Sarojini Ganta PMP, SFDC

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Professional Summary:

Over 12 years of accomplished QA Lead in Testing & Quality Assurance with extensive experience in multiple technologies and domains including Health Care, Automobile, Insurance, e-commerce, Health care and Telecom with emphasis on Test Strategy, Test Management, Automation and Test Execution.

Expertise in managing mid-sized project teams coordinating with teams spread across globally.

Worked across multiple cross-functional teams to execute full system, interface and end-to-end testing.

Extensive experienced in handling projects in the areas of Functional, Integration, Regression and Acceptance Testing.

Experienced in preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, Change Request Proposals documents.

Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile development models, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), logging and tracking defects in all the phases with major responsibilities.

Experienced in preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, metrics, estimations, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Experienced in testing Cloud computing application Salesforce and Business Process management tool Pega.

Experienced in testing Oracle OBIEE application and RPD tool.

Expertise in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, Defect Management and Defect Tracking, Test Scripts & Reports for delivering utmost Quality product.

Skilled at developing and streamlining processes to increase efficiency and improve overall quality and performance.

Wide exposure to Test Management tool such as Jira, QC ALM, Rally, OATSTM and Test Director.

Good exposure to Microsoft Test Manager, Process implementation, Process improvement.

Experience in working with performance and load testing tools JMeter and Neoload.

Core Competencies:

Salesforce, Pega and BI

Project Planning, Execution and Monitoring

Preparing Project related docs

Agile

DB – Oracle SQL,DB2, TOAD, ETL

Defect Management tools – Jira, Quality Center, TFS…

technical background:

Operating system Windows NT/98, 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Win 7

RDMS Oracle database, TOAD, SQL Server 2008/2005

Automation

(Performance & Load) JMeter and Neoload

Defect Management Tool JIRA, Rally, QC, OATSTM, ALM, Spira, TFS, Test Director

Security Testing Fiddler, Burp Suite

Source Safe Microsoft VSS 6.0, TortoiseSVN

MS Tools Microsoft Office, MS project 2013

CERTIFICATIONS:

PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI – Completed on May 2013

Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer from Salesforce.com on Jan 2015

CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer) from QAI on Aug 2007

ACTD (Accenture Certified Test Designer) from Accenture on Sep 2008

Designation/Work Experience:

Salesforce Subject Matter Expert/Test Manager - Cigniti Technologies from May 2015 – till date

Senior Project Lead - LiquidHub India Pvt Ltd from Dec 2008 – May 2015

Test Lead - Accenture from Aug 2006 to Nov 2008

QA Engineer- LiquidHub India Pvt Ltd from June 2005 to Aug 2006

Work Experience:

Company: Cigniti Technologies

Role: Test Manager

Duration: May 2015 – Present

Client: Delta Dental of Insurance, California

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leading a team of twelve, Participate in Project Estimations and Proposal creations.

Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Build domain knowledge on the application and manage training plans.

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and test data preparation and execution.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing agile methodology.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives with effective utilization of Jira.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Involved in UAT & Demo sessions with Clients with Senior management and Solution Managers.

Company: LiquidHub India Pvt Ltd

Role: Senior Project Lead

Duration: Dec 2008 – April 2015

Clients: Subaru, Octagon and GKElite

Roles and Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Functional Design documentation, User Requirements and Technical Requirements

Developed detailed Test Cases for Functional testing and Data Validation which involves in testing accuracy of data which is inserted in to the target database throw web services.

Developed and maintained Traceability Matrix between Functional Requirements and Test Cases and actively managed changes during various phases of the project

Supported test activities associated with Product Point of Sales. Trained Production support associates on latest Point of Sale functions.

Wrote SQL queries to test backend data for different scenarios in the application.

Tested web services, XML, WSDL and Groovy scripts using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points while working on different servers and different versions of Web Services

Validated Web Services request and response xml, Jason using SOAPUI tool.

Performed cross browser and environment testing on Desktop browsers, Android 2 (Mobile & Simulator) and tablet.

Performed Smoke test, System test, Functional, Integration, End to End, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing activities in Test environment and Production support environment

Actively managed Defects in Jira until resolution has been made for each of the item(s)

Aggressively managed short test lifecycles, which involved developing Test Plans, executing tests and capturing test results and managing defects until resolution within short iterations of 2-3 weeks.

Involved in Design of Logical Data Models by focusing on problems with existing design constraints

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing agile methodology.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives with effective utilization of Jira.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Performed RPD testing in OBIEE and database testing.

Prepared test cases based MD50 requirements documents.

Company: Accenture India Pvt Ltd

Role: Test Lead

Duration: Aug 2007 – Nov 2008

Clients: Virgin Media and Safeco Business Intelligence

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participate in Project Estimations.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Build domain knowledge on the application and manage training plans

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Assign Daily assignment and status report for each release

Knowledge transferring to QA Team and embraced teamwork

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution of SSRS Reports.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.

Cross-train on-site and off-shore team members

Developed and managed Defect Management using Jira.

Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing agile methodology.

Composed and sent test reports on a day-to-day basis for customer approval.

Company: Liquidhub India Pvt Ltd

Role: Senior QA

Duration: Jun 2005 – Aug 2006

Client: Affiliated Distributors

Roles and Responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirements and prepared the analysis documents.

Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.

Preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Change Request Proposals documents.

Preparing and Executing of Regression Scripts using Winrunner.

Worked towards standardizing and maintaining the training knowledge.

Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing

Understand new requirements and propose testing solution to the customers

Responsible for functional, integration, UI and database test preparation and execution of SSRS Reports.

Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.

Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using QC and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.

Developed and managed Defect Management using Test Director.

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