Srini Varikallu Phone:
Email: ********@*****.***
Authorized to Work in USA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
. A Senior IT testing professional with more than 8 years of extensive
experience in manual and automated software testing .
. Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases, Test
Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reports and Defect Metrics
. Very good working experience in using Black Box testing techniques like
Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Tables and
White box testing
. Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI
Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Load
Testing,Stress testing and User Acceptance Testing
. Experience in Ad-Hoc testing.
. Extensive experience in QA Testing Web Applications, Database Testing
. Knowledge in Processes Agile Unified Process(AUP)
. Experience in Requirements Analysis, Business reviews and working
sessions to understand the requirements and system design.
. Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with
overall project schedule.
. Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
. System specification analysis, testing methodology and test plan
formulation.
. Involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
. Exposure to automated testing tools, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center.
. Work experience in configuration management/version control system tool
PVCS
. Experience in complete project life cycle of Analysis, Design,
Implementation, Testing, Regression testing.
. Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in SQL Server and MS
Access, Oracle.
. Expertise in SQL (Join, triggers, functions)
. Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking
Tools.
. Played a major role in implementing new templates, process and procedures
for the enterprise Testing Services.
. Having good experience in understating the Business requirements and
preparing the Test plan and Test Scenarios and tracking the requirements
(RTM).
. Exposure to UNIX environment
. Managing the Software Configuration Management (SCM), configuration
control and change control mechanisms with specific inline documented and
followed where applicable (during maintenance/changing the released
versions)
. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capability to learn
fast and assume any responsibilities.
Education
. B.sc Computers
. Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications, India.
Technical skills
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 2003/2000/NT/95/98/XP/ME, UNIX-
HP, Solaris,AIX
Internet: ASP,ASP.NET, HTML, DHTML, SOAP, XML, Web
Services,
Business Modelling Tools: Rational Rose, MS-Visio
Languages: VB 5/VB 6, VB.Net, VBScript, Java Script, SQL, PL SQL, Shell
scripting
Automated Tools: Win Runner 7.5/7.0/6.0/5.0, LoadRunner 9.0,8.0,7.8,6.5,
QTP and QC
Office Tools: MS-Office, MS-Project
Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 8i/9i,10G, MS
Access, TOAD
Configuration Management: MS Visual Source Safe, SOS, Clear Case,
Share Point Portal and PVCS
Defect Management: Product Studio, PVCS Tracker, Bugzilla,
Clear Quest.
Reporting tools: Crystal Reports 9
Build Tools: ANTHILL.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment authority (PENNVEST), Harrisburg,PA Jan 08 - Till date
Sr. Consultant
PENNVEST Funding Request: PENNVEST Online Funding Web Site is to provide an
easy-to-use and collaborative web-based application for PENNVEST borrowers
and potential PENNVEST borrowers to apply for loans (funding requests)
online, review funding request status online, and perform loan closing
functions on line through the web site
Responsibilities:
. Identifying the business needs of client and thus proposing them for
the new requirements or changed in define requirements.
. Capturing and identifying all the business needs which aroused later
at the demo stages of the product and coming out with change request
which can fit in defined time lines.
. Complete support to test team and helping the test team for their test
scripts execution.
. Involved in STAR reviews. Also involved in PAT with business partners.
. Reviewed requirements with business for thorough understanding of the
application.
. Develop and maintain manual test plans using Test Director
. Prepared test status reports during test execution process.
. Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, and
System Testing.
. Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the
data in the database.
. Writing SQL queries to test data integration and consistency using
TOAD tool
. Performed extensive back end Database testing using complex SQL
queries.
. Involved in Documenting and reporting defects using defect-tracking
system.
. Interacted with Developers as needed to isolate the main cause of
defects.
. Involved in database testing to test the connection between the
website and database in order to verify
Data and display integrity.
. Involved in testing the application in UAT testing environment
. Testing the web urls in all the browsers
. Testing the links of web application
. Mentored the UAT Testers about the functionality and features of
application.
. Setting up the Automated Testing Environment for creating, and running
automated tests.
. Setting up Test Director to manage the testing process like Testing
requirements, Planning Tests,
Running Tests.
. Created and executed test scripts
. VB Scripts are used for descriptive programming
. Created Automated Data Driven Functional tests using Quick Test Pro
. Automation with Help of QTP Test Object Model; created various
building blocks of Framework like Shared Object Repository, Library of
Generic Scripts and Project Specific Scripts, Data tables for Data
driven Testing
. Verifying the SSL certificates
.
Environment: ASP.NET 1.0/2.0, C#, VB.NET, ADO.Net,QTP, VB script, VSS,
PVCS Tracker, Rational Requisite-Pro, QC,, Threading, SOAP, Web services,
XML, SQL SERVER 2000/2005,Oracle 10G,TOAD,OEM, Crystal Reports, html, http
protocols .
SHA (State Highway Administration) Baltimore
Aug 06- Dec 07
Sr.Tester
Responsibilities:
. Estimation of Testing Efforts
. Prepared Testing Schedule Plan and Schedule Tracking
. Status Reporting to Client
. Daily Triage Meetings to discuss defects and testing progress.
. Tracked and Monitor the test execution progress on daily basis
. Written SQL queries.
. Managed defects using Quality Center.
