MEENAKSHI JAGOTTA

Phone: 732-***-****

Email: ad1umz@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Senior Software QA Engineer with 11+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing of Web, Web Services, Client/Server applications and Databases

Strong Exposure and experience in SDLC and STLC with understanding of Requirements Gathering, HLD, DLD, test planning, test execution and reporting

Executed projects in Waterfall and Agile development methodology

Planned and executed end-to-end testing including functional, smoke, regression, integration and exploratory testing

Experienced in designing Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports by using client requirements

Proficient in Test Automation tools like UFT (Formerly QTP), IBM RFT, Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber

Designed and Developed frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, VB Script, JUnit, Cucumber and Maven

Experienced in using Selenium automation frameworks like Hybrid, Data-driven, Keyword driven and POM

Worked as an Automation Developer with BDD approach to develop Web UI tests using Cucumber, Gherkin and Selenium WebDriver

Experienced in API Testing using JAVA Rest Assured Library and API Testing tools such as Postman

Experienced with Apache POI and Java Excel API to read data from external sources like Excel Spread Sheets for validations

Proficient in the Web Debugging Tools like Firebug, Fire path and Xpath

Sound knowledge on TestNG and JUnit framework for Unit Testing, Maven for Project building tool and Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Experienced with Extent Report to display detailed test execution reports along with screenshots of corresponding failed test cases

Extensive experience in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, White Box Testing, Black Box Testing, API Testing and Cross Browser Testing

Experienced with Code Version Control systems like GIT, SVN

Working experience in logging critical defects using ALM, QC, JIRA, MTM, Helix ALM and defect tracking till closure by initiating defect triage

Strong in writing SQL queries to perform backend data validations

Expertise in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Daily/Weekly Status Report, Defect Report and Project Report

Extensive experience with Microsoft Office tools (MS - Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access)

Experienced on Maintenance projects

Efficient in working closely with multiple Onshore and Offshore teams including Business stakeholders, Vendors, Performance, UAT and Development teams

Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving skills

Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills

Dedicated, focused and quick learner

A great team player and proactive in team engagement activities

Technical Skills:

Domain : Banking, Payment, Security, Wealth Management,

Child Support

Test Approaches : Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Bug life Cycle

Testing Tools : QTP/UFT, Selenium WebDriver, Postman, IBM RFT,

Cucumber, JMeter

Defect Tracking Tools : ALM, QC, JIRA, MTM, Helix ALM

RDBMS : Oracle SQL Developer, IBM Data Studio, UNIX,

PostgreSQL, SqlDbx

Frameworks : Page Object Model, TestNG, BDD, Hybrid,

Data-Driven, Keyword Driven, REST API, JUnit

Build & Integration tools : Maven, Jenkins

Code Version Control : SVN, GIT

Programming Languages : Java, VBScript, SQL, Gherkin

Operating Systems : Windows XP/7

Browsers : Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge

Other Tools : MS Office Tools, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Mainframe (eQuate)

Types of testing : Manual Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression

Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functional

Testing, Smoke, Sanity, API Testing and Unit Testing

Education:

B.Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in July 2010

Professional Work Experience:

Federal Home Loan Bank, Office of Finance (FHLB, OF) / RapidIT Inc., Remote, VA

QA Automation Engineer

April 2022 – Till Date

Contribution:

Analyzing business requirement to determine the test strategy covered by automation testing

Responsible for converting manual test cases to automation test scripts using IBM RFT and Cucumber

Working on Agile/Scrum Methodology involving pointing user stories, Backlog Grooming, User Story Demonstration and Sprint Retrospective

Responsible for Automation, Functional, Data Driven, Regression and System Testing

Extensively used Selenium Webdriver API (org.openqa.selenium.*), JUnit API (org.junit.*) and TestNG API (org.testng.*, org.testng.annotations.*) to write test cases and automate all the test cases

Working on API Automation using REST Assured library, Jackson and JSON-Simple libraries and manually testing them using Postman

Transforming JDBC Query results into Json files with Jackson API and POJO implementation

Parsing Json into Java objects with Jackson API

Develop Webservices using RESTful Webservices parsing XML files using SOA architecture

Develop Test Scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definition for BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) using Cucumber (Gherkins format) with JUnit

Used GitLab to maintain and manage the build scripts, test data used and other documents related to the project

Developing Data Driven Automation Framework from scratch using IBM RFT

Implementing Descriptive Programing to capture objects in real time

Creating custom java methods for maximum code reuse throughout the application scripts

Creating Data Driven test scripts with functions and verification points to validate results in RFT

Implementing log4j API to store RFT/eclipse console outputs

Maintaining existing Tests scripts/Regression suites

Involved in Test Data and Environment Setup

Debugging and Enhancing Test cases using Java Programming

Extensively worked on JMeter to create Thread Groups and test Web Application key business scenarios

Design, Develop and Execute functional tests using JMeter and Jenkins

Running SQL queries and validating database response using SqlDbx

Used SonarLint for checking code quality

Detecting, reporting and tracking defects using Helix ALM and Jira to ensure the best results

