SUMMARY:

• Over 11 years of diverse experience as a certified software test professional in the field of Information technology with emphasis on Software, Adept in testing software products and handling projects efficiently for delivering the required applications by communicating with project teams to understand changes, impacts, discrepancies in a very systematic way due to skills developed in preparing estimates and test metrics, resource planning and onshore - offshore coordination over the years.
• Demonstrated abilities in executing projects related to banking domain (Functional), Regression, System and Integration Testing. Exposure in both Manual & Automation Testing.
• Worked on Web based & Middleware applications.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life cycle (STLC) and Agile methodologies. Exposure to the system as a Tester/Test Lead in Manual as well as Automation Testing.
• Assist in providing time estimates for project related tasks. Develop the methods and procedures required to identify whether current business goals and objectives meet organizational needs and work with QA and IT management to identify, record, track & report software development issues.
• Successfully executing the role of Test Lead and Analyst by managing, analyzing and strategize test planning and execution and defining, recommending and improving process.
• Handling people (offshore - onsite) and implementing the usage of correct Testing Methodology, Release Management and Test Coordination. Key Member & Anchor for the Knowledge Management Team - Coordinating knowledge exchange sessions and part of Defect Prevention and Audit team.
• Strong working skills with HP (Mercury) Quality Center, Squids, Version One, Test Director, Green Hat Tester (Rational Integration Tester ), Oracle, Selenium and MS Office tools
• Execution of automated test scripts using Selenium based on business/functional specifications .
• Proficient in different phases of testing like Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Proficient in testing SOAP Web Services.
• Ability to identify root causes and derive corrective actions to meet short and long term business requirements using resourceful approaches.
• Good Knowledge in Analysis of Problem Severity, Defect tracking system and Defect reporting system.
• Good work experience as a Project Co-coordinator and performed all QA management activities to ensure QA milestones are achieved.
• Manual Testing experience of web application, client-server and Database projects on Windows operating systems .
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios .
• Expert in Leading QA Projects and mentoring Team Members.
• Expert in developing the Use Case Stories which helps to cover the testing in different dimensions while using the applications.
• Ability to set and achieve goals, work well independently or in team, skills in identifying problems and meeting goals.
• Ability to work under strict deadlines and solid troubleshooting skills .
• Excellent communication and logical skills, leadership qualities, systematic approach and can work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Worked closely with BD team and to prepare the system requirement specifications based on the projects for the better products to reach the client expectations.
• Proven Risk Analyst to figure out the risk in the application as well as beyond the application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, Java, Python

Testing tools: Selenium Webdriver, Siebel eBiz, Selenium

IDE: Eclipse, Android Studio, Xcode, Maven

Framework: Cucumber, TestNG, ANT, Jenkins

Line of Business: CRM/Siebel Vertical/Life Sciences - Pharma, Partner Relation Management, High Tech and Automotive

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, ALM/QC, Squids

Confidential suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-Power Point, MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS Access

Databases & Tools: Oracle, MySQL, R

Servers: Windows 2003 Server, Ubuntu

Operating Systems: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7/10, Unix, Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Louisville

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
• Interacted with the Project Manager, Business Analysts and Developers to understand the application design and functional specifications.
• Implemented Data Driven automation test framework with Selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG.
• Served as a coordinator for all testing activities on a project.
• Wrote test cases to handle Alerts on the web page.
• Performed Cross browser compatibility testing on Chrome, Firefox, IE browsers using TestNG.
• Performed Selenium Synchronization using Explicit & Implicit waits.
• Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators.
• Used Firebug and Firepath for element identification while creating Page Object Repository.
• Worked in creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews and contributed to the development and execution of test plans and test scripts.
• Involved in writing and executing the Test Cases and Test Suites using Java and Selenium WebDriver.
• Designed Test Suite, Test Cases, Test Scenarios for functional modules.
• Executed test cases and participated actively in System Testing, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Created and executed Automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Database as source of Test Data.
• Created test reports generated out of TestNG and captured the error screenshots.
• Interacted with the Development team and the Environment team in prioritizing the defect list and validating known bug fixes.
• Found Defects, prepared Defect Reports and Status Reports, performed Bug Triage, Defect tracking using Rally.
• Shared Daily Status Reports with all the team members, Team Leads, Managers and Clients.
• Used Jenkins tool for continuous integration of the builds.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and Used SQL queries for retrieving data from database for executing user specific test cases.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Java, TestNG, Rally, XPath, Cucumber, Oracle, SQL

