Quality Test

ALEKHYA BASHIRBADA

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GAITHERSBURG, MD, 20878

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of IT experience in Information Technology specializing in Quality

Assurance/Testing of GUI, Database and Web based applications.

• Proficient in Manual & Automated Testing Tools using QTP, Quality Center.

• Experience with QA life cycle, Manual Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing,

Regression Testing, Functionality Testing, Front End and Back End Testing.

• Strong in analyzing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement

Specification (FRS), Design Documents, Developing, Executing and maintaining Test

suits and Test plans.

• Extensively used Test Director/Quality Center, test plans and created traceability metrics

among requirements and Test cases.

• Excellent knowledge in Software Testing Levels, Bug Life Cycle, Testing Life Cycle.

• Good Exposure to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Extensive experience with Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile/Scrum Methodologies.

• Good knowledge and understanding of Software development life cycle ( SDLC) and

Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

• Proficient in designing the testing artifacts like Test cases, Test Reports, Test

Summary Reports and maintaining them in shared repository.

• Extensive experience in writing Test Strategies, Test plans, Test cases, Defect reports and

test scripts and Traceability Matrices.

• Performed Black-Box testing, Functional, Regression, Adhoc and User Acceptance testing

using Manual test Methodologies.

• Experience in the Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking system and Bug Reporting using

Quality Center.

• Creating and Maintaining Test Cases specific to a module and participated in

reviewing the documents related to requirements and functional specifications.

• Hands on experience with independently testing on verification and validations

• Experience in testing multiple browsers like Netscape and Internet explorer.

• Extensive experience in writing SQL Queries to test the data base persistence.

• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and

interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform

environment.

SKILLS

Automation Testing Tools : QTP 9.2

Test Management Tools : Quality Centre 9.2

Databases : SQL Server

Operating Systems : Windows 98/2000/XP/7

Design Tools : InfoPath 2003/2007/2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FOIAXpress, www.ains.com/foiaxpress June 2010 – Nov’ 2012

Location: Gaithersburg, MD (Offshore from India)

QA Engineer

Clients: USAID, HUD

FOIAXpress is the most comprehensive web-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)

application available for electronically processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and

Privacy Act (PA) requests. As emphasis on government openness and transparency

continues to increase, agencies and institutions are looking to find ways to streamline

FOIA request management and facilitate citizen interaction. FOIAXpress is a one-stop

software that manages the entire lifecycle of a FOIA request from initial request to final

delivery of documents, including request management, correspondence management,

document management, fee/payment management, document review and redaction, and

reporting.

FOIAXpress has the largest installed base of any FOIA management system on the market

with over 180 customers across the United States. It is a powerful tool for automating the

FOIA request process that can save agencies time and money while ensuring compliance

with US Department of Justice (DOJ) requirements. AINS shares the government’s goal of

transparency and accessibility which is why we designed FOIAXpress as a streamlined

solution for providing the public with access to the information they seek.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis of business/functional Requirement(s) with BA.

• Involved in uploading business requirements for business process into Quality

Center requirement tab.

• Studied and analyzed the Functional Requirements, System Design Specifications,

and interacted with Business Analyst & developers for changes in requirements if

any.

• Create story level Test Scenarios for every 2 weeks SPRINT.

• Designed and developed Test Plan and Test Cases using functional requirements

and Specification documents.

• Build and manage the overall test process according Agile Methodology.

• Managed & scheduled all Manual scripts from HP Quality Center using the Test

Plan, Test Lab and Defects module.

• Involved in different phases of Project Life Cycle.

• Testing the functionalities in multiple browsers like Netscape, Internet Explorer.

• Created test data, executed positive, negative and boundary test cases, documented

results, assigned defects to development team and updated defect tracking systems.

• Performed Regression testing using QTP. Developed test scripts and using Quality

Center to manage entire testing process.

• Performed GUI testing including validating input fields and screen flows.

• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries.

• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration, Regression, User acceptance

(UAT) and implementation testing.

• Use Quality Center for repository, reporting and tracking defects, and providing

updates on resolved bugs.

• Documented the Test Results in Quality Center and worked with developers to

resolve the Issues.

• Provided assistance and consultation to development and project support teams on

project activities.

• Interacted with developers and various members of the team to discuss and resolve

defects and their priorities.

• Participated in weekly QA meetings to resolve technical issues.

Environment: QTP 9.2, HP Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server, MS-Office, Windows 7.

