ASHAKIRAN BATTULA
****, ******** *****, *****, **, 75024
858-***-**** *********@*****.***
Education: Bachelor of Civil Engineering (S.R.K.R.Engineering College,
Andhra Pradesh, India).
Professional Summary:
. Around Four years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance
Analyst.
. Experience in Manual, Automation and Back-End testing of web based and
standalone applications.
. Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),
Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC).
. Experience in Developing Test Cases and Test Summary Reports using
Business Requirement Documents and Use Case Documents.
. Experience in Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Negative Testing,
Regression Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance
Testing (UAT) and Performance Testing.
. Exposer to test tools using QC, Test Director, Mantis Tracker.
. Very good understanding of Agile Methodology and waterfall model.
. Have experience working with SharePoint.
. Responsible for Analysis and Defect Tracking using HP Quality Canter,
Test Director and Mantis Tracker.
. Strong skills in backend testing using SQL queries on Oracle RDBMS
using Toad.
. Proficient in using Test Management Tools like HP Quality Centre, for
both client-server and web-based applications.
. Have Experience Backend Data base testing Using Oracle Toad.
. Have Experience with HP_QC Test cases and Execution, Defect tracking.
. Had Scrum meetings every day and walkthrough with the PM and team
members to discuss on test progress and issues.
. Proficient in creating Daily Status Reports for the managers to keep
track of Defects by Percentage.
. Effective communication skills / presentation skills (verbal / written)
for both highly technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent skills
on Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel).
. Knowledge in writing SQL Queries in Oracle.
. Highly motivated, organized and result oriented with excellent
interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with capability of
adapting to fast changing requirements.
Technology Summary
Test Management Tools: HP Quality Centre, Test Director.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, and VB Script.
Databases: Toad, Oracle 11g.
Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP, UNIX.
Utilities: MS Office.
EXPERIENCE:
Amazech Solutions,TX
01/2013-Current
Quality Assurance Analyst
Worked with IRMS application. The application tracked details for
Recruiting process such as Employees, Recruit Coordinator, Recruiters,
Job Requirements, Candidates applying for jobs,Submissions, Job
Requirements, List of clients, Payment details.
Responsibilities
. Involved in manual testing of the application and developed several
Test cases based on requirements.
. Used Excel sheet for documentation of Test cases.
. Logged Defects in Mantis Tracker for reporting new issues and verified
the existing issues.
. Communicated with the Team lead and Developer and mailed the defect
details such as defect id, description, screenshot of module that
caused the defect, navigation steps of Test case and verified if the
defect is fixed.
. Performed Regression Testing of the application and retested the
application after the defect is fixed.
. Executing Test cases repeatedly after the defects are resolved and
reported pass/fail result of Test cases.
. Involved in Smoke, UI, Functional, Regression and System testing.
. Attended weekly Team meetings and discussed about the updates and
defects to be resolved.
Environment: Test Director, HP Quality Centre, UNIX, Windows 2007, MS
Office.
Eastman Kodak, San Diego,CA.
01/2012-12/2012
Quality Assurance Analyst
Designed and Developed Test Cases for Kodak All-in-one Home Center
application on the Windows platform. It is in Kodak family of three
models of thermal Inkjet AiO (All-in-One) printers such as 5100, 5300 and
5500 used to perform different actions such as Printing, Scanning,
Copying and Fax.
Responsibilities:
. Understanding of business requirement documents and designing test
scenarios and test cases.
. Involved in designing the test steps, writing test cases and running
tests.
. Created positive and negative test cases to validate the
functionality.
. Documented the test results and log the defects in Version One.
. Had Scrum meetings every day and walkthrough with the PM and team
members to discuss on test progress and issues.
. Defect Review Meetings with the Dev. team and QA team.
. Developed and maintained the Traceability matrix between requirements
and test cases.
. Performed Smoke, UI, Functional, Integration, Regression and System
testing.
. Performed more Performance testing from Development stage identify
the software processes that directly influence the overall performance
of the system, for each process, determine the input parameters that
will most significantly influence the performance of the system. It is
important to limit the parameters to the essential ones so that the
set of test cases selected will be of manageable size, early
performance testing with distributed application.
. Participation in daily status meeting, defect tracking and
resolutions.
Environment: Test Director, HP Quality Centre, Windows 2007, MS
Office.
QA Analyst
JPMorgan Chase, Dallas, TX
04/2011- 12/2011
JPMorgan Chase is one of the world's most prominent banking in financial
banking. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive investment
management firms in the world. The project was aimed at the construction
of a data Warehouse to support the creation and ongoing generation of the
financial model analysis. Generate reports for the company Investment
analysis. Involved in web testing of the application gathering requirements
from loan customers and validated the payment modules of loans, validated
the loan history modules and developed test cases for different loan
Modules summarized for each month and year.
Responsibilities:
. Understanding of business requirement documents and designing test
scenarios and test cases.
. Regression testing for each of the new builds with fixes.
. Created Test cases in HP QC.
. Reported the defects using Quality Centre. Monitored the status of the
defect and assigning to the right developer, business etc.
. Tracked the defects using the HP QC and attending the Defect status
meeting to track the status of the bug fixing.
. Responsible for doing the manual testing and tracking all the
screenshots to report the bug in a proper format to the development
team. Save the input/output for updating the test case with proper
input values in case of an issue.
. Worked with different kinds of Joins, Inner Join, Left Join, Right
Join statements joining multiple tables to collect data as per the
Client requirements.
. Created Excel Pivot tables organized the data generated from the
reports. Arranged the data fields to Summarize, Count and filter the
data accordingly to meet the requirements.
. Experience in implementing different options in Oracle like
Partitioning to eliminate duplicate records from report tables etc.
. Used Toad to run the SQL queries for Oracle database. Wrote some of
the SQL queries to facilitate the testing by updating the record in
the backend.
Environment: SQL, Toad, HP Quality Centre, Windows 2007, MS Office.
Mission College, Santa Clara, CA.
01/2010-03/2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
Developed Test Cases for Mission college, University Portal. It is used by
members for browsing course catalog
enrolling into classes, accessing personal information and grades.
Responsibilities:
. Developed test cases after going through the business requirements.
. Developed and Test Scenarios based on the Requirements.
. Conducted Review meetings for Test Scenarios.
. Wrote the test cases using the Excel sheet as well as the QC.
. Performed and documents the test case results in the sheet after
performing the manual testing.
. Investigated software faults and interacted with Developers to resolve
Technical issues.
. Save the input/output for each of the executed test case for proper
documentation.
. Worked with the developers to reproduce the defects.
. Participated in defect status meeting, write the notes and follow up
with the team until the bug is fixed or assured.
Environment: MS Office, Quality Centre.