SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of Software Testing experience with emphasis on Functional Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, and Exploratory Testing
• Excellent hands on experience in working on UNIX and Windows based environments
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle
• Analyzing the business processes and procedures in organization to identify problems and determine solutions
• Extracting requirements from business, organize them into related categories to manage effectively, and translating the same as technical requirements
• Proven experience with front end back end integration testing of data and with strong functional and technical abilities
• Experienced in agile testing and TDD/BDD methodologies
• Excellent problem - solving skills with a strong technical background and good interpersonal communication skills
• Expertise in Mobile Application Testing for J2ME, Symbian, Blackberry, and Android apps
• Experience in Black Box testing and NSTL certification testing
• Quick learner and excellent team player having an ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
• Excellent hands on experience in Keyword driven framework for Selenium Automation
• Worked on Protractor-Cucumber framework for automating AngularJS based web applications with AEM(CQ5) as content management system
• Hands-on experience in content management using Adobe CQ5 (Adobe Experience Manager)
• Experienced in Test design, Test execution, preparing Bug Reports, Status Reports, and training material
• Sound knowledge of End-to-End QA process
• Good customer/business interfacing experience with excellent communication and analytical skills
• Current role as QA Lead for Confidential Next-Gen project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Java Scripting

Database: SQL Server, MySql

Testing Tools: Selenium KDF, Protractor, Cucumber

Strong Areas: Manual Testing, Test Automation, Web UI Testing, Database Testing

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux and Windows

Other Tools: HP ALM, Rally, Git, Toad, JIRA, Bitbucket, Adobe CQ5 (AEM), Eclipse, Pronto Tool, DOORS, Jenkins, SVN, SOAP, REST, DevTest, NVDA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead/SDET

Environment: Windows 8/9/10, iOS, Android

Responsibilities:

• Initial kick off meeting with Business Analyst and Developers to understand the application architecture and technology.
• Determining the requirements by extracting them from business and users, and organizing them into related categories to manage and enable effective team communication by sorting into types according to their source and applicability.
• Analysis and understanding of functional requirements.
• Demonstration and walk through of Critical Business scenarios.
• Estimation of level of efforts for the Sprint cycle.
• Development of Functional test plan and sign-off from stakeholders.
• Design of test scenarios based on functional requirements.
• Content management in AEM and testing the same by authoring the content, creating pages, creating components and generating the workflows for QA validation.
• Automating regression/functional scenarios using Protractor-Cucumber framework.
• Execution of Sanity tests and functional tests.
• WCAG 2.0 Accessibility testing of web application in desktop and mobile devices.
• Building service virtualization to enable uninterrupted environments for development and testing of the functionality.
• Working with Dev teams to improve the test coverage by leveraging unit tests.
• Identification of issues and logging the defects/bugs in JIRA/Rally.
• Retesting of Ready for test defects.
• Documentation of test findings and preparation and sign-off of Test Summary report.
• Daily and weekly status reporting to the Client manager.
• Knowledge transition training and mentoring within Project team.
• Presentation of various metrics and value additions to Clients through review meetings.
• Assigning the tasks to the team members and follow up of the tasks
• Sending test summary reports to the Clients
• Chairing the meetings for release plans and release testing activities
• Preparing project level presentations for various team meetings
• Rally Project Admin activities for entire Project
• Triaging the release defects

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: Windows 7/8/10

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and documenting the business requirement. Analyzing business requirements and document the functional requirement. Review the functional requirements with all stake holders like business operation team, engineering team, change management team and production support team.
• Prepare test plan to align with project plan for QA deliverable. Plan functional, regression, Business/User acceptance, Usability, Language acceptance testing in accordance with Project scope and code delivery dates. Prepare resource estimation plan and task allocation to the team
• Plan and perform effective software testing through a combination of familiar structured test techniques, rapid test practices and test automation where beneficial. Developing solutions to deliver quality products to clients through people and processes.
• Work with cross functional teams to pursue on dependent tasks. Share test execution and defect status to the client. Consolidate weekly progress and communicate to the client. Review the milestone status, identify the risk & mitigation.
• Provide post production support in the War-Room to enable smooth normalization of the new requirements on the Production Environment. Prepare release postmortem report and share with Client.
• Conducting daily Sync-up meetings with offshore team
• Preparing the Sprint burn-down charts and updating it on a daily basis
• Assigning the tasks to the team members and follow up of the tasks
• Sending test summary reports to the Clients
• Chairing the meetings for release plans and release testing activities
• Preparing project level presentations for various team meetings

Confidential

Technical Scrum Master/Module Lead

Environment: RedHat Enterprise Linux

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and drafting out the test plans
• Developing the Manual/Automated Regression suites
• Manual/Automated execution of the Functional, System test cases
• Working on critical functionalities like Backup & Restore, Software Upgrade
• Creation of builds using Jenkins CI tool for system testing
• Developing new automated test cases using Shell scripts in TAF
• Reporting the deviations observed from the test results by understanding the system logs
• Regression testing on the deliveries which are fixed by the development teams
• Setting up the customer environment for Alpha testing and executing the customer use cases
• Performing RCA for bugs missed in testing and updating the test plan
• Conducting daily Scrum meetings
• Preparing the Sprint burn-down charts and updating it on a daily basis
• Assigning the tasks to the team members and follow up of the tasks
• Sending test summary reports to the Clients
• Chairing the meetings for release plans and release testing activities
• Preparing project level presentations for various team meetings

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: Windows

Responsibilities:

• Understand and analyze Business, Functional, Technical and UI (User Interface) requirements of the project/release.
• Create Test Scenarios, Test Conditions & Expected results and Test Cases.
• Create required test data and maintaining the same.
• Create test deliverables as per Testing Standards.
• Execute Test Scripts and document test results.
• Log defects and verify defect fixes.
• Identifying potential issues proactively that could impact Quality, schedule or budget of the Project/release.
• Assigning the tasks to the team members and follow up of the tasks
• Sending daily test summary reports to the Clients
• Participating in weekly status sync-up client meetings

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: Windows and Mac

Responsibilities:

• Understand and analyze Business, Functional, Technical and UI (User Interface) requirements of the project/release.
• Create Test Scenarios, Test Conditions & Expected results and Test Cases.
• Create required test data and maintaining the same.
• Create test deliverables as per Testing Standards.
• Execute Test Scripts and document test results.
• Log defects and verify defect fixes.
• Identifying potential issues proactively that could impact Quality, schedule or budget of the Project/release.