Test Cases Engineer

Shanthi Prakash

*************@*****.***

408-***-**** Sunnyvale, CA

Summary of Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer

• Good working knowledge of software quality assurance standards and methodologies

• Proficient knowledge and hands on experience in manual and automation testing

• Proficient knowledge in preparing test cases, test plans, test scripts for both manual and automation testing based on

requirements and functional specifications of the application

• Good Knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) on Waterfall and

Agile Environments

• Problem analysis, bug reporting and concise documentation skills

• Ability to quickly understand and interpret requirements & functional specifications

• Experience with Windows & Linux platforms

• Well familiar with testing on full range of web browsers (IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) across multiple OS

platforms

• Proficient knowledge of databases (SQL)

• Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts

• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written

• Good team player with good interpersonal skills. Flexible & Quick learner

Technical Skills

Software Programming Java, Java Script, SQL

Application Software MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project

Operating System Windows Family, Unix/Linux

Web Technologies HTML, CSS, XML

Testing Tools HP Testing Suite (QTP 10.0/9.2, Quality Center 10.0/9.0), Selenium Suite (Selenium IDE, Selenium

RC, Selenium Web Driver)

Databases MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Software Testing Functional, Integration, Regression, Load (Stress), User Acceptance Testing, White/Black Box Testing

Defect Tracking Tools JIRA, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center (Reporting)

IDEs Eclipse, NetBeans

Testing Frameworks JUnit, TestNG

Web/App Servers Apache Tomcat, MS IIS

SDLC Methodologies Waterfall, Scrum (Agile)

Professional Experience

QA Engineer – Scopus Consulting Group Sep 2013 - Present

Project Description:

Web Based Training (WBT) for a Banking client

WBT is a web-based training system that will help create an efficient, scalable, and expandable system for creating and

distributing web-based training to LoanSolutions Associates (Employees) for a bank.

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Responsibilities:

• Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle - Requirement Analysis, Functional Analysis, Planning,

Estimation, Development and Testing for the designated modules

• Performed functional, integration, regression and smoke testing of web application

• Wrote Test Cases for each functionality based on product functional specification

• Used Quality Center for preparing the Test plans and manual Test Scripts

• Performed automated Regression testing using Selenium RC with Java

• Used Firebug to find XPATH and CSS locators to locate web elements

• Quickly learnt the existing automation framework and was able to contribute to it

• Performed data-driven testing using Selenium RC

• Responsible for identifying test cases for manual and automation with Selenium Webdriver for Smoke Test, Functional and

Regression Tests

• Execute browser compatibility and regression tests using Selenium-WebDriver for every new build/release

• Responsible for writing and maintaining Selenium Webdriver scripts for regression and functional testing using data driven

framework

• Participated in setting up execution environment on multiple machines

• Uploaded test reports/results to HP QC for each regression cycle using Jenkins job

• Performed code coverage using instrumented build to analyze gaps in the functional test cases

• Actively involved in QA process improvement activities like process flow, problem resolution, bug tracking, etc.

• Participated in daily scrum standup meetings and provided status to the team

Application Environment:

Java, HTML, Selenium RC/Web Driver, QTP 9.0, TestNG/Junit, JIRA, Subversion, HP Quality Center 9.0, Jenkins

Appreciation Received:

Got peer recognition for learning the application faster and coming up with good test cases

Software Test Engineer – The Rhino Technology, India May 2007 -

Feb 2008

Project Description:

Merchandise inventory management for a garments company

Merchandise inventory management software was developed in Visual Basic as front end and SQL Server as back end. It

involves functionality such as storing inventory data to the database, tracking inventory levels, sales, deliveries & reconciliation. Other

important feature was report generation.

Responsibilities:

• Wrote SQL Queries to populate the inventory data to SQL Server database and validated the inventory data on staging and

production databases

• Responsible for defining the Test plan and analyzing the Test scenarios

• Designed Test Cases, executed Test Cases and Logged Defects

• Used Ms Word for preparing the Test plan and Ms Excel to prepare Test cases.

• Manually tested the application end to end

• Reported the problems/bugs found during testing to the developers and get them fixed

• Generated reports using Crystal Reports on a daily basis

Application Environment:

Visual Basic, HTML, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, Crystal Reports, Windows XP

Appreciation Received:

Got credit for generating a best report format

Shanthi Prakash

Software Tester (Internship) – Southern Railway, India Dec 2006 -

May 2007

Project Description:

Southern railway is the second largest railway network in India where 1000+ ticket bookings are happening online and in- person on

a daily basis. During the internship, southern railway software automation team was striving to develop an online ticket reservation

application to speed up the reservation process and to avoid human resources/passengers to wait in long queue. As an intern, we

(group of 3 members) studied the requirements, application functional specification, workflows and functionality. Prepared the

functional test cases (Positive, Negative etc.) in Excel sheet, and then executed the tests on pre-production environment.

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test cases

• Interacted with the developers to understand the application thoroughly

• Written manual test cases according to functional specification and requirements

• Responsible for testing functionalities of the application

• Executed the test cases, filed bugs and updated test results to Excel sheet

Appreciation Received:

Got credit for generating a best report format

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science May 2007

Anna University, India

Immigration Status

Green Card holder

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