Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
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Padma Vasantala
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Email: *********.*******@*****.***
Work Experience[pic]
o Over 7 + years of experience in the field of IT with focus on QA and
testing of Web based and Client-Server applications, Specialized in
Software Product Testing.
o Worked with ORACLE Corporation as Senior Quality Assurance engineer for 3
years. Worked on Oracle products related to Project Management domain.
o Worked with CA Technologies (formerly known as Computer Associates) as QA
Engineer for 3 + years. Worked on CA products related to Workload
automation/Job Scheduling domain.
o Worked with MAQ Software as Software Test Engineer (STE) for 1 + years.
Worked on Microsoft Projects related to E-Commerce domain.
Professional Summary
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o Proficient in Software Quality Assurance/testing on Client/Server, Web
based and Database applications.
o Experience in Manual and Exposure to Automated software testing.
o Strong knowledge and experience with all phases of Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test life cycle process (STLC) in both
AGILE methodology and Waterfall methodology.
o Strong Working knowledge of Software testing (Functional, Integration,
Performance, Regression, UAT, Quality Metrics), including requirements
gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect
tracking, management, and reporting.
o Expertise in design and development of Effective Test Cases, Test Data
and Test Execution Based on business requirements/specifications and
Defect Management.
o Expertise in various testings like Smoke, Functional, Regression,
Integration, System, Performance, GUI and Database
o Experienced in Testing of product integration with different databases
like SQL server, Sybase and Oracle. Writing and executing SQL queries
against Oracle, SQL Server.
o Extensive experience in creating and configuring various versions of
Windows, Linux, UNIX (AIX,HPUX,Solaris) test beds, deploy web
applications using different application servers/database/webservers
o Subject matter expert in setting up Clustered SSL environments and
deploying and configuring web applications in application servers such as
Oracle Weblogic Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server on
multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and UNIX
o Strong working knowledge in Databases such as Oracle 11g/12c and MSSQL
2008/2012
o Working knowledge in redirecting web applications through web servers
such as Windows IIS, Oracle HTTP and IBM HTTP Web Servers.
o Sound Working knowledge in the Defect Reporting tool STAR, Trac, Pbug,
BUGDB and Test Management tool HP Quality center and functional tool
Borland Silk Test.
o Worked on various Document/Content Management technologies such as Oracle
Web Center Content (Formerly known as UCM), Sharepoint and Alfresco
o Worked on various LDAP technologies such as Active Directory(AD) and
Oracle Internet Directory(OID) in both SSL and Non-SSL environments
o Worked on various Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies such as Oracle
Business Process Management (BPM) to manage workflows, Oracle Identity
and Access Manager (OIAM), Oracle Single Sign on (OSSO) to authenticate
and manage users, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) to
generate reports.
o Good Hands-on in Setting up and testing various DB technologies like
Dataguard, RAC, Partitioning and Advanced Compression
o Has sound working knowledge on UNIX/LINUX platforms: Oracle Linux, SUSE,
Red Hat, Solaris, HP and AIX. For example: changing kernel parameters,
modifying swap space, adding hosts, checking for firewall, checking
processes.
o Extensive working knowledge in creation and implementation of ghost
images and VM Ware images.
o Performed front-end functional testing of web based applications and back-
end testing on the batch jobs and database jobs
o Knowledge on QTP and Selenium Tools. Executed QTP Functional Scripts.
o Running and interacting with the web server and application servers in
the UNIX/LINUX environment via UNIX Shell commands.
o Validating Webservices messages between the Web app and the server.
o Experienced in browser compatibility Testing (Chrome, IE8, IE9, IE10,
Safari and Firefox) on Various Windows and Linux Platforms.
o Extensive working knowledge on concepts High Availability, Dual-Server,
Cross Instance, Cross Platform, virtual machines, Ghost images and Oracle
VM box.
o Analyze requirement documentation, functional specifications, design
documentation and Provide feedback from a QA perspective during detailed
requirements reviews.
o Part of post mortem and Quality discussion meetings.
