PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Test Lead for four test teams including two QA teams and two UAT teams
• Solutions oriented IT professional with 8.4 years of experience in testing various software applications like Web based, Mainframe based, Mobile device and Client Server applications
• Experience with Functional testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, GUI Testing, Security testing, Smoke testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Software Validation testing, UAT, Batch Testing, Interface testing, and Performance Testing
• Extensively worked in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes designing, developing and execution of the entire QA Process
• Expertise in test management using HP Quality Center and IBM's TDP
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and QA Methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative process
• Experience in BDD automation with Selenium, Cucumber with Gherkins.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plans, Test Strategy documents, Test Cases & Test Scripts based on business requirements, rules, data mapping requirements and system specifications
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix ( Confidential ), Defect Report, and Weekly Status Reports, Checklists, Job Aids, Test Readiness Review Documents, Test Summary Reports
• Device testing on iOS, Android, Windows Platform and multi browser testing
• Experience on Web Accessibility and Mobile Device accessibility testing
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/Problem Solving, which includes reporting and tracking bugs using HP Quality Center, Bugzilla
• Strong knowledge and experience in backend testing to validate data against database like SQL Server using SQL Query Language
• Experience on automation Web based application with Selenium Web Driver and Core Java

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Tools: HP Quality Center / ALM, JIRA, VANTIVE, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver

DBMS/Query Tools: SQL Developer, QMF

Requirement Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rally Dev, IBMs TDP

Database: MySQL, DB2

Systems/Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Windows XP/7/8, EXTRA Attachmate, Selenium

Technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Core Java

Testing Area: Black Box Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, E2E Testing, Volume Testing, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing and UAT

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Modified Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performing User Acceptance Testing for web applications that utilizes a Java front end and Mainframe / Oracle back end
• Responsible for taking requirements gathered from business clients to prepare a test plan, have it reviewed by business leaders, perform UAT and get results verified
• Review web application portal including documentation, diagram and flowchart to determine if application will perform according to user request and conform to guidelines
• Participated in the creation, distribution and walkthrough of software test cases, scripts and other documents surrounding testing activities and ensure that all testing activities and deliverables are conducted/produced in compliance with company standards
• Prepared Test Cases for system testing and uploaded them into Quality Center; Linked the test cases to the business requirements; Defects to Test Cases
• Involved in preparing Confidential by link and sync process, mapping the test cases with the appropriate requirements in Quality Center
• Review the test activities through daily Agile Software development stand - up meetings.
• Device testing on iOS, Android, Windows Platform and multi browser testing
• Working with many Native and web based simulator like android, iPhone etc. for software Integration testing
• Working with cross platform, cross-browser design understanding to support multiple devices and browsers testing to enhance testing process
• Excelled in finding, documenting and reporting bugs, errors and other issues within proprietary software and web applications developed for our company
• Support business and development team throughout project implementation.
• Attended and worked with agile scrum standup meetings
• Experimented with BDD automation using Selenium, Cucumber and Gherkins test tools for web modules.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP for Regression testing
• Consistently recognized for excellent problem-solving and analytical skills by programmers, project managers and supervisors
• Environment: HP Quality Center 11/ALM, QTP 10.0, Java, HTML5, Microsoft Office, etc.
• Automation: Automated Web based application's regression testing with Selenium WebDriver
• Responsible for end to end delivery of test scripts to Confidential & Confidential for regression suites of legacy applications.
• Responsible for deciding areas which can be automated or if not can be migrated to open source technologies.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Gherkin, Test NG, Java, Eclipse, Oracle 10g, Java Script, Jenkins, HTML, Windows, Linux, Firebug, Firepath, GitHub, Agile Scrum, HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Scrum Sprint planning meetings and retro meetings.
• Analyzed user stories wrote test scenarios, Prepared the test cases based on finalized test scenarios.
• Modified test cases in accordance to changing requirements or design.
• Prepared test documentation like test plans, test strategy, test bed, test cases, test data, test build reports and walkthrough it with all the project stake holders.
• Reviewed the test cases created by other team members and suggested the missed scenarios and ensured 100% coverage with requirements traceability matrix ( Confidential ).
• Validated Backend database testing by writing SQL queries.
• I used UNIX command to check the error logs.
• Executed the test cases and reported the defects in Test management tool and tracked in HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Generated test execution reports and uploaded validation documents in share point Web site for review.

