Quality Assurance Project Manager
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Mani Kurminaidu
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Over 8 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on
Software design, development and Quality Assurance. Extensive experience in
Software Testing of Client Server and Web based applications using Manual
and Automation testing tools. Self motivated team player with good
communication skills.
PROFILE
. Expertise in Manual Testing as well as Automated Testing using tools
like Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director / Quality Center.
Extensive experience in Testing of Web based Applications, which
include .Net, Java, and Client Server Applications
. Interacted with business users, application developers, and technical
support teams in helping them base line requirement specifications.
. Strong working knowledge of QA life cycle and methodologies.
. Worked as a team player in resolving design issues and assisting
others in making sure the project is completed in time and with right
standards.
. Flexible in accepting various duties and assignments and helpful in
managing the changing priorities and needs of developmental projects
. Good knowledge of SQL and experience writing SQL Scripts to populate
Test data and validate test results. Worked extensively on Windows and
UNIX Operating Systems.
. Thorough hand on experience with all levels of testing including
Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance
Testing.
. Good experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of the
application to be regression tested.
. Extensively coordinated with the Engineering team/Product team/QA team
to discuss challenging issues/bugs/features faced while testing the
product
. Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure
comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
. Experince in SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Methods
Technical Skills:
Testing Tools Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, PVCS
Tracker, QTP, Quality
Center
Operating System Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Solaris and Mac OSX.
Software Developer 2000, Oracle Forms 6.0/4.5, Reports
6.0, SQL Loader and Toad 7.2.3
Languages JAVA, JavaScript, JSP, SQL, Visual Basic and
C++.
RDBMS Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server and MS Access 2000
Work Experience:
VerizonBusiness, Ashbun, VA
Oct' 2008 - Present
QA SOFTWARE TESTER
Responsibilities:
. Reviewed Business requirements 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.
. Designed and developed test cases and performed manual testing.
. Execution/analysis of test cases and documentation of software defects
using Quality Center.
. Documented test execution results and test execution status reports .
. Execution of the test scenarios, scripts, and review of product
functionality.
. Performed smoke testing before every build. Manually performed
Security Testing of application
. Prepared SQL scripts for test data preparation for Back End
functionality testing
. Effectively coordinated between end-users, development and testing
teams.
. Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing
. Wrote SQL/PLSQL scripts to verify data in the DB
. Provided Efforts Estimate and coordinated the test schedule using
Agile testing methodology in UAT phase
. Working closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the
review and modification of the product and its specifications using
Agile- testing methodology.
Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, HTML, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, QTP
American Chemical Society, Washington
D.C Feb'2007 -Sep'2008
QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
. Interacting with developers and trying to track/verify bugs in the
corporate Bug database and ensure smooth progress and completion of
the QA cycle.
. Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables and to verify the
output Data of the reports
. Gathered business requirements from customers and available sources to
build the process flow diagrams and Entity relationship diagrams for
Atypon Project
. Tested the Application in different Web Browsers -IE,Firefox,
Opera,Mac-Safari and on Multiple Platforms- Windows, linux
. Analyzed and helped business users in modifying the Use Cases and
created Test cases based on their feedback and executed them to
manually validate against the expected results.
. Created manual and automated Test Plans that best describes the
features and functionality of the application.
. Used Test Director/Mercury quality center to track, analyze and
document defects.
. Performed Component, Integration, System and Regression testing at
various levels of the application to review and validate the product
functionality.
. Perform installation, maintenance, and system support for Mercury
Interactive testing tools. Wrote test cases and test scripts for
functional and integration testing
. Wrote various complicated queries to retrieve the required data from
Oracle databases.
. Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT testing.
Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, HTML, UNIX, Windows NT/XP,
Mainframe, MS Office Tools, MS Visio, QTP
ARBITRON,
MD
Oct' 2006 - Jan' 2007
QA Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
. Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test Screens and workflows for
Quality Assurance Involved in both Manual and Automated testing.
. Conducted end-user training sessions (120+ total users) for exercising
full use of application.
. Developed and executed real-world scenarios based on the client's
business requirements to ensure functional/non-functional integrity
and define feature boundaries.
. Performed various testing methodologies which includes Smoke Testing,
Regression Testing, Security Testing, User Acceptance Testing and
System testing, OS compatible test, Brower compatible (cross browser)
testing for each build manually and report defects using bug tracking
tool Test Director.
. Responsible to develop and execute WinRunner scripts for Arbitron's
web based application.
