Prasad H.R
Email id:*********@*****.***
Phone Number: 479-***-****
Over 16 years of experience in software industry in Quality Assurance Management and QA Activities for Desktop, Web based applications and Digital mobile Applications (Web Sites and Native Apps on iOS & Android devices) using Manual and Automation testing.
Professional Skills
Extensive working experience in Resource Planning, Estimation and Design Test Plans.
Extensive experience in Mobile Device Testing, GUI testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
Experience in coordinating with Testing, Cross-functional teams Resource Planning, Task Allocation
Extensive working experience in SDLC Process Waterfall, V-model and AGILE - methodology
Extensive experience in designing Automation Ruby scripts using Page objects Model.
Experience in communicating with end users periodically to review, analyze and translating
Business requirements in to Test cases.
Extensive testing Experience in Test scope identification, test requirements management, test case development, test scheduling, and defect management.
Extensive experience in using HP Quality Center - ALM and JIRA for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management, Defect Reporting
Extensive Experience in testing JDA Assortment Planning, PKMS,OBIEE-BI - Reports, RABPP and Merch Guide, Order Management and Inventory management system
Experience in Mainframe - JCL and D-series batch JOB Scheduling.
Extensive experience in Retail Business with category, clearance items and promotional mark downs.
Experience in scheduling the meeting, noting minutes of meeting and publishing to team.
Experience in executing the commands in UNIX and Shellscripts.
Experience in designing SQL scripts/ETL Testing to pull test data and validate at Source and master tables.
Experience in design Automation scripts for Smoke & Regression Testing using Ruby Cucumber.
Experience in designing BDD test features in Gherkin format & executing test cases using Cucumber.
Extensive experience in Selenium-Web driver, WATIR and Ruby gems.
Proficient in Compatibility testing of application on multiple browsers (IE, FIREFOX, CHROME & SAFARI).
Experience in Jenkins for Continuous Integration
Excellent experience working with Stakeholders, Business Analysts and the Development team to understand the requirements of applications with QA Methodology
Extensive experience leading the team with onshore and offshore model
Experienced with supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting with Project Managers.
Excellent Communication, Documentation,Problem solving ability, Analytical and Programming skills in high speed, quality conscious and Multi-tasking environment.
Skill Set
Testing Tool : Ruby with Cucumber and Rational Functional Tester- RFT.
Test Management Tool : HP-QC- ALM 10.0, JIRA, Rational Test Manager - RTM and DRTT.
Languages : Ruby, JAVA, C, C++ and HTML.
Operating Systems : Win2000/NT 4.0/XP and UNIX
Databases : Oracle 8i/9i, SQL SERVER, Teradata, DB2
Web Technologies : Java, XML, Java Script and HTML
MS Suite : MS Office 2003/2007, Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint
Education:
Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Kuvempu University (AIT), India.
Professional Certification
ISTQB - Foundation International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
ISTQB – Advanced – Functional International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
ISTQB – Advanced – Managerial International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
CSTM (Certified Software Test Manager) Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.
Scrum Master Accredited Certification - International Scrum Institute.
Achievements:
BRAVO AWARD for outstanding contribution during ST and IST testing and successful handling of CR’s issues.2007.- IBM
BRAVO AWARD from Testing Tower for “Dedicated and conscientious employee of the year 2008.-IBM
Best IBM’r for the effective contribution for the AMS project with zero UAT delinquency of the Year 2011.
BRAVO AWARD: For Effective contribution for Bringing up the QA Environment within the time schedule
of the year 2013.-DSW
BRAVO Award: For the successfully completion of Phase-1 release in the Year 2014.-DSW.
Project Experience
Feb 2017 –Present State Of Ohio - DAS
Project Title : Ohio Benefit Medicare – Mobile App .
Client : Medicaid – cognos Reports – DAS.
Role : UAT QA Lead
Leading efforts related to UAT testing for multiple domains and all data warehouse and reporting projects
Provided estimates and Coordinating, assigning tasks and ownership of delivery from team
Created and executed manual smoke, functional, regression, system, integration and exploratory tests..
Responsible for creation, design and execution of test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scenarios.
Identified, analyze, and document defects using Jira and HPQC defect tracking systems.
Developed and implemented QA Methodologies for the department. design test case standards, requirements traceability matrix, and testing metrics.
Participate in weekly test planning, project status meetings and review
Tested mobile native apps on different mobile platforms such as Android mobile device to track new feature performances and bug fixes to ensure stability of releases
Coordinating with various teams for effective testing. Involved in interacting with the business testing team, the business analyst, architects and co-ordinate as a QA lead during challenging situations
Validated the OBWP with IOS and Android environment.
