Kalpana Ganta

Great communication skills.

MBA from University of Findlay, Ohio.

Currently on a project with Walgreens in Chicago but looking to find a position in Columbus as her family is here.

Available to start 3 weeks after offer is made.

1 year of Lead experience.

Around 3 years of Ruby / Cucumber experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Cucumber (RubyMine IDE), Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center 9.x/10, ALM 11, WinRunner 7.x, LoadRunner, Cucumber 7.x, Selenium, ClearQuest

Programming: Ruby, Visual Studio, C, C++, PL-SQL, Java/J2EE, SQL Server […] Oracle 8i/9i, MS Access Agile Methodology, Facets

Web/Technologies: HTML/DHTML, XML, VB Script, Java, J2EE

Operating Systems: Windows (10,7, Vista, XP, 2000, 98), Windows server, MS-DOS, Linux/UNIX

Other Tools: Q-Trace, MS Office suite

EDUCATION:

MBA in Organization and Leadership Behavior University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Amrita Sai Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Technological University, Kakinada, India (2011)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Walgreens Co., Chicago, Illinois Jan 2017 – Present

QE Lead

Project: Pharmacy Renewal (May 2017 – Present)

Analyze user stories by interacting with business analysts and developers.

Participate in Sprint Grooming Sessions to pull the current sprint user stories from product backlog.

Perform User Interface, Services and Database testing.

Preparing Master Project Plan, Master Test Plan, UAT Test Plans, Test Tracks, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and execution of Test Cases. Identify Automation Scenarios from the set of Test Cases.

Leverage SOAPUI Tool to test SOAP and RESTful API’s. Testing micro services capabilities.

Designing and tracking test cases using Zephyr for JIRA and KIBANA for application logs.

Follow Agile Scrum methodology for release planning, backlog grooming sessions, iteration planning and retrospective sessions as per company Agile guidelines.

Demo the functionality to the Product Owners during the Sprint Review.

Work on Cucumber for BDD with Ruby.

Write and execute automated tests using Ruby Cucumber BDD framework.

Expertise in building the Automation Frameworks using Java, Spring and TDD/BDD approach.

Work on Functional Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby (BDD Framework).

Implement Appium Scripts to test iOS and Android platforms.

Involved in automation scripts for mobile native applications using Appium, Java and Selenium.

Developing Web Applications on Selenium WebDriver, TestNG Framework and Appium Automation Framework for mobile application. Perform mobile testing in different platforms like iOS and Android using Appium.

Testing push notifications in iOS and Android devices.

Develop custom libraries for automation using Ruby and Selenium WebDriver gem.

Design and implement Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG).

Use HP UFT with VB Scripting for Windows based applications.

Use iOS simulator (on Xcode) to make sure the app works on all devices and there no UI issues.

Use Android SDK and set up mobile device Emulator to test application and to get log files.

Support Production Pilot Store.

Attend defect triage meeting to review production, current release and backlog defects.

Plan and manage various releases across all the QE and Help Center environments by working with DevOps.

Work with DevOps and site Arch Team to manage RxMS Application deployment in all the QE store devices in Technology Lab’s, Innovation Center and Help Center.

Testing different types of billing approaches such as adjudication of billing for a prescription with plans and without plans using Facets tool.

Scrum level testing of adjudication to mark down the different claiming procedures using Facets tool.

Support the SIT and End to End Testing (E2E) activities for releases.

Log issues/defect attaching server logs, screen shots, capturing video and assigning it to respective developer/lead and follow up until the issue is resolved. Mentor and coach team members.

Environment: RubyIDE, Cucumber, Maven, Java, Oracle 11g, JIRA, SoapUI, XML, XPath, JIRA, SQL Developer.

QE Engineer

Project: Prescription Management System

Analyzing the project requirement and testing concepts in organization standard

Preparation of Test Cases using TFS. Define Testing Scenarios using TFS.

