SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience as a Manual and Automated QA Engineer with Expertise in Finance, Retail, CRM, Telecom and Banking.
• Experienced in total development life cycle of software product - application specification, design, development, testing and implementation and post-production support.
• Developed/maintained Test Plans, Test Cases, Black Box/White Box Testing, Defect Tracking and Reporting for both Manual and Automated Test environments
• Extensively worked in all 4 phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) deliverables and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Have extensive good unit testing experience with Junit and Selenium white box testing tools.
• Proficient in Functional, Negative regression, System Integration (SIT), Acceptance (UAT), and Browser compatibility.
• Strong Expertise in SDLC, Project Management and Testing Lifecycle Methodologies like Waterfall and Agile models.
• Experience in using SoapUI for testing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services.
• Experience in developing and testing Java Applications.
• Great Knowledge on Web applications and Web Portals.
• Experience in writing and modifying Junit / TestNg test cases.
• Estimated UAT effort for individual change item and ensured schedule commitments were met.
• Scheduled and managed QA/UAT execution activities and Defined, wrote and prepared QA/UAT Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Scripts
• Very good experience in Manual Testing by using defect management tools like Quality Center and Microsoft Excel.
• In depth experience/understanding of Java, and good understanding of OO Programming/Software Engineering concepts and principles.
• Thorough understanding of QA processes and procedures, with an aim toward continual improvement
• Expertise in white box, black box, E2E Web Services API, databases validation and verification.
• Expertise in manual testing, such as UAT, ad-hoc testing.
• Expertise in conducting end-to-end systems, web, functional, regression and GUI tests.
• Extensive experience in design, implementation and maintenance of Data-Driven Automation Framework with Java, Selenium, ANT and JUnit / TestNg.
• Designed, implemented and maintained automation framework with HTML, Excel reports functionalities.
• Solid experience with Selenium WebDriver to create cross-browser testing, using Chrome, Firefox, IE.
• Experience in continuous testing using Jenkins.
• Expertise working with QA tools such as HP Quality Center (QC).
• Analyze known bugs and provide feedback to development team to improve development standard and common scenarios.
• Have strong attention to detail and be able to work as a team player.
• Robustly experienced in testing Web Applications with J2EE Architecture, Java, XML, MySQL.
• Professional experience as a software QA Engineer testing native Windows bases, Web, Mobile applications for B2C and B2B platforms.
• Excellent interpersonal and technical skills with a sharp acumen for understanding and grasping the various needs of businesses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, SQL, C, C++

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, ANT, SOAPUI, REST

Frameworks: Junit4 / TestNg

Databases: MySQL 6.0

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista, Unix

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, RC, IDE, QC 9.x

Methodologies/Software: AGILE/ SCRUM, Waterfall.

Source Control/ Other Tools: SVN, VMware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of Test Plan and Test Cases for CSM and Price Plan Modules.
• Delivered quality working software after every successful sprint under Agile Methodology.
• Developed and maintained Test Documentation including Test Plans, Designs, Cases and Procedures to track personnel and schedule requirements, log defects and maintain repository.
• Developed Selenium WebDriver, Java and JUnit4 / TestNg based automation scripts.
• Created Test Libraries, Test Scripts for Automation.
• Developed Data driven tests using external sources like Database, Excel.
• Performed functional testing for every modification in the application and new builds using Selenium WebDriver.
• Conducted web services testing using SoapUI.
• Used TestNG for writing API test cases and executing them as a test suite.
• Experience in defining test methodologies, test plans & test cases.
• Experience in functional, back-end and user acceptance testing.
• Writing Ant Scripts for Test automation and Release QA.
• Set up and maintained test environments using build and deployment scripts working with Release Engineers
• Writing SQL Queries for testing the connectivity to Middle Tier and Backend.
• Enhanced Data driven Framework Document for added features.
• Involved validating sites across browsers, the accuracy of links, visual presentation and its alignment with design specifications.
• Used Descriptive programming for creating reusable functions for application.
• Assigned permissions to access log files in Unix.

Environment: Java, J2EE, UNIX, API, Selenium WebDriver/IDE, JUnit 4/ TestNg, ANT, HTML, XML, QTP, HP Quality Center, Groovy, SOAPUI.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing complete life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Designing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects.
• Followed Agile Scrum methodology for project
• Involved in writing a detailed test plan to define testing strategies, test process and methodologies to be used.
• Developed and maintained Test Documentation including Test Plans, Designs, Cases and Procedures to track personnel and schedule requirements, log defects and maintain repository.
• Developed Selenium WebDriver, Java and JUnit3 based automation scripts.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing, Functional testing and System Testing.
• Developed custom libraries for automation using Java.
• Performed web service testing using SoapUI.
• Involved in testing integrated softwareWeb Services through SOAP UIandXML
• Developed ANT Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in TestNG suite.
• Developed Page Object library as part of Modular frame work implementation in automation
• Developed API test cases using JUnit3 framework
• Involved in Enhancing the JUnit3 Framework for Automation
• Setup Jenkins as continuous integration system for test automation
• Participated in reviews of Test Scenarios to ensure the requirement coverage
• Involved in Functional and Browser Compatibility Tests for various releases on product including patches.
• Validated Data integrity by conducting Backend testing by retrieving data using SQL queries.
• Set up and maintained test environments using build and deployment scripts working Release Engineers
• Used Descriptive programming for creating reusable functions for application.
• Assigned permissions to access log files in Unix.

Environment: Selenium IDE, WebDriver, Java, ANT, MySQL, Quality Center, JUnit3, HTML, XML, QTP, HP Quality Center, Groovy, SOAPUI, UNIX.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in requirement analysis with Business Analysts and stake holders
• Identified the Test Data required and maintained for Automated Tests
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application and new builds using Selenium RC.
• Performed black box testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium RC on different module of the application.
• Created and executed the test scripts with Java/Junit.
• Involved in integrated softwaretesting of Web Services through SOAP UIandJSON.
• Maintained and executed ANT build files for running Automated Tests
• Used TestNG for writing test cases and executing them as a test suite.
• Involved with pushing the builds to the QA.
• Performed Exception Handling using try-catch statements in Junit
• Handling the huge volume of transactions in Hibernate for Customer search module.
• Created Helper classes and methods in Junit.
• Writing JUnit Test cases and testing the modules in development and QA environment.

Environment: Java, Selenium RC, IDE, Firebug, SOAPUI, HTML, XML, JUnit3, MySQL, QTP, HP Quality Center, Web Services, UNIX.

Confidential, Glenview, IL

QA engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing complete life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects.
• Involved in testing in AGILE environment.
• Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing.
• Involved in create functional test plan, test cases, review test plan, analyze the cross team impact.
• Identified application defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the testing team using the task manager and bug tracking tool Bugzilla.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Performed GUI, Functionality and Backend Testing.
• Wrote test cases and uploaded batch test scripts in Quality Center and executed them.
• Black Box testing of the application to check if the system is stable enough to be automated, that is, performed sanity test.

Environment: Java, Selenium RC, IDE, Firebug, HTML, XML, MYSQL, Quality Centre 8.2, Tortoise SVN.