SUMMARY:

• Around 6 years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance with strong experience in Service /SOA /API Testing & Service Virtualization using CA DevTest /iTKO LISA toolset
• Expertise in all phases of software testing life cycle and specialized in SOA/API Testing
• Expertise in testing various types of SOA based services including Web Services (SOAP/HTTP(S)), REST Services MQ & JMS
• Expertise in understanding Service Virtualization needs/ Requirements & creating VSI’s using WSDL, WADL, Recording, Request & Response pairs
• Experienced in using XSD, WSDL, XPath, XML Spy for service testing
• Experience in working with various ESB teams that has used variegated integration tools like webMethods, IIB (IBM Integration Bus), Data Power, TIBCO & JBOSS for developing services
• Expertise in implementing & using service testing tools: iTKO LISA /DevTest & SoapUI
• Expertise in developing automation testing framework using iTKO LISA, SoapUI, QuickTest Professional
• Strong experience in performing System, Integration, Regression, Performance & UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Extensive J2EE development experience with heavy use of all important Java technologies
• Experience developing test plans and automating test cases following standard testing frameworks and agile methodology, using selenium RC and TestNG, JUnit
• Strong experience in performing System, Integration, Regression, Performance & UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Experienced in preparing test strategy, test planning, execution and test automation
• Very good knowledge in SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: ITKO LISA, CA DevTest, SoapUI, UFT, QTP, Quality Center, Selenium

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS - Access.

Database IDE s: Toad, DB Visualizer

Languages: Java, SQL, XML, HTML, VB Script, Java Script

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Version Control Tools: Stash Git, Subversion, Visual Safe Source

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. SOA Tester & Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identify the pain-points, constraints in the interfaces and services and produce Virtual Services for those constrained systems, using fully validated test data that covers all pre-defined test scenarios and provides multiple 24/7 Virtual Service Environments (VSEs) to be used by development, functional and performance testing teams Perform hands on DEVTEST (LISA) Virtualization and configuration setup for Web Services
• Leading a team of 10 QA testers and 2 QA Leads
• Create virtualized service models using CA/ITKO DEVTEST (LISA) services
• Create scripts for testing of services using SOAP UI or equivalent toolset
• Test data preparation for DEVTEST (LISA) script execution
• Validate services using SOAP UI and CA/ITKO DEVTEST (LISA) by testing XML request and response data
• Interact with testers and developers on collecting requirements, payloads, data for service testing and service virtualization
• Configured selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure teams to create, release and manage multiple on-demand virtual environments (VSEs)
• Coordinate with development, functional and performance testing teams to ensure the virtual services and VSEs provide full test coverage starting from unit testing phase through to SQA/System and UAT testing phases
• Help build a Service Virtualization knowledge base- including lessons learned, best practices, tools, and methods and learning events
• Provide technical expertise for both virtual service producers and consumers
• Effectively troubleshoot issues
• Maintain the virtual service environments with the latest version of DevTest and perform the upgrade and migration

Environment: DevTest 8.5, Altova XMLSpy, selenium, IBM Web Sphere, ESB, WebMethods, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Toad, Jira

Sr. SOA Tester & Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Tested and Automated Various ETL Transformations which facilitate Daily, Weekly &Monthly Loading of Data.
• Used Toad and SQLPlus for execution of ETL Processes' PL/SQL procedures, packages for business rules
• Created Virtual services using WSDL, Request & Response pairs, deployed to VSE environment, tested virtual services before giving GO to consumer applications.
• Involved in troubleshooting of any issues found while invoking Virtual services
• Over 50 services developed in the webMethods ESB layer using SOAP/HTTP(S), REST, MQ, JMS protocols were successfully tested and virtualized, where needed & applicable.
• Unit testing of services to validate boundary conditions, field length & type restrictions, optional & required field behaviors
• Validated XML/JSON response messages for well-formed ness and schema validation
• Use various out of the box Filters & Assertions with in iTKO LISA to validate the actual response with expected response.
• Prepare automated test scripts using selenium tool required for regression test phase of the project.
• Had regular meetings with Developers to report various problems
• Extensively used ETL Data Stage to load from different source systems and load into the target data warehouse.
• Extensively used ETL Data Stage to load from XML and flat files into the target data warehouse
• Used XMLSpy for reading schema definitions to understand the required, optional field definition, boundary conditions, enumerations, message structure
• Plan & manage service testing to ensure that the overall service functionality & Data Mapping /XSLT is appropriate.
• Plan & manage test execution schedules across multiple test cycles and defect management

Environment: DevTest 8.5, Altova XMLSpy, IBM Web Sphere, ESB, webMethods, DB2, Oracle,

SOA Tester & Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Virtual services ( VSI, VSM) where needed to address environment bottlenecks
• Analyzed and used various Match Styles and Match Scripts based on the virtualization needs
• Used Image Validation Execution mode to configure Response Selector step to invoke live service when request didn’t match the configured request-response pair data
• Performed standalone testing of SOAP/HTTP services using Raw Soap Request step in iTKO LISA
• Used XML-XML Comparison assertion to validate the expected XML with the actual XML response
• Used XPATH filters and assertions to fetch and validate the desired data in the response
• Requested WSDL’s & XSD’s from developers to understand the required and optional elements within a schema and developed the test scope and test data accordingly
• Used the ‘Write Properties to Output File’ step to write the desired results of test execution into a csv file to be shared with the project stakeholders
• Developed Test Plan document and Test Cases based on the requirements specified in the software requirements specification document
• Conducted in test case review meetings with Business and Development teams to ensure complete coverage of business and functional requirements
• Extensively used SQL to perform backend testing and data validations
• Analyzed the automation requirements, designed automation framework & developed automation scripts, reusable functions
• Coordination with client and status reporting

Environment: iTKO LISA 5.0, WebMethods, ESB, Oracle, Toad, Quality Center

SOA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in performing stand-alone service testing using SoapUI, Schemas & SOAP/WSDL
• Used schemas (XSD’s) to generate /mock request messages and ensured that the response conforms to schema definition and any defined mapping and transformation rules
• Used Filters and Assertions (XPath Match) to compare the result of an XPath expression to an expected value
• Hands on experience using groovy scripting to develop custom utilities and for data driven testing in the SoapUI free version
• Identified critical integration points, data relationships between different operations with in a service and other services and systems and developed test strategies & test cases accordingly for Integration testing
• Coordinated with different teams involved in the project to get data required for Integration testing
• Used Quality Center for Requirements Management, defect management
• Developed web based automation test scripts using QTP
• Created Shared Repositories, Data tables, functional libraries for QTP test scripts

Environment: SoapUI 4.5, UFT 11.5, Oracle 11i, Toad, SQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server