Pavani A

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Profile:

Around 5+ years of diverse experience in Quality Assurance and Testing. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills in designing, developing and implementing innovative QA Manual and Automation processes and providing system solutions using new approaches.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Around 5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer (SDET) testing Web and Client Server Applications both Manual and Automation with good understanding of Test planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Automation using selenium, CICD, Framework design and Defect Reporting and Tracking.

Extensive experience and knowledge of different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect life Cycle, Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Experience in Core Java Programming using OOPS concepts, Collections, Exceptions handling etc.

Experience in designing and building Frameworks like Behaviour Driven Development (BDD/TDD), Hybrid, Keyword driven, and data driven using Selenium Web driver, Java as a programming language.

Experience in developing Behavior driven development (BDD/TDD) using Gherkin language and Cucumber tool, created scenarios in feature files, step definitions, test runner etc.

Experience in Cross Browser Testing and Parallel Test Execution using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG and Selenium Grid.

Experience in using unit testing frameworks like Junit, TestNG, good knowledge in configuring the test suites in TestNG .xml file. Experience in using build tools like Maven and configuring pom.xml

Expertise in developing Test Framework from scratch using Page Object Model (POM) and maintaining the object repositories, experience in using java libraries like Apache poi and jxl.

Expertise in using different components of selenium like selenium RC, selenium web driver and selenium grid.

Experience in working with web debugging tools like XPath, Fire Path, and Firebug and provided efficient locators for strategies like Xpath and CSS to run test scripts.

Good knowledge in working knowledge on Continuous integration and Continuous delivery (CICD) by using tools like Jenkins.

Experienced on Service Oriented Architecture and tested SOAP (WSDL) and Restful (WADL) Web Services by using tools like SOAPUI and validated the response XML file.

Experience in using version control tools like Sub Version, Git, GitHub

Experience in using the Test management and Defect Tracking tools like HP Quality center, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Rally, Jira.

Extensively worked on creating Test Summary Reports, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Defect reports.

Capable of working independently or as part of a QA/Project team, as required by the project. Able to effectively and cooperatively interface with all levels of management and staff.

Possess problem-solving skills, ability to follow industry standards and procedures. Quickly master new concepts and applications. Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Technical Skills:

Project Methodologies

Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

Automation Testing Tools

Eclipse, Safal, Selenium (WebDriver, RC, IDE, Grid), TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, SoapUI, Rest Assured, Rally, Quality Center.

Frameworks

Cucumber, Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid, Page Object Model.

Utilities

Eclipse, Perforce, GIT, SVN, Firebug, Fire Path.

Test Build & Integration Tools

Maven, Jenkins.

Bug Tracking Tools

JIRA, HP ALM & Quality Center, Rally.

Markup Languages

HTML, CSS, XML, XPath, CSS Selector.

RDBMS

MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle.

Operating Systems

Windows XP/7/2008/10, Mac OS.

Programming tools/Languages

Java, SQL.

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari.

MS Office Tools

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Education:

Bachelor’s in engineering – Information Technology, JNTU.

Certifications and Awards:

Sun Certified Java Professional (SCJP)

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)

Professional Experience:

FIS, WI Jan 2019 to present

Automation Software Tester

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. is an international provider of financial services technology and outsourcing services. FIS provides payment processing and banking software, services and outsourcing of the associated technology. Worked on browser based tool that integrates the Integrated banking system(IBS) core processing systems.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the business requirements and developed the Detail Test Plan and the Test Strategy.

Followed and contributed to Agile/SCRUM activities (e.g. daily stand-ups, retrospectives, iteration planning, estimate/reporting, acceptance criteria definition).

Involved in resolving the Technical challenges & in efforts estimation and Test Planning.

Involved in writing Automation scripts and executing scripts.

Developed Safal scripts based on the safal key word manual.

Web testing done through an in-built automation product of SunGard “SAFAL”.

Schedule calls & actively interact with client for various project related items or issues on frequent basis.

Assign work to team members during entire testing life cycle & monitor progress made on daily basis.

Identified test data and organized in flat files scenario wise for test input at run time.

Organized the scripts by grouping as Smoke, Regression and Functional.

Executed SOAP based web services API testing (Java Client and SOAPUI).

Ensure all Testing documents/artifacts are documented and maintained as per the process.

Analyze test execution results and post defects with detailed steps and screenshots.

Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users & prepared end user documentation for the new system.

Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stakeholders.

Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center& reported the same in status meetings.

Environment: Safal, TDD, JIRA, XML, MS Office, HTML, SQL, MS Access, Windows, Confluence

Anthem Inc, Norfolk VA Nov 2016 to Dec 2018

Selenium Automation Tester

Anthem Inc.-is one of the largest health benefits companies in the United States. Through its affiliated health plans, it delivers a number of leading health benefits solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability, insurance benefit services as well as long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts.

Responsibilities:

Interacted with Product Owner, Customers and Project team members in analyzing the User stories and acceptance criteria.

Extensively worked on test cases involving validation of data at all levels including field level validators and UI validation.

Involved in Design, Architecture, Development of BDD framework by writing features files, step definitions and closely worked with the Product owner using Cucumber.

Expertise in using Selenium Grid to run test scripts on different platforms and against different browsers in parallel to save time.

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

Implemented the architecture of BDD framework from scratch by using the existing Hybrid components.

Expertise in grouping of test suites, test cases and test methods for regression and functional testing using TestNG Annotations like Groups, Parameter, Data Provider and Tags.

Used TestNG Parameter, TestNG.xml and Data Provider for parameterization.

Used Selenium automation (TestNG) to different type of browsers to perform Cross Browser Testing.

Maintained Automation scripts and responsible for code check-ins into SVN.

