Niki Shah

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SUMMARY

Over 9 years of experience in the IT field with an emphasis on Software Quality Assurance, involving manual and automated testing.

Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and different methodologies.

Experienced in various types of testing like GUI testing, functionality testing, integration testing, regression testing, and system testing and user-acceptance testing (UAT).

Experienced in the use of automated testing tools like Selenium, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, and Bugzilla.

Extensive experience in functional and Integration testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, WinRunner, Bugzilla, Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Jenkins, GIT.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Database: SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access

Programming Languages: JAVA, Java Script, Python, Ruby, HTML, VB script.

EDUCATION

Associate Degree, Information Systems, June 1999 - Dec 2001, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, USA GPA- 3.5/4.0

Bachelor of Science, March 1995 - June 1998, Maharaja Sayajirao University, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Iconectiv www.Iconectiv.com December 2015 - current

NPAC – Telephone Number portability software.

Responsibilities:

Gather Requirements, Analyzed, and Designed test Cases as per requirements.

Work closely with Business Analysts, Software Engineers, and Managers to understand the product requirements and actively participating in Scrum meeting.

Served as a leader for any issues on automation that team member comes up to resolve it.

Develop and maintained automated test scripts using Selenium Web driver, testNG and Java.

Developed common approach for cross browser testing.

Used Applitools for screen comparison and serve as a super Admin for this tool. Involved in scheduling upgrade and testing of it.

Use and Configure Jenkins jobs for continuous integration.

Use Splunk to query logs from all the hosts/severs.

Use Sauce Labs for testing.

Use Rally for Test cases and Requirements.

Use Oracle database.

Use Unix to run develop backend test cases.

Use SOAP UI for web service testing.

Environment: Selenium, Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse, Jenkins, Sauce Labs JAVA, testNG, MySQL, UNIX, Manual Testing, Scrum methodology.

Diaspark Inc: http://diaspark.com January 2014 – May 2015

AmeriMerchant- Application that helps small business to get approved for a loan in minutes. Application integrated with third party APIs to check credit score, fraud, bank history etc.

Responsibilities:

Gathered Requirements, Analyzed, and Designed test plan as per requirements.

Developed and maintained automated test scripts using Selenium and Java.

Key contact person for offshore team in India.

Trained new hires on requirements, product knowledge, also solve their automation issues.

Actively participated in Scrum meeting.

Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using selenium Web Driver and performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium web driver.

Integrated TestNG with Selenium using Eclipse to generate test execution result.

REST API testing.

Developed common approach for cross browser testing

Used an Agile project management tool for creating user stories, test cases, tracking defects

Worked on Linux operating system.

Environment: Selenium, Selenium RC, Webdriver, Eclipse, JAVA, Ant, testNG, JUnit, MySQL, UNIX, Manual Testing, Scrum methodology.

Integrichain http://www.integrichain.com June 2010 – Nov 2013

Demand Network Analytics (DNA) is the world's leading channel data management and application cloud. DNA unlocks the value of real-time distribution, and point-of-sale data that manufacturers receive directly from their trade partners.

DNA provides manufacturers’ streamlined access to the data their trade partners report through EDI and vendor portals. DNA unites trade partner and ERP data in a single reporting and analytics environment, filling gaps in inventory and sales data and providing 100% visibility to the forward channel.”

Responsibilities:

Gathered Requirements, Analyzed, and Designed test plan as per requirements.

Developed and maintained automated test scripts.

Contribution:

Pioneered web UI testing at the company, evaluating tools and introducing Selenium, allowing the company to grow from ad-hoc ETL testing to end-to-end data validation through the web UI.

Developed and improved an extensive set of SQL control queries to test ETL used in nearly all company products.

Improved defect and enhancement management process through administration and enhanced configuration of Bugzilla.

Served as primary tester for the development team, operating in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Involved in setting up the Testing Lab Automation Framework using Selenium RC, Webdriver, testNG, ANT, and cron jobs.

Used VersionOne (an Agile project management tool) for creating user stories, test cases, tracking defects.

Created ad hoc functional automation scripts using open source Selenium and Java to validate UI-retrieved data against backend control queries.

Used Excel to create many data driven test scripts containing up to 100 different tests.

Created VBA script for one Agile product to validate UI data against the backend database.

Tested security of web applications, using sqlmap to check for SQL injection issues.

Worked on Linux operating system.

Achievements:

Had the Ownership of complex dashboard module.

Became the administrator of the Bug tracking system used (Bugzilla).

Environment: Selenium, Selenium RC, Webdriver, Eclipse, JAVA, Ant, testNG, JUnit, VBA, SQL, MySQL, Unix, Manual Testing, Scrum methodology.

Unisys Corporation July 2008 - March 2010

LA Tax system

This application was developed for the Los Angeles City. This application is developed to register, issue licenses, permits, and citations for local businesses. It also calculates fees and penalties for the local businesses and generates reports. Unisys Corporation is a CMMI level 3 companies.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed Business requirements and system requirements for testability and usability.

Prepared Test Document and Test procedures and Programs.

Created cross reference Excel spreadsheet to track each and every requirement from RFP and Artifacts to corresponding test cases.

Involved in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Test.

Conducted GUI Testing manually as well as using QuickTestPro

Developed and executed test cases using QTP and Quality Center. Ensure that all the test cases were updated in the Quality Center along with test plan.

Involved in Backend Database testing using SQL Server 2005

Used Quality Center to report defects and track them throughout the defect life cycle

Tested bug fixes and coordinates with developers in release of bug fixes meeting timeline.

Work with development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.

Prepared Functional Libraries having reusable functions written in VBScripts

Inserted various Check Points to check the functionality of the application.

Mentored four team members for using Quality Center

Handled all end-to-end testing with various exchanges. This meant working off hours to ensure release dates were met.

Perform back end testing by executing SQL queries to extract data from the database and check for data integrity.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Manual Testing, .NET, TOAD, SQL Server 2005.

Environment: Manual Testing, Rational Test Manager, Rational ClearQuest, TOAD, SQL Server 2005, Rational Clear Case, C++, TOAD, SQL Server.

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