SUMMARY:

• Software Quality Engineer with 5 years of core expertise in Automation, Manual and Web Services testing.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Process, and Software testing techniques.
• Experience in Full Life Cycle Testing which includes Requirements Gathering, Scheduling, Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting using Automation and Manual tools.
• Experienced in Automation Testing using Selenium.
• Experienced in developing Test Automation Framework, Scripts, Plans, and Test Cases for Functional, Regression suites, and System Testing.
• Review test plans, test cases, and other work products to ensure consistency, high quality, and adherence to standards and QA procedures.
• Understand and translate requirements to test scenarios and test cases.
• Identify, document, communicates, and manages all risks and issues related to verification and validation activities.
• Execute test cases for regression testing and identify any issues or defects in the application.
• Extensive knowledge in Java programming with concepts like JSP, Java Script, PL/SQL and XML.
• Expertise in programming with clear understanding of OOPS concept as Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation, etc.
• Good understanding of web technologies CSS, HTML, XML, REST API , JavaScript and PHP .
• Experience in Defect Management and Change Management Tools JIRA, ALM, and Quality Center.
• Experience in performing Web Services/XML based testing using soapUI.
• Experience in automation testing using industry standard testing tools HP Quality Center and Load Runner.
• Knowledge and experience in C# and Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Expertise in scripting and executing SQL queries using TOAD, SQL for Back end testing.
• Experienced in designing specifications, preparing requirements traceability matrix (RTM) and maintaining other QA related documentation
• Developed and maintained automation framework using selenium Page Object Model concept. Good knowledge in Hybrid, Data Driven Framework.Key Driven Framework and Page Object Framework
• Specialized in Functional, Positive, Negative, Integration, System, Regression, Load, Stress and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Delivered the status reports like testing status, defect - tracking status and weekly status reports to the Project Management Group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages:  C#, Java, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL,Javascript,PHP

Defect Tracking Tools:  Test Director / Quality Center / JIRA/Bugzilla

Operating Systems:  Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/, UNIX, Mac OS, Linux

Databases:  MS-Access 97/2007, Oracle 11g,MySQL, SQL Server 2005/2000

Web Servers / Applications:  Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, AZ

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Test Strategy Documents along with the QA team members
• Worked in Agile(Scrum) methodology
• Developed Test Plans for functionality testing of the Application
• Worked closely with business analysts and users in requirements gathering, reviewing business rules and identifying data sources
• Prepared Test Cases and executed the test cases to verify actual results against expected results
• Conducted Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Performance testing and Data Migration Testing.
• Designed test cases using Selenium webdriver and TestNG.
• Involved in Test data analysis and setup and performed end-to-end testing of the Application
• Prepared and executed Automation test scripts using Selenium
• Tested cross browser functionality of browser such as Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox
• Tested across different operating systems like Windows, Mac OS etc.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL Queries
• Performed cross browser testing and cross platform testing.
• Wrote reusable SQL queries and generated those to validate the data in the database
• Reported software defects and interacted with the developers to resolve the defects investigated in the application during testing
• Followed up with the development team to check with the development status of the project and make changes appropriately to the requirements
• Provided ongoing test reports and status reports to the product management team

Environment: Java, Windows 2000/XP/7, MAC, Red Hat Linux, IE9, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Jira 3.4, Load Runner 9.1, MS Excel, Oracle 10g, Selenium( IDE, Webdriver, TestNG, JAVA Script).Java

Confidential, NJ

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.
• Participated in review, progress meetings to monitor the progress of the testing process. 
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Involved in the functional automation for the web application using C#.
• Used Quality Center as Test Repository for Requirements, Test plans.
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object’s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan, various Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Designed testcases using selenium web driver,TestNG and Java
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly to update the test documents
• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.

Environment:  Java, XML, Test Director, Oracle, J2EE, TestNG, FireBug,TestNG.,Java,C#

Confidential,NC 

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from business, Technical and Functional requirements.
• Analyzed requirements and designed and developed test cases and requirement assessment reports.
• Created and executed Test Cases and documented the daily defect status using JIRA and/or Bugzilla.
• Responsible for defect tracking and management metrics, defects are logged and change requests are submitted using JIRA.
• Performed functional testing.
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve or create test data from different MySQL test databases.
• Performed database testing by writing queries in MySQL.
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software .
• Participated in weekly defect status meeting.
• Conducted team meetings, walkthrough, slide demonstration to optimize work performance.
• Analyzed test execution by the team member and reporting to test manager.

Environment:   Window XP/7, MySQL, Internet Explorer/Chrome/Firefox, Bugzilla,JIRA.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manually tested the application executing test cases in the Quality center.
• Wrote test summery reports and test evaluation reports.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs.
• Wrote SQL queries and tested front-end developed data in the databases using TOAD.
• Discussed the test cases for regression testing with the quality engineers for each build and.
• Good experience with writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in Oracle and other RDBMS.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from initiation and definition to deployment and support.
• Ability to effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats with Excellent Analytical skills.
• Interact with end users and QA team for developing Use cases, Test cases and Test plans.
• Involved in system testing manually as well as using Quick Test Professional.

Environment: Informatica, HP Quality Center, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Business Objects XIR2, Windows 2000.