SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of hands - on experience with building and executing automated test solutions.
• Experienced in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test execution, Traceability matrices and Test Summary Reports.
• Extensively involved in various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with experience in the Testing Lifecycle (STLC) using Waterfall, Agile SCRUM, and Continuous Integration Models.
• Experienced in Functional, Regression, Integration, End User, Backend, API, and GUI testing.
• Participated in the QA process including validating, approving and reporting bugs reported by customers.
• Responsible for designing and developing Test cases and Scenarios that enable applications to maintain quality at a minimum leverage.
• Involved in the preparation of Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), Software Metrics, and Defect Reports.
• Experienced in Manual and Automated testing processes using HP Quality Center, HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), Redmine, JIRA, and GEB/Spock (Selenium Wrapper), Spock, Cucumber.
• Used Quality Center, Redmine and JIRA for bug tracking and test management.
• Wrote SQL Queries for back end testing.
• Experienced in writing Custom Functions, Reusable Actions, Recovery Scenarios, Optional steps using VB script in QTP.
• Strongly experienced in Descriptive programming and worked with shared Object repositories in QTP.
• Experienced in writing Groovy based automation tests using GEB/Spock/Selenium with jQuery and CSS Selectors for object identification.
• Designed and Implemented both Data-driven and Keyword-driven Automation Frameworks for web, windows based applications using QTP and GEB.
• Strong experience in working with business users for End User Testing - generated and communicated status report to different organization levels.
• Enthusiastic and motivated, with effective analytical, organizational and communication skills.
• Self-motivated and have ensured execution of tasks across multiple customers and priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP, ALM, GEB, JIRA, Redmine, Selenium, Cucumber, Serenity

Programming Languages: Groovy, Java, Javascript, Angular JS, VB Script, XML, HTML, SQL, C, C++

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux

Business Tools: MS Office, MS Office Visio, Confidential Connect, Sharepoint, Rally

Applications: Eclipse, Spring, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Oracle

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Production Incidents in JIRA to identify gaps in Automated Testing Coverage (Unit/Integration/API/Functional Smoke Tests)
• Reviewed code merge requests through GitLab
• Verified Fortify Security Reports according to severity levels and assigned defects to developers
• Assisted Performance Team in updating test reports for readability and improved conveyance of results
• Assisted Performance Team in establishing baselines for transaction timings

End User Testing Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Wrote EUT Test Scripts for End Users based on latest Release Stories
• Extracted and analyzed completed user stories from Rally on an Agile sprint by sprint basis
• Set up valid data for multiple users to ensure a smooth testing process
• Performed introductory walkthroughs of EUT process through AT&T Connect with offsite testers
• Provided support and answered questions through AT&T Connect during EUT Sessions
• Validated Stability and deployment of latest EUT Environment Release Candidates.
• Validated User Generated Defects and Process Recommendations and presented findings to Product Owners.
• Created Tickets for Product Owner verified defects in Redmine.

Environment: Windows, Sharepoint,Connect, Redmine

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported Embedded Development Team in testing activities within a Continuous Integration Model
• Analyzed and Sized Manual and Automated testing tasks for User Stories in 2-4 week Agile Scrum Sprints
• Reviewed Business Acceptance Criteria with Business Analysts in regards to Quality Assurance and Testing purposes
• Wrote and Executed Manual Test Scripts to cover User Story functionality
• Tested Backend Functionality with Oracle, Mule, ActiveMQ Queues
• Engaged with Developers to clear defects within Sprint Deadlines
• Created Automation Test Scripts using the GEB automated testing program with Java, Groovy, and Spock
• Updated Daily Builds and pushed code with GIT in multiple branches
• Ensured Completion of Automation Test Scripts within sprint deadlines to cover current sprint stories as part of Definition of Done
• Utilized Jenkins to oversee Automation Test Suite which was used as a final gate for code pushes
• Analyzed Automation Test Runs for Developers to pinpoint reasons for failures
• Presented Demonstrations of User Stories to Product Owners for final sprint check off

Environment: Windows, Oracle, Spring/Geb, Mule, ActiveMQ, Redmine, Gradle, Jenkins, GIT, LeanKit, Java, Javascript, Angular JS

QTP Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating test plans, test cases and test reports for various modules in the application.
• Executed Smoke tests Scripts.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results and metrics.
• Used SQL Queries to perform Data integrity tests to retrieve data from various tables and test the database.
• Designed automation functions in VBScript.
• Created Automated Scripts for Regression and Data driven tests using QTP.
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing Database Checkpoints and Data Driven Test Scripts using QTP.
• Designed and developed Data driven framework in QTP.
• Performed automation execution and analysis and prepared Daily Summary Reports.
• Prioritized issues and assigned to developers based on their severity levels.

Environment: Quality Center, ALM, SOAP UI,, QTP, J2EE, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, MS Office, MS SQL Server.