PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience in IT industry with Quality Assurance Area with expertise in Manual Software Testing, Automation Testing, Web Services Testing, Client Server Applications, Test Planning and Execution including Functionality, Usability, Reliability, and User Acceptance
• Experience in writing System Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Automated scripts and Documentation.
• Excellent experience with Software Quality Assurance Testing on GUI based Client - Server &Web Based applications.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), System Life Cycle Methodology (SLCM) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Proficient in finding Defects & test summary reporting.
• Extensive experience with End-to End manual testing of Mainframe, Web, and Web Services.
• Strong experience with Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, SOA Testing and UAT Testing.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back-End testing, Browser Compatibility testing, and component testing on Windows.
• Good experience in testing web applications using Soap UI.
• Experience in Web services and SOA testing using SOAPUI, Advanced Rest Client (Rest API)
• Experience automating web service API’s using SOAPUI, JMeter, SOA Test and POSTMANREST Client
• Involved in various Requirement, Design Phase development, and Configuration meetings along with the Business and development teams.
• Good Experience in Selenium Web Driver Automation Testing with JAVA.
• Expertise in automating the customer facing applications like E-commerce
• Used Water-Fall, Agile (Scrum) and various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.
• Experienced in Test Planning and creation of the Test Strategy, the Design and the execution of Test Cases, Defect Management, and Reporting.
• Proficient knowledge in various types of Software Testing such as System Testing, Black Box Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, Data Driven Testing, Back-End Testing.
• Experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as Selenium RC/WebDriver/IDE/Grid, HP Quick Test Professional and Junit/TestNG, Load Runner, Quality Center, JIRA, Neoload, ZEPHYR.
• High-level proficiency with foundation in Java, J2EE, SQL, Linux/Unix and monitoring tools.
• Experienced in testing web applications and standalone applications.
• Expertise in Problem solving and bug reports using Bug Tracking Tools, worked on agile and waterfall models.
• Strong exposure testing applications on different browsers like IE, Firefox, Chrome.
• Experienced in testing functional features of an application as well as UI Level testing.
• Experienced using SQL queries for Back-End testing, report generation, and to verify congruity of data.

• Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments
• Extensive experience in Coordinating with Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts to set up the pre-validation and validation environment to execute the scripts.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work with time constraints while paying attention to details.
• Strong experience in testing "Web Services", portal pages using SOAP UI.
• Worked with SOAP UI Tool for testing the web services and Automating them using the Groovy scripting.
• Performed Security testing and automated web services using Secure Pro tab which has, SQL Injection, Sensitive exposure, XPATH Injection, Fuzzy Scan, Boundary Scan, Invalid Types, Cross Site Scripting.
• Wrote extensive SQL and PL/SQL scripts to test the ETL flow, Data Reconciliation, Initialization, and Change Data Capture, Delta Processing, Incremental process.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules and capable of working efficiently under pressure, manage multiple project and cross train sub-ordinates in other Functional areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7, LINUX, UNIX

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP QTP, Selenium Web Driver

Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, HPALM, Zephyr

Front End Tools: MS Office, Open Office, MS SQL Server, MS ProjectAdobe Photoshop, Page Maker.

Web Services Testing: SOAP UI, REST, WSDL, Ready API

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, C, C++, C#, Java and SQL

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, TOAD, MS: Access

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script, XML, DHTML, XML, Servlets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

