Padma Joginpalli

Austin, TX, *****

adxdli@r.postjobfree.com

603-***-****

Objective: Seeking a senior lead software quality assurance engineering position.

Over 15 years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and testing methodologies such as Waterfall & Agile/Scrum with extensive experience in test driven development (TDD), Behavior driven development (BDD) and integration test driven development approaches.

Over 15 years of Kronos domain experience working for Kronos Inc and also Kronos implementations.

Excellent project leading skills with demonstrated ability to define goals, set deadlines, estimate efforts, deliver on time, drive for results working closely with onshore and offshore/outsourced teams.

Skills:

Programming and Scripting languages

Java, Java Script, XML, XSLT, SQL, XPath, Groovy Script, Junit, Ant, XML, Visual Basic, Visual Test, Perl, HTML, JSON

Technologies

Java 8, J2EE, Rest API, XML (WSDL, WADL services)

Tools, Servers, Editors

Testing Tools: JUnit, Cucumber, Firebug, Fire Path, TestNG, SOAPUI, Manual Testing, Visual Studio, Postman, SoapUI, Ready, Zephyr, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Maven, Griddle, Emma Code Coverage tool, SharePoint, wiki, Confluence, STAF and STAX, Selenium Web Driver/IDE/GRID, HP Quality Center, Reltio, Rally, DevTest,qTest, Octane Pro, Indeavor

Source Control repositories

Accurev, GIT, BIT bucket, GIT Bash, Jenkins, Bamboo Altassian-Source Tree

Frameworks

Junit, TestNG, TDD, BDD, cucumber, SoapUI, SpringBootTest, RestTemplate

Databases Technologies:

MS SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB

Kellogg, Austin, TX (www.Kellogg.com) March 2022 – Present

Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Kronos SME at Kellogg performed testing and team lead efforts on Kellogg Kronos 8.1.7 implementation rollouts across various Kellogg plants.

Kellogg- Kronos Implementation Rollouts

Work with UKG implementation team and Kellogg plant users UAT test team to perform testing tasks of Kronos 8.1.7 Modules; Timekeeper, Attendance and schedule implementation rollout to various plants.

Written test cases in Octane Pro, covering Timekeeper/Payrule building blocks, Accruals, Schedule import and Attendance policies for various Kellogg plants having significant configuration differences.

Lead managing test execution working closely with plant users on UAT to train Kronos modules and making sure they run tests created in “MicroFocus Octane Pro” and get the final approval of the implementation from plant HR.

Work with Kellogg third-party software team INDEAVOR, where the schedules are stored and then imported into Kronos Scheduler via Schedule Interface. Run, Analyze and report issues from daily Schedule Import interface. Validate paycodes and schedules for specific shifts are coming in to Central and punches are aligned to them and employee getting paid correctly.

Lead validation effort of Accrual and Attendance policies rules are applied to different plants as expected by Kellogg’s HR and Project Business Lead. Work closely with all cross functional and UKG teams on defects raised during the testing.

Amazon Corporate, Austin, TX (www.Amazon.com) Feb 2021 – September 2021

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Kronos Senior SQE at Amazon-AWS performed testing efforts on Amazon rollouts including Kronos upgrade from V6 to V8.1.6 and also various enhancement initiatives across geographical locations.

Amazon- Kronos Upgrade V6-V8.1.7

Worked on Amazon-Kronos upgrade from V6 to V8.1.7 project and rollout to various geographical locations. Developed and executed test cases testing Timekeeper/Pay Polices, Genies, Hyperfind query, Reports, Historical corrections, Accrual Polices, Exceptions, Alerts and Time off Request for various company population profiles. TestRail v7 is used for test management.

MyTime Pay Extract: Kronos-8.1.7

Worked on Kronos-PayExtract enhancement project rollout for Amazon international customer (Philippines) to change the layout of the existing pay extract files generated by MyTime (Timekeeper). Enhancement was to eliminate the effort that Payroll spend on the manual historical edits and late adjustments to timecard which leads to pay defects.

