Quality Assurance Qa Engineer

Suguna Chandran

Software QA Engineer

Phone 412-***-****

Email ************@*****.***

Address Pittsburgh, PA 15057

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Dynamic software tester with 3 years of experience in software testing – Manual & Automation projects. Involved in software testing with key emphasis on Web based applications. Proven expertise in ensuring software reliability and performance by conducting quality assurance and automated testing, including software test case development and execution, implementation of test plans and debugging. Excels at learning new software tools and best practices in software quality assurance.

SKILLS

Languages: Java, SQL, XML, HTML, CSS, JSON, Gherkin

Testing Tools: HP - Quality Center, Selenium WebDriver, Junit, TestNG, Cucumber, Rest-Assured, Restful API, Selenium GRID

Testing Frameworks: POM, BDD, KDF, DDF, Hybrid

Testing Build: Maven

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ

Defect Management Tools: Jira

Database: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

Version Control System: GIT, GitHub, Bit Bucket

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum

CI/CD: Jenkins

Other Tools: Postman, SOAP UI

EXPERIENCE

AUTOMATION QA ENGINEER — Cognizant Technology Solutions, MP2 PAS - American Automobile Association

October 2011 - October 2013

Test data Preparation, Reviewing requirement documents, Developed and executed test cases and Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures

Identifying the Functional and Design use cases to prepare the test scenarios, test cases

Developed testing programs to address database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error, and bug retests, and usability

Used bug tracking system and report defects to software developers

Planned test schedules or strategies within project scope and delivery dates

Followed existing test cases and created new test cases to support software and APIs

Prepared Test Result Report documents

Analyzing the results and generating the reports

Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing

Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing

Developed custom frameworks based on Page Object Model pattern for easy maintenance of automation codebase.

Developed and implemented Selenium test Automation Framework to facilitate scripting, scalability, modularity, process definition, reusability, maintenance and reduced costs

And control sequence of execution and construct data driven tests

Collaborated with QA team to software quality through manual and automated testing

Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints

Developed automated test scripts to validate system functionality and performance using Java, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, and TestNG.

Used JIRA to track software development life cycle processes.

Performed API testing using Postman, SoapUI and Rest Assured.

Configured Jenkins jobs to run automated regression suites on a nightly basis.

Maintained version control system such as GitLab and GitHub for source code management purposes.

QA ANALYST — Pepsico - Pepsico Project Renew

January 2011 - August 2011

Manual Software Testing with OSP(Oracle solution practice) Application

Reviewed product designs and specifications to ensure they meet customer needs and industry standards.

Reviewing requirement documents

Identifying the Functional and Design use cases to prepare the test scenarios, test cases

Performed smoke testing, Functional Testing, regression testing and defect tracking in QC

Prepared Test Result Report documents

Analyzing the results and generating the reports.

Reported progress updates regularly during sprints and releases cycles for stakeholders visibility.

Performed manual testing as well as automated testing using Selenium WebDriver.

BUSINESS EXECUTIVE – LVB

April 2014 - July 2017

EDUCATION

GCP CLOUD ENGINEER BOOTCAMP

— UpGrad Global Academy, Pittsburgh, PA, Sep 2023

MCA

— Muthayammal Engineering College, Anna University

Tamil Nadu, India, Jun 2010

BSC IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

— Sona College of Technology, Anna University

India, Jun 2007

CERTIFICATIONS

ISTQB –ISEB Certified Tester Foundation Level(CTFL)

OCJP External Certification

Received client appreciation for significant quality assurance deliverables in ‘PAS auto program.

Google Associate Cloud Engineer

LANGUAGES

English

Fluent

Tamil

Fluent

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

QA FREELANCER- APPAREL SPORTS WEAR — Functional Testing, Testcase Execution

India, May 2017 – July 2019

Assisted clients in achieving goals using collaborative processes and expert industry knowledge.

Managed and coordinated project timelines.

Provided excellent customer service through prompt response time and follow up communications.

Performed quality assurance testing on software applications prior to release.

Applied problem-solving techniques to address customer inquiries and resolve issues promptly.

Wrote reviews of sporting events for online publications.

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