SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of expertise as Software Quality Assurance in Manual/Automated Testing.
• Worked extensively on creating and implementing Automation Framework using Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development.
• Quick starter, Self - learner and a good team player with excellent leadership abilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/Vista/7/10, UNIX, Solaris, Suse Linux

Testing tools: Unified Functional Test (UFT), Quick Test Pro (QTP), SOA 9.5, SOAP UI 5.2, Test Automation Framework

Other tools: TOAD, CA Agile, ClearQuest, ALM, ApTest Manager, Bugzilla, ANT build tool, VersionOne, CA Lisa Virtualization, Dimensions

Microsoft Tools: Office 365, MS Office 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, DB2

Environment: JAVA, C#, VB .NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work as technical Team lead in agile team
• Work closely with business and IT teams to ensure requirement and delivery commitment
• Responsible development of test plans, test scenarios and test strategies to facilitate the process of testing.
• Create, update, and review test automation in UFL and Selenium.
• Perform SWAT calls and escalation for High priority SEV 1 and SEV 2 defects.
• Create cross-container defects and follow-up in expedite manner with respective teams.
• Manage multiple projects and assignments to onshore and offshore.
• Request specialized testing service ticket for environment issue and build request.
• Participate in weekly environment meeting for future release activities.
• Work on multiple releases on different test environments concurrently.
• Identify impediments for test team and resolve in timely manner.
• Identify area to improve in regression for production release and review with team to minimize regression scenarios.
• Communicate with development team, SM and environment team for work assignments, status, escalation and issues, capacity planning weekly meeting.
• Keeps weekly team meeting for special test activities, priorities and automation
• Provide effective communication of project status for management and stakeholders.
• Perform Sanity and smoke test in UFT, and Selenium after every successful build.
• Performed System, Integration and regression using SOAP UI and SOA tool.
• Conduct UAT and get acceptance from stakeholders.
• Participate in GO-NO GO call and provide test certificate prior to release.

Environment: SOA Test 9.9, UFT, Selenium, CA Agile, ALM, MDW Designer, SOAP UI, Caliber, Eclipse, TOAD, JAVA, Dimensions

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test strategies to facilitate the process of testing.
• Participated in Sprint planning meeting for estimation of new stories to be worked on, dividing stories into tasks. Estimating for smaller tasks.
• Performed black box, smoke, functionality, integration, GUI, system, database using QTP.
• Used Quality Center to create, manage, run test suites, generate reports for percentage of failures with proper Severity, Priority, test case status etc.
• Lead team for automation and determine test cases for automation.
• Developed automation Test scripts using VBScript in QTP.
• Developed data driven functions using excel files and flat files to perform the same test with multiple sets of data using Data Table functions in QTP.
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT.
• Worked on Multiple releases on different environments at the same time.
• XML Spy was used for web service testing like mortgage calculator request and response data.
• Successful replacement of the way mortgage.com gets rate information from a database based back-end to an XML based back-end.
• Handled dynamic objects by using descriptive programming using VBScript.
• Validated database operations by executing SQL queries and compared actual database with new database partitions to assure there is no data missing.
• Participate in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request.
• Co-ordinate with other team during promotion.

Environment: QTP, QC, Version One, C#, TAF, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Rational ClearCase, XML, MySQL, Linux

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and the Functional Specification for application.
• Developed Test plans, test cases, test scenarios and strategies facilitating the testing flow.
• Used functionality testing on the application using QTP with hybrid approach.
• Effectively performed negative testing using Recovery Scenario Manger of QTP.
• Performed data driven functions using flat files and excel spreadsheets and thus reused the functions with various data sets in QTP.
• Created Automated Regression Test Scripts and used Mercury QTP to run regression test cases
• Worked in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with UI Interface (front end), Service Interface (Middle Tier) and Database Interface (backend)
• Performed database testing on Oracle Database and tested data input.
• Created Test Suites and Test Cases to validate Web Services using SOAPUI and iTKO Lisa
• Involved in Front-end as well as back-end Testing.
• Performed integration, GUI, system, Database, Smoke, UAT and regression testing.
• Usage of different checkpoints for evaluation ran synchronization on test scripts and developed reusable actions and action parameterization on these actions.
• Extensive usage of Quality Center for storage and maintenance of requirements, tests, test cases, defects and scheduling automation of test cases.
• Used Descriptive Programming to handle dynamic Objects using VBScript.
• Tested SOA Web services XML provided to the third party vendors.
• Reporting defects/bugs on Quality centre for tracking and evaluation.
• Generated reports and graphs for frequent evaluations from Quality Center.
• Implemented Regular Expressions in the script to handle dynamic windows/ objects.
• Coordinating with developers and business analysts for the regular updates on requirements, builds and defect review meetings.

Environment: Java, Oracle 10g, C#, Mercury QTP, Quality Center, XML, SOAPUI, Web Spehere, Web Logic

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Business requirement documents, Functional specification documents to prepare Test conditions, Test cases, Test Scripts and effort estimation.
• Agile methodology was implemented in the work environment.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings as part of Agile Methodology to discuss work accomplished, planned work and raise issues.
• Used Customized Framework for Action Level and Script Level standardization in QTP.
• Handled Timeout Problems in the script using Synchronization Points in QTP.
• Created and maintained Automation Framework by implementing documentation and standards using QTP.
• Automated the test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using QTP.
• Created the regular expression, and output values in the application. Checked for Broken links and number of links using QTP.
• Created Output checkpoints to verify run time values and to use them as input in actions.
• Created, scheduled and executed many benchmark, performance and other scenarios to meet specific testing requirements.
• Created Data Driven Tests that randomized the test data, for testing the AUT with real life test conditions using Excel file and database.
• Created WSDL and SOAP requests for functional testing using SOAPUI by adding assertions for validation.
• Validated Request/Response XML data using SOAPUI.
• Used XMLSpy editor for updating web services testing.
• Used Quality Center for reporting the bugs and writing the test cases.

Environment: HP (Mercury) Quality Centre 10.0, Quick Test Professional 9.5., SOAP UI 3.5.1, Win XP/2000, SQL, UNIX,LINUX

Confidential

Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Making a HT rating of circuit breaker up to 33kv with indoor and out-door. also making vacuum contactor.
• Generation of client drawing like front view, door layout, wiring, single line diagram, schematic ( i.e. Incomer, Outgoing, Transformer Feeder etc..), foundation & preparation of bill of material.
• Overall responsibility for interaction with clients for the approval of drawings. And for various technical specification.(i.e. interlocking, change over scheme, auto re-closing).
• Give requirement of raw material to purchase, production departments for execution of the above drawings.
• Preparation of manufacturing drawing and electrical drawings.
• Day to day in house follow-ups i.e. with workshop, quality department and dispatch for the various interlink activities required for execution, timely delivery and completion project of this kind of projects.

Environment: Microsoft Office, Windows 98, C, 8051, PSPICE, AUTOCAD 2004