S A CHANDRA SEKHAR

5+ years of working experience in Software Quality Assurance for Web-based applications in Manual and Automation testing. Experienced in implementation of different QA methodologies, plans and strategies in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Proficient in implementing Waterfall, Agile (Sprint/ Scrum) Methodology by analyzing requirement specifications and responsible for developing test scenarios, plans, test cases, strategies, scope, test procedures, test reports, and test matrices. Good experience of Selenium Web driver for web app testing in multiple browsers. Experience in developing a framework for Functional Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver, Java and Test NG. Strong Experience in REST API testing using cucumber framework and POSTMAN. Strong Expertise in Mobile Application Testing (Android, IOS platform). Strong Knowledge of all phases of SDLC and Strong knowledge of Software testing (Functional, Integration, Performance) in Software Company for financial applications. Good Experience in build and project management tool- MAVEN to create projects, JAR files, POM.xml with artifacts, and dependencies. Well conversant with the implementation from scratch and practical hands-on experience in different types of frameworks like Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid and Page Object Model (POM). Experience in using Accessing Forms, tables, links, Keyboard & Mouse Events, Uploading File using Selenium WebDriver. Experience in using testing frameworks like TestNG and creating tests using different annotations like @Before/After Suite, @Before/After Method, Before/After Class. Excellent experience with source version control tools such as GIT, Git-Hub. Extensive knowledge of system integration testing methodologies, defect tracking systems, and Quality Assurance process. Experience in Data Driven, Cross Server/Browser testing, parallel test execution using Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, and XML File and performed API testing using Rest-Assured, Postman, and SoapUI. Strong experience in creating Behavior Driven Development (BDD) automation framework using Cucumber and automating BDD scenarios in Eclipse using Java. Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based applications and Documentations based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Experience of Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Experience with major Web browser debug consoles such as Firefox, IE, and Chrome. Hands-on experience with performance tools like JMeter. Adequate knowledge in Appium for mobile application testing for Android OS. Experience in using XPath, CSS, Html ID, and Link Text to locate web elements. Good relational Database background (SQL Server) in various Domains, using queries, updating db, verifying the integrity of the data. Expertise in performing GUI, Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing, Adhoc testing, Smoke/Sanity testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using manual & automated testing tools. Experience in integrating Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) on Continuous Integration (CI) tools Jenkins for a nightly batch run of the script. Experienced in GUI, API testing, Regression, System, Integration, Sanity, Smoke and end to end testing support. Strong experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins for automation testing. Focus not just on detecting defects-but also to prevent defects in future using Jira, and BugZilla along with providing feedback on ways to improve software functions. Good experience of testing in Linux/Unix operating systems. Has good experience in Selenium WebDriver Automation framework.