QA Automation Lead/ PLM QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily stand-up meetings to provide QA estimates, testing progress and status of deliverables for the sprint.
• Developing and preparing test strategy, tests plans.test scenarios, and debugs programs, revising refining programs as directed.
• Implemented Page Object Model using Selenium with JAVA in combination with BDD Framework and utilized the Gherkin language for ease of the Business.
• Developed Automation framework from scratch for Automated Sanity, System and Regression Test suite development for Sanity and Regression testing using selenium Java,gherkin language with support of cucumber.
• Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, and Maven.
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
• Used Maven, Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.
• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.
• Created SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports.
• Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.
• Automated the E-Commerce Application to verify the functionality of the system along with report generation for the orders that are created.
• Generated the custom HTML and PDF Reports with good Visuals.
• Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
• Assisted Manager by providing automation strategies, Selenium/Cucumber Automation and JIRA reports.
• Implemented the CI/CD Pipeline and integrated with the Bamboo and AWS
• Identified weaknesses in QA Processes, Web testing, Selenium Automation. Suggested & implemented improvements.
• Developed new Automation test cases using selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
• Worked with SOAP UI Tool for testing the web services and Automating them using the Groovy scripting.
• Performed Security testing and automated web services using Secure Pro tab which has, SQL Injection, Sensitive exposure, XPATH Injection, Fuzzy Scan, Boundary Scan, Invalid Types, Cross Site Scripting.
• Created Test Data for QA automation and UAT using Excel Sheet by fetching data from the database directly using TNS connections.
• Expertise in data validation of reports, functionality using OBIEE by writing complex SQL queries at the backend
• Participate in production check out validation for the releases and publish the Test Results Summary and present metrics to Clients
• Filed and tracked the defects using HPALM and JIRA.
• Worked with ZEPHYR as Test management Tool and integrated with JIRA as well for the bug tracking and test cases and acceptance criteria tracking

Environment: Java, SQL Server, Web Services, UNIX, SoapUI tool. Windows, Selenium (Web Driver2.0), IDE, TestNG, Eclipse, Excel, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, SQL Plus, MS Office, Core FTP/FileZilla, Discoverer, Load Runner, SOAP UI and AWS Services.

Confidential, Fort Wayne, IN

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation and execution of test scenarios by reviewing all the business functional specifications, detailed design documents, data model documents, data flow diagrams and architecture documents.
• Analyzed the functional specification document and Use Cases for testing the application, as well as preparation and execution of Test Cases according to the business document specifications.
• Experience in Writing test plans, test cases, test procedures based on business requirements.
• Responsible for Regression Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Spider testing, UAT and end to end testing for web-based application.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and automatically.
• Used Selenium Web Driver with java plug-in to generate automated test scripts for functional testing, GUI testing and enhancing the existing scripts.
• Involved in the on-prem applications automation using selenium with JAVA
• Participated in scrum meetings to ensure that the business rules have been addressed properly.
• Followed Agile Methodology(SCRUM) for this project.
• Performed Regression Testing for every modification made in the application and new builds using Selenium Web Driver.
• Used JAVA, JavaScript and jQuery for writing the test scripts and executing the scripts in the automation process.
• Expertise in performing Gray box testing background using complex SQL queries.
• Used JAVA Extension methods for custom library methods for optimizing the code.
• Configured Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Functionally validated Web services delivered in SOAP XML format as provided in specification document.
• Tested web services based on Data and functions by SOAUI.
• Handled Web Services testing using SoapUI tool and created test data using XML.
• Involved in Functionality, User Interface, and Regression testing during the various phases of development using Selenium/TestNG.
• Developed page library as part of modular framework implementation in automation.
• Maintained and executed MAVEN build files for running automated test cases along with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Involved in Problem solving and creating Bug Reports using Bug Tracking Tools like Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: Quality Center, Automation Testing, Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Java, Jenkins, Maven, Web Services, IBM Clear Quest, SOAPUI, Firefox, Eclipse, Linux, Oracle, Windows2007.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Selenium Tester/Web Services Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted closely with the development team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the application to design the test plans.
• Development process the SCRUM, Iterative Agile methodologies for web Application
• Involved coding and testing using Java.
• Identified test cases needs to automate.
• Developed scripts by using TestNG with Selenium web driver
• Developed automated scripts for Regression testing using Selenium Web driver, debug and enhance the scripts, run scripts, wrote user-defined functions etc.
• Keeping track of Hardware and software requirements for the Test Environment
• Responsible for Setting up Web Services project using WSDL in SOAPUI and provided setup help to other team members.
• Responsible for building complex Request XMLs for HTTP-based and SOAP-based services based on the client requirements.
• Designed & Developed automation framework using Selenium Java, Web driver, TestNG & apache POI
• Participated as a team member in Scrum Sprints
• Demonstrated progress at the end of each Sprint
• Co-ordination with the support teams, in case of environmental issues to drive towards the point of resolution.
• Organized and prioritize workload in order to meet necessary deadlines
• Developed Automation Engineering solutions for GUI using Java, Selenium Web driver, Firebug/Fire path.
• Used Rational Clear quest for Bug reporting, Tracking and defect Management, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Review all the test deliverables (test cases, test reports, defect log reports etc) and sign off
• Responsible in design, review, test data setup and test execution of Component
• Involved in designing and developing enhancements per business requirements
• SQL Queries to retrieve the data from various Tables and to test the database
• Extensively used Core Java such as Multi-Threading, Exceptions, Collections, etc in Application.

