SUMMARY:

• Manual and Automation Test Lead, Selenium Tester and Business Analyst with more than 10 years of IT experience in selenium testing, Business Analysis, UFT/QTP Automation Testing, Manual Testing, DB Testing, Reports Testing, Test Automation Frameworks, and as an SQA
• Over 4 years of experience in the Health Care domain. Responsible for achieving CMMI Quality Standards for multiple projects and have also worked to achieve CMMI level 4 standard for Encora technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 9x, NT 4.0, 2000, Unix, Linux

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java

RDBMS: SQLServer, MySql, MS Access

Testing Tools: Selenium, QTP 11, 9,5, 9.0, 8.2, Quality Center

Bug Tracker Tool: Team Tracker, TBT, VSS, Bugzilla, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Fresno, CA

Automation Test Lead

Software: Java, HP ALM 11.0 (Quality Center), Selenium, Jira, SQL, MS Office

• Prepared the Test Plan and the Test Automation Framework document.
• Analyzed Use Case documents and User Stories, got clarification regarding the ambiguous requirements and got the inaccurate requirements changed or removed in many cases.
• Handled the use cases and user stories in an Agile environment
• Was responsible for writing Functional Test Cases to cover all the requirements.
• Wrote manual Test Cases in Excel sheets and then exported them to HP ALM (new version of Quality Center).
• Prepared Test Design Document (document containing list of test cases) for each sprint.
• Carried out Smoke, Functional and System Integration Testing of the GUI manually.
• Executed Manual as well as Automated Test Cases in HP ALM.
• Logged and tracked Defects in JIRA.
• Created and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Used SQL for validating data displayed on the UI.
• Wrote complex SQL queries involving joins and nested queries.
• Used Selenium Webdriver for automating many of the test cases for Regression Suite.
• Wrote and modified many Selenium test scripts and data files.
• Reviewed many Selenium scripts written by the offshore automation team to ensure that the correct logic is being used.
• Executed Webdriver scripts, did failure analysis on the failed scripts and modified the scripts/test data if necessary.
• Experienced working on cross platforms and profiling across various browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE)
• Organized Test Case Review meetings and walked Dev team, QA team and BA team through my test cases in every sprint.
• Prepared Test Execution Status Report and Defect Report at the end of each sprint.
• Demo - ed the newly implemented features to Business from time to time.
• Mentored 3 QA resources, helped 1 new Dev resource get-up-to-speed and answered domain-knowledge and application-workflow related questions that various team-members had.
• Acted as Offshore Coordinator and gave regular Knowledge Transfer Sessions to offshore QA resources.
• Helped during Pre-UAT and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sessions.
• Led Bug Discussion Meetings.
• Attended Daily Stand-up Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings, Test Case Review Meetings etc.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Automation Test Lead

Software: Windows, Selenium, Test NG, Eclipse IDE, Jira

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers, and business team.
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions and test data from Excel files.
• Parameterized large and complex test data to accurate depict production trends.
• Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and met the scenario description.
• Worked closely with software developers and took an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Provide support to the development team in identifying real world use cases and appropriate workflows
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application
• Collaborate with SQA team and business SMEs to develop standard automated regression test set that exercises core business processes.
• Created and maintained Local and Shared Object Repositories.
• Implement traceability between the requirements and test case documentation via Quality Center

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

QA Automation Engineer

Software: Windows, Java, SOAP UI 4.5.1, groovy Scripting, SQL, MySQL, JIRA, Maven

• Analyzed Business Requirements, User Stories and API docs.
• Created Test Scenarios and Requirement Traceability Matrix after going through the documentation.
• Interacted with business team and developers to resolve ambiguities and rectify mistakes in documentation.
• Designed and executed Test Cases in SOAP UI.
• Used SOAP UI for testing RESTful as well as SOAP-based webservices.
• Did Functional, Data-Driven and Regression Testing using SOAP UI.
• Wrote SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Used various kinds of SQL statements for finding and creating suitable Test Data.
• Used JIRA for logging and tracking defects and for accessing business requirements and user stories.
• Used various kinds of Assertions to validate REST and SOAP responses in SOAP UI.
• Used Groovy script in SOAP UI for customizing test cases.
• Prepared Deployment Notes, did QA Sign-off and did Production Smoke test for each release.
• Was involved in doing UAT Testing for various internal teams.
• Explained application workflow and resolved/answered questions about various environment and data issues to Internal as well as External Clients who were testing against our QA environment.
• Followed Agile methodology.
• Mentored new testers and helped developers by answering their domain-knowledge related questions and proving them suitable test data.
• Prepared Weekly Status Reports, Test Execution Reports and Defect Reports.
• Attended different kinds of meetings, like Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Standup Meetings, QA Handoff Meetings, etc.

Confidential

Project Lead- Testing

• Worked as a Business Analyst and Project Lead Testing for 35 members
• Responsible for gathering requirements from the client, communicating the same with the development and testing team
• Responsible for reviewing the test scripts and their maintenance
• Involved in communicating with developers and the client to ensure testing requirements and updation of the testing status on a daily basis.
• Involved in daily team meetings to update the project status and discuss and discrepancies or risks in the projects

Confidential

Testing Lead

Software: Unix, Birt Reports, MY SQL, MS Word, MS Excel

• Worked as a BA (Business Analyst) and as a DB tester
• Responsible for reviewing and writing Scenarios, Test Cases.
• Involved in communicating with developers and the client to ensure testing requirements and updation of the testing status on a weekly basis.
• Logging & Tracking the bugs in Bugzilla
• Acted as a Lead in the UAT and interacted with the client on a daily basis
• Worked with the CMMI Team to achieve Level 4 compliance in the project
• Form 7 was the excel sheet the client was using. The basic task was to convert the information into MS Word and MS Exel documents capturing the right requirements and functions, updating the current information for 250 tables and generating about 120 reports using Birt Reports. Since this is the horse racing, there is a huge amount of information in terms of functions and data that needed to be captured and handled correctly.