SUMMARY:

• Acquiring 9 years of immense experience in Leading Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in testing Client - server applications as well as Web-based applications.
• Experienced in Banking, Financial, Telecom and Retail domains and worked with on demand releases.
• Experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and developing Automation Scripts using Quickest Professional(QTP), Selenium RC, IDE, Web Driver to ensure proper business compliance.
• Worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Experience in mobile automation using Appium.
• 5+ years of experience in web user interface automation testing with Selenium Web driver, Java, Junit and TestNG frame works.
• Performed automation testing using Selenium and Java Scripts for testing GUI Functionality .
• Developed Functional Automation scripts using VBScript in QTP .
• Good Experience in Agile methodology with SCRUM, CI, and CD Process using Maven/Jenkin
• Proficient use of HP ALM, Quality Center and Test Director to manage the software testing process.
• Good exposure to various bug tracking tools, such as BUGZILLA, JIRA, etc.
• Experience in using the Xpath, CSS Selector for identifying the UI objects
• Experienced in all stages of testing, Functional testing, smoke testing, integration testing, new feature testing, regression testing, security testing, Compatibility testing, backend testing, usability testing, GUI testing, and configuration testing.
• Experience with end users to supporting UAT testing.
• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions and Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.
• Expertise in testing SOA with Restful/SOAP Web Services. Created entire architecture for backend testing internal and third party API using Test Complete and Soap UI.
• Excellent experience with source version control tools such as Subversion &Github.
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Experience with testing on UNIX and LINUX environments.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WEBDRIVER/IDE/GRID/RC, QTP 11.0, Protractor, Load Runner 8.0, UFT, Cucumber, XPath, Firebug, Appium.

Language/ Script: JAVA, JavaScript, C#, VB Script, C, SQL, Python, Ruby.

Frameworks: Junit, TestNG, TDD, Jasmine, Jbehave.

Web technologies: HTML, XML, JSP, .NET, J2EE, JavaScript, CSS3.0.

SOA Technologies: SOAP UI, REST, WSDL, UDDI, Web Services.

Bug Tracking: JIRA, Bugzilla, HP Quality Centre

Build/ CI Tools: Travis CI, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Hudson

Databases Technologies: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012/2014, Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

Platforms: Mac Environment, Windows 7/Vista/XP/8, Unix, Linux Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

SDET/Automation Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed business requirements, business rules, created test plan and detailed test cases for projects.
• Worked with the QA Manager in developing Responsibility Matrices for the Team members periodically.
• Used Selenium Web Driver and Selenium Grid for testing the application in different machines on different web browsers at a same time.
• Attended Business reviews and Functional walkthroughs and identified the functional problems in the Application under Test.
• Expertise in using Agile methodology with Continuous Integration, Continuous Development Process for the product development.
• Extensive experience in the Quality Assurance and Automated /Manual testing of web based, Client/Server applications using Black box and White box testing techniques.
• Effectively participated in every day agile scrum stand-up meetings and participated in Iteration planning and retrospective meetings .
• Validated the data in the database by using SQL queries .
• Implemented Frame work for Selenium RC scripts using Java and TestNG.
• Proven ability in developing BDD/TDD scripts with Cucumber and writing step definitions for behavior.
• Executed Regression test suite on each build and for different testing phases using Jenkins .
• Used SQL queries to perform the back-end testing on SQL Server .
• Made use of Testing Framework for the creation of automated test cases.
• Guided the Team for their day to day activities and preparing them to reach the deadlines.
• Actively participated in Teleconferencing with the clients, sponsors and end users every week regarding the progress of the project.
• Helped in preparation of test plans in accordance with the business requirements.
• Involved in performing Automation testing (emulators & IOS Simulators) & Mobile Application Testing using Appium.
• Responsible in executing test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility .
• Involved in testing both SOAP and REST services using SOAP UI, Postman, Rest Assured and Tested both XML and JSON formats.
• Reported defects using JIRA and interacted with the development team to resolve any defects/issues
• Involved in backend testing of the application by executing SQL commands.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing progress of testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Conducted regression testing after every new build.
• Perform both manual and automation testing and created various test results to track the testing results
• Used JIRA as a repository to record all project testing efforts and to keep track of the defects
• Configured Maven for JAVA automation projects and developed Maven project object model (POM). Investigated software bugs and maintained reports, tracked defects.

ENVIRONMENT:: Selenium Web Driver,, java, TestNG, SQL Server 2010, HP ALM, Jira, Firebug, Agile, Github, Jenkins, Cucumber,SQL Queries, SOAPUI, REST, Appium.

Automation Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Good Experience in Agile methodology with SCRUM, CI, and CD Process for the product development.
• Involved in automation tools in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/RC to develop automation testing scripts for the applications.
• Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Firepath to locate elements.
• Involved in building automation framework from scratch using Selenium/Appium Web Driver, Cucumber, JAVA, Junit, TestNG, Jenkins, Maven and Eclipse.
• Used Selenium Grid to run test cases in multiple browsers and Platforms.
• Involved in preparing the functional test cases using test design techniques data validation concepts Equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis .
• Integrated Appium for distributing tests on the cloud.
• Developed automation scripts for mobile native applications using Appium, Java and Selenium.
• Prepared test data document and Involved in generation of bug and test case execution reports.
• Logged and managed defects using ALM defect management tool
• Strong experience with SOA architecture which include Soap and Restful Web Services Testing.
• Performed web services testing with SOAP UI by validating request and response for XML, JSON files.
• Performed data driven testing by using JDBC and Groovy script as a data source in SOAP UI and configured SQL queries to fetch data from the Oracle database.
• Preparing the Load Runner Scenarios and Executing the Scripts in Controller machine and analyzing the results.
• Performed Coded UI automation testing for the application using Microsoft Test Manager.
• Involved in writing SQL Queries for backend testing.

