AISWARYA SASIDHARAN NAIR

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ISTQB Certified Software Testing Professional with 4+years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance including Test Cases design, Test Cases Review, Test execution, Defect Management and Analyzing & Documenting Test Results.

Proficient in testing responsibilities include Functional testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Exploratory testing, Adhoc testing, User Acceptance testing, System Testing, Black box testing.

Hands on experience in Agile scrum methodology with frequently changing requirements and feature sets in testing.

Expert in breaking the code, documenting the defects and assigning to development and working flawlessly with them to get the defect resolved.

Strong ability in Software Testing involving Test Execution against user requirements, Reporting Defects on Defect Tracking tool, Defect Life Cycle, Defect Status & Defect Management.

Possess deep understanding of complete Agile Process Development, SDLC, STLC process and QA methodology.

Experience in Impact analysis and test cases update according to the changes in requirements/enhancements and identifying areas of applications to be regression tested.

Experience working with databases including executing SQL queries.

Experience in attending Scrum meetings, Sprint review meetings and worked with Product Owners and Scrum Masters. Ability to work in a fast moving agile process.

Expert in working seamlessly with business analyst, product owner and development to understand the product and requirements, Root Cause Analysis, Triage and monitor defect.

Good understanding and experience in projects executed on Agile/Scrum and Waterfall software development models. Solid ability to take ownership and initiative.

Exposure to mobile testing. Knowledge on Selenium automation tool.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Agile/Scrum

Test Case Design & Execution

Manual Testing

Defect & Defect Life Cycle

Defect Tracking & Defect Closure

Functional and Regression Testing

System and Integration Testing

User Acceptance Testing

Software Development life cycle

Software Testing Life Cycle

Priority & Severity of Defects

Test Reports & Documentation

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Operating System: Windows, DOS, Ubuntu

Knowledge on Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Eclipse, Google Sheets, SQL Server

Documentation Tools: MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, and MS-Excel

Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Engineer at Infotech Global(India) Ltd, Bangalore, India from January 2011 – January 2013

Work Profile:

Verified the assigned web applications using black box testing method.

Requirement analysis and identification of test scenarios, design Test Cases and Expected Test Results.

Test Cases Review and test execution. Identify and log defects, work with development to resolve, to reproduce and to resolve defects, and verify fixes when implemented.

Performed Adhoc testing and added the defect catching test scenarios as additional test cases to the planned test cases.

Defect logging in Defect tracking tool called WebCR, an in-house defect tracking tool. Reporting, tracking and maintaining the defect life cycle till defect closure in the defect tracking tool.

Validation of Test Results. Assigned defects to the development team, Defect analysis & review, Defect management, maintain Pass-Fail report and defect closure using WebCR.

Verified bug fixes, did regression testing and adhoc testing after every bug fix/enhancements. Prepared Test Summary Reports periodically.

Prepared and executed SQL queries to verify the data in the database.

Impact analysis and found out the affected test cases and test scenarios, test cases update & test execution according to the changes in requirements.

Performed user acceptance testing on staging environment, Smoke testing on production environment.

Actively participated in all QA and testing activities during UAT and production releases. Involved in documenting & tracking the project activities regularly taking initiative & Ownership

Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers in requirement analysis, design reviews and testing of application for different sprints. Involved in all phases of testing life cycle in Agile/Scrum environment.

Participate in the identification and implementation of continuous improvement in process and standards for the entire team.

Knowledge Transfer to new team members.

Project Name: Money2 for Health

Client: Citi Bank

This web portal is developed for City Bank employees to view all their health care payment responsibilities and to pay their responsibility to their doctors and hospitals, subsequently update their payment status.

Roles and responsibilities :

Analysed User stories and prepared the Test Cases. Created test cases for Functional testing, Smoke testing, UI testing, Black box, Regression testing, Integration and System Testing.

Worked with the Business Analyst to understand the requirements. Performed self-review and review with Business Analyst on test cases.

Identified defects were logged in to defect tracking tool called WebCR.

Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing sufficient details to understand, replicate and resolve the defect.

Prepared and executed SQL queries to verify the data in the database.

Verified data for redundancy on every new data load using excel and Winmerge tool.

Interacted with the Business Analysts to resolve the functional issues during System Test.

Tracked the Defects using WebCR tool and discuss those in weekly meetings and ensure their closure and to avoid jeopardizing the timelines.

Performed Regression testing and Adhoc testing after every bug fix/new update.

Prepared UAT test cases for the Client and performed UAT testing on Staging.

Performed Smoke testing on production environment. Tested application compatibility on different browser versions.

Tested the application functionality on Android and iPhone.

Maintain well organized records of test results, triage and monitor defects & provided summary report periodically to the managers.

Involved in review meetings with Development team and Business team to discuss Use-Cases, Business Rules, message rules, alternate flows and exceptions paths.

Participated in requirement and design walkthroughs. meetings with developers to discuss business requirements enhancements and modifications.

Provided status in regular sprint meeting. Involved in defect report & triage meetings.

Awarded the Employee of the month for delivering quality product on time.

Project Name: NjeConnectBRMC

Client: Bergen Regional Medical Center, NJ

This is a web application for BRMC Medical Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to maintain Patient admission. The portal allows to collect medical record information of the patient and is used to determine the right level of care for the patient, then assign the patient to any of the 9 Emergency, Inpatient or Outpatient programs.

Requirement analysis and Identification of Test Scenarios.

