Project Quality Assurance

Prashanth G Shankarappa

Quality Analyst/Lead with 7 years career track and outstanding record of

accomplishment in Information Systems. Expertly led multiple projects to

improve efficiency and productivity with a superior ability to define and

map project scope, specifications, project timeline, resources from

planning through production. Has expertise in requirements gathering,

managing and documenting functionality requirements, and communicating

effectively with management, developers and QA engineers. In addition,

extensive experience in all aspects of testing methodology and quality

assurance including test planning, conceptualizing testing strategy,

designing and implementing quality processes, executing test cases, logging

and tracking defects to closure and collecting and analyzing metrics.

Major Strengths:

. Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle: Requirement

Analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Execution, System

testing and User Acceptance Testing

. Experience in various types of testing: Black Box testing, Sanity

testing, Functional testing, Integration Testing, System Testing,

Acceptance testing and Regression testing

. Knowledge of Software development Lifecycles - Waterfall, Rational

Unified process and Agile Scrum methodology

. Develop Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases

. Develop and Implement Automation Framework

. Develop and Maintain Automated scripts using HP Winrunner, HP Quick

test Professional and Microfocus Test Partner

. Working Knowledge of Defect Management tools like Compuware

Trackrecord, Merant tracker and HP Quality Center

. Knowledge of HTML, XML, VBScript and VBA.

. Knowledge of database - Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access

. Onsite-Offshore Coordination, Knowledge Transfer

. Develop tools using MS Access and Macros to automate processes

. Hands on experience of Business domains - Health Insurance, Auto and

Property Insurance, Annuities and Telecom

. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with strong Customer

orientation and Client interfacing skills

Certification / Training:

. LOMA 280 Certification (Healthcare Life Sciences)

. Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Professional Experience:

Employer: Compuware Corp., Madison, WI July-2008 - Present

Client: American Family Insurance

Projects:

CIM (Customer Information System), SIS (Sales Initiation System) Auto and

Property, Policy Viewer (Auto, Property, Commercial, Farm Ranch),

AMFAM.COM, Campaigns (Mainframe based applications), ANS (Agency

Notification System)

As Test Coordinator, Prashanth was responsible for managing testing of

various functionalities in the auto and property insurance domains to

assess and evaluate the impact of the enhancements made as a part of the

changing requirements. He was also instrumental in building a Test

Automation framework and developing the Test scripts using Test Partner.

Responsibilities:

. Provide project leadership from the client side for multiple projects

including status reporting, client/project team coordination, and

quality assurance

. Analyze business requirements, Wireframes and use Cases

. Develop Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Case using Business Req and

Use Cases

. Identify the Risks and develop a mitigation plan

. Identify defects, assign priority and report using Track Record

. Identify Test data required for execution of test cases before the

start of the project

. Log defects and assign priority to the defect using Track Record

. Attend defect review meetings to analyze the impact of the defect and

assign severity

. Report the status of Test execution and give a summary of the results

. Develop and maintain Test Scripts developed using Test Partner

. Develop and maintain tools using MS Access

. Perform regression testing using Test Partner

Achievements:

. Developed an Data driven Automation Framework for Regression Testing

using Test Partner

. Provided a solution in the form of a MS Access tool to Add and

maintain Pilot requests

. Provided a solution to scrape data from websites which greatly reduced

the effort of the manual process. The Automated solution was developed

using Test Partner which was very well appreciated

Environment:

. J2EE, Track Record, Test Partner, MS Access 2007, MS SharePoint

Employer : Infosys Technologies Ltd Mar 2004 -

Jun 2008

Client: Allstate Corporation, Northbrook, IL

Project:

Transcend Annuities Administration

As Test Lead/Onsite Coordinator/Automation Lead, Prashanth was responsible

for managing and leading a team, assign resources to projects, provide

effort estimate, status reporting to management, manage test scripts

developed using HP Winrunner and perform Quality Center Admin activities.

Responsibilities:

. Interact extensively with the Business Analysts to understand the

requirements

. Preparing and review of Test Approach, Test Plan and Requirement

Traceability Matrix

. Effort estimation and assign resources to different projects

. Resource management based on the estimated effort

. Test data setup, Test Execution and reporting test results

. Coordinate activities with the offshore team

. Test Execution Status reporting to Managers, Analyst and the

Development teams

. Foresee the risk/issues with test execution

. Log defects in Quality Center, assign the defect to a developer and

track the defect to closure.

