PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experience in designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases, test automation scripts and test processes fueling quick corrective actions
• Expertise in implementing & managing the processes of Automated and Manual functional testing of WEB and Client/Server applications
• Extensive contribution towards building up the Test Automation Framework using HP - UFT, MS-CodedUI & open source tools(Selenium WebDriver)
• Experience working in an Agile Development environment
• Thorough understanding of API/Web Services testing using SOAP-UI (SOAP WS ) and POSTMAN ( Restful WS)
• Flexible and adaptable, handling multiple projects with ability to work collaboratively and independently and competing priorities, adjusting project deliverables as needed and timely communication with project stakeholders (Product, PMO, Devs, fellow QEs & Management)
• Attention to detail, Organized, Analytical and Problem Solving
• Experience in scripting, analyzing, review and reporting of test automation developed in HP-QTP/UFT & Selenium WebDriver(using Core Java & .NET).
• Experience in all phases of software test life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Identified areas for improving efficiency, shortening of test cycles, and automation of test scripts

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Platforms: Windows7,Mac OSX, Ubuntu

Languages: Core Java, HTML,VB Script, PL-SQL, Java Script, XML,JSON

Databases: SQL-Server 2008

Automation Testing Tools(Web/Client-Server,APIs): HP-UFT12, MS-MTM, Microsoft Coded UI(C# / .NET), SoapUI(SOAP WS),, Selenium Web Driver (basic Java), POSTMAN( Restful WS)

Test Management Tools: HP-ALM, JIRA, Visual Studio -TFS,MS-MTM

Source Control System: Git, GitExtensions,SVN

Office Tools: MS Office-2007

Testing Frameworks: JUnit, TestNG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design and enhance automation framework, utilities and tools

• Build black and white box test automation that is effective, fast, robust, and maintainable using Java-based tools such as Selenium Web Driver and non Java-based tools with CodeUI/.NET & VB Script
• Developing functional automated tests for APIs to validate JSON responses.
• Participate and contribute to product code reviews
• Diagnose, track and manage quality issues to resolution
• Responsible for automating all the manual test cases and run them at 100% pass rate.
• Set up Jenkins(continuous integration) job to run the automation scripts on a scheduled basis.

Environment: Windows 7, .Net, VB Script, HP-UFT12.5, HP - ALM, Visual Studio-TFS SQL Server 2008, Selenium WebDriver (Core Java), Git, GitExtensions

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement test strategies and test plans in an Agile framework to identify software problems and their causes, including black box, white box, positive, negative, boundary, stress, integration, exploratory, usability, system, platform, or regression testing methodologies

• Participate in Daily Scrums and actively involved in Planning Poker, Sprint Planning, Sprint
• Review and Sprint Retrospective within the Team Communicate progress on the Test Automation using QA Leads/Manager through sprint Demos for automating the regression testing .
• Collaborated closely with Development and Support to analyze and resolve issues
• Developed advanced SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and/or calculate information to fulfill data and reporting requirements including identifying the tables and columns from which data is extracted.
• Analyze/profile data to meet project needs, create test beds and seed test data using Structure Query Language (SQL), or by other means based on environment, to ensure complete coverage of business requirements, functional and technical specifications are met with strong back-end data validation
• Contributed to the Automation Framework for a couple web applications and RESTful APIs and automated the testing utilizing CodedUI for .NET based applications and HP-UFT/QTP for apps that needed tests for IE.
• Understanding of Web Services (SOAP, RESTful) .Tested SOAP based WS using SOAPUI and used POSTMAN for RESTful based APIs.
• Thoroughly tested the HTTP response codes using POSTMAN for RESTful based APIs.
• Review test results, applied analytical skills to identify when issues need to be escalated and escalated associated risk and/or impact.
• Updating Acceptance Criteria for project specific user stories as needed to reflect a correction.
• Collaborating with developers on best practices for development and testing flow (Iterative, Component, Agile). Representing quality assurance standards and requirements effectively in ongoing communication with product and system developers.
• Conduct peer Code Reviews and provide Demo/Trainings, extensive documentation for the team for new solutions developed and/or for existing solution for future reference
• Project experience in GUI, Functionality Testing, System testing, including Integration and Regression Testing of Web and Client-Server based applications
• Managed the defect process and conducting defect review meetings with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Windows 7/NT,Ubuntu, HTML, .Net, VB Script, HP-UFT, HP -ALM, SQL Server 2008, Bugzilla, Visual Studio-TFS, CodedUI, MS-MTM, Selenium IDE, Git, Git Extensions

Confidential, St. Petersburg, Florida

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed directly and through staff, date-driven analysis and testing plans, managing schedules to ensure company goals are met; reports status, progress and provides explanations and future mitigations for deviations

• Involved in implementing Keyword driven and Data Driven Framework in HP-QTP 11.
• Design, implement and maintain to enhance Test Automation Framework being utilized across QA teams
• Utilized Automated Test Tools (HP-QTP) to increase efficiency and coverage with emphasis on modularization.
• Inserted the checkpoints, synchronization points; parameterized dynamic values; and grouped test steps into user-defined functions in HP-QTP
• Involved in writing, modifying SQL validation scripts in SQL Server 2008 to validate the outputs on the backend systems.
• Involved in creating user defined functions, function libraries, read and write from excel functions for the Data-Driven Automation Framework
• Identified defects during test executions, entered them into HP -Quality Center defects module for bug tracking and generated defect reports.
• Involved in developing SQL queries to extract the test data from database. 
• Extensive SQL queries for database migration testing using MS SQL Server 2008
• Involved in preparation of Test Results, Test Logs and follow up for resolution
• As designated QA-responsible for Test Plan, designing test case and setting up the test environments
• Developing directly date-driven analysis and testing plans, reports status, progress and provides explanations and future mitigations for deviations.
• Ensuring coordination with Product Owner and Development on scheduling of internal releases and scope.
• Implementing the Agile methodology successfully and comfortable with the Score Process.
• Maintaining and enhancing quality of the existing software by being thorough in research of issues-business and/or technical.
• Implementing test strategies and test plans in an Agile framework to identify software problems and their causes, including black box, white box, positive, negative, boundary, stress, integration, exploratory, usability, system, platform, or regression testing methodologies.
• Decomposing requirements into tasks and provide estimates for those tasks
• Ensuring that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, scalability, usability, security, object-oriented practices and performance
• Effectively communicating within a software development team consisting of software engineers, software quality engineers, and product managers.

Environment: Windows 7/NT, Ubuntu, .Net, VB Script, HTML, HP- Quick Test Professional, HP- Quality Center, Mainframe, SQL Server 2008, Selenium IDE,PL-SQL, JIRA, POSTMAN

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in regular regression testing on all the versions & releases.

• Involved in test case designing, review and development of manual test scripts.
• Involved in execution of automation test cases using HP-QTP
• Involved in preparation ,generation of defect reports using HP-Quality Center
• Performed API/Web Services testing for applications based on RESTful framework.
• Reporting the issues found in the AUT, work along with the Development and Requirements Team to help them fix.
• Optimizing the manual test scripts to reduce test cycle time and efforts.
• Arranging Tech bridges with Development, marketing and other support teams to resolve any critical issues
• Attending the walkthrough’s, conference calls, defect meetings and extended team meetings
• Co-ordination with Development, Marketing, Production support and Document writers

Environment: Windows 7/NT, .Net, ,VB Script, Quick Test Professional , Quality Center , SQL Server 2008, Waterfall -SDLC, Toad