PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Eight Years of experience in Information Technology of QA experience with knowledge in functional and automation testing.
• Experienced in testing Stand alone, Web Based and Client Server Applications manually as well as using the automated testing tools like HP Quality Center/ALM 10.0.
• Well versed in Functional, Black box, Integration, GUI, Regression, database, Migration testing.
• Had work experience in Banking, Finance, Retail, Insurance and Loans applications.
• Hands on experience in most of the testing phases like requirement gathering, Estimation, Test plan, Test case preparation, execution and review processes, Root Cause Analysis, Defect Analysis and Regression Testing & support.
• Self - Motivated in handling the work assigned and in adherence to SLA deliverables and meeting deadlines.
• Having good experience with test automation tool QTP, UFT and having good exposure in test automation frame work design.
• Working experience under Version controlled BPT Components newly introduced by HP Quality Center/ALM 10.0.
• Created Automated Test Scripts to test the functionality of the application using QTP.
• Expertise to develop user defined functions and classes using VB script.
• Extensive Experience on Quick Test Professional of object repository, Data sheets, parameterization of data, Error Handling and user-defined functions.
• Hands on experience in Software Development Life Cycle - SDLC, Software Testing Life Cycle - STLC & Configuration and Change Management and Industry Methodology standards like CMMi Levels.
• Having very good experience with Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM in respective of implementation and maintenance projects.
• Well versed in the creation of automation frameworks like Data-driven, Functional decomposition, Hybrid and Keyword driven frameworks.
• Proficient in using Quality Center for Requirements Management, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defect Reporting and Tracking.
• Execution of Automation scripts in a Batch mode using UFT.
• Knowledge of Excel Macros (VBA) and created an excel macro for a project to reduce the manual effort for the creation of test data for test execution.
• Good knowledge of web services SOAP, REST testing using SOAP UI.
• Hands on experience on Web services testing using various techniques like data-driven testing, XPath assertions, XQuery assertions and Security testing.
• Experience in different kinds of tests such as functionality, positive, negative, smoke, integration, user acceptance, regression etc.
• Experienced in preparing Automation scripts for Functional & Regression testing using open source Automation Tools Selenium (Web Driver/TestNG).
• Provide training for the newly joined team members on the existing framework and the expected deliverables.
• Efficient team Player with excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, negotiation, problem-solving & mentoring skills and analytical and leadership capabilities.
• Effectively interacting with other Testing team members, Development, Support Team and Stakeholders.
• Proactively participated in generating Weekly Reports, Monthly metrics, and Data Sheets.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status etc.
• Maintaining close coordination between Onsite and Offsite teams for ensuring seamless delivery of the project as per scheduled timelines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, Bug Zilla, Clear Quest, Team foundation server (TFS), MTM (Microsoft test manager), Jira.

Operating Systems: Windows XP, UNIX.

Automation testing tools: HP UFT 11.5, HP QTP 11.0, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium IDE, FireBug, Fire Path.

Web Technologies: HTML, VBA, VB Script, Java Script, Core Java.

Databases: SQL Server 2005, Oracle.

Configuration Management tools: Microsoft VSS 6.0, Share point, SVN.

Build and integration tools: Jenkins.

Methodologies: SDLC and STLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.

Sr. Automation test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Project Kick-Off meetings to understand the Project scope and its dependencies
• Preparation of test plans, which specify testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, roles & responsibilities and scope of testing.
• Analyzing GAP Documents, Business User Requirements and knowledge in gathering and understanding BRD (Business Requirements Document).
• Create and organize Test Suite, Test Lab folder structure for the Project and track the test cases execution in the Test Management Tool Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) & Team Foundation Server.
• Executing the test cases, logging and tracking the defects in TFS.
• Developing Testing scenarios and executing Functional, Regression, Interface & Integration Testing test cases.
• Monitoring Test Progress & communicating status and issues to the Manager & updating the status.
• Track the new business CR’s. Review and analyze the impact of the test schedule and provide inputs to PM & QA Manager.
• Develop the Hybrid framework using UFT for the execution of regression test cases.
• Well managed the Test Effort and resources guiding and motivating the team until production release.
• Continuous review of defects and closing the bugs once they fixed and retested.
• Conduct Defect analysis review meeting with Dev & BA teams.
• Tested the Web services (SOAP & REST services) using SOAP UI, verified with both positive and negative sets of test data.
• Designing and executing automation on UFT, Defect reporting & tracking using Quality Center/ALM.
• As an onsite Coordinator Assist Functional Team leads, Technical Team leads in the coordination of test activities.
• Review the efforts logged by the team for the specified mentioned tasks and prepare the reports.
• Conduct Review meetings and Status meeting with Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly status reports and communicate to stakeholders.
• Maintained relationships with drop ship vendors through online support, order entry and order fulfillment to include eBay and Amazon order preferred processing.
• Created product information packages for vendors including product descriptions, images, and pricing. Ensured all information copy, product and non-product were updated and accurate.
• Regularly reviewed competitive websites in terms of product range, marketing initiatives including functionality and customer offerings
• Conduct & provide UAT support for the real-time application users while doing UAT testing.
• Implemented Configuration Management plan and participated in CM audits.
• Prepare the testing flow documents for the complex functionality flows and Lesson learned documents as a part of best practices.