Environment: Rational Clear Quest, Java, Selenium Web Driver, Web Services, Cucumber, GUI, NetBeans6.8, LINUX, Apache POI, Clear case, Windows XP.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Selenium/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business use case & System use case review meetings and understood the requirements.
• Worked in Agile Scrum Environment
• Worked as a Project Administrator HP ALM/Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects
• Automated Accounts, Contacts & Opportunities module in Sales Force Application.
• Developed test automation framework based on Page Object Model, TestNG and Selenium Web Driver to reduce code and better maintenance for the Sales Force Application
• Identified manual test cases for Test Automation and check for the feasibility
• Developed Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix.
• Documentation of Automation framework design and methods
• Designed and maintain TC’s in Sales Force
• Identified the Reusable functionality and make it as methods for code reusability and maintainability
• Created and Maintain Test data for individual scripts
• Designed the automation scripts using TestNG Annotations.
• Configured Log4J for better logging mechanism
• Maintained the Selenium scripts in SVN repository
• Configured Maven and Jenkins for better dependency and automatic build deployment.
• Tested Web Services by generating XML SOAPUI Requests and validated the corresponding XML SOAPUI Responses.
• Maintained and Enhancing Selenium scripts as per new CRs
• Configured Selenium Grid to execute tests on different machines against different browsers in parallel.
• Used Eclipse IDE for Automation Development
• Reviewed automation scripts and provides comments accordingly
• Updated and Maintain regression suite for every release
• Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports and share with the management
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams (Dev, BA, PM, Product Owner) as a part of AGILE environment.

Environment: Sales Force, Java, Selenium Web driver, Web Services, TestNG, Agile Methodology, Log4j, SVN, HP ALM/Quality Center, Maven

Confidential

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Cases & Test Plans based on the functional specification documents.
• Interacted closely with the development team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the application to design the test plans.
• Developed Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases, and Traceability Matrix.
• Performed Manual testing for the entire application.
• Reviewed business manuals and requirement document (BRD) in order to summarize system-specific business rules and other operating conditions.
• Worked in the Agile approaches and Scrum
• Performed Functionality, GUI and Security Testing.
• Tested the functionality of most commonly used panels, using Quick Test Pro, created and added logic to the script with conditional statements, loops and arithmetic operators to create more powerful and complex test.
• Entered, maintained and executed test scripts into the test management tool Clear Quest.
• Tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared defects / problems using Clear Quest.
• Involved in executing the SQL Queries for Data Validation
• Tested the application manually (Black box testing) during the development phase.
• Used Clear Quest to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Extensively used Clear Quest as the bug tracking and reporting tool.
• Implemented SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing.
• Analyzed business flow of the application.
• Involved in weekly status meetings.
• Involved in the Documentation of the whole QA process.

Environment: IBM Clear Quest, Oracle, TOAD, SQL, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Java Script, HTML, XML, C++, MS Office, Windows.