Pragati Chaturvedi
Professional Summary
Certified & Seasoned Quality Engineer with expert knowledge of Software Quality Assurance & Testing processes (Manual & Automation) with a 9-year background in project milestones.
Project leadership experience in taking projects from concept to market from individual contributor to supervisor managing a team of different testing activities
Developing Test Scripts using tools and technologies like Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG and Maven to mention a few using Java
Developed scripts for the Regression Test Cases for many modules.
Enhanced the existing scripts and wrote many functions
Used Git for source code management and Jenkins for continuous integration
Experience of test automation in story based development project.
Integrating Automation Frameworks with CI server.
Analyzing and Reporting Automation results
Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
Ensured all flows are covered in the automation scripts along with one to one mapping of same with Jira stories.
Use of software systems, including knowledge of the domain or business
Understanding of software development, including analysis, development, technical support and technical documentation.
Read and analyze a requirement specification. A design specification, a use case and other information about the system
Participate in product and project risk analysis activities.
Creating Test Data, selecting test oracles, defining expected result, participating in test automation
Run tests, evaluate the results and record those results .Logging of test status, test incidents & test impacting events. Capturing metrics
Manage project, test planning, Risk Analysis, Test Estimation, writing test plans. Formulating effective test strategies and helping to set the organization’s test policy
Track Test Progress by capturing the appropriate metrics and logs. Analyze those metrics, evaluate variance from the project plan and the test plan and suggest implement appropriate test control activities
Report test results. Creating presenting and explaining the kinds of charts and reports. Effectively communicate the results to project stakeholders
Skills
Automation Tools
Jenkins
TestNG
JNUIT
Java
Cucumber
Maven
Git
Selenium Web Driver
Eclipse
Test Management Tool
Quality Center
JIRA
Defect Management Tool
Watson Express
Testlink
Rational Clear Quest
Trello
Programming Language
JAVA
HTML
SQL
Operating System
Windows
Mac OSx
Android
iOS
Domain Expertise
Digital Media
Telecom
Localization
E-Commerce
E-Learning
Testing Tools
Test Flight
Toad
TIBCO
Open ERP
Microsoft Office
WinsCP
BrowserStack
PhantomJS
Work Experience
Project Summary
January 2017 Project Consultant
Present Smithsonian Channel
Greater New York City Area
Responsibilities
•Defining the testing activities for application under test
•To check necessary resources to execute the testing activities.
•To check if testing is going hand in hand with the software development in all phases.
•Prepare the status report of testing activities
•Updating team regularly about the progress of testing activities.
•To read all the documents and understand what needs to be tested.
•Based on the information procured deciding how it is to be tested.
•Develop test cases and prioritize testing activities.
•Execute all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
•Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
•Responsible for designing testing scenarios for usability testing
•To conduct the testing, thereafter analyze the results and then submit his observations to the development team.
•Creation of test designs, test processes, test cases and test data.
•Carry out testing as per the defined procedures.
•Participate in walkthroughs of testing procedures.
•Prepare all reports related to software testing carried out.
•Ensure that all tested related work is carried out as per the defined standards and procedures.
•Carry out continuous test process improvement with the help of metrics
Environment: Test flight, MS Excel\Word, Google Analytics, Web Application, REST services, iOS & Android, Windows & MAC OSx, Trello
July 2013 Associate QA Manager
January 2016 Mind Tap Cengage Learning
Noida Area, India
Responsibilities
•To get the work done and to have the team findings accepted and used appropriately
•Involved in activities like Risk Analysis, test estimation and writing test plans. Formulating effective test strategies and helping to set the organization’s policy
•Track test progress by capturing appropriate metrics and logs. Analyze those metrics, evaluate variance from the project plan and the test plan, and suggest implement appropriate test control activities.
•Report test results like creating and presenting and explaining the kind of charts and reports. Effectively communicate the results to project stakeholders
•Assess my team members training needs using skills inventory management which in turn help to enhance their skills set and useful in performance evaluations and appraisals
•Responsible for growing team of QA Engineers for MindTap.
•Manage offshore Manual, Automation and performance resources to ensure testing is performed as per schedule.
Responsible for Customer Problem Escalations regression, leading Software Release coordination from offshore. Developing Test Scripts using tools and technologies like Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG and Maven to mention a few using Java
Developed scripts for the Regression Test Cases for many modules.
