Sameera Mantravadi

SUMMARY

• Over seven years of experience in both Manual and Automated testing in Client-Server, Web

based Data warehouse and strong experience in analyzing and testing on Finance, Banking,

Insurance, and Welfare and Content Management applications.

• Proficiency in Software Testing on various platforms including Windows XP/2000/NT

4.0/98/95,UNIX and good knowledge of different phases of Software Development Life Cycle

• Experience in Functional, Stress, Regression, Smoke, GUI, Database and System Testing.

• Proficient in testing methods like Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Expertise in implementation of Automation Tests and Manual Tests.

• Generation of Manual Test Cases and automated them using WinRunner/QTP/Rational Robot

for Functionality and Regression Testing

• Proficient in developing test documentation of Test Methodologies like Agile and Scrum

• Experience in Preparation and Execution of appropriate business test scenarios based on

Functional & Technical Requirements.

• Experience in creating and executing test scripts in keyboard view and Expert view in QTP.

• Good understanding knowledge of system design and translate requirements into Test Plans.

• Experience in Defect Tracking and Reporting using Test Director, Quality Center

• Experience in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Report and Weekly Status

Reports.

• Experience in testing different environments including Java, J2EE,.Net, and SQL

• Good understanding of test automation process, right from identifying test cases for automation to

analyzing the results and reporting bugs

• Considerable programming skills in C, Java, VB Script, SQL, HTML.

• Involved in Requirement Management, Peer reviews, Inter group coordination and Training

Programs

• Extremely Dedicated self-motivated Proactive and willing to assume responsibility.

• Personal skills include Excellent Communication, strong sense of Organization and Effective

Time Management and have the Ability to work in a team as well as independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems : Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 and UNIX (Linux & Solaris)

Testing Tools : Quick Test Professional, Rational Robot

Version Control Tool : VSS, SOS, PWR

Defect Tracking Tools : Quality Center, Remedy, Defect Manager, Test Tracker

Languages : C, Java 1.3

RDBMS : Oracle 10g, MS Access and MS SQL Server 2000

Web Technologies : HTML, VB Script, JavaScript, ASP2.0, Front Page,

Dream Weaver, Flash

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aug 2012 - Till Date

Southern California Edison, Irwin dale, CA

Sr. System Analyst

• Carried out system testing on SCE.com

• Performed backend testing for retrieving the data using SQL queries with TOAD

• Creation of general reusable functions used for reporting purpose.

• Involved in development of automation generic functions like Initialization functionality,

Reporting Functionality, Web related functions.

• Integration of manual test cases with automated test cases in Quality Center.

• Developed test plan, test cases in Quality Center and executed test.

• Created test plan and test summary documents according to SDLC standards.

• Tracked and managed defects.

• Analyzed data and provided reports for SCE.com

• Prepared UAT test cases and testing estimates.

• Executed test plans.

• Created and maintained results log.

• Assured software delivered meets all requirements and expectations of final UAT test plan.

• Documented testing metrics and project feedback.

Environment: windows 7, Quality Center 9.0., oracle 9i

May 2010- Aug 2012

Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

• Involved in testing the entire Analytics section of CHATS Application

• Coordinated offshore team of 10 testers.

• Automated flows like Billing/payment inquiry, account info, claims, Facility/medical services

using QTP for test data creation.

• Automated the flows using parameterization and descriptive programming and later the data is

verified in the database by running SQL's from QTP.

• Used Web table, web element concepts of QTP to handle the functionality, Descriptive coding is

done to perform clicks on the list box

• Generated scripts that can generate test data required to test different flows.

• Writing manual test cases for the new functionality changes, testing and reporting on

defects.

• Responsible for running smoke test after new build deployment and reporting results to client

before proceeding with regression testing.

• Responsible for the desktop testing of the Chats Application which is a PEGA application.

• Integration of manual test cases with automated test cases in Quality Center.

• Co-ordinate offshore team in writing test cases and conducted weekly status calls

• Prepared test plans for each release, written test cases and executed them as part of

functional testing. Prepared test reports and deliverables and submitted for version releases.

• Generated different reports of CHATS Application in the Info view which is a crystal application.

• Carried out crystal report testing and Merced Reports testing, these reports were tested from both

front end and back end

• Created test data for testing specific CHATS functionalities

• Attended Genesis Training on IVR and CCPM.

