SUMMARY:

• Overall 7.5 years of IT experience specializing in Software Quality Assurance. Ambitious, creative and dedicated technology professional with strong background in testing web based applications.
• Highly skilled in interacting with Business analysts and development teams, supporting variety of projects spanning entire software testing lifecycle.
• Self motivated and can work independently or in a team.
• Possesses the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies within a very short span of time.
• Offer invaluable experiences in test cases creation, execution, defects management and working closely with business users during UAT to make sure a quality product is delivered all the time.
• Over 7 years of software testing experience in the IT industry.
• Extensively involved in manual and automation testing of web based applications.
• Solid understanding of SDLC methodologies
• Good exposure to Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life cycle
• Experience in estimation, test strategy and test plan creation.
• Experience in managing testing activities and deliverables of the QA team.
• Experience in team management (Task Allocation and coordination)
• Experience in metrics analysis of different project releases.
• Good experience in managing defect life cycle and coordinating with different groups to resolve them.
• Experience in environment set up activities and test data creation.
• Experience in design, development and execution of test cases.
• Good Experience in test management tools such as Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest
• Solid understanding of SQL concepts.
• Skilled in understanding Software Requirement Specifications and identifying all possible scenarios for testing.
• Excellent experience with different Black Box testing techniques that include Functional, System, Regression, End to End and Acceptance testing.
• Skilled in identifying scenarios for Risk Based and exploratory testing.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases.
• Good experience in cross browser testing.
• Expertise in automation using Selenium WebDriver, with Java on TestNG.
• Designed and implemented automation frameworks from scratch using Page Object Model.
• Experience in creating and automating BDD test cases using Cucumber on Eclipse IDE.
• Solid experience on build Management tools like Maven and continuous Integration tool Jenkins.
• Adequate experience in coordinating testing activities with the Development team.
• Experience in REST API testing using Rest Assured.
• Knowledge on XML and JSON data formats.
• Basic working knowledge on MongoDB.
• Extensive experience in developing Use Cases, conducting Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis, and Risk Analysis.
• Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project
• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Unix

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Visio

Programming Languages: Java, Gherkin, SQL

Database: Oracle, DB2, MongoDB

Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, TOAD, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium GRID, MAVEN, JENKINS

Domain Knowledge: Health Insurance

Soft Skills: Presentation Skills, Personal grooming and etiquette, Mentoring and Time Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements, manage development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans and verify bug fixes.
• Test planning and effort estimation.
• Test Scenario documentation and test case design.
• Regression Suite Design
• Test Scenario and Test Case review.
• Identifying Automation Scenarios from the set of Test cases/User stories identified in cycle
• Developing Web Automation Test cases for the identified Automation Scenarios
• Performed Cross Browser Automation using Selenium GRID with Sauce Labs Cloud Integration
• Reviewed the Code prepared by other team mates and suggested improvements if required.
• Running Smoke regression suite after every build and publish the detailed reports with the bugs detected
• Running Full Automation suite for every Release and analyze the root cause of Failed scripts
• Developed Page object Model Design Selenium framework on TestNG Platform
• Involved in writing test scripts using Java and executed them through Selenium Cucumber.
• Used Build Management tool Maven in the framework for batch triggering of Test cases
• Integrated complete framework with CI Tool Jenkins for Scheduling the Test cases
• Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like Github, SVN over the time for improvements and new features
• Mentoring team members
• Tracking overall team productivity and metrics analysis
• Defect and Daily status reporting
• Continuous coordination with development teams for defect resolution and tracking defects to closure.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Analyzed Risk and documented Risk Logs and created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) with respect to the requirement vs. Test cases
• Performed GAP Analysis and organized team meetings for defect prevention after every project release.
• Created UAT test cases to help business users in UAT
• Worked with business Analyst and technical team for early defects fixes.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Manual testing, Quality Center

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Got together with Business analysis team and end users to understand the business requirements and project functionalities
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs with the BA’s to gain in - depth knowledge of the requirements.
• Prepared test plans and test strategy documents
• Created system test scenarios and detailed test cases
• Created requirements traceability matrix to map the requirements and test cases for adequate test coverage
• Involved in smoke, system, regression and production checkout testing and created test plans for each of these phases.
• Executed test cases and tracked defects through defect tracking tool
• Worked with development and project management team for early defect fixes
• Worked with business users on UAT and helped them log/track/verify defects

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, TOAD, Manual testing, Quality Center

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and prepared test plans and test strategy
• Created and executed system and regression test scripts
• Coordinated in environment set up activities
• Tracked and managed defects through defect tracking tool

Environment: Windows, SQL, Manual Testing, TOAD HP Quality Center