Professional Summary:

•** years of experience in both manual and automated software Quality Assurance Testing of client-server and web-based applications.

•Worked in Insurance, health care and finance domains.

•Experience in Agile background along with good understanding of various programming languages, testing tools, relational databases and data driven applications in a multi-tiered environment.

•Well acquainted with SDLC and STLC, involving in all the phases from Requirements Analysis to Test Closure including Defect Management.

•Well versed in the test planning and develop the test strategies

•Well versed in providing the solutions for automation.

•Experienced in UI testing for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

•Executed and tested Reports on Microsoft CRM and Sales Force

•Participated in the retrospection by iteration and program incremental.

•Creation of automation framework with TestNG from scratch and design pattern Page Object Model.

•Strong abilities in Agile Methodology & Waterfall model.

•Experienced in bug tracking, reporting reviewing and analyzing test results using Quality Center/ALM, and Rally for reporting bugs to developer.

•Discussed the issues with developers.

•Experience in using SharePoint.

• Selenium, CA Lisa, HP Quality Center, CA Rally, SOAP UI

•Experience in rational tools – Rational requisite pro, Rational Robot and Rational Clear Quest

•Strong experience the HP QTP/UFT.

•Good Exposure to web technologies like JavaScript, XML, XPATH and SOAP.

•Integrate the automation test suites to Jenkins for Continues integration process

•Selenium GRID for parallel execution and Integration of Selenium GRID with Jenkins

•CI/CD implementation using Jenkins.

•Used Maven for projects build, dependency management

•Working under a project which follows Test driven development methodology (TDD).

•Performed unit testing using JUNIT.

•Experience in Source code management tools like SVN, GitHub.

•Experience in writing the Selenium scripts using Python/Java.

•Extensive working experience in Functional, Unit Testing, Integration, Front-End, GUI, Back-End, End-to-End, Regression, Smoke, UAT, Black box and Configuration testing.

•Experience working with tools including MS Office, MS Visio.

•Expertise in preparing and maintaining the QA Documents like Test strategy, Test plans, Test cases, Test Reports, Test Data preparation & Scenarios Identification, Automation framework.

•Working in highly dynamic environment using AGILE methodology in sprints for the regular new development. Good exposure on integrity testing all the times when the functions are being integrated or any new functionality being deployed on the product.

•Experience in Analyzing Business Requirement Specifications, functional requirement, User Requirement Specifications, and Use Case Documents.

•Ability to work independently and in a team and able to effectively communicate with customers, peers and management and adapt quickly to new business domains.

•Proven ability to perform problem-solving, oral and written communication skills.

•Acting as Quality Auditor for the deliverables within the project.

•Participated in Audit process and implemented all the organizational quality aspects to meet quality champion’s expectations.

•Experience in Guidewire, the Insurance suite product.

Education and Technical Certifications and AWARDS:

Completed Master of Science in Information Systems.

Certified with International Software Testing Qualifications board Foundation level(ISTQB)

Completed Certified Software Tester (CSTE).

NSE Certification in Financial Markets and Equity Derivatives A Beginners Module of NCFM.

Cognizant Certified Professional on HP QTP

Cognizant Certified Professional on General Insurance

Cognizant Certified Professional on Guidewire Policy Center

Cognizant Certified Professional on HP Quality Center Practitioner

Won the Star of Quarter award from Cognizant for best performance.

Won the On the Spot recognition award from the Hartford QA management in QA continuum for her best performance as a Automation Lead

Won the Team Award for Exceptional Quality award from the Keane India management for outstanding performance in Pfizer project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools

QTP/UFT, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, Quality Center/HPALM

Administration Tools

SQL Plus, SQL Server Management Studio, Toad, Oracle SQL Developer

Programming Languages

JAVA, SQL, JavaScript, XML

Test Framework

TestNG, JUNIT, Data Driven Framework

Processes

Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tools

Rally,HP ALM, Rational Clear Quest

Data Bases

Oracle 11g/12c, MS SQL Server 2014, MySQL

SOA Tools

SOA Tester and Desktop Tester

Operating Systems

Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8) Linux, Mac

Source Code Management and Build Tools

Maven, SVN, Jenkins

Professional Experience:

Client: The Hartford, CT Aug 2011 to June 2018

Role: Automation Lead

Involved in the detailed study of the requirements for the project. Based on the detailed studies, has prepared extensive Analysis Documents to address the various requirements of the project.

