Senior QA Automation Engineer

Rutu P

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Profile Summary

• 9+ years’ experience in software Automation developer (SDET) extensively worked on Manual, Automation, Mobile, API, Web services applications.

• Experience as QA Analyst, with broad-ranging experience delivering effectively to time and budget on a variety of complex, large-scale, often web-fronted projects.

• Experience in managing and testing project modules, gathering business requirements, solution, functional & gap analysis, Impact Analysis, providing design strategy for business processes, and testing critical business functionalities.

• Involved in creation and implementation of Test Procedures, Test Plans and Test Scripts and experienced in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts.

• Experience in Core Java, development by applying different concepts like OOPS concepts, Collections, String s, Exception handling, Multithreading, etc.

• Experience in writing good quality object-oriented code for testing purposes by following industry standard java coding standards.

• Extensively Proficient in Developing Automation framework from scratch using Selenium Webdriver in Page object model (POM) methodology.

• Worked on Cross browser testing, like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and IE using WebDriver.

• Experience in Black Box, Positive, Negative, System, Front-End and Back-End Testing and experience in Regression and Functional Testing, with good understanding of functional coverage of test cases.

• Experience in testing applications in Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall methodologies

• Committed individual with excellent communication and team-building skills, and the ability to influence positive outcomes.

• Experience in test case design walkthroughs and Inspection meetings to review Test scripts and results.

• Experience of test automation tools such as Selenium Web driver, Webservice testing using Postman, Cucumber, and experience of JMeter tool used for performance testing.

• Good Documentation and Process Management skills with an ability to effectively understand the business requirements to develop a quality product.

• Experience working in large teams and in client facing roles.

Technical Skills

Process Models Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall model

Programming Java, SQL

Databases SQL Server, Oracle

Integrated Development Tools Visual studio 2013, Eclipse, VSTS, TFS, Jenkins

Test automation Selenium Web driver, TestNG Framework, Spec flow (Cucumber for.Net), Visual studio 2013 Testing framework, Postman

Defect/User Story Tracking Tools JIRA, HP Quality Centre, Mantis, Bugzilla, TFS/VSTS

Performance testing JMeter

Education: Bachelors of Computer Engineering in 2008 from DDIT University

Professional Experience:

Client : Intercontinental hotel group, Atlanta, GA

Project : IHG Portal (Apr-2018 - Present)

Role : QA Automation Engineer

IHG is the largest hotel company in the world measured by rooms. IHG has a web portal for hotel room booking, and working on “Room cost” module, this module is responsible for calculating final cost to consumers based on Seasonal discount, hotel amenities and other promo/voucher discount calculation and final price formula on the web portal.

Responsibilities:

• Writing test procedures, test cases and describing the purpose of the test, setup conditions, test conditions needed to produce the pass/fail criteria, and specific instructions on how to conduct the test.

• Involved in developing test plan covering functional and non-functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing and track defects in VSTS.

• Execute test cases and analyze results, and perform manual functional, regression, smoke, and back-end testing and provide test sign off and prepare test reports.

• Worked in the agile model, daily activity updates in scrum call, involved in sprint planning, Bug creation in VSTS, preparing the bug reporting sheet at the end of the sprint.

• Involved in Functional and Regression testing and resolved the bottlenecks in the application.

• Performing device testing with use of iPad, iPhone, android phone and on PC with different web browsers, to ensure the usability, layout.

• Identify use cases of test automation and automate using Selenium WebDriver.

• Generating the defect report, analyze and come up with suitable root causes and action items.

Tools/Technology: Manual QA Testing, VSTS, Device Testing, Selenium web driver, Jenkins

Client : Houses of Parliament ICT, London, UK (Nov 2015 – Aug 2016)

Project : Lords Amendment System

Role : QA Automation

Being part of PDS (Parliamentary Digital Service) in the Houses of Parliament, worked on the Document Amendment System which is used for tracking documents starting from the day it was created till it is published, also documents having different categories and priorities. Documents are published on a daily basis and by marshalled list in PDF format which also has a different set of rules, style, and formatting. The key challenge was to minimize the regression testing time, perform manual test activity around the document amendment system and create an automation test suite for manual test cases.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the Functional Requirements and User Requirements Specification reviews and walkthroughs with

designers, developers, and stakeholders.

• Created Detailed Test Plan, Test Approach, Test Matrix, Test Strategy documents based on the information gathered through business requirements and design/application walkthroughs.

• Worked in the Agile model, DevOps model, involved in sprint planning, preparing the bug reporting sheet at the end of the sprint.

• Documenting user stories in BDD format and maintaining SDLC status.

• Experience working with Specflow (Cucumber for .Net) for creating BDD (Behavior Driven Testing) test cases. Performed manual testing using Microsoft Test Manager.

