Usha Talasila

Phone: 630-***-****

Email; acgdka@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

> IT professional with over 5 years of experience as Software Quality

Assurance Analyst in Client-server and Web based applications.

> Expertise in the area of Banking and Healthcare.

> Proficient in creating and managing Test artifacts like Test strategy,

Test plan, Traceability matrix, Test cases, Test results, Defect tracking

and Reporting using manual or automated Testing process (HP Quality

Center, Test Director, Winrunner and QTP).

> Experience with managing Testing scope and efforts using Agile scrum

iterative Software Development Life Cycle as well as Waterfall

development.

> Involved in activities during all Testing phases (Functional System

Integration, Regression, User Acceptance testing etc.) of the software

life-cycle development process, from project definition to post-

deployment documentation compliance to best practices.

> Experienced in coordinating onshore/ offshore development models for

problem resolution.

> Flexible attitude, aptitude to learn, adaptive working as an individual

or in a group.

> Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

> Strong SQL skills for Data manipulation.

> Solid Experience in conducting Backend testing using SQL queries.

Proficient in writing structured code using TSL to enhance the power of

automated scripts to handle logical test cases.

> Excellent leadership skills, problem-solving and trouble-shooting

capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

. Environments Windows 2000/XP/NT, UNIX, Linux, IBM OS/2

. Testing Tools Quality center 10.0,QTP 10.0, Loadrunner 9.1/8.1,

Test Director 9.2/8.0, Win runner,

Rational Test Suite

. Languages JAVA, .NET, Java Script, VB Script, XML, HTML,

SQL, TSL

. Servers Web Logic, WebSphere Application Server, IIS

. Databases Oracle9i/10g, MS SQL Server and MS Access.

. GUI VB .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0/ 6.0.

EXPERIENCE PROFILE:

Quadratic Systems Inc. Jun 2013-

Present

Client : Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL Jun 2013- Present

QA Analyst

Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment

management, asset and

Fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations,

institutions and affluent individuals. At Northern Trust involved in

testing of multiple applications including Data Direct, CMS and mainly

worked on NSR (Northern Strategic Reporting).

NSR: Strategic Reporting a revitalized reporting solution for IRAS Asset

Owner and Wealth Management reporting. It will provide integrated reporting

that includes performance, risk and eventually compliance. This application

is a single reporting platform will interface with common web services and

deliver critical client data in a meaningful and state-of-the-art fashion.

And also it provides consistent look and feel, data and report accuracy and

better client/partner satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

. Participated in the requirement review meetings, analyzing

requirements, developing test plan and test cases, defect management,

reporting and tracking.

. Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing.

. Performed Front end GUI testing of the application to verify the front

end functionality based on the business requirements.

. Performed back-end testing by writing SQL queries using Toad to

extract the data from the Oracle database.

. Extensively used Microsoft Excel to compare data. Manually calculated

various attribution effects based on business rules.

. Participated in Weekly status meetings to discuss the project

development and testing status

. Conducted SIR(Defects) review meetings with the team and worked with

development team on fixing various defects.

. Performed monthly Regression/Pre-migration testing, Dry run testing

and Post-Migration testing.

. Coordinate with the users for UAT testing and opening defects for the

User Questions(UQ's)

. Interacted with product owners and Business Analysts in assigning

priority and severity of the defects.

. Provided Support for the production issues by raising defects.

. Allocated work to the offshore team members and provide clarifications

as needed.

. Worked closely with Business analysts, developers and UAT team till

project closure.

Environment: Java, Oracle 10g, TOAD, Rapid SQL, MS-Windows, Microsoft

Office and Lotus Notes.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Sep'12 - May

'13

Client : KPIT (Kaiser Permanante), Pasadena, CA Sep'12 -

May'13

QA Analyst

BCT - Broker Compensation Transformation

The business objective is to successfully migrate from on-premise

infrastructure to a software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure prior to

the current infrastructures end of usable life, to upgrade the currently

live software suite called True Comp to the newer software called Monaco

and implementing the functionality of "uploads" that is standard in Monaco,

to automate the business processes of BCT, to Convert existing statements,

reports and queries to Crystal Reports.

Responsibilities:

. Involved right from the Business Analysis and Business Requirements (BRD)

reviews to better understand the requirements.

. Attended meetings and discussions from the beginning stage of the project

with multiple companies involved, since it's a multi company project.

. Prepared test plan for End to End and Parallel Testing by analyzing BRDs.

. Prepared test scripts for Broker Compensation system based on the

requirements.

. Performed peer reviews to review the test cases as per BRDs.

. Uploaded Test cases to QC Test Plan and from there to Test Lab.