Utilized Apache POI jar file to read test data from the excel spread sheets and load them into required test cases.

Administered and Engineered Jenkins for managing weekly Build, Test, and Deploy chain, SVN/GIT with Dev/Test/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases.

Prepared SQL scripts to verify the database updates, inserts and deletes of the records.

Used MAVEN to build and run the Selenium automation framework, Once the script got over, framework used to send the automation reports over email.

Created synchronization points by adding Explicit and implicit waits in the application to deal with timing problems.

Validated request and response XML. Added assertions to validate the XML in Web services SOAP and RESTFUL service and performed API Testing

Performed data driven testing by getting the data from excel sheet and automated multiple endpoints with various data sets and generated the reports.

Data Defined and Manipulate (DDL/DML) using SQL Queries in MYSQL.

Mapped all the Requirements with the test cases using Requirement traceability matrix (RTM).

Performed Black Box Testing, UAT Testing and extensively used Selenium for Regression, Smoke, Functional Testing and data driven testing using excel file in Selenium.

Performed the application compatibility in the Versions of Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers using Selenium.

Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using JIRA.

Used an Agile model of development life cycle (SCRUM). Used selenium with java, frameworks, design approaches, and various effective implementation techniques.

Actively involved in detection of issues with test cases, design, execution and plans.

Participated QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discusses enhancement and modification request issues and defects in the application.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Apache Poi, Rest Assured, TestNG, Firebug, FirePath, XML, XPATH, DOM, Cucumber,Jira, SVN, Agile, SOAP, RESTful, Microservices, SQL, Jenkins, SoapUI, Ready API, Swagger Gherkin, Eclipse, Maven, Oracle.

NYMMIS, NY Nov 2015 to Oct 2016

Selenium Automation Tester

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) will be transitioning to a new Medicaid System and a new fiscal agent Xerox State Healthcare, LLC.NYMMIS will utilize a web-based core platform called Health Enterprise(HE), configured to meet New York States requirement. HE uses a web native architecture that is scalable to serve future now.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the business requirements and developed the Detail Test Plan and the Test Strategy.

Followed and contributed to Agile/SCRUM activities (e.g. daily stand-ups, retrospectives, iteration planning, estimate/reporting, acceptance criteria definition).

Involved in resolving the Technical challenges & in efforts estimation and Test Planning.

Involved in writing Automation scripts and executing scripts.

Developed BDD and TDD script with Cucumber and written step definition for Gherkin based features.

Involved in Preparation of 'Hybrid Driven Reusable Framework' using Java.

Used TestNG Parameter, TestNG.xml and Data Provider (Method and I Test Context.) for parameterization.

Implemented Page Object Model(POM) to maintain all reusable object and maintained the same.

Involved in Automation Feasibility Study for Web based applications.

Schedule calls & actively interact with client for various project related items or issues on frequent basis.

Assign work to team members during entire testing life cycle & monitor progress made on daily basis.

MSSQL server, database, and user creation/maintenance/upgrades. Own and resolve client setup and issues as needed.

Identified test data and organized in flat files scenario wise for test input at run time.

Organized the scripts by grouping as Smoke, Regression and Functional and executed them from command prompt by creating schedules tasks.

Executed SOAP based web services API testing (Java Client and SOAPUI).

Ensure all Testing documents/artifacts are documented and maintained as per the process.

Created and executed SOAP UI Scripts for the Web Services testing.

Performed SIT Testing activities (as a part of manual testing) to evaluate and support Microservices by providing end-to-end application testing and by providing technical support.

Analyze test execution results and post defects with detailed steps and screenshots.

Used HPQC for tracking defects and notifying developers.

Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users & prepared end user documentation for the new system.

Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stakeholders.

Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center& reported the same in status meetings.

Performed ETL testing and precise documentation.

Tested backend database by writing complex SQL Queries.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Selenium IDE, Jenkins, Soap UI, Java, CSS, XML, Quality Center, TDD, BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin, Eclipse, GIT, Sauce Labs, Maven, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS.

Mind tree limited. Oct 2014 to Aug 2015

QA Automation Tester

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services

Developed test plans and test cases within a Waterfall Methodology after carefully analyzing FRD and BRD.

Executed all test cases in different phases of testing like GUI Testing, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Sanity and User Acceptance Testing.

Involved in complex test cases dealing with Business rules, under writing issues and validations.

Involved in test cases related to quote screens and rating behavior.

Tested the behavioral changes in modifiers according to question sets response.

Developing Test plan of the application as per technical specifications.

Developed Automation framework both Data driven and Hybrid using Selenium WebDriver in Java and performing unit testing by using TestNG.

Involved in setting up the automation framework using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG.

Involved in automation testing using Java and selenium.

Worked on developing Java code for automation process.

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

Creating and maintaining various databases using Oracle.

Prepared manual test cases for service appointment creation, modification and deletion.

Created automated test scripts for validating the nightly product builds and regression testing.

Maintained Defects using Defect Tracking System in JIRA.

Summarize test results in formula test analysis reports according to the documentation standards.

Involved in testing Web services (SOAP and REST) and XML with tool called 'SOAP UI' for the local WSDL / with URL and created Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.

Involved in back end testing for validate the back-end data and compare the front-end data and executed SQL queries.

Prepared the test data for positive and negative testing for executing the test cases.

Prepared Test Summary Reports, Bug Reports on weekly basis.

Performed extensive end to end manual testing.

Identify the Test Scenarios, developed and reviewed test cases as per the requirements.

Modified and maintained test cases with changes in application interface and navigation flow for further releases.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, JIRA, Soap UI, CSS, XML, MS Office, HTML, SQL, MS Access, Windows, Quality Center

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