Quality Assurance Engineer

AHILAA RANI KAMUTHURAI

818-***-**** ***************@*****.***

SUMMARY:

oAround 7 years of IT experience in analysis and testing of web applications, client server applications and mainframe applications using manual and automated testing

oCurrently pursuing Masters in Software Engineering from

California State University, Northridge

oWorked as a Business Analyst Intern at AMGEN

oISTQB Certified Tester

oWorked as a teaching faculty in the area of Quality Assurance

oGood experience in various stages of the Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC); Good understanding of the defect life cycle

oExpertise in HP Quality Center and Jira for managing the testing life cycle

oGood knowledge of Load Runner and JMeter as automated performance testing tools

oGood Knowledge of QTP/Selenium

oProficient in Black Box testing, QA and QC Methodologies, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing

oWorked as a test lead in various phases like System Integration Testing(SIT) and User Acceptance Testing(UAT)

oWorking knowledge of Elastic Search and AWS

oGood knowledge of SQL and data base connectivity for backend testing

oCreated detailed QA documentation including QA reports and actively participated in QA meetings and project status meetings

oProficient in Waterfall and agile(scrum) development processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Win 8.1, Mac OS

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Team Foundation Server, Jira

Test Automation Tools: Selenium Web Driver, Soap UI, Load Runner, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Quick Test Pro, JMeter

Static Code Analysis Tools: Sonar Qube

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle

GUI: Visual Basic

Domains: Banking, Insurance, Credit Bureau, e-Commerce

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Currently pursuing Masters in Software Engineering at California State University, Northridge (Third Semester)

Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)

ISTQB Certified Tester

CURRENT GPA: 3.81/4.0

EXPECTED DATE OF GRADUATION: Fall 2018

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Amgen from May 2017 to Aug 2017 - Business Analyst Intern

Responsibilities:

oInvolved in Requirements Gathering and Feasibility analysis

oInvolved in regular interaction with the Client to understand the problem and offer solutions after Requirements Elicitation

oConducting Market Research on the already available solutions

oMade recommendations to the client after carrying out POC on the shortlisted solutions

oPreparation of Vision Document for Business Case Development

oPerformed Quality Assurance Tests on the product releases

IBM India from May 2010 to Jun 2013 – Quality Assurance Analyst

Aviva Insurance

The project dealt with testing the creation, endorsement, cancellation, reinstatement and renewal of the insurance policies for vehicles and homes. As a part of QA team, we were involved in testing multiple releases of several insurance products.

Responsibilities:

oTook part in both SIT and UAT phases in this project as a QA tester and test lead

oParticipated in daily scrum calls with the stakeholders of the project in the UAT phase and also in the defect status meetings

oCoordinated with the stakeholders of the project to understand the defects raised in the UAT phase and retested the issues in the test and production environment

oTook active participation in the weekly status meetings and reporting progress and the future testing efforts to the QA Manager

oParticipated in test plan review calls and contributed to the creation of the test plan

oPrepared test cases based on the requirements and created RTM

oPerformed sanity/smoke testing on the new build

oExecuted test cases in Quality Center and prepared test reports and reported the same to the management

oTracking of the defects in Quality Center to closure

oPerforming regression testing on every new build

oTo mentor new resources in the team and to familiarize them with QA process

Environment: ASP.Net, Quality Center

TD Bank E-Channel

TD Online Sales and On-boarding project maximizes online sales opportunities by allowing customers to apply for multiple products and cross selling products to achieve a real time multi product application.

Responsibilities:

oCreated and executed automated functional and regression tests using SOAPUI

oInvolved in the preparation of functionality matrix and test data preparation

oDefect tracking in IBM Rational Clear Quest

oPerformed positive, negative and functional black box testing

oUsed SQL query language to test the integrity of data by querying the database

Environment: Java, Oracle, SoapUI, Rational Clear Quest

Cap Gemini India from Oct 2006 to Feb 2010 - – Quality Assurance Analyst

Lindorff Decision

Lindorff Group is a receivables management company offering services like credit evaluation, invoicing, debt collection and portfolio management. The user (entity using this product) can request for specific information like credit history or employment history of a person and the information would be returned in the form of an XML output file. Similarly the user can also query about a company’s information. XML testing involved validating the data returned in the output XML file. The structure of the XML file in terms of Parent/Child nodes and values of the tags were verified by performing SQL testing.

Responsibilities

oInvolved in preparation of QA Estimates, test case and test scenario based on the requirements

oLog and document defects in Bugzilla

oPerformed smoke testing for every new build

oIdentified the critical scenarios and prepared the regression test cases and executed the same

oAssist the users during User Acceptance test(UAT)

oAttend defect review meetings

oCoordinated with the development team on the defect status

Environment: Java, Oracle, Bugzilla

CORBIS-MONARCH

Corbis is an online repository of creative digital images. It has creative resources for advertising, marketing and media professionals worldwide, helping to bring creative work to life with the highest quality photography, footage and rights services. Corbis offers a pre-eminent collection of more than 100 million creative, entertainment and historic images. The users can create their profiles in the Corbis external site and purchase the images online.

Responsibilities

oInvolved in the estimation for preparation and execution phase

oActively involved in daily scrum meetings

oWriting test cases based on the requirements

oConducted System testing, Regression testing, Performance Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Build Acceptance Testing and Localization Testing

oLogging and tracking of defects in Microsoft TFS

oConducted performance test using Load Runner

oAutomated BAT Test cases using QTP

Environment: ASP.Net, TFS, Load Runner, QTP

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