. Implemented Performance test plan, executed Performance and Stress
tests against different project releases, using Mercury's Load Runner
tool and sent analysis reports to project team.
. Worked with team members in executing various functional test cases
and perform Black Box testing.
Environment: JAVA, Oracle 9i, UNIX, WinRunner, Test Director, and
LoadRunner.
ACCLARO, NY
Jan'2006 - Sep'2006
QA Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
. Involved in various phases of the project including gathering
requirements, analysis, functionality documentation and created ER
diagrams to represent the logical data flow of application.
. Interacted with client's personnel to define business processes and
software usage.
. Created change requests for developers by defining the required
features and functionality. And worked closely with technical staff to
validate business requirements.
. Assisted in writing test plans and testing the functionality of the
web-based application.
. Extensively used Microsoft Excel in creating Test scripts using Excel
functions, logged and tracked defects using Issue log.
. Responsible to design Test Cases, Test Scripts and execute Test
Scripts for each release and track and report defects using bug
tracking tool Issue View.
. Wrote test plans, test cases of the application, business process and
performed Usability and Integration testing.
. Attended several walkthrough meeting with the Business Analysts,
Project Manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.
. Testing of various kinds of interfaces depending on the applications.
Environment: Oracle, HTML, Microsoft Tools, Windows 2000 and UNIX, MS SQL
Server
NIBCO, Elkhart, IN
Sep'2004-Dec'2005
(QA Analyst)
Responsibilities:
. Interacted with software developers to understand applications
functionality and navigational flow.
. Took part in preparation of Project plan, user acceptance testing. Got
detailed understanding of business functionality and took the
responsibility of preparing Functionality Test Plan which was used by
testing team while doing their testing process.
. Created test scripts using WinRunner tool and performed interface,
functionality, and regression testing on new builds of the software.
. Utilized TestDirector for tracking requirements and communicating them
to the team during the test process and integrated this capability
with e-mail, ensuring that all the communication about a requirement
is in a single location.
. Preparation of Functional Test Plan and writing actual Test Cases
Running the test scripts using Test Director.
. Administered Test Director partly by creating the users user groups
and assigning privileges to users.
. Identified functionality and performance issues, including: deadlock
conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under
load using LoadRunner.
. Utilized LoadRunner Analysis tool to analyze the response times of the
business transactions under load.
Environment: ASP.net,SQLserver2000,WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, HP
UNIX, Oracle 10g/9i and Windows 2000.
Capital One, McLean, VA
Jul'2003-Aug'2004 (QA
Analyst)
Responsibilities:
. Wrote test plans and procedures, Created and executed test scripts for
client's web-based application
. Created and executed manual and automated test scripts using
established test requirements.
. Eventually created and executed automated test scripts using WinRunner
tool
. Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different
test data
. Used Test Director to track, analyze and document defects
. Wrote and Reported defects using TestDirector and verified fixes and
closed bugs during regression testing.
. Designed the LoadRunner scenarios with various user-mix incrementing
in constant ratios, till the peak load is achieved.
. Conducted smoke testing, performance testing, data driven testing,
screen navigational testing, Application Integration Manually
. Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team
. Wrote and executed SQL Statements to retrieve data from backend.
. Execution of the test scenarios and scripts and review of product
functionality
Environment: Java, SQL Server, Oracle, HTML, JavaScript, JSP, UNIX,
Windows NT, WinRunner, Test Director and LoadRunner.
Fleet Bank, Absecon, NJ
May'2002-Jun'2003
(QA Analyst)
This application is for Internet instant credit card release. An individual
can apply for the credit card online through a Website, also Update their
Personal information, add an authorized key into the system and include an
email address to get the statements online only.
Responsibilities:
. Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for
Quality Assurance Involved in both Manual and Automated testing.
. Created Test Plans that describes the features and functions to be
tested.
. Created manual and automated tests for several different modules..
. Analyzed the application and created and managed system testing
schedule
. Analyzed Business Requirement documents, Functional specification
documents to prepare Test cases based on Test Plans
. Automated test cases for GUI, Functionality, Security and Regression
testing using WinRunner.
. Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and
Modification Request issues.
. Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing.
. Used Test Director to track, analyze and document defects.
Environment: Java, XML, ORACLE 8i, Windows XP/2000, WinRunner and
TestDirector
Education:
. Associate Degree in Computer Information Systems, WCC College, New
York
. Bachelor of Sciences, Andhra University, India
. Brainbench certified Software tester.
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