Quality Assurance Testing

Sarada Buddi

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SUMMARY Phone: (678) 820 -

5489

• Over 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Web based and

Client-Server applications.

• Experienced with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Quality

Methodologies.

• Has good Expertise in development of Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Specs.

• Strong expertise in Black box, White box and System testing for Enterprise

applications.

• Extensively involved in Integration, Regression, and Functionality testing.

• Working expertise on Verification & Validation (V&V) Model, Defect tracking and

Bug Life cycle.

• Strong abilities in Installing, Configuring and Trouble-shooting of various enterprise

applications, Databases on multiple platforms.

• Expertise in the analysis of Business Specifications and model the specifications to

suitable requirements.

• Expertise in Software Products Testing on Multiple platforms.

• Strong expertise in web applications testing with multiple web configurations, web

browsers and diversified platforms on multiple locales.

• Experienced in Web Services Load Testing, functional testing using SOAPUI.

• Sound knowledge in writing SQL Queries, ETL Testing.

• Strong analytical & good communication Skills. Very keen and enthusiastic; constant

desire to learn, genuine commitment to excel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ALM/Quality Center (9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 11.0), Test Director,

Testing Tools :

JIRA, Load Runner, Soap UI.

Requirements management : ALM/Quality Center, Share Point

J2EE, EJB, JDBC, Swing, Java Beans, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL,

Programming Languages :

PL/SQL, C++, C#, JSP, VB, .Net, AJAX.

Scripting Languages : Java Script, VB Script

Databases : Oracle 9i/10g using TOAD, SQL Server 2005/2008, My SQL, Sybase.

Browser-Side Test, Page-Layout, Hyperlink, Integrated calculative Data

Web Testing :

test, Data Validity and Cross-Browser Compatibility testing.

Transaction Testing (front end to back end testing), Data Mapping/ Data

Database Testing :

Conversion and Data & File Validation

Modeling Language : UML

Methodologies : SDLC, Agile (SCRUM)

Operating Systems : UNIX, Windows XP / Vista / 7, Mac OS X and Linux.

:

Web Applications HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL

Version Control Tools : Visual Source Safe, CVS and Clear Case

Ultra Edit, MS Office 2003/07/10, Visio, Word Perfect, Excel, Beyond

Office Tools/ Text Editor :

Compare, File Compare Utility, Putty.

Application Servers : WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss

Utilities : MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Starbucks, Atlanta, GA Senior Quality Analyst

Feb 11 - Current

Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in

Seattle, Washington. With the help of Responsive Web Design, a new approach to building

websites, Starbucks.com is now easier to use on a wide range of devices, screen sizes and made

sure that our videos work whether you have Flash installed or not. The goal of this

project was to make the existing starbucks.com optimized for almost any device with

access to the internet as quickly as we could.

Responsibilities:-

• Ensured the appropriate coverage of business requirements, to establish traceability of

functional and technical designs.

• Provided guidance for constructing test plans, scenarios, cases and scripts, and to manage

and triage defects in a timely manner.

• Involved in manual testing of the application and tested the Responsive Design of the

website.

• Worked with the Quality Assurance Manager, and assumed the responsibility to provide

status reports, and to escalate issues requiring resolution at various levels of

management.

• Involved in testing flexible grids, layouts, images and CSS media queries.

• Participated and coordinated in Test Case Walkthroughs.

• Used Quality Center as a defect tracking tool.

• Fluent in assigned areas of responsibility for other software quality assurance analysts,

including application functions and business processes.

• Self-motivation qualities to become a subject matter expert in areas of responsibility, as

well as the ability to mentor and motivate others with enthusiasm towards improvement

and progress.

Environment:- MS Office tools, Quality Center, ios, Android, Windows XP, SQL.

HSBC Bank, Los Angeles, CA QA Tester/Analyst

Aug 10 – Jan 11

Project: Online Banking

Scope: This application was an enhancement of the existing online bank portal and was

developed using Oracle. The project allowed users to have a secure, user friendly, and

performance-oriented web solution. It enabled customers to access their various accounts through

the Internet. Customers also had the option to transfer funds between different accounts, check

transaction details, schedule and make payments using automatic bill pay, and review statements.

Responsibilities:

Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Cases using MS office tools.

Reviewed Functional Requirement specifications document to determine the functionality

of application modules.

Implemented QA & testing procedures executed Integration, Regression, System, and

User Acceptance Tests.

Interacted with Development team regularly to keep track of the Change Requests and

with business users during the weekly meetings, updating the builds and various versions.

Closely interacted and updated with Team Lead, Business Test Analyst and Assistant

Managers on weekly Status updates about the project testing development and defect

tracking.

Used Test Director as a Test Defect Tracking Tool.

Defect tracking and reporting was done using BugZilla

Environment: Quality center, SQL, Oracle, MS Office, Windows XP, UNIX, Test

Director, Win Runner.

Sprint PCS, Reston, VA QA tester

Oct 08 – July 10

Sprint PCS is one the leading wireless service providers in the US market. It offers various

services through sprint.com. Web based application for customers to view their bills, pay bills,

check their payments, e-bill enrollment, sort their bills and print the bills in PDF format. Testing

included new features, upgrades, enhancements, production fixes and validating .csv and .pdf

files which contains customers monthly bill statements.

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases for e-bill, call rating based on the user stories

(functional and technical requirements), based on the solution requirement specification

(SRS) documents from Business analyst and technical design documents from

Developers.

• Attended sprint plan meetings to review the requirements.

• Maintained issue trackers to track requirement and business clarifications.

• Involved in manual testing of the application and tested the billing functionality and call

rating.

• Tested bill rating based on the universal service order codes (USOCs), feature codes and

plans.

• Tested billing calculations based on multiple plans, features like text messages,

downloading files etc.

• Involved in webservices testing using SOAPUI.

• ETL Testing by querying the database Using Toad.

• Conducted Regression and Smoke Testing.

• Report defect using Jira tool and work on resolving data defects reported on production.

• Performed Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

• Member of the User Acceptance Testing Team, wrote Enhancement Requests and worked

with the perspective of the user.

• Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional ( Positive and

Negative), and Integration Testing.

• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.

Environment: Quality Center, Load Runner, MS Office, Unix, IBM DB2, Oracle OLAP, Toad.

Cranes Software International Ltd, Bangalore, India

Tester July 07 – Sep 08

SigmaPlot is a Mathematical Software Tool used for creating graphs and performing data analysis

including Statistical Analysis. This software helps you quickly create exact 2D and 3D graphs and

offers the flexibility to customize every detail of your graph. SigmaPlot also provides all the

fundamental tools you need to analyze your data from basic statistics to advanced mathematical

calculations.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of System Test Plan which included scope, objectives, resources,

timelines etc of the testing effort.

• Used QTP to automate the Test Cases for Regression Testing.

• Performed Functionality Testing of all the graph types and Statistical Tool.

• Performed Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing & Installation Testing .

• Analyzed and created/updated test cases/test scripts for manual testing using Requirements

documents, Functional Specification documents and Change Requests.

• Create and maintain Traceability Matrices to ensure 100% requirement and test coverage.

• Implemented API Testing for testing of an independent Graphing Tool.

• Involved in Verification and Validation activities.

• Testing the patch builds of SigmaPlot.

• Performed code reviews for various statistical modules of SigmaPlot.

Environment: QTP, Java Script, Quality Center.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Bachelors of Technology in Information Technology, JNTU, India.

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