SUMMARY

• Technocrat & Solution - driven Professional and Peoples’ Person with a concept to execution approach and career history of turning visions into winning strategies; targeting assignments in Software Testing with an organization of repute.
• Backed by strong credentials including a computer science degree from a world-famous top-ranked university, and 6 Different and Unique Certifications from Tricentis in TOSCA and
• Tricentis Certified TOSCA Automation Specialist ( AS-1 & AS-2 Certification).
• ISTQB Certified Test Automation Engineer.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps AZ-900 Certification.
• Python and Selenium Certified Automation Tester by Udemy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical Skills: Automation, Database, API, Manual & Security Testing

Tools: Used: Selenium (using Python), Selenium (using C#), PyCharmTOSCA, Postman, Soap UI, AZURE, TFS

Databases: SQL Server 2008/2012/2016/20

Languages: Python, C#, SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML

Methodologies: Agile (Using Scrum), Kanban & Others (Like V-shaped, Spiral, Prototype, Waterfall)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UAT Test Lead

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Managing the Software Testing process; establishing and enforcing Standard Test Processes and Deliverables (including defect management and quality metric reporting) within the gated process to streamline testing and support manual testing efforts.
• Leading a team of 3-4 members
• Establishing & enforcing standard test processes and deliverables (including defect management and quality metric reporting) within the gated process to streamline testing and support manual testing efforts, driving the test strategy and plan for all projects.
• Monitoring testing activities to ensure the quality and functionality of assigned systems, ensuring timely and accurate test communication with Development Leads, Project Manager and Senior Management throughout the project life-cycle.
• Participating in test scripts/plan preparation, test design & execution, test data creation, QCTP preparation, black box testing, multi-platform, integration & regression testing for Product & Web Based application and review of results.
• Gathering and analyzing data in support of business cases, writing test plans and scripts for tracking defects and fixes in product development, software application development, information systems, and operations system.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute strategic initiatives for long-range planning and lifecycle management for various Automation platforms.
• Skilled in managing all the phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) entailing requirement analysis, design, development, implementation, delivery and troubleshooting.
• Played a key role in creating robust & more reusable functions/blocks to support smooth automation practices.
• Steered efforts in creating robust XPATH to handle complex locators.
• Successfully automated test cases for Web, Mobile as well as WPF platforms using TOSCA.
• Built Complex testing strategies to migrate existing automation scripts from Selenium to tosca for better Devops integration and maintenance.
• Effective use of Azure and TFS for fetching reports of Requirements, Tasks, Bugs, Linking and so on.
• Worked extensively to implement complex features in Tosca like Distributed execution and Test Data Management to provision on-demand (synthetic, masked, or imported) stateful data.
• Implemented new features within the organization in the dashboard module to integrate presentation mode for zoom into charts and figures.
• Leveraged skills in identifying the defects/bugs at the initial phase of STLC which help improving the quality & always able to meet the project guidelines.
• Lenovation: Shared many ideas within the team which improved the process.
• Received appreciation emails and rewards from onsite & offsite teams; TL and PM for assisting the team in critical situations and for coherent analysis to bridge the gap between client’s requirements & SA.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the creation of test plans with the inputs of BA and QA manager.
• Documented detailed test scenarios based on requirements and provided to the end users for sign off.
• Extracted detailed test cases from requirement and wireframes and stored them in HP ALM.
• Executed the test cases for functionality, integration, end to end and user acceptance testing.
• Created integration test cases for salesforce and HubSpot.
• Used Selenium for creating Regression Suites and executed the Regression Suites from HP ALM.
• Generated automation scripts by following standard Automation framework like Jbehave for complex angular applications.
• Performed extensive Data driven testing using data parameters in Selenium and HP UFT.
• Tested native and hybrid mobile applications using Device Anywhere and Appium.
• Documented detailed end to end test cases and executed as part of end-to-end testing.
• Reported all the defects to the development team with all the required defect contents.
• Involved in performing testing and validated the results against non-functional requirements.
• Performed backend database testing using complex SQL queries.
• Provided status reports to management using standard defect tracking reports of Jira & HP ALM.

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and understood user stories, functional Requirements, and various business requirements documents.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management and issue escalations for data conversion size of 5.
• Participated in daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Sessions, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Sessions. Responsible for analyzing the production defects and retesting.
• Handled UAT & RTM team as internal pilot team to cover all the UAT test cases and to check all the requirements and test cases are covered.
• Developed and executed test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated) ensuring the maximum coverage of functionality has been tested.
• Performed Sprint level testing, Functional Testing, UAT, Regression and conversation Testing.
• Identified and organized the plan for test data, strategy, and the Scope of testing within the context.
• Experienced in testing components like Policy Premium testing, Conversion, underwriting rules etc.
• Strong knowledge on test requirements for “Guidewire data conversion” modules and Implementing Guidewire Policy Center - Commercial Auto/Home/umbrella Lines of Business.
• Prepared advanced reports, test reports and training documents, using ALM and MS SQL queries.
• Hands-on experience on Guidewire Policy Transactions, Policy Life Cycle and Forms Validation
• Development of SQL scripts to validate data between source and target systems.
• Requirements mapping & uploading test cases to ALM as per the RTM.
• Worked in Phase 1 AZ Conversion, Phase 2 - Rollout 1(OK, OH, UT, PA) and Rollout 2 and Conversion.
• Worked as medium to provide the DATA on request to other clients (Capgemini, Accenture).
• Trained new resources on How to key new policies and how to perform policy transactions in guidewire.

Confidential, O Fallon

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented automated testing tools and programs addressing areas including database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error/bug retests, and usability.
• Designed and developed an automation test suite with test scenarios and scripts focused on testing the client’s application from end-to-end. Built a regression suite and integrated it with SDLC using Jenkins.
• Initiated the implementation of Red Gate SQL compare for data integrity testing and trained the QA staff on the use of the SQL compare tool and testing procedure.
• Initiated the implementation of a QA knowledge base on SharePoint to facilitate testing procedures and technical QA notes to serve as a guideline for future projects.
• Performed stress testing on the Confidential payment tech web service module for all E-commerce partners for the client’s payment application.
• Assisted with user-acceptance testing and defect tracking for three new software releases.
• Manage all communications related to QA Status on a daily basis during execution. Reporting potential risks during all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Integrated Mobile automation capabilities into existing automation framework to perform E2E mobile application testing using Appium.
• Performed cross platform testing on both android and IOS devices using Appium.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop test cases for new payroll functionality, custom processes (multi-state allocation, IL Wage Allocation, Elite Hours Interface) and General Ledger and GL interface (Ultra Edit).
• Perform fit-gap analysis, write functional specifications, and configure benefit and human resources tables and pages (Application Designer), work with technical staff on customizations, perform testing and train business users