Sharmila Yelchuru

Phone: 224-***-**** Email: ac2abd@r.postjobfree.com

4+years of experience working as QA Analyst in all phases of the Software development life cycle, including requirement gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management and reporting.

•Extensive experience in multiple domains from Auto Insurance, Mortgage, Banking, Manufacturing.

•Proficient in Test Automation using UFT (Formerly QTP) and Selenium Tools.

•Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.

•Proficient in Test Case Creation, Execution, Defect tracking and Reporting using QC, ALM, Test Director and JIRA.

•Expertise in writing SQL Queries using Oracle, SQL Server to validate data.

•Extensive experience in SDLC models, Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

•Experience in Design, Development, and Execution of test cases using Test Plans and functional specifications.

•Expertise in all phases of the Testing life-cycle, including Functional, Integration/System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing.

•Proficient in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD), UAT documents and training manuals.

•Expertise in understanding complex business requirements and translating them into appropriate technical solutions.

•Liaison with Developers, Business Analysts, and Stakeholders in Application Design and Document Reviews.

•Detail driven with outstanding communication skills and proven success

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Windows XP/2000/NT

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, Java

Version Control Tools: P4, Test Link, Test Director, Quality Center, ALM, JIRA, Citrix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

West Bend Mutual Insurance, Chicago IL Aug 2016 to TILL DATE

(QA Analyst)

Project: Project: West Bend currently processes over 21,000 auto physical damage claims (APD) annually utilizing third party software vendors and our claim system. We use external vendor systems for making assignments to appraisal resources, valuing total losses and making salvage assignments. This project will replace our third party systems with CCC One -- an integrated, online predictive analytics solution for physical damage claims. It uses vehicle information and impact severity information to determine within 90% certainty whether a damaged vehicle is repairable or a total loss.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed requirements with Business Analyst, and analyzed the functional specifications/business rules to understand the product and create effective Test Scenarios.

Interacted with Developers to understand the functionalities of the interfaces.

Involved in creating QA Test plans and Traceability Matrixes in order to ensure that the project’s scope, requirements and deliverables are met.

Developed test cases to perform Functional, System, User Acceptance and Regression testing of the application.

Participated in Sprint Planning meetings with BA and Developers to understand the scope of testing.

Followed Agile methodology for the entire testing life cycle.

Attended Daily Standups for each Sprint.

Used SOAP UI tool to test REST API.

Tested integration testing with services (SOAP UI).

Created test cases and test metrics after reviewing requirements. Performed data mapping in testing.

Performed requirement analysis in preparation for writing test cases.

Involved in the entire Defect life cycle Process for logging, tracking and reporting defects using JIRA.

Performed End-To-End testing to ensure a smooth deployment of new functionalities into production.

Provided testing results and weekly status reports to QA Lead/Managers, showing percentage of tests executed and detailed reports on bugs, pass/fail report.

Attended review meetings and walkthroughs with the project team.

Discussed discrepancies with the development team, identified during QA testing on a daily basis.

Deutsche Bank March 2008 to Sep 2008

Associate Consultant (Oracle Financial Solutions Ltd)

Project: DB-ebills was Deutsche Bank's global Financial Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Finance platform. The platform met their corporate customers and their trading partner needs for Accounts Receivable - Order-to-Cash, and Accounts Payable 'Purchase-to-Pay' Cycle, including invoicing, payment and financing services. DB-ebills is Deutsche Bank's Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment System that enables participants to present invoices electronically, processed them on-line, and paid them via electronic means (such as Direct Debit) or manually via checks or Wire transfers

Responsibilities:

•Prepared Test Cases specifying the Description, Input data and Expected values.

•Bug reporting and tracking.

•Performed Functional, Regression, Sanity and database testing.

•Involved in testing Ebills and SF.

•Involved in testing SIT and provided support for the UAT testing team.

•Coordinated with onsite and offshore teams for resolving dependencies and fixing bugs.

Argent Nov 2006 to Feb 2008

QA Engineer (Tavant Technologies India (p) Ltd)

Project: Empower was a GUI based application developed in Delphi for the Underwriters to evaluate the Risk of Loan Origination process. Empower was accessed through Citrix Data logging remote server for remotely accessing the client’s Environment. The main objective was to develop the Loan Origination System for the Argent Mortgage Company. The Broker entered the Loan information, Borrower information and the Property information through the client's website which was pushed to the Empower application. The Underwriter validated the information using third party tools like FRAUD and Salary.Com and approved the loan

Responsibilities:

•Analyzed the requirements.

•Prepared Test Cases specifying the Description, Input data and Expected values.

•Bug reporting and tracking.

•Performed Functional, Regression, Smoke and Database Testing.

•Involved in testing the Pricing Engine using Xml framework

•Involved in testing Rate sheets and Rate changes on the Website.

•Coordinated with the onsite and offshore teams for resolving dependencies and fixing the bugs.

•Keeping control over versions of files & modification being made using P4 and Involved in SEPG activities.

Bob quote June 2005 to Oct 2006

QA Engineer (Axial Software Pvt Ltd)

Project: Bob Quote system was an application for configuring and creating quotes for equipment of Ingersoll Rand Bobcat Corporation. The .NET server component functions were a central repository of quotations. The server was also responsible for automatic software updates and version control of the clients. The system integrated at various points with the company dealer portal for order submission and tracking. The server subscribed to Oracle Core ID messages to receive updates in identity and organization data from a master Oracle 11i ERP. A companion J2EE server provided catalog and contract management interfaces, sharing a common SQL-Server backend with the central server. Java Application was used for creating and maintaining the catalog and contract. Catalog was the master file containing all the data in which Admin can add/edit/delete/modify the BM, FI, DI & Att. Items, whereas the contract was used for creating the contract for the quote, so values in these contracts were used for the Quotation instead of default values and the same contract was used to create many quotes.

Responsibilities:

•Performed a requirement Analysis

•Prepared Test cases.

•Conducted test execution using test cases and captured results using Test link in various OS platforms (XP, 2000 and 2003 Server).

•Reported defects

•Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression and Smoke Testing.

•Performed testing for both .Net and Java applications.

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