Pounami Bose

QA Automation Engineer

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Around 8 years of experience in Manual and Automation, Black Box, Regression, GUI Testing, Integration, Functionality, Positive/Negative and User Acceptance testing of both Client-server and Web-based applications.

Expertise in Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentation using Quality Center, JIRA, Confluence proficient in both Functional and Automated testing using HP interactive products like - HP Quick Test Professional.

Good knowledge of different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology and Waterfall.

Excellent experience in developing Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts and Test reports for Manual as well as Automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.

Experience in using Confluence for writing the test cases, Executing the test cases and defect reporting and bug tracking using JIRA

Expertise in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Orchestration Testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box testing

Experience in Manual and Automation Testing of Web Services/Mobile Apps, Client Server and Web based Applications in different domains using QTP, SOAP UI, ALM and Selenium.

Experience in developing automation testing framework using Selenium WebDriver by following java very Strong Analytical Skills, Technical Skills, Communication Skills, and Interpersonal Skills.

Experience in testing Web Services-SOA architecture, XML transactions, SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, and REST using various industry standard tools like SOAP UI and READY API.

Excellent experience in developing Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts and Test reports for Manual as well as Automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.

Developing Automated scripts for Performance Test Scripting Framework using JMeter and Neo Load tools understanding the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications.

Extensive experience in using JIRA for Defect Tracking purpose to report application bugs and HP QC enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues

Strong understanding of Quality Assurance testing methodology relative Software Development lifecycle (SDLC), Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.

Good knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for Unit testing, Maven and Ant for Project building tool, Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Integration.

Expert in using defect tracking tools like Quality Center, Team Track, Jira, Bugzilla, and Clear Quest of major Operating Systems and tested applications on Windows and UNIX environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automated Testing Tools

Selenium WebDriver/RC/IDE/Grid, TOSCA, Junit, TestNG, JMeter, SoapUI, Cucumber, QTP, Load Runner, Microsoft team foundation server (MS TFS), ReadyAPI

Automation Frameworks

Hybrid, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, BDD/ATDD, Page Object Model (POM).

Performance Testing Tools

JMeter, NeoLoad, LoadNinja, LoadRunner

Test Management Tools

Test Director, ALM, Quality Centre 11.0/10.0/9.x/8.2., Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Scrum

Scripting Languages

TSL, VBScript, Java Script.

Languages

C, C++, Java, VB, HTML, XML and SQL

Build Tools

Ant, Maven

Version Control Tools

GIT, SVN, CVS, TFS

Continuous Integration Tools

Hudson, Jenkins, and Cruise Control

Browsers

Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox, Google Chrome

IDE

IDE, Eclipse, My Eclipse

Protocols

HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, TCP/IP.

Database

Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server

Operating System

Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Barclays

October 2021 - Ongoing

Role: QA Manual & Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Working closely with teams of clients, developers, and testers throughout the entire development life cycle, to identify and manage requirements.

Involved writing Test Plan for the web application after analysing the specifications and business requirements creating High Level and Detailed Level designing of test scenarios based on business requirements.

Reviewing test scenarios with business, developer, client, and other stakeholders manually according to the BRD, Technical Specification, Functional Design, identifying applications functionality, test requirements and coverage.

Using various SQL queries to validate and populate data into a table Security testing ensured the application business logic, and also helped identify and patch all the vulnerabilities of the application.

Performing Functional, Navigation, Regression and Smoke tests on the new enhancements added to the web application in different environments like UAT and finally in Production.

Developing Test cases and Test scripts to fully validate the functionality and ensure that the application meets all the security and privacy requirements.

Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables and to verify the output Data of the reports planned and documented Test cases for Functionality, Security, Performance, Database and Acceptance testing.

Conducting User Acceptance Testing before the initial release when the project reached the final phase prior to deployment.

Wrote several Test Cases for testing various functionalities performed End-to-End Manual Testing of the application Automation scripts for Sanity testing and sending results to stake holders.

Monitored and planned tests and test scripts using HP Quality Center and used HP QC as bug reporting capabilities to track documented bugs.

Performing compatibility testing on various browsers and operating systems to ensure excellent user acceptance conducted GUI/Usability Testing and Black Box Testing according to specifications.

Client: Metlife

May 2019 – September 2020

Role: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed Test plans based on functional and technical software requirements participated in product requirements and design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product design, schedules.

Performing module wise Functional Testing, Database Testing, System Testing, Regression testing and End to End Testing document software defects, using JIRA, and report defects to software developers on daily basis.

Extensively involved in back-end testing into SQL using SQL Server Profiler Cucumber was used for the entire regression testing and functional testing with Selenium as primary tool to the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test conditions.

Worked with the Business Analyst/Requirement team, technical team for Change Request if desired by them for improving the usability of the application.

Involved in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Test conducted GUI Testing manually and entered the result in Jira.

Created manual Test Cases in JIRA for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan validated SOAP responses by using assertions like XPath match, schema compliance, contains, SOAP fault etc.

Performed functional, BVT (Smoke), integration and performance tests on new and existing application features in QA environment to release a stable application to UAT/production.

Work with the project teams across domains, analyze requirements and design specifications to develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scripts.

Executed test cases and test scripts for manual and automation testing. Defects are raised in the JIRA for logging, tracking, and reporting bugs in the application.

Wrote Manual Test cases based on Functional and Business requirements executed Manual Test cases for Functional Testing and logged defects for the failed test cases.

Client: Citi Group

May 2017 – November 2018

Role: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Matrix.

Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver using Java Programming language maintain version control of the source code using Stash/Bitbucket tool and utilize the GIT commands.

Performed BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions in Gherkins format.

Ensured the appropriate parties review and sign-off on test cases prior to test execution created manual Test Cases in HP QC for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.

Involved in Agile Environment, attended stand up Meetings and retrospections sessions exported test cases from MS Excel to Quality center.

Executed Manual Test cases for Functional Testing and logged defects for the failed test cases wrote Manual Test cases for based on Functional and Business requirements.

Performed browser compatibility testing (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Opera mini) of a web-based application to ensure that functionality works fine.

Worked with Business Analysts to define test cases, test plans, test data ensuring accurate coverage of business and functional requirements

Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports, Test Summary, Requirement Traceability Reports and Test Statistics and Customized Summary Reports.

Actively involved with SCRUM and sprint meetings, managing testing backlog, removing obstacles to progress, re-allocating resources where necessary, prioritizing and review milestones and accomplishments.

Client: Crestech Software, India

August 2011 – March 2014

Roles: QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

Created Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Procedures and implement compliance of quality standards Reviewing the Scenarios.

Interacted with business users and business analyst to understand the requirements. As well as worked closely with QA lead in preparation of Test Plan document.

Involved in Black box, Functional, Regression, Negative, Compatibility and Integration testing. Also, involved in patch and upgrade testing.

Involved in test cases review by development team, product management and modified the test cases based on their feedback.

Used Quality Center to write test cases/ test scenarios, report bug, run test cases for regressions, generate graphs for test analysis.

Performed Front-End Testing, Functionality Testing, and Data Driven Testing using QTP tested Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)application using Soap UI

Involved in Smoke Test to verify the stability of the build for testing the application executed the Test Cases to verify actual results to expected results.

Performed browser validations across operating systems by verifying the visual presentations, alignment, design, and accuracy of links.

Involved in Defect tracking and Reporting using Bugzilla and Team Tracker defect tracking tool extensively involved in resolving bugs fixes with Development Team.

EDUCATION:

Master in Science in Computer Sciences from Assam University, India 2007

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