SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing for Data Warehousing and Web based technologies.
• Seasoned Software Professional with in depth understanding of all phases of SDLC and STLC, focusing on translating business requirements into viable technical solutions.
• Experience working with various software development methodologies including Agile, V - Model and Waterfall.
• Excellent knowledge in Functional Testing,Web application testing, regression testing and database validations.
• Developed and Executed Test Plans and Test Cases as per Business requirement followed by Bug Tracking and reporting.
• Experience in Participation and driving of FSD reviews, Test scenarios review and Test cases review.
• Possess certification in GIT, Appium.
• Have good knowledge of the agile process and possess certification as Scrum Team Member.
• Handson experience on Quality Center,JIRA,RTC and Eclipse IDE.
• Having good working knowledge in code reviews, analysis and reviewing the test results generated by automation.
• Have good knowledge on C,C++,Java and SQL.
• Identifying, analyzing defects, errors, and inconsistencies in application functioning.
• Experience in collecting test data by following client meetings and Internal Team meetings regularly.
• Highly skilled in creating test scenarios for UI,Desktop,ETL(both data validation and data migration) and Automation.
• Strong experience in Web Based Application Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Usability Testing and Database validations in different test environments.
• Experience on performing Web Automation using Selenium Webdriver, Junit, TestNG, Fitnesse and Cucumber.
• Have submitted a White paper on “Integrating Selenium with fitnesse” and gained recognition amongst the account level.
• Have good knowledge of maintenaning and enhancing Automation frameworks like Cucumber-Selenium Framework and Page object Modeling(POM) Framework
• Have submitted the White paper titled “GUI Report generation using Xsl reports,Selenium Webdriver,TestNG” which overcomes the inability of Selenium Webdriver to generate Test Reports and was recognized at a Company level.
• Experience with testing on UNIX platform.
• Experience performing database validations to verify Data integrity & Data mappings.
• Both a team player and an individual contributor, always enjoys learning new technologies.
• Strong communication skills and have ability to work individually or part of a team and good learner to adapt new technologies that improve the business.
• Dynamic team player who is consistently motivated toward success and completion of projects with an ability to work independently.
• A quick learner who can swiftly adapt to new challenges.
• Experience working with onsite/offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver,TestNG, Junit, Cucumber,HP ALM, Eclipse IDE, Firebug, Firepath, Fitnesse, Informatica, Toad, Quality Center.

Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, V-Model.

Scripting languages: HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, Java.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, Vista, Win7, UNIX, IBM Mainframes

Software Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, End to End, Re-Testing and Black-Box, UAT and GUI testing, White-box testing

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/ 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and Analyzing the software requirements.
• Performed both Manual and Automated Testing on the E-commerce site.
• Active participation in Design and Functional reviews
• Conducting and involving in meetings and walkthroughs with Users, Developers and Business Analysts to gather information about business process.
• Preparation of Test plan, System Test Design, Test cases and building data setup for various test strategies.
• Influences and directs project team to follow the defined procedures within the quality system
• Implemented peer review process for all the test artifacts
• Involve in System testing, System Integration & User Acceptance Testing.
• Estimation of the story points for both manual and Automation requirments.
• Performed manual testing of each build and then regression testing on each builds using Selenium WebDriver.
• Writing and executing testcases in Cucumber-Selenium Webdriver Automation Framework
• Have sound knowledge of GIT and obtained GIT certification through Lynda.com.
• Well versed in handling the Maven project in Git repository.
• Leading the Testing team both in off-shore and on-site.
• Periodically send Testing Status Dashboard which involves details like execution percentage of Test cases, Defect count, highlight Risk, Items to be discussed with the Business team etc.
• Uses Firebug,Firepath for web locator identifications.
• Has taken sole ownership in certain modules and performed end-to-end testing.
• Taken the responsibility of Onsite co-ordinator to analyse the requirements and provide a clear understanding to the off-shore resources, and run the test execution, provide closure reports.

