Siva Mora

Software Development Engineer in Test / Automation Engineer

Phone: 646-***-**** E-mail: ac0ho8@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

SDET/Automation Engineer with around 9 years of experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC); Business Analysis, Data Modeling Developing Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plans and Automation Test scripts using Selenium and Java. Diversified experience in Automation and Manual testing serving various domains such as Banking, Finance, Healthcare and Retail.

Education:

Certified in Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

Completed MBA IT (Dual Specialization with information technology and Software Project Management from Xavier Institute of Management)

Completed ADIT – Advanced Diploma in IT (Networking and IT) from Xavier Institute of Management

ISTQB Certified.

SDLC

Worked in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Production and Deployment.

Expertise in Defect Management/Problem Solving including tracking bugs, reporting using Quality Centre/ALM, Rally, and Version One.

Experience in Black Box Testing Techniques - Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence Portioning.

Reviewed & revised suite of test cases to reflect changes made to the Test Plan documentation for new functionality and performance issues.

Proficient in using Quality Center for Test Planning and Defect Reportingand Tracking; Thorough understanding of the Defect life-cycle process.

Experience in different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology/SCRUM, Waterfall.

Experienced in Analysis, testing, and certifying application-specific software and performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents.

Excellent knowledge and experience in working with open source tools like automation testing tool Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver and Selenium Grid, Web Services tools like SoapUI, Ready API, Unit testing Frameworks such as JUnit and TestNG, BDD Framework such as Cucumber and JBehave tools, Bug tracking tool JIRA, Rally.

Implemented different automation frameworks like Data-Driven Framework, Keyword-Driven Framework, Hybrid Framework, Behavior Driven Development Framework/Acceptance Test-Driven Development Framework (BDD/ATDD), Page Object Model Framework, using Selenium WebDriver, Maven for many projects.

Expertise in writing Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in JAVA for highly transactional E-commerce websites.

Experienced in using Test Management tools such as HP Quality Center (QC)/Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), Rally, JIRA and Bugzilla bug reporting tools to track test progress, test execution and deliverables.

Experienced in attending Sprint Planning meetings, Requirements grooming sessions, Scrum meetings, Sprint review meetings, Sprint Retrospective meetings and worked very closely with Product Owners and Scrum Masters in Agile Projects.

Hands on experience in using project building tools like MAVEN in adding dependencies by maintaining in pom.xml file and on version control tools like SVN, GIT.

Experienced in Mobile Automation Testing on IOS platforms using IPhone & IPad Devices with Automation tools with Keep It Functional [KIF] and Appium

Experience in Web based testing including GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing and Unit Testing.

Expertise in automation of Web-based application testing using Selenium Web driver, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, Selenium IDE and Worked on multiple browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome Driver.

Involved in planning and assisted for quality assurance schedules and assignments. Logged and trackedto verify the resolutions of software and its specification defects.

Hands on experience using Excel (POI API) for Data Driven framework.

Experience in using Selenium Webdriver, Eclips TestNG test frameworks in creating test scripts, test suites and HTML reports.

Expertise in conducting in-depth Root-Cause Analysis, GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis.

Liaison to several cross-functional teams and in-depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes.

Assisted in conducting Cost Benefit Analysis and ROI Analysis.

Detailing user stories from Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and clear understanding of Burndown charts.

Highly efficient in Requirement Gathering, Modeling, System Designing, Testing, Validation, Workflows and Data Management.

Lead planning meeting, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for eliciting requirements from stakeholders through focus groups and interviews for documenting the BRD, FRD and FSD.

Prepared graphical depictions of project processes using Use Case Diagrams, Wireframes, Mock-ups, including the business workflow using MS Visio and Balsamiq.

Experience in converting the business into technical specifications for preparing Test Plans.

Efficient in reformulating strategies through Process Re-engineering, Change Management, Release Management, Process Improvements and UAT Testing.

ITraced Requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence using the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Knowledge in generating Reports, Analytic Snapshots and Dashboards, enabling Email Services and also constructing Page Layouts.

Domains

Good understanding about Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards: 270, 271, 835 and 837which are used in various business processes.

Experience with HIPAA compliance and involved in upgradation of HIPAA 4010 transaction to HIPAA 5010 in healthcare with strong understanding of Medicaid and Medicare rules and claim adjudication.

Strong knowledge and understanding of ICD-9 and ICD-10 coding and claims processing.

Excellent interpersonal skills, effective writing and oral communication skills.

Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to meet objectives and possess the ability to motivate the team towards successful completion of project milestones.

Skill Set

Domain Expertise

Healthcare, Finance, P&C

Document creation/Management

MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, MS Project, OneNote, Publisher, Adobe Acrobat, Lotus Notes

Content Management

MS – SharePoint

Business Modeling

MS – Visio, Balsamiq, Enterprise Architecture, Modelio

Languages

Java, Java Script, VB Script, HTML, XPath, CSS, Soap, WSDL, Restful, Excel Macros

Operating Systems

Windows, MAC OS, Unix

Methodologies

Agile – Scrum, Waterfall

Automation Tools/APIs

Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, Quick Test Pro, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, Rally, Auto It and, Log4j, SoapUI.

