Test Testing

SURESH GUDIMETLA

Phone: 407-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

Summary

• Five years of extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software development process including

Requirement Acquisition, Analysis, Design and Testing.

• Extensive experience in testing Web based Applications, Insurance, Financial, Brokerage and E-

commerce (B2B) Applications.

• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (Waterfall, V Shaped, Spiral,

Agile).

• Proficient with various development methodologies and in aligning the QA Methodology/Test Strategy

accordingly.

Over 2 years of experience in functional testing tool, Mercury Quick Test Professional 9.2 with .Net, Java,

Web, Visual Basic, ActiveX add-inns.

Extensive experience in testing projects developed in Traditional models as well as Agile/SCRUM

Methodology.

Very good experience in testing of Client/Server, Web, Mainframes, .Net, Java/J2EE, C++, UNIX, Linux

applications using QTP and Quality Center

Strong skills in planning and executing black box testing which includes end-to-end, functional, system,

integration, regression, GUI, and UAT

Proficiency in analyzing, developing and implementing Quality Assurance Documentation (system test

plans/quality plan/test procedures) from Business & Functional specifications as well as

Software/Product Development Process Documents.

• Excellent talent to quickly adapt to different project needs and showed successful results.

• Experience in leading small to midsize teams and working on multiple projects consecutively.

• Experience in writing SQL queries to perform data testing.

• Extensive experience in working with third party application vendors and offshore resources.

• Experience in implementation of third party applications to meet the business needs.

• In-depth understanding of SQA methods and techniques including creation/maintenance of test plans, test

cases and test requirements and automated test scripts as well as executing tests, analyzing tests results

and generating software defect reports for the developers.

• Experience in manual testing of applications developed on Windows and UNIX Environment.

• Excellent written and communication skills, organizational skills and have demonstrated ability to

perform individually and to work well within a team environment. Quick learner and Self-motivated.

Skills:

Test Management Test Director/Quality Center, QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner and Rational

Tools Suite.

C, C++, Java, VB 5.0/6.0, SQL,PL/SQL, Perl, JSP, Java Servlets, XML, Java

Languages, Tools and

Swing, VB Script, HTML, DHTML, JAVA Script, ASP, Crystal Reports, MS

Applications

VISIO and Project.

Operating Systems Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, MS-DOS, Unix

Database Oracle, MS-Access, SQL Server, DB2.

Professional Experience:

Lender Processing Services, Jacksonville, FL April’08- April’09

Sr. QA Analyst

Lender Processing Services provides different types of services (Mortgage Processing, Settlement, Title

Solutions etc) for a majority of banks. Contractual issues forced LPS to take up the redesign and migration of

different state websites to the FNF domain. All the websites and applications were developed in .Net and Java

scripts.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements document/ Statement of work to understand the applications.

• Created test documentation (Test Cases/Test Scripts) in excel after reviewing the BRD/SOW

• Performed Functional and Regression testing on the different websites/applications.

• Responsible for execution of test cases, finding defects and retesting defects.

• Used Rational Clear quest as the defect tracking tool.

• Sent daily status reports to the QA lead and QA manager.

• Used Clearcase for Version Control of QA documentation.

• Worked with developers closely to resolve any issues/discrepancies in the applications.

• Worked with off shore teams for scheduling and testing the applications.

• Involved in the defect/issue calls to discuss issues/defects in the application and to air out the

discrepancies in the application

• Involved in the analysis of the defects based on severity and requesting sign off on the defects.

• Acted as a bridge between the developers and the QA team for analyzing the statement of work/

Business Requirements documentation and resolving any issues

• Attended Requisite pro training classes

• Involved in interviewing candidates for new hires/contractor roles.

• Responsible for mentoring new people on the QA team.

Harcourt, Orlando, FL Jan’08-April’08

Sr. QA Analyst

Harcourt Education is a global education company serving students and teachers in PreK through grade 12,

adult learners, and readers of all ages. Due to the recent change in the ownership of the company, all the

Servers, Applications and Active Directory presently on the existing domain have to be migrated to a new

environment owned by the new company.

