Software Professional with 7 years of QA experience into Automated/Manual testing on Client/Server and Web-based applications in Investment Banking, Telecom, and Insurance systems
I excel in Implementation of Quality Assurance and Quality Control measures to ensure functional and nonfunctional compliance in reputed global organizations. Apart from being an ISTQB Certified QA Engineer, I am also an HP Accredited Integration Specialist. I have created and implemented QA automation frameworks that range in capability, complexity, and size.
On a personal level, I am task oriented, a quick learner, able to set realistic milestones and work towards their successful completion. In addition to this, I am constantly seeking to improve my skills.
Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.
Led and implemented Behaviour driven development using Cucumber framework in combination of Java and Gherkin language.
Identified Test Scenarios to be automated for Regression and Application level testing from Functional and Business Requirements.
Used Bit bucket as central repository for source code management, source tree and Git Client for pulling and pushing code to bit bucket, and Gradle for build management.
Generated Weekly Test Automation Project Status report using JIRA and reported it to team lead and management.
Possess hybrid experience of Automation and Manual Testing on trade management systems in investment banking, acted as a subject matter expert(SME) for the automation development team.
Led automation team of 5 people and implemented the successful delivery of automation framework using automation tools like HP Quick Test Pro for Web-based GUI applications and SOAP UI for web services automation.
Created and executed automated software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes.
Designed, developed and implemented Hybrid and data driven automation testing framework utilizing VB Script and Groovy languages.
Presented weekly updates to the onshore team and took complete ownership of the automation thread involving mentoring new team members, presentation to the clients, identification of critical business scenarios for automation, designing automation frameworks, creation of automated test suites for the identified regression, functional and UAT test cases, maintaining the existing scripts and frameworks, defect reporting.
Maintained Trace-ability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage.
Gathered and enhanced business/Product requirements and technical specifications to write and execute test plans, test cases in different test environments for FACETS (a Trizetto product for healthcare systems).
Understanding the software development and testing lifecycle as well as the business approach for the product, collaborating with project stakeholders to collect and devise the test objectives, test strategies and test plans
Executed SQL queries and stored procedures for retrieving information from database as back-end testing.
Experience in Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Security Testing, Compatibility and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Documented software defects using HP Quality Center and reported defects involving program functionality, online screen and content to software developers.
Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.
Demonstrating Excellent performance in handling SOAP UI Automation framework individually for Web services automation which reduced the execution time for the manual team from 2-3 days to as low as 2-3 hours.
Delivered Flex automation POC single-handedly, ramped up quickly in the team, gained good understanding of automation process and telecommunication domain of the project in a very short span of time, proactive in taking additional responsibilities