Srikanth Kalvakuntla

Phone: +1-514-***-**** Email ID:

acn877@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

. 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Information Technology and

software testing which include both Manual and Automation.

. Good product knowledge in Insurance and Banking domains.

. Involved and worked through each and every phase of Software Development

Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

. Skills in gathering requirements from End Users, existing system, demo

systems, Scope Documents and Business Requirement Documents (BRD).

. Good experience in creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, QA

Methodologies for both Manual and Automated Testing environments.

. Hands on experience in Smoke, Black box, Functional, Integration, System,

Regression, UAT, performance testing and Adhoc testing.

. Sound knowledge of Browsers different browsers like Internet Explorer,

Netscape, Google chrome and Firefox

. Having Basic knowledge on industry best QA standards like ISO, CMMI and

CMM.

. Experienced in Automating applications using QC and QTP/UFT (Unified

Functional Test).

. Good experience in database testing using MS SQL.

. Well versed with Quality Center 9.0 to log defects and generating

reports.

. Good experience in Testing and Quality Assurance practices in Web and

Client/Server Applications using ASP, .Net, and VB.Net.

. Hands on experience on various project methodologies like Agile,

Iterative Development, waterfall, Scrum and V-model.

. Good academic knowledge on IIS.

. Excellent written, verbal communication skills and strong mathematical

and analytical skills.

. Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with good time management.

. Determined and resourceful, quick to grasp new ideas and finds challenges

stimulation.

. Work well under strict deadlines and adapt to any environment. Possess

the ability to work on different projects and applications concurrently.

Education

. M Engg in computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Concordia,

Montreal

. Bachelors in Technology -JNTU University, India

Technical Skills

Testing Tools Quality Center 9.0, Quick

Test Professional 8.5, 9.0, UFT

Operating Systems MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows XP/NT/7.0/8.0

Programming Languages C, C++, Java Servlets, JSP, PHP, HTML 4.0

Scripting Languages VB Scripting, JavaScript

Configuration Tools MS Team Foundation Server, GIT

RDBMS MS SQL Server 2008

Microsoft Packages MS-Office, MS-Access, MS-Excel, MS-

Project

Professional Experience

Dec 2010 - Nov 2012

HSBC Bank

QA Analyst

HSBC Online is a web based application which was designed to offer

convenient banking using Dot Net and HTML technologies. This project is a

combination of both banking system and telecommunication systems that are

integrated in the core banking environment. This system gives customers

access to their account via Internet. Customers can login and view current

and past account information, account summary, view and edit personal

profile, perform various secure online activities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Gathered Business and Functional Requirement specifications

. Reviewed and understood the functionality by interacting with the

business analyst and end users

. Developed, documented, verified & maintained Test Plans and associated

Test cases to meet the business requirements as designated by the QA

Manager and approved by the business user

. Created Test Scenarios and Test Case templates in Excel based on IEEE

standards

. Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on different types

of Testing viz., Positive, Negative, Smoke, Regression, Integration,

System, acceptance and Black Box

. Identified and reported defects to the developers with proper priorities

and severities

. Conducted System and Integration Testing and interacted with developers

to resolve technical issues

. Validated Soap UI web services messages using SOAP UI Pro testing tool

. Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with developers and

business users for coverage analysis

. Automated the installation of daily builds using TFS and implemented

regular expression verification

. QTP used to automate the Regression Testing after every version change of

the application

. Experienced in test management and defect tracking using TFS for defect

management right from login to resolution and created defect summary

reports for each cycle of testing

. Created traceability matrix between requirements, test plan and defect

module for coverage analysis for each release and project.

. Extensive back end testing with SQL queries for data mapping, integrity

and consistency

. Tested the application compatibility in the Versions of Fire fox, Safari

and Internet Explorer browsers

Sept 2009 - Nov 2010 Assurant Solutions

Insurance Company QA Analyst

Trainee

POS (Policy Origination System) auto is a web application which will be

used by the underwriters of Assurant Solutions Insurance to generate new

quotes based on the customer request for auto insurance. The generated

quote will be stored in DB2 database for further reference with a temporary

policy numbers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Involved in Scope Analysis and creating of the requirements by

reviewing use cases

. Analyzed the requirements thoroughly with the business and testing

teams

. Worked closely with business team in identifying the gaps and

ambiguity in the use cases

. Determined whether the requirements are testable, identified the

clarity in the requirements and requirement gaps

. Created functional test plan by identifying testable requirements,

resources required, tools and technologies involved, project and

schedule related risks, types of testing in scope, build management

and signoff requirements

. Organized detailed test plan review sessions with the project team

members

. Created test cases in quality center based on the approved test

scenarios

. Conducted internal and external test case reviews within the team,

with business & developers

. Identified and mapped the test data to specific test cases for test

execution purpose

. Documented 'Requirement Traceability Matrix' and linked the

requirements to test cases to ensure test coverage

. Documented test cases in the quality center and configured the

required test set properties for test execution

. Generated test plan and test case detail reports using quality center

. Identified expected results for test cases from use cases

. Executed tests in QA environment by executing test cases for smoke,

functional, integration, end to end, cross browser, regression, and

user acceptance.

. Actively assisted business team with planning, coordinating and

executing acceptance testing (UAT)

. Identified and reported defects in quality center with the respective

priority and severity

. Analyzed, reviewed and tracked defects in quality center by generating

customized reports

. Developed SQL queries using rapid SQL to test business process of

financial modules in the application

. Provided status reports on daily basis to the management

References furnished upon request

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