Responsibilities:

• Research different application, Web servers and applications residing on the servers for test plan

development at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

• Oversee the migration process by documenting the details of the migration.

• Set up timely scheduling for the migration of the servers and applications to minimize the effect on

the business

• Tested the various applications after the completion of the migration.

• Responsible for coordinating the User migration process

• Responsible for document management of User Migration process.

Walt Disney Internet Group, Orlando, FL Aug’06-Nov’07

Sr. QA Engineer

The Walt Disney Internet group which is a part of The Walt Disney Company, a fortune 50 company and the

World’s leading entertainment company maintains all the websites related to WDPRO(“Bringing the Magic

Online”). Effectively lead the initiative for different endeavors for the IT Operatives which included The

Internet Booking client re-architecture, My Disney vacation, Customized maps, Annual Pass holder sign up

tool for special events, Date based pricing, infant air, Adventures by Disney, DCL Content Maintenance,

Disney Visa Instant Credit and Credit Card Download.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing wireframes and developing test cases based on the wireframes.

• Participated in the Business requirements and wireframes meetings to discuss the need of the

business.

• Responsible for functional, system, and regression testing of all the applications.

• Involved in SWAT teams which are formed to identify and investigate critical issues in the

application to maximize the revenues.

• Participated in scrums to discuss the daily activities and update the status to the project team.

• Responsible for finding and writing the defects/bugs in the applications using Mercury Quality

Center.

• Sent out daily status reports on the team progress to the QA manager throughout the project.

• Created the traceability matrix using Quality Center for different projects.

• Participated in the Technology Art review meetings, Go-No Go meetings.

• Involved in debugging the log files of the transactions to analyze the defects and assist the

developers.

• Involved in Production monitoring/ hyper care teams after the application was launched into

production.

• Participated in the load testing of the Walt Disney World booking engine.

• Worked with developers to analyze and assist them in fixing defects as a part of Agile process.

• Responsible for writing SQL Queries to check the data in the backend systems.

• Responsible for working with different project groups within the company to support composite

application releases.

• Responsible for conducting defect review meetings and prioritize the defects for fixes.

• Actively involved in teams for improving QA Process initiative, an initiative taken up to improve and

stream line the QA process.

• Responsible for creating training docs and power point presentations for all levels of users for Test

Director/Mercury Quality Center, the test management tool.

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Senderra Funding, Charlotte, NC Mar’06 to Aug’06

Sr. QA Analyst

Senderra Funding, with major investment from Goldman Sachs is a non-prime wholesale mortgage lender

which started operations effective January 16, 2006. Senderra’s goal is to revolutionize the non-prime

wholesale mortgage market by building the entire business process around technology and automation using

Commerce Velocity’s online automated underwriting system.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing QA test plans and test strategies based on the business requirements.

• Involved in streamlining the testing process which included setting up the standard procedures for the

QA department.

• Primarily responsible for UAT strategy, creating and maintenance of the UAT test cases

• Responsible for creating and maintain the test cases for User Acceptance testing.

• Responsible for communicating the defects to the development team during the User Acceptance

Testing.

• Responsible for requesting signoffs from the management team after UAT to request the application

to be pushed to production.

• Responsible for testing the application after the push to production

• Used Agile methodologies to test the weekly enhancements to the application.

• Responsible for developing positive and negative test cases to test the guidelines, pricing, credit

interfaces and other interfaces to the AUS.

• Involved in setting up the credit vendors in the application to enable the users to pull/reissue credit

reports from various bureaus.

• Involved in testing the interface from CV to DATATRAC to test the data flow from CV to

DATATRAC.

• Led the IT HELP Desk to assist the users in resolving the issues with the system.

• Involved in training the users on the web portal, underwriter workbench and admin modules of the

application.

• Involved in analyzing the defects and prioritizing them for fixes.

• Worked with the developers in implementing new features like online broker signup, setting up

Combo products etc.

Wilmington Finance, King of Prussia, PA Oct’05 to Jan’06

QA Analyst

Wilmington Finance, an AIG company, is one of the largest lenders in the industry. Wilmington finance was

integrating CV AUS with their system to generate faster decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the business requirements and systems specifications documents and developed

test plans and test strategies.