Environment: Pega 6.x, Quality Center 9.0., oracle 9i, SOUP UI 4.5.0

December 2009 – May 2010

Wells Fargo & Co, SFO

QA Analyst

Project: - Business Payroll Services (BPS)-Wells Fargo OptRight Payroll Solutions

• Involved in developing utility scripts in QTP for requirement to test case mapping and

customized execution reports.

• Writing manual test cases for the new functionality changes, testing and reporting on

defects.

• Responsible for running smoke test after new build deployment and reporting results to client

before proceeding with regression testing.

• Responsible for the execution of the regression and new features scripts for every build and

release and analyzing the results and summarizing the execution report.

• Coordinating with developers in setting up data for testing scenarios related to date bumps and

batch sweeps.

• Written SQL for the test data requirements from different modules .

• Execution of Regression suite and BVTs in Development & Production environment

• Identify the new BCR’s (Business change requests) that will affect the automated test cases,

coordinate with manual and automate QA team and update and maintain the test cases according

to the new changes.

• Prepared test plans using TFS for each release, written test cases and executed them as part

of functional testing. Prepared test reports and deliverables and submitted for version releases.

• Played key role in defining test automation procedure and standards, creating win runner scripts

for all the modules, which reduced the regression cycle drastically and improved the testing

efforts for daily builds.

• Involved in setting up different configurations for compatibility testing and manual testing for

each environment.

Environment: QTP9.0, SQL, TFS 2010, Visual Studio 2010,

January 2009 – November 2009

Virgin mobile, Warren NJ

QA Tester

• Involved in maintaining the versions of deliverables like test plans, test cases, test scripts and

status reports in VSS (Visual SourceSafe)

• Responsible for a team of 8 members to review work such as Executed Test Cases, Defects

reported and Updated Test Cases as per Requirement & Design.

• Capable of identifying potential in team members and assign work accordingly. Inform/suggest

improvement areas to other team members, which helps to improve the overall work

performance.

• Customization of Header for Manual Test cases in Quality Center and Integration of manual

test cases with automated test cases in Quality Center.

• Prepared the Coding standards, Folder structure, and driver script, high level testing info and

functions header information documents.

• Identify the new BCR’s (Business change requests) that will affect the Automated test cases,

coordinate with manual and automate QA team and update and maintain the test cases according

the new changes.

• Involved in regression testing of DB2 9.1 to DB2 9.5 upgrade

• Performed and reviewed Regression testing to identify errors in each modified build in the

process of testing, Investigated Bugs and interacted with Developers to resolve technical issues.

• Identified, analyzed and documented all defects with severity by comparing actual test results

with expected results.

• Conducted manual/functional testing on report generation applications for IVR/CTI

applications

• Responsible for creating the weekly Cumulative and Current Defect reports for Managerial

meetings

Environment: QTP 10.0, QC 10.0, TFS 2008,SOUP UI 4.5, DB2 9.1

December 2007 – December 2008

US Healthcare

QA Tester

• Involved in review and analysis of requirements.

• Preparing the detailed test cases based on Test Plan, Functional Specs & Use case Documents.

• Created functional testcase design for manual Testing using BPT

• Participated in inspections and reviews, project meetings, etc.

• Conducting system testing, sanity testing and regression testing and verifying the results with

expected results, which should complain with the predefined requirements.

• Involved in defect reporting and tracking.

• Done integration testing on a message-based integration application for clinical systems

• Participated in Tech-talks and brain storming sessions within the team to share the knowledge and

also learning new technical areas.

• Preparing the test summary reports.

• Designed tests using keyboard driven methodology for selected tests

• Developed test scripts using automated test tools (Regression, Batch and Data Driven tests).

• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.

• Worked with the SQL statements to extract data from Sybase tables and verify the output data

of the reports

• Worked on performing tests on VOIP & different IP Protocols

• Testing the performance of a first in-first out queue with fixed size packets and Markova arrivals

to the queue for one and two input sources.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.2, BPT, Test Director 8.0, Struts Framework 1.1, JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.3,

XML, HL7 v2.x/3.x,WebSphere5.0,Sybase (Database Server), SQL, TFS 2008, Windows 2003 Server,

Toad

April 2007 – December 2007

UBS Bank, CT

QA Tester

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business team to understand the

functionality of the application.

