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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location:
West Windsor Township, NJ
Posted:
May 04, 2018

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SHIPRA PADUBIDRI

Senior QA Analyst

E-mail: ***************.**@*****.***

Phone: 405-***-****

8+ years of experience as a Senior QA Analyst in reviewing business requirement, develop test strategy, documenting test cases/test plans to support quality deliverables in the domains of Banking, Insurance & Health Care and GIS.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:-

Strong knowledge in implementing Waterfall, Agile (Sprint/Scrum) Methodology by analyzing requirement specifications and responsible for developing Test Objective, strategies, Scope, Test procedures and Test Matrices.

Experience in Creating automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven and used Jenkins to execute these test scripts periodically.

Performed Automation Testing using Page Object Model and TestNG

Developed test scripts for fetching data from Excel using Apache POI API.

Expertise in mobile automation using appium, selenium, java in both android and IOS.

Comprehensive knowledge of Software Quality Assurance methodologies, multiple technical platforms, and web server environments

Extensive knowledge of application development methodologies, quality assurance planning, and development techniques

Well-versed in automated testing tools, information management, business application techniques, and product testing

Extensive Experience with Utility Tools like SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Developer, SQL*Loader and SQL Assistant.

Experienced in working with Cross browser testing which is a part of running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems, and machines in parallel.

Experienced with SQL and Oracle, PL/SQL, to run the data integrity tests for and JDBC establish connectivity between the Java Programming language and a wide range of databases.

Well versed in using project management tools such as Jira, Rally, HP QC/ALM for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions.

Extensive experience in developing Test Traceability Matrix and Gap Analysis. Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking & Reporting, Detailed status reporting

Experienced in performing GUI, Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing, Backend testing, Smoke testing using manual & automated testing tools.

Skilled in Coordinating with Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts to set up the pre-validation and validation environment to execute the scripts.

Maintaining the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status report related to project.

Highly proficient in working with users to gather requirements, analyze them and subsequently use the Microsoft Visio and design tools to model the requirements. Attention to detail with excellent technical and troubleshooting skills

Hands-on experience in Black box Testing, White box testing, Unit Testing, User acceptance testing (UAT), Functional, Integration, GUI, System, Usability, Regression, Security, Smoke Testing and end to end testing. Experience in requirement review meetings, analyzing requirements, developing test plan and test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect management, Reporting and tracking.

Experience in analyzing test results and submitting bugs using Bug Tracking Tool Test Director, HP Quality Center and JIRA.

ISTBQ Certified software tester

TECHNICAL SKILLS:-

Test Approaches

AGILE (SCRUM), WATERFALL, V-MODEL, SDLC, STLC

Testing Tools

Selenium Webdriver, Selenium IDE/RC, SOAPUI, Jenkins, Selenium Grid

Artifacts

Test Plan, Test Case, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug report, User Stories, Backlogs

Programming Languages

Java, C, C++

Databases

SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, SQL.

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

Defect Tracking Tools

HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, BugZilla, Rally.

API testing

REST, SOAP, SOAPUI

Markup Languages

HTML,CSS

Operating Systems

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Unix, Linux

MS Office Tools

Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Types of Testing

Manual Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Localization Testing, Performance Testing and Ad-hoc testing.

Education and Certification:-

Bachelors in computer science, JBIET, JNT University, India

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certified

Java Certified

Work Experience:

Flagster bank, Troy, MI July 2016 to Present

Senior QA Analyst

Description: Flagster Bank provides a diversified line of financial services, including business and personal banking, wealth management, estate planning and investments through its affiliated companies. The project involved testing the online Banking and Client Management applications that provide client account information. The modules under test were Order Management and Transaction Management.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents.

Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.

Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases

Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.

Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.

Designed and Analyzed Test case design document basing on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement through testing process.

Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement

Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.

Base-line and Regression tests were scheduled and performed on every Release and build.

Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.

Creation of Test Data for Member data’s according to the scenarios.

Loaded the Test Data into the HPQC to prepare for the execution of Test Cases

Create Test Matrix criteria for use in Calculation Certification to ensure all aspects of the plan provisions and calculation mechanics are represented.

Determine eligibility for benefits, early reduction factors and optional forms of payment

Verified retirement packages, health & welfare packages and estimates.

Involved in Task Creation, Task Estimation, Task Distribution, Task Prioritization and Communication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.

Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.

Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.

Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.

Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users. Prepared end user documentation for the new system

Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.

Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center

Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using Quality Center.

Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management

Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.

Created automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven. Used Jenkins to execute these test scripts periodically using Java.

Performed Cross browser testing and parallel testing on Chrome, Firefox, IE browsers and Safari using TestNG framework.

Involved in the Design and implementation of different Automation frameworks such as Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Page Object Model (POM) for various projects.

Extensively involved in Front-end and Back-end Testing (Web Services and Databases) with Test Driven Development (TDD)/Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) approach.

Expertise in mobile automation using appium, selenium, java in both android and IOS.

Used Android Studio for Emulators and used Xcode to work with Simulators. Was also involved in the configurations of certificate issues and dealt with the developers accounts and apple accounts.

Used Appium iOS inspector to find elements in iOS and used Ui Automator viewer for Android elements locating.

Expertise in mobile automation using appium, selenium, java in both android and IOS.

Expertise in grouping of test suites, test cases and test methods for regression and functional testing using TestNG Annotations like Groups, Parameter, Data Provider and Tags

Maintaining all manual test scripts and other artifacts like test data, test results and defect reports using JIRA.

