Renu Samudrala,

214-***-****

acce11@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

• QA Analyst with 6 years of QA experience and support in all phases of SDLC (Waterfall model, Agile), including

requirements, risk analysis, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.

gathering

• Working for Federal Government with Level 5 security and background clearance.

• Extensive knowledge as a Quality Analyst in the areas of healthcare, in-depth knowledge of Cerner Millennium

and STARLIMS applications.

• Expertise in testing telecom applications on UNIX and Windows environments

• Facilitated team presentations and mentored new employees in a process of understanding QA methodologies

related to health care IT domain at Children’s Medical Center Proficient in Integration, Smoke/Sanity, Functional,

Regression, Performance, GUI-Front End, and UAT testing.

• Well Adverse in using Tools like Win Runner, QTP, Load Runner for applications developed in VB, MS Access,

SQL Server and Oracle 10 g on Windows /Unix and web based applications.

• Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control

• Experience using Test Director, Quality Center, StarLims1, JIRA to formulate Test plans, Test Cases and

Reporting bugs.

• Strong experience in Analyzing Business Spec, Designing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Procedures.

• Experience in testing Client/Server, Web Based and Stand-Alone applications.

• Experience with SharePoint.

• Experience in Web based Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing,

Performance and Stress Testing, Functional testing and Black Box Testing.

• Experience with Microsoft Development and Office Tools.

• Back End Testing - Experience in writing complex SQL queries in order to debug data scenarios, also having

good knowledge of writing and executing UNIX commands.

• Ability to work effectively between technical and user groups and at the same time, work effectively under

pressure in fast paced environment.

• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and helping other QA Team Members.

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all

levels.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Test Director, QTP 6.5.

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA, StarLims1, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS, Jack Track,

Bugzilla.

Operating System: Windows, DOS, UNIX

Programming Languages: SQL

Front End Tools: Visual Basic.

Data Bases: Oracle 10g, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS Access

Web Technologies: HTML

Network Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP.

Networking Concepts: IP Addressing, VOIP, Firewalls

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-Project, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Food and Drug Administrations - Virginia 2012 – Present.

Role: QA Analyst / QA Tester

FDA is a Federal Government agency which uses STARLIMS software-based healthcare information management

system (LIMS) as part of the agency’s initiative to enhance FDA testing laboratories. This is used to manage complex

processes and the analysis of the vast amounts of information generated by FDA.

Responsibilities:

• Playing Quality Analyst role from the requirement gathering phase, interacting with other team members to ensure

meaningful development of the scripts and simulated real time business scenarios.

• On call support to troubleshoot and resolved the issues escalated by Service Management team

• Expertise in end to end development of Agile Scrum projects.

• Attended multiple requirement gathering sessions with source system teams and business users

• Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and software bugs

• Build complex SQL queries to perform Back End Testing.

• Written UNIX commands to analyze the backend data and file systems.

• Participated in understanding business issues, process flows and critical factors.

• Done regression testing on High level functionality of Previous Releases to ensure new Code/Configuration has

not adversely impacted code that is already in the production.

• Actively participating in Daily Defect Calls to resolve the defects in efficient and timely manner.

• Performed Positive, Negative testing and validated integration touch points.

• Participated in Environmental Issues and supported the development team.

• Create and track defects in JIRA. Responsible for retesting the functionality after the issue is fixed by the

Development Team.

• Involved in preparing Test data, Test cases to meet client Requirements and passed data between applications and

then Validate that data in downstream applications.

• Performed Sanity Testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, functional testing and Regression testing.

Performed FACTS-LIMS interface testing.

• Executed testing in a fully integrated production like environment.

• Recommend and execute modifications to UNIX systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and

performance

• Develop and maintain UNIX training materials and systems documentation

• Analyzing the test results by generating different reports reflecting the stability of the application with the QA and

development team.

Environment : Quality Center 10.0, SharePoint, MS Office, UNIX, HTML, DHTML, Web Services, Oracle.

Abbott Laboratories -- Irving, TX 2011

Role: QA Analyst / QA Tester

Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new

ways to manage health.

Responsibilities:

• Played Senior Quality Assurance role in end to end implementation of the product at Abbott.

• Supported and followed Software Development methodologies like Agile Scrum.

• Involved in reviewing PRD’s and technical specification documents, and worked closely with product and project

managers, designers and developers to define test strategy, scope, test plans and test procedures to thoroughly test

the application.

• Performed STARLIMS functional testing in order to validate all the functionality expected is in place.

• Complete software testing lifecycle (included but not limited to requirements gathering and review, writing test

documentation, test execution - verification and validation, UAT, maintenance, change/enhancement request or all

major, minor and patch releases) for internal and external software products.

• Project planning, process-improvement, resource allocation and scalability, planning and reporting.

• Performed Integration and regression testing on final build to verify that the product is working as per customer's

requirement.

• Provided Technical support to various Feature teams, Development teams, TAM (Technical Account Manager)

and Project Managers to resolve urgent customer issues

• Plan, Design, and Write test cases, using Quality Center application. Debug and perform dry run on test cases.

• Developed complex SQL queries using multiple joins and SQL functions to support the backend testing.

• Written UNIX commands to analyze the backend data and file systems.

• Conducting validation testing on ported and migration functionality.

• Producing statistics and summary reports of test results and escalating to Quality Assurance Management.

• Performing Regression testing.

• Used EXTENSIVE DATA DRIVEN testing techniques to cover various different scenarios for efficient and

thorough testing of an application

• Used STARLIMS1 for reporting Bug and Issue Management

• Interacted with web developers for the Change Request (CR) and Enhancement Requests (ER).

Environment: STARLIMS1, Quality Center, SharePoint, SQL Server.

Qwest Communications, Denver, CO 2008- 2010

Role: QA Analyst / QA Tester

This is the project aimed to providing a short time solution to providing unified billing to the residential customers of

intermediate who use multiple services such as long distance, cable, world net, mobile phone and other broadband,

OSS network service. This project contains different modules like customer account details, service details, billing

details and customer matching modules.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Requirement and change requirement documents.

• Testing account portfolio for long distance and wireless business.

• Overall good SDLC knowledge. Preparation of Test Plan and Test Cases through Quality Center.

• Involved in preparing test accounts or test data for various levels of testing.

• Evaluation of the System design documents, Product Requirement Documents and other technical documents.

• Created manual scripts using Quality Center and executed them from Quality center.

• Written and executed SQL queries to perform thorough testing of the database.

• Create and track defects in JIRA. Responsible for retesting the functionality after the issue is fixed by the

Development Team.

• Performed UAT, Sanity Testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, functional testing and Regression testing.

• Written UNIX commands to analyze the backend data and file systems.

• Analyzing the test results by generating different reports reflecting the stability of the application with the QA and

development team

• Executed testing in a fully integrated production like environment.

• Performed smoke testing of the application manually after each build.

• Performed rigorous manual testing before a release.

• Manually performed backed testing of the application for SQL-Server and Oracle databases.

• Perform ad-hoc tests to uncover defects and log them.

• Modified previously existing test cases, which were driven by manual testing effort so that they are more

appropriate for future automation testing.

• Created bug reports to be reviewed by the QA Manager and development team.

Environment: HPQC, OSS, UNIX, SQL Server, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Office, Test Director.

Certification:

Medical Technologist certified by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) in 2006.

Contact this candidate