Lob Qa Lead Resume
Austin, TX
SUMMARY
- 6+ years of Experience in Automated and Manual testing experience in Agile environment (Scrum and Kanban) and experienced in Quality Assurance and testing of Client/Server and Web Applications.
- Over three years of experience in leading offshore QA teams, one year of using Jira, Bugzilla for defect tracking and two years of using T - SQL or PL/SQL for database validation
- Responsible for testing software quality, using automation, manual and regression testing methods using the latest software testing tools, such as Load Runner, Soap UI/REST and JMeter
- Experience in defect tracking and change management using HP ALM/QC, Jira.
- Strong experience in testing Backend application servers in SOA
- Strong in API Testing using tools like Soap UI Pro, Advance REST client.
- Experience in planning and conducting Backend, GUI, Functional, Sanity, System, Integration, end-to-end, System, Web testing, User Acceptance Testing, Bug tracking and Reporting.
- Experience in the Testing, Analysis, design, and Implementation of ETL & Business Intelligence solutions using Data Warehouse/Data Mart Design, ETL, and UNIX & OLAP.
- Highly experienced with different RDBMS and No SQL DB such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, Hadoop, MongoDB, Casendra, Talend, Teradata and MySql .
- Good knowledge on EDI envelops, loops, segments and elements present in various EDI X12 transactions
- Compatible to work in agile environment.
- Excellent concept of ETL, Data warehousing and BI applications integration.
- Setting up ODBC, Relational, Native and FTP connections for Oracle, DB2, SQL server, VSAM and flat file
- Experience in Automation testing using Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/GRID, JUnit, TestNG, QTP, Maven, Ant, QTP, Cucumber, J behave, SOAP UI and HP Quality Center
- Performed and coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), create UAT test plan, test cases and test data. Follow proper approval cycle
- Strong knowledge in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and used Cucumber for writing tests .
- Experience in TDD and BDD and ATDD.
- Extensive experience in using Automated tools like Ruby Cucumber test Watir framework for Client/Server, Web and database applications
- Used BDD framework with Cucumber , Java and created future files with scenario and scenario outline files .
- Validation system Monitoring - collect, analyze, and report metrics to site and corporate
- Have a good expertise in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Cross Browser Testing,Smoke Testing, UAT Sanity Testing, GUI Testing, Configuration Testing, Error Handling Testing, Negative Testing, Workflow Testing and End-to-End Testing, White Box Testing, Grey box Testing, Black box Testing
EXPERTISE
- SQA Testing & Methodologies
- Test Plans, Cases & Processes
- Functional Requirements
- Scripting & Documentation
- Regression & Negative Testing
- UI & Compatibility Testing
- Data Interface & Migration Testing
- Mobile Automation Testing
- Automation Testing
- Defect/Bug Tracking
- Test Strategies & Coverages
- QA & QC Standards
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/XP/7, LINUX
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 2005, 2008, MS-Access
Languages: Java, C, C++, Python
Internet Technologies: HTML, VB Script, JavaScript, XML, JSP, ASP, Java Applets, Ruby (currently learning)
Testing Tools: Selenium (WebDriver, IDE), Win Runner, Protractor QTP, System Testing, Cucumber (currently learning)
Defect Tracker Tools: Quality Center, BugZilla,,FTP, JIRA, Confluence, Test Management tool, TFS,TOSCA
Continuous Integration : Bamboo, octopus
AREA OF EXPERTISE
QA Team Leadership:
- Overseeing quality-assurance testing and teams for client software and systems development projects.
- Provided client developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes.
- Effective in defining and executing both project and release level test plans and test cases or scripts which span across multiple internal QA product teams
- Over three years of experience in leading offshore and Onshore QA teams
- Proven leadership qualities with emphasis on individual and team effort backed by excellent communication skills.
- Coordinating with team members for testing activities, requirements ambiguity and user case or user story reviews and conduct QA analysis and test support activities.
- Experience in conducting Review meetings (Inspections & Walkthroughs).
Business Analysis:
- Overseeing quality-assurance testing and teams for client software and systems development projects.
- Provided client developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes.