PAL, Web Portal, www.ains.com/pal-web-portal Nov’ 2009 – May 2010

Location: Gaithersburg, MD (Offshore from India)

QA Tester

Clients: USAID, HUD

Public Access Link (PAL) is a public-facing web portal that complements AINS FOI Tools

- FOIAXpress - by providing efficient and secure communication between citizens and agencies.

In the United States, PAL Web Portal integrates with FOIAXpress to meet Executive Order

13,392 requirements for improving agency disclosure of information. PAL Web Portal allows the

public to submit and track the status of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act

(PA) requests over the Internet.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in iteration planning session, review the prioritized items in the backlog,

selects and review the stories for the current iteration.

• Designed and developed the Test plan, Test Scripts and test strategies for the

applications and executed them.

• Work closely with business analyst and developers to understand the user requirement

specifications & Use cases

• Performed database validations according to the business logic.

• Prepared test data for positive and negative testing used in data driven testing for testing

the application dynamically

• Integration testing was done to ensure data processing, interface validity and proper

communication among components of each application

• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries. Developed SQL queries to get the test

data from different database tables.

• Performed functional, system and regression testing manually

• Conducted cross browser testing to check the compatibility with different Browser's (IE,

Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Safari)

• Interacted with end users to obtain specific system requirements. Conducted Regression

Test before and after code conversion. Regression testing is performed using QTP.

• Participated in bi-weekly and attended daily Meetings

Environment: QTP 9.2, HP Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server, MS-Office, Windows xp/7.

eCase, www.ains.com/eCase June 2007 – Oct’

2009

Location: Gaithersburg, MD (Offshore from India)

QA Engineer

Client:HUD, CBP

eCase is a flexible workflow driven case management application that provides electronic

document tracking and reporting system, to track the flow of critical documents and

executive commitments, gather statistical data, and distribute information. It features pre-

defined and ad-hoc workflow management that helps an organization to automate their

business process. The entire workflow process is depicted graphically for each case

folder, with the tasks to be performed at each stage, current task name, action officer and

assigned date for the current task.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement and business analysis meetings.

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases in Quality Center.

• Verified outputs against database using SQL queries.

• Conducted Smoke, Integration, System, GUI, Regression and User-Acceptance (UAT)

testing.

• Executed positive and negative test cases by preparing test data for all test scenarios.

• Tracked the defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.

• Focused on testing the content and accuracy of the generated reports according to the user

requirements.

• Worked closely with management to track and communicate testing progress.

• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and conducted in defect review meetings.

• Attended UAT review meetings with business users to discuss with UAT issues.

• Prepared Test reports based on different stages of Testing.

• Designed InfoPath forms for different case types (Audit, Background Investigation, etc.)

Environment: QTP 9.2, HP Quality Center 9.0.

RedactXpress, www.ains.com/redactxpress Apr’ 2006 – May 2007

Location: Gaithersburg, MD (Offshore from India)

QA Tester

Client:USAID

RedactXpress is a stand-alone redaction and declassification software tool used to

permanently remove sensitive information from electronic documents. It eliminates the

tedious manual labor of making copies, tracking documents, and filing. RedactXpress

streamlines compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy Act,

Health Information Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPPA), and the Openness in

Government Act of 2007.

SECURE REDACTIONS, IRREVERSIBLE BURN-IN

RedactXpress is a state-of-the-art redaction solution that provides irreversible redaction

after burn-in. Unlike solutions that merely hide the information under black bars,

RedactXpress completely and securely removes information by using pixel-to-pixel

replacement and then generating a new redacted document; deleted information can never

be recovered. In addition, RedactXpress has built-in and customizable exemption codes

for FOIA and the Privacy Act which can be auto-inserted into redaction areas.

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategy and Test Plan and the Traceability Matrix to ensure that

test cases reflect user needs for the Functional, User Interface, Performance,

Usability and Security Requirements

• Worked closely with the Business and Development teams in making the detailed

QA Test Plan regarding the scope and focus of the testing.

• Deployed code into the QA Environment and verified the Test Environment

Readiness.

• Coordinated and communicated the QA effort by effectively working with different

teams involved in the integration projects

• Executed Test Cases Manually to verify the actual results against expected results.

• Used SQL Commands for backend Data Validation.

• Tested the application manually and reported the defects through the Test Director

• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using

Test Director

• Maintained Test Metrics and Bug Database and generated Weekly Status Reports

• Analyzed the Test Results and graphs by generating reports reflecting the stability of

the application and reviewed with the QA, Development and Business Teams

• Participated in daily Defect Review Meetings, QA Team meeting and provided

weekly status updates to QA lead

Environment: QTP 9.2, HP Quality Center 9.0.

Education:

BS in Computer Engineering

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