Lavanya Guda

Mobile: (***)***- ****

E- Mail: ac5515@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Seeking a challenging career in the area of software testing, reporting and tracking in a professional organization, where there is an ample opportunity to share, contribute and upgrade my knowledge to the development of self and organization served.

Professional Summary : (06/2006 – 03/2011)

4.9 years of experience in IT Industry in the field of Software Testing

AWS Certified

Experienced in manual testing with the focus on Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Load Testing, and System Testing.

Possess experience as Senior test team member in Software Testing

Having fair Knowledge in QTP

Expertise in testing Flex Applications

Expertise in testing Mobile Applications

Expertise in Omniture Site catalyst

Had testing work experience in Agile Process and Gate Process

Well versed with Software Testing Life Cycle

As part of Water Fall Model,expertise in analyzing and understanding Business Specification Documents like PRD, FRD and UI docs for deriving and updating Test cases

As part of Agile Methodology, actively Participated in Release Planning Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Scrum Calls, Demo and Retrospective Meetings

Experience in preparation of writing/updating test cases as per the requirements.

Involved in Peer reviews

Involved in BAT, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Retesting, Compatibility, Adhoc and Production Testing

Experience in QA and QC methodologies

Demonstrate ability to design and execute test plans by attending technical/functional requirements reviews for complex software

Strong analytical skills and experience with QA Metrics, such as defect profiles and performance to Entry/Exit criteria

Ability to work collaboratively and across matrix organizations in a fast paced and schedule driven environment

Experience in Internet/Web related applications

Experience in database (DB2, Oracle, SQL)Client/Server based applications testing

Experience in backend testing such as database, XML testing

Experience in Omniture site catalyst

Involved in Bug Triage Meetings for every release

Experience in using Console by which data in the site in maintained

Proficient in bug tracking tools like TeamTrack, Quality Center

Good at using Visual Source Safe for maintaining documentation

Trained and delivered KTs to freshers on the application

Actively participated in Trainings conducted at Project and Org level

As a QA POC, handled different responsibilities during the Sprint

Excellent Team Player with good inter-personal, communication and documentation skills

Coordinating with the development team for bug fixing.

Experienced in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data.

Quick learner, adaptable and flexible to the ever-changing technology and confident

Good at communication and interpersonal skills, Good individually and as a team player

Ability to deal with people diplomatically, willingness to learn team facilitator hard worker.

Zeal to learn New Technologies in the area of Testing.

Been awarded as Best Employee for the Year 2010

Technical Expertise :

Languages

C, C++,C#.net, VB.Net, JAVA,

DBMS

Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005, MySQL 5.1, Oracle 11g/10g/9i, and Microsoft Access

Web Technologies

HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, JSP, Asp.Net, CSS

Testing Tools

QTP, UFT 11.5

Operating Systems

DOS, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7, Mac

Miscellaneous

MS-Office

Mercury testing tool

Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Professional

Rational Tools

Rational Performance tester

Scripting Languages

VB Script & Java Script, python

Defect Tracking tools

Bugzilla, Teamtrack

AgileTracking Tool

Rally

Professional Experience :

Company

Designation

Duration

ValueLabs (www.valuelabs.com)

Sr. QA Analyst

06/2006 - 03/2011

Appreciations & Awards :

●Got appreciation certificate from client for Japanese Country launch for ZERO production defects.

Highlights:

Team size: 8

Total bugs raised – 500

Bugs raised by me – 130

●Got appreciation certificate from the client for top bug submitter

Highlights:

Team size : 100

Bugs raised by me – 8000 (apprx)

●Chosen as a member of cultural committee in valuelabs

About Snapfish:

Snapfish (www.snapfish.com) is the leading online photography company based in San-Francisco, USA. It dramatically redefines the consumer photography market by providing the first complete photo service that offers film developing, printing, online storing and sharing with an unsurpassed security, for both film-based and digital camera users. Snapfish by HP is an online photo service, with more than 90 million members and more than 2 billion unique photos stored nonlinearity enables its members to share print and store their most important photo memories by offering prints and personalized photo products at the best value on the Web. Also it offers free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage, a home video sharing service, community-based Group Rooms, free editing tools and software and more than 100 unique, customizable photo products to choose from, ranging from a comprehensive photo book, cards and calendars, mugs, mouse pads to boxer shorts, dog leashes and teddy bears.

Projects Handled in Snapfish

Project # 1 (08/2010 –03/2011 )

Title : Snapfish 2.0

Client : Snapfish by HP

Contribution : Testing (Writing, Executing and Preparing Test Plans & Reports)

Operating systems : Windows 2000prof/XP/MS Vista

Web Browsers : Internet explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0, Firefox 2.0/3.0,Google Chrome

Tool : F-Secure, Toad

Team Size : 3

Role : Team Lead

Bugs Raised &

Accepted : 120

Modules Tested:

1.Single Surface Product Builders on PC, Tablets and Mobiles

2.Multi Surface Product Builders on PC, Tablets and Mobiles

Environment:

●Ruby on Rails,

●Backbone JS and

●Selenium for Automation

Responsibilities:

●Manually tested various Single and Multi Surface Product Builders on different Tablets, Mobiles and PC

●Participated in conference calls with client and effectively communicated regarding the issues, project updates etc.

