PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior SDET Selenium QA Tester with 8+ years of experience in Test and software testing processes like Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix, Test Automation, User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong expertise in SDLC, Project Management and testing lifecycle methodologies like Waterfall, Spiral and Agile methodologies.
• Extensively Proficient in Black Box, White Box, Functional, Integration, GUI, UAT, System, Usability, Regression, Stress, Load, reliability, Stability, Backend, Nonfunctional, manual, automation and Interactive Voice Response(IVR) testing.
• Experienced in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Data Driven Development.
• Automate test cases using Ruby, Cucumber, Selenium.
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and GUI Testing
• Designing and Executing of Test Cases and Involved in peer reviews of the test cases
• Reporting and tracking the defects until closure and Involved in running the Scenarios for the created test scripts.
• Created the test data for interpreting positive /Negative results during functional testing.
• Involved in Regression testing after each build release of the application.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills with proven abilities in resolving complex software issues. Well versed with SDLC, STLC and Database concepts.
• Involved in all the SDLC phases from Project Initiation to Post Deployment meetings.
• Enacted as a SPOC for Test Data collection and release activities for couple of releases.
• Involved in the activities like analysis, test case designing, execution and test report preparation;
• Performing various software testing - Manual, Database, Functional on Web Applications and engineering test cases design / strategies for design verification / product validation.
• Reviewing the functional requirement document; conducting installation, functional, compatibility & regression testing and analyzing reported defects.
• Adopting quality assurance programmed (QMS) of the organization; managing metrics data collection and calculation; conducting the software audits & reviews and maintaining relevant documentation for the same;

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Methodologies: Manual Testing, Database Testing, Functional Testing, Performance and Load Testing., Automation Testing

Tools: Quality Centre, JIRA, Product studio, Selenium Web Driver/IDE, Quick Test Professional(11.5), Selenium IDE, RC,WebDriver, QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center, Cucumber, SOAP UI

Webdebugging tool: XPATH, Firebug, Firepath.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server 2008.

Languages: C, Python, Shell, HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Sr. Test Engineer

Roles &Responsibilities:

• Developed testing scenarios/cases to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, boundary/negative testing, error or defect retests, usability; including automated scripts.
• Defined project test strategies: I took the lead in determining what is to test, defining the test approach, test priorities, etc.
• Performed daily defect triage meetings to prioritize defects with the project team.
• Developed the Results document which aimed at suggestions to improve the performance of the application.
• Research and report issues and defects into a problem tracking system (JIRA).
• Performed various package validations on different Sword Global products.
• Define, build and maintain the test environment and tools, together with Software and other Test Engineers / Integrators.
• Draw up test specifications, test plans and test reports.
• Configure Test Link for QA test Case management which includes creation of Test Plan, Test Suite, Test Case and Test Case execution and reporting of test result.
• Developed Selenium test scripts for identified test cases by using data driven framework and developed function library to reduce redundant scripting.
• Integrated the test suites to Jenkins to execute them automatically after every successful deployment.
• Developed Selenium test scripts for identified test cases by using data driven, keyboard driven and hybrid framework.
• Included Supply Chain Procurement and developing standards of quality, financing purchases, negotiating price, buying goods, inventory control and disposal of waste products like packaging.
• Perform functional, UI, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, backend, Ad-hoc, UAT, stress, load and other non -functional testing.
• Mentored and guide the team to perform functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end system testing to ensure that the application is in alignment with the business requirements.
• Worked closely with the development team to analyze and find root cause of failures.
• Done SOA testing for Payments API's using SOAP UI and Java framework for web services testing.
• Actively involved in all sprint related activities, including sprint planning, product demos, sprint retrospective meetings, and client demos after every sprint release.
• Performed data validation-using SQL. Executed SQL queries for backend database MySQL.

Sr. Quality Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developed testing scenarios/cases to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, boundary/negative testing, error or defect retests, usability; including automated scripts.
• Defined project test strategies: I took the lead in determining what is to test, defining the test approach, test priorities, etc.
• Performed daily defect triage meetings to prioritize defects with the project team.
• Developed the Results document which aimed at suggestions to improve the performance of the application.
• Research and report issues and defects into a problem tracking system (JIRA).
• Automated in-sprint stories effectively managed test data.
• Executed data validation process using SQL and perform root cause analysis.
• Maintained effective daily communication with team members via stand-up meetings, documentation, and status reports.
• Worked within Agile project teams, continuously releasing application software.
• Involved in SOAP and REST based web services testing using SOAPUIPRO Web services testing tool.
• Debug test-automation failures and test-environment issues.
• Written and tested the interactive voice response test cases.
• Defects analysis, defects reporting and issue tracking until its closure.
• Uploading Test Cases to ALM and moving Test cases to Test Suit for various releases.

Quality Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• Test case allocation and Coordination with the Team.
• Reviewed project deliverables for completeness and quality in compliance with project standards and specifications.
• Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and System Design Specification (SDS), Web Based experience and also gathering the requirements.
• Performed manual testing for various test conditions for positive and negative test cases, to verify that the application works as intended and that it will respond properly.
• Involved and worked closely with the developers in order to verify the front end application developed in .Net programming.
• Reporting and tracking the defects until closure. Finding bugs and certifying the builds after complete regression testing.
• Responsible for Execution of a number of test cases in different environments (DEV, TEST and PROD) and Performed Performance Testing, Regression testing and Unit Testing and documenting the unit test results
• Involved in Test data creation, Designing and Executing of Test Cases and in peer reviews of the test cases.
• Creating Test Plan and developing test cases for different releases and testing the reporting bugs by creating Manual Test cases for the bugs reported and adding them to test database in TFS.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to test data integrity of the backend database by creating SQL queries for doing a backend validation.
• Coordinated with QA team members in resolving critical issues with the development team.

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed different types of testing like Functional, System, Regression, Database, UI and BVT testing.
• Identifying the functional gaps in use cases and interacting with the Onsite team for the confirmation of changes
• Reporting and tracking the bugs in bug tracking tool Quality center and Involved in peer reviews and authorizing the changes in test case documents.
• Acted as a SPOC for test data collection, Release activities and participated in the Post Release Meetings.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, End to End Testing and UAT.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing. Participated in Business Analysis, Requirements Review and Technical specs inspection
• Design and develop business services and UI using RESTFUL web services, XSD's, Java script libraries.
• Wrote automated client-side GUI testing code using Selenium RC/WebDriver.
• Involved in developing test cases from Business Requirements in Quality Center
• Responsible for performing System Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Participated in testing various interfaces (Inbound and Outbound) of Facets
• Involved in validation and verification of data
• Involved in Test Execution, Results Analyzing and Defect Reporting
• Developed Base line scripts for testing the future releases of the Application
• Developed and executed SQL queries using TOAD and stored procedures to validate the data
• Tracked defects using Quality Center and conducted defect review meetings
• Used Quality Center as a test management tool for requirements, test cases, test execution and defect reporting
• Involved in Testing along with Developers to resolve the technical problems encountered in the application.
• Involved in deriving test cases from Use case document and executing the same.