Thara K Tippeswamy Visa: H* EAD (**NOV**)

Email: ad28gf@r.postjobfree.com

QA/Test Engineer (Manual, API & Mobile Application,Salesforce, Automation) Mobile: +1-314-***-****

Professional Summary

Over 6+ years of experience as a QA Manual Test Engineer - extensively worked on Manual, Web, Mobile Responsive Testing, API, Webservices applications.

Excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Expertise in understanding Business Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications and Design documentations and converting them into Test Scenarios.

Experience in Waterfall and Agile Projects, worked very closely with Product owners in Agile and attended different ceremonies like Sprint Planning meeting, Scrum, Backlog grooming, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

Expert in developing Behavior Driven development by writing Gherkin language using cucumber tool, developed Scenarios, Scenario outlines, features and Step definitions and generating the cucumber reports.

Experience in installation and Administration of version control systems like GIT (Distributed Version Control), GitHub, SVN Version Control.

Experience in testing Web Services-SOA architecture, XML transactions, SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, and REST using various tools like SOAP UI and Postman API.

Data driven for validating different endpoints. Experience in working with Oracle, MSSQL, My SQL and MS-Access Databases.

Experience in writing and executing SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Back-end testing of databases to check the integrity of data.

Experience in unit testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, sanity testing, exception testing, compatibility testing & security testing of client/server and web-based applications.

Excellent Organization, Analytical and Problem-Solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies.

Good Communication and Interpersonal skills. Technically sound, Result-Oriented with strong Problem-solving skills.

Technologies

Programming Languages

C, Java OOPS concepts, HTML, XML, and CSS, Python

Testing

Tools

FAME, SoapUI, Restful, ETL, SVN, GitHub, Postman, JMeter, Selenium

Defect Management

Tools

JIRA, HP Quality Centre, HP ALM and Bugzilla, Octane

Testing

Methodologies

Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, GUI, Load/Performance, System and User Acceptance Testing.

Database/Database

Tools

Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Toad, SQL Developer and Mango DB & ROBO 3T

SDLC Methodologies

Waterfall, V-Model, Agile (Scrum and Kanban)

Operating Systems

Windows 98/XP/Vista/10 and Unix/Linux.

Professional Experience

Client: Charter Communications, St. Louis, MO Sep 2022 – till Date

Employer: KFORCE INC

Role: QA Lead/Manual Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

Works closely with Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers to understand the application functionality and capability, analyzing and reviewing business requirements

Working on Agile methodology and Attending Daily Stand-up, Demo, Retrospective, Documentation review, release planning, sprint planning, Requirements and Application architectural meetings as required.

Attended Peer Review, and Defect Report meetings periodically

Developed test strategy, test plan, test cases and test scenarios based on requirements for execution

Participated in all the phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies throughout the implementation of the project.

Written manual test scenarios and test cases based on the user stories, change requests and functional design documents.

Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements

Developed all manual test cases step by step into ALM/Octane in the Test Plan section.

Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing and End to End Testing.

Executed the functional test cases on different environments (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, Prod), multiple browsers and Platforms.

Prepared Documenting test results for reviewing Business Clients and Product Owners

Involved in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings to verify the status of testing and to discuss issues and like scenarios.

Prepared weekly reporting for the management regarding the bug, test execution status and test summary.

Co-ordinating with offshore team and managing the team of 6 testers.

Executing Automation test Scripts in FAME and sending reports to management weekly twice.

Environment: Agile methodology, ALM/Octane, Salesforce, FAME, JIRA, Manual Testing, MSOffice, Windows 10, Micro Services, Postman, JSON, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ROBO-3

Project: Automated Approvals/Salesforce

Description: Automated Approvals were developed in Salesforce Under Change Request to the Enterprise Operating Model (EOM). Current functionality requires seller to work on object Opportunity where seller work “Generate Pricing Approval Plan” button on Opportunity, which generates Approval Plan with Special Pricing and Decision Support task in order for Seller to Approve the request.

Client: UnitedHealth Group, St. Louis, MO Dec 2019 – Aug 2022

Employer: Compunnel Inc

Role: QA Engineer/Manual Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

Works closely with Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers to understand the application functionality and capability, analyzing and reviewing business requirements

Worked on Agile methodology and Attending Daily Stand-up, Demo, Retrospective, Documentation review, release planning, sprint planning, Requirements and Application architectural meetings as required.