• Involved in writing the technical specifications for developing a tool which can automate the testing

of the workbench.

• Involved in analyzing the guidelines of each of the investors and creating different condition and

exception messages for the same

• Involved in testing of the prequal module of the application.

• Involved in creating sample test cases for testing of the application.

Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ Mar’05 to Oct’05

Implementation Consultant

Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corporation (BSRMC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bear Stearns

Companies, Inc. BSRMC is a wholesale correspondent lender that develops and underwrites home loan

programs using the online decision engine, Commerce Velocity generates pricing, loan product terms,

conditions, loan status/findings report while providing business liaisons with quick and reliable loan

decisions.

We successfully implemented Commerce Velocity within 4 months and has been thriving as point of sale

automated underwriting solution for BSRMC. Subsequently, we lead the effort to define, QA and deploy a

new loan origination system, Fiserv’s UniFi

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and/or functional specifications to develop test strategies, test

plans, and test scripts (+ and -) for the purpose of certifying the Commerce Velocity AUS decisions,

pricing, and general application functionality/usability

• Involved in creating change request documents to combat QA failures and designed test cases to test

the corrections.

• Designed test cases for the different LOS and POS workflows created for wholesale and

correspondent origination channels.

• Preformed testing on the Underwriting Guidelines, Broker’s Point of Sale Application integration to

Commerce Velocity, and Credit Interface(s).

• Involved in a large volume of test loans for the AU system and render decisions to test the different

guidelines and the conditions of CV’s Broker Portal and Pre-Qual modules.

• Involved in testing the CV Underwriter Workbench and the Broker Connect Admin applications for

the underwriters and administrators respectively.

• Involved in manual check out of the guidelines for the different products being offered by the

business to certify accuracy of the guideline programming.

• Preformed Regression testing to prove that the new code has no adverse effect upon the current

system

• Led the User Acceptance testing strategy and efforts for the application under test.

• Responsible for creation and maintenance of the UAT test cases during the implementation process.

• Responsible for requesting signoffs from the management team after UAT to request the application

to be pushed to production

• Responsible for working with the development team and software engineers to set up the UAT test

environment and timely deployment of the builds.

• Responsible for communicating the defects and the resolution of the defects with the development

team and business analysts

CapitalOne, Mclean, VA Jun’04 to Jan’05

Sr. QA Analyst

Capital One is one of the leading credit card industries with a current global customer base of 48.6 million

and managed loans totaling $79.9 billion. The treasury WSS is an application for global real time trading and

cash management. The application consists of multiple modules where Traders can enter the Trades, Middle

Office can approve, modify and cancel the trades and Back Office can settle the Deals. It transparently

integrates market rates and feeds so that trades can be priced instantly, allocated to designated portfolios and

accessed by leading analytical tools. Trades can be booked into the WSS using one of the Various Deal

Captures developed in Visual Basic. WSS is developed in Visual Basic accessing Oracle Database (9i)

running on UNIX platform.

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed Test Cases for WSS for different releases for System testing, Disaster Recovery

Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Production Verification testing by analyzing system

documentation like Requirements documents, User Interface Specification documents and Workflows

documents.

• Analyzed User requirements attended Change Request meetings to document changes and

implemented procedures to test changes.

• Utilized Test Director extensively for reporting Defects, Test Planning and developing test cases.

• Created, documented and executed Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating

conditions.

• Business Requirements Vs Test Case Mapping (Test Coverage) was performed effectively using

TestDirector.

• Categorized bugs based on severity and interfaced with developers for resolution.

• Created Email notification rules to the developers using the Test Director.

• Worked as a TestDirector administrator and customized project entities and lists, setup user group

permissions and mail.

• Performed Database testing of Oracle running on UNIX platform.

• Written Shell Scripts to run different batch jobs.

• Scheduled the Cron jobs in UNIX environment for automating some of the back end jobs.

• Performed End-to-End testing manually.

• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems

• Used Clear Case as a version control system and reported the bugs using Test Director

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