SUMMARY:

• Over 8 Years of professional IT experience in the areas of system testing, design, development and automation of test strategies for enterprise products, coordinating offshore activities.
• Skilled Test Automation Engineer with expertise in Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• Proven track record in project turnaround, E - commerce applications, QA process improvements, cost control, and leading projects/teams to exceed customers’ expectations and deadlines.
• Experienced in implementing QA Processes, leading multiple Projects with Multicultural teams, developing Test strategies, Metrics.
• A self-starter with clear understanding, goal oriented approach to problem solving, well-organized and excellent communication skills. Ability to work under strict deadlines.
• Well versed in Agile Methodologies, scrums, sprints planning, retrospective.
• Excellent problem solving with a strong technical background and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in defining Testing Methodologies, designing Test plans and Test cases, verifying and validating web and desktop applications.
• Detail and technical oriented individual; excels in highly precise and mission critical work with solid judgment and decision making skills to all levels of staffs.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Requirement Analysis
• Functional Documents
• Agile Methodology
• Risk Mitigation
• Design/Build System Test
• Building Test Lab Environment
• Test Automation
• Communication Skills
• Test Matrix and Bug Tracking

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Junit 3, Junit 4, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, JIRA

Languages: Java, Visual Basic, PL/SQL, VB Script

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Environment: JDK 1.8, Selenium WebDriver, JIRA, Confluence, Git, Cucumber, Maven

Responsibilities:

• Programmed automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver that adapts to dynamic responses and interacts with page elements as a real world user.
• Regularly identified and appropriately communicated risk and risk mitigation strategies to members of assigned project teams.
• Experience writing Gherkin test cases implementing BDD with Cucumber.
• Responsible for developing automated acceptance test suites using Selenium and Cucumber framework.
• Ensure the integrity and maintenance of the QA environment through proactive collaboration with Development and Application Support.
• Involved in setting up continuous integration system using Jenkins and working knowledge with cloud based code repository system like Git.
• Enhanced Selenium automation scripts with Page Objects using Page Object Design Pattern.
• Worked on Web Services Testing using SOAP UI 4.5.1.
• Solid understanding of Agile Scrum model that allows us to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.
• Maintained regression test scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java programming language.
• Utilized JIRA and Confluence to read and review user stories and to create and assign tasks.
• Performed Back end testing using SQL queries to access the main database.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables and to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Used Maven for building the Selenium WebDriver project and maintained various test artifacts in test automation framework depending on changes required.
• Implemented Data Driven automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG from scratch.
• Experience in Web testing tools like Firebug, Fire Path, customized XPath, and Chrome Console.
• Contributed in the coordination of releases to QA and production.
• Worked with automation architect to setup Jenkins and implement continuous integration.
• Extensively contributed to designing and executing Integration and System tests.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. QA Automation Analyst

Environment: Oracle, ASP .Net, Java , Selenium WebDriver, Rally , Test Drive, GitHub

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test Automation Methodology for automated testing of the entire application by using Selenium WebDriver.
• Involved with complete SDLC of the project and coordinated UAT testing efforts.
• Participated in Go/No-Go calls to assist in negotiations and decision-making.
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and have Exposure to Agile process and methodologies.
• Mentored and monitored offshore QA resources for regression testing.
• Facilitated meetings with BAs, SMEs to address any open questions the team may have defined, maintained and delivered Test Artifacts to QA Architect.
• Involved in writing test plans, and created tools which keeps track of every day test runs, and calculates the ROI at the end of the project.
• Validation General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Cash Management and CRM modules.
• Performed data integrity testing by using SQL queries and executed backend testing.
• Used GitHub as subversion to maintain source repositories of the test automation scripts.
• Ensured proper business compliance and worked closely with users, developers and business managers to understand BRD, business processes for QA testing and debugging walkthroughs.

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Environment: Oracle 10g, Windows API, Java, Web Services , C#, Selenium RC, Bugzilla, Manual Testing

Responsibilities:

• Involved in functionality testing, interface testing during various phases of Waterfall test model.
• Designed scenarios for test execution to ensure functional quality meets or exceeds.
• Worked closely with Software Architect and Solution Architect in developing QA strategy.
• Responsible for data coordination using databases in phases and environments of Functional testing.
• Ensured QA fully participates in post-mortem analysis and communication.
• Responsible for communicating the project deliverable bottlenecks to the QA Manager.
• Performed root cause analysis on various production issues, and coordinated with various technical teams.
• Used Bugzilla for repository, reporting and tracking defects, and providing updates on resolved defects.
• Work in conjunction with the manual testing efforts to optimize efficiency and reduce execution time by replacing repetitive and tedious processes with automation solution.
• Developed automation scripts for Web based applications using Selenium RC/Java and ported the test results to Bugzilla.
• Involved in creating the automation test scenarios, scripts from requirements and make sure the traceability between them.

Confidential

Quality Test Engineer

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, Manual Testing

Responsibilities:

• Managed Automation teams to implement consistent and useful automation approach for desktop, web and web services applications.
• Technical advisor for website profiling, sizing, workload planning and capacity planning to ensure high availability.
• Coordinated and participated in reviews of business requirements, functional specs, tech specs, test plans, test cases, and defects.
• Involved in writing user specifications, creating test plans and testing functional enhancements on the back-end using SQL Queries and front-end for client specific changes to programs, modules or process changes.
• Ensured the distribution of defect, test metric reports and release readiness documentation.
• Performed BPM with the client for efficiency and effectiveness of the project deliverables.
• Responsible in analyzing Business requirements, writing functional technical specification documents.
• Proactively identified areas for team growth and initiate/recommend improvement efforts.
• Involved in defining test objectives and test components for Financial and Payroll modules.
• Involved in writing Test strategies, Decision trees, Test planning, Test cases.
• Assisted in defect remedies for Data modeling and Data mapping for different forms.
• Involved in Test Data preparation for manual test execution.
• Collaborated with application support to identify and support production deployment activities.
• Identified various quality defects and reported to development team with required logs.
• Executed the test cases and updated the Test Tracker to nail down the bugs.