CAREER SUMMARY

• Over 11 years of experience in the IT industry with a good experience in Quality assurance and software development
• Experience in automation framework development and enhancements
• Proficient in Manual and Automation testing with tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE using test scripts Java, JavaScript, C#, Gherkin and Test Frameworks using TestNG, MSTest, Cucumber, Specflow and MAVEN/JENKINS build tools
• Experience in integration & execution of Selenium tests and SoapUI tests using Jenkins
• Expertise in functional, data - driven, load & performance testing SOAP and REST based web services using SoapUI and custom Groovy scripting
• Sound knowledge of BDD, TDD approach and automation frameworks Page-Object-Model, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Hybrid using C#/Java.
• Extensive hands-on experience using QTP(descriptive programming)
• Experience in developing and executing Automated Performance scripts using IBM Rational performance tester
• Experience with CI and CD using Jenkins
• Proficient in working with JMeter,Postman and writing complex SQL queries for database validations
• Experience with collecting Test Metrics to Manage Defects and Generate Various Reports 
• Experience in Sanity, Functional, GUI, Regression, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Load and Performance Testing the applications developed in different environments including Java/J2EE and .NET
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenario and Test Cases, Test Environment and Test Data Setup, Test Execution, Monitoring and Test Results Documentation
• Experience in using Adobe LiveCycle tools and ES modules (Workbench, Forms Designer, Administrator Console and Workspace).
• Hands on experience with JavaScript and FormCalc scripting in creating a dynamic and interactive PDF forms and developing processes using Adobe LiveCycle Services
• Proficient in developing XML Schemas
• Good Exposure to Testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle
• Experience in Agile methodology with frequent releases and well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of applications
• Experience in Software Quality Assurance Process Models like CMM , PCMM and TL9000
• Personal skills include good Communication, strong sense of Organization and Effective Time Management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Lead testing effort with business analysts, customers and offshore QA.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT, UNIX, LINUX

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/Web Driver, Cucumber, Soap UI/Soap UI Pro/Ready API, Rational Performance Tester, Quick Test Professional, Parasoft SOAtest, WinRunner, NeoLoad

Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Test Director, Rally, MTM

Monitoring Tools : Tivoli, AppDynamics, Splunk

Languages : JavaScript#, C #, VB Script, Groovy Script, Gherkin, SQL

RDBMS : Oracle, DB2 and MySQL

Web/XML Technologies : HTML, SOAP, REST, XSD, XML, XPATH

Source/Version Control : Dimensions, CVS and GIT

Protocols : HTTP(s), JMS, FTP and TibcoRV transport protocols

Messaging Middleware : WebSphere MQ, JMS , Active MQ

Other Software Tools : Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio, Maven, Caliber, Rest Client, Team FoundationServer (TFS), Toad, IBM InfoSphere,Jenkins, LiveCycle ES3, FormDesigner 9.5/10, LiveCycle Work space, LiveCycle Reader Extensions

Domains : Payroll, HR Benefits and Telecom

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Automation QA

Responsibilities:

• Analyze functional and Business requirements and develop and review test plans
• Identify test cases to automate prioritize suitable candidates for automation
• Develop ,update and maintain test automation (BDD approach) using Selenium WebDriver /C#/ Gherkin ,cucumber and spec flow in an Agile Environment
• Automate, debug and resolve issues in Selenium scripts
• Integrate with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on regular basis automatically.
• Integrating existing framework with Rally using Rally API and MTM.
• Generate Selenium Reports and publish test results on daily basis.
• Support and update test libraries, scripts and data files.
• Responsible for automating both SOAP and REST based web services using Soap UI and custom groovy scripting
• Creating batch files for scheduled automation runs in TFS and TFS/VM maintenance
• Participate in daily scrum calls, sprint planning and retrospective meeting and provide status
• Perform code reviews of automation scripts 
• Mentoring team which includes work assignments and providing level of estimates and coordinating with offshore team to oversee testing activities.
• Responsible for Build Verification Tests after the build deployment in dev, test and UAT

Environments:

• Perform cross-browser testing on different browsers like Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
• Develop various SQL Queries for backend validation.
• Report the bugs/defects through Rally.
• Monitor/troubleshoot issues using splunk logs.
• Participate in production validations
• Identify qualified and critical defects and log the defects with steps using Rally dev.
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders and potentially globally distributed teams
• Provide training to the team on Ready Api and Selenium
• Publishing the automation execution status to the management on daily basis and preparing test metrics after every release

Environment: Java,J2EE services , C# , WebSphere, Selenium Web driver with BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber Tomcat ,NodeJs, Spring hibernate, XML ,HTML ,Putty, .Net , IIS,TFS,MTM,Soap UI , Maven , JSON , Oracle

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Functional and Business Requirements
• Participate in release and iteration kickoffs, daily scrums ,design reviews and status meetings
• Lead a team of 3 to 4 which includes work assignments and providing level of estimates
• Preparing Test Plan, Test Cases and documenting the Test Results
• Develop and execute automated performance scripts using Rational Performance Tester and custom Java code to determine the service level objectives
• Identify and develop automation test scripts using Selenium using BDD framework
• Execute automation test suites and generate XSLT Reports using Maven and TestNG
• Responsible for Load and Performance testing of SOAP and REST based web services using SoapUI
• Analyze performance run times and system problems, recommend technical solutions
• Identifying Real World Scenarios and Day in Life Performance Tests
• Monitoring performance over the messaging MQ channel.
• Identifying the performance bottlenecks by monitoring the business transactions and application JVM performance using AppDynamincs
• Responsible for Web Services automation testing using SoapUI and custom groovy scripting
• Testing of SOAP over JMS API
• Monitor Unix server logs and report application exception
• Developing SQL Queries to create the data pools and for Backend testing
• Perform code reviews of automation scripts 
• Executing Interface jobs using IBM Infosphere
• Defect Logging, Tracking and Reporting using ClearQuest.
• Involved in preparing test metrics after every release
• Providing training to the QA Team on RPT, SoapUI and Selenium.