o Performed end-to-end tests by ensuring all business and functional
requirements are met.
o Monitor, Purge and maintain application and database servers.
o Coordinate with Onsite Development and QA teams (US & Canadian) to
support the testing efforts.
o Deft in swiftly ramping up projects and ensuring its timely completion.
o Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
Zeal to learn new technologies and can adopt to new environment and
culture
o Effective team player, has strong interpersonal, problem solving and very
good oral, written communication skills.
o Served as a mentor and guide for team members.
o Attend daily scrum stand-up meeting to discuss/solve blockers and update
progress of the project
o Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in
application design and document reviews.
IT SkillSet
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Functional Testing Tools HP QTP, Borland SilkTest
Test Management Tools HP Quality Center
Programming/Scripting C, Core Java, Perl Script
Languages
RDBMS Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase
Operating Systems All WINDOWS Family, Linux (SUSE, Oracle
Linux, RHEL and Ubuntu), Unix (HP, AIX and
Solaris)
IDE/ Tools/Utilities Edit Plus, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft
share point server, Oracle EPPM, Clarity,
WINSCP, Putty, XLaunch, Xming
Application Servers and Web
Servers Web Logic Server, Web Sphere Server, Jboss,
Tomcat, Apache, Oracle HTTP Server, IBM
HTTP Server and IIS
ETL tools: SSIS
Defect Tracking Tools STAR, JIRA, Trac, Bug Zilla, BugDB, Pbug
Version Control Tools SVN, Harvest
Educational Qualification[pic]Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electronics
and Telematics (ETM) Engineering - 2006
Projects at ORACLE CORPORATION
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ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM)
Mar 2011 to Dec 2013
Project : Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM
Software : JDK, JRE, IIS, Weblogic, WebSphere, Jboss, Quality Center,
Oracle11g, SQL Server,
XP, Vista, Win2003, Win2008, UNIX, Linux, Quality Center, BugDB,
Hudson, SharePoint, UCM, BPM, BIP, OIM, OAM, LDAP, IE, Firefox,
Chrome etc.
Clients : Siemens, Federal Reserve Bank, Blast Radius, Major
Construction, oil and gas companies etc.
Team : 5
Role(s) : Quality Assurance Engineer and Senior Quality Assurance
Engineer.
Description:
Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is the most
powerful, robust, and easy-to-use solution for globally prioritizing,
planning, managing, and executing projects and portfolios. Primavera P6
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio
management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy
each team member's needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides a
single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels
of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the
needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization and
on your project team.
Primavera offers best-in-class solutions focused on the mission critical
PPM requirements of key vertical industries including engineering and
construction, public sector, aerospace and defense, utilities, oil and gas,
manufacturing and high tech, and IT and services.
Primavera's PPM products, together with Oracle's project financials, human
resources, supply chain management, product lifecycle management, business
intelligence, and infrastructure software are expected to provide the
first, comprehensive Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution. This
solution is expected to help companies optimize resources and the supply
chain, reduce costs, manage changes, meet delivery dates, and ultimately
make better decisions, all by using real-time data.
Responsibilities:
o Setting up testing environment using Weblogic & WebSphere clustering and
Configuring Database
o Setting up and testing Hardend to end SSL and non SSL test environments
o Deploying primavera applications, maintaining 3 node cluster environments
by pointing to dataguard Database/RAC DB
o Setting up and testing various DB technogies like Dataguard, RAC,
Partioning, Advanced Compression
o Testing Oracle produc Integrations & Third-party Integrations with P6
EPPM application like BIP, OIM, OAM, BPM, SharePoint, UCM, LDAP etc.
o Writing, Reviewing and Executing manual test cases for web application in
Quality Center.
o Executing and maintaining QTP Automation scripts from quality center.
o Perform End to End Testing of the product.
o Involved in Functional, Sanity Testing, Installation Testing,
Documentation Testing and integration testing.
o Extensively worked with Cross browser, Multi language & multi platforms
like windows, Linux and Unix platforms.
o Point of Contact for all Incremental and Service Pack releases.
o Working closely with development and technical support teams for the
closure of issues.
o Involved in Bug Tracking and Bug Verification using Oracle's BugDB, PBug
tools.
o Working collaboratively with Customers, developers and customer support
team for quality deliverables.
o Attending daily Scrum meetings.
o Attending Sprint planning and Sprint retrospective meetings.
