SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in developing effective QA testing strategies and methodologies for Web based and Client/Server applications across various projects as Software QA Tester
• Involved in software development life cycle including analysis, design, development, Unit testing, refactoring and documentation of the application using Java
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts
• Experience of working in projects using Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Experience of working with onsite and offshore project teams
• Experience in Manual and Automation testing using Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, HP QTP
• Experience in Selenium Webdriver API using Java programming language
• Experience in testing the web services using Soap UI, Restful API using JAX - RS and Parasoft SOA testing tool
• Experience in Bug Tracking Tools like Quality Center(ALM), Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla and Jira
• Experience in cross browser testing and generating customized HTML reports using TestNG framework
• Experience in build automation tools like Maven/Ant and managing Maven dependency jar files
• Involved in the integration of automation test scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) using Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins for nightly batch run of the scripts
• Involved in the designing of Automation framework using Page Object Model (POM)
• Experience in writing XPath using Firebug for locating web elements
• Designed and developed Page Objects using Page Object Design Pattern and Selenium WebDriver
• Experience in source code management tools like GitHub
• Experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Security, System, GUI, Database, Web Services and User Acceptance Testing
• Experience in using Soap UI for testing Web Services in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Experience in backend testing using SQL queries with Oracle and SQL Server databases
• Involved and participated in everyday testing Artifacts meeting, Process improvement, QC training meetings and Weekly status team meetings
• Involved in root cause analysis of recurring issues on Unix servers
• Good knowledge of creating automated test scripts using HTML, Firebug, VB Script, and Java script
• Experience in testing the application on different operating systems like Windows, Linux and mac OS
• Knowledge in testing both iOS and Android applications
• Extensive working knowledge in Unix, Linux and Windows platforms
• Experience in Core Java concepts like Inheritance, Polymorphism, abstraction, Collections framework, Multithreading and Memory management
• Assured that all artifacts are in accordance with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines
• Team player, Self-starter, Multi-tasking skills, ability to adapt to new environments and learn new technologies quickly with good communication skills
• Proven ability to support projects under tight deadlines often with competing priorities and complexities

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, Android, iOS

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP,Rest, XPath, CSS, WSDL

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python

Scripting Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript, Groovy Script

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, HP QTP, Soap UI, Parasoft

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center/ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA, Rational ClearQuest

Other Tools: Putty, VMware, TOAD, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite

Build Tools: Maven, Ant

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, Hudson

Test Framework: JUnit, TestNG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Utah

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile environment following the SDLC methodology with daily Scrum meetings, presentations, reviews and status reports
• Managed the test plan development and test execution phases across all sprints to ensure proper and on-time test completion
• Involved in analyzing the User Stories, business requirements, functional specifications documents and attended Business Requirement meetings for identifying Test Scenarios and Test Plan for the web based application
• Attended review meetings with Business Analysts, Developers and end users to understand and test according to their requirements
• Designed test cases based on the use-cases and the complex business logic defined for each web-service or a message
• Tested the application in virtualized environment
• Experience with Web UI Automation testing using Selenium Webdriver
• Involved in creating PageObjects for the internal url applications using Webdriver and Confidential internal framework
• Validated the SOAP requests and responses using SoapUI
• Tested soap/rest Web Services with different end points and validated SOAP/Rest Responses
• Used SoapUI features like Assertions, Data Source, and Groovy Script Test Step to do data level validations
• Involved in creating the SOA test cases for the 2FA Authentication scenarios using the Parasoft tool
• Continuous monitoring of jobs and analysis of the failures on Jenkins Environment.
• Involved in the implementation of Confidential in-built automation framework using Selenium Webdriver API and Java
• Performed functional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements.
• Maintained detailed test logs and reported test results in HP QC/ALM
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them
• Experience in performing User Acceptance testing(UAT)to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients as specified

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, Groovy script, Java, Jira, Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, Parasoft, Oracle, Windows, Unix, SQL, XML, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, TestNGGitHub, Confluence