- Proficient in creating Risk Analysis documents, Risk Management Plan, User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specification and Business Process Flows.
- Expertise in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, and creating Screen Mock-ups.
- Excellent Business writing skills in writing project documentation such as: Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Technical Specification Document (TSD's) and Use Case Specifications
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Experience in working with business users as well as computer professionals.
- Effective in defining and executing both project and release level test plans and test cases or scripts which span across multiple internal QA product teams
- Proven leadership qualities with emphasis on individual and team effort backed by excellent communication skills.
- Coordinating with team members for testing activities, requirements ambiguity and user case or user story reviews and conduct QA analysis and test support activities.
- Experience in conducting Review meetings (Inspections & Walkthroughs).
Mobile Testing:
- 2 years of experience in Mobile testing on Various Platforms like MACOSX, Android, and various devices like IPad, IPhone, Tablet.
- Extensive knowledge in Mobile Automation tools like Perfecto Cloud, Seetest, Appium.
- Created the Hybrid Automation framework for Mobile application of Android and iOS platform.
- Used See Test to create the Automation scripts.
- Mobile Iron Server testing on IPhone and IPad for every software release.
- Involved in SEETEST and integration with HP Quality Center, ALM, JIRA.
- Performed cross browser testing on Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and IE
- Performing Functional, Integration, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, White box/Black box Testing for Mobile Application .
- Testing, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Usability testing.
WEB API/WEB SERVICES Testing:
- Over 4 years of testing Web API’s using SOAP and REST Web Services
- Experience in Agile, Web Accessibility, Web-API, web-security Testing
- Strong GUI / API Testing with the ability to validate with written SQL to DB (the use of open source tools such as SOAPUI and POSTMAN)
- Responsible for setting up Web Services project using WSDL in SOAP UI and provided setup help to other team members.
- Experience with SOA architecture which include Soap Web Service and Restful Web Service Testing .
- Conceptualized, designed, and implemented automated functional API test cases using SOA test, and Soap UI.
- Validated web services manually and through Automation using SOAP.
- Created automation scripts in SOAP UI using Groovy Script for web services
- Tested Web Services /XML / SOAP and RESTFUL services using SOAP UI tool
- Perform functional testing of SOAP and RESTFUL Web Services using SOAP UI Tool.
Automation Testing:
- Over 4 years of experience in automation testing using tools like selenium,Protractor and QTP and Cucumber
- Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
- Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver using Java programming language.
- Experience in developing automation scripts using C# and Core Java
- Experience in Automation testing using Protractor Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/GRID, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber Watir, SOAP UI and HP Quality Center
- Executed Selenium tests developed for application built on maven using Bamboo .
- Recorded and re-run smoke test suite in various modules using Selenium IDE during every patch release.
- Involved in design and implementation of Selenium Web driver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (Test Ng).
- Implemented Page Object Model Automation framework with Java, Selenium Web Driver and cucumber
- Developed BDD tests using cucmber by writing behaviors and step definitions
- Used Cucumber BDD tool for automation and Cucumber for Report Generation
- Performed Cross Browser Automation using Selenium GRID with Sauce Labs Cloud Integration
- Worked with VBScript, QTP for automation testing, and validated WSDL, Response messages and Databases in SOAPUI (Groovy Script).
- Automated Web Based testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
- Developed Regression tests for testing the future releases of the application using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
- Optimized Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
- Used VBScripts in QTP to access webpage script variables
Manual Testing:
- Over 4 years of experience in creating test cases, test plans, test scripts.
- Developed manual test cases to test the functionality of the application.
- Prepared Defect Report as per severity and Priority.
- Designed Test cases and executed Test cases and reported the Bugs using Quality Center.
- Conducted QA testing scenarios including cross system data migration, front end website updates, file importing, regression, performance and load testing, device and web browser compatibility testing.
- Write & execute complex SQL queries with the help of MDM data mappings to pre-land, Landing, staging, XREF & base tables
- Performed GUI functional and sanity testing manually for each new build of the application
- Responsible for writing and running the Manual Test Cases in Microsoft XL and Microsoft Word and importing into the Quality Center 10.0.
