Testing Quality Assurance

Vidhya Kolappa Pillai

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Fremont CA 94089 **.******@*****.***

SUMMARY

• 6 years of professional IT Industry experience as QA Engineer.

• Experienced in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Manual and User Acceptance testing.

• Automated functional test cases using tools like Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver using

JUnit.

• Experience in testing Web Based Applications, iOS & Mobile Applications.

• Experienced in managing & coordinating with offshore teams in Agile Methodology.

• Designed and developed Selenium test scripts java using Selenium Web driver open source

automation testing tool.

• Hands-on coding experience with Java, C++ languages.

• Experience with using Defect tracking tools: JIRA, IBM ClearQuest Rationale and Mingle.

• Experienced in writing SQL queries for Data validation & Data Integration purposes.

• Have worked in different stages of SDLC such as Requirement Analysis, Test Scenario

Recognition, Test cases preparation & Defect Reporting.

• Involved in installations of Builds in Test and Production environment.

• Familiar with Agile, Waterfall methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle, Bug

Lifecycle and Test Lifecycle.

• In-Depth knowledge about Web Services SOAP and REST API’s.

• Have experience with Sakai, an open source CMS.

• Efficient is creating Weekly and monthly status reports.

• Have excellent communication skills.

• Ability to adapt to various circumstances and work under pressure.

• Good problem solving skills with focus on goal achievement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing/ QA Tools Selenium 2.0 API, Ant, FirePath, JIRA, IBM Rational ClearQuest,

BugZilla, Mingle, Firebug, Eclipse, JUnit, QTP

ETL Tools Qlikview 11

Web Technologies HTML, XML, CSS, SOAP, REST

Operating Systems Windows, MS-DOS, UNIX, LINUX,

Languages Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, Visual Studio, UML

Others Dreamweaver, Cisco Packet Tracer, Autodesk Maya, MS –

Office, MS Visio

RDBMS MySQL, SQL Server, Access, Oracle 10g/11g

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Ventana, Mountain View, CA - QA/BA 10/2013 –

Present

Environment: Selenium Web driver, Java, Ant, XPath, MS Visual Studio, MySQL, SQL

Developer, Microsoft Excel, JIRA, Eclipse, Microsoft Visio.

Vantage Multisite Reporting

• Wrote Test plans for front end & back end testing of multisite reports.

• Queried database by writing SQL queries for Data verification & validation on the

Transactional database versus the source data.

• Written test cases for ETL and performed Performance testing using T-SQL for comparing data

between Data warehouse & Transactional Databases

• Performed functional testing, performance/load testing on all the multisite reports with various

scenarios.

• Worked with users to do User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Generated test Scripts in Selenium Web driver using Java for front end testing

• Interact with developers to resolve technical issues

• Actively involved in weekly status meetings showing progress reports & future test plans to the

client.

Gotelo Commercial Application

Environment: Selenium IDE, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Excel, BugZilla, Firebug.

• Interacted with business users to prepare test plans and business scenarios.

• Prepared Test plans consisting of various test Scenarios.

• Written functional test cases, design documents based on Business requirements & functional

specifications.

• Understanding the Registration flow process and creating test suites for different modules like

Account Login, Registration, Delete and Maintenance.

• Performed End to end Testing manually & automated for the User Interface using Selenium.

• Used SQL queries for Backend database testing.

Kahootz Medical

Environment: Selenium IDE, Firebug, BugZilla, Firefox, Internet explorer, Microsoft Excel.

• Analyze & document functional requirements of the application for retrieving patient medical

records.

• Performed Backend testing on File Listener & Message Handler on the web based application.

• Performed Backend testing according to HL7 standards.

GSPANN Technologies, Milpitas, CA - Technical Consultant 04/2010 –

05/2011

Macys.com

Environment: iOS & Android Simulation Browsers, Mingle, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Jira,

Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox.

• Performed Functional Testing, Spot Testing, Smoke testing, Performance & Stress testing for

weekly creative releases for www.macys.com

• Signed off on creative releases for www.macys.com

• Performed functional, Spot & Negative Testing and signed off on creative releases for iOS and

mobile applications of Macys.

• Writing Test cases/scenarios and performed testing for Positive & Negative flows.

• Writing functional test cases & expected test results for mobile creative testing process based

on technical functionalities.

• Created tracked & resolved defects according to priority before releases and performed

Regression testing on them.

• Used mingle, ClearQuest Rational, JIRA for bug reporting & tracking purposes.

• Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle, Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Involved in writing detailed Test Documentation for reports.

• Worked with product development team during the product lifecycle process.

Academic Technology & eLearning, Marist College - Technical Consultant 09/2007 - 12/2009

Environment: Sakai iLearn (CMS), Selenium IDE, IBM Mainframe, Help Desk Ticketing

system, Educator (CMS), Microsoft Excel

• Coordinated transfer of material for over 500 different courses from the Educator course

management system (CMS) to the new Sakai platform (iLearn).

• Used the iLearn Course Management System & assisted in course migrations and trainings

• Performed Quality Assurance (QA) testing on Sakai (open source CMS), where the focus was

regression testing for the several instances of the Sakai application.

• Used Selenium (a web application testing tool), for recording the process of regression

• Tracked errors, bugs and unexpected test outcomes and created reports.

• Created and resolved tickets in the Help Desk ticketing System in Marist Mainframe

Allsec Technologies, Chennai, India –Technical consultant 08/2006 - 07/2007

Yellow Pages

• Gathered product requirements to describe business needs

• Design Test Documents, Test Plans, Test Requirements, Test Cases, and Test Procedures for

functional and GUI Testing.

• Designed and developed UML use cases, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams using UML

and Rational Rose.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Database Management System - Created a database using MySQL which maintained and retrieved

records in the database for Travel Abroad Company in a team of three using different DDL, DML

commands in SQL.

Software Design Development - teamed up to create an application using Java & SQL for making

online purchases through a Mobile information Device.

Computer Network Lab – Designed and implemented a Network Topology for an electronic bird

manufacturing company using DHCP, OSP, EIGRP, RIP, NAT, PAT, PPP protocols to be utilized within

a network’s infrastructure with an efficient RFC1918 IP addressing scheme in Cisco Packet Tracer

Computer Graphics – Created a 3D Home environment using Open Scene Graph and Autodesk Maya

with minor user interactions on a Visual Studio IDE.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology, Anna University, Chennai Major: Information

Technology

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