Executing test scripts in multiple browsers in local and remote machines using MTM concept.

Analyzing test results and modifying scripts if required.

Expansion of automated test case coverage for regression and new feature tests.

Performing Functional & Regression testing based on release or build.

Manual testing for Mobile Application in devices as well as simulator.

Participate in weekly stand up meetings and update the testing progress.

Participate in defect meetings, prepare defect tracking reports and test results report.

Modifying test cases as and when Change Requests made by the client.

Conduct User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and write issues log based on outcome of UAT.

Test application and file defects using Quality Center/ALM and TFS.

Involved in Mobile Testing including App Testing. Test automation for web application using Cucumber.

Identify, analyze, and document defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in handset behavior.

Analyze the system requirement specifications and involved in developing Test Plans.

Perform Black Box, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.

Test web application in Agile/Scrum development processes.

Environment: Selenium, Cucumber, Maven, Java, Oracle 11g, JIRA, SoapUI, XML, XPath, JIRA, SQL Developer.

GJ Solutions, Hyderabad, India Aug 2013 – Mar 2015

Quality Assurance Engineer

Involved in preparing test strategies for client-side verifications and validations.

Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Performed regression tests on the application to assure proper functionality of the site after new builds using ClearQuest.

Performed Manual Testing of this Web application and automated it by using Selenium IDE.

Involved in functional testing, black box testing, negative testing, compatibility testing, and recovery testing.

Performed Usability testing for web portal.

Reviewed database test cases according to assigned requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from Oracle database.

Created test cases for user stories and performed testing once the story was ready from Developers.

Performed regression tests on the application to assure proper functionality of the site after new builds using ClearQuest for Point of Sale (POS) systems.

Performed GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Ad-hoc testing, Negative testing, End to End testing, Load testing, User Acceptance testing on multiple projects.

Executed User Stories of the projects available in JIRA implementing Agile Methodology.

Assisted quality assurance implementation in all the phases of SDLC.

Wrote SQL queries using SQL Server Management Studio for data validation.

Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement and documentation.

Ran Selenium tests against multiple browsers using different browser profile.

Used SQL to validate backend database changes, deletes and update.

Wrote queries to extract data for testing purposes.

Reported the bugs/defects through JIRA and used IBM ClearQuest for tracking.

Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the test team using Quality Center.

Execution of nightly run automated scripts.

Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews. Prepared reports showing the testing effort.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Jenkins, Ruby, RubyMine, MySQL, DBI interface, SVN, TOAD, Selenium Grid, Selenium WebDriver etc.

Honeypot Inc., Hyderabad, India Jan 2011 – Jul 2013

Quality Assurance Engineer (May 2012 – Jul 2013)

Executed the script in GUI to check the functionality.

Used BDD framework with Cucumber, Ruby and created future files with scenario and scenario outline files.

Prepared test case documents for each functionality and enhancement request in order to make it easy for future verification.

Understood the functional needs and ensured that the new application was user friendly and to the standards of the Business Requirements.

Assisted the team lead to complete the project in the given timeline and budgets.

Prepared and executed test cases based on use cases.

Involved in-group reviews. Performed System/Product Testing.

Worked very closely with developers to recreate defects found and also to verify fixes.

Environment: QTP 10.5 and Quality Center 10.5, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server, Windows XP, Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, JUnit.

Quality Assurance Analyst (Jan 2011 – Apr 2012)

Developed and executed System, Functional and Navigational test cases.

Participated in preparing scenarios for regression testing.

Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.

Attended several walkthrough meetings with Business Analysts, Project Manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.

Executed Test Cases, analysis and reporting with test summary reports.

Identified confusing, inconsistent, and missing elements in the user interface.

Performed Functional, Integration, adhoc, Random Testing and Regression testing.

Environment: Quality Center (QC), Rational ClearCase, J2EE, WebSphere, Rational ClearQuest, RUP Methodology, XML, Oracle

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