Coordinated joint efforts between Clients and Test Teams for test plans and test cases approval and obtained Client sign-offs for all project testing phase deliverables.

Act as a key player in setting up the Test Automation Framework design and regression bed for this project.

Provide guidance on the Tools used across testing phases and build efficiency in achieving quality

Developed the automation framework.

Customized and enhanced the Test Scripts defining various Checkpoints, Synchronization points, Input value, Output value, Parameterize Test, Define Regular expressions, Recovery Scenarios, Optional Steps using HP UFT QTP .

Automated the screen shots using an inbuilt recorder in the MS Dynamics AX 2009.

Performed Functional and Regression testing using HP UFT/QTP .

Created and executed the web service automation using SOAP UI.

Performed web services Functional testing and regression testing using SoapUI.

Performed Data driven testing using Selenium Web Driver and Test NG functions which reads data from property and XML files.

Involved in executing automated test cases using Selenium Web Driver to automate manual testing solutions.

Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators.

Involved in running Test scripts on different browsers using the Selenium Web driver.

Extensively used JAVA OOP’s concepts for developing Automation Frameworks using Eclipse, Maven, Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.

Created various generic methods for capturing SCREENSHOT, sending E-MAIL, reading and writing EXCEL file, connecting DATABASE, and generating LOGs.

Created various custom methods for handling FRAME, MULTIPLE WINDOW, LINK, POP-UP and other WEB ELEMENTS.

Created common data provider using Hashtable for all test cases using TestNG and Java.

Created customized XPATH and CSS for identifying dynamic elements.

Developed the selenium automation scripts with java.

Worked in scaled agile framework.

Participated in grooming sessions, refinements.

Automated completed stories within sprint and n-1 sprints.

Closely reviewed the automation bed.

Used GitHub as Source code management tool.

Involved in Requirement Walkthrough Meetings and Ambiguity clarifications with Business Analyst from Client Team.

Involved in Analysis, detailed understanding of the User Requirement/ User interface/Business Requirement documentations, functional and system-integration levels of test documentation including Test Strategies and Plans, Test Design, Test Procedures and Instructions, Test Data Requirements and Test Summary Reports based upon user and functional requirements for complex systems.

Involved in Preparing Impact Analysis document on the existing system based on the user requirement, Preparing detailed Test Scenarios and Test cases covering all the mappings using Quality Center & Test Data, Execution of test cases and defect tracking and Logging and Tracking defects to closure in Quality Center.

Key player in acquiring the Business / testing knowledge from the Onsite lead and Client QA Team.

Participated in daily standup Meetings, Sprint Planning Sessions, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Sessions.

Proficient in using Rally for the Test Management

Provided story point estimation for the QA stories.

Offshore coordination to ensure the quality of testing deliverables and ensure that road blocks are addressed in timely manner.

Conducted defect triage meetings, defect prioritization meetings and system demos/functionality demos with clients

Prepared Production Check out Test Plan and performed Production Check Out.

Represent QA team in all meeting with Client partners and Application owners.

Review and Publish status reports and metrics for senior management to track the progress of the program

Represent QA team in daily stand-up, estimation and defect triage meetings

Revise estimates based on the scope changes and change controls and plan for any additional front load testers

Primary contact for the project team and the business team to provide sign-off on QA testing for every sprint/milestone/end to end testing cycles.

Facilitates Causal Analysis sessions and documents Lessons Learned.

Environment: ALM 11, UFT 11.5, Selenium, Java, Rally, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics

Client: Merrill Lynch, Chennai Sep 2009 to Mar 2010

Role: Automation Tester

Analyze and understanding functional requirements from business requirement specifications and identify the test scenarios.

Involved in preparing a detailed test plan by thoroughly reviewing SRS documents, system design and technical design documents.

Review the test cases /executions done by the team.

Reviewing/modifying QTP automation scripts and executing the scripts.

Expertise in collecting different metrics using Quality center reports.

Expertise in testing effort estimation.

Preparing Weekly Status Reports/Daily Status reports

Preparing and Delivering test assets documents to the management

Worked closely with the development team in understanding and documenting application behavior for a comprehensive test case development.

Analyzed Test Plans and Test Cases for the Functional, Integration, end-to-end, Usability and smoke testing

Manually tested and compared the data by writing SQL scripts against the data appears in Data marts with Cognos cubes and reports

Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, maintaining both manual test cases and automation test scripts, test execution, reporting and tracking defects.

