Quality expert with success reviewing features and assessing functionality to identify common and complex software problems. Special experience in testing Business Intelligence software. Collaborates with cross-functional team members to enhance software package quality.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Test Engineer
Cave Consulting Group, INC
08.2017 - 10.2023
Performed extensive testing on the business intelligence application developed using QlikView.
Converted 80% of the manual test cases to an automated process, hence reducing testing time and effort
Identified and tracked software defects and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
Conducted regression testing, analyzed results, and submitted observations to development team.
Assessed software bugs in JIRA and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
Created Selenium test scripts to manage automated feature testing.
Created Windows PowerShell script, shell scripts & batch scripts for process automation purpose.
Created, tested and shipped out the automation PowerShell scripts to few of the clients to reduce there manual efforts in loading projects to SQL Database.
Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge.
Communicated risks associated with test execution and took mitigating action when necessary.
Kept automation scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.
QA Engineer
Esurance Insurance
06.2016 - 02.2017
Actively participated in team meetings, discussions with cross functional team like Business Analyst, Development Team and Project Managers.
Reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing Test plan and Test case documents.
Involved in Automation Environment setup using Eclipse, Java, Selenium WebDriver Jar files and TestNG .
Executed Selective Acceptance Test to ensure build stability before moving the builds to functional environment by purchasing test policies on different states.
Participated in execution of Selenium Test Cases and Defect reporting through defect management tool( Bugzilla )
Identified web elements using locators like ID, Name, CSS Selectors, XPATH in automating test. Used Firebug/Fire Path add-ons whenever required to identify XPath.
Developed automated Data Driven Scripts to perform negative and positive testing of the application by providing different set of data.
· Actively participated in daily stand-up meetings and provided QA test reports to Release Team.
· Coordinated with offshore QA team in day to day testing activities.
Identified invalid defects (Duplicate, Invalid Test Case, NAB, Not Reproducible) and closed those defects in Bugzilla which are mapped to releases as part of QA activity.
Provide onsite support for Release Management Team .
Prepared reports for Retrospective meetings and actively participated in Retro meetings after every major release and analyzed defect distributions.
Prepared and published excel driven release dashboard for Release team which helps with cross functional teams to clearly understand and track project development status.
Created SQL queries in Bugzilla for identifying post production defects.
Suggested and implemented process improvement initiatives.
QA Engineer
Quintessence Technologies LTD
02.2011 - 02.2016
Actively participated in client meetings and discussions with cross functional teams in understanding requirements.
Coordinated and assisted project teams with project level test strategies and test approaches.
Involved in preparation of Test Plans , created Test Cases based on requirement document.
Developed and executed manual test cases , compared expected and actual results, documented and reported test status as needed.
Performed Unit Testing , Black-box , Functional Testing , Acceptance and System Testing and documented detailed defects.
Used Quality Center to track defect and monitor the entire testing life cycle.
Effectively used Selenium IDE Record and Play Back feature to automate testing process and hence Regression tested .
Used Locators like Id, Name, CSS Selector and XPATH to find and match Web Elements as part of automation script development.
Performed User Interface testing in different browsers like IE , Chrome , Mozilla and Safari.
Performed testing of various website and applications in MAC, Android/IOS devices and logged in defects using Quality Center .
Tested web applications developed in different programming language like .NET and PHP -MVC & HTML .
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