Tools/Technology: Manual QA Testing, TFS, BDD, Microsoft Visual Studio, Cucumber

Client : American big data, USA (Offshore)

Project : AMbigdata portal (Nov 2014 - Aug 2015)

Role : Test Analyst

American Big Data delivers the right combination of self-service, online social media discovery tools with options for expert personalized services that respond to every need for effective data discovery and marketing solutions. Big Data software & services turn messy, difficult-to-find Social Media posts into relevant information that helps law firms find.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing regression packs and automating test cases using Selenium. Involved in developing QA Test Plan covering functional and non-functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.

• Worked closely with the software development team and American big data client team in testing software for all phases of the development cycle from early (and potentially undocumented) drafts to final release.

• Test live Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn trends for specific keywords, and compare results with generated reports.

Tools/Technology: Manual QA Testing, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, JMeter, HP QC

Client : Houses of Parliament ICT, London (May 2014 – Sep 2014)

Project : Parliament portal

Role : QA Tester

Worked on revamping of existing parliament website, adding more dynamic features, and changing layout design. Worked closely with the developers, in SCRUM practice. Key challenge is to minimize the regression testing time. Took initiative for implementing automation testing to achieve reduction in regression testing time

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Agile model, involved in sprint planning, prepared the bug reporting sheet at the end of sprint.

• Documenting user stories in BDD format and maintaining SDLC status

• Defect logging using Bugzilla

• Creating test script using Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver.

• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on business requirements.

• Reviewed and updated Test Plan and Test Scenarios.

• Manually test each module of the application and verify against expected results.

• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing of the application manually after each build.

• Performed Functional, GUI, Security, Positive and Negative Testing.

• Performed rigorous manual testing before a release.

Tools/Technology: Manual QA Testing, TFS, BDD, Microsoft Visual Studio, Cucumber

Client : York University, Canada

Project : York University portal (Mar 2013 - Aug 2013)

Role : Test Analyst

The focus of the application was to improve collaboration between associates and provide a better platform for storing and sharing documents. The portal will consolidate data from a wide range of existing systems and present it in a personalized and customizable dashboard for faculty and staff. This application was developed to provide online facility like accessing student accounts, calendar, Event news, alerts, and update staff profile etc.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing QA Test Plan covering functional and non-functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.

• Reviewed software documentation and user stories for testability and to ensure consistency with software features and performance.

• Worked closely with the software development team and business team in testing software for all phases of the development cycle from early (and potentially undocumented) drafts to final release.

• Designed, developed, and maintained test cases and automated test scripts to aid in functional, regression and performance testing.

• Responsible for test preparation, execution, estimates in handling multiple scrums and successfully delivered the deliverables with best results.

• Defect tracking using Jira.

Client : Risk Management Portal (AON, USA)

Project : Online Risk management Portal (Aug 2012 - Mar 2013)

Role : Test Analyst

AON is the world's leading global repository of insurance placements information. Helping clients identify the best placement option regardless of size, industry, coverage line or geography.

Responsibilities:

• Manually tested the application and developed Automation test scripts to perform functional and regression testing.

• Worked in the Agile model, involved in sprint planning, prepared the bug reporting sheet at the end of sprint.

• Created Detailed Test Plan, Test Approach, Test Matrix, Test Strategy documents based on the information gathered through business requirements and design/application walkthroughs.

• Performed backend testing for data validation using SQL Queries.

• Perform manual (functional, regression, smoke, and back-end) testing in Agile development environment using Scrum framework.

• Verify the functionality of the application using Selenium WebDriver.

• Analyze the reports and log the defects in JIRA.

• Perform Regression Testing after every bug fix and for every release.

Client : VWR Connect (USA) (Oct 2011 - Jan 2012)

Project : Health Rcord Manager

Role : Test Analyst

Build an Intranet portal for VWR Collaboration to provide a better platform for storing and sharing documents, better delivery mechanism for corporate information using announcements, better tracking of participation of the associates to determine the usage by the associates.

Responsibilities:

• Detailed analysis of Functional Requirement and prepared test cases.

• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.

• Tested the Application ensuring Cross-Browser compatibility.

• Work with development team to create test plans for enhancements and fixes on applications

• Mitigate risks to Business through timely and precise execution of manual/automated test scripts under moderate supervision

• Produce test results/screenshots & upload to HP Quality Centre

• Develop and execute formal test plans within budget and schedule constraints

• Used JMeter tool for executing performance testing, load testing of portal.

• Communicating with the business users through the iteration and conducting UAT.

Client : Aptech Pvt Ltd., India (Jun 2009 - June 2011)

Role : Lead Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Teaching Software testing, Test methodologies and programming languages like, VB, C# .Net, C and C++ languages to institute students

• Creating rigorous lessons that are aligned with the subject curriculum.

• Providing ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress.

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