Prankur Dave
Summary
- To obtain a position of QA analyst and use my strong and extensive experience in both manual and automation testing to help company achieve the best quality of software.
- ISTQB certified QA analyst with over 5 years of strong and progressive experience in testing client-server, web-based and mobile applications through both Manual and Automation testing.
- Strong knowledge of Financial, Transportation and Communication domain.
- Well versed with all the stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), UAT testing and Agile framework.
- Excellent experience in creating Test scenarios and Test cases by studying and understanding provided requirement documents.
- Strong command in performing Smoke/Sanity, Regression and System Integration testing and also testing applications' Functional and non-functional characteristics.
- Experience in tracking defects and test executions status by generating proper reports and test documents.
- Hands on experience working with Azure DevOps to create and modify test cases and manage bugs/defects.
- Extensive working experience in logging and analyzing defects' severity, priority and managing test execution in HP ALM and JIRA.
- Worked on Azure Repos and/or Source tree Git to create/clone repositories, create feature branches, and set up branch policies to control merge to main branch for automation.
- Worked with Sourcetree Git to pull latest changes from remote master branch, commit new changes from local branch to remote branch.
- Used Azure Repos to create new pull requests to merge code changes to remote branch.
- Configured Jenkins to schedule automation runs.
- Good experience in working with Swagger UI and Postman to test various endpoints of the applications using POST/GET API calls.
- Automated API calls using Katalon studio and passing JSON file.
- Helped designing CI/CD pipelines using Azure pipelines for scheduling a script automation, and publishing a report to Power BI cloud such that data is automatically refreshed and displayed to Power BI.
- Strong experience working with Power BI Desktop to create and display report with data extracted from excel/csv file and Azure Databricks database and publish the report to Power BI Cloud for easy accessibility.
- Strong command in developing and executing automation test scripts for web-based applications using Katalon studio and Selenium web- driver in JAVA on Eclipse.
- Strong experience in using the Page Object/factory model and TestNG library to increase usability of the automation scripts.
- Solid experience in writing and performing SQL queries on Oracle database and automated queries in selenium and Katalon studio using JDBC connection.
- Excellent team player with good analytical, organizational and communication skills and ability to work independently.
- Worked on multiple projects within sharp time schedules and worked diligently towards team goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
Aviso Wealth Inc.
06.2022 - Current
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
- Performed quality inspections and drafted reports to detail non-conforming material issues.
- Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
- Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
- Performed Regression, Functional, System Integration and end to end testing on new and existing features of the various Client Advisor portal applications.
- Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
- Completed pre-implementation testing for new system modifications to assess potential impacts.
- Completed in-depth usability and functional testing on Android and iOS mobile devices.
- Performed API testing for various application endpoints using Swagger UI and Postman.
- Developed and maintained automation scripts in Katalon for the new and existing features for the applications.
- Monitored daily automation runs on critical applications and investigated root cause for the failures and reported bugs if necessary after following up with different teams.
- Partnered with senior management to analyze issues and find appropriate solutions.
PTC SI Tester
CN Railways
05.2017 - 05.2022
- Performed functional testing on multiple applications like TMDS, PDS, BOS, STE, FSim, RPS within Agile model of software development in sprints of 2 weeks
- Analyzed the product functionalities through the knowledge transfer, BRDs/SDDs and User stories in Jira
- Developed functional test cases, enhanced existing test cases based on the requirement documents and user stories
- Created Regression test cases for important functionalities, test cases are hosted inside HP ALM and tracked through tasks in Jira
- Creating Test plans and Test estimation, identified and performed Smoke/sanity and regression test suite by studying the release notes for maintenance files, Applications were .Net based
- Executed Sanity, exploratory tests as well as retested critical defects for every new release on different test environments
- Verifying backend logs for all the functionalities on the servers which are hosted on Linux for verification and analysis
- Identifying important functionalities/scenarios, providing knowledge transfer for those functionalities and helped creating test cases and/or business components which can be re-used for automation using QTP
- Executed various SQL queries on SQL servers to extract data related to CAD system which is stored in both static and dynamic database
- Verifying automation runs to validate results and sign-off the automation scripts executed using QTP
- Worked and enhanced on a Data driven in-house developed automation framework called CNTinel to automate important functionalities
- Used and modified YAML file given by developer to generate REST API commands for the traffic simulators to generate traffic for application under test for performance testing
- Used Jira to create and track bugs/defects, and track progress on defects and requirements for PDS USA project
- Participated in Internal Triage meeting to verify the validity of a defect and link to test case as well as requirement for traceability and also in RCA meeting to identify Root cause
- Attended weekly external triage meeting with developer to help reproduce the defects and explain the issue
- Used Azure to write test cases/plans and create and manage defects/bugs for PDS Canada project
- Publishing the data to Power BI Cloud using Power BI Desktop to analyze the data and find the root cause
- Participated in daily scrum meetings, sprint grooming sessions and sprint planning meeting for upcoming releases.
QA Analyst
TollFreecloud
11.2016 - 05.2017
- Analyzed and understood the product functionalities through the BRD and requirement documents as well as user stories in Jira
- Participated in sprint planning meeting to create tasks and sub tasks needed to test user stories available in the Sprint backlog
- Performed functional, compatibility (cross -browser) and system integration testing on the application for both User and Advertiser's module
- Identified critical and important functionalities that needs to be tested with all releases and automated them using a selenium webdriver
- Developed automation test scripts using Java to find different objects in the webpage using Xpath and test look and feel of the objects and their functionalities
- Enhanced automation framework, with Page object model and used TestNG library, to perform regression testing on different functionalities like subscription, gathering data based on user's hobbies and needs
- Maintained the test cases by providing priorities and groups and controlled the execution of the test suite by creating an XML file
- Automated SQL queries with JDBC connection using selenium to ensure the data validation and integrity in the database
- Debugged the failures and identified the cause to ensure valid defects in application
- Logged the defects in JIRA with proper severity, priority and description
- Presented the demonstration of application to Product owner and client in Sprint review
- Actively participated in weekly scrum meetings to track the progress of user stories.
Education
Post Graduate in Wireless Telecommunications -
Humber College
Toronto, CanadaBachelors of Engineering, Electronics and Communication -
Gujarat Technological University
Skills
- Net, Java, C, C
- Oracle, SQL
- Selenium, QTP, Katalon
- Azure Devops, SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, Wireshark
- Swagger UI and Postman
- SourceTree Git
- Jenkins
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Certification
ISTQB Foundation level certification
Timeline
Senior QA Engineer
Aviso Wealth Inc.
06.2022 - Current
PTC SI Tester
CN Railways
05.2017 - 05.2022
QA Analyst
TollFreecloud
11.2016 - 05.2017
Post Graduate in Wireless Telecommunications -
Humber College
Bachelors of Engineering, Electronics and Communication -
Gujarat Technological University
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