SUMMARY:

I am a proven Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 8 years of experience in manual and automation testing. I am looking forward to an innovative and challenging career at a reputed organization in Baltimore, MD location

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Oracle Microsoft, SQL Server SQL Languages, Protocols & Standard

HTML: XML XML Schema XML Namespace DTD SOAP HTTP WSDL XPath XQuery

Web Services: REST UNIX Commands MS Suite MS Office Suite MS Visio MS VSS QA

Tools: SOAP UI/ Ready API Parasoft SOATest CA LISA JMeter Defect

Tracking Tools: HP ALM

Agile Methodologies: Scrum Kanban Agile Platforms VersionOne Jira Version Control GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Lead

• SOAP UI
• JMeter
• Parasoft SOATest
• Jira
• Chrome Postman Client
• VersionOne

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business product owner; participate in service grooming, provide input on completeness of acceptance criteria and service design.
• Hands on experience in testing of SOAP webservices and RESTful APIs operations like GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
• Follow an ATDD approach to testing; create Gherkin scenarios and Step Definitions using the client’s Java cucumber framework.
• Coordinate QA activities between onsite and offshore teams; identify task dependencies and task schedule.
• Work with Test Data Management Team to establish test data to support the service/API testing effort.
• Design, develop, and execute functional test cases and SOAP UI scripts.
• Adhere to defect tracking process; document software defects in Jira or VersionOne, monitor the progress in a timely manner, escalate aging and priority defects.
• Exposure to banking application backbends like TSYS, Xpress/Fidelity.
• Exposure to use of Splunk for searching and monitoring logs in QA and production environments.
• Hands on experience with creation of JMeter scripts for performance test execution.
• Experience with Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Exposure to AWS Cloud technologies.

Confidential

Senior Associate

Automation Tools & Utilities Used:

• iTKO LISA
• Quality Center
• TIBCO Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements for testability and consulted development team with regards to system functionality.
• Developed test plans, test matrixes, test scenarios, and test cases for functional, orchestration and regression testing of critical scenarios.
• Was responsible for the creation of non - coded tests in CA LISA.
• Was responsible to script assertions in CA LISA against messaging functions of web services, covering functional & negative test cases.
• TIBCO Administrator was used to verify the execution logs and identify the failure points.
• Lead the performance test strategy preparation and execution phases. Was involved with performance test script development, performance test execution, and result interpretation, analysis and report generation.
• Leveraged the use of the same LISA test cases created for functional and regression testing for performing load and stress tests as well, resulting in significant productivity and test coverage ROI.
• Worked with development teams in investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.

Framework testing

Confidential

• Parasoft SOATest
• SOAP UI
• TOAD
• Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of Offshore Test Lead and was involved in system testing of framework components that included:
• Functional testing of UI
• Functional testing of individual web service patterns.
• Testing approach followed was continuous integration testing of components within the framework for every build till 100% System Testing was achieved.
• Documented the project test plan wherein listed were the testing methodology, test deliverables, tool requirements, test schedule & other contingencies.
• Ensured risk based prioritization of test cases & early validation of high impact features in the development cycle.
• Was responsible for the creation of automation test suites for progression & regression testing in SOAPUI. The messaging formats included SOAP over HTTP & REST based clients with XML payload.
• Created virtual assets in Parasoft SOATest to reduce dependency on external 3rd party systems using sample message files.
• Worked proactively with the development team in conducting defect review meetings & analyzing root cause of defects which resulted in low rate of defect slippage to UAT stage.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Automation Tools & Utilities Used:

• HP LoadRunner
• Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Verified that eBBS application for U.A.E when deployed in Caravan environment performs as before or better under the load of 500 concurrent users.
• Responsible for data set-up & script development of the transactions that were tested.
• Set up of Controller, Load Generators in UAE and relevant monitoring tools.
• Conducted Smoke test for each Scenario before actual execution.
• Was stationed onsite at Dubai & closely interacted with the Business & Application teams.
• Executed 4 rounds of load tests & 2 endurance tests for 500 concurrent users.
• Handled activities related to thread pool settings, database min & max connections, server heap size tuning to achieve 500 users concurrency & sub second response times.