Enhanced the existing scripts and wrote many functions
Used Git for source code management and Jenkins for continuous integration
Experience of test automation in story based development project.
Integrating Automation Frameworks with CI server.
Analyzing and Reporting Automation results
Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
Ensured all flows are covered in the automation scripts along with one to one mapping of same with Jira stories
Work closely with MindTap Product, Testing Team & Development team for all MindTap offshore deliverable.
Billing of offshore resources using OpenERP tool
Environment: Selenium Web driver, Git, Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, TestNG, Maven, Java, Eclipse IDE, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, Open ERP, MS Office
April 2013 Senior Lead QA
July 2013 Bookpost
Noida Area, India
Responsibilities
•Involved in Test planning, Monitoring, and control of the testing activities tasks
•Devising the test objectives, organizational test policies, test strategies, and test plans
•Estimating the testing to be done and negotiating with management to acquire the necessary resources
•Recognizing the test automation is appropriate and planning the effort, selecting tools and ensuring training of the team
•Leading, Guiding and monitoring the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites
•Ensure proper configuration management of the test ware produced and traceability of the tests to the test basis.
•Make sure Test environment is put into place before test execution and managed during test execution
•Scheduling the test for execution and then monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions
•During test execution and as the project winds down, writing summary reports on the test status
Environment: Agile Development, TestLink, Atlassian Confluence, Windows, Mac OSX, MS Office
November 2011 Lead, Quality Engineering
July 2013 Adobe Touch Apps & Story
Noida Area, India
Responsibilities
•Worked on Android and iOS devices testing of different adobe products.
•Functional and Regression Testing involved on daily-basis.
•Compatibility testing on various OS and versions of plug-ins with combination of different languages.
•Execution of Test cases and writing of test cases, for the new features.
•Bug tracking including the examining the severity and priority of the Defects and reporting.
•Participating in various Bug Triages, Invalidation/ validation and regression of the defects.
•Have given KT presentations to the Software Trainees within a team.
•Managing Lab Set-Up for different OS and platform of the product.
•Sending weekly status reports to client.
•Assignment of work within team.
Environment: Watson Express, Test Studio, Virtual Machines, Agile Development, Windows, Mac OSx, Android & iOS, MS Office
December 2007 QA Consultant
June 2010 Virgin Mobile
Noida Area, India
Responsibilities
•Requirement Analysis and identifying the Test Conditions.
•Responsible for Test Data preparation.
•Involved in Test Case writing, Reviewing, Executing and Reporting.
•Involved in System Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Regression.
•Maintaining Requirement Coverage by mapping Requirements to Test cases using QC
•Involved in Prioritizing test cases, Planning Test Cycles according to Iteration release.
•Generating test execution and defect report from QC.
•Handling a team of 2 testers and taking care of small MBEs & regression cycles.
Environment: Single.e.view, Web services, TIBCO, MYSQL, UNIX, HP Quality Center, WInscp
June 2010 Software QA Engineer
November 2011 CNOW Cengage Learning
Noida Area, India
Responsibilities
•Review and contribute to test plans, as well as analyzing reviewing and assessing requirements and design specifications
•Involved in identifying test conditions and creating test designs, test cases, test procedures specification and test data and help to automate the tests
•Set up tests environments by assist network management staff in doing so
•Implement tests in test the test environment
•Execute and log the tests, evaluate results and document problems found
•Monitor the testing and the test environment often using tools for this task, and often gather performance metrics
•Throughout the testing life cycle Peer-reviewing work of the other team members, including test Specifications, detect reports and test results
Environment: MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, TOAD, UNIX
Education
May 2008 Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India
Master's Degree in Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications
May 2005 Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India Bachelor's Degree in Bachelor of Computer Applications
May 2002 Butler Memorial Girls Senior Secondary School, New Delhi, India High School in CBSE – SSCE
Skills & Qualifications
Accreditations/ International Software Testing Qualification Board
Certifications Foundation Level Exam
Language(s) spoken English, Hindi
Management I have managed 25 employees.
Experience
Extended Profile
Ethnicity: Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino)
Gender: Female
Work Status: Employment Authorization Card, Category - A18
Desired location for jobs: New York & New Jersey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragati-chaturvedi-b4211818