Quality Assurance Engineer
Resume:
Aparna Gummaluri ******.***@*****.***
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Work in a competitive, challenging environment and to contribute to the
best of my ability towards growth of the progressive company. To fully
utilize my interpersonal and academic skills to pursue challenging and
rewarding career.
SUMMARY
0. Over 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance with a thorough
knowledge of Functional, Regression, GUI, Installation, Sanity, Smoke,
Positive, Negative, Browser Compatibility and User Acceptance Testing.
1. Also participated in User Acceptance Testing and Implementation.
2. Extensively involved in performing Manual as well as Automated testing.
3. Having good experience in manual and automated testing for Client Server
and web applications.
4. Have strong Skills/Experience in all phases of Software Testing
Lifecycle (Planning, Authoring and Execution).
5. Solid knowledge in test planning, test execution and test results
analysis.
6. Analyzing Business requirement (SRS), and proficient in writing Test
Plans, defining Test Scenarios and test Cases, developing and
maintaining test scripts, analyzing script results, interacting with
team members for fixing the errors.
7. Experience in reviewing product documents and providing information for
technical documentation.
8. Involved in the Preparation of Understanding Documents.
9. Experience in Waterfall, Iterative, Agile and Scrum methodology of
testing.
10. Experience in developing Automation Framework and Automation scripts.
11. Insightful knowledge of testing tools like Win Runner, QTP.
12. Proficient in QTP Automation Framework.
13. Extensive experience in creating QTP and Win Runner Scripts.
14. Experience in Defect Life Cycle and Bug Reporting.
15. Worked closely with the Project Manager, development team, business
analysts and end-users. Ability to interact with developers and product
analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking.
16. Extensively used test repository and bug tracking tools like Mercury
Quality Center/Test Director, JIRA and an in-house tool called STAR.
17. Delivering the status reports like testing status, defect-tracking
status and weekly status reports to the Test Manager.
18. Experience in Accessibility Testing (VPAT).
19. Experience in using Excel Macros.
20. Experience in setting up test environments. Also experienced in setting
up environments resembling customer environments.
21. Performed product knowledge transfer sessions or Mentor new QA Team
members of the project.
22. Expertise in CA Spectrum Service Assurance (SSA) and NSM System
Performance.
23. A skilled leader with exceptional communication, relationship
management, analytical, logical and problem solving skills.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
B.Tech in Information Technology from Kalinga Institute of Industrial
Technology, Deemed University,
Orissa, India (2001 - 2005)
CERTIFICATIONS
QAI Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE).
ACHIEVEMENTS
. Awarded the Pat on the Back (POB) Award in recognition of the tireless
effort contributed to the CPF Project.
. Certificate of Appreciation and rewarded with a Golden Pin for the
outstanding performance and lasting contribution to the CPF Project.
. Recognized with a cash reward for the outstanding work in the SSA
project.
SKILLS
Operating Systems Windows XP/2008/2003, Red Hat Linux
Testing Tools Win Runner 8.2, QTP 9.2, QTP 9.5, QTP 10.0
Test Management Tools Mercury Quality Center 10.0, Test Director 7.6
Defect Tracking Tools JIRA, STAR (CA Proprietary tool), Mercury
Quality Center 10.0
Methodologies Iterative, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum
Version Control VSS
Languages VB Scripting, Python, PL/SQL
Web Related HTML
Databases SQL 2005, SQL 2008, Oracle
JOB PROFILE
CA Technologies Hyderabad, India
Quality Assurance Engineer October '08 - September '10
Product Name : Spectrum Service Assurance (SSA)
Tools Used : QTP9.2, QTP9.5, QTP10.0, JIRA, STAR, QC
Product Environment : Windows 2003, Windows 2008, SQL 2005/2008,
MSCS Clusters,
Business Objects for Reports, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, IE 8.0,
FireFox, Chrome
Releases : SAM 1.0, SAM 1.0 PES, SSA 1.1, SSA 1.5, SSA 2.5
Spectrum Service Assurance (formerly Service Assurance Manager) offers
customers a single, unified performance monitoring and root cause analytics
across physical and virtual server infrastructure and the application
services it supports. It facilitates operations management of the IT
environment from a business perspective by building a holistic, service
centric representation of the infrastructure, including the role and
significance of various infrastructure components to critical business
services. SAM enables IT organizations to systematically develop, deploy
and manage their business services according to the key metrics of Quality
and Risk, quantifying business value and optimizing performance to maximize
current investments. Simply this product can be called as Manager of
Managers (MOM) as it manages all other managers like NSM, Wily Introscope,
Wily CEM, Spectrum, eHealth
Responsibilities Include
. Evaluation of various Automation Tools in order to select the best
suited tool for automation of the product.
. Designing an automation framework using QTP for the automation of the
testing process.
. Gaining knowledge about other CA products like EEM for user
authentication, Wily CEM, Wily Introscope and NSM as silo.
. Work with development team to understand assigned modules/new product
features.
. Develop the Test Cases and Test Execution Plans.
. Set-up testing environments.
. Manual Execution of Test Scripts.
