PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strong expertise in SDLC, Project Management and testing life cycle methodologies like Waterfall, V - Model and Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with agile business analysis, including documentation of user stories and test requirements, process documentation
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated QA Engineer on client server and web based applications.
• Proficient in performing Smoke, Functional, Integration, Backend, Regression and UAT testing etc.
• Documentation and execution of User Acceptance Testing for business applications
• Analyze business requirements elicitation and documentation
• Developed/maintained Product Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts, Defect Tracking and reporting for both Manual and Automated Test environments.
• Strong ability to create test cases using testing techniques including positive and negative testing, boundary value analysis.
• Experienced in Bug Reporting, Bug Tracking using various Bug Tracking Systems like HP ALM and JIRA.
• Actively interacted with the development team to fix critical bugs.
• Expert in writing automated test scripts with various automation testing tool like HP UFT, Selenium Web driver.
• Hand on experience in working with unit testing frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit and Hybrid.
• Good hands on experience in Database Testing using SQL query.
• Experienced with testing at various levels of functional, system integration, load/performance, and support for user acceptance testing. And producing testing related deliverables such as test strategies, plans, cases, scripts, traceability matrix, testing status report, and defect management.
• Experienced in RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2
• An expert in using automation testing tools, Involving understanding the process of any particular application, preparing an Automation framework, test plans, Preparing test cases and Automating test cases.
• Excellent technical communication, documentation, interpersonal and reporting skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment, with a minimum amount of supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT, ALM, Load Runner, SoapUI, Rest API.

Management Tools: GIT, HP ALM, JIRA, Remedy.

Scripting: VB Script, Unix Shell Script, Java script

Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model, Iterative, Agile, Scrum.

Database: Oracle 11g/12C, MS SQL Server, DB2.

Operating System: Windows 7, Linux, Unix.

Servers: IBM Web Sphere, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, IIS.

Networking: LAN, WAN, Router, Modem, Switch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential. Manassas, VA

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the review and analysis of business, functional, system requirements specification and design documents to ensure testability; reporting of gaps/discrepancies.
• Participate in story and design sessions to provide appropriate feedback regarding requirements and design change request.
• Experienced working with Agile Methodology
• Performed analysis of Requirements, User Stories, acceptance criteria, Design documentation and user guidance etc.
• Prepare a product test plan and test strategy., condition and scenario.
• Participated in daily scrum, release planning, retrospective meeting and provide status update to the team member.
• Perform Functional, Integration, Regression, GUI, End to End, User Acceptance, Back-end, Web Service, Security, Exploratory and Compliance Testing.
• Developed and updated existing automation framework and setting up test automation environment.
• Comfortable working in Java-Eclipse-Selenium based applications, and did cross browser testing.
• Collected web-elements in bulk, dealt with the challenges in identifying WebElements using xpath/cssSelectors.
• Developed, maintained automation scripts & executed them in Selenium WebDriver.
• Prioritized, parameterized, grouped scripts in TestNG Frame Work
• Utilizing Selenium WebDriver to find web elements from web browser, worked in Eclipse, batch run scripts with Jenkins/Ant for deployment and maintenance
• Worked on absolute and complete xpath in identifying web elements.
• Inspected web elements in Mozilla, Chrome, Internet Explorer.
• Used Selenium Web driver to validate different user by designing and developing data driven framework
• Perform Web Services testing using Soap UI tool for Functional and Regression testing by developing scripts.
• Participate in bug tracking meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug.
• Collaborate with Onsite/Offshore teams to coordinate test activities
• Used SoapUI for API testing both SOAP and REST full in different web services, and wrote Xpath/XQuery language codes to add various assertions for the test.
• Simultaneously worked on JDBC-Request in data validations with SoapUI Tool, XML/JSON responses in REST API/Automation.
• Created appropriate assertions like Contains, Response SLA, XPath Match etc besides using relevant GET,PUT, POST, DELETE methods to verify HTTP status codes as 200, 201, 400, 404
• Validated test data prior to production with JDBC request, looked into ambiguity on XML/JSON responses in REST-Assured/REST API
• Performed cross browser testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on Windows.
• Created and managed testing schedules based on release version.
• Perform back-end testing to ensure data consistency on the front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the database.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Windows 7,10,Windows Server 2008, 2012, VMWare, Selenium WebDriver, SoapUI, RESTfull API, Oracle SQL Developer, Jenkins, SQL, Apache Tomcat, JIRA