I have developed test cases, staged the test data containing historical edits, Leaves, overtime adjustments, life events (termination, hire/re-hire in current pay period). Execute test cases by running the “Pay Extract Interface”, with staged data on Pre-enhancement and Post-enhancement to make sure employee is getting paid as expected.

Attendance points and Infractions

To standardize Amazon’s 40+ attendance policies implemented across 10 business lines emerged out of the COVID-19 crisis, Amazon launched Attendance points and Infractions project.

Infraction is based on when an associate is unable to inform of a missed shift in less than two hours, associate will incur an Infraction. Business Rules cover Attendance policies, Breaks, Absences, multiple/back to back shifts.

Developed test cases, staged test data by importing schedules with Global schedule Import Interface, Import punches by running PunchImport Interface. Validate Infraction points and related Paycodes in Accruals.

Canada-Quebec AWS DC: MyTime Punch To Pay

Canada Quebec AWS Data Centers launch of MyTime Full punch to Pay solution replacing the existing manual processes for time and attendance. Tested Time capture from Punch-Anywhere Device (A to Z), Pay Polices (Pay to Punch in Mytime), Accrual Polices – Grants/Limits (Time Off in Mytime and A to Z) and Manager Delegation. Test execution and record test artifacts in TestRail.

Ireland-AWS DC: MyTime Punch To Pay

Ireland AWS Data Centers launch of MyTime Full punch to Pay solution replacing the existing manual processes for time and attendance. Tested Time capture on bases of premium pay for overtime, Holiday Allowance etc from Punch-Anywhere Device (A to Z), Pay Polices (Pay to Punch in Mytime), Accrual, Time Off in Mytime and A to Z and Manager Delegation. Test execution and record test artifacts in TestRail.

WholeFoods Market, Austin, TX (www.wholefoods.com) Mar 2020 – Dec 2020

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Kronos SME and Senior SQE at Wholefoods, lead QA for testing efforts on Kronos upgrade from WFC 8.0 to 8.1.6

Worked with internal Wholefoods and external Kronos teams on creating upgrade test strategy.

Created test cases in qTest manager covering Kronos modules such as: Access Profiles/FAP, Pay Policy/Timekeeper, scheduler/Advance Scheduler (ESS), Forecaster, productivity monitor etc.

Lead the team on qualifying various Kronos interface integrations, such as PayRules, POSImport interface, Advance scheduler, Request Manager integration.

Helped automation team creating Kronos API to enhance automation efficiency, such as seeding the test data for creating Kronos test personalities; schedules; timecard data etc.

TCS- Cigna, Austin, TX (www.Cigna.com) Aug 2019 – Feb 2020

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Senior SQE at Cigna, performed rigorous manual testing and test automation of Cigna’s PDM (Producer Data Management) application.

Established QA infrastructure (cloud test environments, test databases, global group access to Cigna environment)

Created test user stories in Rally to qualify backend functionality of PDM application where source “Broker Licensing” data from DB2 and “SalesForce” data from producer-360/Hadoop are retrieved and ran through PDM application.

Using Postman tool, tested Reltio (MDM-Master Data Management software) Match&Merge business rule validations of auto merge of multiple records from database sources into single record or produce possible potential matches for business analysts to make merge decisions.

Developed BDD-Cucumber test framework to automate test scenarios for Reltio Match&Merge business rule validations using Reltio API’s, Gherkins, Java-8, JSON, RestTemplate, and Springboot technology stack.

Automated source data retrieval of DB2 database by running stored procs and storing data in Oracle test database using DevTest test tool.

Tested Reltio SSO functionality using various access profiles.

Charles Schwab, Austin, TX Aug 2018 – April 2019

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

As a SDET researched and established test strategy, required test automation tools, framework.

Developed Rest API automated test suites to qualify backend functionality of Schwab-web service for ECV (Enhanced Client Verification) feature.

Used JAVA-8 to develop Automation framework to validate RESTful Web Services.

Developed feature files, scenarios, step definitions for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber, Gherkin, Java-8, JSON,RestTemplate,SpringBootTest.

