QA tester

Lakshmi Krishnan

E-mail: ******************@*****.***

Phone: 860-***-****

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Around 3 years of experience in Development, Testing, Requirements analysis, System analysis

Over 1 year of experience in Testing, including Manual, Automation and Performance testing.

Worked in Agile and Waterfall methodologies and involved in applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) into projects

Based on Development experience, able to think out of the box in identifying test cases and scenarios.

Good exposure in working with Retail and Healthcare sectors.

Expertise on HP Quality Center

Proficient in complete defect life cycle

Proficient in SQL queries and joins to validate data. Used TOAD to execute SQL queries.

Worked on HP UFT for automation testing and HP LoadRunner for performance testing.

Experience in design and executing test cases. Familiar with regression testing, data driven testing, UAT (User acceptance testing), Integration testing, Unit Testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing etc.

Great team player with excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication & written skills, problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities. Highly motivated and can adapt to work in any new environment.

SKILLS AND WORK EXPERIENCE

Training, QA Testing and Automation 3/2017 – till date

QA Tester

Worked on testing the end to end online web-based system. Testing included Manual, Automation and Performance testing.

Write Test cases, RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix), create scripts using black box (via requirements) and white box testing and execute the test cases, and documentation relating to the Functional and Performance testing based on the user stories.

Executed SQL queries and joins using TOAD to validate the data.

Extensively used HP QTP to develop Automation scripts, create and execute test scenarios, and analyze results.

Defect entry and reporting done using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center.

Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects to Quality Center

Developed test scripts for Data driven testing using parameterization in QTP by using Excel sheet for test data and Database Queries based on the functionality.

Worked on Agile methodology and have good knowledge of the Agile concepts.

Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional

JCPenney (Client), Trivandrum 1/2012 – 12/2012

Sr. Systems Engineer

Worked in identifying, designing, developing and testing a new system to help subset a legacy system

Without any documentation in place for the legacy system, worked with the team members to build a Functional Design Documentation which has been used by the organization and clients to understand the full scope of the changes involved

Worked in iterative waterfall methodology. Identified all the work which was required to be done, broke down into smaller portions and put together timeframe to complete the process and deploy them into Production.

Worked on Unit, System, Integration testing. Worked along with the Business Analyst to complete the User Acceptance testing.

CVS Logistics (Client), Trivandrum 7/2010 – 12/2011

Systems Engineer

Responsible for ensuring changes to support day to day operations are in place and as necessary come up with changes to code, test and deploy them in Production.

Identified bottlenecks, and discussed the same with business analysis team, to confirm the solutions and next steps and attended meetings.

Managed, documented and ensured quality is in place at all points of the process

Prepared test cases, scripts and executed scripts using Mainframe tools.

Involved in testing the backend Database retrieved the data from the tables using SQL.

Coded using CVS specific standards to address the root causes of issues identified in Production.

Worked on testing for Mainframe and Reporting (Java) applications for Medical Management area.

Identified key testing scenarios while working on the applications side. Worked with the development team to come up with solutions to defects identified.

TECHNICAL EXPOSURE

Testing Tools: HP Quality center (QC), HP UFT, HP LoadRunner

Software Development Models: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile

Database: Oracle, MS SQL, MS Access, IBM DB2,IMS

Languages: Java, JSP, HTML, XML, VB, C/C++

Mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, IMS

Development Tools: Eclipse, Dreamweaver

Tools: EXPEDITOR, FILEAID

Operating System: DOS, Windows, IBM OS/390

Project Management / Scrum Master Tools: Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook), SharePoint, MS One Note.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Marian Engg College, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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