. Performed database testing with SQL Queries.

. Created SQL queries for testing the data in Source System and in Target

tables.

. Perform end to end test execution.

. Involved in defect tracking and participate in daily defect track

meetings.

. Generate daily reports to track the test execution and defects by

exporting data from QC and provided to the management.

. Monitor the QC daily for new defects and assigned them to appropriate

parties and update the defect status.

. Attend daily status meeting which provides more insight on the QA and

DEV team.

Environment: SQL Developer, HP Quality Center 10.0, Microsoft SQL Server,

Microsoft Office.

Vinsoft Technologies Sep'09 - Aug'12

Client : Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Waukegan, IL

Nov '10 - Aug'12

QA Validation Analyst

MAX v4.2

Abbott Laboratories' Pharmaceutical Products Division (Abbott PPD) has

implemented an SFA solution, MAX v4.2, to provide its sales reps with an

easy way to access client information. This contains enhancements to the

Sample Management of the existing Sales Force Application MAX.This

solution combines Siebel Systems Life Sciences 7.8 application with

desktop and tablet technology to fully enable the Abbott PPD sales force

and provide a paperless, one-stop servicing solution for the reps.

Responsibilities:

. Performed Unit, Integration, System and Regression tests

o At unit level, testing done for user interface, Functionality of the

unit, local data structures, boundary conditions, independent paths and

error-handling path.

o At integration level, testing done for interface integrity testing,

functional validity, information contents testing and performance

testing.

o At system level, testing done for recovery testing and performance

testing.

o Performed Regression Testing to verify that fixes didn't create problem

elsewhere in the application.

. Involved right from Business Analysis and Business Requirements (BRD)

reviews to better understand the requirements and validate

. Prepared test plan and test cases by analyzing BRDs

. Designed tests by breaking Use Cases into Test Cases depending on

business intensity

o Understand Use Cases and depending on use case complexity convert them

into positive and negative test flows

o Convert these flows into Test Cases for Integration, System and

Regression tests

. Perform peer reviews to review the test cases as per BRDs

. Performed the Ad-hoc testing to identify the high & medium level defects

in the early stage.

. Executed Test Cases step by step in different environments such as:

o Performed Integration, System and Regression test on Stage Environment

o Performed User Acceptance Tests on UAT environment

o and Performance and Load tests on Performance bed

. Identified defects, logged into defect tracking system and tracked them

to closure

. Involved in critical and non-critical protocol testing as per FDA

regulation (specifically part-11 of protocol testing).

Involved in functional and migration testing of existing version and

new upgraded version of MAX (MAX v4.0, MAX v4.1 and MAX v4.2)

. Extensively used Quality Center for creating & executing Test Cases and

logging & tracking the Defects.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Siebel ePharma, Oracle 10g, MS Office, MS

Visio, TOAD, Tibco.

Client : Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, MN

Sept'09 - Oct'10

QA Analyst

Automated Enrollment Solution (AES) : AES is a web application used to

enroll different products like Cash Vault, Controlled Disbursement, DDA,

Lockbox, Returned Items and Wire Transfer through "Sales Order Form" (SOF).

After the SOF is created then Implementation/Supervisor role will work on

the "Implementation" flow for that specific product. Once the

Implementation flow is completed, the results are validated in the UAM

application.

CEO (Commercial Electronic Office) Workstation

CEO Workstation is a new product offering treasury operations management

capabilities to be delivered to wholesale customers via the CEO portal. The

goal of this product is to provide an easy-to-use, cost-effective, modular

solution within the Commercial Electronic Office that automates as much of

the manual processes as possible for the customer.

Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with offshore team on work assignment, work progress and

issues.

. Created Test Strategy, Test plan and played an integral part in the

testing activities during the entire project life cycle.

. Involved in the coordination with Onsite and off shore resources,

assigning work and validating deliverables.

. Defined and executed Test cases and coverage matrix after interacting

with business analysts.

. Responsible for completing System Test, Integration Test and Regression

Test as per the project schedule.

. Tested Web Order Guides, Web Inventory Guides and other web reporting

functionality dealing with data on Mainframes.

. Prioritizing test cases and defects reporting testing status for the

management and business clients.

. Participated in Business User Review meetings.

. Created Test Result Reports & Defect Summery Reports using Quality

Center.

. Created documents to support SEI and involved with the support

activities.

. Enhancing automation scripts with new release changes.

. Automating the regression test cases using QTP Descriptive programming.

Environment: QuickTest Professional, Quality Center, MS Access, Ajax, XML,

Oracle 9i, MS Office 2007, Windows XP.

EDUCATION

. Bachelor of Commerce.

. P.G Diploma in computer Applications.

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