- Performed Gray Box Testing, Regression
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Austin, TX
LOB QA Lead
- Experienced in working with product teams, product owners and scrum masters to compose and manage integrated project plans.
- Participated in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standard with development and business teams
- Effective in defining and executing both project and release level test plans and test cases or scripts which span across multiple internal QA product teams.
- Coordinating test execution with external vendors according to detail web trading standards.
- Lead sessions with the Curam technical staff to explain business requirements and Curam data model including the interpretation of entities and attributes in relation to the requirements
- Actively participate weekly Curam Product Development meeting.
- Liaise between Curam technical staff and client subject matter experts when the Curam technical staff develop extensions
- Manually tested Fixed Income trading system application on Fixed Income, i.e. High Yield, High Grade, CDs, MBS
- Responsible for testing Fixed Income trading application to test the execution of trades and settlements. This involves testing fields or criteria in the Interest sections e.g. Term, and Maturity, Trade Information sections e.g. Amount, Price, Effective Date, and Termination Date, Buy/Sell brokerage information e.g. Fee, Rate, Broker name .
- Identifying and defining business requirements, perform gap analysis of the legacy to new solutions using IBM Curam Business Suite
- Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber
- Involved in acceptance testing using Cucumber .
- Cucumber suite development for BDD using Cucumber.
- Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behavior and step definitions & developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber
- Performed backend testing automation using cucumber JVM
- Tested the ETL process for both before data validation and after data validation process.
- Engage with Deployment, and provide QA Test activities dependencies and test timelines.
- Release validation testing performed in production environment.
- Capture Daily Bug Reports and generated weekly Status reports using Microsoft TFS and JIRA.
- Experience in mobile iron server testing using Ipad, Iphone.
- Worked on Test scenarios in XREF Mapping in SIT and UAT instance.
- Conducted POC for ATDD practices using ruby and cucumber.
- Extensive experience in creating Stored Procedures, Functions , Packages, Triggers and other database objects using SQL and PL/SQL.
- Worked on UNIX shell scripting for file processing to third party vendor through SFTP, encryption and decryption process.
- Maintained and troubleshot SQL-PL/SQL code and shell scripts (vi editor) within Oracle applications and Unix environments to ensure sustained date and process workflow for Supply chain Management and Operations .
- Tested web services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
Confidential, San jose, CA
Sr. QA Automation Tester/Analyst
- Developed test scripts to automate the process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
- Created robust Java utility classes that can be used across all modules.
- Experienced in working with product teams, product owners and scrum masters to compose and manage integrated project plans.
- Executed Selenium tests developed for application built on maven using Bamboo
- Created the Automation Test Plan and extensively used Selenium Webdriver for creating scripts for functional and regression testing of various features of the application.
- Worked on automation testing using Selenium(Java),Protractor(Java Script) and python
- Created web UI tests using cucumber , Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver (tests written in ruby)
- Developed and executed automated test cases using Ruby Mine, Watir Web driver, Cucumber and WATIR.
- Work with Teams to create Acceptance Test Driven development (ATDD) test suite using Ruby and Cucumber .
- Coordinated efforts between product development teams and offshore enterprise test team.
- Standardized QA standards and practices across teams where possible. Involve in BDD framework using cucumber
- Recorded and re-run smoke test suite in various modules using Selenium IDE during every patch release.
- Used Java to develop Automation framework to Validate Rest Ful Web Services
- Executing tests, generate defect reports, and debug software and resolve code issues during team meetings, while using tools like J Meter , Soap UI/REST, Load Runner to reach results.
- Adhered data transition of the enrollment process, COB, Claim Status and Eligibility as per the EDI standard 834, 835, 837, 277 and 271
- Performed and assisted various phases of testing which include: System Testing, Smoke Testing, UAT, Parallel testing to ensure that both 4010 and 5010 EDI files are processing as per the Business requirements and no existing functionality has been disturbed
- Validating Database mapping with EDI transactions and writing complex SQL queries
- Reduced the mobile manual testing efforts by 15% within 6 months .
- Written several UNIX scripts for invoking data reconciliation.
- Written and executed test cases for different levels of compliance validation (SNIP Validation) of various EDI transactions
- Evaluated mobile automation tools like Perfecto Mobile, Mobile Labs,and SeeTest..