Confidential,Boston,MA

Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and Analyzing the software requirements.
• Performed both Manual and Automated Testing on UI and Data Warehouse applications.
• Active participation in Design and Functional reviews
• Conducting and involving in meetings and walkthroughs with Users, Developers and Business Analysts to gather information about business process.
• Preparation of Test plan, System Test Design, Test cases and building data setup for various test strategies.
• Estimation of the story points for both manual and Automation requirments.
• Influences and directs project team to follow the defined procedures within the quality system
• Uses metrics to collect quantitative project data
• Involve in System testing, System Integration & User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed manual testing of each build and then regression testing on each builds using Selenium WebDriver.
• This project requires functional, database and also Automation testing.
• Periodically send Testing Status Dashboard which involves details like execution percentage of Test cases, Defect count, highlight Risk, Items to be discussed with the Business team etc.
• Used Firebug to do web based application testing with selenium for the commands and locator application
• Writes test cases in Page object Modeling(POM) Framework
• Has taken sole ownership in certain modules and performed end-to-end testing.
• Taken the responsibility of Onsite co-ordinator to analyse the requirements and provide a clear understanding to the off-shore resources, and run the test execution, provide closure reports.
• Knowledge Management anchor and knowledge transfer to the new joinees into the team.
• Maintains a clear requirement traceability in Quality center.

Confidential,Boston,MA

Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the requirement gathering meetings with Business analyst and System analyst and reviewed the requirements to identify the Gaps required for testing.
• Prepared the Test Scenarios from the high level business specifications, Use cases and Interface Document to detail the Functional Specifications.
• Involved in meetings with the Lead Developers, Principal Consultants, Business Architecture, System Architect and Project Manager for detailed Project requirements.
• Created the Test Cases from Use Case Scenarios and Supplementary specifications.
• Developed detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Matrix and provided the documentation.
• Involved in validating the data correctness in UI with that of the database.
• Involved in validating the data migration from Source database to Target database which might involve both the as-is migration or the transformation involved in the migration.
• Involved in the validation of the data mapping between the source and target database in the informatica jobs.
• Involved in validation of transformation logic in the informatica jobs which migrates data from source to target database.
• Involved in analysing the session logs in case of job failure of informatica jobs.
• Basic knowledge in the creation of informatica session and workflows.
• The application had fields which get populated with the help of dynamic SQL’s. Involved in validating the correctness of Dynamic SQL output by giving various combination of inputs.
• Involved in data certification of the various database objects like procedures, functions, views and Named Queries.
• Communicate the status of testing periodically to Test Manager and Project Manager to meet the Project & Test time lines.
• Track defects and ensure their resolution before the conclusion of the testing phase.
• Ensure no major defects or issues remain open at the end of SIT.

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of requirements with functional manager and technical specialists.
• Worked closely with build integration team, client and developers in order to perform testing activities as per schedules.
• Responsible for testing User Login and Account Information
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts in Test plan Manager
• Involved in Writing Test Case and Test Script.
• Executed Test Cases and verified actual results against expected results
• Performed Manual Testing of the Application, reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Performed Regression Testing for fixes and closed the defects.
• Performed Smoke Tests after installation of each build on QA servers
• Involved in the End-To-End testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for Manual Testing for Front-end and initial Functional verification.
• Involved in testing of database using SQL queries.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements in Requirement plan manager and test cases in Test plan manager
• Maintained Test Matrices and Traceability Matrices
• Test Scripts were written in MS Excel and then imported to Quality Center.
• Worked with developers using Quality Center to fix the defects.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Prepared positive and negative test cases with valid and invalid data
• Prepared and submitted reports to Project Management on a daily basis.
• Conducted reviews with clients and User Acceptance Testing teams.
• Documented all the Testing results and regression tests results were compared at every new build. Analyzed and Presented Results.