Feb 2017 –Present State Of Ohio - DAS
Project Title : Ohio Benefit Medicare.
Client : Medicaid – cognos Reports – DAS.
Role : UAT QA Lead
Provided estimates and Coordinating, assigning tasks and ownership of delivery from team
Responsible reviewing Test Scenarios and Test Cases created by team members for various modules with BA’s and Business Users
Leading efforts related to UAT testing for multiple domains and all data warehouse and reporting projects
Responsible for Performing requirement verification and log verification defects over the requirements and the design specifications.
Defining QA processes across project management tool using RQM and RTC and developing QA metrics dashboard for leadership team review.
Design test strategy, test Plan and approach for test across applications and working with business users for procuring sign-offs.
Coordinating with various teams for testing. Involved in interacting with the business testing team, the business analyst, architects.
Validated the data items against OLTP systems and identified the source tables from which the data warehouse extracts data
Tested Complex Reports using Reporter module in Desktop/Web Intelligence functionalities Drill Down, Functions, Cross Tabs, Master/Detail, and Formulae.
Driving team for deliverables and milestones. Tracking daily progress and ensure deliverables are on track
Preparing and sharing daily, weekly and dashboard reports with customer showcasing the test execution progress, defect statistics, trend.
Representing QA in daily stand-up, iteration planning and retrospective meeting.
Responsible for Analyzing the System requirement documents and deriving the test cases for the UAT key business scenarios.
Conducting defect triage meeting and assigning defects to development and other teams for trouble shooting and fixing.
Responsible for participating Defect triage meetings with the team..
Maintained the traceability matrix from requirements through the defects in the Quality Center.
Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 State of Ohio
Project Title : Ohio Benefit Medicare.-Web Application
Client : Medicaid - Department of Administration System – DAS.
Role : UAT QA Lead
Responsible for maintaining communication between Vendor’s, County testers and customer
Provided estimates for the testing effort of the application UAT testing phase and Addendums.
Responsible for coordinating, assigning tasks and ownership of delivery from team for each iteration.
Responsible for Analyzing the UAT System documents, Gaps and deriving the test cases for the UAT Interface and Functional testing.
Representing QA in daily stand-up, iteration planning and retrospective meeting
Responsible for Preparing and Reviewing the Test plan for UAT and sign off.
Responsible for Creation of Test Summary report for each phase of testing.
Works within agile team, on story creation, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospectives
Responsible for conducting the Defect triage meetings with the Users, SME’s and Business analysts
Responsible for attending the Design session and understand the business Requirements and brainstorming with testing team while designing the test cases.
Responsible for Lead Peer Reviews to ensure completeness of all Test Assets created.
Design daily, weekly status reports with customer showcasing test execution progress, defect stats.
Assist with and oversee design, development, and execution of manual and automated testing and delegate to QA team as needed.
Conduct defect triage meeting and assign defects to development and other teams for fixing.
Coordinating with various teams for effective testing. Involved in interacting with the business testing team, the business analyst, architects and co-ordinate as a QA lead during challenging situations
Feb 2013 – Till date DSW
Project Title : JDA Assortment Planning – AP
Client : DSW - USA
Role : QA Lead
Responsible for Performing requirement verification and log verification defects over the requirements
and the design specifications.
Responsible for Analyzing the System requirement documents and deriving the test cases for the Integration and System testing
Defined the test scenarios and created the test cases in HP Quality center for AP application
Responsible for Design and execute the Performance test Cases.
Responsible for designing the SQL scripts and validation of Source and master table data.
Responsible for attending the Design session and understand the business Requirements.
Design and Executing test cases for system testing, integration testing, and regression testing
Validated & manage environments- Stage, Dev, QA and Training, analyze test scenarios, generate test Data and executed test cases.
Design SQL Script and validate the Data from tables.
Working closely with QA and Product Team - JDA to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback.
Created and executed the test cases for the D series jobs and trigger files in the workflow
Coordinated between all the stakeholders of the project during each phases of the project.
September 2014 – Till date DSW
Project Title : Merch Guide
Client : DSW – USA
Role : QA Lead
Responsible for maintaining clear communication between Vendor’s and customer
Provided estimates for the testing effort of the application SIT, E2E testing phase and change controls.
Responsible for Performing requirement verification and raised the verification defects over the requirements and the design specifications.
Used Ruby Mine IDE and designed Gherkins/scenarios, generated step definitions and methods using Ruby Cucumber, for different functionalities of the applications
Building and scheduling jobs on Continuous Integration server using Jenkins
Created web UI tests using cucumber, capybara, gherkin, Selenium Web Driver (tests written in ruby). Made use of gems like R-spec, Watir web driver, Page-Object and Cucumber.
