Project Quality Assurance

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Maheswar M

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Email ID: ******.***@*****.***

Phone: 900-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance in Web services testing, and GUI validation. Have worked

extensively in automation and manual testing projects.

Experience in creating Project plans, Scheduling Test Cycles and Meeting the Deliverables in Time.

Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out Functional Testing, GUI Testing, SOA

testing, Performance testing, Web service Testing, API testing and Regression Testing of Web

based applications and Web portal applications.

Hands on experience in testing web services and automating the same using soap UI, ITKO LISA,HP

service test

Hands on experience in web services testing, GUI validation, performance testing

Experience in testing applications manually as well as using the Automated testing tool like HP UFT

Experience in testing multi-tier applications utilizing web service calls

Worked together with teams to identify automation requirements in early stages.

Developed automation test scripts using Java

Have good knowledge and experience in Java language.

Hands-on experience in agile methodologies –Involved in stages from gathering requirements, desk

demo, early testing and client feedback.

QUALIFICATION

• MSc electronics, Hindustan College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore.

• BSc electronics, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Test tools : HP Service Test, SoapUI, ITKO LISA, Jmeter, HP UFT

Automation type : Web Testing (GUI), Web Services, Performance Testing, Functional testing

Methodologies : Agile

Languages : Java

Web Technology : Web services, HTML, XML

Bug tracking tool : Quality Centre,

Operating System : Windows 7/XP/NT/2003 server

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Jan 2010 – Till date – Cognizant Technology Solutions – Associate – Project

Jun 2008 – Dec 2009 – Pinnacle Tele Ventures, Coimbatore- Software engineer

PROJECT PROFILE

PROJECT : TIVO.COM

Role : QA lead

Software & Tools : Jmeter, HP service Test, Java and testNG framework, HP UFT

Testing : Web services testing, UI validation, UAT, Performance Testing

Project Description:

TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) manufacturer and TiVo provides an on-screen guide of

scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "Season Pass"

schedules which record every new episode of a series, TiVo implements web services that partners

can use to manage customer accounts, manage settings on Customers’ devices, and to schedule

recordings. TiVo partner integration testing process, which is designed to ensure that partner

applications invoke TiVo services properly.

Responsibilities:

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• As a senior QA analyst this position allowed me to work on multiple projects which gave more

insight in the leading the team and prioritizing the projects time lines.

• Participate in entire testing lifecycle, including test planning, test preparation, test execution and

defect management

• Responsible for daily Scrum meetings to discuss updates showing the progress of the testing effort

and open issues, and update the Sprint Backlog on daily base

• Develop and automate Web Services API testing using Java with TestNG framework and HP

Service Test

• Performed Functional and GUI validation using HP UFT

• Performed Database testing to validate the updated customer details.

• Support and maintain existing production Web Services, providing support for performance issues

and launches of enhancements

• Validated the performance of the different API’s using Jmeter.

• Performed Manual Testing to ensure the application is stabilized. And reported the defects to the

developer.

• Functional and User Acceptance testing (UAT) were done successfully using Manual Testing for

tivo partner applications

• Tested GUI results and compared with database values using SQL Workbench

• Coordinating with development team during requirements review, design review and test case

reviews.

PROJECT : LIBERTY MUTUAL – NEXTGEN PRICING MODEL

Role : QA Tester

Software & Tools : ITKO Lisa

Project Description:

Project encompasses building and deploying a Workers Compensation Pricing Model. While this is the

first model to be deployed for WC, it is much more than a traditional first generation model. The model

will include credit history, geographic information, loss and billing information, and policy characteristic

data. The model will enable greater pricing segmentation and decision making, and is a prerequisite for

straight-through-processing.

Responsibilities:

•Involved in all stages of testing the Auto & WC Insurance application and Data to test Insurance

application Workflows (Smart Risk, pricing, SAS).

• Performed SOA / Web Service testing using Itko LISA.

• Made test data sheet a tool to customize scenarios at their need and not fixed number of test cases.

(Scenario Level Automation)

• As a single Member team involved SOA test case review meeting with Client.

• Validated new complex calculations which have been implemented in Smart Risk service.

• Involved in writing Performed data driven testing and Keyword driven testing in ITKO LISA and

enhanced the overall functionality of the application.

• Coordinated end to end testing with clients and functional teams

• Prepared Knowledge documents for Set Up, Automation Execution, Troubleshooting methods run

and Set up for running regression suites.

PROJECT : INTUIT – IFID SCRIPT ENGINEERING - BANGALORE

Project Description:

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-

sized businesses, financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and

accounting professionals. Their flagship products and services, including QuickBooks, Quicken

and TurboTax software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal

finance, and tax preparation and filing.

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Account Aggregation Products facilitate users to view all their financial info like the Bank

Accounts, Credit Card Accounts, Investment Accounts, Consumer / Business Accounts from a

single console.

Example Products: Quicken (Intuit), MS Money (Microsoft) etc.

Aggregation tools have a set of scripts defined to pull data from the Financial Institutions. As the

FIs undergo modifications, these scripts that “Scrape” data from FI site, may not be able to pull

the data. In order to maintain the scripts and enhance them Script Operations Program has been

created where objective is to identify and resolve data scraping issues by fixing scripts thus

reducing account aggregation problems for the customer and enhancing customer satisfaction of

using Intuit products.

Responsibilities:

• Been in the Script Review Quality Assurance (SRQA) team, tested ticket manually and atomically,

this is the last face of the project before deployment of scripts.

• As a team lead prepared statistic report and Team status under the supervision of project manager

and ensured the quality and delivery of products as per clients’ need.

• Been in Quality Assurance Activity, tested many tickets that have been moved to RTD thereby

increasing Productivity beyond the actual working hours.

• Also involved in Defect prevention by analyzing common problems of the customers and providing

solution at Incident level in Right Now.

• Involved in defects tracking and logging in defects report.

• Involved in root cause analysis of common problems of customers.

• Involved in manual ticket creation by analyzing customer reported issue.

• Responsible for guiding junior engineer in dealing with new techniques and tools in the project.

• Involved in USEABILITY Testing of SOM – L1 application

PROJECT : STRUCTURAL DESIGN CLEARANCE TOOL-PINNACLE TEST

VENTURES

Role : Test Engineer

Project Description:

This Project is to verify the structural designs that the Engineering team produces for the clients. The

designs are basically for the telecom companies to install the towers in various locations. The designs

which are done thru CAD have to be verified thru the web based tool “Structural Design Clearance Tool”

and validated against the pre-determined parameters. The parameters are based on the soil conditions

of the location and the material properties.

Responsibilities:

• Recorded and played back QTP Scripts for manual test cases against frontend screens by inserting

different types of check points.

• Executing the automated test scripts and evaluating the test reports.

• Application level Regression, End to End and System tests were conducted after some windows

patches were implementation

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