Environment: Java, oracle, Ajax, SOAP, WebSphere, Rational Performance Tester , IBM InfoSphere ,ClearQuest , Selenium IDE/WebDriver, iCapture, Pega, Adobe Live Cycle designer, SAP BO, SPSS, MDM and Inspector, XML ,HTML ,Putty.

Construction Management System 

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing functional and business requirements
• Developed various Adobe LiveCycle forms for Applications, Daily Diary reports, Contract Closeouts and Safety Incidents categories.
• Extensively used Adobe LiveCycle ES modules (Forms, Reader Extensions, Rights Management, Execute script and JDBC Services) to design, develop and test Adobe Forms and Workflows with various features.
• Involved in setting up Adobe LiveCycle Designer for development and testing
• Custom objects were created to group objects and reused in different Forms.
• Developed form fragments that are globally used in LiveCycle templates
• Developed reusable Java Script functions for use in adobe forms
• Wrote JavaScript code for validations, Modified XML and Schemas for new requirements.
• Extensively used FORM DOM, DATA DOM Models and Data Connections (WSDL).
• Involved in Load and Performance testing using NeoLoad
• Updated Unit test cases, Architecture Design Documents and Detailed Design Documents
• Responsible for API automation testing using SoapUI/JMeter
• Involved in Unit and Integration testing of the application.
• Involved in UAT testing and providing UAT demos to clients.
• Delivering supporting documentation on the work accomplished
• Participating in weekly status meeting and providing the status.

Environment: Java 1.6 , Adobe LiveCycle ES3, Adobe LiveCycle Designer 10, LiveCycle Workspace, XML, XSD, oracle , Webservices (WSDL, SOAP), NeoLoad

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Functional Requirement and Business Requirement
• Involved in various phases of software Life cycle like Test Plan design, Test Case design, Test case implementation, Test Execution, Defects/Bug Tracking, and Test Results Reporting
• Involved in API automation testing using SOAP and Rest based Services, JMS Queues.
• Simulated messages to messaging middleware including Active MQ and JMS queues for functional testing of distributed services
• Setup JMS/TIBCO endpoints in SOA Test for integration testing and using http API to post/consume messages from the messaging queue.
• Testing of SOAP over JMS API
• Recorded and plays back test in Fire fox using Selenium IDE
• Developed and maintained automated sanity, regression test scripts in Selenium WebDriver using Java
• Involved in Load and Performance testing of web services using SOA 9.0
• Automation of testing procedures through SOATest's extensibility API using custom java code
• Automated and maintained test scripts using VB Script in QTP (Descriptive programming)
• Involved in executing QTP Scripts from Quality Center.
• Worked on backend testing different databases using SQL queries
• Involved in maintaining requirements and traceability matrix
• Involved in System, E2E, UAT testing and providing UAT demos to clients.
• Involved in Internal Audits
• Trained new testers on QTP/Web Services testing/Testing methods.
• Coordinated with offshore team to oversee testing activities.
• Reviewing the work done by team and providing over all testing status to the Manager.
• Involved in preparing test metrics after every release
• Participating in release decision meetings.
• Participating in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality.

Environment: Java , ESB (Apache Camel) tool, WebLogic J2EE Services, Spring, , JBOSS, Oracle 10g, JUNIT, Eclipse,.Net with Actuate API , SOA 9.0, QTP 9.0 ,XML ,HTML ,Putty, Selenium ,Oracle 9i and Unix. Citi NAIT- Student Loan Corporation Mar 2006- Nov 2007

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participation in software requirements review meeting
• Implemented and Involved in various phases of software Life cycle like Test Plan, Test case Design, Test case implementation, Test Execution, Defects/Bug Tracking, and Test Results Reporting.
• Involved in maintaining requirements and traceability matrix
• Used Test Director for test case development, defect reporting and track the defects to closure.
• Involved in testing the reports by generating using Futrix tool and validating with database.
• Involved in Actuate Report testing (BI-DAS testing), Validating the reports displayed data with database
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Developed SQL Queries using Toad to perform database testing
• Identified the test cases for regression Suites and developed and executed the regression scripts using QTP
• Created and verified GUI, bitmap, text and Database checkpoints, URL Links and synchronization points of the application using QTP automated test scripts.
• Participated in weekly status meetings with entire testing team and updated each PCR testing status to QA Lead.
• Involved in preparing test metrics after every release
• Interface with the client, overall project tracking and reporting, ensuring quality & timely delivery
• Participating in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, JSP .Net with Actuate API, Test Director, QTP , MS-Visio and Oracle.

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participation in software requirements review meeting
• Created System Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Status Report Templates
• Involved in System testing
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically with client.

Environment: JSP, Servlets, HTML, Oracle, Windows 2000, Test DirectorCucumber, gherkin, selenium, cucumber, webdriver, Jenkins, selenium, java, TFS, TFS