SUMMARY:

• QA Automation Engineer with over 8 years of experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Developing Test Strategy, Test Scenario Design, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Test Reviews. Diversified experience in Automation and Manual testing serving various domains such as Manufacturing, e - Commerce, Retail, Telecom, Unified Communication, Finance.
• Experienced in Analyzing, Designing and Implementation of QA Testing strategy for Web based and Client/Server applications using Automation testing and manual testing.
• Experience of working extensively in Agile Testing Environment.
• Experience in creation and execution of Test plans, Test Script and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated Testing.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing & implementation of all QA test strategy plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server and Web applications.
• Extensively used Jira and QC for specifying requirements, updating Test Cases, application testing status reporting, maintaining Test scripts and observing traceability.
• Involved in analyzing business and technical requirements and workflow of Software Development Life Cycle-SDLC.
• Experience in working with Test Driven development (TDD/BDD) by writing Gherkins language in cucumber tool.
• Implemented BDD Frame work using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, TestNG, GitHub, Build management tools like MAVEN.
• Used external jars Apache poi API's to get the test data from Excel sheets.
• Experience in building Continuous Integration/Delivery automation solutions for each product/project via Jenkins.
• Experience in developing in Core java programming using OOPS concepts.
• Experience in writing SQL queries using Joins, Views, Select, Update.
• Experience in using version control software like GitHub, Subversion, CMVC, Documentum, and Vasont.
• Experience in Design, Development and Executing testcases from User Stories/Work Items.
• Proficient performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Sanity, Functional, GUI, Backend, Integration Testing, Regression Testing & UAT.
• Good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Excellent work ethics, self-motivated and willing to learn and adapt new technologies/ any environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall

Software Testing: Functional, Database, Security, Performance, Desktop Applications, Windows and Web Services.

Technical Leadership: Estimations, Project Planning and Project Scheduling, Project Execution, Task Assignment, Tracking and Status Reporting, Risk tracking and Management, Team Coordination and working with various Cross Functional Teams, Impact Analysis, Change Management, Agile, Waterfall and Prototype Models

Automation and Framework tools: Selenium (Selenium Web Driver), Java, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, RFT

Test Build & Integration Tools: Maven, Jenkins

Programming Languages: Advanced C, Core JAVA, C++

Databases: MYSQL, Oracle.

Testing Frameworks: BDD Framework

Other tools: Jira, Rally, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Eclipse, FireBug, Fire Path, Clear Quest, RFT, RQM, Cadillus

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

Markup Languages: HTML, XML, XPath, CSS Selector

Version Control: GitHUb, CMVC, Subversion, Perforce

Operating Systems: UNIX, WINDOWS

MS Office Tools: Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Web and Desktop applications

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Project Managers, Development Team, Business Analysts, and End-Users for better quality testing. Worked closely with business team to understand the Requirement Document in creating Test Plan.
• Involved in preparing Test plans and Test cases based on business requirement documents.
• Conducted smoke, functional, regression and user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients as specified in the functional requirements.
• Designed developed and implemented user acceptance testing protocols as the final phase of applications development.
• Developed TestNG framework for the application to automate.
• Generated reports and analyzed the pass and failed criteria in the test cases.
• Developed Test cases based on the technical specifications and business requirements.
• Tested the workflows for calls, text, video, audio, group chats, Web conferencing meeting schedules for various OS and browsers.
• Used Shoreware Director to create and manage data files and connect to hardware systems.
• Used all manual test cases and wrote Selenium Automation scripts to run in the background through Jenkins.
• Supported UAT Testing by developing UAT test cases for business users to execute.
• Measured the response time at different points in the application.
• Used Quality Center for requirement analysis, scheduling and generating test cases.
• Prioritized and classified the bugs. Generated and tracked the defects using bug tracking tool.

Environment: Selenium with Java, Quality Center, Junit, Perforce, Salesforce Defect tool, SQL, UAT, Oracle, Agile

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Project Managers, Development Team, Business Analysts, and End-Users for better quality testing. Worked closely with business team to understand the Requirement Document in creating Test Plan.
• Wrote Manual test cases and involved in automating test scripts using Java implementing Rational Functional Tester.
• Performed Functional, regression, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing for the various applications.
• Actively involved with SCRUM and sprint meetings, Iteration Planning, Release planning, Retrospective meetings and removing obstacles to progress.
• Worked in Waterfall environment as well for few releases.
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability matrix.
• Performed Black Box Testing, UAT Testing and extensively used RFT for Regression, Smoke, Functional Testing and data driven testing using excel file.
• Involved in the Quality Assurance Analysis and Testing Information System.
• Performed the application compatibility in the Versions of Chrome, Mozilla firefox, and Safari and Internet Explorer browsers.
• Conducted regression testing after every new build.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Clear Quest.
• Extensively interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Performed all test assignments to ensure the application meets business requirements and client expectations.
• Interacted with developers & various members of project team to discuss and resolve defects and to determine their priorities.
• Worked with global teams to share knowledge and report work status. Performed Integration testing and End to End testing of the entire application.
• Participated in quality audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality standards, procedures, and Agile methodologies are being followed.

Environment: Confidential Rational Quality Manager, Confidential Rational ClearQuest, Confidential Rational Functional Tester, Java, Eclipse IDE, Confidential CMVC, Accessibility tools (Webking and Rational Policy Tester), Xenu, FireBug, Agile and Waterfall

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the Functional requirements.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects.
• Designed and executed Manual test cases.
• Presented test cases to business for peer review and ensure completeness.
• Provided the Test status reports, Testing activities and documented issues to the QA Test lead and QA manager.
• Involved in the Regression Testing after each modification and enhancement.
• Performed defect logging and tracking.
• Documented the raised defects and followed up with development team for defect fixes.
• Involved in Functional and performance testing of the web-based application
• Responsible for writing SQL queries for accessing data from the SQL database
• Executed SQL queries to validate the data in target database.
• Coordinated with UAT team by providing them with test cases and test data.
• Involved in End to End testing of business rules on the Web based application
• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, JAVA, XML, VB Script, MS Office, Oracle