SUMMARY

• Dedicated and motivated technologist with 11+ years of progressive experience in QA analyst lead, system tester, and Business Analyst role to further success of the top most manufacturing, healthcare, banking and insurance organization’s business goals and objectives.
• Hold Enhancement Reliability Security Clearance for Canada.
• Subject matter expert in applying methodologies (Water fall and Agile), processes, and procedures in the execution of a full system life - cycle approach for Client/Server or Web Based Applications.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Methodologies. Good understanding of AGILE, Scrum, and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Extensively used Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, VbScript, UFT/QTP, Soup UI to automate functional scenarios.
• Expert in automation script development using different automation tools like Selenium WebDriver (Eclipse, Java, JUnit, TestNG), UFT/QTP, VbScript, Soup UI Pro
• Expert in developing Java Selenium/WebDriver test scripts and Test Frameworks using TestNG/Junit to perform Functional and Unit Testing.
• Involved in all kind of testing methods: Black box, White box, Smoke, Regression, Beta, Functional, Performance and Automation.
• Experience in creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Experience in Business Functionality Testing, Smoke testing, User Interface testing, integration Testing, Black Box Testing, End-to-end Testing, Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Documentation and Reporting.
• Experience in designing automation scripts to eliminate excessive repeatable manual cycles.
• Experience in Using Quality Center extensively for Establishing Traceability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and Reporting.
• Fact-based decision maker with critical analytical abilities, a demonstrated aptitude to learn and utilize new and complex technologies, and the ability to establish trust-based rapport.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Interactive SQL, Quick Test Pro, Selenium, SOAP UI, IBM RPT

Test Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, Application Life-cycle Management and Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, JIRA, Visual Studio TFS, Selenium, Appium, JMeter.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, Mac.

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MS Access and DB2.

Business Modeling Tool: MS Visio, Enterprise Architect.

Developing Technology: ASP.Net, C#, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Swift, Java.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planning, preparing & executing test plans.
• Responsible for creating automated testing frameworks using Selenium WebDriver.
• Used the TestNG Framework to perform Unit Testing.
• Used TFS for version control, tracking defects, enhancement requests, assign work activities, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Identified Test Cases to be run for Regression Testing and conducting testing as and when new builds were made
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks and issues to managers
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools.

Confidential

Quality Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planning, preparing & executing test plans.
• Perform estimating for testing activities.
• Providing business knowledge to the Application Development, Architecture & DB Management, Release Management and Testing teams.
• Keep in the loop all the stakeholders for quality metrics.
• Responsible for creating automated testing frameworks using Selenium WebDriver.
• Provided key initiatives in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Provide guidance as a lead in mid size team of 8-10 members.
• Organize defect meeting, conference calls and project meetings.
• Used Ant and Maven as build management tools.
• Created automated Test Suite using Selenium and WebDriver.
• Used Selenium WebDriver API to automate tests on cross browser and cross platform environment.
• Converts existing QTP/UFT Scripts to Selenium script to support multiple browsers using Java, Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Apache POI, Log4J, Maven & Eclipse for supporting multiple browsers and cross functional testing
• Used Ant to generate XLST reports for better reporting of test runs.
• Attended Daily Scrum meetings discussing the nature of work being done that day and the previous day.
• Performed manual and automated testing across multiple testing environments.
• Involved in Functional testing, black box testing, smoke testing, end to end, negative testing, database testing, compatibility testing, and recovery testing.
• Worked closely with developers to understand how the code of the application works.
• Used the TestNG Framework to perform Unit Testing.
• Took part in many meetings which involve both the team and the stakeholders.
• Manage defects and trouble tickets through the application development life cycle.
• Taking part in system development life cycle of mainframe, client server and web applications
• Perform backend testing of RDBMS databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.
• Responsible for writing the Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on the functional specification and technical specification and documented in Quality Center/ALM
• Create automation scripts using Selenium and Java.