• Involved in transforming the Messages from swift-1 (AMTRACS) to SWIFT-II (SSP) format.

• Used Perl Scripts for the transformation of the messages.

• Prepare the Load Distribution plan and Replay the SWIFT messages in their respective Portals.

• Involved in preparing E2E test cases and Regression Testing.

• Transforming the FED, CHIPS, PEGA and SWIFT messages to make compatible with SSP

Payment Engine, following the SWIFT II rules and standards.

• Developed detailed UAT test cases from technical system requirements documents to meet

deadlines as per the requirements.

• Used Quick Test Professional to prepare test scripts to load the messages with certain time

interval between each one.

• Prepared the Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional for Regression Testing .

• Uploading the Test Cases from Excel Sheet into Test Director.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.2, Windows NT, SQL Server 2005, Test Director 8.0

April 2006 – March 2007

All State Insurance, IL

QA Tester

• Involved in the Quality Assurance Analysis and Testing of Insurance Information System.

• Interacted with users and vendors for full life cycle of the project.

• Prepared and executed Test cases based on User Requirements Document (URD) and prepared

Test Procedures.

• Developed a test database in Microsoft Excel to conduct Data driven test.

• Developed Test cases for Auto and Property Modules (Home Owners, Renters and Condos).

• Involved in the Regression Testing of Property Module with different Data (Data driven Test).

• Verify Actual results against Expected results and investigate discrepancies.

• Report any defects using Test Director.

• Fix and component Test defects.

• Involved in the Quality Assurance Analysis and Testing of Insurance Information System.

• Actively involved in various phases of the testing cycle such as System, Functional, Regression,

Integration, and End-To-End Testing.

• Test Director was used for tracking the defects.

• Carried out extensive testing with QTP, testing tool with different test cases, which reflects the

various real time business situations. Test results analyzed and suitable corrective actions were

suggested.

• Involved in Extensive testing of various situations along with the implementation team, resolved

the issues and problems. Used Test Director for bug tracking.

• Performed Manual Testing of Insurance Information System.

Environment: IBM Pentium PC, Windows, SQL Server, DB2, Quick Test Pro 8.2, Test Director 8.0

August 2005 – April 2006

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

QA Engineer

• Analyzing the Requirement Specifications and development of Test Cases.

• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to relate High Level requirements to Test cases.

• Involved in Black Box testing, using different testing strategies

• Involved in Test Case Preparation and Test Case Execution Manually.

• Determining the Entry and Exit Criteria for different phases in testing cycle of the system.

• Understanding execution of manual and automated test cases

• Making recommendations about bug priority and severity

• And also writing Test Case Outlines (TCO’s), manual testing of applications to determine their

compatibility with the Operating System.

• Tested Flash application and carried out GUI testing, regression testing and data-driven testing.

• Successfully implemented Mercury Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Case writing, Test

Execution and Requirement Mapping with Test Cases.

• Preparation of defect report and logging the defects product studio.

• Interacting with Analysts and Developers for the Bug Fixes and Problem resolution.

• Scheduling the automated jobs and verify the failures

• Debugging the failed jobs and log the bugs

Environment: ASP.Net, HTTP, HTML, and XML Windows Vista / 7, Visual Studio 2008, Flash, SQL

Server, Product Studio, Windows Testing Technology (WTT) Quality Center 9.0

Kotak Life Insurance, INDIA

May 04 – Jun 05

QA Tester

• Created Test Requirements, Test Cases in Test Director by using the documents already

provided and by conducting walkthroughs with Stakeholders.

• Good understanding of SDLC and Created test steps for each cycle of SDLC

• Executed the test cases manually and reported the defects if any in Test Director.

• Carried out different types of testing all through STLC .

• Responsible for maintaining weekly Test Metrics document.

• After the application was a bit stable, created Test Scripts in WinRunner for automated test cases.

• Carried out white box testing on Javascript.

• Uploaded and executed these scripts in Test Director.

• Created test scripts to carry out regression testing for claims functionality using win runner.

• Reported the defects in Test Director and collected Test Matrices weekly from Test Director

Defect’s database as to keep track of the defects.

Environment: Test Director 6.0, BPT,Win Runner 6.5, Oracle 8i, Java, J2EE, Windows NT

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in Computer and Electronics Engineering.

• Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.

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