Projects at CA Technologies (Formerly Known as Computer Associates)
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AutoSys, UWCC and Dseries Product Testing
Feb 2008 to Feb 2011
Project : Unicenter Autosys Job Management
Software : Perl, Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server, Win2k3, Win2k8, UNIX
(Solaris, AIX, HP), Linux
(SUSE, RHEL), Quality Center, BugDB, Hudson, Putty etc
Clients : Bank Of America, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, CityBank - USA
Team : 5
Role(s) : Quality Assurance Engineer
Workload Automation products which includes Unicenter Autosys Job
Management, Unicenter Workload Control Center, D-Series (Cybermation) and
Job Management Option. All these products are job management system that
provides unparalleled reliability to support the mission-critical,
enterprise-wide applications in both distributed and mainframe OS. They are
automated job control systems for scheduling, monitoring, and reporting
Majorly worked on Autosys:
Autosys is an industry-leading Work-Load Scheduler which is designed
for distributed environments can schedule jobs automatically with its wide
variety of job scheduling options at Enterprise level. Unicenter AutoSys JM
delivers event-driven scheduling, centralized real-time monitoring and
programmable error recovery - providing reliability and scalability to the
production environment.
In addition, Unicenter AutoSys JM easily accommodates the massive
processing of jobs required by eBusiness, providing the most rapid and
reliable Internet job management for all your business needs. This product
does have wide range of Database support such as oracle, Sybase, MSSQL and
Ingress
Major tasks of Autosys (UAJM) include:
o Autosys End to End product testing.
o Certified the product Autosys on the latest RHEL-5,SUSE-10,Hp-UX
11.31,AIX 6.1,Solaris 10(on both 32 and 64 bit as per the request of the
Client) and Windows 7 releases of Unix/Windows with Databases such as
Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL server
o Installation of Service packs, RPM, lib, OS Patches on the UNIX/LINUX and
Windows OS.
o Worked on all the Service Packs and incremental Releases of Autosys and
its legacy releases.
o Verified all Customer escalated hyper Issues and delivered them on time
with good quality.
o Daylight Savings Time Testing for Autosys.
o Certification of PeopleSoft adapters, SAP adapters and OAP adapters. UAJM
further centralizes processing by providing seamless integration with
leading ERP packages, such as SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, and others.
o Apart from Autosys worked for the products UWCC and Cybermation and
System Agent products.
Responsibilities:
o Understanding the software requirement specifications documents.
o Put forward accurate time estimates of work to be done on a project.
o Develop customer focused test plans
o Setting-up and maintain testing environments
o Create test cases and maintain associated test records
o Develop and utilize automated test scripts to perform duties
o Identify and Raise Critical Issues into a defect-tracking system which
has impact on the business and effectively communicating with the
development team till they get fixed at the early stage.
o Follow-up and close issues entered into the defect-tracking system
o Escalate issues to a higher level where issue resolution is not achieved
within a reasonable amount of time
o Provide information to technical documentation (i.e. Product Release
Notes/Readme files)
o Review product documentation (manuals/Getting Started Guides) for
technical accuracy
o Work with development team to understand assigned modules/new product
features for the purpose of developing test cases
o Participate in the design spec reviews to understand design, contribute
quality requirements and ensure testability
o Regularly Interact with the Customer Support People to know the exact
different customer environments and issues faced.
o Involved in the Creation/Prepare of Customer Scenarios and implement,
make sure that those are added in the regular test suite.
o Supporting the Development team in preparing the Test environment for
verifying the fix created with the test data.
o Mentoring the Newly Joined Team Members and supporting them till they get
comfort with the execution of Test cases.
