
• Solid experience working in close co-ordination with BusinessAnalysts, Tech Leads, Developers and Business Customers, working on multiple projects at a time.
• Quick learner with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration.
• Excellent communicative, intuitive and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP, NT, 2000, 2003, UNIX

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle (RDBMS)

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Web Servers: Web Sphere 4.0, JRun, Weblogi8, Jboss, Tomcat, Apache.

Automation Tools: Selenium, Selenium IDE, Selenium- RC, QTP.

Software Tools: MQ Series, VSS, TOAD, Perfect Tracker, GEIS Application Integrator3.0, Crystal Report 6.0, Eclipse1.3.

Methodologies: CMM, CMMi, Agile (Scrum), Software Development Methodology (SDM).

Defect Management: Quality Center, Rally, Bugzilla.

Environment: s Java, J2EE, Visual Basic 6.0,PL/SQL, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, Java Script, Perl, XMLHTML & DHTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - San Ramon, CA

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Function as a member of anagile project team participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and project retrospectives.
• Proficient with Rally, Quality Control Tool used for effort estimation, tasks and test prep, test case recording.
• Participate in Product Management and Developer meetings to determine and executeQApriorities, and serve as primary point of contact betweenQAand other departments.
• Developed Test Plan Document, Test Strategy, Test Procedures, Test cases and Scripts for manual testing, get them reviewed by product owners, development, tech comm, QA managers.
• Maintained Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, daily status and progress reports using Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries on the back-end database extensively to verify GUI results, worked on UNIX environment.
• Extensively involved in .NET web application testing, Integration testing, Interface testing Functional testing, Regression testing.
• Logged defects in HP Quality Centre and attended meetings to review and follow up on the defects.
• Responsible for environment set up, functional, regression, integration, database, negative and UAT testing of the application.
• Involved in testing of application on various browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE, safari etc.
• Work on automation framework for testing web based application in the Selenium/ QC environment.
• Work on identifying object locators and creating object Repository using Fire-bug & IE developers.
• Involved in designing Keyword Driven Framework & Page Object Factory Framework in Selenium.
• Preparation of Automated Regression Suite for the project, responsible for identifying test cases for automation and part of the team in developing automation test plans.
• Creation of automation scripts and user-defined functions Selenium, identifying the gaps in keywords and creating them, execution of automation regression tests on IE, Chrome and Firefox a day-to day basis & integrates them to CI (Hudson). Preparing and Executing Batch Test Suite through ANT.
• Handle testing activities of multiple projects with changing priorities and concurrent deadlines right from the initial phase to the signoff, handling team of 5 resources, onshore and offshore.
• Managing and mentoring offshore resources.
• Environment: C#, Windows XP Professional, Silverlight, HP Quality Center/HP, JAVA, SQL Server 2008, Unix, XML, Automation framework, IE/Chrome/Firefox.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and executing business related use cases. Interacting with BA’s and Dev teams to get more understanding on the projects and test deliverable agreements.
• Reviewing the SRS, Functional Requirements and Detailed Designs to develop Test Cases.
• Working with Quality Center for Managing the projects and defects tracking.
• Prioritizing features and open bugs with client and development teams.
• Preparing and reviewing the QA Management documents - Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test cases.
• Creation of automation test strategy and plan. Identifying regression test cases for automation.
• Closely working with teams, Building automation frameworks for Selenium and designing the scripts.
• Involved in xpath expressions, identifying object locators and creating object Repository using Fire-bug & IE developers.
• Involved in identifying the E2E scenario & Creating the Reusable methods & Generic methods.
• Involved in framework designing & Contributed to framework.
• Running batch execution and sending status report to higher management.
• Involved in Release support - Release toQA, Involved in environment set up, Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out Functionality testing, GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing, Negative Testing, End to End Testing, Adhoc testing and UAT testing.
• Preparing Status Reports, Defect Reports, and Analysis Documents for account and project level meetings.
• Test Environment Creation; Build and database deployment; Installing and configuring applications to be tested.
• Environment: Selenium, Java, Web Server, XML.

Confidential, Lynchburg, VA

IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with business team for capturing and analyzing new requirements, Identifying improvements and enhancements to improve product usability.
• Leading a team for Manual, Functional, Black Box, Regression, Ad Hoc and database Testing.
• Preparation of work and testing status reports;
• Reviewing project related artifacts and deliverables from the team.
• Test Environment Creation; Build and database deployment
• Testing live issues with client database, Involved in Database Testing, loaded the test data into SQL Server database by writing SQL queries.
• Determining the automation strategy for the product and preparing test scripts.
• Understanding internal automation framework, configuring and running the automation Packs
• Understanding existing Scripts and modify the scripts according to new requirement

Confidential, Atlanta

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identification, Research and Feasibility analysis of functional requirements
• Preparation and Execution of Test Cases, Test Data
• Performed End-to-End testing of the application.
• Track bugs and report defect using Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla.
• Setting up the test environment - Build & Database deployment.
• Tested application security features, including session expiry, passwords and compatibility across multiple browser types using manual testing.
• Localization testing on 22 different websites.
• Manual, Functional, Black Box, Regression, database testing, Localization testing, Compatibility Testing, Negative Testing.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.