Artifacts

Test Plan, Test Case, Test Data, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug report

Bug Management & other tools

Quality Center, JIRA, ALM, Version One.

Other tools : Doors, Share Point, Blue Works, RQM, GIT

Database/Database tools

Oracle, SQL

Development methodology

Agile/ Scrum, Waterfall, Jenkins,

Framework

Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Testing Frame work, Page Object Model.

Professional Experience

PROJECT-I

Project Title

New York Medicaid Management Information Systems (NY MMIS) and Healthcare Administration Services.

Client

Xerox/ Conduent

Location

Albany, New York

Duration

Nov 2015 – Till Now

Role

SDET / Automation Engineer

Project Professional Reference

1.Name : Kasi Jonnavittula ; Phone : 801-***-****

Designation : Project Manager

Email ID : ac0ho8@r.postjobfree.com

2. Name : Mark Dailey

Designation : Technical Lead

Mobile: 972-***-****

Email ID : ac0ho8@r.postjobfree.com

(Please note that the Xerox company name has been changed to CONDUENT effective 01/01/2017)

Project Description:

MMIS is a government solution to address Medicaid Health Administration Services. Historically MMIS is mainframe driven system where healthcare services are not adequate to meet the digital age of medicine. With the advent of web enabled systems, MMIS has taken direct hit for not being able to service the citizens.

Responsibilities:

Implemented Parallel executions with Selenium GRID

Streamlined Bug tracking process and Automation Cycle execution time lines

Automated RQM Pass logs uploads process

Managed Regression Team of 5 (Including CTS team) and trained them on newly implemented RQM upload process.

Worked on Regression cycle status reporting and analysis, and presented the status to the team for our daily status calls.

Working on script failure analysis and script fixes.

Developed separate macro to convert the test suite results to excel format with pass/fail status.

Escalated several process improvement issues to the management and streamlined them accordingly

Performedcode reviews and code breaks and method reviews. Also worked on code merges in GIT

POM automation test framework with Selenium WebDriver, Java.

Executed test cases relating to mouse hover using Actions class and found hidden elements using XPath, CSS and windows classes.

Managed all the regression testing activities on a project and reported to the management.

Performed Selenium Synchronization using Explicit & Implicit waits.

Worked in creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews and contributed to the development and execution of test plans and test scripts

Conducted GAP Analysis by creating process flows highlighting the differences between the current (As-Is) environment versus the target (To-Be) environment.

Conducted SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis and ROI Analysis.

DocumentedSprint Backlog to managed User Storiesand clear understanding of Burndown charts.

Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective.

Created and Updated Issues (Epic, Stories and Tasks) onto RQM application.

Guided the development teams to breakdown large and complex user stories into simplified versions for executions.

Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on daily and weekly basis.

Joined requirement grooming sessions during the sprints.

Test the user stories for accuracy to ensure undisputed acceptance and validating stories.

Assisted QA Automation team to prepare Test Scripts and Test Cases assisted with UAT.

Provided additional adjudication processing assistance to team members with complex reimbursement/insights.

Over all the project is quite challenging and along with the BA responsibilities it has givenample amount of exposure in QA side as well (i.e., like BA and QA role). I have completely handled the Regression team from cycle planning, execution, coordination, status calls, cycle result reviews, failure analysis, process improvisations and finally reporting to management.

Environments:Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, Java, TestNG, XPath, Oracle, SQL

MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, Share Point, Blueworks, IBM Doors, Agile Methodology

PROJECT-II

Project Title

Credit Card Simplification

Client

Lloyds Banking Group

Location

New York

Duration

Jan 2013 – August 2015

Role

BA & QA Analyst

Project Description: Credit Card Simplification project migrate all the card accounts present in other platforms to a single platform. This project identifies all the accounts having Credit cards in various banks and migrate all those card accounts and their related details and products to the Lloyds bank accounts.

Responsibilities:

Escalated several process improvement issues to the management and streamlined them accordingly

Performed code reviews, page level changes, code breaks and method reviews

POM automation test framework with Selenium WebDriver, Java.

Executed test cases relating to mouse over using Actions class and found hidden elements using XPath, CSS and windows classes.

Managed all the regression testing activities on a project and reported to the management.

Performed Selenium Synchronization using Explicit & Implicit waits.

Worked in creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews and contributed to the development and execution of test plans and test scripts.

Identified Stakeholders and aided in the collection of business requirements to create the Business Requirement Documentation (BRDs) using MS Word and MS Visio.

Migrated documents from shared drives to SharePoint environment..

As part of the data mapping procedures, assisted in writing requirement document for ETL – Data Extraction, Data Analysis and Loading process of collected data.

Prepared presentations to highlight the changes made.

Created test cases to assist the business users with UAT.

Delivered production support and post-production support, clarified changes to the business users, organized one on one session, one on many sessions to make sure the business users are aware of the system variations.

