SUMMARY:

• Total 15+ years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance with a thorough knowledge of System, Functional, Regression, Acceptance Testing, Compatibility testing, Data Testing, Installation testing, GUI testing, Functional Automation, integration methodologies and in Product Certification / Production testing.
• 12 plus years in testing Web based applications
• 13 plus years in HP ALM or Mercury QC
• 8 plus years of lead experience in varied projects distributed across globe.
• 3 Plus years experience in ReadyAPI JRuby, Cucumber,Ruby Mine,Ruby gems, Selenium,Gherkin structures.
• Has good knowledge on Protractor, Page Objects & Appium for mobile Automation.
• 3 Plus years experience in QTP
• 1 year experience in Java & .Net technologies.
• Has good experience in conducting Show & Tell to the clients/Stake holders.
• Has solid experience to justify Go/No go of applications.
• Has initiated & Participated in defect triage & Postmortem meetings.
• Has solid experience in Insurance, Banking, Financial, Retail, Health care, Real Estate etc Domains.
• Has solid experience in managing offshore/onsite model.
• Organizing IPM’s(Iteration Planning Meetings),Daily Scrums, Defect triage as a part of Agile Scrum Model
• Involved in Soap UI,GWO/GWS,JSON, WSAD,WSDL and IIS Services
• Proficient in testing Banking applications on Native apps.
• Has experience to identify Critical/Hidden defects in applications used on Web based apps and Ability to give suggestions for a quick fix by analyzing logs.
• Involved in status call meetings, daily meetings, minutes of meetings.
• Hands on experience in Certification testing of Banking apps Hands - on experience in design, development and execution of QA Test Plans, Scenario doc, Traceability and Test Strategies for Manual Testing & Automation testing.
• Capacity to identify Blockers, analyze test results, and investigating their root cause using log files, Assigning to the concerned team and suggesting remedies while tracking till closure.
• Proficient in analyzing the logs and participated in investigation meetings.
• Knowledge of project life cycle for web applications using various methodologies such as Waterfall model, V-Model and Agile Scrum Model.
• Proficient in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Quality Assurance testing cycle.
• Involved in Load/Performance testing.
• Written SQL queries for data extraction and validate it from front end application for specific business criteria.
• Experience testing in Client-server and Web based applications.
• Hands on experience in RTC/RRC,Mingle,Wiki,Sharepoint
• Working closely with Developers/BA on the issues & design of the system and QA Team to implement quick solutions.
• Performed Prod Testing,UAT extensively across different project.
• Performed Splash testing,Force upgrade testing etc
• Performed real time Alerts testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/XP/2000/ME/95/98,UNIX and MAC 10.6.8

Programming and Scripting: JRuby,C++, .NET,J2EE, VB Script,UNIX,Objective C

RDBMS: MS SQL, PL SQL, ORACLE9i, MS Access, TOAD

Testing and Mgt. Tools: QTP, Load Runner,HP QC 11 and ALM 11

Defect Tracking Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, Test Complete,Silk Cental manager, Mingle-TW and ALM 11

Web/Application Servers: Tom Cat,Web logic and IIS

Safari: , IE,Fire Fox, HTTP, TCP/IP,HTML, XML,UML

Soap UI:, WSAD- IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, WSDL- Web Services Description Language, JSON- JavaScript Object Notation and IIS- Internet Information Services

Version Control: Win CVS,VSS,SVN, Wiki and Share point

Tools: MS Office, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix - AZ

Sr. QA Ready API specialist

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Lead activities
• Preparation of Test Plan
• Involved in project plan meetings
• Palooza effort estimation for the team
• Involved in project life cycle for web applications using Agile Scrum Model
• Reporting and coordinating teams with issues/blockers in Daily Standup’s
• Testing & Automation of Test Scripts in Ready API using Groovy scripting
• Creating Project XML, Project URI using Endpoints, Resources/Methods, Groovy Scripting for Rest
• Identifying the hidden bugs while debugging the logs using Tomcat server logs / kibana / maven logs
• Extensively worked on Jenkins Auto jobs, Stash / Bitbucket created Pull requests & review them
• Proficient in Testing Composite, Entity services, Service calling service using CRUD
• Worked extensively on all methods Create,GET/Search,Update,Delete etc. with all Assertions
• Worked extensively on Jmeter Grifana metrics using JMeter Test plan elements: ThreadGroup, Controllers, Listeners, Timers, Assertions, Configuration Elements etc
• Taking a Lead role in conducting Defect triage for cross functional issues
• Involved in Automation Testing for RestFul Json calls using Groovy, Selenium Etc.
• Executing Automated Regressions suite using Jenkins or CD pipeline Jobs
• Involved in End to End Scripts execution using Protractor tool, AngularJS UI screens
• Worked on SoapUI web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Coordinating with 3rd Party tools & with Remote Business Stake holders.
• Taking ownership for Stories Demo before going Production / Live
• Preparing DSR,WSR & Monthly reports etc

American Express, Phoenix - AZ

Sr. QA Lead

• Created Marvin BOT & CCP UI Framework from Scratch using Selenium webdriver, Eclipse & Java. Marvin BOT Automated for the 62 Intents with XMPP BOT using Java classes, Selenium webdriver Eclipse/Maven from scratch. Written Readable, Reusable, Maintainable high performance selenium web driver code.
• Rest Services & Rest API tested Manually & Automated:
• 5 Rest services:
• Cases-Response I'd, Data service, Release operator, Return key board, Delete message, Property transfers for cases query Etc.
• Handled Dropdowns, Checkboxes, Radio buttons etc using customized Xpaths & element Id’s Handled cross browser testing using Selenium frame work Generating TestNG report which depicts Pass/Fail stats. Trained Automation concepts to the Junior QA as part of Continuous Improvements.

Confidential , Scottsdale - AZ

Sr. Automation Developer

• DC Suite consists of Program Admin,Program calc,Program Inquiry,Guide Viwer Applications. DC Applications developed using Java, Grails, Java Script, Java handlebars, Sql Server, SOA Web services.
• Automated new changes and the Existing functionalities using JRuby Cucumber by writing gherkin steps in Feature files while mapping the object Id's through developer tools or Xpath firebug.
• Writing step definitions and generating Test reports through RubyMine 6.3.2
• Used Selenium webdriver for writing steps definitions in JRuby.
• Extensively used Selenium in Steps.Ruby file with RSPEC & SQL server
• Automated feature files used as part of regression Suite.
• Performed Load & Performance tests using JMeter with used Test plan elements:
• ThreadGroup, Controllers, Listeners, Timers, Assertions, Configuration Elements, Pre-Processor Elements, Post-Processor Elements Etc.
• Thoroughly tested RESTful API for XML & JSON responses while comparing with the Database tables
• Executed regression Suite & New requirement through Hudson server job batch run using event schedules or monthly releases.