Prathiba

Mobile Number: 484-***-****

Email : ac5d5i@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

8+ years of IT experience as a Software Quality Assurance Tester with extensive knowledge of testing methodologies, and specialized in Manual Testing, Selenium IDE/ RC/ Web Driver

Worked in all stages of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and SDLC right from Inception, Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing through Implementation

Full versed with Software Development Life Cycle as well as Software Testing Life Cycle with Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM) methodologies

Experience in Banking, Financial, Health and Product domains

Experience in Java, HTML, XML, XPATH and PL/SQL

Experienced in White Box, Black Box, Functional, System, Regression, Integration, GUI testing using both Manual and Automation Techniques

Experience working ETL and test tools like HP Quality center, JIRA, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, HTML, XML, MS Office

Designed and Developed Automation test scripts in Java implementing test in selenium Web Driver.

Designed and Developed Automation frameworks in JUnit and TestNG

Possess working knowledge of Build Tools such as ANT and Maven.

Familiar with complex SQL scripts for Backend Testing of RDBMS- Oracle, MySQL, DB2

Experience in Shell Scripting, API testing, front end, Backend, black box testing

Written, updated, maintained and executed Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenario

Excellent experience in writing test cases from different requirement documents and finds multiple combinations of testing scenarios for thorough testing avoiding redundancy and reducing cost

Involved in Performance Testing - stress testing application using Load Runner

Having considerable experience in customer facing roles and can help guide customers and manage business and client expectations effectively.

Extremely diligent and possess excellent communication skills.

Team Player and ability to handle multiple tasks

Possess excellent technical knowledge and ability to handle multiple tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Shell Script

Automation Tools: Selenium Web Driver, JUNIT, TestNG, Apache HTTP

Client, JXL

Testing: Manual, Automation and Web Service Testing

Internet Tools: SOA, Web Services, SOAP, RESTFUL, XPATH

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile

Databases: Oracle 11/ 10g, MS Access, MS SQL, DB2

OS: Windows, MAC, UNIX, Linux, DOS

Misc. Tools: WinSCP, SVN, HTTP Analyzer,

Firebug, Firebug, TOAD, SQL Developer

EDUCATION:

Master of Sciences in Information Technology, Madras University, Chennai.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Summary of Benefits And Coverage August 2015 – Till Date

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Role: QA Engineer

Project Description:

Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers and group health plans will provide clear, consistent and comparable information about their health plan benefits and coverage. Specifically, the regulations will ensure consumers have access to two forms that will help them understand and evaluate their health insurance choices. The forms include:

An easy-to-understand summary of benefits and coverage

A uniform glossary of terms commonly used in health insurance coverage such as "deductible" and "co-payment"

Summary of Benefits and Coverage

Under the law, insurance companies and group health plans will provide consumers with a concise document detailing, in plain language, simple and consistent information about health plan benefits and coverage. This summary of benefits and coverage document will help consumers better understand the coverage they have and, for the first time, allow them to easily compare different coverage options. It will summarize the key features of the plan or coverage, such as the covered benefits, cost-sharing provisions, and coverage limitations and exceptions. People will receive the summary when shopping for coverage, enrolling in coverage, at each new plan year, and within seven business days of requesting a copy from their health insurance issuer or group health plan.

Responsibilities:

Designed and executed the test plans, test scripts, to check the data validity for various applications, tracking software and specification defects and resolution using Quality Center, documenting all phases of QA life cycle, analyze functional requirements, mapping documents.

Involved in manual and automated testing of application under test (AUT) using Quality Center.

Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, UI testing, and Integration testing of application

Performed parameterization of the Automated Test scripts in Selenium Web Driver2 to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data

Contributed in developing Automation Framework that uses Java, Selenium Web Driver and TestNG

Created business process test plans and test cases using Quality Center.

Setup and validation of jobs, verify core system tests, document findings, and work with development and testing team for problem correction and re-test.

Responsible for all types of tests like Business Functionality, Load Testing, Documentation testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), browser compatibility testing, Integration testing and maintain technical design documentation in Oracle and Windows environments.

Performed Functionality and UAT testing of application manually and using Selenium Web Driver.

Validating RESTFUL Web services and automating the web services testing using Apache Http Client, Test NG, Log4j, JAXB and JSON Parser GSON. Created common classes and maintained the utilities.

Tested SOAP and Restful Web Services using SOAP UI.

Performed Web Services Testing and XML validation by creating test case suite using SOAP UI

Attended Daily Defect/Issue Discussion Meetings.

Involved in Design and development of SQL Programs, procedures to track status and data files on real time basis.

Identified features to be automated and created automation test scripts.

Development of test framework/cases.

Interacted with the team members and participated in review meeting with developers and Business Analyst's for understanding the requirements.

Performed the System and Acceptance testing of the application based on the Customer Environment.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, Rally, Fire Bug, JXL, Log4j, MAVEN, Eclipse, TestNG, Jenkins, HTML, Java Script, CSS, XML, XPATH, Firebug, Web Services, SOAP UI, SOAP and Restful, Apache HTTP Client, SQL, Oracle, TOAD, Quality Center, Linux, WebSphere Application Server

Best Buy, IL June 2014 – July 2015

Location: Buffalo Grove, IL

Role: QA Engineer

Project Description:

Point of Sale (Retail Merchandising): POS is the latest platform for the retail merchandising with advanced features of single point configuration management and integrated back office support for the Merchandising system. This latest technology platform is based on Windows for Front End and UNIX platform for Back end respectively. Ecommerce project for a multi-tier web based application. Objective was to enhance the user interface by introducing various features and functions related to Order workflow, Order Fulfillment, file management, image management, web page layout, checkout/online carte and security.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and used Case documents for Functional testing.