Confidential

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the discussions with the project team of defining Performance requirements, Load Scenarios and work load patterns.
• Understanding business requirements and developing the Automation Test Scripts.
• Involved in Regression Testing and creation & execution of test scripts.
• Designing element identification XPath and CSS selectors.
• Involved in generating Test Scripts using Selenium for different transactions to execute Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing.
• Developed Performance Test plan, executed Load testing, analyzed the results and generated load testing Reports Using Jmeter.
• Raising defects in JIRA & tracking them to closure.
• Involved in developing monitoring scripts for all the servers participated in the testing.
• Used FirePath Tool to identify the Object’s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Understanding of JUnit, Framework and annotations.
• Create Test Data for test purposes and Set up test bed.
• Review requirements and provide constructive feedback to business/development.
• Define/ create Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test acceptance criteria, Test Cases and used the baseline scripts for future Automation.
• Tested several Informatica Mappings to validate the business conditions.
• Used SQL Assistant to write SQL and query the database tables.
• Used Inner join, Outer Join, MINUS operations and Case statements in SQL scripts.
• Created complex SQL queries to validate the initial and incremental ETL loads.
• Execute test, evaluate results and report them correctly.
• Done the feasibility analysis of test cases, which need to be automated.
• Responsible for the JMeter script development including HTTP/HTML and JDBC for my assigned Projects.
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected results and maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Jira.
• Conducted Data Driven testing, cross browser testing and parallel test execution.
• Interacted with the project team to assign priority to test cases based on dependency and criticality.
• Constructed test data in excel for system testing.

Environment: Oracle 11g, TOAD, OBIEE11g, Teradata, Selenium, Cucumber, REST API,SQL Developer, Jira 6.0, Informatica, Tableau, Cucumber, JMeter

Confidential

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual, backend, report and web Application testing on project operated within agile environment, with 2-4 week sprints, daily scrum meetings, task waiting, presentations and review.
• Participated actively in Project Team Meetings, interact and communicate with developers and Business Analysts.
• Extensively used Oracle/SQL for Back-End Testing for ETL(Informatica) and OBIEE report testing.
• Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG , using Maven as build tool and Jenkins to create and run deployment jobs.
• Performed White-box testing and Test automation using Junit.
• Wrote Datadriven, Cross Browser automation test cases using TestNG framework.
• Created Maven build files to run the Selenium tests and created reports in HTML format.
• Running test plans and entering bugs found in to HP QCALM.
• Documented changes to requirements and tested their implementation in new versions.
• Experienced in writing manual test cases and tested various reports using SQL and EBS Application.
• Performed testing in the SIT, DEV and UAT environment.
• Written test cases for Absence, Benefit management system and OBIEE reports by executing SQL queries using TOAD to query Oracle database to perform backend testing.
• Used Quality Center to document and open defects and track them from time to time.
• Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects.
• Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.

Environment: Selenium, Java, Maven, SQL, Oracle, Teradata, HTML, TestNG, Quality Center 11/ ALM, White Box, Junit and Agile, OBIEE

Confidential

Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

• Started career as a mainframe tester for billing applications of Confidential, UK.
• Participated in the creation, distribution and walkthrough of software test cases, scripts and other documents surrounding testing activities and ensure that all testing activities and deliverables are conducted/produced in compliance with company standards
• Prepared Test Cases for system testing and uploaded them into Quality Center; Linked the test cases to the business requirements; Defects to Test Cases
• Involved in preparing Confidential by link and sync process, mapping the test cases with the appropriate requirements in Quality Center
• Review the test activities through daily Agile Software development stand-up meetings.
• Responsible for preparing test plans, attending review meetings, opening defects.
• Executing and setting up test JCLs.
• Creating and fetching reports for end user client via mainframe.

Tools: HP Quality Center, COBOL, JCL, Microsoft Office, Extra Attachmate, IDMS etc.