Confidential, Louisville

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working in a team as QA test lead with 4 testers using waterfall methodology.
• Working in Healthcare domain and team Clinical SIT for the client Confidential .
• Submitting authorizations for inpatient and outpatient.
• Rules testing for different scenarios. Provider page testing on clinical guidance exchange. Test case preparation and review for the projects in different releases.
• Test case execution for the release in the integration environment.
• Working on Selenium to start the automation in the project.
• Automation of the regression suit using Selenium WebDriver.
• Coordination with the onsite lead during all the phases of testing.
• Providing walkthroughs required for the detail understanding of the requirements. Daily status preparation during test execution for onshore and offshore separately.
• Working with the team in the preparation of Info Security audit.
• Testing team was initially following waterfall methodology and later started moving towards Agile methodology wherein sprints were defined for testing.
• Used SOAP UI for testing in few projects.

Environment: Squids, Soap UI, Selenium, Version One, Selenium WebDriver, Oracle, SQL.

Confidential, Phoenix

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working in a team as QA test lead with 4 testers using waterfall methodology.
• Working in Banking domain and team MYCA IQ for the client Confidential .
• Confidential provides credit cards to the customer and testing involves
• Logging into the customer online web page.
• Checking the benefits provided to customers by AMEX.
• All the navigation and the other features present on the customer web page.
• Test case preparation and review for the projects in different releases.
• Test case execution for the release in the integration environment.
• Coordination with the onsite lead during all the phases of testing.
• Participation in the walkthroughs required for the detail understanding of the requirements.
• Daily status preparation during test execution for onshore and offshore separately.
• Working with the team in the preparation of Quality audit.
• Worked with the test manager in the documentation required for the project.

Environment: ALM/Quality Centre, Oracle, SQL.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Automation of a middleware using Green Hat Tester (Rational Integration Tester) which processes the payments, generates reports, registers users.
• Prepared test scripts for the regression testing of the middleware.
• Prepared test data using scripts and used this data as the input for automated test cases.
• Prepared the scripts to pass the script into RIS and validate the actual output with the expected output.
• Understanding the business & technical requirements, create test scenarios and steps, test scripts, planning test and implementing necessary changes in the test plans.
• Involve in executing the tests scripts, reporting bugs, sanity and regression testing.
• Preparing status reports and closure reports during testing.

Environment: Green Hat Tester (Rational Integration Tester), Unix, ALM/Quality Centre.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• System testing of various banking and saving products offered by the bank.
• Test data preparation using Mainframes. Test minor or major enhancement in the existing bank web application.
• Understanding the business & technical requirements, create test scenarios and steps, test cases, planning test and implementing necessary changes in the test plans.
• Involve in executing the tests, reporting bugs, verifying & closing fixed bugs, sanity and regression testing.

Environment: Test Director

Confidential, Seattle

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Performing automated testing using Windows Testing Technologies and manual testing for the functional / system components.
• Requires good understanding of system design, business & technical requirements, automation framework, windows networking and troubleshooting skill on windows operating system. Involves patch testing of GDR (Global Distribution Release), which is essentially an event driven (if critical bugs reported from market) once in an eight weeks’ time.
• Understanding the business & technical requirements, create test scenarios and steps, test source code, planning test and implementing necessary changes in the test plans.
• Involve in executing the tests, reporting bugs, verifying & closing fixed bugs, automating bugs, sanity and regression testing.
• Looking after quality, defect prevention, configuration management and Knowledge Management of the various modules of the project.
• Initiating for the development of an application on VB.net/PLSQL for online quiz.
• Adding lot of values to the application to the original version.
• Leading a team of 2 members in this application.

Environment: Visual Studio, Windows Testing Technology, Oracle, SQL.