Coordinating Development team members and Scrum team in order to resolve the issues

Giving Daily Status and Weekly Status reports to client

Participated and conducted Agile Scrum Daily project meeting, Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective using the Agile process

Involved in Daily Status meetings, Walkthrough meetings and bug review meetings with the team

Presentation of the stories completed during Sprint to stakeholders in Sprint Review meeting

Participated in Retrospective to provide feedback on what went well/not went during Sprint and suggested improvements for next Sprints

Environment: Windows XP, IBM RFT, Eclipse, Java, Cucumber, Maven, JUnit, Jackson API, Apache POI, Java Excel API, Rest Assured, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, Lombok, SqlDbx, SonarLint, GIT, Helix ALM, Agile, Jira, MS-Office

UBS / Niktor IT INC, Remote, NJ

QA Automation Engineer

December 2021 – March 2022

Contribution:

Involved in converting the User Stories (Agile Methodology Requirements Documents) and Design Documentation into Test Design Products: Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts

Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to demonstrate the test coverage

Prepared Test Data for Test Cases after detailed analysis of Client Requirements and functionality

Developed and Executed Automation Framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Maven for Client Inquiry application UI Testing

Maintained and Enhanced multiple Wealth Management Automation Projects

Onshore Lead for 3 offshore resources and assisted them to understand user stories, creation and execution of test cases and scripts as per the project requirements

Used GitLab to maintain and manage the build scripts, test data used and other documents related to the project

Worked on APIs testing using Postman

Involved in testing REST services using Rest Assured in JSON format

Worked on JIRA for maintaining and monitoring defects

Involved in Daily status meetings

Environment: Windows XP, Selenium WebDriver, Java, IntelliJ, Cucumber, BDD, Gherkin, MS-Office, Jira, TestNG, Apache POI, GitLab, Maven, Postman, Rest Assured, PostgreSQL, JSON

Deloitte Consulting / 4 Consulting INC, Remote, PA

Quality Assurance Tester

March 2021 – May 2021

Contribution:

Responsible for analysis of Business Requirements and clarifications meetings with BA

Prepared Manual and Functional Test Cases on web applications as per requirements

Designed High level Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Traceability matrix and ensured the test coverage

Test Data Setup by creating multiple cases for different counties

Performed Functional Testing by executing test cases including E2E functionalities and raising observations to BA

Validated data sync between front end application and back-end application eQuate

Defect Logging in MTM and tracking till closure

Designed simple to complex SQL queries for testing purpose

Participated in daily status meetings and conducted walkthroughs for team members

Conducted defect review and triage meetings to resolve the defects

Provided support to team members in their testing activities

Environment: Windows XP, MS-Office, Mainframe (eQuate), Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), SQL

Bank of America / Mitchell Martin, Remote, NJ

Quality Assurance Consultant

April 2020 – January 2021

Contribution:

Analyzed Business Requirements, Software Requirement Specifications to create Test Plan and Test Cases for Manual and Automation Testing using Selenium Web Driver

Setting WebEx with Functional Team for test scenarios clarifications

Automated Regression and Functional test suites by developing over 453 test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber, Maven

Worked as a Test Lead for offshore team working on various Functional Modules

Developed BDD tests using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber by writing feature files and step definitions

Experienced in running automation scripts using TestNG and generated customized test reports

Developed unit test cases using JUnit framework

Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Firepath to run automation script in stable condition

Executed Sanity, Smoke and Regression scripts including E2E functionalities

Performed API Testing using Postman

Used Jenkins as continuous integration server to run automated test suites

Responsible for analysis of test results, validations count and raising observations to SME of respective applications

Logged and managed defects using HP ALM Quality Center Defect Management tool

Used Git Hub to merge Cucumber Selenium test scripts

Maintenance of test scripts for requirements change

Reported daily project activities of the team to the stakeholders

Provided support to Functional team in their testing activities

Environment: Windows XP, Selenium WebDriver, Java, Eclipse, Cucumber, BDD, Gherkin, JUnit, MS-Office, HP Quality Center-ALM, TestNG, Apache POI, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Postman

Bank of America / Mitchell Martin, Pennington, NJ

Quality Assurance Consultant

September 2019 – March 2020

Contribution:

Analysis of Test Scenarios document received from Functional Team

Setting WebEx with Functional Team for test scenarios clarifications

Worked as a Test Lead for offshore team working on various Functional Modules

Identified test cases for automation process

Developed Smoke and Regression scripts for various applications using UFT VB Script

Executed and Debugged Sanity, Smoke and Regression scripts including E2E functionalities

Analysis of test results, validations count and raising observations to SME of respective applications

Performed defect reporting and tracking using HP ALM

Reports Merging using Report Merge Utility tool

Maintenance of test scripts for requirements change

Reported daily project activities of the team to the stakeholders

Performed Darkpod Validations to ensure all functionalities are working as expected for Production deployment

Provided Post Production Validations Support during weekends

Implemented API testing using Postman

Provided support to Functional team in their testing activities

Test Lead POC for Client Financial Domain

Trained new testers by providing knowledge transfer sessions and monitoring their performance

