SUMMARY:

• Senior QA Specialist with over 6 years of experience in Software Testing, Writing and Executing Test plans and Test cases in highly structured environments and performing all types of testing (Black - Box Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing).
• Experience in Finance, E-commerce, Retail and Telecommunications industries.
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Knowledge in creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Git Hub and Jenkins.
• Proficient in Analysis of Defect severity, Defect tracking system and Defect reporting.
• Experience in testing web applications, using Selenium Web Driver with Java/Eclipse development and TestNG framework.
• Highly motivated team player with analytical, organizational and technical skills, unique ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Nagios, Docker, HP Quality Center/HP ALM, Selenium, JMeter, SoapUI, Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps, Eclipse

Defect Trackers: Test Director, JIRA, Bugzilla

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Visual Data Manager, Teradata, Aqua Data Studio

Programming Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, VB Script, Java

Others: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook), POS, Putty, SAS Tivoli, CIF, IBM RTC, TestNG, Junit, FireBug, Postman, Swagger

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Windows Server 2003, LINUX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Quality Assurance Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Performed positive testing, negative testing, regression testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing and load testing.
• Tested the Quick Quote tool managed by agents with aggressive commission structure including upfront SPIFF as high as 300 % for every service provided.
• Reduced overall risk exposure to the organization by identifying the defects of Myofficesuite and escalated critical issues to management.
• Experienced in developing the test automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.
• Developed test plans, test cases, identified and logged bugs during testing using Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps.
• Involved in agile scrum meetings with application development managers, business analysts and other development teams.
• Performed back-end testing including data validation using Aqua Data Studio and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Involved in Performance Testing of the web applications using JMeter.
• Involved in Rest API and SOAP web services testing using Soap UI.

Environment: Microsoft TFS/Azure DevOps, Jira, Swagger, Selenium Web driver, SoapUI, Java, .net, JMeter, TestNG, JUnit

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Formulated test plans, test scenarios, expected results and test data for the system testing.
• Prevented ~$2M in erroneous charges to customers by identifying software bug while opening a customer account.
• Extensively used Defect Tracking Tool HP ALM to raise defects and keep track of them.
• Involved in creating the test automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver.
• Maintained testing tasks in IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) to keep track of the related tasks.

Environment: Quality Center/ ALM, SQL, Agile, CIF, MS Office Suite, RTC, IST, UAT, Production

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used Quality Center to design test plans, test scripts and reported bugs along with clear description.
• Used TSYS (Source Data) to pull and maintain Customer Information.
• Automated test scripts using Selenium IDE for functional test suites.
• Executed jobs through TWS (Tivoli Work Scheduler) and validated the jobs in UNIX environment.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0/HP ALM, Oracle, Tera Data, Tivoli, Putty, TSYS, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, .NET

Confidential, New Burgh, NY

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented detailed test cases, test scenarios, and schedules based on requirements, design documents, and executed them according to the test plan.
• Involved in testing of Mobile application associated with Point of Sale system.
• Performed backend testing and used SQL queries to validate the entries in the database.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, POS, Vis Data

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases according to the flow charts provided by developers.
• Executed the test cases as per functionality of the application, created and logged defects into JIRA defect tracking tool.
• Worked with offshore team developers on different scenarios of HAL (Hardware Abstraction layer) testing and provided them subsequent feedback for every build.
• Participated in setting up and installation of the client application.

Environment: JIRA, KIOSK, .Net, SQL Server 2008, J2EE, Windows XP, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Linked test cases to Application Functional Requirements ensuring traceability throughout the testing process.
• Played a key role in analyzing requirements, defining high-level and low-level test requirements, and detailed test cases.

Environment: HTML, Java, Oracle, Microsoft Word, Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Windows XP