PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 2+ years of experience in the IT (Information Technology) industry which includes diversified experience in Quality Assurance/Software Testing and Data Validation Testing in the Retail domain. Strong experience in POS/Mobile testing, extensive Testing experience and working knowledge in Reporting.
• Extensive experience on Web services testing using various party tools like Postman and SOAP UI.
• Profound knowledge of web services testing using Service Oriented Architecture tools SOAP UI.
• Experience in creating test data and end to end testing for POS devices/application.
• Extensive experience in test automation tools Selenium, UFT/QTP etc.
• Experience and exposure to both Manual and Automation testing.
• Extensive experience on POS self - checkout / POS QA Testing, involved in setting of QA Test environment with simulated POS test environment; testing and validating POS transaction in accordance with ACI-Compliance.
• Hands on experience in EMV testing.
• Strong experience in downstream and upstream testing of POS system.
• Hands-on experience using defect logging tools such as JIRA and HP ALM for Bug Tracking and Defect Logging.
• Experience in documentation using Sharepoint and confluence.
• Extensive understanding and experience in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and QA processes. Expertise in validating and testing, Client/Server and Web-Based Applications in different environments.
• Experience in writing SQL, can create own complex SQL queries to validate POS Transitions.
• Topnotch Leadership skills to motivate team towards a common goal and thus achieve the overall organizational goals and objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Defect/Test Management Tools: JIRA, ALM QC

Automation Testing Tools: Postman, SOAP UI, UFT/QTP, Selenium IDE

Languages: VB, SQL, Java,

Database: Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, MS-Access

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Office Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS-Visio

Operating Systems: Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

POS Tester

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assisting the project manager in developing the project plan using MS Project.
• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the business people to produce Business and Functional Requirements.
• Identifying/documenting data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content.
• Involve in end-to-end test of Sales and Non-sales data in downstream applications, key and poll is the process where sale data originating from stores POS flows to the backend applications
• Validating that ORPOS is configured to work with legacy data i.e., Price and discount codes and other transaction types/codes.
• Web service (ESB) API testing using SoapUI and Postman.
• Participating in Primary and Secondary Research to determine User Requirements and Goals and converting them into Business and Functional Requirements.
• Integrated automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in continuous integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of the Script.
• Participating in meetings with the management team and the Subject Matter experts (SME).
• Creating the As-Is and To-Be process flows using MS Visio for the project.
• Creating various mockups to indicate the changes to the current receipts because of the enhancements.
• Gathering requirements and modeled the data warehouse and the underlying transactional database.
• Participating in meetings with the technical team to gauge a better understanding of the scope and the limitations of the project.
• Following the Unified Modeling Language (UML) based methods using MS Visio to create Business flow diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams, Sequence, and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Communicate Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendations.
• Organize and coordinated the meetings to conduct the Requirement Analysis the Business and Functional requirements and to made changes to the documents to incorporate the feedback from the meetings.
• Create the User Acceptance Test Plan and conducted the user acceptance testing (UAT) for the final confirmation of the project from the Business and SME.

ENVRONMENT: ALM Quality Center, SQL, POS, WIMS, JIRA, UFT, VB SCRIPT, ORACLE, MS Office Suite, Windows XP, Confluence, Java, HTML, XML, JSON, ORACLE, SOAP UI, Postman

QA Analyst

Confidential, Carlisle PA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created test plans based on design documentation, standards and guidelines set by project manager that included functional testing, load testing of servers, and regression testing.
• Used ALM Quality Center for creating Test Cases set to be executed during testing process.
• Wrote and executed test scenarios, also coordinated and communicated the status of the testing effort to the scrum team.
• Developed automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing and reducing manual testing using Selenium, Junit.
• Worked on different types of testing including Unit, System, Integration, Enterprise, End2End and Web services (Postman, SoapUI and Foundation views) testing
• Responsible for creating requests and building test scenarios for the web services project.
• Performed manual and automated test procedures for functional testing of Web services using SoapUI 2.5.
• Followed Agile/Scrum development process.
• Involved manual testing of various test cases with respective test scripts on Selenium and generate analysis report with Quality Center.
• Involved in scrum daily stand-up meeting with project stake holders and off-shore resources analyzing defect and discussing on-going automation development.
• Used JIRA for logging the defects to keep track of all test plans and test cases.
• Tested the sections of POS transactions like Sale, Trade, Return, Pre-order, Web in store, Void, Post Void, Suspend and Resume using different tender types Credit card, Debit card, POSA card, Cash, Gift card, Trade card, Cashier check and Star card.
• Involved in creating test data for POS though inventory controlled application.
• Tested POS systems POS functions and RMS systems.
• Validated the server logs for server errors which are running on UNIX boxes by using Putty.
• Led Defect review meetings and worked with QA teams to analyze what worked, what did not work, and made recommendations on how to fix it using Agile model approach where required.
• Responsible for preparation of weekly status report and defect reports.
• Performed open-source web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA) and representational state transfers (REST) using SOAP UI.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)/Teradata and validate them.
• Used Citrix to test the application for privacy and security.
• Performed Automation testing for recording, extraction and validated phases in place for database record validation between different available and needed schemas.
• Validated a successful Sale transaction which includes item scanning using barcode device and the manual entry using the keyboard.

ENVRONMENT: ALM Quality Center, JIRA, SQL, SELENIUM, MS Office Suite, Windows XP, Java, HTML, XML, JSON, ORACLE, QTP/UFT, SOAP UI, UNIX, Postman