Experienced in reading data from YAML files and supplying the same to the automation scripts
Setup the Automation framework and Compatibility testing of application on multiple browsers
(IE, FIREFOX, CHROME and SAFARI) and platforms.
Responsible for Analyzing the System requirement documents and deriving the test cases for the Integration and System testing
Schedule the D series Job and validate the data from Tables using SQL Script.
Responsible for participate Defect triage meetings with the Users,SME’s and Business analysts
Maintained the traceability matrix from requirements through the defects in the Quality Center.
Created and executed the End to end test cases starting from the sources to the target databases and finally testing the data in the MerchGuide UI
March 2010 – Jan 2013 IBM
Project Title : JDA Buying and Assortment management - BAM
Client : Wal-Mart Stores Bentonville - USA
Responsible for maintaining clear communication between onsite, offshore, Vendor’s and customer
Provided estimates for the testing effort of the application SIT, E2E testing phase and change controls.
Responsible for Performing requirement verification and raised the verification defects over the requirements and the design specifications.
Responsible for Analyzing the System requirement documents and deriving the test cases for the Integration and System testing
Responsible for Preparing and Reviewing the Test plan for System and Integration Testing and sign off.
Responsible for Creation of Test Summary report for each phase of testing.
Responsible for conducting the Defect triage meetings with the Users,SME’s and Business analysts
Maintained the traceability matrix from requirements through the defects in the Quality Center.
Created and executed the End to end test cases starting from the sources to the target databases and finally testing the data in the BAM UI
Performed ETL (Extract transform and load) testing using Data Stage for various interfaces to the JDA Merchandise Supply chain management BAM application
Defined the test scenarios and created the test cases in HP Quality center for JDA Merchandise Supply chain management BAM application
Validated Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition - OBIEE dash board reports for GBB Analysis, Promo Analysis, Look Analysis and Range Cycle Analysis.
Validation of Data movement from multiple sources (flat files, databases) to target by designing SQL Scripts
Created and executed the test cases for the JCL jobs using CA-7 and trigger files in the workflow
Tested the Publisher, Dashboards and Answer reports in BI and RABPP- BAM Admin for the user credentials & updating the product codes.
Feb 2009 – March 2010 IBM
Project Title : BOPS
Client : Sam’s Club Bentonville – USA.
Working as part of an agile team tasked with testing the E-Commerce application and supporting team on agile practices/methodologies
Participate in Sprint Planning Meetings, daily stand up meetings, backlog grooming sessions, retrospective meeting and provide estimates.
Responsible for presenting the demo of features that were completed during Sprint Review meeting.
Design and maintain manual and Ruby/Cucumber Automation test scripts for the application.
Maintaining Continuous Integration server for daily automation schedules.
Work with Business team to understand requirements & perform application testing with quick turnaround.
Creation of manual test cases, execution and reporting defects.
Setup the Automation framework and Compatibility testing of application on multiple browsers (IE, FIREFOX, CHROME and SAFARI) and platforms.
Testing links on the application to make sure all links are working.
Used Jira for Test management.
Worked with Selenium webdriver and Capybara to create automation scripts
Preparing system documents, conceptual and functional design documents using VISIO
Oct 2006 – Jan 2009 IBM
Project Title : Office Communication System –OCS
Client : Nortel, Canada.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Reviewing the requirements provided by clients and log the verification defects over the requirements in HP Quality Center.
Responsible for preparing/Reviewing the Test plan,Estimations,creation of Test cases, Test procedures from the requirement documents
Responsible for creation of all Regression test documents - Regression test process, Regression automation scripts using RFT.
Organizing and leading QA team meetings to make sure that all team members are in sync and are clear on their goals
Uploading the test cases from initial test matrix to Mercury Quality Center and keeping them in a QA
Involve in complete software and Test Life-cycle activities -Test Plan, design, implementation and test case execution
Conducted KT sessions for offshore Testing Team
Jan 2003 –May 2006, Shell Soft Technologies
Project Title : Customer Account management
Client : Union Bank, San Francisco, CA
Roles and Responsibilities:
Responsible for system test estimation
Responsible for setting up the test environment to ensure that all the needed components ( Hardware, Software, tools, data etc have been implemented)
Design and Executing test cases for system testing, integration testing, and regression testing
Responsible for involve in complete software & test lifecycle activities – Test plan, design, implementation and test execution
Responsible for creation of all System test related documents like System test process documents, System test case/Plan template, Installation Test case template, estimation template Test setup document, and Tester checklist
Responsible for execution of Regression test cases