SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as software quality assurance professional.
• Extensive background in quality assurance, design verification, and systems design.
• Hands - on lead with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity.
• Experienced in planning, designing, developing and deploying testing strategies for large-scale business applications.
• Well versed in Testing methodologies, product development cycles and processes involved in developing and executing Test strategies, Test plans, Automated Test scripts, and software Deployment/Release processes.
• Experienced in functional and performance automated testing using various open source and proprietary automation tools.
• Experienced working in various SDLC and QA methodologies like Agile, waterfall. Completed Agile-training courses: Agile Methodology, Agile Software Quality Assurance.
• Good team player with excellent leadership, organizational, communication and documentation skills.
• Excellent Analytical and Problem solving Skills. A strong team player, self-motivated, eager to learn, result oriented, able to work independently when needed, have a strong attention to detail and be able to think “outside the box”.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver/IDE, Cucumber, Maven, JIRA, Firebug, SoapUI, VMware, Remote Desktop

Bug Reports: MS Excel, Atlassian Jira, Mantis

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, My SQL

Languages: Java, C++, C#, SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT, Linux, Android, iOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on Selenium Webdriver with Java.
• Creating automation test scripts using Keyword driven framework.
• Creation of Objects and SC Locators (Using Selenium IDE).
• Performing extensive functionality, integration, regression, interoperability and end-to-end system testing.
• Working closely with Engineering and Operations teams to ensure that the highest quality software is deployed.
• Execute manual test cases for Functional, Integration, Regression and system testing.
• Tracking and reporting defects using JIRA.
• Created a new automation department from scratch to support the virtual contact center (VCC) project.
• Lead automation efforts to automate products using open source tools such as Selenium Webdriver.
• Participate in discussions with senior level management about need of automation.
• Successful in explaining the need of automation to senior level management.
• Organizing team meetings to discuss suitable automation framework.
• Continuous follow-up with the teams in completing the provided tasks in the given time frame.
• Working with and providing guidance to offshore teams based in India and Brazil.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Helped recommend and implement Atlassian Jira as a companywide issue and feature-tracking tool.
• Created and prioritized application test cases for testing of items as per priority of testing and release.
• Created the Requirement Verification Traceability Matrix.
• Interfaced with developers during my testing activities to increase my knowledge of the software and to better understand the needs of the users and ultimately improve our software testing activities.
• Created daily and weekly reports of testing activities and bug
• Used Selenium to Automate Regression tests on all major features of the application.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created new test cases for new features and for existing features that did not have test cases.
• Documented and reported bugs using Atlassian Jira to PM and Developers.
• Performed bug resolution testing to close bug reports.
• Created Requirement Verification Traceability Matrix.
• Created block diagrams which map out the flow paths through the website and provide a visual, top-level look at the existing relationship of the web pages
• Interfaced with developers during my testing activities to increase my knowledge of the software and to better understand the needs of the users and ultimately improve our software testing activities.
• Created daily, weekly, and monthly reports of testing activities and bug
• Started using Selenium to Automate Regression tests on major areas of the application.
• Evaluated and implemented SoapUI to create automated test cases for web services.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirement Documents and Wireframes.
• Involved in writing the Test Plan, Test Cases, and Risk Analysis Document.
• Utilized Atlassian Jira for creating Test Cases in a QA Project.
• Created automation scripts using selenium for everyday testing of 20+ websites.
• Utilized Selenium to create and verify the UI, URL Links, Text and Downloadable Application on the websites.
• Managed individual test cycles, reported bugs and worked with analysts and developers to resolve problems.
• Used VMware to Create VM’s with various OS and Browser Configurations for Compatibility testing.
• Performed End-to-End Testing of the Product, downloading from a microsite to purchasing it and activate it.
• Attended Daily scrum meetings with the Web Development Team and provided QA Status update.
• Conducted User Acceptance Tests with the Marketing Department.

Confidential

Software Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements documents, use cases, UML diagrams and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Hired, trained, mentored and retained 2 junior QA engineers.
• Mapped Requirements and Change Requests to Test cases & Defects in MS Excel and modified them as per the changes in the requirements.
• Prepared the Data to be used in the Testing cycle by generating Agreements based on the test Scenarios manually and using existing Automation Suites.
• Used Selenium to Automate major areas of the website and used it to run regression tests everyday.
• Performed regression testing of the mobile web applications, using Opera Mobile emulator and iPhone.
• Regularly attended meetings with Business Analysts and Developers to review scenario based test cases and issues found while testing.
• Performed localization (L10N) testing in Arabic, on the entire website.
• Submitted weekly status reports to the upper management with the current status of the project.