Attended Peer Review, and Defect Report meetings periodically

Developed test strategy, test plan, test cases and test scenarios based on requirements for execution

Participated in all the phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies throughout the implementation of the project.

Written manual test scenarios and test cases based on the user stories, change requests and functional design documents.

Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements

Developed all manual test cases step by step into Zephyr in the Test Plan section.

Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing and End to End Testing.

Performed back-end testing on Oracle Database by writing SQL quarries.

Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the database and investigate for solutions using data analysis practices and prepare analysis reports.

Involved in API testing both SOAP and REST services using Rest Assured, SOAPUI and testing both XML and JSON formats.

Involved in load and performance testing tool JMeter.

Executed the functional test cases on different environments (Dev, QA, Pre-prod, Prod), multiple browsers and Platforms.

Prepared Documenting test results for reviewing Business Clients and Product Owners

Involved in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings to verify the status of testing and to discuss issues and like scenarios.

Prepared weekly reporting for the management regarding the bug, test execution status and test summary.

Environment: Agile methodology, Zephyr, JIRA, Manual Testing, MSOffice, Windows 10, Micro Services, Postman, JSON, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ROBO-3T.

Project: Benefit Management Service

Description: The Benefit Management business domain consists of entities with a defined API and associated information. As a whole, the collection of APIs should be everything required to provide “Benefit Management as

a Service”.

Client: Lincoln National Corporation, Greensboro, NC Dec 2018 – Dec 2019

Employer: Compunnel Inc

Role: QA Engineer/Manual Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

Co-ordinating with Development Team, Product Team and Onsite/Offshore Team members for deliverables.

Analyzing the requirements and raising clarifications to Product team and make the better understanding for the team members.

Attending Kick off meetings for all the FRDs being handled.

Identifying high level test scenarios which cover all business rules of application.

Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, Test scripts and Test Metrics for the application as well as for the database verification

Worked in Agile environment, with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes at any point of time during the release.

Created automation scripts in SOAP UI using Groovy Script for web services testing.

Developed test scripts for web services using SOAP UI and worked with XPATH.

Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables.

Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers and Mobile devices.

Environment: Agile methodology, Zephyr, JIRA, Manual Testing, MSOffice, Windows 10, Web Services, Micro Services, SOAP UI, XML, JSON, Postman, Restful, GitHub, MYSQL, Oracle, SQL Developer.

Project: LFG AMS

Project Description: Lincoln National Corporation is a Fortune 500 company offering a diverse range of financial services and solutions. Lincoln National Corporation provides advice and solutions that empower Americans to take charge of their financial lives with confidence optimism. With a strong focus on four core business areas — life insurance, annuities, retirement plan services, and group protection — our business is built around supporting, preserving, and enhancing our customer’s lifestyles and providing better retirement outcomes.

Organization Name: SAP ARIBA, Bengaluru Oct 2010 – Mar 2012

Project Name: Spend Management

Tools/Skills: MS Excel, MS Access and MS SQL

Role: Associate Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

Working in categorizing Items/Materials/GLs as per their respective spend.

Analyzing the spend Reports to advice reduction in Spend for the company.

Maintaining the records for all Spend of the company.

Identify saving opportunity by identifying probable duplicates.

Analysis of customer’s purchased data from ERP system.

Build business case by categorization of data using taxonomy schema ‘UNSPSC/Custom Taxonomy.

Generate spend data audit and spend mining and to find the saving opportunities.

Data enrichment using UNSPSC, SIC, NAICS and Custom Taxonomy.

Report generation/preparation using MS-Excel and basic MS- Access

Project Description:

Invoice Classification: This involves classification of invoice data provided by the customers to UNSPSC by using input fields such as Invoice descriptions, Supplier Names, Account Names ERP Names etc., This Aand to take necessary steps to optimize their spend.

Supplier Enrichment: This involves finding the parent company for the given suppliers and linking all the child suppliers to single parent company. This helps customers to know how much money is going to which supplier across the units located worldwide. By knowing this our customer can claim for different benefits from its suppliers. This also helps in sourcing and procurement processes.

Educational Qualification

BE (Bachelor of Engineering) specialization in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological

University (2010), Belgaum. India

Awards and Recognition

Awesomeness Award -Client

All Star Consultant Award-Vendor

North Star Most Valuable Consultant Award-Vendor

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