Performed web services testing using SoapUI and Restful API, verified the response using Assertions.

Created test cases and performed Database testing to check whether the data is being migrated properly.

Wrote SQL Queries to connect to the database and retrieve data for a specified set of test requirements.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JIRA, Apache POI, Agile, SQL Server.

GEHA Health Care, Lee’s Summit, MO June 2015 to June 2016

QA Test Engineer

Description: GEHA brings quality professionals and advanced services all in one place for the convenience of their customers in southwest Missouri. GEHA provides health and dental plans providing high quality, cost effective healthcare to benefit the community. This web application allows patients to register or modify their information, schedule appointments, maintain bills and claims.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents.

Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.

Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases

Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.

Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.

Designed and Analyzed Test case design document basing on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement through testing process.

Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules in SAP

Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.

Base-line and Regression tests were scheduled and performed on every Release and build.

Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.

Creation of Test Data for Member data’s according to the scenarios.

Loaded the Test Data into the HPQC to prepare for the execution of Test Cases

Involved in Task Creation, Task Estimation, Task Distribution, Task Prioritization and Communication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.

Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.

Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.

Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.

Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users. Prepared end user documentation for the new system

Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.

Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center

Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using Quality Center.

Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management

Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.

Created automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven and used Jenkins to execute these test scripts periodically using Java. Performed Cross browser testing and parallel testing on Chrome, Firefox, IE browsers and Safari using TestNG framework.

Involved in the Design and implementation of different Automation frameworks such as Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Page Object Model (POM) for various projects.

Used tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE/RC, Selenium Grid, Java, Jenkins, Maven, Eclipse, Cucumber, TestNG and JUnit.

Identified the correct GUI elements for creating automation scripts using Selenium locators such as name, ID, Link Text, CSS Selector and XPath.Extensively involved in Front-end and Back-end Testing (Web Services and Databases) with Test Driven Development (TDD)/Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) approach.

Expertise in grouping of test suites, test cases and test methods for regression and functional testing using TestNG Annotations like Groups, Parameter, Data Provider and Tags

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JIRA, Apache POI, Agile, SQL Server.

GHI Medicare, Albany, NY June 2013 to May 2015

Test Engineer

Description: GHI provide online quote for health care plan. It offers Individual or Family plans, Medicare Plans, Dental plans. Customer enters their basic information to get the medical plans available in their state. They apply for plan and submit the application online.

Responsibilities:

•Involved in identifying the manual test cases.

•Involved in preparation of Test Cases and Test data.

•Test case Execution, Result analysis and Test Report generation

•Studying and understanding the Functional Requirements.

•Performed Functional and Regression testing

•Reporting Defects, Defect verification and track them till closure.

•Test Data preparation and work with interfacing applications for data needs.

•Detecting Defects, communicating to Business Leads and Using Priority based, Business critical bases and enhancement based strategies to conduct Functional testing.

•Reported various defects in user-friendly format using Quality Center as a test management tool and defect-tracking tool.

•Involved in the Design and implementation of different Automation frameworks such as Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Page Object Model (POM) for various projects.

•Client interaction via conference calls on need basis, involved in Peer reviews.

•Status reporting to all project stakeholders.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JIRA, Apache POI, Agile, SQL Server.

QA Test Analyst, Hyderabad, India June 2011 to May 2013

Google India Private Limited

Description: Ground truth is a GIS based project that creates digital map data and deals with the GPRS Navigation system using Google licensed maps. Ground truth divides the data in one country into issues/packages based on which data can be designed and tested for design friendly environment. The application go/gtissues is an Issue search page that is used to check the status of all the issues covered in a Database. The functionality of this project consists of searching the issues based on country, time, team, status and provides the information of overall status of particular database.

Responsibilities:

Involved in identifying the manual test cases.

Involved in preparation of Test Cases and Test data.

Test case Execution, Result analysis and Test Report generation

Studying and understanding the Functional Requirements.

Performed Functional and Regression testing

Reporting Defects, Defect verification and track them till closure.

Test Data preparation and work with interfacing applications for data needs.

Detecting Defects, communicating to Business Leads and Using Priority based, Business critical bases and enhancement based strategies to conduct Functional testing.

Reported various defects in user-friendly format using Quality Center as a test management tool and defect-tracking tool.

Client interaction via conference calls on need basis, involved in Peer reviews.

•Status reporting to all project stakeholders.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Windows XP, Manual Testing, MS-Excel, Buganizer, Waterfall.

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, Hyderabad, India September 2009 to May 2011

QA Analyst,

Description: Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company: is a leading insurance provider in India. One of its major tool IMS (Insurance Management System) was developed to provide information about claims, issuance, renewal and cancellation of health insurance policies along with the due payment of the deductibles by the policy holders. This system has the ability to generate reports based on various criteria.

Responsibilities:

•Involved in identifying the manual test cases.

•Involved in preparation of Test Cases and Test data.

•Test case Execution, Result analysis and Test Report generation

•Studying and understanding the Functional Requirements.

•Performed Functional and Regression testing

•Reporting Defects, Defect verification and track them till closure.

•Test Data preparation and work with interfacing applications for data needs.

•Detecting Defects, communicating to Business Leads and Using Priority based, Business critical bases and enhancement based strategies to conduct Functional testing.

•Reported various defects in user-friendly format using Quality Center as a test management tool and defect-tracking tool.

•Client interaction via conference calls on need basis, involved in Peer reviews.

•Status reporting to all project stakeholders.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Windows XP, Manual Testing, MS-Excel, HP QC, Waterfall.



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