Software Quality

Location:

Houston, TX, 77063

Posted:

March 28, 2013

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SANDHYA R KHANDE Mobile:1-781-***-****

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

VISA STATUS: GREEN CARD Location: Houston, Texas

SUMMARY

• Over Six years of cumulative test-specific experience in the IT industry with diversified exposure in both

Manual and Automated Testing of Client Server & Web-based applications with focus on System Analysis

and Quality Assurance including Functional, Regression, Integration, System and Performance Testing.

• Coordinated creation and execution of QA and testing processes, test strategies and plans, bug

Documentation & regression, and bug tracking system development using automated tools like, QTP

8.0, Win Runner 7.5/7.6 and Test Director 7.6 and Quality Center 10.0 (HPQC).

• Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirements, Software Requirement Specifications, Functional

Design Documents to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies, and Test Cases for Manual as well as

Automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance in SAP.

• Proven skills in all phases of software development lifecycle and very strong in the implementation and

Maintenance of Quality Engineering Processes .

• Involved in Integration, Black box, Data Driven, Performance, Regression, Functional, Database,

System, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.

• Designed and developed Test Plan using the test management tool like Test Director.

• Involved in backend testing, Database table manipulation using SQL.

• Involved in Independent Verification & Validation of software product/process compliance to standards,

Policies, procedures & output/behalf.

• Good Knowledge on SAP TAO tool.

Defect-tracking software: JIRA, Mercury Quality Centre, SAP Solution Manager.

• Tools and Utilities: Quality Center - HPQC, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Exchange, Accurev, Toad, SQL,

UNIX

Application worked on SAP, Oracle Applications, Web based Applications.

Qualification : Bachelors in Computer Science .

PG in computer Applications.

PROJECTS WORKED ON:

First Solar Inc:

Perrysburg Ohio.

NOV 2010- Feb 2013.

Role : HPQC Test engineer

• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned

project releases.

• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle

to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.

• Communicated effectively with software design team, quickly gaining their respect and becoming a

valued, "go-to" team member on challenging test cases.

• Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program

functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.

• Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.

• Responsible for coordinating testing effort, test deliverables, status reporting to management and issue

escalations.

• Hands on experience with QTP to run automated scripts for BPM workflows. .

Environment: SDL Tridion (Blueprint, Schemas, Components, Workflow), SAP,SQL backend,

Windows 7, Share Point (content Staging Library), Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft

Visio, Microsoft Excel, Snagit 10.0, NET, Mainframes, Java, HPQC 10.0, MS Outlook, Agile

Guidant Inc :

Arden hills MN

Sep 2009 – Sep 2010

Role :. QA test lead clinical applications (Thru HCL)

• Performed and managed defects/issues and reviewed re-testing results. Discussed all major defects

With upper management including blocking defects.

• Prepared and implemented System Testing Documentation in each release includes local procedure.

• Developed Test Plan for each Scheduled Releases and updated based on changing requirements.

• Produced Status report, Bug Reporting & Tracking using HP Quality Center and performed Defect Root

Cause Analysis.

• Good understanding of AGILE project methodology.

• Interact with Cross functional Team to resolve daily issue, discussed key defects with team and involved

in resolution.

• Preparation of test bed using QTP scripts, and execution of test scripts before release.

• Production Release Management through well formulated processes and support in each launch night. .

Support production defects and retested all functionalities to support user.

• Support production defects and retested all functionalities to support user.

• Setup the build environment on daily basis and run the build to make sure code is installed in latest

Environment.

• Performed Sanity tests on the daily build, integrate build with other releases/builds.

• Tested User guide and installation guide and trained new junior hired to speed up project.

• Visualized the Risks, issues and proactively planned for mitigation as part of release management

• Prepared new release notes, test report and delivered to teams.

• Handled Pre & Post Production deployment validation as a part of Sanity Testing.

• Experienced in retracting releases without affecting site available.

CARGIL Inc

Golden valley MN

June 2008 – Sep 2009

Project : Tax integration application, Financial inventory management systems, HR – Self service

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.0, Test Director 7.6 & Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner 7.5, C#, . Net,

UNIX, SQL, Oracle 8i, C, C++, Windows NT & XP, Visual Studio, Manual testing, Web Services Testing

Responsibilities:

• Worked as HPQC administrator for user administration, test plan upload, and regular patch /

upgrades.

• Coordinated with the Business Architects, Developers and Test Team Leads and discussed the

Requirements needed for successful Test Plans and Test Cases.

• Managed requirements and developed Test Scripts and Test Cases using Test Director.

• Mapped functional requirements with Test cases Analysts, to assure that all requirements were

Covered. Developed Traceability Matrix.

• Created test scripts using QTP tool and performed functional testing basing on business requirements.

• Enhanced the scripts by adding Checkpoints and conditional statements.

• Used synchronization statements, Split the actions (Call to New Action, Copy Existing Action etc.) and

customized the Quick Test Pro scripts.

• Parameterized the scripts and data driven them to improve the flexibility of the tests.

• Involved in the performance testing and analyzed the response times under various loads.

• Manually performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries.

• Worked with users to develop user acceptance test plan and test cases.

• Tracked bugs using Mercury Quality Center and performed regression testing of the entire application

Once the bugs were fixed.

• Isolated and simplified problems discovered during testing so that developers can fix them easily.

• Attended various meetings with the developers, clients, and the management team to discuss major

Defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications.

Infyinfo Technologies Hyderabad India

Jan 2006 – June 2008: Software Engineer

Project Summary: Quit The Nic (QTN) component of WCM program is a BPM based application

developed using IBM BPM. Referral; Pre-Enrollment; Enrollment; Encounters; 6/12 Month Questionnaire

and Survey are the phases of the cessation program, that got automated to multiple BPM workflows.

Nurses interact with the application through web based interfaces called coaches. The scope of

this engagement involves in building test cases and assuring quality for QTN workflow, refactoring,

stabilization and SIT/UAT support.

• Created and executed software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software

problems and their causes.