Active Secret Clearance

Objective:

Software QA Test Engineer /QA Analyst

Career Highlights:

Experienced in the areas of Software Testing, Requirement Analysis and in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Extensive experience in Manual and Automation testing using Mercury Quality Center, Jira, (QC), Selenium Web Driver and Unified Functional Testing (UFT)

Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts in Jira.

Extensive experience in Black Box, Smoke, Functionality, Back-End, Regression and System testing.

Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver.

Performed back-end testing by executing complex SQL queries in MS SQL Server.

Extensively involved in the Verification and Validation process to evaluate documents, plans, requirements, and specifications.

Experience in working with test automation frameworks, such as keyword and data-driven with Selenium Web Driver.

Exceptional ability to collaborate with diverse team members in projects.

Energetic self-starter with excellent analytical and organizational skills. achieves goals, objectives and milestones in an accurate and consistent manner.

Capability to adapt and learn new tools, techniques, approaches, and corporate cultures.

Possess strong communication skills in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.

Technical Background:

STLC Tools: ALM Quality Center (QC), Selenium, Jira

Programming Languages: Java, HTML, XML

Application Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, My SQL

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2007

Application/Web Servers: Apache, IE, Firefox, Opera

GSA

QA Software Engineer Washington DC

Jan 2022- Present

Responsibilities:

Performed smoke, functional, regression, database, and UAT testing, during various phases of the development and test cycles.

Conducted End-to-End verification for the entire application.

Used Jira Quality Center for requirements management planning, scheduling, and running tests, defect tracking and managed the defects and executed the test cases.

Analyzed and validated requirements to develop and execute test scripts.

Wrote test scenarios, test cases, test plans and test scripts, corresponding to the test requirements.

Responsible for developing test plans based on functional specifications and technical specification documents of the application.

Inserted, updated information using front end and verified data within the database using SQL.

Attended and actively participated in weekly QA, Agile Scrum planning meetings and user stories sessions.

Analyzed Business Requirement Documents.

Prepared test plans and test cases/scripts according to the requirements.

Involved in weekly meetings and walkthroughs for project status and updates.

Attended various defect review meetings to discuss the defects and discrepancies identified during testing.

Detected bottleneck defects and prepared a report for the team members and discussed the issues with the team.

Regularly followed up with Dev. team to solve the issue.

USCIS

QA Test Engineer Vienna, VA

Jun 2020, Jan 2022

Responsibilities:

Performed functional, regression, smoke testing on all modules of application.

Collaborated with QA, business, and development teams to ensure that all applications are working as expected.

Automated test cases using Selenium TestNG framework.

Created test scenarios, test cases and executed test cases for different web-based modules.

Monitored and tested defects and documented all the test results accurately and efficiently.

Tested different modules and their functionally before and after bug fixes by performing regression testing.

Performed regression testing after retesting the defects to make sure the fixes did not have any negative impact on other parts of the application.

Participated in daily project related meetings and provided information required for the meetings for the QA and testing status.

Participated with team members during the application deployment.

Proficiently used Jira to log all the defects and created a daily status report for the developers and functional lead.

Stored and maintained test documents such as test cases, test results and defect logs in Jira.

Participated in daily stand-up meetings to discuss the progress of the project.

Performed regression testing at various phases of SDLC to check the impact on any existing functionalities.

Worked closely as a team member with all the colleagues on all aspects of the application.

FEDITC DOD Falls Church, VA

QA Automation Tester Jan, 2019 – Apr, 2020

Responsibilities:

Analyzed requirements, provide testing scope, and proposed the testing methodologies.

Developed test plan, test cases and executed test cases from stories for the Application under Test (AUT).

Designed automated tests based on manual test cases and wrote test cases.

Developed and implemented automation test scripts.

Designed, created, and customized scripts using various scripting languages and testing tools, such as JavaScript, Selenium with Java, JUnit, TestNG, Java language.

Wrote and executed automation test script for Selenium.

Performed manual and light selenium IDE script-driven sanity and regression, cross-browser testing to ensure consistency.

Automated test cases using Selenium TestNG framework.

Production Support: Smoke testing on all production updates in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including automation with Selenium.

Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium to conduct systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression tests.

Designed and executed functional testing and performance testing on Gannett client facing applications.

Performed GUI testing, Smoke testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Back end, User Acceptance and Regression testing.

Created Test scripts for the Test Execution and Documented the Reports using Jira.

Logged the defects in ALM and created Test metrics to analyze the defects.

Wrote basic SQL queries to perform the Backend testing of the database.

Involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Participated in bug review meetings on behalf of the QA team and interacted with the UAT team to solve defects.

Accenture Federal Reston, VA

Project: CMS Dec,2015 -- Dec, 2018

Software Quality Tester

Responsibilities:

Performed functional, regression, smoke/integration, and system testing.

Collaborated with QA, business, and development teams to ensure that applications are functioning as specified.

Created test scenarios, test cases and executed test cases for different web-based modules.

Monitored and tested defects and documented all the test results accurately and efficiently.

Tested different modules and their functionally before and after bug fixes by performing regression testing.

Performed regression testing after retesting the defects to make sure the fixes did not have any negative impact on other parts of the application.

Participated in project related meetings and provided information required for the meetings for the QA and testing status.

Proficiently used HP ALM to log all the defects and created a daily status report for the developers and functional lead.

Stored and maintained test documents such as test cases, test results and defect logs in HP ALM.

Used UFT for automating the test cases.

Participated in daily stand-up meetings to discuss the progress of the project.

Performed regression testing at various phases of SDLC to check the impact on any existing functionalities.

Worked closely as a team member with all the offshore team members.

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