SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of IT experience as a QA Analyst in Client/Server and Web Based applications.
• Good knowledge and experience of software quality development and implementation, software inspection and testing.
• Exposure to all stages of SDLC and STLC (software test life cycle).
• Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience with good knowledge about Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Project Development Lifecycle and Project Management.
• Tested Web Services using Service Oriented Architecture using SDLC best practices.
• Proficiency in project management tools like MS Project, MS Office.
• Strong in analyzing business requirements and specifications and development of Test plans, Test scripts, Test cases and their execution.
• Proficient in System testing, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance testing.
• Good knowledge in QC, QTP and Selenium.
• Highly motivated, detailed oriented, has ability & experience to work independently as well as lead a team effectively. Possess excellent communication skill.
• Facilitate test case peer reviews with project & business stakeholders. Develop requirements traceability matrix to ensure appropriate level of test coverage.
• Status Reporting: testing status, defect - tracking status, and weekly status reports to the Test manager.
• Excellent testing skills with an urge to find hidden bugs.
• Ability to document and track defects as well as produce detailed reports using defect tracking tools such as Quality Center and Test Director.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Unix, Windows

Language: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Java

Testing tools: QTP, Quality Center, Selenium web driver Defect Tracker: Quality Center, Test Director,Jira, TRAC

Testing Frameworks: TestNG, Junit, Cucumber

Data Bases/ Tools: PL/SQL, IBM DB2, AllBASE, Oracle 11g, PostgreS Documentation Tools: MS Office2003/2007,Adobe Acrobat

Web Tools/ Scripting Tools: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Bloomington, IL.

Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Understand business and system requirements of application by working closely with Business Analyst and development.
• Participate in creating Test Plan, Test Case Design and test script walkthroughs.
• Participate in providing estimates for different testing tasks.
• Analyze Manual Test Cases to determine possibility of automation.
• Create SQL queries to fetch test data for new test cases.
• Fabricate data to create required test data to achieve 100% test coverage.
• Developed automated test scripts in Selenium Web driver for Regression Test Suites.
• Enhance Automation framework with reusable functions to ensure code reusability.
• Peer Review of Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Execute test suites and analyze expected and actual test results.
• Fix and maintain test scripts as and when required.
• Test Web Services using SOAPUI tool by providing different inputs through WSDL and document test results.
• Test web services using automated scripts with Rest Assured.
• Write automation scripts and participate in peer reviews.
• Report and document defects found during test cycles. Participate in defect prioritization sessions .
• Record defects in Trac and meet with developers to get them fixed.
• Provide daily test execution metrics that included number of test cases passed/failed, number of defects based on status and severity levels to project team members.
• Escalate issues and risks as appropriate to ensure project deadlines are achieved.
• Attend daily status meetings to discuss ongoing issues.
• Create/Issue/Deploy builds for development/implementation/production environment.
• Document existing issues and solution.
• Perform Technical Checkouts during production implementations.

Environment: JDK 1.6, Rational Software Architect 8.0, WAS 8.0, IBM DB2, IBM OPTIM, Data Studio, Subversion, Selenium Webdriver, Trac, Junit, ADA, EJB, Message Queues, SharePoint.

Confidential - Wilmington, DE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand business and system requirements of application by working closely with Business Analyst and development.
• Understand business and system requirements of application by reading Requirements Specification Document and Technical Specification document.
• Attend meetings to understand Manual Test Case flow to determine possibility of automation.
• Create SQL queries to fetch test data for new test cases.
• Develop automated test scripts in IBM Rational Functional Tester for new Change Requests.
• Execute test scripts and fix test ware issues.
• Defect Management activities throughout the project life cycle.
• Enhance Automation framework with reusable functions to ensure code reusability.
• Peer Review of Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Execute test suites and analyze expected and actual test results.
• Fix and maintain test scripts as and when required.
• Provide daily test execution metrics that included number of test cases passed/failed, number of defects based on status and severity levels to project team members.
• Escalate issues and risks as appropriate to ensure project deadlines are achieved.
• Attend daily status meetings to discuss ongoing issues.
• Document existing issues and solution.

Environment: JDK 1.6, IBM Rational Functional Tester 8.5.1, IBM DB2, Toad, Cucumber, IBM Rational Team Concert, SharePoint.

Confidential - McLean, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from users and translated in to system requirements and specifications.
• Involved in creating automation test scripts using selenium, cucumber built on Eclipse IDE
• Working on continuous integration environments and frameworks
• Triggered the automation jobs using Jenkins to get the cucumber JSON reports
• Identifying the bugs and updating them in CDETS cisco internal bug generator tool
• Identified the test cases required and uploaded them in TIMS cisco internal tool
• Worked on agile scrum based methods for BDD
• Working for unit system functional software test automation.
• Understanding the design and implementing it in the development phase
• Showcasing strong back end middleware and API functional automation using web, SOA/API, Rest/API, XML/API, JSON
• Used Gherkin languages to write features and scenarios

Environment: Windows 7, Selenium Web driver, Java, Eclipse Ide, Jenkins, Git, Maven TIMS, Rally, cucumber, UNIX, oracle 10g, IEX.

Confidential - Sprint, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, reviewed and developed test plans, test cases and other documentation.
• Prepared the estimates and schedule for testing activities.
• Designed the Framework to encompass all the Portal pages and subpages.
• Development of the function libraries to cover all the Portlets of the Portal
• Developed the scripts for capturing the Page Load time.
• Creation of Test cases, Test Plans and Test Harness.
• Responsible for the implementation of the quality/testing strategy.
• Developing the Function Libraries.
• Develop the reusable components to use accordingly in the Framework.
• Setup of Automation test Environment.
• Execution of automation scripts for regression suite.
• Design the Database to parameterize through Excel and MS Access.
• Automation Test Script development approach and Test Case creation.
• Responsible for automated Test Suite Execution approach, Object Repositories and Management.
• Involved in Test Data generation for cycle one.
• Design Test Results, Analysis and reporting.
• Design and developed the reports to be displayed in Excel, Access and HTML Format.

Environment: Java 1.5.X, MS Access, Test Director, Windows. XML, SQL, Oracle.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand functional logic using the requirements mapping document provided by customer.
• Attend Test Planning meetings.
• Create High-level test cases and test scenarios to ensure maximum test case coverage.
• Test Case Design using DOORS Tool.
• Create complex SQL queries to retrieve data from source and target databases.
• Organize query resolution meetings with business partners to clarify doubts and document all queries and their answers in query resolution database.
• Develop macros and shell scripts to automate several repetitive manual time consuming activities.
• Motivate team to deliver test results within testing deadlines specified by the client by implementing different innovations.
• Continuously improve on existing QA processes to increase team's productivity and quality of the deliverables.

Environment: : AllBASE, IBM DB2, IBM Command Editor, UNIX, Core Java.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and the Technical Specifications.
• Developed automation test scripts using WinRunner.
• Developed test plans and written test cases as per the business requirements.
• Conducted GUI testing to check for appearance and properties of the application.
• Performed Manual Testing to test the usability of the application.
• Written user-defined functions and generated Test Matrix.
• Performed Back end Testing-using SQL.
• Regression testing using WinRunner for the database verification.
• Performed security testing of the application to check unauthorized access.
• Used Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Documented bugs found out during the process of testing using Test Director.

Environment: : WinRunner, Test Director, Clear Quest, Oracle, and UNIX.