Swapna Anantha

acsnl5@r.postjobfree.com

617-***-****

Summary:

8+ years of experience in information technology, in which 6 years worked as a QA Engineer and 2 years as a Java developer.

Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing life Cycle (STLC)

Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing in different methodologies like Agile, Waterfall etc.

Prepared Test plan, Designed and executed test Cases for Smoke, Functional and Regression testing.

Proficient using Quick Test Professional/Unified functional testing tool for automation

Experience using SOAP UI tool for Web services testing

Developed robust, reusable functions with minimal code, maximum efficiency and reusability in QTP

Extensively used Quality Center as a Test management tool and for defect tracking.

Possesses excellent analytical, problem solving, leading and learning skills as well as a keen interest in the emerging technologies.

Ability to maintain professional demeanor in high stress situations

Skills:

Testing Tools: Unified functional testing/Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, ALM, SOAP UI

Databases: Oracle, MYSQL, MS SQL Server 2000

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Collaboration tools: RTC, Jira

Languages: Java, SQL, HTML/DHTMLVB Script

Status: Work Permit (EAD) Eligible to work for any employer without visa sponsorship.

Professional Experience

Fidelity Investments, Boston Jan 2014- till date

QA Engineer

Print Night/Board Communications Portal

Fidelity Investments is one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world. Board Communications Portal is one of the applications used by Board of Trustees for monthly meetings. Print night portal is the application used for preparation of board meeting materials. After meeting is built using agenda items and agenda documents, meeting is published from print night portal application to the Board Communications Portal application which is used by Trustees. I was working for Board operations group which supports Board communication portal & print night portal applications. I was responsible for testing these applications.

Responsibilities

Thoroughly analyzed requirements & prepared test strategy documents

Developed test scenarios & test Cases based on the requirement documents

Actively participated in several meetings such as stand ups, test cases, test strategy and code review meetings.

Performed different kinds of testing like smoke, GUI, functional and regression testing.

Automated smoke & regression test cases solely by building robust and reusable functions using Unified Functional testing tool.

Individually taken care of DR testing and post production install validations successfully

Proved leadership abilities by guiding interns to help our team in manual and automation testing

Used Quality Center as Test management tool and defect tracking.

Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted functional (Positive and Negative) testing.

Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, ALM, UFT 11.5, Liberator, RTC, JIRA, Agile scrum methodology, Share point 2010

Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver Sep 2012- Dec 2013

Test Analyst/Tester

OneCare Services

Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is a national nonprofit health system. OneCare is one of their program to transform health care delivery and advance patient care by creating a shared, electronic health record for each patient. It is a multi-year program which maintains electronic health records to help provide the best possible care to every single patient.

Responsibilities

Developed test cases based on the user stories in the solution requirement specification (SRS) documents from Business analyst.

Implemented Agile scrum methodology

Actively participated in several meetings like Sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings.

Involved in the preparation of Test Coverage Matrix, which is defined as mapping between requirements and Test cases.

Reviewed test cases developed by peers.

Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance testing.

Performed manual testing for checking the flow of the application functionality, usability, and browser compatibility.

Developed automation test scripts for Quick test professional.

Data Driven Testing using parameterization in Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test the application with different sets of data.

Used Quality Center to develop test cases in Test Plan, Executed test cases in Test Lab and tracked the bugs / defects in Defect module.

Conducted backend testing of the application by writing SQL queries.

Used SOAP UI tool for Web services testing

Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional (Positive and Negative), and Integration Testing.

Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Java, J2EE, JSP, SOAP UI,SQL Server, MS-Office, Windows XP, Putty.

Blue Cross Blue Shield, Jacksonville, FL July 2011 – Aug 2012

QA Analyst

BCBS is a Big Insurance Provider form, as a Test Engineer was involved in testing the claims application. This application accepts different claims like Medical claims, Dental claims, Pharmacy claims and vision claims from different vendors and route the claims into Batch Adjudication System and Online Adjudication.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Prepared the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Responsibility Matrices for the Application under test.

Involved in entire QA Life Cycle which includes Test Designing and Execution of the entire QA process and Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.

Performed manual testing for each system build.

Quality Center was used to track and report defects to developers.

Automated Test scenarios for GUI Functionality, using Quick Test Professional.

Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Quick Test Professional

Used Actions and Re-usable Actions in Quick Test Pro, for designing the Automation test scripts.

Worked/Tested on Validation of HIPAA for Claims 837.

Performed Backend Testing.

Conducted Functional testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using Quality Center for the bug fixing and tracking.

Environment: Windows XP, XML, Java, Oracle, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center.