Environment: HP QC & Application Life-cycle Management (ALM), Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Java, Selenium, DB2.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formulated detailed Test Plan using Quality Center after analyzing business rationale and software requirement artifacts
• Responsible for writing the Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on the functional specification and technical specification and documented in Quality Center/ALM
• Interacted with the team member to ensure meaningful development of the scripts and simulated real time business scenarios.
• SOA web service testing using SoapUI pro.
• Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG and Maven).
• Involved in preparing test strategies for client-side verifications and validations.
• Involved in automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements on the Database.
• Responsible for implementation of Hybrid Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Maven technologies under Java platform utilizing industry leading harness design patterns and approaches.
• Developed automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing and reducing manual testing using Selenium, TestNG, and Maven.
• Used TFS for version control, tracking defects, enhancement requests, assign work activities, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements.
• Involved in functional testing, black box testing, negative testing, compatibility testing, and recovery testing.
• Involved in testing compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium.
• Involved in writing unique XPath using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
• Conducted oracle database tests by executing SQL queries to ensure the data integrity by checking various kinds of constraints.
• Identified Test Cases to be run for Regression Testing and conducting testing as and when new builds were made
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks and issues to managers
• Worked with automation team for building scripts, test data and modified scripts.
• Provided support to the Users in the execution of UAT and recorded the results.
• Participated in project meetings and worked closely with developers in troubleshooting and defect evaluation.
• During white box testing, worked closely with code. (C#, VB.Net and Swift).

Environment: HP QC & Application Life-cycle Management (ALM), Microsoft Office, Ultra Edit, Citrix, Windows 7, Visual Studio, TFS, SoapUI, C#, HTML, CSS.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created and verified Web services API requests, SOAP protocols.
• Identify select technologies for reporting, integration and data warehouse.
• Reviewing the Use Case Requirement, Functional Design Documents and Technical Specification documents.
• Tested the ETL SSIS packages and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
• Providing recommendations for resolution of consumer reported errors by analyzing data from data warehouse.
• Maintain & trouble shoot existing automation regressing script VB Script, descriptive programming and QTP.
• Performed Extensive testing on Guidewire Insurance Suite to test functional behavior of all centers and integration between Policy center and claim center, Claim center and GIMS (legacy) plus external integration.
• Extensive Knowledge and Experience in Service Testing (Web Portal Services).
• Provided overall project management to multiple projects successfully completing them on-schedule and on-budget.
• Worked in IBM Cognos tool to test all centers’ reports (PC, BC, CC and GIMS-Guidewire consolidated reports) using respective centers’ GUI and by firing queries using SQL from GIMS database.
• Understanding of Data Hub and Info Center, worked on data extracted from data hub while testing reporting.
• Expertise in performing various data setup activities for Load, UAT and Security testing using QTP.
• Managed weekly meetings with the QA team to obtain status, gather innovative ideas for continuous process improvements and delegate work load.
• Experience in architect and design test automation frameworks in collaboration with the Testing team and Development teams in Quality Center workflow.
• Perform Header and Body Testing as a part of Regression Test using SOAP UI
• Tested Web Services and WSDL documents by using SOAP UI.
• Creating Test Cases after analyzing the BRD’s.

Environment: HP QC & Application Life-cycle Management (ALM), QTP, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Ultra Edit, Citrix, Windows 7, JIRA, C#, Firefox, IE11, Chrome, SQL Server 2012, IBM RPT.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, consolidated requirements for generating performance goals and test plans.
• Developed test plans, procedures and performed project management activities.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices that satisfy all required project test conditions.
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools.
• Wrote VB Scripts to do automate testing using QTP.
• Used Quick Test Pro’s Data Table, to manipulate the data sets and create multiple test scenarios.
• Involved in data integrity, backend, data driven, regression and functional testing
• Inserted Check Points to check the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using Quick Test Pro.
• Enhanced the VB Scripts to perform Data Driven Testing.
• Analyzed Online Monitor graphs generated using Load Runner to check the behavior of application.
• Analyzed test results and traced performance bottlenecks
• Use HP Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.
• Provided clear concise feedback to Development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in final release.
• Provided back end testing for data validation using SQL.
• Involved with cross-functional Team and Users.

Environment: Oracle, Windows, Bugzilla, JIRA, JAVA.