Developed test automation framework.

Performed Data Driven Tests with positive and negative data sets using Flat files using Quick Test Professional

Writing Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional for automation of Regression testing and verifying the application’s expected behavior at different stages by inserting various Checkpoints

Created user defined functions and custom categories and added them to the Function Generator for function reusability using Quick Test Professional.

Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.

Worked with the business users on User Acceptance Testing by mentoring them on various aspects of testing.

Tested different scenarios for Spot fixing, Dividend Fixing and Yield Fixing.

Performed different cycles of the regression testing for the Appserver and Metro Server releases.

Performed the backend verification using the SQL queries in the SQL Server.

Review and validate time sheets prior to approval.

Providing the feedback to team and motivate them to improve their personal and project productivity.

Managing the resources without affecting the deliverables.

Mentoring the new joinees to project

Conducted meetings with the team in regular basis to meet the deadlines.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 8.2, QTP, C#, App Server, Metro Server, SQL Server

Client: Allianz, MN Jan 2007 to Sep 2008

Role: Onsite and offshore Coordinator

Understand the application business logic with Business Requirements Specification Documents and functionality of application with Functional Requirements Specification Documents.

Prepared a complete reference document based on the knowledge transfer which consists of the functionality of application in detail, Installation details, question and answers log, basic terms used in the application

Onsite Coordinator and responsible for knowledge transfer to offshore team

Prepared QA estimations for test case development and execution

Conducted day to day conference calls

Prepared the gap analysis document by analyzing both the requirement specification document and design specification document.

Prepared the Clarification log.

Involved in preparing the high level Test Plan and developed Test Cases in accordance with the functional specifications.

Performed manual testing to check the functionality of the application.

Responsible for development of automation test scripts for Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Added Standard, bitmap, text, text Area, database checkpoints and synchronization points in test script to check the application by comparing its current behavior to its behavior in a previous version.

Coordinated with business users on the test script review and sign-off.

Used Quality Center for executing test sets, collecting test results, and analyzing the data.

Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center and coordinated meetings with developers and business analysts to prioritize the bugs, bug fixes and problem resolution

Worked closely with build integration team, business analysts and developers in order to perform testing activities as per schedules.

Generated Bug Reports and Test case coverage reports for status meeting and also involved in resource planning for test cases coverage

Involved in Bug Review meetings and participated in weekly meetings with management team.

Planned and executed Backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.

Attended Change Control Process Meetings to document changes and implemented those changes to corresponding test plans.

Organized and managed all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.

Actively participated in Enhancement meetings to distinguish between bugs and enhancements.

Environment:

Mercury Quality Center 8.2, QTP, Rational Clear Quest, Navisys (Front Office) – QA, Staging and Prod Environments, Onbase (scanning system), Bombardi Teamworks, ID3 (mainframes system), IIG T&E application, .Net

Client: Pfizer, Hyderabad Jan 2005 to Dec 2006 Role: QA Tester

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Analyze Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification Documents.

Prepared Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases for Manual Testing.

Executed tests and participated actively in system test cycles.

Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center and coordinated meetings with developers and business analysts to prioritize the bugs.

Planned and executed Backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.

Maintained detailed test logs, and reported test results.

Met the Time bound schedules and helped in delivering the product on time.

Performed different types of testing – Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Positive and Negative testing.

Verified the bug fixes and performed Regression testing for each release of the application.

Involved in database testing by writing numerous SQL queries to check the dataflow from the front end to back end.

Prepared Requirements Traceability matrix.

Worked extensively on User Acceptance testing by coordinating with business users.

Interacted with users of the system on a regular basis for better understanding of the application and effective testing.

Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks and progress on test case execution.

Attended project meetings, release meetings, interacted with business users, IT groups and QA status meetings.

Environment: Chemlink, Java, JDBC, EJB, Applet and Oracle 9i, Test Director, QTP 8.2, SourceForge4.2, ISIS draw

Client: Prithiv Solutions, Hyderabad Dec 2003 to Dec 2004 Role: QA tester

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Testing Adding and deleting a network to the gateway

Tested Routing of a file or a document to the destination, Creation of a log file, Error Reporting

Test Case preparation

Test Case Review

Test Case Execution

Defect logging and tracking

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