NAVNIT PANDEY

Arlington, VA ***** 571-***-**** ad0040@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Over Six years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing of Client/Server, Unix, and Web-based applications, leading QA activities across cross-functional systems.

Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, and QA Methodologies.

Experience in interacting with cross-functional teams and managing QA activities to deliver a Quality Product to end-users.

Experienced in Software Requirement Specifications analysis, Use Cases, and development of Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Cases.

Expertise in Developing and Executing Test Plans and Test cases based on the Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirement, Use cases, and User Stories.

Proficient in developing Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test procedures, Test reports, and documenting Manual and Automation Tests.

Manual and automation testing experience in all phases of testing for client/server, web/mobile applications, and API testing.

Currently training to be proficient in Selenium Web Driver automation with Java.

Hands-on experience in test Methodologies: V model, Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), and Continuous Integration (CI) environments.

Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) experience.

Proficient in preparing the test plans, scripts, and test cases by analyzing Business Requirements and various other artifacts with a strong ability to work closely with the Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and collaborating with Product Managers to refine requirements.

Expertise in Selenium WebDriver Automation testing & Frameworks, Page Objects & Hybrid Frameworks, TDD, BDD, Web testing, and Functional testing.

Experienced in different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology/SCRUM, Waterfall, and TDD.

Practical hands-on experience in different automation frameworks like Page Object Model Framework.

Experienced in using Selenium Web driver, Eclipse, Java, Cucumber, and TestNG; test frameworks in creating test scripts, test suites, and HTML reports.

Experience in working with open source tools such as Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, and Selenium Grid), Cucumber, JIRA, and Eclipse.

Experience in finding object location using XPath, id, name. Experience in testing web services (SOAP, REST) using Postman and Rest API Tools.

Experience in using LoadRunner and JMeter for performance and stress testing.

Excellent experience in Smoke, Functional, Integration, GUI, Regression, System, Compatibility, Acceptance, Black Box Testing, etc.

Expert in building test automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, BDD with Cucumber, Maven, and Page Factory for Page Object Model (POM) and experience in Jenkins.

Experience in configuring application framework by processing excel spreadsheets using Apache POI.

Experience in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a good team player.

Quick learner, with an ability to easily grasp and put into application new ideas, concepts, methods, and technologies.

Skills

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Agile SAFe, Waterfall, SDLC

Test Frameworks: Data Driven, Hybrid, Page Object Model

Artifacts: Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plan, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug Report

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA-Zapier, HP ALM, MS Azure

Automation Tools: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Git

IDE: Eclipse, Postman

Databases: MySQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access. MS Office Tools: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS

Experience

Software Quality Assurance Engineer 12/2021 to Current

Mastercard Arlington, VA

Analyzed Functional specifications and requirement documents to categorize different modules for Testing.

Analyzed Business Requirements Specifications (BRS), System Requirement Specifications (SRS), System Design, Test Planning, and defining Test Scenarios/Test Cases.

Participating in Daily Scrum, Sprint Grooming, and Sprint Planning and sprint retrospective meetings.

Created test Cases as per the business requirements and executed them.

Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams.

Carry out extensive Regression testing using Jira during various phases of development.

Implemented Agile (Scrum) methodology approach.

Manually test each and every module of the application and verify against expected results.

Performed rigorous manual testing before a release.

Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using Java for web Application, using Maven as a Build tool.

Created both Manual and Automation Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Java.

Work with the QA Team to write the instruction for User Acceptance testing (UAT) to support the non-technical employee.

Worked with the software testers to perform Regression testing as and when required to ensure the stability of the application.

Create and execute SQL queries to make sure the data are entered in the database as expected, and all fields are populated correctly.

Performed review activity for test cases, UAT test cases, test scenarios, functional specifications, and automated test scripts.

Perform detailed results analysis after each test execution cycle and maintain test results.

Execute the test cases and report the Defects using Jira.

Verify and retest the Defects after the development Team resolved them.

Analyzed the test results and Reported defects in Jira.

Software Quality Assurance Tester 08/2019 to 11/2021

Parsons Centreville, VA

Analyzed the Business Requirements user stories to prepare Test scenarios and Test Cases and Test Scripts while working in an Agile Scrum environment.

Attended Scrum Meetings like Sprint planning, Sprint Grooming, Daily Standup, Sprint review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Performed different kinds of Testing Manual and Automation, Functional and Backend, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, UI, and Blackbox.

Involved in Design Review sessions and worked with Data modelers to understand the Design.

Developed the Test Cases, Test Scripts based on the Mapping documents RTM, Functional Specification Document.

Created Regression Document to track and report testing activities during each phase of testing, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, logged defects and their status, performance baselines.

Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Jira.

Automated test cases using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, and Java technologies (Eclipse IDE).

Automated the Test cases using Selenium for Regression testing and TestNG for grouping the tests.

Carried out parallel testing using Selenium Web Driver and TestNG.

Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Positive, and Negative testing for each build of the applications.

Performed Parallel and Cross Browser testing on different browsers.

Implemented Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts. Extensively used Java for test case automation.

Used locating techniques for web elements by Id, Name, Class name, Tag names, XPath, CSS, Link text, partial Link text.

Used SQL queries to do backend testing to perform data validation, data migration/data conversion validation.

QA Analyst 05/2017 to 07/2019

Octo Reston, VA

Involved in various testing activities as an intern throughout the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for multiple projects.

Attended Change Request Meetings to ensure products and changes are fully documented for further Test changes.

Followed Agile Methodology to emphasize real-time communication over written documentation and to minimize risk by implementing software test effort in short time sprints or iterations.

Created Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and ensured traceability to Business Use Cases and according to the application.

Used Jira for Test management, logging defects, and writing test cases in the Zephyr plugin.

Performed manual testing on different modules of the application.

Coordinated with the Test Coordination Center to set up and follow up on daily, weekly, and monthly reports.

Worked with behavior-driven development (BDD) approach using selenium-Cucumber/JUnit to write and execute automated test Scripts.

Developed BDD scenarios for functional and regression suites using Cucumber Gherkin language, Feature files, Step definition, POM, Test runner file.

Involved in Preparation of Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts.

Participated in daily status meetings, coordinated with the developers and Business Analysts to resolve the defects and close them.

Education

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Vikram Vidyalaya

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