SUMMARY

• 8+ years of extensive hands - on experience in Software Testing in Finance/Media/Education domains, which includes hands on experience on Web and Desktop applications testing and with expertise in market leading Testing tools like Selenium and QC (Quality Center).
• Well versed in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle for different Development Methodologies.
• Managing project engagements, multi-vendor teams in Onshore/Offshore Global Delivery Model.
• Experience in client relationship & engagement management and internal process improvement initiatives at project /organization level.
• Actively involved in pre-sales activities like Client Demos and POC for Test Automation Projects.
• Manage for onshore / offshore teams for software testing activities.
• Responsible for doing End to End Project Management which includes Quality Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management and People Management.
• Knowledge and experience of Project Management with excellent time management skills with proven ability to work accurately and quickly prioritize coordinate and consolidate tasks.
• Developed various Test Metrics like Test Estimation, Scheduling and Test Coverage.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, creating Traceability Matrix, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, Analyzing Bugs and interacting with development team for resolution of issues.
• Proficient in automated functional testing tools such as Selenium Web Driver and Quick Test Pro.
• Architected and Designed Selenium Automation Framework on Java for different clients as per their requirement.
• Good experience in OOPs using Core Java and extensively used classes, objects, data structures, inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, packages, collection, reflection and many more.
• Good experience working with Strings, File Handling, Log4j, POI API, and Handling XLS files in selenium.
• Expert in Junit including Data Driven and Hybrid framework development using Junit
• Expert in TestNg including Data Driven and Hybrid framework development using TestNg
• Expert in using Selenium IDE and designed/ utilized user extensions.js and used programming in IDE.
• Expert in using WebDriver for Firefox, IE, chrome, IPhone, Android, HTMLUnit driver and used WebDriver /WebElement interface, Absolute/complete Xpaths, CSS Selectors, Implicit/Explicit waits, Web Driver Wait Class, WebDriver. Timeout Interface, Fluent Wait and many more.
• Highly Skilled in defect tracking & reporting using tools like Bugzilla, JiRA and Mercury Quality Center.
• Knowledge of executingStructured Query Language (SQL)using SQL queries forBackend Testingagainst SQL Server and Oracle Databases.
• Involved in Release Management and preparation of release notes.
• Strongly committed to timelines for deliverables, accuracy and quality of assignments.
• Team Player with excellent verbal, written and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: PL/SQL, VB Script, JavaSW Methodologies Waterfall, Iterative, Agile.

Testing Methodologies: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Traceability Matrix, Test Report, Test Metrics, Test Management.

Automation Tool: Selenium, Quick Test Pro

Selenium Framework: TestNG, Junit

Dev IDE: MS Visual Studio, Eclipse

Defect Management: Quality Center, JiRA, Bugzilla

Database: Confidential SQL Server, Oracle 9i/10g., MS Access

Application Server: Tomcat Apache, JBoss, IIS.

Platform: Windows 2000/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville TN

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business Requirements / Features and preparing the Test conditions in HP Quality Center.
• Preparing Test Scenarios based on RSM (Requirements Specification Matrix)
• Conducted Test Scenario walkthrough with Onsite / Offshore development team and with Business.
• Design, Develop and Maintain Automation Test Assets by using Confidential Test Automation Frameworks
• Doing hands on automation with Selenium-Java.
• Assisted Project Management activities with the help of applications like MS Project, Visio and WebEx presentations to the onsite/offshore team.
• Involved in delivering Automation scripts for products being built.
• Own product features and automate.
• Extensively Queried through SQL to check the database records
• Tested the web pages manually as well as using automated tools like QTP for image positioning and display quality
• Suggest automation process improvements & Engaged in framework enhancements.
• Code reviews and maintaining deliverable quality.
• Planning ahead, and prioritize on work items.
• Attending daily Defect Meeting and Onsite / Offshore Handoff Meeting.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, Quality Center, XML, HP-QC, JIRA, SQL Server, Eclipse

Confidential

Technical (Automation plus Manual QA Analysis & Activities)

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the Business Analyst and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application
• Preparation and review of Test Data, Test scenarios, SIT Test Cases, Unit test cases & Review
• Functioned as technical analyst cum consultant to implement framework for automation.
• Product Analysis for QA, Business flow understanding & suggesting best approaches.
• Test Design and Traceability Matrix for Test Coverage for Security Testing, and Risk Management in agile environment
• Developed several detail and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Involved in delivering Automation scripts for products being built.
• Design automated tests, created automated test case and executed test using Selenium
• Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium
• Performed different testing task using various test scripts on Selenium WebDriver and Junit.
• Used Firebug to identify web elements using XPath and CSS selectors.
• Own product features and Manual test them through all possible angles.
• Data Validation and testing using SQL and PL/SQL with Confidential SQL Server 2008.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and Used SQL queries for retrieving data from database for executing user specific test cases.
• Perform manual and automation testing on back-end web-services
• Run the WSDL on SOAP UI and test the request and response returned.
• While testing Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and validated response XML by comparing the data in database and GUI.
• Participated in Agile software testing process with regular QA meetings to discuss major features of the application, test cases to write and execute.
• Closely involved with development team, maintenance team and business team regarding changing requirements, builds and releases.
• QA defect analysis, troubleshooting and reporting
• Track, manage, and report work progress
• Attending daily Defect Meeting and Onsite / Offshore Handoff Meeting.

Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Manual Functional Tests, Quality Center, Ms Excel, XML, SQL Server

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved extensively in requirement gathering, effort estimation, Test Planning, task allocation effort tracking and creating quality metrics.
• Designed and implemented Test Strategy, Test Plan and traceability matrix for the engagement.
• Expertise in Manual testing of critical functionalities in the application
• Executed test cases to verify the actual and expected results
• Responsible for understanding Business requirements by regular interaction with the Business Analyst.
• Perform the regression testing for the product projects and the service pack releases
• Enhanced test cases to achieve the test objectives
• Keep track of the release readiness document before the product goes for UAT
• Detected, reproduced and tracked defects in Mercury Quality Center
• Performed UI testing using browser developer tools such as firebug, IE developer tool and chrome developer tool
• Communicated the status of test activities regularly with the team members.
• Participate in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically with client.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Quality Center, MS Office

Confidential, Redmond

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Write and maintain manual and automated test plans, test scenarios and test cases based on specifications and execute tests
• Develop complex SQL queries to create backend test scripts.
• Worked on UI automation, Manual testing, writing and filing bug reports, and defect tracking
• Revised all requirements’ use cases, wireframes, BRD (Business Requirement Document) to involve in writing test strategy and test cases.
• Interacted with business client management to solicit requirements and drive issue resolution.
• Involved in peer review. (test design and defect reporting)
• Documented test cases in excel sheet document.
• Involved in Requirement traceability matrix preparation.
• Responsible for GUI & Functional testing, user experience using black box testing techniques.
• Used HP Quality Center for executing test cases, defect logging, tracking and bug resolution.
• Handled various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status reports.