Confidential. Sioux Falls, SD

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all aspects of the pre-testing phase such as developing Test strategy, setting up the hardware and software for the test team etc.
• Able to identify approaches, risks, mitigation strategies to meet client/functional requirements In Agile Scrum environment
• Familiar in Agile Scrum responsibility for daily stand-up meetings, team collaboration, iteration planning, demos and retrospectives
• Developed all the deliverables document such as, Software Test Plan (STP), Software Test cases and Procedures, Requirement traceability Matrix (RTM) & Test Analysis Report (TAR) and are delivered in time as per the schedule.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, System Integration and UAT testing .
• Developed and maintained existing Test Plan and Test Procedures for the new enhancements and fixtures .
• Involved in writing manual and functional Test Cases, Test Scripts using HP Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to create, manage, run test suites, and generate reports for percentage of failures.
• Used Various Dependencies like Rest-assured, Hamcrest, Jackson Data-bind, TestNG inside pom.xml in Java-Maven-Eclipse Projects for Rest Automation testing in Web Service.
• Worked in Rest-Assured Rest API Testing and parsed/validated XML/JSON responses in REST API.
• Using Quick Test Pro extensively to automate testing the Functionalities of the application and using the scripts for Regression Testing.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Used Quick Test Pro to conduct Data Driven Testing by pulling data from a table.
• Define and developed Automation framework, Function Library, Reusable scripts and Recovery scenario using HP QTP.
• Developed automation test scripts used Visual Basic Scripts.
• Performed Test Execution when test environment became available and updated test result into HP Quality center.
• Used HP Quality center to log defect .
• Investigated system defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Responsible for writing SQL queries for accessing data from the Oracle database.
• Installed, recorded, parameterized scripts using QTP and inserting checkpoints into them.
• Used Descriptive Programming & created automation script and maintained Object Repository, performed maintenance activities.

Environment: Agile Scrum, HP Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, SoapUI, Load Runner, XML, Windows, Web Logic, Quest Software (TOAD), Benthic Software (Golden).

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Functional and Backend tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile Scrum team to ensure clear communication and organization of the team, along with maintaining the product backlog and release plan and facilitating the core scrum ceremonies.
• Responsible for identifying and solving system deadlock, data loss, and data corruption issues
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data, referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Worked with Developers, Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated for every test event.
• Developed and maintained test data scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in customer settings and with internal management. Strong active listening, facilitation and presentation skills, self-motivated, quick learner, detail oriented, time bound, responsible, team player and ability to coordinate in a team environment.
• Versed in Agile Scrum as worked in Agile Scrum Environment collaborated with the team (daily stand up, planning, retrospective, grooming and review. Facilitated impediment in a timely, cost effective manner in Agile Scrum methodology. Monitored and produced key metrics e.g. velocity, burn-down, burn-up, cumulative flow etc, daily collaboration with the team at the scrum of scrums to report impediment(s) for escalation
• Well Versed in HP Load Runner, QTP, QC. Used the data driven testing as an automation framework using HP QTP.
• Used HP Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases, scripts, logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Used HP QC for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Perform the tasks of ensuring that the data is stored and maintained properly in the backend
• Performed Web service/API Testing using SoapUI automation tool (Used SOAP/REST and WSDL).
• Used Various assertion in SoapUI tool, parameterized messages though GET,POST,PUT,DELETE methods and verified HTTP status codes like 200, 404, 500

Environment: Java, XML, SOAP, Restful API, Apache, HP Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, Linux, Windows 7.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases based on the Business Requirements.
• Manually conducted Black Box, Functional, Regression, Positive, Negative, User Acceptance, System and End-to-End testing.
• Worked with checkpoints, parameterized scripts for multiple sets of data, manipulated dynamic objects, output values, regular expressions, recovery scenario and optional steps, created functions & functions libraries, associated them with the related actions and called them into the scripts, created scripts with descriptive programming without Object Repository and updated them in OR later
• Stored Requirement using Requirement tab, developed Test Cases using Test Plan tab, executed the Test cases using Test Lab in HP Quality Center. Logged and tracked defects by using QC.
• Involved in Functional, Regression testing. Developed SQL queries for database testing in MS SQL Server
• Developed and maintained automation scripts using QTP for Regression test suite. Performed data driven testing with dataTable in QTP. Worked with Dictionary, ADO and application objects, enhanced automation scripts, debugged and updated them in Quality Center
• Tested the web interfaces both manually and also by capturing the screens using the automated tools, creating and editing the scripts for data driven and other types of tests.
• Worked in Agile Scrum environment, having daily scrum meeting, removed impediment daily basis
• Tested messages in Soap(WSDL) & Rest API in Web Service Testing, user various assertions and did property transfer
• Summarized detail test reports with Defect logs and sent them to developers through proper channel.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, Linux, Putty, Toad, Tomcat, SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server.