Environment: Windows 7, J ava, SQL Server, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2012, HP UFT 11.5, Team Foundation Server (TFS), SOAP UI.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.

Sr. Automation test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and executing of Selenium automation scripts:
• Design Automation framework model’s data-driven/hybrid in Selenium- Java.
• Running and maintaining regression suite on release basis.
• Preparation of test plans, which specify testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, roles & responsibilities and scope of testing.
• Comprehensive understanding of tools like Eclipse IDE, Firebug, Fire path etc.
• Identify new functionality flows and automate the existing process and executed as a part of regression testing.
• Analyze and understand the Business Requirements document, create and share the issue log with the BA and Dev. team to get the clarifications.
• Performing Defect Analysis to ascertain any non-compliance with the set procedures/guidelines.
• Create and organize Test cases in Test Lab and execute the test cases using HP ALM.
• Executing the test cases, logging and tracking the defects in HP ALM.
• Developing Testing scenarios and executing Functional, Regression, Interface & Integration Testing test cases.
• Monitoring Test Progress & communicating status and issues with the Client to resolve it and make sure the test execution should not get affect.
• Track the new Change requirement documents and review and analyze the impact of the test schedule and provide inputs to QA Manager.
• Attend Sprint meetings to discuss and provide the estimated test cases creation and execution for each sprint.
• Attend daily scrum meetings to sort out the issues and discuss on the next day activities.
• As a Scrum team member, attend in Sprint review meetings to discuss the planned activities execution and make sure the planned activities should get completed.
• With the help of SOAP UI tool, tested the SOAP and REST services using various techniques like data-driven testing and Assertion techniques.
• Working with business analysis function to ensure QA testing requirements are appropriately identified and included in the requirements.
• Well managed the Test Effort and resources guiding and motivating the team until production release.
• Continuous review of defects and closing the bugs once they fixed and retested.

Environment: Windows 7, J ava, SQL Server, Agile Scrum methodology, HP ALM, Selenium Web driver, Test NG, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, SVN, Fire bug, Fire path, Eclipse IDE and SOAP UI.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Sr Automation test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with all members of the project team (both onsite and offshore) including associates from the Development, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams to ensure quality software application releases.
• Worked with the business team for requirement gathering and requirement analysis with the help of development teams analyzed test cases.
• Prepared high-level test scenarios from analyzing the Business Requirements Specifications (BRD & SRS).
• Managed requirements, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking, manage the defects and executing the Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Used QTP for functional GUI Testing.
• Performed Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid Framework to automate the system testing using UFT.
• Wrote and managed Automation test cases from scratch and from previously written ones.
• Used Quality Center/ALM to report and track bugs and for reporting modification requests.
• Collaborated with technical teams to understand the complexity of new interconnected modules.
• Used HP Quality Center for creating and executing test cases, for defect tracking and for generating reports.
• Working experience in a fast-paced Agile / Scrum environment.
• Involved in Backend testing to validate data from the application by writing SQL queries.
• Tested the application on different browsers such as; Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape
• Created and configured the GUI Maps, GUI-Check points & Bitmap Checkpoints were added.
• Analyze all Report Bugs for continuous process improvement and keep tracking on the SDLC critical path.
• Performed quality assurance reviews on all System Development Life Cycle.
• Helped in the process of User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center /ALM, HTML, MySQL, MS Office, UAT, VB Script, MS Excel, agile/scrum model.

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Review of Business Requirements and the Technical Specifications.
• Used QTP to insert various checkpoints into a test for a specific value of a page, object, or text string to determine whether the application is functioning correctly.
• Used parameterization to check the behavior of the application with multiple sets of data.
• Recorded Tests and analyzed the test results using QTP.
• Written test cases for functional and regression testing.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Usability, Stress and User Acceptance Testing.
• Deployed builds on WebLogic and WebSphere application servers.
• Used Test Director/Quality Center for Requirement and Test management, Defect reporting and tracking.
• Developed various SQL queries and scripts to perform Back-end Testing.
• Performed Browser Compatibility testing.
• Coordinated with developers, Implementation team in reviews/meetings.
• Actively participated in Project Meetings, walk-through, Response Team.
• Participated in defect triage meetings with the on-site team.

Environment: SQL Server, Load runner, HP Quality Center/ALM, QTP.

Confidential

QA Manual tester

Responsibilities:

• Created and Executed test cases in SIT and UAT environments.
• Defined testing methodologies, designed test cases, verified and validated the system and documentation based on standards for software development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Performed Backend and frontend testing.
• Developed Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Involved in all aspects of QA process Includes reviewing the Business Requirement Documentation and Functional Specifications to develop the Test Scripts.
• Involved in Regression testing, functional testing, System Integration Testing and Black Box testing.
• Manually testing functionality and security of the application.
• Executed System and Integration Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Performed manual testing.

Environment: Oracle, MS Excel, MS Visio, Edit Plus, SQL, Bugzilla, Manual Testing.