Jr. QA Engineer

My Class Page - Assignment Wizard Jun 09- Jun 11

My Class Site is a customized web application designed for Pearson Education. The site is intended to improve the sell-through of Pearson Education products to Universities worldwide.The web application provides teachers with ability to create and maintain a My Class site for their students.

Responsibilities

Involved in full QA life cycle: Unit Testing, Module testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, and User acceptance testing.

Assisted in preparation of test plan, developed a series of testing hierarchy to perform comprehensive QA.

Execution Reporting & presenting.

Used Quality Center to store documents, execute test cases and test scripts and also for defect tracking.

Communicating and coordinating within testing team, developers & Leadership.

Involved in defect reporting, maintained issue logs.

Applied agile developmental methodology.

Environment: Windows NT, UNIX, Quality Center and Oracle, Visual Basic. C# .net

Arbor Networks, MA

Software Engineer

eSeries IPSC 8.3 July 08 – March 09

The IP Service Control (IPSC) system monitors and controls IP traffic. It uses a combination of hardware (service elements) and software (Configuration Manager) to accomplish its functions. The e100 service element provides network operators with visibility into the traffic on their networks and the ability to shape and control traffic on a subnet basis.

Responsibilities

Most of the time worked under Configuration Manager.

Created class diagrams and used AndroMDA to generate the classes using Magicdraw UML

Was involved in writing the code using web services for changing the rate limit on a rate pool for different versions of CM from Cygwin.

Written scripts (to execute code from cygwin).

Was involved in writing classes that uses web services for doing CRUD operations on Service Profiles, Subnet Groups and Service Bundles. So that we can modify it from cygwin instead of from console.

Was involved in changing SOA versions for all CM, SM, AGW, UM and RM and generated WSDL accordingly.

Configured ant for building and deploying the application.

Used Tomcat as a web server.

Involved in resolving bugs using clear DDTS.

Developed JUnit test cases for unit testing.

Used Subversion (SVN) to check in and check out the code.

Environment: Java 1.5.06, JSP, JSF, HTML, DHTML, Spring Framework, Hibernate 3.0, Web services, Axis, XML, JUnit, UML2, Oracle 10g Database, Ant, Apache Tomcat 5.25, Windows XP, Eclipse3.3, Magic Draw 11.5, Andro MDA, Postgres 8.3, DB Visualizer 6.0.14, Cygwin, Subversion (SVN).

AVA (Agricultural & Veterinary Authority), Singapore

Software Engineer

E-CLiPS (Electronic Certificates, Licenses and Permit System) Dec 2004 to Dec 2005

This project is mainly involved in issuing licenses through Internet. If a person wants to import / export Animals, Fish, Fresh and Processed Food, Plants etc he/she has to get a license. Customers of AVA willing to get this license or certificate can apply online.

Role & Responsibilities

Mainly involved in developing e-services module of the application which contains online application forms, online updating forms and online termination using Applets, Swing and Java Server Pages JSP 1.1 that invoke custom tags that interact with the Enterprise Java Beans backend.

Used JDBC-API to communicate with Database

Development of XML files using XSLT, DTD's, Schema's and Parsing using both SAX and DOM parsers.

Programmed JDBC connectivity and wrote queries, stored procedures for retrieving information from Oracle database

Extensively worked in J2EE Technologies involved in this project.

Involved in generating reports/letters using crystal reporting tool.

Environment : Struts, Swing, Oracle, Java, J2EE, eclipse 2.0, web logic 6.1, CVS, Log 4j, ANT, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, HTML, CSS, XML(SAX/DOM), Crystal Reporting Tool, Unix

Housing & Development Board (HDB), Singapore

Contract Software Engineer

RHMS (Rental Housing Management System) Sep 2004 to Nov 2004

This project mainly deals with the HDB flat occupant’s details and is divided into several modules such as, 1) Enquiry 2) Conversion 3) Eligibility Check. By entering NRIC or HDB REF number, an occupant can retrieve his / her personnel details, which are stored in IBM Mainframe.

Role & Responsibilities

Responsible for designing and User Interface Screens for the System.

Developing the User Interface using JSP, HTML, DHTML and Java Script.

Used Javabeans for encapsulating f logic.

Extensively used Java Servlets, JSP library and API for the development of the Conversion module.

Used String Tokenizer for tokenizing the String which we got from Mainframe developers.

Used MS-Access for creating and managing the database

Prepared Test plans for Enquiry and Eligibility Check modules and tested accordingly.

Environment : HTML/ DHTML, Java Script, Core Java, JSP, ClearCase, Servlet, WSAD 4.0, Web Sphere 5.1, Mainframe, MS-Access

Education & Certifications

Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Received Merit scholarship during Intermediate and Engineering.

Awarded Merit certificate during Intermediate

Indian Air Force Benevolent Association Annual Merit scholarship B.Tech

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