Worked on Agile (SCRUM) Methodology and used JIRA for defect tracking.

Iteratively Integrated automated test suites using Bamboo as a Continuous Integration server to configure with GitHub and Maven.

Executed automated tests with Continuous Integration using Bamboo in development and QA environments on regular basis automatically.

Used Postman to execute stand-alone RESTful xml API tests.

Tested and automated in Java, backend connectivity to cloud based MongoDB for storage of data JSON parcels used by Test Framework.

Knowledgeable with load and performance testing tool J Meter.

Kronos Inc., Chelmsford, MA (www.kronos.com) 2007 – 2018

Senior Automation and Lead QA Software Engineer

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer for more than 10 year in various roles at Kronos; Responsible for delivering quality products by following all aspects of testing cycle: requirement gathering, discovery/estimates, developing test strategy, defining Agile stories, writing test plans, individually or as a lead, guide manual testing and automation of new tests, regression testing by running and maintain existing test suites to preserve backward compatibility of the following Kronos workforce management (WFC) products and report in sprint issues in JIRA.

WFC- Retail: Workforce forecasting and operational management

WFC- Time & Attendance

WFC- Scheduling

Developed Soap, Rest API and HTTP API automated test suites to qualify backend functionality of web services of Kronos products using SoapUI test tool with Groovy scripting as a programing language.

Followed Continuous Integration (CI) development practice to integrate tests into a shared repository GitHub and schedule test run jobs on Jenkins allowing teams to detect problems early on daily/night builds.

As an automation team member, contributed automating Kronos User Interface tests using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG with framework developed using Java programing language.

Stay current with new testing tool/test strategies; Created WFC- Cloud deployment automation tool.

Proven track record handling multiple time-sensitive projects in parallel by leading team of globally distributed offshore QA engineers as well as working collaboratively with onsite cross functional teams, product owners, architects, developers delivering high quality features with tight deadlines.

Lead QA Activities for Key Kronos Fortune 500 companies (Apple, GM, AT&T, Nike, Macy’s and Starbucks among many others. Supported all Quality Engineering activities with requirements gathering from customer enabling new customer feature in the form of custom specific releases, customer upgrades to new Major/Minor WFC versions, bug fixes in the form of patch releases.

Responsible for performing sprint level demonstrations to customers and to stake holders during the project development life cycle meeting customer expectations and project sign off.

Experienced in creating detailed test plans and test cases using HP-ALM.

Used JIRA project management to track sprint level as well as customer bugs.

Practiced sprint planning meetings by following JIRA-Agile (using Atlassian tools) methods of backlog grooming to re-prioritize the stories and bugs, spring planning to estimate stories, adjust sprint scope and story points. Review scrum boards to review sprint progress and at the end of sprint run velocity report.

Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers, and product managers) to identify system requirements and create test environments (request VM’s, stage customer databases (Oracle & MSS), install test builds with compatible versions). As a QA lead, manage/maintain/troubleshooting large number of test virtual machines for off-shore teams to work on various projects and configurations in parallel.

Run domain level feature CPU, memory, load performance tests using SoapUI-Load test tool, Performance development tool to measure the performance and report to the management.

Telcordia Systems, Inc. Manchester, NH 2001 - 2007

Lead QA Software Engineer

As a team leader and software quality engineer, responsible for qualifying Telcordia’s-OSS (Operations Support Systems) network integration services software in J2EE environment. OSS network integration creates, manages and maintains all the physical and logical network resources for telecom, cable and Internet and power generation companies

Developed functional test harness suite in Java, XML, Weblogic/Websphere application servers and Oracle/MSSQL database configurations to test Telcordia’s product API (Business Delegate Layer)

Continuously provided help to Technical support team by solving customer problems and providing sample code. Mentored junior Q/A engineers as a team leader.

Worked closely with the documentation group, provided actual examples of numerous standalone Java classes that show the usage of API methods for the user’s guide.

Education

MS Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, USA

BS Physical Chemistry, Osmania University, India

Personal: US Citizen

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