. Participated in defect meetings with development team and Business

Analysts.

. Quality Center Admin activities - Add username to the Project, Modify

User Roles, Project creation

. Setting up, running and monitor Regression runs

. Fix Winrunner Script defects

Environment:

. Magic eDeveloper 9, HP Quality Center 8.0, HP Winrunner 7.5, Merant

Tracker, MS SharePoint, MS Project, MS Visio, UNIX, Oracle

Client: Allstate Corporation, Northbrook, IL

Project:

Alliance Automation

As Automation Lead/Onsite Coordinator, Prashanth was responsible for the

maintenance of HP Quick Test Pro test scripts, Coordinate activities with

offshore team and maintain SQL server database

Responsibilities:

. Analyze and fix QTP script related issues opened by the Regression

team.

. Status reporting on the script changes

. Maintaining SQL Server Database

. Control the modification to the Database.

. Import Manual Test cases from Excel to the SQL Server Database using a

VBScript

. Modify the QTP Scripts to include new functionality

. Coordination between Onsite and Offshore teams

Environment:

. J2EE, SQL Server 2005, HP Quick Test Professional 8.2, Visual Source

Safe, MS Word, MS Project, MS Visio

Client: Allstate Corporation, Northbrook, IL

Project:

Direct Distribution Quality Assurance

As Onsite Coordinator, Prashanth was responsible for coordinating

activities between the offshore and onshore teams.

Responsibilities:

. Attend the Project Initiation with all the stakeholders

. Participate in Requirement walkthrough with Business Analysts and

Developers

. Attend Functional Design Walkthrough with the developer

. Effort estimate for the project based on the high level requirements

. Requirement Analysis - Determine the scope of testing, segregate the

requirements that can be tested and those that cannot be tested

. Determine the Entry and Exit criteria for System Testing

. Determine the testing schedule, duration and prioritize the

requirements

. Analyze the dependencies on resources, technical environment and

interface used for testing

. Conduct Requirement walkthrough with the Test Execution Team

. Prepare test conditions document that for High level scenarios

. Prepare Requirement Traceability matrix

. Analyze the dependencies in Data mining

. Involved in Data collection

. Request for migration of the code to the Test environment

. Assign test cases to peers and assist with their execution

. Execute test cases and tabulate the results

. Analyze the defects and report defects to the Development team

. Retest the defects and track them to closure

. Analyze the requirements and determine the changes that would effect

the Automation scripts

. Perform a Final build testing just before the code moves to production

. Report defects that arise, discuss the severity of the defect with the

development team

. Perform Post Production Testing after the code has been moved to

production

. Import the newly added test cases to the Regression Database

. Modify the Winrunner Script to accommodate changes to the screen

. Migrate the changes to the Regression environment

. Run the Regression scripts and monitor the outcome

. Involved in the reduction of test cases in the Regression Bed

Achievements:

. Scripted a Macro to login to the terminal Emulator client Rumba

Environment:

. AS400, J2EE, HP Winrunner 7.5, HP Test Director, Visual Basic for

applications

Clients: COLT Telecom Group and AETNA Insurance

Role: QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Analyze the Use cases, Prepare Test case document

. Knowledge sharing between team members

. Perform load testing

. Communicate the test results with the Onsite Coordinator

. Clarify the issues related to the requirement with the onsite

coordinator

. Prepare a test plan based on the requirements

. Send the test plan and the test results for review

. Maintain a traceability matrix

. Execute the test cases and maintain the input and output files

. Identify and inform defects to the onsite coordinator

. Re-test the defect after the code fix

Achievements:

. Scripted an application in VB to rename files present in folder to a

particular pattern

. Developed training materials and executed user training

Environment:

. OS/390, COBOL, JCL, DB2, UNIX, COBOL, JCL, DB2, FileAid, Xpeditor, MS

Access, Visual Basic for Applications, MS Access, Oracle

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Visvesvariah University,

Mysore India

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