Environment:Facets 4.21, SharePoint, HP Quality Center, MS Office Suite, Waterfall Methodology

PROJECT-III

Project Title

Mortgage Migration Release F

Client

Halifax

Location

London

Duration

Feb 2011 to Dec 2012

Role

QA/BA

Project Description: Mortgage Migration Release F project migrated all the mortgages accounts, details from various other banks and platforms to a single bank. All active, blocked and closed accounts will also be migrated into a single platform to make it cost effective, time saving and easy to use system. This project unites different mortgage accounts present in different platforms associated with different banks into a single platform and then migrate those accounts to the target system. After successful migration of accounts, the accounts present in the respective other platforms will be closed as part of migration.

Responsibilities:

Worked as BA for multiple module wise development teams.

Experienced as a JAD facilitator and meetings coordinator with excellent interpersonal and conflict negotiation skills.

Facilitated story points, Sprint planning, daily Stand-ups, Sprint Demo/Review and retrospective meeting to track progress and eliminated project impediments.

Worked on creation of wireframes during the Elaboration Phase.

Evaluated the information gathered from multiple sources, decomposed high level information into details to gain understanding of end-to-end solution.

Assisted in grooming the Sprint and Release Backlog.

Identified/Documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain the data warehouse content.

Assisted in designing the organizational tools and forms to facilitate accurate data collection and recordkeeping.

Involved in documenting the results of Load Testing Process and created meaningful reports for analysis.

Communicated business risks and project cross-impacts to Project Manager and BSA Manager- Support.

Worked with QA testing team to design test methods to verify the application’s functions of generating consumer loans, home equity, refinance and performing commercial loan activities.

Collected reports requirements for loan monitoring, processing and Inspection.

Reviewed and modeled existing loan processing workflow and identified improved opportunities.

Reviewed Test Plans that contains Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data and the expected results for the UAT.

Environment:SQL Server, Balsamiq, MS Office Suite, Agile Methodology

PROJECT-IV

Project Title

TAFF

Client

UniverCell

Location

Hyderabad

Duration

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

Role

Test Engineer

Project Description:TAFF is online Shop Application for UniverCell. Online store functionalities are selection of phones, plans, packages, Solutions and services. All the content information for online shopping is maintained and retrieved from content management system. The catalog related data is retrieved from the business. All the business rules surrounding devices, plans, services and accessories details are maintained in business control centre.

Responsibilities:

Prepared deliverables for the project like Functional Test Plan, Test Scripts, and End of Test Reports.

Raised defects while doing System Integration Testing, defect tracking and regression testing.

Involved in Unit Testing, Handled issues in System testing and UAT.

Test and Run various APIs as part of System Integration Testing.

Worked on Table bases and IMS database.

Performed Sanity testing during code deployment after the fix to the code has been done and verification of proper code deployment.

Raised many Clear Quest request as part of code fix, issues in UAT.

Conducted Gap Analysis and gathered user requirements by Interviews and User Meetings.

Documented JAD Minutes and incorporated business needs to Business Requirements.

Conducted weekly meetings for deciding the Policies and Procedures to be followed while constructing new sites.

Created and designed mock-up screens for the development process.

Participated in User meetings and discussing the issues to be resolved and translating user inputs into design documents.

Assisted in initial project timelines/deliverables/strategies for effective project management.

Assisted in documenting Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases to be used in testing, based on business requirements.

Document Requirement Traceability Matrix for tracing Test Cases and Requirements related to them.

Environment:Enterprise Architecture, HP QC, Balsamiq, JIRA, Share Point, Agile Methodology

PROJECT-V

Project Title

Medical Record Management System

Client

St. Joseph’s Hospitals

Location

NEWPORT, UK

Duration

June 2008 to Dec 2009

Role

Associate Test Engineer

Project Description:The project is to develop software for hospital maintenance system. It consists of Administration, Patient Information, Enquiry, Billing, and Blood bank, Pharmacy, ICU and Security, Inventory Modules. Administration Module is to maintain database backup and password security, Patient information module maintains all details about every patient starting from admission to discharge. Enquiry module gives information about availability of beds and rooms of different categories and fixes appointment with doctors. Blood bank and pharmacy module maintain information about blood and drugs respectively. ICU module handles allotment of ICU. This also had an Inventory and billing modules.

Responsibilities:

Understanding the Business requirements, Application and function specifications, Design documents.

Involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases.

Involved in Preparation of Test Scenarios and review of Test Cases.

Involved in updating and executing test cases according to requirements.

Worked with the Project Manager and high level management team to identify Project Scope.

Assisted in developing work plans and schedules MS Project to assure high quality and on time project delivery.

Gathered functional requirements by collectively gathering requirements from all teams.

Worked with QA testing team to design test methods to verify the application’s functions of generating requirements.

Collected reports requirements for loan monitoring, processing and Inspection.

Assisted in creating BRDs and FSDs along with designing the Use Casesusing Microsoft Visio.

Involved in Managerial Meetings and attended various conference calls at different levels from QA, Developers and Clients.

Environment:MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Waterfall Methodology

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