o Planning and Organizing/Taking the Sessions on the Product which keeps on
improving the Product knowledge among the Team Members.
o Familiarize self with new technology, operating systems, trouble shooting
skills etc. in order to maintain an awareness of technological advances.
o Isolate the cause of errors: One of the important part of my work is to
isolate the cause/place where the error occurs and mark bugs based upon
them. This includes isolating problems and writing proper steps to
recreate the same. This is important as it saves time in the development
cycle for the developer.
o Help with documentation: As part of the QA team, I've helped bridge gap
between the developers and docs team at times by providing valuable
inputs while still preserving the precious time of the developers.
Projects at MAQ Software
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1. Title: HTT - How to Tell Website
Feb 2007 to Jan 2008
Client : Microsoft Corp, USA
Role : Software Test Engineer, Point of
contact for this project
Team Size : 3
Description
"How to tell" is an informative website for Microsoft that allows
all users (resellers, OEM's and end users) to gain knowledge as to what is
genuine Microsoft product media. It mainly focuses on Genuine Microsoft
products containing piracy prevention features that can be checked with the
help of the Windows Comparison Guide and the Office Comparison Guide. WCG
and OCG flows walks you through comparing the piracy prevention features of
genuine Microsoft software media to the features of the media that came
with your copy of Windows and Office.
Responsibilities:
o Point of contact for this project, managed a team of 3 members and worked
for all the releases.
o Developed Test plan, Functional Test Cases & Procedures based on
requirements specifications, Business logic and Mock-ups
o Execution of test cases for various test data's and reporting the
defects.
o For web site (www.howtotell.com) performed Smoke, Functional,
Localization, Stress and Regression testing
o Responsible for scheduling various testing activities like preparation of
test cases, System, regression, functional, localization testing etc
o Ran the in-house developed automation tools across the website,
coordinated with the automation team members, developers, and provided
status reports.
o Reporting the bugs to the developer and tracking the defects using defect-
tracking tool until closure.
2. Title: Office Genuine Advantage (OGA)
June 2006 to Feb 2007
Client : Microsoft Corp, USA
Role : Software Test Engineer.
Team Size : 6
Description
Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) is an anti-piracy program which
has been developed with an objective to create awareness about the Genuine
Microsoft software. For this the Microsoft Genuine website allows the user
to verify that their copies of Office suites (Office 10, 11 and 12) are
genuine or not. There are two main flows for the OGA Website: Validation
and Legalization.
The OGA Validation flow involves installation of an ActiveX
control or plug-in to determine if the user's copy of Office is genuine or
not. The OGA Legalization flow helps users to buy genuine Office 2007
products for special prices and also users who are cheated can submit high
quality counterfeit CDs and report their resellers' information to
Microsoft so that they might be eligible for the complimentary offer.
Responsibilities:
o Understanding the software requirement specifications doc.
o Developed Functional Test Cases & Procedures based on requirements
specifications, Business logic and Mock-ups
o Execution of test cases for various test data's and reporting the defects
o For web site (www.microsoft.com/genuine) performed functional,
regression, automation, integration, end to end, localization testing.
o Responsible for scheduling various testing activities like preparation of
test scenarios, test cases, bug summary and issue tracking matrices
o Analyzing, well documenting and rolling up of the test results
o Reporting the defects to the developer and tracking the defects using
defect-tracking system until closure.
o Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, database, stress and regression
testing.
Certifications / Highlights
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o Completed CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer) certification conducted
by QAI with 83.75%.
o Completed ISTQB Foundation level certification.
o Received ABOVE AWARD at CA and STAR OF THE MONTH AWARD at Oracle for
excellent performance in finding quality issues and delivering the
results on time.
o Received an appreciation award from Remote team on the timely and quality
timely delivery of hyper tasks and critical fixes.
Personal Vitae
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Date of Birth - 10th June 1984
Strengths - Hard working, confident, optimistic,
determined, innovative
Hobbies - Listening music, Travelling, Solving
Sudoku
Marital Status - Married
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