Naga D Buragadda

Summary

Software Quality Engineer with over 4 years of work experience. ISTQB certified tester with full software development lifecycle experience which includes estimation, developing and implementing test plans, test designing, test processes & methodologies that fuel swift corrective actions.

Over 4 years of total work experience as QA Engineer with 2 years of Automation testing experience using Selenium.

Extensive experience in software development methodologies including Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall.

Profound knowledge in STLC & SDLC phases, defect lifecycle.

Extensive experience across Functional, System Integration, Regression and UAT test phases.

Work experience across Banking Systems and Payments.

Proven ability in automation testing using Selenium Webdriver with TestNG & Junit frameworks and HP QC/ALM tools.

Proven skills in creating and maintaining a test automation framework.

RESTful API service test automation using SOAPUI.

Experience in basic SQL queries.

Cross browser testing experience across Internet Explorer, Chrome browser, Safari browser and Mozilla Firefox, experience in running distributed test using SauceLabs.

Extensive experience in Test Management tools and defect management tools.

Proven skills in meticulous resource planning, test planning, test estimation, test design & execution, defect management, deliver QA status reports & test certificates, propose & implement improvements based on the lessons learned.

Expertise in identifying regression test candidate and maintenance of the master regression test suite.

Excellent verbal & written communication skills, analytical & problem solving skills with strong attention to details.

Comfortable working as a member of an integrated team as well as independently.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India)

Technical Skills

Language: Java, SQL, XML & HTML

Methodology: Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (Scrum)

Testing tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center/ ALM, Bugzilla

Test automation tools: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Junit frameworks, SauceLabs, Eclipse IDE, SOAPUI, HP QC.

Continuous Integration: Maven, Jenkins

Testing techniques: Static testing, Sanity testing, GUI Testing, System and Integration testing, Regression testing, E2E testing, Smoke testing, Database validation, Usability testing, Negative testing.

Professional Certification

Foundation Level Certificate in Software Testing

Issuing Organization – ISTQB

Agile Certification

Issuing Organization - ISTQB

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Test Analyst – Deustche Bank Nov 2014 – Aug 2016

Organisation: Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd.

Work Location: Bangalore, India.

Position: QA Analyst.

Technology/ Tools: Manual Testing, Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Basic Java, Eclipse, Jira, Agile

Db-direct internet is Deutsche Bank’s flagship product for corporate cash management.DBDI is Deutsche Bank’s Internet-based banking application. Utilized by Corporate, Multi-National Companies (MNC) and Financial Institutions, bank customers connect to the DBI system via the Internet (World Wide Web) to perform their banking transactions. It is a multi-user, multi-branch and multi-currency system that enables users to effect payments and inter-company funds transfer in a browser friendly environment. The product is established globally in Europe, United States and Asia Pacific/Kuala Lumpur, Middle East.

With db-direct Internet a corporate is able to access his/her bank accounts and carry out banking transactions over the Internet anytime, anywhere. DBDI is divided into general function types such as Account Information, Payments, Collections, etc. called modules in DBDI terminology. Within each module there can be one or more products. This application will allow making payments from multiple countries in different ways like Single, Bulk payments by the end user .means at a time user can make payments for more than one account which are existed in different countries. This payment is following the different modes like corporate transfer, Cheque collections, Local Demand Draft etc. This application designed in a standard model and provides flexibility to interface with Bank’s legacy systems both via middleware (MQSI) or direct interface.

Responsibilities

Performed manual test execution of system, integration and regression test cases.

Responsible for testing activities in an Agile (Scrum) development environment. Understand the user stories, perform story point sizing, QA task creation, prepare test plan.

As a member of the scrum team, participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings.

Done functional testing, system integration test & regression test, reported bugs & retested and fixed.

Defect logging and tracking using JIRA.

Providing functional and technical knowledge of the application as and when required, through Knowledge transitions and documents

Develop test plans, testing resource requirements, and overall scheduling of testing activity

Understand the user stories, perform story point sizing and QA task creation.

Involve in the review of requirements specifications for weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing and provide recommendations

Designed and developed automated regression test cases for the web based application using selenium web driver using Java language with TestNG framework.

Responsible for developing manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements

Design and develop test automation frameworks for service test automation and UI test automation.

Execute test cases/scripts to ensure delivery of quality software applications

Validate the web applications and web services by manual and automated means to ensure that the product meets the business requirements

Monitor and track resolution of defects, coordinating with engineers in order to prevent, report, and resolve defects

Identified reusable manual regression test cases and transformed them to automated scripts after every release.

Design, monitor, and analyze quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status

Suggest innovative methods for continuous improvement based on the lessons learned.

JP Morgan Chase Mortgage Express June 2012 – Oct 2014

Organisation: Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd

Work Location: Bangalore, India

Position: QA Analyst

Technology/ Tools: Manual Testing,HP ALM, JIRA,SharePoint

The Mortgage Express project is the implementation of new updated Loan system by replacing the existing Loan Builder and CLOSR in phases for providing quicker and quality services to customer. These applications, and their interfaces, would be designed to deliver the same functionalities as of prior, with more enhanced features and user-friendly abilities.

Loan Origination system (MAX) – Borrower’s Basic information will be collected. And according to the borrower requirement, product will be selected.

Loan processing system (MPX) – Complete information will be collected in this system.

MPX interact with many Vendors & other application like, MAX, MYCM, Downstream, and Onbase Underwriting is done in MPX

Responsibilities

Performed manual test execution of system, integration and regression test cases.

Unit testing of and all related components,Unit Test cases are prepared and the Unit Test Results are documented

Develop High Level and Low level Scenario Documents, Systems Requirements review

Test Planning, test cases design and development, preparation of traceability matrix for customer’s CRs and product enhancement requests.

Worked in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

During agile,Identified test conditions for user stories and transform them to test cases.

As a member of the scrum team, participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings.

Collaborate with team members and test lead for review of test plan, test cases and other work products.

Performed functional, usability, regression test execution and documented software defects in HP ALM, reported defects to software developers, tracked defects till closure.

Performed manual test execution of system, integration and regression test cases.

Execution of manual and automated regression test cases and maintained a thorough test status report.

Analyze deviations in the output and document defects using the defect tracking tool.

Report status on a weekly basis to the test manager.

Prepared test cases for the CRs, product enhancement requests.

Facilitated training and induction for new joiners and brought them up to speed at the earliest.

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