PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• ISTQB certified Quality Assurance expert with around 9 years of experience in web based software applications Manual and Automation testing
• IT Experience in Agile as a Scrum Master and Sr. QA, Complete understanding of QA Methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile
• Actively involved in analyzing & reviewing business requirements, create Test plans & Test Scripts, design Use cases, Test cases & Test scenarios, create Test data & Test artifacts
• Good Experience of insurance domain
• Complete knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, Documenting, Maintaining and User Training.
• Experience in testing in production release and UAT testing
• Expertise in managing agile projects using JIRA/ Rally with good knowledge of agile methodology like Scrum and Kanban
• Experience includes the testing of Client/Server & Web based applications manually and using automated testing tools like Quick Test Pro ( QTP ), Selenium Webdriver, and Appium.
• Enormous exposure to formal software development, quality processes and standards
• Experienced in different types of testing including black box testing, white box testing, GUI testing¸ functional, system, regression, integration, UAT, End to end testing.
• Experience on databases like Oracle10g, SQL Server 2005/2008 for backend testing using complex SQL queries
• Knowledge and experience of Defect/Bug tracking system with the use of tools like HP Quality Center - ALM Jira, Rally and Project Tracker.
• Good hands on experience of using Selenium to run Regression test cases.
• Prepared the traceability matrices to fill the gap between the requirements & the test cases covered
• Facilitate/conduct Scrum Ceremonies and ensure timely resolution of impediments
• Experience in Test Estimation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Generating Metrics
• Experience on testing web services-REST and SOAP using SOAP UI
• Received Best Process Compliant Project Award and Best Team Performance Award
• Consummate team player with ability to work in collaboration with wide variety of functional areas like Development, UX, architectural, ETL teams with customer facing experience and excellent communication skills
• Excellent Analytical, Problem-Solving and Self-Learning Abilities
• Effective Communicator with strong Interpersonal Skills
• Excellent Training and Leadership skills
• Good blend of Onshore - Offshore Work Experience and with cross functional teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Windows 7, NT, Vista/XP/98/95, UNIX/Linux

Programming Languages: C, C++,java, PL/SQL, VB script

Enterprise / Portal: SharePoint Server 2007/2010/2013, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, InfoPath 2007/2010/2013, CAML, Web parts, SharePoint Designer 2007/2010/2013, Microsoft Project Server 2013

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2005/2008, Microsoft Access.

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe, SVN

Office Tools: Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Word, MS Excel

Tools: Rally, Mercury Quality Centre 11.0, SOAPUI, Fiddler, Swagger, GTWY Utility Tool and Exam XML, Emulator, QTP 11.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CT

Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. Quality Engineer, I am involved in in implementing the framework, Writing Manual test case, developing automation scripts for the new User stories and Maintain and run the Regression Scripts
• Creating Manual regression suit for end to end testing
• Defect tracking and defect management using QC Quality center
• Experience of QC tool for managing the complete Test management cycle.
• Requirement analysis and gathering and estimation in Rally Tool
• Educate other teams/ projects in implementing Agile methodology
• Ensure timely resolution of impediments
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross functional
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs to ensure on-time delivery
• Facilitate Demos with Stakeholders
• Perform Retrospective Sessions with team
• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint Progress to management
• Built test automation and Manual solutions in agile environment
• Participated and assisted in design of Proof of Concept (POC) with QA Lead
• Responsible to verify Web services API request, response data validations in REST architect.
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Cross browser testing and Data validation
• Monitored the automation results and updated automation scripts as required
• Integrated with TestNG for reporting purpose, Maven and Jenkins for build and deployment
• Wrote queries in oracle and executed them to modify /analyze the data from the oracle database and compared it with results from web service response.
• Used Rally for raising issues, bugs, defect tracking, writing suggestion, writing and executing test.
• Used Unix commands for verifying logs
• Used fiddler for checking failures in application

Technologies: Quality center QC, Rally. Java, Jenkins, Rally, Git, Unix, POM, Groovy, XML, Selenium Grid, Selenium 2.0, Firebug, TestNG, Agile/Scrum, Fiddler

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing
• Involved in Designing Requirement Traceability Matrix to analyze changes and identify the areas of application for Regression Testing
• Developed test plans, test cases for different modules of project
• Developed Automation scripts, review and execute regressions using Selenium Web driver
• Responsible for updating and maintenance of automation framework
• Performed cross browser testing in Chrome, IE and Mozilla Firefox
• Involved in functional, integration and regression testing
• Documented and reported all defects in HP QC
• Provided validation of data through SQL queries
• Facilitate Demos with Stakeholders
• Perform Retrospective Sessions with team
• Design and execute test cases for user acceptance testing
• Create test suite for regression testing using Quality Center

Technologies: Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, HP Quality Center ALM, Internet Explorer, Java

Sr. QA/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements & then create test scenario
• Writing, Reviewing and Executing test cases
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Cross browser testing and Data validation
• Early testing on the basis of exploratory testing to find as many defects as possible
• Performing functional testing, GUI Testing and XML Testing
• Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Defect logging, tracking and defect management
• Conducting process audit and work product audit for each release
• Creating on boarding kit and sharing it with new team members of the project
• Leading the team and taking care of process audits and part of defect prevention group
• Co-ordinate with onshore lead or client in weekly status calls

Technologies: HP Quality center, XML, Internet Explorer, Firefox, SVN

Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Test scenario document preparation and test case writing based on scenarios
• Involve in Test case execution & Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Involve in Integration, Regression, Functional testing, GUI Testing and XML Testing
• Defect tracking and defect management
• Writing application specific and general functions
• Writing scripts using Descriptive programming in QTP
• Debugging scripts while running regression test suit
• Test data generation for scripts and maintenance of scripts
• Performing different process activities like Peer review, self-review, Reviews
• Preparing knowledge capture document
• Train the new project joiners about the whole application functionality and processes
• Co-ordinate with onshore lead or client in weekly status calls

Technologies: HP Quality center, XML, Internet Explorer, Firefox, SVN, QTP

Confidential

QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Execution
• Responsible for all the audits related to QA self-audit, process audit
• Making sure that 100% requirements are covered by preparing requirement mapping documents
• Performing testing on different Browser Testing like Mozilla, different version of IE
• Early testing on the basis of exploratory testing to find as many defects as possible
• Defect logging, tracking and defect management by using ‘Task Tool’
• Daily Status Reporting to Client/Onsite team and having daily interaction with Client on calls

Technologies: HP Quality center, XML, Internet Explorer, Firefox, SVN, Task tool

QA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively interacted with the business customers in understanding the system requirements and
• Requirement analysis and gathering for Mobile testing
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan for simulator based mobile testing
• Responsible for Test Cases writing and Test Execution
• Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Used HTML, and CSS in view pages for front-end
• Done device testing on ‘Emulator’ and Create functional and technical specifications for projects
• Performing Integration, Regression and Functional testing
• Logging bugs in Defect tracking tool
• Performing Reviews

Technologies: HP Quality center, Emulator, Symbian, HTL,CSS