Confidential, O'Fallon, MO

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile Scrum SDLC methodology with daily Scrum meetings, presentations, reviews and status reports
• Involved in creating the test plan, test strategy based on the requirement artifacts.
• Involved in both manual and automation testing of the various features related to personalized spending controls, limited use virtual cards and real-time alerts modules
• Tested the application for Functional, Smoke, Integration, Regression, Security, System, GUI, Database and Web Services
• Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Developers for resolving defects
• Involved in the automation of regression and functional test suites by developing test cases and test suites using SeleniumWebDriver, JAVA, and TestNG
• Experience in capturing Screenshots for failure test cases using Selenium WebDriver API
• Configured Maven for Java automation projects and developed Maven Page Object Model (POM)
• Used the Page Objects method to create Object Repository for web UI elements
• Used TestNG annotations in Selenium WebDriver and executed a batch of tests as TestNG suite
• Used Maven for building the Web Driver project
• Used the POI API to read data from the excel sheets
• Performed Data Driven Test in Selenium WebDriver with different sets of test data by importing from Excel sheet
• Created test scripts using Groovy script to automate web services in SOAP UI for different data sample data.
• Created custom XPath for identifying Dynamic Objects and use them in Selenium
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration and scheduling the build
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results
• Written SQL Queries to extract data from database tables and validating for data integrity
• Executed tests across multiple platforms and browsers for analyzing the compatibility
• Used Jira for bug tracking and reporting and followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes
• Created and maintained the traceability matrix to determine the test coverage
• Responsible for creating daily/weekly status reports regarding the progress of testing process

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, Groovy script, Java, Jira, Selenium WebDriver, Oracle, Windows, Unix, SQL, XML, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, TestNG

Confidential, O'Fallon, MO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Project is developed in Agile Scrum SDLC methodology
• Reviewed and analyzed the User Stories and Business requirements with business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application
• Participated in Daily Stand Up meetings and Daily Defects calls as a part of Agile Methodology
• Involved in the execution of test plans and test cases
• Tested Alerts and Case Management interfaces using both manual and automated testing tools
• Performed Smoke, functional, system, integration, regression, database, end-to-end and involved in user acceptance testing
• Implemented Parameter annotations with TestNG and Data Provider annotations for parameterizing the test scripts
• Created customized TestNG reports
• Developed and maintained the automated regression test suite in WebDriver using Java
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results
• Developed SQL queries in Toad for backend validation
• Involved in testing the Web services using the Soap UI tool
• Experience in performing XPath assertions in Soap UI to validate the test cases
• Validated the correctness of response XML for any syntax errors using XMLSpy
• Track test results for management, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defects using Quality Center
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them
• Conducted Regression testing after the bugs have been fixed by the development team
• Attended Weekly Status meetings to monitor testing efforts during various testing cycles

Environment: HTML, Java, Quality Center, Selenium WebDriver, Oracle, Windows, Unix, SQL, WebSphere, XML, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the User stories and Business requirements to understand the architecture and functionality of the application
• Involved in design, development and execution of test plans and test cases
• Testing the features like password storage for multiple websites, data encryption, transaction history, storage of multiple shipping addresses and automatic notification of special offers and discounts
• Involved in identifying the scenarios and creation of test automation scripts using Quick Test Professional
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results
• Involved in converting manual tests to automated test scripts usingQTPand enhanced the scripts by adding user defined functions in VB script
• Defined Recovery Scenarios Manager to recover from unexpected events and errors that occur in testing environment during a run session
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process including planning tests, executing tests and tracking defects
• Ensure the defect management process is followed throughout defect life cycle
• Executed web tests across various platforms and browsers

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Selenium IDE, Oracle, Windows, Unix, SQL, WebSphere, XML, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional Requirement Specifications and created test cases based on test scenarios drawn from functional requirements
• Manually tested the application functionality and developed test scripts to perform functional and regression testing
• Performed Black Box and Usability Testing
• Implemented defect reporting using Quality Center
• Documenting the Test results using Quality Center
• Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information
• Planned, Created, Captured & executed successfully the life cycle of QA Methodologies
• Executed SQL queries to validate the front end with the database
• Organized weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Quality Center for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle
• Used Quality Center for maintaining and tracking defects
• Applied analysis concepts, techniques, tools and standards to support assigned projects
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results

Environment: Quality Center, MS-Office, Oracle, Unix, Windows, SQL, HTML

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Manual Testing on basic functionalities of the application
• Developed Positive & Negative scenarios for the requirements
• Developed Test plan, Test cases and Test scripts
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration and System testing for various modules using manual Testing and used waterfall methodology
• Daily participant in the defect management meeting
• Effectively involved in the review of the Test results

Environment: MS-Office, Unix, Windows, Java, XML, HTML, Oracle