- Implemented, installed and maintained mobile automation tools like seetest & Perfecto Mobile
- Developed and executed SQL queries for testing database integrity and for data analysis.
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
QA Automation Tester/Analyst
- Analyzed business requirement documents and functional requirement documents and was involved in all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Creating and executing performance scenarios for benchmarking to optimize JVM and Application configuration.
- Involved in writing and executing system test cases and user acceptance test cases after reviewing the business requirements document and technical specifications document.
- Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression, UAT, Smoke and Operational Testing.
- Experience in Visual Studio for tracking epics and user stories.
- Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
- Strong GUI / API Testing with the ability to validate with written SQL to DB (the use of open source tools such as SOAPUI and POSTMAN)
- Experienced in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification, Data Cleansing, Data Completeness and identifying data mismatch.
- Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver using Java programming language.
- Written and automated the test cases using Selenium Web driver with JAVA Framework TestNG
- Identified test cases to be automated and executed them in QTP
- Used VBScripts in QTP to access webpage script variables.
- Wrote and executed automated Data Driven Test Scripts in QTP for different test scenarios, inserted various checkpoints to check web pages, table contents, databases, bitmaps and text.
- Inserted checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
- Developed Regression tests for testing the future releases of the application using Quick Test Pro (QTP). Developed data driven test Scripts for regressions using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
- Generated test plan, execution and defect reports using QC.
Confidential, Columbus, OH
QA Automation Tester/Analyst
- Involved in maintenance and enhancement of the existing Internet Auto Q&B application and keeping it updated with “Rate and Regulation” changes given by the product team.
- Involved in generating the test data and preparing the weekly status reports.
- Involved in manual test execution and was involved in various testing phases like Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Retesting, Regression Testing and System Testing Black box testing, Regression testing, System testing.
- Executed the test cases manually on timely basis and detected the defects.
- Accessing defect tracking tool HP ALM/QC in functionality like Requirement, Testing, and Defects modules.
- Documented Test Scenarios, Test cases in excel sheet and imported them to HP ALM/QC through Export Wizard.
- Develop and Implement Page Object Model based automated functional testing utilizing Gherkin, Ruby and cucumber for automating the web applications.
- Tested Backend services using SQL Queries.
- Interacted with the developers to solve the defects and retested the scenarios once the defect is fixed and closed the defect if it no longer exists.
- Provides the status reports like how many test cases executed, defects found, defects pending, defects solved.
- Used Visual Studio to pull up the metrics after every sprint.
- Documented the test results and informed to QA lead about the status.
- Good interaction with team to ensure good relationship among the team.
- Capable of developing new scripts for the new requirements.
- Involved in maintenance of automated test scripts to support regression testing.
- Updating the existing automation scripts according to the new changes.
- Logged defects in HP ALM, re-tested defects, analyzed defect with Users and Developers.
- Developed Views, controllers and business logic models using C#, Understanding and analyzing the User Stories and creating different scenarios against the User Stories.
- Update all test plans and test cases to changing Backlogs.
- Participation in conference call meeting with the on-site team.
- Attending daily scrum meeting.
- Responsible for Sanity, Functional and Regression Testing.
Confidential
QA Tester
- Confidential Online Resource Center for Home Improvement is a one stop for getting the most value out of your home improvement dollars.
- The various steps involved in Home improvement are getting started, generating ideas, planning your budget and Schedule, Finding and Managing Professionals, Managing your work in progress
- Involved Manual testing, Functional Testing, Black box testing, Regression testing, System testing, Integration testing and end-end testing, User Interface testing and Data Driven Testing.
- Responsible for testing Remedy Incidents (production defect tickets), regression testing existing functionality of the application and features
- Created test scenarios for System testing and Regression testing.
- Prepared test plans, test cases for both positive and negative scenarios and mapped the same to requirements.
- Used Test Director as a central repository for all the test activity.
- Responsible for writing the SQL queries to verify GUI front-end results and to extract and to manipulate the data to satisfy test cases/ requirements.
- Tested Web page presentation manually for different browser compatibility.
- Performed Back-end testing using TOAD.