. Chaired Weekly Status meetings to discuss issues/incidents as well as
discuss the testing operations
. Functional and regression testing.
. Prepared Test Strategy documents, system Test plan & test scenarios
etc test ware based on the Requirement documents and Technical Design
Documents
. Review of test scenarios, Requirement Traceability matrix and
providing feedback to the team
. Defect Reporting, Communicating defects to Development team, Defect
Tracking using Clear Quest.
. Coordinated Integration and System Testing activities
. Updating management on testing progress, issues and concerns on weekly
basis.
. Mentored the UAT Testers about the functionality and features of
application.
. Documented and reported UAT issues
. Prepare Consolidated Defect Report at the end of each round of testing
Environment: Quality Center, QTP clear quest, Windows 2000, Visual Studio
.Net framework 1.1 and 2.0, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, Java Script, ADO.NET, SQL
Server 2000.
DuPont. Wilmington, DE
Sr.Tester
Nov 05- Aug 06
Responsibilities:
. Analyzed the Business, Functional Requirements and Streamlined the
Testing Activities
. Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Detailed Test Cases based on
the Use Case Documents, Business Requirements, and Functional
Specifications.
. Examined application for testing, data validation, and workflow of
customers.
. Performed tests for Functionality, Security, GUI, End to End, System,
Configuration and Backend.
. Customized the scripts according to the requirements by inserting
conditional statements and loops.
. Extensively used Database checkpoints, GUI Checkpoints using Win
Runner.
. Analyzed the results, tracked the defects and generated reports using
Test Director
. Performed Regression test to ensure product integrity after
modification and enhancements.
. Worked with technical staff to validate test requirements, resolve
design issues and software defects.
. Executed queries in test databases using SQL queries
Environment: ASP.NET C#, VB.Net, VBScript, IIS, SQL SERVER
2000/2005,Oracle 10g, VSS, Visual Studio .NET 2005,QC,Clear Quest.
Western Media Group Corporation. Inc, NY
Oct 04 - Nov 05
Sr. Software Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Reviewed requirements with system engineers for thorough understanding
of the application.
. Creating Test Plan, Estimations
. Effectively communicated test results to stakeholders.
. Prepared Test scripts to workflows.
. Regression Testing, Functionality Testing and smoke testing
. Review and Record test scripts for Regression Testing using Win Runner
7.X
. Performed Positive and Negative testing for system validations.
. Developed Test Metrics on the weekly basis for senior management..
. Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the
data in the database.
. Involved in Documenting and reporting defects using defect-tracking
system.
. Interacted with Developers as needed to isolate the main cause of
defects.
. Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive
and Negative sets of data using
Data Driven Testing.
. Setting up the Automated Testing Environment for creating, and running
automated tests.
. Setting up Test Director to manage the testing process like Testing
requirements, Planning Tests,
Environment: Win runner, Tsl scripts, SoS, Bugzilla,Test Director,
ASP.NET, C#,VB.NET, IIS, Visual Studio .NET, HTML, XML, Windows 2000, SQL
Server .
Microsoft Corp, Redmond
Sep 02 - Oct 04
ESupport
Sr. Software Consultant
eSupport is a component-based infrastructure that exposes data through .NET
XML Web services, and enforces a common set of business rules. eSupport
basically provides 2nd and 3rd tier support to GSA (Global Software
Automation) Teams, who implements the front end of the Microsoft problem
resolution system.
Responsibilities
. Creating Test Plan, Estimations
. Creating automated test scripts representing various transactions,
documenting the load testing process and methodology
. Taken responsibility of Password change on different servers.
. Build Installation using EMC tool
. Preparation of Test scripts.
. Performed Baseline Testing and then Regression Testing (Executed old
functionality to verify result) for each Software Release.
. Database Testing
. Identifying the database related issues
. Preparing the Automated test scripts
. Preparing the SIT test cases
. Database Replication
. Regression Testing, Functionality Testing and smoke testing
. Using load runner for performance testing.
. TD for Defect tracking and Debugging
Environment: ACT (application centre test for load),VSS, product
studio(defect tracking) Windows NT, SQL Server 2k, .NET, XML, Web Services,
Microsoft Corp, Redmond
Jan 02 - Sep 02
Epiphany
Testing Engineer
Epiphany is a leading Provider of intelligent Customer interaction software
for the Customer Economy .it is integrated suite of software solutions,
blends web-based analytic and operational CRM to unify all inbound and out
bound marketing, sales, and service customer interactions. In this project
we have four main databases. EpiMeta, Epi Mata, EpiOP, Staging database.
Extract data from MS ORG to staging.ETL processing.
Responsibilities
. As a Testing Engineer
. Build Installation Test cases
. Documented Test cases and test plans for various screens of the
application.
. Tracked the changes, which require creating new and updated Test Cases
and Test Scripts
. Formulating changes and performing tests to assure functionality of
application according to the Business standards.
. Preparation of Pre Test Documents
. Preparation of Ui Test cases
. Preparing the Sit test case
. Solutions for database related issues
. Regression Testing and Functionality Testing.
. Participated in Walkthrough and Defect report meetings periodically.
Environment: VB,ASP, product studio (bug tracking), VSS, SQL Server 2k,
Data warehouse .CRM, ETL process, Windows NT