Hemanth Allampalli

Mobile: +1-732-***-****

E-mail: ac5olt@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Summary

More than 15 years’ of experience in software quality assurance, with both management and hands-on experience in all phases of software development life cycle. Good knowledge of Selenium WebDriver, Smart TV’s, mobile/tablet Core-HR and Oracle Payroll applications, JIRA, AGILE methodologies, Scrum, content management, automation & testing tools.

Experienced in delivering high quality software using methodologies like extreme programming, test-driven development, behavior driven development. Experienced in Selenium WebDriver automation, Page Objects frameworks, functional testing, acceptance testing, regression testing and performance testing.

Having a proven ability in managing multi-site teams, collaborating with customers and suppliers, analyzing requirements and executing projects. Good combination of technical, analytical and communication skills. Possess ability to learn and adapt quickly, high degree of motivation and team spirit.

Successful in resolving challenging problems and making a team become greater than sum of its parts.

Key Skills

Certified Safe 4.0

Test cases & Test processes

Test plans

Certified Oracle

Defect tracking

Test strategies

Debugging tools Fiddler & Charles

Test automation

ISTQB® certified tester

Quality assurance lead

Python scripting

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Behavior Driven Development

Selenium WebDriver

JSON

Technical & IT Skills

Test Management Tools: Mercury Test Director, HP QC, HP ALM and JIRA

Defect Management Tools: Bugzila, JIRA, Relational ClearQuest, Kintana

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium

Project Management Tools: Accept 360, Scrumworks Pro

Operating System: Linux, Windows and OS X

Programming/Scripting Languages: Java Scripting, C, VB Script,

Software Version Control Systems: IBM Rational Clear Case, Jenkins, Stash

Other Application : Control-M, Work Brain, Taleo, E-workplace, Net Benefits

Human Capital Management: Oracle HRMS, HR Access

Domain : Video Streaming, Oracle HRMS US Payroll, Health & Welfare

Devices : Xbox One, Xbox 360, Chromecast, Samsung Smart TV

Proxy Debugging Tools : Fiddler, Charles

Miscellaneous: MS office, Outlook, Lotus Notes administration, SharePoint, Wireshark, Gdb and Charles

Hemanth Allampalli Mobile: +1-732-***-****

E-mail: ac5olt@r.postjobfree.com

Work Experience

Sling TV, Echostar Corp., American Fork, UT

Role: QA Lead 2015 – Till Date

Responsibilities

Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions including planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.

Works with the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on a quality Assurance plan for the Xbox One Sling TV implementation.

Work with Testing Coordinator to ensure testing of functional areas is complete, tracked and on-schedule.

Overseas, point of escalation for the Jira (defect tracking) database for all testing phases (update, follow-up and escalate overdue issues).

QA issue prioritization and resolution facilitation.

Facilitates weekly Quality Assurance meetings and maintains agenda.

Work with QA Manager and coordinate to create test plan and prepare for testing. Monitor testing progress; ensure testing is being assigned for a particular module area.

Provide formal sign-off on all testing deliverables and events.

Build Automation Framwork for validating streams.

Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using the business documents in Selenium.

Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.

Coordinated the Defect Disposition process with Quality, Technology and Business teams

Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Astir IT- NJ

Role: QA Lead Sep 2014, To Feb 2015

Responsibilities

Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions including planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.

Works with the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on a quality Assurance plan for Project.

Work with Testing Coordinator to ensure testing of functional areas is complete, tracked and on-schedule.

Overseas, point of escalation for the Jira (defect tracking) database for all testing phases (update, follow-up and escalate overdue issues).

QA issue prioritization and resolution facilitation.

Coordinated the Defect Disposition process with Quality, Technology and Business teams

Facilitates weekly Quality Assurance meetings and maintains agenda.

Work with QA Manager and coordinate to create test plan and prepare for testing. Monitor testing progress; ensure testing is being assigned for a particular module area.

Provide formal sign-off on all testing deliverables and events.

Fidelity – Nashua (NH)

Project: Health & Welfare

Role: Sr Quality Assurance January 2012, To Aug 2014

Responsibilities

Static analysis, Issue replication & Gaining understanding of the fix

Test Execution strategy & Estimation of QA hours

Scheduling Test cases walk-through meetings with the project team.

Test execution, Defect log and track in QC.

Testing methodologies include Equivalence partitioning, Boundary value testing,Metrics collating etc

Conduct collaboration meeting with the development team discussing on the fix.

Set up the test environment & Prepare/Acquire Test Data

Updating Status Report to the stakeholders on a regular basis.

Risks and mitigations

Exit criteria and post-mortem analysis

Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.

Coordinated the Defect Disposition process with Quality, Technology and Business teams

Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Hemanth Allampalli Mobile: +1-732-***-****

E-mail:ac5olt@r.postjobfree.com

Fidelity - India

Project: HRMS US Payroll System

Role: Sr Quality Assurance January 2010, To December 2011

Responsibilities

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases.

Created and Executed Positive test cases, Negative test cases and Regression test cases using various techniques like Boundary value conditions etc.

Preliminary discussion of the project with the core team.

Performed Functional Testing, System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.

Involved in the knowledge transfer session and been an integral part in suggesting the process change required to enhance turn around time.

Review and execution of test Cases to check the functionality of the application against the user requirements manually.

Status Reporting and various type of Matrix generation for the higher ups.

Review / troubleshooting of work products of team members.

Fidelity - India

Project: HR ACCESS ESP2

Role: Sr Quality Assurance August ’08 Till December 2009

Responsibilities

Worked in an agile team, with a different and challenging environment, where everyone in the team was expected to be self organized and motivated to perform with a lot of constraints and expectations.

Participation in true up sessions with the business and development teams to come to a conclusion on the scope for the stories intended to be developed.

Worked along with the business experts to come up with documentation and use cases.

Test case design and review with the business analysts.

Complete ownership of execution and defect tracking in the team.

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Fidelity - India

Project: Voyager

Role: Quality Assurance

May’05 to July’08

Responsibilities

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases.

Preliminary discussion of the project with the core team.

Performed backend testing by using RUMBA mainframe editor.

Performed Functional Testing, System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.

Status Reporting and various type of Matrix generation for the higher ups

Spalee Systems – India

Project: Ranker

Role: Quality Assurance June’04 to April’05

Responsibilities

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases

Preliminary discussion of the project with the core team.

Reported Bug by using Ms Paint, Ms Word and Excel Sheet

Hemanth Allampalli Mobile: +1-732-***-****

E-mail: ac5olt@r.postjobfree.com

Spalee Systems – India

Project: SIBMS [Spalee Integrated Broadcast Management System]

Role: Tester July’03 to April’04

Responsibilities

Involved in testing AMS and LMS modules.

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases

Preliminary discussion of the project with the core team.

Reported Bug by using Ms Paint, Ms Word and Excel Sheet.

Spalee Systems – India

Project: SNET PLUS

Role: Tester Aug’02 to May’03

Responsibilities

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases.

Analyzing user requirements and developed test cases

Reported Bug by using Ms Paint, Ms Word and Excel Sheet.

EDUCATION:

MBA – (Systems), Madras University, Chennai, India

Certifications:

Oracle Certified

Safe Certified

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