SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of extensive experience in Development and Test Engineering.
• Proven ability in effectively coordinating and managing the team as an onsite coordinator, and providing a liaison with the development, testing and the design teams, besides mentoring and training the peers where appropriate.
• Expertise in all dimensions of testing, which includes ETL testing, System testing, Integration testing, Ad Hoc testing, End - to-End testing, Functionality testing, Performance testing, User Acceptance Testing, usability testing, database testing, data driven testing and Regression testing.
• Design and implementation of different automation frameworks from scratch like Page Object Model, and Data-Driven frameworks.
• Familiar with Distributed version control system Git and the hosting service Github.
• Experienced in Continuous Integration using Jenkins and Github.
• Familiar with web service technologies (REST/SOAP).
• Experienced in development of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios.
• Highly adept at increasing efficiency and reducing costs by process improvements, and developed a number of process improvement tools by bringing down the customers’ costs.
• Self-motivated and goal oriented professional with strong reasoning and analytical skills with constructive approach to the business, client and to team members.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and worked on various life cycles like Waterfall, Iterative, V-Model, Agile (Scrum) models.
• Expertise interacting with the client on scope/planning/estimations, understanding the scope/requirements, Impact analysis, Tasks allocation, Milestones and Team monitoring, Tasks accomplishment, Preparation of the Test Estimates/applications to be tested, Test Case reviews, Test documentation, Test Execution, Error logging and Bug tracking, liaison with business team and development team for defect fixes and deployments, Status Reporting, Raising risks/ Issues at right time to stakeholders, SIT completion Report and Sign Off
• Expertise in Business process/workflow analysis.

Programming Languages: Java, Junit, TestNG, SQL, DB2, Python, Java script, Selenium grid, Selenium Web driver, Cucumber, Maven, Groovy scripting, Object Oriented Concepts, COBOL, Rexx

Tools: Eclipse IDE, HP Quality Centre ALM, SOAP UI Pro, DB Visualizer, Mainframe, SQL Developer, WINSCP, JIRA, RTC, Sauce Lab Integration, Git, Github

Software Testing Methodologies: Knowledge of SDLC and STLC, Agile methodologies

DBMS/RDBMS: Oracle SQL, Mainframe DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

SDET functional/Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained development, testing of Agency Servicing Preferences, Agents Listen UI tools, and successfully supported agile teams.
• Developed and executed functional, system, integration and regression test procedures, formulated test plans, and documented procedures.
• Participated in Agile grooming sessions, scrum meetings, retrospective/planning sprint reviews by identifying tasks and estimating story points for each task.
• Monitored the product development and usage at all level focusing on the product quality.
• Provided estimations to automation and carried out automation testing of web services using SOAP UI, Groovy scripting and swagger, and automation of User Interface using Selenium TestNG web driver automation and Maven.
• Integrated Selenium web driver automation with extent reports for generating detailed reports with screenshots.
• Integrated Selenium automation with continuous integration i.e. Jenkins for continuous test runs.
• Monitored Jenkins jobs for test runs and raised defects for legitimate test failures.
• Managed defects through ALM/RTC/JIRA and provided End To End support for Performance, System down testing, and Business validation testing.
• Created test harnesses and infrastructure as necessary.

Confidential, Pasadena, California

Lead Analyst

• Performed database testing by writing complex SQL queries and verified the data integrity, and fine-tuned the queries to improve the performance.
• Spearheaded analysis and design phases of the software life cycle by partaking in requirement, design walkthroughs and reviews, and handled all the test documentation.
• Automated UI components using Selenium Web Driver and Java.
• Coordinated and managed design reviews, walkthroughs and audits during various Software Development Life cycle phases.
• Developed various process improvement tools to automate the manual processes.
• Managed a team of onshore and offshore consultants daily to meet the deliverables on time, and to keep the teams informed, up and running.
• Handled all the reporting for the client by generating burn down charts, test execution status reports.
• Collaborated with the team members of engineering team, tested and implemented wholly encompassing health care projects such as Part C EOB and Membership Application Gateway.
• Carried out deployment and troubleshooting of failures.
• Carried out white and black box testing at component level.
• Developed, maintained and reported product quality metrics to aid in product release criteria.
• Established and configured various testing environments for executing test cases and scenarios.
• Provided End to End support, and Business Validation support.

Confidential

Developer

• Analyzed the requirements and prepared Technical Design documents.
• Developed code as per technical design.
• Performed unit testing and documenting the test results.
• Setup Test environment for System, Parallel, UAT testing and dress rehearsal.
• Supported System, Parallel and UAT testing.
• Adhered to SOX compliance standards for documentation of service/change requests.
• Optimized SQL queries to meet the SQL standards and to improve performance.
• Handled Production support tickets and resolved them.