Manager Test

Lavanya Reddy G

**** ***** ***** *****, *******, VA, 20171

************@*****.*** 571-***-****

SUMMARY

. Over 4+ years of professional experience specializing in Software Quality

Assurance and testing.

. Proficient in backend testing using SQL.

. Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLCM), QA Life

cycle (QALC) and QA Methodologies.

. Excellent testing experience in all phases and stages of testing.

. Proficient in all cycles of test life cycle from test planning to defect

tracking and managing defect lifecycle.

. Experience in testing Web - based and Client - Server applications.

. Well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of

applications along with the successful implementation of the Automation

tools like QTP, Rational Clear Quest, Win Runner, Quality Center/Test

Director, Loadrunner and Test Manager.

. Proficient in Functional, Negative, Regression, Black Box,, Smoke,

Stress, System Integration (SIT), Acceptance (UAT), Load, Security and

performance testing

. Excellent knowledge and working experience in with test planning, test

cases, test execution based on Business Requirements and Technical

Specifications and test results analyses.

. Extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing.

. Experience with various Operating Systems including MS Windows, UNIX, and

Linux.

. Experience in Reviewing the Test Plan, Unit, Integration and System Test

cases.

. Extensive experience in Database Testing using SQL.

. Experience in UAT and assisting the customer in User Acceptance Testing.

. Excellent communication and presentation skills, self starter, quick

learner, team player

Computer Skills

Testing Tools QTP, Quality Center/ Test Director, Test Manager,

Rational Suite-Clear Case,

Clear Quest, Rational Test Manager, and

Load runner

Languages C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, Java, HTML

Databases Oracle 8i/9i, SQL server, MS Access

OS/Platforms UNIX/LINUX, Windows 95/98/2000/XP - Windows7,

Windows NT

Internet HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, JSP, XML, J2EE

Software Packages MS Suite 2010 MS Office 2003, MS FrontPage 2.0

Documentation Design Document, System Requirements Document with

use cases

EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS) - Electrical Engineering (Aug'2008 - Aug'2010)

University Of Bridgeport (UB), Bridgeport, CT (GPA 3.7)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Sep

2003 - May 2007)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (GPA 3.10)

Professional Experience/Projects

Client: Department of Labor (DOL) Washington DC

QA Tester May 2010 - June 2011

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the

government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards,

unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic

statistics which foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage

earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States, improve working

conditions, advance opportunities for profitable employment and assure work-

related benefits and rights.

Responsibilities:

. Interacted with BA (Business Analyst), Developers and End Users to

gather requirements and Data Flow information.

. Responsible for developing test cases based on design documents and

requirements.

. Implemented Load Testing Plans.

. Partially involved in backend development using open source tool set

(PHP, MY SQL, LINUX) and others (LAMP).

. Extensively executed and verified SQL Queries.

. Extensively used SQL statements to validate the front-end values with

the backend of the application

. Created and executed test cases for functionality, black box,

regression and system integration testing.

. Performed Security Testing on web and application servers and tested

the application across different platforms like Windows NT, Windows

2000.

. Utilized Load Runner Analysis tool to analyze the response times of

the business transactions under load.

. Manually executed test cases.

. Used Quality Center for generating Requirements, Test Sets, and Test

Plan and for reporting defects.

. Used Quick Test Pro to create Object, Standard, Text and Bitmap

Checkpoints to verify an object's physical properties.

. Automated the test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and

Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.

. Involved in testing Cognos reports and tested various classes, filters

and conditions in the Cubes.

. Tested the Unix Shell Scripts developed for file transfer, processes

the return file, checked the server and database running on UNIX and

performed database testing by writing and executing SQL queries.

. Working with development team to ensure testing issues were resolved.

. Created sample XML files to load data in to Oracle database.

. Involved in back end and front end testing of Web based applications

. Involved in performing Functional testing, Regression testing.

. Reported and tracked testing progress in the bug tracking system using

Quality Center.

. Attended QA meetings in deciding QA Test Strategies and defining data

requirements for testing.

. Involved in weekly meeting and walkthroughs for project status and

updates.

Environment: Test Director/Quality Center, HTML, XML, UNIX, MS SQL

Server, Windows XP, SQL, Visio, .NET, Oracle, Loadrunner.

Med Trends Inc Maryland

Test Engineer Jan 2009 - May 2010

Med trends Inc is a government IT provider involved in enterprise software

integration, design, and development services. It automates manual

processes of the federal government's financial projects.

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for participating in the architecting, designing, writing

and implementing test scripts, test cases.

. Involved in working closely with various teams in the Software

Development Life Cycle including business analysis, development, QA,

database administrators and system architecture in troubleshooting

activities to identify business logic and coding errors.

. Created and implemented Test Plan, Test Cases and generated Test

Scripts.

. Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA

methodology.

. Created and maintained Test Cases and Test Scripts.

. Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test

Plans for all assigned project releases.

. Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and

coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.

. Automated the test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and

Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.

. Extensively used Quick Test Pro Checkpoints.

. Set up the Automated Testing Environment for creating, and running

automated Tests.

. Responsible in the preparation and review of Test Plan/Test Scenario,

Integration and System Test cases for Web based applications (front-

end and back-end)

. Responsible for the Functional, Integration and Regression of the

system.

. Performed Regression Testing of the affected test cases to confirm

that the defect has been resolved when defect corrections are

delivered in a build.

. Involved in Backend Database testing by validating SQL queries.

. Responsible in performing User Acceptance Testing with the clients and

training the functionality of the application.

. Experience in adding entire directory to Clear Case.

. Contributed significantly in the implementation of whole life cycle of

testing methodologies starting from Requirements gathering, test plan

creation, Integration & Regression Testing, Functional & User-

Acceptance testing, defect tracking, when the project (Vendor

Management System) and FPD went live during June 2005 and April 2006

for USCG, TSA and FAMS.

. Used Quality Center for managing and organizing the test cases and

test scripts.

. Used Clear Quest to log and track the defects.

. Maintaining, reporting and documenting technical, user's requirements.

. Participating in enhancement meetings focused on making the product

more effective in a Real-Time Scenario.

Environment: Oracle Applications 11i, Quick Test Professional 8.2, Clear

Quest, Clear Case, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, UNIX/LINUX, XML, UML.

LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION, INDIA

QA Tester Feb 2006 - May 2008

Life Insurance Corporation is the biggest insurance company in India. Life

Insurance Corporation has developed a web based a three-tier architecture

application to process various insurance requests, claims for Life

Insurance. Call centers and field agent's used this application. Data about

insurance requests and claims would be collected from users and processing

would be done to calculate premium and claim amounts.

Responsibilities:

o Created Test Cases to cover UAT functionality from Application

Mockups/Prototypes, Business Requirements and Function Specifications

documents.

o Worked on Test Manager to keep track of the requirements.

o Prepared data sheets for manual & automated testing.

o Positive & Negative Testing was performed for the applications.

o Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.

o Written SQL Statements to test data from Database.

o Used Win Runner to perform regression testing.

o Logged defects in Test Director & provided defect reports.

o Participated in discussions with the Development team.

Environment: Win Runner, Test Director, Test Manager, Windows 9x/NT, Java,

J2EE, SQL Server and Oracle.

*NOTE- References will be provided on request

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