Shashmita Patannayak

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Summary:

●8 years of diverse experience in QA Testing of Software systems in Client/Server and Web-based environments

●Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Waterfall, Agile (Agile Process: Sprint Planning, Scrums)

●Experience in automating web applications using Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Maven tools

●Experience in developing automation frameworks with Page Object Model (POM)

●Good Understanding of Core Java and Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs) concepts

●Extensive experience in Cross-browser HTML, CSS JavaScript coding to offer responsive website layouts to modern browsers and mobile devices

●Experience in using Maven build tools to manage framework dependency jar files

●Worked on multiple projects and extensively involved in Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Backend testing, Smoke testing and Cross-Browser testing

●Excellent working knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle, Test Life Cycle and industry best practices

●Effectively interacted with the Development, Business Analyst, Business Users / Owners for QA tasks

●Developed Test Plan Documents, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts

●Used Quality Center/ALM, test design, test execution and defect log phase

●Performed Root Cause Analysis for critical and recurring defects

●Good experience in performing the back-end testing using SQL queries

●Extensively involved in different testing types such as System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, and Cross-Browser Testing

●Creates and executes test cases, log and assign defects and keeps track of the defect status

●Provided formal project status to the senior management in a proactive and timely manner

●Able to work under tight deadlines and capable to effectively handle multiple ongoing projects and also capable of working with remote team members

Education:

●Master’s degree in Science from Utkal University, India

Technical Skills:

Development methodologies : Waterfall, Agile/ Scrum

Testing Tools : Selenium IDE/Grid/Web Driver, HP QC/ALM

Languages : Java, Java script, Rest Assured, XML, HTML/CSS

Test Framework : Cucumber, Junit/TestNG, Hybrid Framework

Build Tools : Maven, Gradle

Data Bases : SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Bug Tracking Tools : JIRA, HP QC/ALM, ClearQuest, Bugzilla

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux, UNIX

Work Experience:

Client: Webster Bank, Waterbury, CT Nov 2021 to Till Date

Role: Sr. QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

●Actively participating in daily Scrum with the team and involved in sprint planning, User Story Grooming and sprint retrospective meetings.

●Created Test Cases based on Business Requirement documents.

●Coordinated and involved in test case walkthrough meetings with developers and stakeholders.

●Designed and reviewed the Test scenarios and scripts for given functional requirements and automated test cases in Selenium.

●Developed and implemented automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium Web Driver.

●Developed and implemented automated test scripts using Positive and Negative scenarios.

●Configured Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Maven tool and created Selenium automation scripts.

●Implemented Page Object Model/Data Driven Framework and extracted data from external Excel files using Apache POI.

●Developed automation test cases, executed these test scripts and logged defects in JIRA/ALM.

●Reviewed database test cases according to assigned requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from SQL Server.

●Performed Restful web services testing using Postman.

●Involved in developing test scripts using Rest Assured with BDD approach for API automation.

●Git is used as a version control system and maintained code in Bit bucket and reviewed frequent pull requests.

●Participated in QA meetings and discussed enhancements, request issues and defects.

●Provide regular feedback to Scrum team for bugs/performance issues found during development lifecycle.

Environment: Java, Selenium, Maven, Rest Assured, TestNG, JIRA, SQL Server.

Client: Aerogen, Chicago, IL Jun 2019 to Oct 2021

Role: Sr. QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

●Analyzed the Functional Specifications Document to understand the application and to identify the gaps.

●Attended in requirement walkthrough meetings and Q&A sessions with the business analysts.

●Developed test plans and created test cases based on Business requirement documents.

●Coordinated and involved in test plan/test case walkthrough meetings with external teams.

●Reviewed test cases developed by other team members as part of peer review.

●Involved in QA team activities from test planning, execution and defect tracking to re-testing defect fixes, regression testing and post production closeout activities.

●Participated in defect triage & review meeting with development team and discuss about the open tickets created by QA team.

●Created & managed defects in the HP Quality Center.

●Linking test cases to the requirements and generate the RTM in ALM.

●Stored all testing and project documents in the SharePoint site.

●Executed test cases, logged defects and coordinated with the development team and business analysts to follow up for defect fixes and re-testing.

●Performed Smoke Testing after each and every code drop.

●Preparation and execution of automation test scripts and test suites with Selenium WebDriver using TestNG, Page Object Model (POM) design pattern.

●Performed Functional and Regression Testing using Selenium WebDriver.

●Maintained code in Bitbucket and reviewed frequent pull requests.

●Performed Back-End testing by writing and executing SQL queries using SQL Server.

●Managed daily status reports and meetings with team.

●Participated in daily defect review meetings.

Environment: Agile, Selenium WebDriver, Java, HttpClient, TestNG, Cucumber, POSTMAN, Appium, Maven, JMeter, GIT, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Oracle, JIRA.

Client: Americo Financial, Kansas City, MO Jan 2017 to May 2019

Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

●Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created the test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.

●Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites.

●Developed and Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver and Java. Used Eclipse IDE to Develop & debug the code.

●Worked on Data Driven Framework and MVC for Automation test scripts.

●Configured Selenium WebDriver, Testing, Cucumber, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using testing prior to Agile release.

●Responsible for creating and maintaining automation acceptance test suite using Selenium.

●Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) on Continuous Integration tool Jenkins for nightly batch run of the script.

●Developed Selenium test scripts for identified test cases by using data driven, keyboard driven and hybrid framework.

●Responsible in executing Selenium test scripts on different browsers and checked for compatibility.

●Used XPath and DOM to work with dynamic and static objects in Selenium Web Driver.

●Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called SOAP UI and using this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases and run them.

●Performed GUI, Functional and Regression testing by automated using Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven, and Jenkins.

●Created data-driven automation scripts for testing API Web Services using SOAP UI.

●Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.

●Developed and executed White box test cases of the Java API using TestNG framework & Eclipse.

●Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database.

●Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.

●Worked in the form of sprint team with business analysts and developers in Agile methodology.

●Maintained Metrics and participated in the Weekly Status Updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, SoapUI, MVC, Data-Driven

Framework, Rally, XPath, Firebug, DOM, Agile, Apache, SQL, Oracle, Windows.

Client: Finario, Darien, CT Aug 2014 to Dec 2016

Role: Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

●Helped in preparation of test plans in accordance with the business requirements.

●Developed and Executed Manual test cases for Functional testing of various modules of the application.

●Effectively participated in every day agile scrum stand-up meetings and participated in Iteration planning and retrospective meetings.

●Executed positive and negative scenarios.

●Used SQL queries to perform the back-end testing on Oracle.

●Conducted regression testing after every new build.

●Worked with users on User Acceptance Testing.

●Define & implement QA Processes & Standards.

●Used Test Director to write the test cases.

●Used Test Director to create reports and graphs.

●Successful in handling and executing of manual testing.

●Involved in tracking and reporting defects using QC and was also responsible for communicating the status to the development team.

●Used HP Quality Center to report defects and test results. Environment: TODD, HP Quality Center, MS Office, Oracle10g and Windows.

Environment: Manual Testing, HP QC/ALM, Excel, SQL, Oracle.

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