ENVIRONMENT:: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, SOAP UI, SQL, Oracle, Junit, TestNG, Appium, Eclipse, Java, Load runner, HTML, Agile, GIT, HP ALM/QC.

Sr. Software Quality Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created test plans, developed test cases and executed them
• Worked in Agile development environment.
• Involved in testing efforts by analyzing the requirements of the applications and developed Test Plan document.
• Performed Functionality Testing of all the graph types and Statistical Tool.
• Developed Test Summary report for Functional test, Regression test.
• Kept track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Analyzed BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Used eclipse, IDE and TestNG framework to develop test code in java language
• Extensively used Selenium IDE to record, playback and debug individual test cases, using Selenium RC provided more flexibility in automating test cases
• Involved in Hybrid(Keyword & data) driven framework design using Selenium
• Extensively used Jenkins for continuous integration and delivered automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow.
• Executed SOAP based web services for API testing (Java client and SoapUI)
• Developed test scenarios, test plan and test cases based on (SRS) System Requirement Specification.
• Implemented API Testing for testing of an independent Graphing Tool.
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, Back-end etc.
• Developed and maintain scripts for Regression and Integration Testing.
• Created different types of testing documents such as Test Progress report, Test Analysis Report etc.
• Developed test scenarios and create test plan and test cases based on FRD for Logging Database.
• Communicated with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.

Environment: JIRA, Oracle, UNIX, Java, J2EE, JSP, XML, HTML, TFS, Java Script, Windows, Selenium WebDriver, SOAP UI, SQL, Oracle, Junit, TestNG .

Automation Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handle functional testing activities for some of the modules.
• Responsible for implementing standards for web based applications. Standards include creating manual scripts to do Quality Testing and documenting all procedures and processes for frontend and backend files.
• Reviewed new or modified programs, including documentation and specifications, to determine if program will perform according to user request and conform to guidelines.
• Performed feasibility study to automate the application with selenium
• Participated in Automation Test Plan, involved in reviewing the scripts written by peers
• Involved in design and implementation of automation framework for smoke and regression test suites using Selenium RC.
• Developed test scripts using Selenium RC, Executed Automated Test Scripts & analyzed the results
• Automated regression test cases using Java Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility
• Performed Regression testing on new builds, every modification in the application using Selenium RC.
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts for generating SQL reports.
• Identified differences between established standards and user applications and suggest modifications to confirm to standards.
• Executed regression tests, functional tests and data tests. Reported, tracked, and help determine priority of reported bugs.
• Participated in Walk Through, Requirement review meetings and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Escalated the issues in the application to the project team.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with the developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Oracle 10g/11g, MS Project, UNIX, Selenium WebDriver/RC, SQL.

Manual /Automation Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participated in walkthroughs for the evaluation of the Test plan with the QA Lead, design and development team.
• Involved in Planning and reviewing the Test Scripts for Functionality, Regression, Security, Database and User Acceptance testing of the application.
• Designed different test scenarios to cover all features of Service Requests for project.
• Performed Manual Testing on different Services of the project by executing the Test Scripts.
• Automated Web Services Tests (Rest API’s) to test individual services based on URL’s provided to support UI functionality.
• Responsible for test management (Tests cases, tests and defects) through Quality Center Manually.
• Analyzed BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Developed and maintained scripts for Regression and Integration Testing.
• Involved in design and implementation of automation framework for smoke and regression test suites using Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed test scripts using Executed Automated Test Scripts & analyzed the results.
• Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility.
• Performed Regression testing on new builds, every modification in the application using Selenium Web driver.
• Created test cases for manual testing of the application functionality.
• Participated in Uploading all the Manual Test Scripts to the Quality Center and performed User Acceptance testing of the applications.
• Testing of Web Services using web services client generated SOAP UI to check request and response SOAP Messages.

Environment: Windows Server 2000, Oracle 9i, JBOSS, JMS, MVC, Struts, Servlets, JSP, EJB 2.0, CSS, HTML, XML, SOAPUI, REST

QA Tester/Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in White Box, Black Box, Functionality, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Generation of Data for execution of Test cases.
• Responsible for analysis, reports and defect tracking.
• Generate test records, Modify scripts to do regression test.
• Developed and submitted viable test plans to test accuracy of data conversion.
• Developed SQL scripts and stored procedures using PL/SQL.
• Actively attend meetings with fellow testers and other groups to evaluate the progress and Performance of the application.
• Well versed with complete life cycle of Manual Testing process with waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in leading a Manual Testing assignment and successfully tracked progress of Manual testing effort.
• Used Quality Centre for preparing the Test Plans and manual Test scripts.
• Created data driven script to be used with various data / test cases for positive and negative testing of the application.
• Used Test Director for defect Tracking and defect reporting.

Environment: Windows Server 2000, Oracle 9i, JBOSS, JMS, MVC, Struts, Servlets, JSP, EJB 2.0, CSS, HTML, XML.