PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Almost 8 years of excellent IT experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing spanning across Healthcare, Finance and Security domain including testing in web/desktop apps, data warehouseand otherclient/server based applications
• Extensive experience in Agile(SCRUM) Methodology, Waterfall Methodology, test driven development and incremental integration testing
• Well - versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and bug life cycle
• Database testing on Microsoft SQL Server - including creating SQL queries, manipulating test data
• Verification of Source to target dataflow including counts and data validation
• User Story grooming, retrospectives and effort estimation using story points
• Experience includes testing client/serverandwebapplications using manual and automated testing
• Task creation and resource allocation in TFS for the upcoming sprints and backlog items.
• Expert in preparing test plans, test strategy, test cases, test scenarios, organizing test data, executing test cases and documenting test reports for both manual and automation testing
• Strong experience in automation test tools like Selenium and QTP for functional and regression testing
• Test automation planning and feasibility analysis on automation framework
• Familiar with Web UI automation testing using Selenium
• Extensive experience in using Advanced Selenium tools like SeleniumWebdriver, IDE, RC and Ant Build
• Contribution towards POC on automation frameworks and other test tool
• Performed keyword driven and data driven testing using HP QTP/UFT
• Expertise in test management tools such as Quality Centre
• Experience in product testing and process/product standards compliance
• Coordination with offshore teams ensuring seamless bidirectional handoffs
• Experience in ad-hoc prioritization and scheduling of test activities with minimal impact on deadlines
• Documentation and maintenance of QA artefacts
• Ramp up new team members to bring them up to speed with existing team members
• Experience in test environment setup and test infrastructure development in both manual and automation testing.
• Experience in functional and non-functional (Accessibility, Usability, and Compatibility) testing types
• Expertise on black box testing techniques, like BVA, ECP, decision tables and use case testing
• Expertise in defect analysis and defect reporting using Bugzilla and HP ALM
• Experience in preparation of automated tests within the keyword driven automation framework
• Possess excellent communication, documentation and technical writing skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies
• Working alongside domain SMEs and functional experts on critical to quality factors determination based on release objectives

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, SOAP UI, Compliance, RESTful API, SOAP Web Services

Automated Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver/RC/IDE, Quick Test Professional, Eclipse, Jenkins

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Test Director

Tools & Utilities: MS-Office, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes

Scripting/Languages: Java, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XML

Version Management Tool: SVN,PVCS, IBM Clear Case

Web Accessibility Tools: SAHI,A-Prompt 1.0.6, Color Contrast Analyzer 1.1.1

Operating systems: Windows 7/XP, DOS

Browser Testing: Multi Browser Viewer 3.5.0.0, Browsers - IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, North Carolina

Environment: Java, HTML, XML JSP, ADB2

Responsibilities:

• Requirement understanding of product extensions and testability analysis
• Create and execute on test plans, test strategies, and test cases for client-facing web applications and related back-end systems
• Preparation of high level and low level test scenarios
• Identify and create test data
• Status reporting in daily stand-up meeting
• Participation in retrospective meetings
• Coordination with offshore team
• Contribution towards POC of automation framework
• Test Automation planning and feasibility analysis on automation framework
• Designing and executing automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver framework using Java
• Worked on Control statements for writing scripts for multiple scenario statements and decision making scenarios
• Worked on arrays which help us have some set of data of same type in a static way
• Worked on Threads and Multi-Threading concepts for running scripts in different threads that will help us achieve better performance
• Worked on Java Collections Framework (JCF) to compare the data from Web app UI with the database
• Worked on File Streams for externalization of data through CSV, Excel or Java Properties file
• Worked on SOAP web services
• Created test strategies and performed test planning
• Wrote and reviewed test cases
• Created test data and performed test execution
• Development of tools to expedite test data creation and test execution
• Performed smoke, regression, UAT and functional testing
• Performed accessibility and browser compatibility testing
• Worked as a defect prevention analyst for quality assurance and CMMI compliance
• Managed defects in ALM/HPQC and company proprietary Star team
• Worked closely with development team and business analysts for resolution of bugs or design issues
• Took ownership of QA activities which were running behind schedule and striving to complete them with minimal impact on deadlines
• Documented and maintained QA artifacts on ChilternWiki portal
• Ramp up new team members to bring them up to speed with existing team members
• Sought regular feedback from manager and colleagues

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test battery creation, test battery setup, test execution planning
• Defect management at system and integration testing levels
• Functional testing, database testing and query optimization
• Worked in Agile methodology
• Worked in Windows Communication Foundation Framework
• Worked in HL7 Standard
• Worked in EDI for data exchange
• Understanding of business requirements and identification of testing requirements
• Test stream planning activities
• Developed and executed test cases for Android and iOS testing
• Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements
• Performed functional, integration, and regression testing
• Developed automation test scripts using Selenium in Java
• Worked on Looping statements for scenarios of iterating through a large table to find a record that you want and running the same test multiple times
• Worked on File Streams for externalization of data through CSV, Excel or Java Properties file
• Defect management at system and integration testing levels for functional testing
• Documentation and mentoring of associates on the team
• Led walkthrough reviews
• Represented offshore team in KT sessions with SMEs and functional experts

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Prepared test scenarios and test cases on the basis of specs provided
• Performedsmoke, regression, UAT and API testing
• Performed performance testing using IMACROS tool
• Reviewed handoffs and tested applications accordingly
• Interacted with the client regularly
• Updated manual test cases to automated
• Performed black box testing techniques like BVA, ECP and Decision Tables
• Created automated scripts in VB using QTP
• Ran generated automated scripts on cross Browsers.
• TestedAPIs over the Linux environment
• Actively participated in the Weekly engineering meeting

Confidential

Application Engineer

Roles & responsibilities

• Requirement understanding and creating test cases
• Performed smoke, regression and user acceptance tests
• Logging and tracking the bugs in the Bug tracking tool Test Director
• Performedintegration and system testing
• Test execution planning
• Test execution & defect management
• Test object & defect metrics collation
• Involved in regression testing
• Prepared weekly and monthly status reports
• Provided timely feedback to team members and shared meetings results with immediate managers