SUMMARY:

• Software Test Engineer/ Automation Tester with expertise in Software Quality Assurance best practices and methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance (QA) process, Software Test Methodologies, and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC).
• Expert in functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, and user Acceptance Testing.
• Solid experience in developing and Executing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Data, and Test Cases.
• Advanced knowledge of object oriented programming as applied to automated testing tools.
• Experienced in manual and automation testing using industry standard tool suit Quality Center, HP ALM and Selenium.
• Experienced in writing Test Conditions and Test Cases from the Requirements specifications and Functional specifications.
• Experienced in Version Control and Configuration Management tools - VSS, Quality Center and SVN.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking tools JIRA, ALM, and Quality Center
• Experience in testing applications for Windows, UNIX operating platform.
• Solid experience in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to measure the testing progress.
• Knowledge of J2EE, and .NET Applications.
• Strong knowledge of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Performed Section 508 compliance testing on the Government application to make sure the system includes differently learner people using JAWS, WAVE
• Expertise in implementing CMMI standard processes and procedures
• Organized, detail-oriented and have the ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Ability to prioritize critical situation, Project Milestone, deliverable dates, work independently as well as in a Team successfully.
• Experience in managing projects documentation and tasks using SharePoint.
• Dynamic and Assertive team player with strong commitment and project management skills.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Selenium, TestNG, Quality Center, JIRA

Platforms: UNIX, Windows

CM Tools: Virtual Source Safe (VSS), SharePoint, ALM

Languages: SQL, XML, HTML, JAVA

DBMS: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server508 Compliance TestingJAWS, WAVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with all the businesses as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes.
• Analyze the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications documents to ensure that the application met all of the technical and business requirements.
• Develop comprehensive system test plan.
• Participate in Sprint planning, Sprint retrospectives, and Sprint demo.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all the approved requirements.
• Perform Functional testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Work closely with the testing team and development on daily basis to maintain the frequent builds that are being pushed on Stage and make sure each builds are being tested accurately.
• Involve in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Perform regression testing and verify functionality of the application after any changes in code.
• Use ALM as a repository for version management and document source controlling.
• Design and developed UAT Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Updated/maintained the automated test scripts for Software Compatibility Testing.
• Developed and Maintained automation framework using selenium WebDriver
• Involved in developing and executing automation Regression Testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Used GITHUB as a source repository system to share code within the company.
• Developing more advanced Selenium scripts using Java
• Perform Web services testing with SOAP UI tool and Restful service.
• Validate XML files for web- service testing
• Track testing, bugs and milestones utilizing JIRA
• Working on Agile methodology environment
• Testing of J2EE, and .NET Applications
• 508 Compliance Testing using JAWS and WAVE, to make sure the electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used federal government be accessible to people with disabilities or differently learner people.
• Attended daily status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager and Testing Team during UAT and report progress in daily basis.
• Experience in TDD and BDD
• Expertise in Cucumber, Jenkins, Gherkin

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, SOAP UI, Selenium, Quality Center JAWS, WAVE, ORACLE, Microsoft Office, UNIX

Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with End-users, Stakeholders and Business Analysts for gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements and specifications.
• Developed comprehensive Test Plans.
• Worked closely with all the businesses as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes.
• Performed UI Testing on the application web-Interface.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding programming logic for custom testing and debugging the scripts.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG and created automated script using Selenium.
• Used Selenium WebDriver API to automate tests.
• Executing test cases in test environment using SOAP UI.
• Involved in Running REST API’s manually using Postman client.
• Responsible for building the REST Requests based on the Specifications document.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Testing of J2EE, and .NET Applications
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using HP Quality Center, including logging defects, assigning them to developers, facilitating defect review sessions and researching causes of defects in development builds and in production environments.
• Attended the weekly status meetings and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: Quality Center, JAVA, Visual Basic, SQL Server, VBScript, Windows, XML, Visual Source safe, Oracle.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the Required Documents for testing.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Business Development Teams in the review and Modification of Product Specifications.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Reviewed Functional and Design Specification documents; Identified Test Conditions, Ambiguities, Conflicts and Risks.
• Analyzed the Business requirements, performed ambiguity reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitor defect status.
• Responsible for creating scripts, generating various Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Execution.
• Used MS Project to keep track of tasks status and prepared Test Status Reports during test execution processes.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database.
• Used Quality Center for defect management and Visual Source Safe (VSS) for version control.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases and took into consideration the product module priorities.
• Reported Test Summary Report to the clients and provided recommendation for performance improvements as needed.
• Involved in identifying bugs, reporting bugs, and managed bugs documentation.

Environment: Quality Center, UNIX, Oracle, Toad, Microsoft Office, VSS