●As a Senior Engineer, helped the team through various major & minor releases

●Involved in creating the status reports, handling calls/discussions with PMs

●Attended Release Planning Meetings as part of Agile process

●Attended scrum calls, sprint planning meetings to discuss on requirements and on project status as a part of Agile model while testing the Application

●Attended Demo and Retrospective Meetings

●Used Rally tool for updating tasks and time estimates as a part of Agile testing

●Used Selenium and SQAT Automation framework for automating regression Test Suites and Sprint related User Stories

●Performed testing on cross browser/platform for its compatibility

●Bug reporting and Bug validation using team track.

●Delivered KTs and updated new joiners on application.

●Involved in External Testing and logged good number of bugs

●Post release activities - check the status on open bugs logged by me and get back to PO/SM to update its target

●Involved in documenting the Daily Status Reports and sending them to the Clients(USA)

●Coordinated the team by taking the role of Team Leader

Project # 2 (01/2010–08/2010 )

Title : Open Platform Phase (Cards,Books & Calendars)

Client : Snapfish by HP

Contribution : Testing (Writing, Executing and Preparing Test Plans & Reports)

Operating systems : Windows 2000prof/XP/MS Vista

Web Browsers : Internet explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0, Firefox 2.0/3.0,Google Chrome

Tool : F-Secure, Toad

Team Size : 4

Role : Team Lead

Bugs Raised &

Accepted : 135

The project scope includes building books & calendars pages using SWIFT framework to increase the performance and more user friendly experience.

1.Publisher Portal

2.Shop Holiday Phase I

3.Shop Holiday Phase II

4.Shop Holiday Phase III

Environment:

●SWIFT Frame work (JavaScript )

●Oracle Data base

●MAC Operating System.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the Project Documents and list out the clarifications

●Wrote and executed various Test cases for conducting Functionality testing, System testing, Regression testing, production testing.

●Manually tested various Flex developed products like Photo books, Cards, calendars and Single Photo Gifts and Multi Photo Photo Gifts

●Participated in conference calls with client and effectively communicated regarding the issues, project updates etc.

●As a Senior Engineer, helped the team through various major & minor releases

●Involved in creating the status reports, handling calls/discussions with PMs

●Attended Demo and Retrospective Meetings

●work for automating regression Test Suites and Sprint related User Stories

●Involved in creating and modifying the data in the site using Console

●Performed production testing on the live website and verified the flows

●Performed End to End testing starting from publishing designs to Packaging of orders.

●Written SQL queries for retrieving and updating the data in Oracle using Toad

●Performed testing on cross browser/platform for its compatibility

●Managing and Monitoring test plan execution with other team members

●Understand/review project documents derived in all GATES - PRD, UI, VD, FRD, Test plan, Test cases

●Involved in Peer Reviews and provided feedback

●Test reporting (Place test reports per iteration into VSS)

●Bug reporting and Bug validation using team track.

●Delivered KTs and updated new joiners on application.

●Tested application in many international languages

●Involved in External Testing and logged good number of bugs

●Post release activities - check the status on open bugs logged by me and get back to module lead to update its target

●Involved in documenting the MOM

●Involved in documenting the Daily Status Reports and sending them to the Clients(USA)

Project # 3 (03/2009 – 11/2009)

Title : Flex Products Testing [Books & Calendars]

Client : Snapfish by HP

Contribution : Testing (Writing, Executing and Preparing Test Plans & Reports)

Operating systems : Windows 2000prof/XP/MS Vista

Web Browsers : Internet explorer 6.0/7.0, Firefox 2.0/3.0,Google Chrome

Tool : F-Secure, Toad

Team Size : 2

Role : Senior QA Tester

Bugs Raised &

Accepted : 410

The project scope includes re-engineering the current application with more user experience & functionalities and with increase in performance.

1.Cards Builder [Ver: 3, 4 and 5]

2.Books Builder [Ver: 2A, 3A, 3B, 4 and 5]

3.Calendar Builder [Ver: 3 and 4]

4.Saved Projects

5.Scan Café Books etc…

Environment:

●Flex Technology

●Oracle Data base

●MAC Operating System.

Responsibilities:

●Proactively involved in study/analysis of Project Requirements and Functional Specifications document.

●Understanding the Project Documents and list out the clarifications

●Wrote and executed various Test cases for conducting Functionality testing, System testing, Regression testing and UAT

●Prepared Test Plans and Test Reports for specified features.

●Maintained Test Matrix with the test results obtained.

●Involved in creating test data for testing.

●Team track for Bug identification, tracking and reporting.