Reviewed Specified Business Documents and prepared Test Cases using Quality Center based on the requirements

Classified the defects according to severity and priority levels and prepared Test Status Reports

Created Test Scripts on time and enhanced those scripts as part of testing.

Transformation of use cases to test scenarios and designing test plans and test cases.

As part of compatibility testing, executed the workflow manager web application related test cases on different browsers different Operating Systems.

Verification of Frontend GUI Objects and elements.

Familiarity with UAT for making website more user-friendly and for web-applications.

Involved in writing SQL Queries for backend testing

Knowledge of writing JUnit tests using JUnit framework.

Extensively tested customer’s payments are sent directly to your commercial bank account using the latest security technology.

Involved in weekly walkthroughs and inspection meetings, to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole.

Environment: Java, Eclipse, Selenium, TestNG, UNIX, JIRA, SOAP UI, SOAP, Restful, Jenkins, XPath, CSS, HTML, XML, Mobile Testing, WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, MS Excel and Windows, Oracle 10g, SQL, Firebug, Shell Scripts

EXPEDIA, CA July 2012 – June 2014

Location: SFO, CA

Role: Quality Engineer

Project Description:

Expedia LLC is a leading online travel company offering leisure and business travelers a wide selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages. Expedia also powers travel bookings for over 10,000 partners such as airlines and hotels, consumer brands, and high traffic websites through Expedia Affiliate Network, 80% of which is powered by their API. The project involved online tracking and verifying the tickets bought by customers which is successfully updated by the system into the corresponding database and is reflected on the system.

Responsibilities:

Created detailed test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements for manual testing.

Documented & executed the same for different modules using Quality Center.

Testing AJAX web site application, Implementing Selenium testing platform and using test scripts with Eclipse IDE, writing Selenium scripts using TestNG, writing test scripts (SOAP UI) to test web services

Performed parameterization of the automated test scripts in Selenium to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.

Involved in daily SCRUM meetings, working efficiently in agile methodology

Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, UI testing, and Integration testing.

Contributed in developing automation framework which uses Java, Web driver and TestNG.

Writing automation test cases for mail front end and fixing automation script bugs.

Developing new test cases for every sprint and working with developers to automate their feature.

Monitored and maintained smoke test cases which developer run before their check ins

Developed network error test cases to check backend errors.

Creating virtual machine, VM templates on VM lab manager to support different OS/browser combinations.

Conducted bi-weekly meetings with offshore team

Data Validation and testing using SQL and PLSQL with Oracle.

Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, MAVEN, TestNG, Firebug, Firepath, Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, SQL Server, Windows

NEC, Irving, TX July 2010 – May 2012

Location: Dallas, Texas

Role: Quality Analyst

Project Description:

NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of strategic IT and communications solutions. Serving carrier, small-to-medium business and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries, NEC provides its customers greater access to a rich portfolio of technology and professional services, enhanced opportunities and competitive solutions.

Responsibilities:

Proactive participant in weekly AGILE team meetings and updated team lead and manager on status of testing.

Analyzing and understanding Business Requirement Document written in JIRA and Use cases from SharePoint to design test cases

Developing the Test Scripts, Test Conditions, Expected Results for one or more Test Plans, Including the Product, Regression, End to End, System Integration Testing. Develop, update and maintain the Testing Standards and Procedures.

Involved in the Execution of the Test Scripts

Performing manual testing through all phases of development life cycle (Usability, Functional, and Regression Testing) using black box testing methods.

Executing and automating test cases with Selenium.

Used Toad for writing SQL queries to validate backend applications to ensure accurate results.

Verified the production logs file for checking exceptions after testing the application

Coordinated with development team closely for issue resolution

Managing Requirement Change Requests and implementing procedures for test changes.

Developing Test Cases for Back-end testing, integrating SQL queries to be used in running test cases.

Involved in informing the test lead of any issues that may affect the schedule, budget, or quality of the product or the testing process.

Performed Configuration testing on some hardware platforms.

Used Test Director for communicating between developers, product support and test team members.

Tracking, reviewing, and analyzing defects using Quality Center.

Provide guidance to development and project teams on appropriate approaches to testing delivered products, including test tool sets.

Worked on functional, regression and system testing

Accessed the system log files on the Unix Environment for verify the system issues and attach with the defect in quality center.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows, UNIX, Quality center, Oracle, SQL, and Load Runner, HP Quality Center.

BenchMark Computer Solutions, Mumbai, INDIA April 2009 – April 2010

Location: Mumbai, India

Role: Quality Analyst

Project Description:

BenchMark is comprised of several businesses that serve a variety of markets like retail industry, ecommerce markets and so forth. This project was to develop and test company e-Commerce website for one of its client to take care of the business transaction processing –orders, shipment, billing, categories, shopping cart, users etc.

Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plan based on software requirements specifications.

Analyzed, planned, report the status, document reviewed, defect entry verification.

Actively involved in QA process improvement activities as in process flow, problem resolution, bug tracking.

Captured the SQL statements from the application execution and manually checked the results.

Tested the application for all the functionalities.

Involved in Integration, System, Database, and Regression testing.

Coded automated test scripts to aid in Functional, GUI, Regression, and Data Driven testing.

Monitored and reported status of testing tasks thru status mails.

Interacted with the management regarding Time Lines and participated in Bug review meetings.

Executed Load Testing to evaluate the performance of application.

Report generation and Bug tracking using Quality Center

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Clear Quest, Oracle 9i, SQL and Windows.

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