. Re-scripting the Manual Test Scripts.
. Record issues into a defect-tracking system.
. Follow-up and close issues entered into the defect-tracking system.
. Escalate issues to a higher level where issue resolution is not
achieved within a reasonable amount of time.
. Provide information to technical documentation (i.e. Product Release
Notes/Readme files).
. Review product documentation (manuals/Getting Started Guides) for
technical accuracy.
. Responsible for developing detailed Test Scenarios for testing the
functional flow of System Testing.
. Responsible for creating System Test Cases against the Change
requirements document.
. Involved in detailed Functional, Regression and GUI testing.
. Involved in Positive Testing, Negative Testing and also browser
compatibility Testing.
. Responsible for executing Smoke Testing, System Testing and Acceptance
Testing.
. Installation testing of each and every build.
. Participate in UAT and Implementation.
. Participate in meetings for discussing the status and issues.
. Involved and responsible for VPAT testing of the product
CA Technologies Hyderabad, India
Quality Assurance Engineer October '07 - September '08
Product Name : Network and Systems Management - NSM r11.2
Tools Used : STAR Bug Tracking Tool
Product Environment : Windows 2003, SQL 2005, Oracle, MSCS
Clusters, Linux, UNIX, IPv4, IPv6
Releases : NSM R11.2
Unicenter NSM is a comprehensive management solution that lets you
discover, monitor and analyze infrastructure elements, gather reports on
system and network status to help avoid potential bottlenecks and set up
automated actions to improve performance.
Unicenter NSM includes agents that provide monitoring and visualization of
resources across many different platforms in the enterprise, that network
together to perform a business service, and that complete a unified view of
the enterprise. This technology allows multiple CA solutions to work
together to perform a business service.
Responsibilities Include
. Develop test plans for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management.
. Set-up testing environments in UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
. Manual Execution of test scripts.
. Perform testing on IPv6 environment.
. Record issues into a defect-tracking system.
. Follow-up and close issues entered into the defect-tracking system.
. Escalate issues to a higher level where issue resolution is not
achieved within a reasonable amount of time.
. Provide information to technical documentation (i.e. Product Release
Notes/Readme files).
. Review product documentation (manuals/Getting Started Guides) for
technical accuracy.
. Work with development team to understand assigned modules/new product
features for the purpose of developing test cases.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd Hyderabad, India
Quality Assurance Engineer August '06 - October '07
Project Name : Central Provider File (CPF)
Client : CIGNA, USA
Tools Used : Win Runner 8.2, IBM PCOM, Oracle, Quality Center 8.2,
Excel Macros
CIGNA Corporation and its subsidiaries are leading Health Insurance
providers of employee benefits in the United States. Their products and
services include managed and indemnity health care coverage; group life,
accident and disability insurance; retirement services; and investment
management. They also offer life insurance and employee benefits in
selected international markets.
The Regression testing serves as a feasibility evaluation, and as a means
to develop processes for regression testing of key applications in an
onsite-offshore model. These applications belong to the health insurance
domain and do the claim intake and processing.
Central Provider File (CPF) is basically a Client - Server application,
part of it being Mainframes, supported by Corporate Systems teams located
in Bloomfield, CT. CPF is the single source for medical providers, the main
provider file for CIGNA Corporation. It stores information used for
Credentialing, Directories, Radius Analysis, and any other process
associated with the use of provider information.
Provider Workbench is a Microsoft Windows based tool that enables CIGNA
Health plans to have local input, maintenance and inquiry into the Central
Provider File (CPF).
Responsibilities Include
. Study and Analysis of Test requirement specifications
. Preparation of the Test Execution Plan
. Execution of Manual Test Scripts
. Re Scripting the Manual Test Scripts
. Preparation of Understanding document
. Test Data Loading
. Identification of Automation Test Designs
. Automation of Regression Test cases
. Maintenance of Automation Scripts for each release.
. Supporting CHC Release Execution.
. Validating the Test Results.
. Automation Script enhancements.
. Updating Test results in Quality Center
. Reporting the bugs
Satyam Computer Services Ltd Hyderabad, India
Quality Assurance Engineer August '05 - August '06
Project Name : Power Managed HealthCare System (PMHS)
Client : CIGNA, USA
Tools Used : Win Runner 8.2, IBM PCOM, Test Director 7.6
Power Managed Healthcare System or Power MHS - is a major insurance
application. It is used for loading claims for UB92 and HCFA Claim Type
(Dental, Vision and Health), addition of multiple hold codes, supporting
Institutional claims, adding procedure codes, admission, discharge dates
and supporting process rules for specific conditions
Responsibilities Include
. Test Data Loading
. Maintenance of Automation Scripts for each release
. Automation Script Enhancements
. Supporting the Release Execution.
. Validating the Test Results
. Updating Test Results in Test Director
PERSONAL PROFILE
Date of Birth : 15th April, 1984
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Work Status for US : H1-B Visa
Address : 10409 SE 174th St, Apt#2419, Renton, WA - 98055
Facebook : facebook.com/aparna.gvl
Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnagummaluri
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