Walkthrough of designing Smoke and Regression UFT scripts to clients and offshore team

Environment: Windows XP, MS-Office, QTP / UFT, VB Script, Postman, HP Quality Center-ALM

ABN-AMRO / Infosys Limited, Pune, India

Automation Tester

May 2017 – November 2018

Contribution:

Participated in team discussions to analyze, understand and estimate user stories during Sprint Planning

Assisted Product Owner with designing of user stories during Product Backlog Refinement

Responsible for reviewing the user stories and prepared MOMs for Sprint Planning meetings

Worked on document, develop and executing Test Plans, test scenarios, test cases and test scripts

Test Cases Preparation and data setup

Automated Regression test cases using UFT Automation Framework

Performed Manual Testing and Automation Testing of the application

Involved in the debugging of code, identified the root cause of failures and coding errors

Performed API testing using Postman

Validated request and response in JSON formats for Web service calls

Develop and implement harness, sections, portals, decision rules, declarative rules, service file, connect SQL, activities, agents and reports in PEGA applications

Worked on SQL queries to verify data integrity and validate updated data for the Test cases

Used JIRA/Confluence for reporting impediments, creating user stories, tasks, subtasks and other Scrum related test documents

Updated team and Scrum Master with the status of the user stories and any impediments in daily stand-up meeting

Log, track, and verify resolution for all software and specification defects in JIRA

Provided support to Performance team in their testing activities

Presentation of the stories completed during Sprint to stakeholders in Sprint Review meeting

Participated in Retrospective to provide feedback on what went well/not went during Sprint and suggested improvements for next Sprints

Knowledge sessions on creation and execution of UFT scripts Automation Framework to the team and Product Owner

Environment: Windows XP, QTP / UFT, VB Script, JIRA, Postman, MS-Office, SQL

Barclays / Infosys Limited, Pune, India

Test Analyst

July 2014 – April 2017

Contribution:

FRD walkthrough and initiating clarifications sessions with BA

Analyzed and studied various Project Artifacts such as Business Requirements, System Requirements and Use Cases to develop Test Plan and Test Cases for Manual and Automation Testing using Selenium WebDriver

Test Scenarios, test cases, test scripts and test data preparation

Performed Manual Testing to check flow of the application

Smoke testing of the build received from development team

Designed Automation Test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG and Maven

Responsible for implementation of Data driven, Keyword driven, Hybrid Test Automation Framework, Page Object Model using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven and Java

Involved in Maven configuration for running servers and scripts after the build

Integrated Automation scripts in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of the Script

Developed Selenium test scripts using TestNG annotations and generated TestNG report to review test results

Worked on Cross Browser testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the Scripts on different browsers

Developed Automation Scripts and extracted data from excel sheets using Apache POI library

Test cases execution covering End to End Functionalities

Performed defect reporting and tracking using HP ALM

Generated Extent Report to display detailed test execution reports along with screenshots of corresponding failed test cases

Validated records in database using SQL Developer and Putty

Extensive backend validations using SQL and UNIX to conform Data flow accuracy and log validation

Participated in Bug triage to make sure defects communicated to Dev team for its fix’s timely manner

Data Migration activities between databases using SQL

Log, track, and verify resolution for all software and specification defects in JIRA

Lead POC for project related trainings and timesheets completion

Worked as an Acting Lead, handled task allocation, issue follow up with the relevant teams, daily status calls, reporting activities and test closure activities

Trained new testers by providing knowledge transfer sessions and monitoring their performance

Walkthrough of designing Regression Automation scripts using Selenium to clients and compliance team

Environment: Windows XP, HP Quality Center-ALM, Selenium WebDriver, Java, Jenkins, Maven, TestNG, Apache POI, Git, MS-Office, UNIX, JIRA, Tivoli, Putty, Oracle SQL Developer

SunTrust / Infosys Limited, Pune, India

Test Engineer

March 2012 – June 2014

Contribution:

Responsible for analysis of BRD and CR documents

Coordinated with BA for requirements clarifications and issue resolution

Creation of Test Scenario Matrix, scenarios, test cases and test data

Prepared Manual and Functional Test Cases according to functional documents and requirements

Designed and Automated Regression Suite using UFT Hybrid framework

Performed Manual Testing to check flow of the application

Execution of test cases including E2E functionalities

Defect logging and tracking using HP ALM Quality Center

Maintenance of test scripts for requirements change

Extensively performed Oracle SQL queries to retrieve/validate/update/modify data from DB tables

Reported daily project activities of the team to the stakeholders

Environment: Windows XP, QTP / UFT, VB Script, HP Quality Center-ALM, MS-Office, SQL

UBS / Infosys Limited, Pune, India

System Engineer

September 2011 – February 2012

Contribution:

Walkthrough of Project documents

Test data creation for multiple user accounts using UFT automation scripts

Execution and Maintenance of UFT scripts

Performed defect reporting and bug tracking using HP ALM Quality Center

Environment: Windows XP, QTP / UFT, VB Script, HP Quality Center-ALM, MS-Office

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