Smitha M

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Quality Analyst with over 8 years of diverse experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with strong experience and in-depth knowledge of Business Processes, Change management process and Test management in diverse industries.

Effective communicator and able to work collaboratively with project stakeholders to meet deadlines and account for deliverables.

Develop Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts and Test reports for Manual as well as Automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.

Experience in Web testing, ETL testing, Data conversion/migration testing, database testing & Salesforce testing

Experience in developing and scheduling of ETL jobs & monitoring

Extensive experience in Build Validation, Integration testing, Interface Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing and Backend verification.

Experience in Coordinate, Build and maintain multiple Test Environments

Experienced in preparing RTM, RBTM, Test Summary and Defect Summary reports.

EDUCATION:

Diploma in Systems Management from Aptech Computer Education, 1999.

Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Osmania University, 2002.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems : Windows 2000/XP/NT

Software methodologies : Waterfall, Agile - Scrum

Requirements Management Tools : DOORS, Rational Requisite Pro, Jira, Rally

Databases : Oracle 11g, Teradata, Netezza, Teradata, SQL Server

Database Clients : SQL Developer, TOAD, SQL Server Management Studio

Defect Management Tools : HP ALM, Clear Quest

Others : Informatica, UNIX, PUTTY, Confluence, Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Micron Technologies INC. February 2017- November 2017

Role: Test Consultant

Project: NAND

Description:

Micron’s NAND application helps to optimize the design and derive the greatest benefit from the full-featured NAND technology.

Responsibilities:

Coordinate and conduct meetings/Tele-conferences with other SME’s, Business Analysts, System Analysts and Business partners to understand project scope/feasibility.

Identify Use Cases, Alternate Flows, Business Rules, System Rules and Business Process.

Provide input to developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.

Develop test conditions reference document listing all high-level business scenarios.

Participate in and facilitate testing documentation reviews and walk-through.

Responsible for Creating/Reviewing and delivering System Test plans, Test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Involved in user testing, End-to-end test, Regression test, Ad-hoc test, and Integration testing.

Involved in ETL testing using Informatica ETL tool.

Involving in writing SQL queries and SOQL queries to verify data quality

Review test results and assess defect impact and application quality using Defect Tracking tool.

Review selenium automation features

Knowledge of continuous integration using Jenkins

Environment: Sales Force, Informatica 9, Web application, Jira, ALM, Jira, TOAD, SOQL, Agile Methodology, Jenkins, Selenium

Nationwide Insurance Company, March 2011-August 2012.

Role: Quality & Business Analyst

Project: Contact Management (CTM)

Description:

Contact Management is an independent application solution with set of services and data for Contact History and Task Management information based on service oriented architecture

Responsibilities:

Gathered Business requirements for development and test on contracts with valid pay schedules, amendments, agreements, and letters of understanding for Agents, Agent Team Members, and Agency Interns.

Create BRD and converted to FRD.

Develop user acceptance test conditions reference document listing all high-level business scenarios.

Participate in and facilitate testing documentation reviews and walk-through.

Record/document results, uncover defects in the test execution.

Provide feedback on defects and observations that are discovered during testing.

Plan and participate in full life cycle of testing such as system and regression testing

Preparation of Test Summary reports, Weekly Test Status Reports, Test Data sheets, Test Metrics, Maintaining Effort Tracking sheet, Query log and Downtime log.

Attending weekly Tele-Conferences with Onsite QA team and Onsite BAs to evaluate the testing process.

Analyze gathered requirements data, verify requirements and create business requirement specifications (BRS).

Conducted JAD and brain storming sessions with business users and division managers.

Worked closely with business users to ensure streamlined delivery of project by undertaking duties like translating business requirements into functional specifications and after documenting business requirements.

Worked closely with the UI team to model the screens, which met user defined requirements and also company standards.

Provided documentation and report to Project Manager.

Environment: Agile, Java, MS Visio, COTS, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook), Team Foundation Server 2010.

Sindu Synergy, Hyderabad, India. September 2004 –July 2010

Role : QA Engineer

Project : Vidi Emi, USA

Description:

Vidi Emi is solution for online marketing. It provides the technology and the tools to accelerate e-sales.

Responsibilities:

Identified the project scope and Provided Test estimates based on the project scope.

Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed the requirements and developed test scenarios.

Performing end to end project Management tasks for every testing stage of the project to ensure delivery of all projects within established SLA’s.

Monitor project milestones, Risk Identifications and mitigation, Defect tracking.

Experience working in Agile team and closely working with developers and BA’s.

Involved in Requirement analysis with BA team & Involved in Test Plan and Test case preparation.

Responsible for assigning tasks and facilitating process, defect tracking using Trac tool.

Involved in writing Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.

Developed automation test plan and developed test scripts.

Developed automation scripts for Web Services to test request and response xml with valid and invalid data

Developed and executed Regression, Integration, System, and Implementation Test cases. Improved testing processes to ensure greater efficiency and quality of projects. Implemented the Audit process in project.

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