Created test cases according to the business requirements. Extensively involved in writing and designing Test cases, Test Cases Review and Test Execution.

Worked with the Business Analyst and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.

Implementation of test cases and performed extensive black box testing. Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing,Regression testing, End to End testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Reporting the defects with the details using defect tracking tool (WebCR), maintain the defect log.

Modified test cases according to the frequent changes in requirements. Done impact analysis and found out the affected test cases and test scenarios.

Performed regression testing and adhoc testing after every requirement change/enhancements .

Verified fixed issues and Update the defect status in Defect tracking system.

Analyse the test results summary and prepare the reports periodically.

Reviewing & Updating client provided test cases for UAT.

Done user acceptance testing on staging environment and build verification test on production environment.

Actively participated in all QA and testing activities during UAT and production release.

Project Name: ECHS Complaint Management System

Client: Central Government Health Scheme, India

This web application is for ECHS Helpline to log the queries/complaints by Veterans. From Agent to Central Organization, there are eight levels of support to manage the ESM queries/complaints.

Roles and responsibilities:

Create, Execute and Maintain test cases for functional, Regression, Smoke,System, Blackbox and UI testing.

Ensure that all the test cases are written and mapped with the requirements provided by business analysts.

Performed functional testing, system testing, UI testing, regression testing, Exploratory and Adhoc testing.

Discovered defects, logged the defects and submitted defect findings to the defect tracking system WebCR.

Performed Regression testing and Adhoc testing after every bug fix/new update.

Performed UAT testing on Staging and Smoke testing on production environment.

Attended the Review meetings and walkthroughs and interacted to Business Analysts and Developers for requirements understanding, defects solving.

Verification of data in the database after every data load. Verified mapping of polyclinics to other higher levels.

Generated the detailed reports of the defects, Pass-Fail report, Assigned defects to the development team and maintain the defect life cycle, Pass-Fail report and defect closure using WebCR.

Prepared Status reports periodically.

Project Name: Healthcare Info Xchange – Hospital Management

Client: Healthcare Info Xchange India

Bed Management module : This module allows providers to self-create and update their bed availability and occupancy status,implementing effective patient care and patient management practices. Bed Management allows the user to create Provider Entity. Subsequent Bed Charts, Patient Creation and Bed allocation along with ADT management. Clinics can view the bed availability and occupancy status in the hospitals and can refer the patients. Bed management application has been designed using Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Understanding the requirements and GWT features.

Prepared test cases for functional testing, smoke testing and user interface(GUI) testing of Patient Registration & Bed Assignment module for hospitals and Patient Registration for clinics.

Reporting the issues with the details using defect tracking tool, assign the defects to development.

Verified the GWT Drag and Drop controller feature on the application.

Verified fixed issues and did regression testing.

Performed Compatiblity testing to verify the look and feel of application on multiple browsers.

Maintaining the defect cycle, defect verification and closure of the assigned testing tasks in time.

Involved in regular discussions with developers regarding the feature and defects.

Updating testing status reports to Test manager and Project Manager.

Polyclinics and Hospital List Modules: This applicaiton allows the users to search for hospitals or clinics using search parameters . Users can view the hospital/clinic details. All the empanelled hospitals and clinics are available in the system. Users can view the specialty and treatment details of each hospitals using tool tip.

Prepared test cases and performed smoke testing, functional testing.

Verified the hospitals/clinics list in the application against the Client list.

Defects were logged into the defect tracking system, verfied the defect fixes.

Analyzed the test results, Prepare the test reports.

Involved in regular discussions with developers and Business Analyst.

Updating testing status reports to Test Manager.

Software Engineer at ISRO

(Indian Space Research Organizatrion), Trivandrum, India from Jan 2007 to June 2009

Worked for the Navigation Initialization software module of flight projects.

Understanding of SRS for Navigation Initialization data module and preparing test cases.

Involved in on-board verification and validation activities of Inertial Navigation software. Performed validation of the incremental velocity imparted to the satellite.

Test vector generation to verify the simulation test results. Developed test oracle in C language. Analyzing the test oracle results with the designers results from simulation tests.

Involved in the validation activities for initialization data of the Navigation Initialization data module. Developed a utility to generate the data as per the SRS and then verified the simulator test results and this generated data using WinMerge tool.

Prepared module level test scenarios based on SRS & Design Documents and done validation.

Performed white box testing of assigned modules of Flight software (component testing).

Static analysis of modules. Involved in walkthroughs, code inspection and reviews of Navigation Initialization data software.

Involved in verification and validation activities of assigned modules of flight projects.

Module level testing of Ada code in in-house simulator (Vikram simulator).

Analysing Software Requirement Specification, Test Cases design and Test Vector generation for unit level tests. Static Analysis of assigned modules

Involved in the validation activities for cross-checking initial status and conditions of initialization data files of Guidance, Sequence software and Digital Auto Pilot(DAP) of flights. Developed a testing utility for parameter identification and analysis and then verifying each parameter value and location with respect to designers data. The comparison results will also be displayed. Once the verification is over, the initialization data will be then sent back to designers for furthur use.

Developing in-house utility software in C language.

Static analysis of modules. Control Flow Graph(CFG) generation of assigned modules in Ada language. Cyclomatic complexity is also generated.

Rporting daily status and summary reports to the Test Lead.

Academics & Certifications

B.Tech in Information Technology from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala.

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level with 84%.

Diploma in Software Testing with A+ grade from IBM SeedInfotech, Bangalore.

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