Quality Test

Vimala Akkala email:

******.******@*****.***

Ph: 847 496

7789

Summary:

> 4 years of IT experience in Quality Assurance and software testing.

> Extensive experience in testing Java, .Net and Mainframes

applications.

> Experience in both manual testing and automated Testing.

> Expertise in analyzing of Business Requirements, Use Cases, Functional

Specifications and Design Documents.

> Expertise in writing the test plans, creating test scripts, creation

of test data and execution of test scenarios.

> Proficient in using test management tool Quality Center for

requirements management, scripts execution, defect tracking and

reporting.

> Involved in various testing stages like Functional Testing, Regression

Testing, Integration Testing, Compatibility Testing and User

Acceptance Testing.

> Experience of Different Levels and Types of Testing.

> Ability to manage and track the requirements through Requirements

Traceability Matrix.

> Strong Problem Analysis, Problem Solving skills and ability to work

amongst large teams.

> Solid knowledge of QA testing methodologies, software validation &

verification, conducting peer reviews and team walkthrough for the

project as per CMM (SEI) level 3 methodology, ISO and RUP

methodologies.

> Extensive exposure to software development life cycle (SDLC), test

cycle, IEEE, and SEI CMM standards in software development process and

documentation.

> Extensive work exposure to Iterative, Waterfall, Agile SDLC models.

> SME in testing web application and GUI interfaces.

Operating Windows NT/2000/XP and Unix

Systems

Defect Reporting Tools Quality Center, Bug Zilla

Testing strategies GUI, Functional Testing, Regression Testing,

Compatibility Testing, Smoke Testing.

Languages Java, J2EE, VB, HTML, XML

RDBMS Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS - Access

Scripting Languages VB script

Configuration VSS

Management Tools

Education:

. Master of Sciences.

Morgan Stanley DFS - IL

Feb 2008- June'09

Role: QA Tester

Morgan Stanley DFS (Discover Financial Services) is the Credit Card

division of Morgan Stanley supports Students and Families with low interest

rates, even provides the cash back bonus on their purchases and allows to

do balance transfers. DFS is currently upgrading their website

discovercard.com through the Internet Hosting Systems (IHS) project for

quicker access. The current Internet Hosting Systems is WEB based

technology for improving website performance.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed the Business Product Specification and Website prepared the

test plan describing the test strategy.

. Analyzing the Business Requirements, Functional Specification and

Design Documents.

. Involved in preparing Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on the

Functional specifications, Design Documents and Use Cases.

. Involved in writing in the Regression Test Cases in Quality Center 8.2

. Extensively used Quality Center for test planning and executing Test

cases and Defect Repots.

. Mapping the Test Cases from Test Plan Tab to Test Lab Tab under

Quality Center for Execution.

. Involved in Reviewing and Finalizing the Test Cases for the

Execution..

. Modified the scripts from time to time accommodate the

changes/upgrades in the application interface.

. Executed test queries using SQL on DB2, SQL Server Databases.

. Conducted backend tests by writing SQL queries for database

verification and utilizing TOAD and SQL Plus to access and setup test

data.

. Analyzed Defect Reports and worked closely with Application Developers

for resolution.

. Involved in Documentation of Test Results and meetings with business

analysts.

. Participated in weekly meetings and reported the bugs.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.0, Load Runner 8.0, Test Director 8.0

(Quality Center), Lotus Notes 6.1, Windows NT, VB, Perl, Web Sphere 5.1,

Java, DB2, CICS, Oracle 11i, Toad.

Global Corporate Investment Banking, BOFA, New York Oct 2006 - Dec'07

Role: QA analyst

ApeX is a Non-Standard Trade and New Product approval system. It allows

users to record risks and mitigation for each deal. Depending upon the type

of deal, business entities and the geographical area of the deal, it lets

the related business control group to record the risks associated with the

deal and the mitigation for those risks.

Responsibilities:

. Created Test Plans and Test Cases and executed Test Cases manually

using Quality Center based on the Functional Requirements document.

. Analyzing the Business Requirements and involved in System Testing.

. Extensively involved in creating the tesxt cases for Functionality

testing.

. Performed GUI testing on the application.

. Extensively involved in the User Acceptance Test.

. Reported the identified defects to the developers using Quality Center

. Performed bug tracking and resolution.

. Conducted the backend tests using SQL.

. Worked with the developers in helping them reproduce the bugs which

were found in the system testing environment

. Responsibilities include regularly interacting with the development

team and requirements team and communicate the related issues.

. Generated test summary reports using Quality Center and reported to

the Team lead.

. Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of

testing.

Environment: Java, JSP, Spring 2, Web logic8.1, Eclipse3.2, Oracle9i,

JUnit, Jtest, Quality Center.

Housing Development Board, Singapore Aug

2005 - Sep '06

Role: QA Analyst

Housing Development Board is a Singapore government organization involved

in the construction and maintenance of residential houses and apartments in

Singapore. As part of the testing team, I was involved in testing of

programs, both batch and online.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specifications and

Use Cases documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for System

testing.

. Executed and validated test cases based upon the system requirements,

identified, and documented defects when performing test executions.

. Used Test Director to create and maintain the Test cases and the Test

scripts for both System Testing and Regression Testing

. Mapping the Test Cases from Test Plan Tab to Test Lab Tab under Test

Director for Execution.

. Executing Manual test cases and reviewing the defects and Reporting

the Defects through Test Director

. Involved in preparation of Daily Status and Defect Summary reports.

. Coordinated with development team for bug fixes.

. Preparation of Test Execution Report

Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, Test Director 8.0

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