SUMMARY

• Quality Engineer with 6+ years of experience in Software testing and development.
• Experience in Functional Testing and Automation testing (UI, Webservices).
• Experience in Test Automation tools and frameworks like Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven and postman
• Possess knowledge on Waterfall, Agile and BDD practices.
• Experience in Insurance and Banking domains.
• Experience in Testing Metrics and Reporting
• Results - driven professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission-critical issues to ensure bottom-line success.
• Ability to work as independent and team member in challenging and cross platform environments.
• Passion to learn new skills and implement the same in the work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scripting/Programming Languages: SQL, Python Basics, Java

Automation profile: Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, POSTMAN

Dev and automation tools: Eclipse, QTP

Build Tool: Maven, Gradle

Test Management Tools: Jira, HP Quality Center

SDLC Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Took up some freelancing testing opportunities in Confidential .com.
• Invested my time in self -development and learning about new testing techniques.
• Performed Beta testing for some applications/products.
• Performed Volunteering services in Mecklenburg county library and religious centers.
• Took time away from professional career to act as full time stay at home parent

Confidential

Associate Consultant - QA Test lead

Responsibilities:

• Quality Engineer lead for eOPS Application which is used by back-office team at onsite location
• Participate in technical grooming and Responsible for providing Story Estimation and Automation feasibility for each sprint.
• Create Agile Test Strategy document.
• Conduct Testing COE meetings to ensure testing standards are followed across team.
• Write Acceptance test cases for the user stories in Gherkin syntax.
• Perform functional test to ensure 100% acceptance test are covered.
• Responsible to convert feasible acceptance test into Automation test using BDD (Gherkin Syntax).
• Perform Integration test after each sprint.
• Ensured 100% test coverage is achieved for each user story to ensure Zero production fallouts.
• Responsible to provide production validation and production support for any incidents
• Documented project progress and tracked defects using JIRA.
• Responsible to maintain Metrics and participated in the daily status call
• Weekly Status Updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Perform root cause analysis for any production issues and develop corrective action plans.
• Also ensure these issues are automated to avoid future issues

Tools: and Technology: Agile-Scrum, Selenium, Jira, Cucumber, Java, Firefox, Eclipse, HP QC ALM

Confidential

Associate Consultant - Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Quality Engineering Module lead for HCM applications used internally for Confidential .
• Extensively involved in business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Responsible to create Test Plan, Test Outline for each release.
• Create Test cases and setup Test data based on functional and non-functional requirements to test HCM/Elearning application.
• Involved in Replatform End to End testing of Elearning application from Legacy to a new platform.
• Responsible to analyze and prepare feasible test cases for automation testing.
• Performed automation testing (Regression) using Selenium and Java.
• Tested web services using POSTMAN tool.
• Conduct daily status calls with Stakeholders.
• Performed project management activities using JIRA and HP ALM.
• Produced documents for business requirements (requirements matrix), design requirements, gap analysis, solution recommendations, test cases, test plans.
• Extended after hours support during critical project releases.
• Designed test sign off documents and reported to client.

Tools: and Technology: Agile-Scrum, RESTful webservices, POSTMAN, Jira, Selenium, Firefox, Eclipse, SQL, HP QC ALM

Confidential

Associate - QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manual QA lead for Rating and production support team.
• Lead 15-member team in offshore by assigning the tasks, perform peer review and clarify doubts.
• Coordinated with client and Onsite team in understanding any ambiguities and report the status.
• Participated in Requirement walkthrough session with business team and development team in understanding the business vision.
• Helped automation team in setting up the regression test suite.
• Participate in periodic Exploratory testing and uncovered critical defects.
• Create value add-on tool for Rating team which helped in quick premium calculation and received client accolades.
• Create Solution accelerators and tools like test case generator using Excel macros for effective test case design.
• Record defects and issues in HP Quality Center and tracked the same.
• Perform GAP analysis when there is a requirement change to ensure 100% test coverage.
• Create scripts in HP ALM Quality Center to generate various reports to be included in the status report.
• Sent the daily status to project stake holders.

Tools: and Technology: Waterfall, QTP, Excel Macros, Manual testing, SQL, HP QC ALM