QA Automation Tester / Software Tester

Payal Desai

Mobile: 437-***-**** E-mail: **************@*****.***

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/payaldesailive

My objective is to facilitate project teams to optimize and automate the QA activities to make testing deliverables easy to manage and easy for continuous integration & release.

Over 4 years’ experience in Quality Assurance in IT Industry as Automation specialist.

Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, and Test Reports for manual test.

Extensive experience in Manual Testing like Quality Center, Test Rail, Jira, Testlink, Bugzilla.

Expertise on different automation tools like Selenium, QTP, SoapUI, Appium.

Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box Testing, Ad-Hoc and End to End testing.

Experience Tester in Agile Development and Excellent knowledge in Agile test practices like TDD/BDD using Cucumber.

Developed automation framework using Java, Selenium and TestNG/Junit which integrates the End to End Testing flow.

Experience in Continuous Integration tool – Jenkins.

Designed and implemented different automation frameworks such as Page object model, Data driven, BDD (Cucumber).

Experience in testing API using SoapUI.

Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using the Waterfall Model and Agile Methodology.

Used Quality Center, Test Track Pro and Jira to manage, coordinate and report defects.

Maintained the Selenium and Java automation code and resources in source controls like Git Hub, SVN.

Excellent experience of build tools like Maven and ANT and managing Java automation project using them.

Mobile browser and applications testing for iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod) and Android (HTC, Samsung etc. devices)

Solid knowledge in Database testing.

Quick learner, Self-motivated and problem-solving skills.

Good team player with ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment.

Automation Testing Tools

Selenium WebDriver, Appium, QTP, SOAP UI, Cucumber

Operating Systems (OS)

Windows, Unix, iOS, Android

Database

MSSQL Server, Oracle 10g /9i, MS Access

Scripting Languages

SQL, VB Script, Java Script, XML, HTML

Programming Languages

C#, Java

Development Models

Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall

Browsers

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari

Defect Tracking tools

Quality center, Bugzilla, Jira

Test Management tool

QC, Test Rail, Testlink

Version Control

Perforce P4, Git

Build and CI tools

Ant, Maven, Jenkins

●Givex Service Excellence Award in 2017

●Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Givex Corporation, Toronto Canada

IT Consultant – Test Automation, Jan 2017 to present

Givex Platform provides the tools that drive customer engagement while also accelerating operational efficiency, through a merchant’s physical, online and mobile sales channels. Using Givex, all these channels generate the valuable and actionable data, protected by the maximum PCI security standards, that is crucial to maintain a competitive advantage in today's fast-moving economy.

Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping requirement specifications interacting with client, developers and QA team.

Involved in analyzing system specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for Manual and Automated testing.

As an Automation Engineer, involved in implementing the framework, developing automation scripts for the new User stories and maintain and run the Regression Scripts

Implemented Page Object Model framework with Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Eclipse

Responsible to verify Web services API request, response data validations in REST, SOAP

Wrote test cases scripts using Selenium WebDriver for functional testing and regression testing.

Used Selenium Grid, Desired Capabilities, and Remote Web Driver for distributing the execution in different machines, platforms and browsers.

Maintained automation code in version control tool Git.

Used SoapUI with extensive support for testing WSDL / SOAP based services.

Configure Jenkins to run automation code night after successful deployment of dev code to qa environment.

Participated in technical, status review, and release and production meetings.

Worked in Agile process for delivering the outputs on time.

Tracked requirements documentation in Confluence and Project status in JIRA

Located web elements using the locators like Id, Class, name,Xpath and CSS

Developed and Maintained test scripts with Selenium to automate browser & web applications under Cucumber (BDD) Framework.

Successfully completed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on each project release with the help of end user requirements.

Used JIRA for defect tracking system, GIT for version control and Jenkins for continuous integration.

Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (JUnit, Maven).

Fortigo Freight Service Inc, Toronto Canada,

QA Analyst, Mar 2016 – Dec 2016

Gathered specifications and requirements to develop Test Plans and to create Test Cases using Quality Center.

Participated in the System Test Plan reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review and modified the documents with respect to the review comments.

Work in the agile environment with frequently changing requirements and features set

Analyzing Business stories/change requests to write Test Cases in JIRA.

Participated in Estimation meetings, daily scrum meetings to discuss the progress of Sprint.

Done regression testing at end of each sprint to ensure overall quality of product.

Involvement in automating regression test suite using Selenium Webdriver, TestNG annotation, Java, Maven.

Extensive knowledge on XML, worked on creating XPath by identifying nodes and attributes.

Working experience on using locators (id, XPath, CSS selectors) for identifying page objects.

Working experience on Maven for building JAVA application.

Worked on BDD Cucumber framework.

Incorporated Page Object Pattern in developing Automation scripts

Performed Functional, Usability, Compatibility, Regression, GUI, Positive, Negative, Adhoc, Smoke, End to End (E2E), Requirement Ambiguity testing, Interface testing.

Configured the test suite to Jenkins to make it run on every successful deployment, which helped reduce the feedback loop time to the developers

Defect Tracking and Test Management using Quality Center tool.

Performed Web Service testing (REST) without UI.

Am Edumedia Pvt Ltd.

QA Automation Tester, Jun 2014 – Dec 2015

Involved in understanding the business requirement.

Reviewing the Test reports and preparing Test Summary report.

Performed Functional, Compatibility and Regression testing, Sanity testing.

Participated in identifying the Test Scenarios and designing the Test cases.

Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System requirements.

Enhanced the QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and Checkpoints to check for Broken Links, Text, Table, XML and Images.

Developed Hybrid Framework to automate Regression testing using QTP.

By running batch jobs will make sure that the reports are generated successfully. If any discrepancy in the

reports need to analyze the issue with the help of error logs.

Development and optimization of the QTP scripts for the functionalities needed.

Maintaining automated scripts.

Involved in writing Test plan and Test cases in QC.

Documented defects discovered during testing and verified that all defects were fixed before final delivery.

Involved in resolving valid issues and queries.

Master of Business Administration (Information Technology ), 2014

Punjab University, Chandigarh, India

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering), 2013

Punjab University, Chandigarh, India

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