SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology and Quality Assurance of Client/Server, Web based and Mainframes applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Methodologies like Water Fall, Agile and Scrum.
• Experience in handling applications like Insurance, Financial and Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems.
• Well versed with both Manual Testing and Automation Testing Tools like Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Selenium and Rational Tools.
• Experience in translating complex business strategies into software requirement specifications.
• Extensive working experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Back - End Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Build Verification Testing.
• Extensive experience in Creation and implementation of System Test Plans, Design Test Cases, Developing and Maintaining of Automation Test Scripts based on System Requirements and Design Documents.
• Ability to analyze requirement specifications documents and transforming requirements into test requirements and test conditions to create test strategies.
• Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Expertise in Analyzing and Tracking Defects, working with queries and reports to report Defects using Defect tracking tools HP Quality Center, ALM, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA.
• Ability to interact with Developers, Business Analysts and Test Managers regarding defect Status and Defect Tracking.
• Experience in Testing Database applications like ORACLE, DB2 and SQL Server.
• Proficient in writing and executing SQL queries to validate data for testing database integrity.
• Experience in testing applications developed in C#, J2EE, Oracle and Web sphere.
• Ability to work independently as well as a team member to handle multiple tasks and working experience in Offshore and Onsite team model.
• Good team player with excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter with ability to grasp complex technical subjects quickly and communicate them effectively to audience and ability to identify and resolve issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, PostgreSQL

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Unix/Linux

Programming Languages: C++, C#, COBOL, JCL, J2EE, .NET

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, TSL, JavaScript, VBScript

Tools: & Utilities: Forms, Reports, SQL Loader

Version Control: Visual Source Safe, PVCS, ClearCase

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, JSP, Web Logic, Web sphere

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver/Grid/RC, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional, Cucumber, Maven, IBM Rational Tools, Silk Test, JUnit.

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, ALM (11.0) JIRA, Bugzilla, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement documents (BRD) and functional specification documents (FSD) to prepare test cases and identify test scenarios.
• Performed automation testing of web based applications using Selenium Web driver, JAVA, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Maven.
• Developed, executed and maintained automation test scripts for different web applications.
• Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing test cases using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, and JUnit.
• Developed Keyword driven and data driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL databases.
• Wrote SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports.
• Used Selenium Grid, Maven to execute automation test scripts on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.
• Performed Defect tracking and Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.
• Participated/Developed Test plans based on Enhancements, Reviewed and analyzed requirement documents for developing the Test cases.
• Performed Front-End functionality of Web Applications like StoreNet, DM Web, E-commerce (B2B and B2C) applications.
• Assisted Manager by providing automation strategies, Selenium/Cucumber automation and JIRA reports.

Environment: Java, .Net, Oracle 11i, DB2, SQL Server2005. Selenium Web driver, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Maven, JIRA.

Confidential, Salem, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business and System Requirements reviews, Technical and Functional specification reviews.
• Attended Test Plan walk through and involved in the preparation of Test Plan.
• Involved in developing manual test cases based on Business and System Requirements.
• Used Mercury Quality Center/TestDirector to Create and manage test requirements, Design and build test cases, Generate scripts from test cases, Organize tests in to test sets, Define and schedule test execution flows, track test execution results, log and manage defects, generate reports.
• Performed Front-End functionality of Web Applications-@EAS, @vantage Web and @Work.
• Used Quality Center extensively for Developing and Maintaining the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Test cases and Defects.
• Executed automation test scripts using QuickTest Professional to set up test data for various releases.
• Performed Database Integrity by writing SQL Queries and verified data results.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression Testing and System Integration Testing and for all Critical Transactions.
• Identify the need for Automation by reviewing the Test cases for repeatable test steps and created automated test scripts using Mercury QuickTest Professional to reduce repetitive manual effort.
• Modified and Executed the Test scripts for all System Testing Cycles in different Test Environments (Base Line, Integration, Acceptance and QA)
• Used Quality Center extensively for Developing and Maintaining the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Test cases and Defects.
• Reviewed and analyzed automated scripts and updated Object Repository using QuickTest Professional to recognize objects in newer versions of the application.
• Attended Daily/Weekly meetings to update testing Status and Discuss issues found during testing, Enhancements, and Modification Request issues

Environment: Java, Java Script, VB.Net, Oracle 11i and Windows Manual Testing, QuickTest Professional, Quality Center

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Identification and Documentation of required System and Functional Testing scenarios to test claim process for various SPC Policies.
• Used Mercury Quality Center/TestDirector to Create and manage test requirements, Design and build test plans/cases, Generate scripts from test cases, Organize tests in to test sets, Define and schedule test execution flows, record and track test execution results, log and manage defects, generate reports.
• Involved in developing and executing manual Test cases for WC (Workers Comp) and APL (Auto/Property/Liability) based upon Business and Functional requirements by using Mercury Test Director and Quality Center.
• Performed Front-End functionality of Web Applications-TravPro (for FNOL), SPC INQ (for Coverage Mapping), and ST. Paul Travelers Web Portals like Claims Summary, Policy Relater, T-MATE and IMPACT.
• Involved in Conditional check out, On-Going, New Arising of WC (Workers Comp) and APL (Auto/Property/Liability).
• Performed Claims Data (Root, Claimant, Payments, Recovery Segments) items Validation in Various Test environments (Series M, Series C, Version) by using DB2 QMF, CAFM (File Manager) and IMS-FILEAID.
• Identify the need for Automation by reviewing the Test cases for repeatable test steps and created automated test scripts using Mercury QuickTest Professional to reduce repetitive manual effort.
• Extensively involved in creation of automated test scripts for New Notices, Coverage retrievals, Specialty Cause of Loss coding, Estimates and Payments scripts for both WC (Workers Comp) and APL (Auto/Property/Liability).
• Modified and Executed the Test scripts for all System Testing Cycles in different Test Environments apart form Version Testing.
• Used Quality Center extensively for Developing and Maintaining the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Test cases and Defects.
• Defects were Tracked, reviewed and Analyzed using Lotus Notes for WC (Workers Comp).
• Maintained Test Metrics, Conducted Daily/weekly meetings to update Defects Status.

Environment: QMF, SPUFI, IMS-FILEAID, COBOL, JCL, C++, .NET, TSO/ISPFDB2, CICS, VSAM, WIN/NT, Oracle, UNIX Manual Testing, QuickTest Professional, TestDirector/Quality

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Requirements like Business, Functional and Marketing.
• Created Manual Test Cases from software requirement specifications document.
• Identified Test Cases for Automation for repeatable test steps.
• Created Automated Test Scripts based on Functional, System Requirements.
• Executed test cases and Analyzed Test Results Manually.
• Performed Functionality, Data Driven, Regression and GUI Testing of the application.
• Executed UNIX shell scripts to verify the functionality of the applications.
• Checked the data flow through the front-end and back-end and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Creating, Maintaining and Modifying test scripts in web based environment on UNIX platform.
• Worked on VI editor extensively.
• Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information.
• Used TestDirector extensively for establishing Traceability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and Reporting. Also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.

Environment: Java Applets, JSP Servlets and EJB’s on application server side based on J2EE framework, Oracle 8i (Backend), UNIX