Smitha Arecal Lokesh

E-mail Id: adzkhh@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 901-***-****

Quality assurance Lead with 8+ years of professional experience developing, designing, and preparing effective test plans. Proficient in prioritizing and completing tasks in a timely fashion. I am seeking to obtain a position that will allow me to utilize my quality assurance background, SQL skills and black box testing expertise to make a positive contribution to your organization.

Professional Summary

Strong working experience in Test Management Tool like JIRA, Test trail and HP Quality Center (ALM 11).

Lead the team of engineers to ensure software met the customer expectations and was ready to release on schedule.

Re distributed the task amongst the team to increase efficiency.

Modified the process and included more training session to make team understand the application leading to the effective testing.

Coach and mentor, the team to get more efficient ways of the work.

Extensive experience in coordinating testing efforts by interacting with developers and business analysts.

Experienced in running defect triage, Kick-off, Go/No-Go meetings and ensuring the closure of the testing cycle for smooth release of the product.

Experience in Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Ad-Hoc Testing and Metrics preparation.

Excellent understanding of the SDLC and complete Software Testing Life cycle (STLC) and Bug Life cycle

Expertise in back-end testing and writing SQL queries, Joins, procedures using Oracle and MySQL

Well versed with the Testing Concepts and Methodologies like Waterfall, V-Model Agile methodology including scrum

Well versed with working in Onsite-Offshore model projects

Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrices to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements

Good at preparing Daily, Weekly and Monthly status reports

Experience in testing Client/Server and Web applications testing in different domains such as Retail, Logistics and Supply chain Management

Professional Experience

Blume Global Aug 2021 to Sept 2022

Mphasis an HP Company since Jan 2007 to June 2014

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from VTU, INDIA

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certificate ID: 001224438

Work Experience

QA Lead

Blume Global -QA Lead

Aug 2021-Sept2022

Learnt all the applications of Blume in a very short period to lead the application from every corners.

Designed new scenarios and executed e2e flow for all the applications and carried out the integration testing.

Monitor testing efforts and record all test results accurately in test plan documentation and defect tracking system.

Oversee projects to ensure proper test coverage and meet project deadlines.

Develop test plans and collaborate with other team members to devise test strategies and scenarios

Coached and motivated Freshers joined QA team to develop competencies.

Created requirements for milestones and monitored completion of tasks for QA team.

Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.

Updated training database to help resolve common issues.

Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the backend.

Established new and improved QA processes by developing test processes, test cases and assigning and executing tests.

Supported quality control assessments on manufacturing floor.

Prepared reports to dispense information for product teams and compile information supporting long-term company development and success.

Senior Software Engineer

Mphasis an Hp

Jan 2007 to July 2014

Worked On most of the Fedex application includes Standalone and web-based applications.

Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function, and performance.

Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies, and procedures.

Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.

Estimated labor hours for different testing projects and functions.

Supported product managers and development teams across phases of testing from planning to execution, troubleshooting and reporting within high-volume, agile environment.

Collaborated with development team to grasp newly developed features to ensure proper test coverage.

Took ownership of specific product functions and oversaw all functional, regression and stress testing.

Designed test plans and test cases based on design notes and software requirement documentation.

Setup and maintained all testing equipment.

Extensively used SQL queries for data validation, root cause analysis and Backend Testing to validate the data in the backend.

Maintained bug reporting system for logged faults, delegating issues to development personnel for remediation.

Advised developers on problems with databases, performance, and other issues.

Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.

Execution of Sanity test cases

Regression testing by using QTP

Preparation of Traceability Matrix

Involved in training the team members in the technical & functional specifications in SRS & BRS

Knowledge Transition to new team members

Defect Validation and reporting using QC

Quality Analyst

Fedex Thru Mphasis

July 2010 to March 2011

Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Documents which were used to prepare Test Cases based on Test Plans

Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules, and conflicts.

Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.

Prepared variety of different written communications, reports, and documents.

Developed team communications and information for meetings.

Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.

Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.

Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.

Execution of Sanity test cases and Regression testing by using QTP

Preparation of Traceability Matrix

Involved in training the team members in the technical & functional specifications in SRS & BRS

Defect Validation and reporting using QC

Testing as per Global Development Process (GDP), a software quality standard from FedEx.

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