FNU TITTY CHERIAN
Dallas, TX
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
● 8 years of experience as a QA Analyst, Functional Tester, and Software Testing Engineer in Web and Client/Server applications in various domains
● Knowledgeable in different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Agile, Scrum and Waterfall
● Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a team and deliver under high-stress environments.
● Extensive knowledge of manual and automated forms of testing including Regression, Smoke, Sanity Testing, Functional, Negative/Positive Testing, Integration, UI, and Performance
● Good understanding of writing SQL queries using MySQL and MS SQL servers.
● Experienced in design, review, and documentation of test plans, tests and product release features, and client’s requirements.
● Create and execute test scripts, cases and scenarios that will validate system performance according to specification.
● Adept in both Manual and Automation testing using tools such as HP Quality Center/ALM and Selenium WebDriver
● Ability to quickly learn, adapt to rapidly emerging technologies, and learn existing systems.
● Hands-on working experience in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts from scratch and Test Analysis Reports, Defect Reports, and Requirement Traceability Matrix
● Experienced in designing Page Object Model Test
Frameworks
● Experience in working with and developing BDD
Frameworks and Data-Driven Frameworks
● Design experience in Behavior Driven API Testing Framework using Cucumber.
● Experience using Jira and Quality Center (ALM) to track down defects.
● Expert in integrating automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) on Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins.
● Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
● Experience in Mobile Testing using Appium and SDK TECHNICAL SKILLS
Development:
JAVA, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL
Methodologies:
SDLC, STLC, Agile, Scrum, Kanban,
Waterfall, BDD
Bug Tracking Tools:
ALM / QC, Jira
Automation Tools:
WebDriver
IDE:
IntelliJ, Eclipse.
Databases:
MySQL
Browsers:
Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari, Microsoft Edge
API Tools:
Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI
Test Framework:
Junit, TestNG
Continuous Integration:
Jenkins, GitHub
Operating Systems:
Windows
LANGUAGE
English
EXPERIENCE
Retail Revolve Dallas, Texas — QA Engineer December 2021 – Present
• Develop test procedures for Web applications relating to customer product solutions.
• Develop and execute test plans and cases based on business requirements and user stories.
• Work closely with the development and product manager to ensure timely and accurate defect resolution.
• Conducted manual testing on software applications to identify and report defects.
• Work with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues found during testing.
• Participate in software release activities, including smoke testing and production validation.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure software stability and reliability.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Document test results and report defects using GitHub.
• Analyzed documentation and prepared detailed Test cases (manual)
• Worked alongside development Teams, Support/ Project Leaders
• Carried out Sanity Tests and was actively involved in UI, Functional, Integration, and regression testing.
• Worked with SQL queries to perform backend testing and data validation.
• Executed and analyzed various queries and created reports.
• Imported and exported data from MS Excel and prepared Excel sheets with test cases into ALM.
Texans Credit Union — QA Automation Engineer January 2019 – November 2021
• Hands-on involvement in all phases of product development planning, design, and coding
• Execution of both manual and automated tests, defect logging, validating, and reporting
• Understand requirements and software design to identify test cases and test scenarios.
• Created and maintained automated test cases that ensure comprehensive testing according to system specifications and user stories.
• Developed logging and reporting of automated test execution and successful results.
• Prioritized tests and test strategy appropriately with effective communication across the team
• Produced clear, well-organized, and useful documentation including test cases, test plans, and time estimates.
• Performed data validation using MS SQL server.
• Identified, documented, and communicated issues discovered during test case creation and test execution following reporting procedures.
• Actively worked with Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Developers, and business teams to help troubleshoot issues and track issues to resolutions.
• Collaborated with the teams to facilitate the development of stable and robust software.
• Developed automation scripts using Selenium and Junit/TestNG
• Define test automation strategy, design automated tests, create automated test cases, and test plans, and execute tests using Selenium.
• Responsible for setting up the framework and test environment.
• Experience with integrating custom functions with dependencies in developing frameworks.
• Experience with BDD frameworks and Data Driven Testing Frameworks
• Developed automation scripts integrated with the cucumber framework and Page object model.
• Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in Selenium.
• Create Automation scripts for Restful API web services. Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Web Services, Postman, REST, TestNG, Java, HP Quality Center, Agile, MS SQL, Excel
Blue Cross Blue Shield- QA Automation Engineer July 2015 – December 2019
• Created process flows, diagrams, and test coverage strategies to help team members better understand the various scenarios of testing.
• Wrote test cases based on the software requirements which ensured thorough testing of the web- based application.
• Maintained and Updated test plans, test cases, and test environment through SDLC.
• Actively participated in various stages of the Software Development Life Cycle such as Design, Planning, Development, and Testing
• Developed all test scenarios and test cases on requirement basis and collaborated with team members to create test plans.
• Used Junit and TestNG for reporting purposes in the automation framework.
• Automation Framework: Page Object Model, with external data files, reusable functions, and classes.
• Ensured meeting of the project timelines and escalated the risk and identified bugs during the testing process.
• Experience in implementing automated test tools (Selenium Web driver, Eclipse)
• Develop, and maintain a test automation framework using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Junit to test Web Applications
• Design/implement automated test scripts to run regression suites.
• Executing test plans and managing all activities in the plan to ensure that all the objectives are met and that results are as expected.
• Executed tests for Web services for Get, Post, Put, and Delete response testing.
• Communicated with support, business, and development teams to resolve issues during testing.
• Ensured every feature of an application was tested successfully and generated a proper report identifying any potential issue before the product release.
• Tracked the testing progress by conducting walk-through meetings with internal quality assurance and development teams.
• Created detailed QA documentation and actively engaged in project status meetings. Environment: Selenium WebDriver, web services, Jenkins, JUnit, Maven, cucumber, SoapUI, Jira, TestNG, HTML, Java, HP Quality Center, Agile and Waterfall, SQL, MS Excel EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) – Kalpataru Institute of Technology, Bangalore University Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) – St Berchman’s College, Gandhiji University