●As a Senior Engineer, helped the team through various major & minor releases

●Involved in creating the status reports, handling calls/discussions with PMs

●Performed testing on cross browser/platform for its compatibility

●Involved in issue resolution by interacting with developers, business analysts, and team lead.

●Participated in weekly status meetings with the team, developers to discuss open issues.

●Performed production testing on the live website and verified the flows

●Performed End to End testing starting from publishing designs to Packaging of orders.

●Written SQL queries for retrieving and updating the data in Oracle using Toad

●Performed testing on cross browser/platform for its compatibility

●Tested XML files once the order is packaged

●Participated in Post Mortem meetings with team and developers after the Release to discuss on how the QA phase went on and any improvements for the next release.

●Used configuration management tools like Visual Source Safe to maintain documents.

●Co-ordination with the onsite development team (US)

Project #4 (07/2008 – 02/2009)

Title : Snapfish – International

Client : Snapfish By HP

Contribution : Testing (Writing, Executing and Preparing Test Reports)

Operating systems : Windows 2000prof/XP/MS Vista

Web Browsers : Internet explorer 6.0/7.0, Firefox 2.0/3.0,Google chrome

Tool : F-Secure, Toad

Team Size : Six

Role : Team Member

Bugs Raised &

Accepted : 375

●The project scope includes testing of all sites IN,SG,CN,JP,NO,PT,DK,IE,IT,ES,SE,CA.Both English & Non–English sites testing involves in this .

●Tested Single Surface Products like Mugs, Mouse Pads, Note Books, Note Pads, Stickers, Magnets etc..

Responsibilities:

Proactively involved in study/analysis of Project Requirements and Functional Specifications document.

Understanding the Project Documents and list out the clarifications

Wrote and executed various Test cases for conducting Functionality testing, System testing, Regression testing and UAT

Prepared Test Reports for specified features.

Maintained Test Matrix with the test results obtained.

Involved in creating test data for testing.

Team track for Bug identification, tracking and reporting.

Involved in cross browser testing.

Performed production testing on the live website and verified the flows

Involved in issue resolution by interacting with developers, business analysts, and team lead.

Participated in weekly status meetings with the team, developers to discuss open issues.

Participated in Post Mortem meetings with team and developers after the Release to discuss on how the QA phase went on and any improvements for the next release.

Used configuration management tools like Visual Source Safe to maintain documents.

Co-ordination with the onsite development team (US)

Technical details: Snapfish Website is developed on J2EE Technology with Oracle Data base and installed on Solaris box.

Tools used: During testing phase we used F-secure to connect to the remote Solaris box from windows, Toad is a tool used to connect to the Oracle DB

Project #5 (08/2007 – 06/2008)

Title CORE (Comprehensive Online Relational Environment)

Client SHPS, USA

Operating System Windows XP

Tools Team Track, MS Access, Oracle, VSS

Team Size 7

Role Team Member

Project Description:

CORE is a product developed to provide SHPS a centralized database/program across all the products and services. CORE is the ideal solution for meeting marketplace demands for comprehensive outsourcing and managing benefits of employees and their dependents. A 100% date driven and rules based application it allows unlimited flexibility and allows two methods of administration either by SHPS or an ASP mode.

Role and Responsibilities

• Interacting with Onsite people, Taking clarifications regarding applications

• Involved in writing Test case documents and execution of test cases, Defect Logging

• Involved in functionality testing, System testing, Regression testing & Black Box Testing

• Prepared bug reports and test reports

• Preparing Status reports, Providing time estimates pertaining to tickets

• Responsible for the implementation of configuration management like PMP documents

• Involved in Preparing test data for Web Automation Scripts using QTP

• Executing the Automation Scripts for Web application.

• Involved in Test Case Reviews, attended daily calls and Status Calls with Onsite team

• Involved in analyzing Business, end to end feature every release

• Involved in Test Case preparation, Test Execution Activities using HP Quality Center.

• Carried out Defect Reporting, Defect Metrics, Tracking in TFS.

Project #6 (06/2006 – 07/2007)

Title : MMT (Make My Trip)

Client : MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd

Operating System : Windows XP

Tools : Bugzilla, SVN Tortoise, SQL Server 2005

Team Size : 6

Role : Team Member

Project Description

MakeMyTrip is an online travel company which provides reservation of Hotels, Flights, Cars and combination of Flights and Hotels as Packages. MMT consists of 5 modules: Flights, Hotels, FlightsplusHotels, Packages and Cars. Hotel module consists of admin and web. Admin consists of Hotel master, Hotel details and different tariff details. Web consists of search, recheck and booking.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Going through the Requirements and raising clarifications

• Involved in writing Test case documents and execution of test cases for user interface, usability,validation and functionality

• Involved in functionality testing, System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing

• Prepared bug reports and test reports

• Maintaining all the latest versions of Test Case Documents and Test Reports in SVN Repository

Academic Qualifications:

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics from QIS (Affiliated to JNTU),Hyderabad Apr-2006

Intermediate from UMR Jr College in 2002

SSC from PVR Girls High school in 2000

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