SUMMARY

• Software Quality Assurance professional with 6 years of experience managing test efforts and analyzing product requirements for web and desktop projects.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and all stages of QA and Defect Life Cycles.
• Performed both Manual and Automation testing.
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases, defect logging and build deployment.
• Actively involved in Functional, Integration, System, Performance, Regression, End to End testing, User acceptance and Database testing.
• Good understanding of Java concepts, testing, creating JUnit test cases using Selenium.
• Experience in developing test scripts using Selenium IDE, WebDriver with Java using Junit.
• Experience working with SQL, JavaScript, HTML.
• Experience testing on Linux and WINDOWS environments.
• Good Understanding and knowledge working in Python.
• Extensive knowledge on defect management Life cycle and Version control systems using Microsoft VSS, ALM, HP Quality Center 9.2, Test Director, Clear Quest.
• Familiarity with Agile software development process.
• Experience in web automation testing tool i.e.Selenium IDE, RC andSelenium Web driver with Java.
• Accustomed to fast paced environment, changing priorities & multitasking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac

Languages: Java, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Python

Methodologies: Agile, UML, RUP, CI

Architectures: Client/Server, Web 1, 2, 3 and N - tier architecture

Protocols: TCP/IP, SSL, HTTP, SMTP, VoIP, DNS

Testing Techniques: Acceptance (UAT), Regression, Functional, System/Integration (SIT), Usability, Performance, Load, Stress, Black box, Security, Negative, Failover, Compatibility, Installation,localization, Network, Exploratory

Testing Tools: ALM, HP/Mercury Quality Centre 10.0/9.0, Test Director 8.0, JIRA, Load Runner 10.0/9.0, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0/9.0, UFT 12.0/11.5, Selenium 2.0/1.0 Web Driver, RC, IDE, Grid- Junit/TestNG

Virtualization: VMware, Citrix

Databases/Tools: Oracle (RDBMS), MySQL, MS-Access

Web/App Services: Apache/Tomcat, IIS, WebLogic, Web Sphere.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and wrote Test Cases.
• Performed Integration, Regression, Performance and System Testing.
• Effectively participated in Daily Stand Up meetings and Bug Review Meetings.
• Participated in Iteration planning for the Sprints.
• Automated web application UI testing using ALM
• Reported defects and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed negative testing to find how the functions performs when it encounters invalid or unexpected values.
• Performed Manual Testing.
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Mercury ALM and was also responsible for communicating the status to the development team.
• Preparing and updating the manuals.
• Responsibility for preparing testing status report.

Environment: Manual Testing, ALM, Rally, MS Office, Windows XP.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the Business Requirement Documents.
• Involved in preparation of test plans in accordance with the business requirements.
• Authored, Executed Automation and Manual test cases for Functional testing of various modules of the application.
• Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility.
• Effectively participated in every day stand-up meetings and participated in Iteration planning and retrospective meetings.
• Automated functional scenarios using Selenium Java with RIA.
• Used Firebug to identify Objects' ids, Name, XPaths, etc., links in the application.
• Prepared Test Plan, wrote Test Cases and executed test scripts as well as tracked bugs and generated defect report using Quality Center.
• Executed Automated Test Scripts & analyzed the results.
• Used Firebug to identify Objects' ids, Name, XPath, links in the application.
• Developed automation test scripts using in Python and Java using Junit in Selenium Web driver.
• Created automated scenarios using Selenium for regression testing.
• Used SQL queries to perform the back-end testing on Oracle.
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using QC and was also responsible for communicating the status to the development team.

Environment: QC10.0, HTML, Java Script, Selenium WebDriver with JUnit, SQL, Oracle, Linux, Eclipse, SVN.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans and wrote Test Cases.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Scenario, Performance and Regression testing.
• Developed automated test scripts using Win Runner (Test Script Language).
• Involved in White box and Black box testing.
• Created test scripts by using generic functions.
• Developed scripts for Functional, Integration, Scenario and Database testing.
• Did Performance Testing for Stress and Load testing using Load Runner
• Involved in Manual Testing.
• Reported defects and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed negative testing to find how the functions performs when it encounters invalid or unexpected values.
• Performed GUI Automation using RIA Test.
• Used different Internet browsers to verify performance of application under different conditions.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, UNIX, Oracle, MS Project, MS Office, Linux, Windows 2000/NT.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Scenarios as Test Plans, Test Cases, & Documentation.
• Participating in manual Testing (Functional, Integration, and System) at different environment.
• Automated web application UI testing using Selenium RC
• Executing the Test cases, maintained executed details with pass/fail details.
• Detecting the bugs and reporting the bugs in Bugzilla.
• Writing queries to validate the data.
• Involved in system performance and regression testing.
• Preparing and updating the manuals.
• Responsibility for preparing testing status report.

Environment: QC10.0, HTML, Java Script, Selenium WebDriver, SQL, Oracle

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and functional requirement documents.
• Designed and developed test cases for testing of all the modules and executed the tests.
• Performed Functionality and GUI Automation using RIA TEST.
• Performed Regression Testing after every new feature was added.
• Involved in performing End to End testing and Integration Testing of the application.
• Debug the test cases, verified the test results and reported the defects using Test Director.
• Investigated software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Back end Testing was performed using SQL queries.
• Performed end to end testing on applications manually and automated with Quick Test Professional Generated VBScripts for automation.
• Monitored Test Director to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fix the bugs.

Environment: MS Office, Windows XP, .Net, QTP, SQL Server, Test Director, Oracle 9i.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Conceptual design documents, Use cases and other requirement definition documents.
• Develop, review and executed Functional Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Involved in black box testing of the application.
• Involved in Change Request meetings and accordingly modify the test cases and testing effort.
• Performed regression testing, system testing and acceptance testing.
• Performed end to end testing on applications manually and automated with Selenium using Java.
• Involved in Change Request meetings and accordingly modify the test cases and testing effort.
• Wrote SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Managing requirements, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and executing the test cases using Test Director.
• Logged issues in Test Director bug tracking tool.

Environment: MS Office, Windows XP, Java, Selenium IDE, Selenium GRID, Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Windows 2003