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Bavani Soma
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Visa Status: US Citizen
SUMMARY
13+ years of experience in designing and managing complex, high
value IT projects focusing on delivering within quality standards,
deadlines and budgets.
Wide variety of hands-on experience with Test/QA and Development
Methodologies
Test/QA Project work includes Scoping and Estimation, Risk
analysis, design, Development & Build management, testing (Automated &
Manual).
Proficient in Defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle
using Quality Center.
Coordinated different teams for different projects on offshore-
onsite model.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
. Masters Degree in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University,
TN, India
. Training in Mercury QTP9.0, WinRunner8.2,
LoadRunner8.0,TestDirector5.0, Quality Center9.0
. Oracle certified PL/SQL developer associate 10 G.
. Certification in Introduction to SOA, Overview of Data Warehouse
Testing, Basics about Usability, Accessibility, Exploratory and
compatibility testing
. Certification in Banking Fundamentals II
. Agile Training - Agile Requirements and Story Writing Workshop
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Testing Tools
Functional : QTP 9.0, WinRunner 8.2, SilkTest 6.0,
HP Unified Functional Testing 11.50, Selenium 2.8.0
Performance : LoadRunner8.0
Defect Tracking : TestDirector5.0, Quality Center11 (ALM)
Agile Tool : Rally
Operating Systems : Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, MS-DOS 6.22, Sun Solaris 10
Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++
Databases : Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL Server 2008, FoxPro, MS-Access, Sybase,
Teradata
Oracle Tools : Reports 2.5/6i, Forms 4.5 / 6i, SQL* Plus
Oracle Utilities : SQL* Loader, Export and Import
Other Tools : TOAD for Oracle 11.6 and SQL Server 5.7, HTML, MS-Office
2000/2007, Sybase Central 6.01, IBM Cognos Reports
8,Teradata SQL Assistant 13.11, Informatica
PowerCenter 8.6.1, Microsoft Project Standard(MPP),
OpenProj, PARASOFT SOAtest, Oracle SQL Developer
1.5.5, SQL Query Analyzer 8.00, IBM System
iNavigator 6, IBM InfoSphere Data Stage 8.5, WinSCP,
Beyond Compare 3.
Professional Experience
Name of the Company Designation From To Duration
(Months)
Bank of America Senior QA Lead 2012 Till 34 months
Date
Infosys Technical Test Lead 200*-****-** months
GSSR Inc. QA Analyst 200*-****-** months
Impecc Consulting Test Engineer 200*-****-** months
Services
Checktronix India Pvt Quality assurance 200*-****-** months
Limited Engineer
Uniitech Programmer 199*-****-** months
Project profiles
. Sr.QA Lead - Bank of America USA
Mar 2012-Till Date
As a Data warehouse Sr.QA Lead for the BOFA my projects and
responsibilities include
Projects:
1. Fulfillment Data Store (Agile Testing)
2. Default Management Reporting System (FNMA reporting)
3. Single Family Default Monitoring Systems (HUD reporting),
4. Deceased Customer Notification Reporting Systems
5. Home Equity Appeals
Responsibilities:
. Working with the team in Agile Grooming sessions, actively involved
in QA estimates proposals and resource allocations for new
initiatives and small enhancements, attending Daily stand up calls
and update the SIT Test deliverables and testing status.
. Worked on Risk Based Testing.
. Preparing Test plan, Test Scenarios and review them with the
team,Test Data requirement analysis, prepare Test data
document and coordinate with data seeding team, Traceability
Matrix preparation.
. Performing functional testing Schema Validations, Record
count validations, Data validations with the Data
transformation logics for fact tables and dimension tables.
. Running the ETL iShare (Infosphere Data Stage) jobs to load
the data in the target environments
. Meeting the team (SA/DEV/UAT/Offshore) every day to touch
base about the clarifications on requirements and defects.
. Review on SIT deliverables and SIT status.
. File validations on Linux backend system using WinSCP tool,
Infosphere Data Stage jobs validations, Scheduling AutoSys
jobs, run the jobs to load the data from source (Text files,
tables) to Target.
. Executing test cases, preparing defect reports using QC,
conducting defect status meetings, send out the Defect status
report to the team every other day.
. Providing Sign off for SIT.
Environment: Toad for Oracle 11.6,SQL Server 2008, Teradata
(Teradata SQL Assitant), iSeries servers (IBM System i Navigator),Linux, Win SCP, Beyond Compare 3, HP Quality Center 11, Rally,
IBM InfoSphere Data Stage 8.5, Beyond Compare 3, HP Quality Center
11(ALM), OpenProj 1.4, PDWARE iTeam 6.2.
. Technical Test Lead (TTL) - Infosys Ltd
Nov 2009- Mar 2012
As a Technical Test Lead for the Infy my projects and
responsibilities include
Projects:
CapitalOne, Plano, TX
1. Auto finance IVR(interactive voice response) Services
2. Treasury Management Applications
Bank of America, Addison, TX & Broadway, NY
Sep 2010 - May2011
3. Central Services Mortgage Application
4. Marketing Event Measurement (MEM)
5. Campaign History Database (CHDB) and Promo History Database
(PHDB)
6. Marketing Infrastructure (MI)
Citigroup, Long Island City, NY
Feb 2010- August 2010
7. Global Risk Reporting (GRR)
8. Shared National Credits (SNC)
Aetna Global Benefits, Hartford, CT
Nov 2009- Feb 2010
9. Clinical Desktop Application (CDA)
Responsibilities:
. Requirement Analysis.
. Estimate the testing efforts.
. Preparing Test strategy and Data Strategy documents.
. Test Data preparation for various environments.
. Divide the functionality to prepare the Test Scenarios.
. Review the Test Scenarios and Test cases.
. Review the defects and prepare the defect reports.
. Conduct a meeting for testing status and defect status.
. Support Performance testing.
. Creating test file for test the data loading process.
. Writing Traceability Matrix against the requirement
specification.
. Preparing WBS for testing timelines.
. Support the UAT team for testing.
. Providing KT to the offshore team about the BRD and assisting
offshore team for creation of Test Scenarios and Test Scripts
and load them in to QC.
. Assisting offshore team for test execution and defects
logging in QC.
. Running the ETL jobs in Informatica and UNIX.
. Provide sign-off to testing
Environment: HP Quality Center 9.2, MS Excel, Windows XP, S1 online
Business Banking Application PARASOFT SOAtest, Oracle SQL
Developer 1.5.5, SQL Query Analyzer 8.00,
SQL Server 2008, TOAD, SQL, QuickBase, MS Excel, Windows XP, TOAD for
Oracle 10.0, Teradata SQL Assistant 7.1 for Teradata, Informatica
PowerCenter 8.6.1, Microsoft Project Standard (MPP), Mercury Quality
Center 9.0, MS Excel, Windows XP, Sun Solaris 10, HP Quality Center
9.2, MS Excel, Windows XP, Mortgage applications(Visual FoxPro and Dot
net technology), Sybase Central 6.01, TOAD for Oracle 10.0, IBM Cognos
8,Mercury Quality Center 9.0, MS Excel, Windows Vista.
. QA Analyst - GSSR Inc. Mar 2006
- Jun 2009
Projects:
1. Dental Insurance, Boston, MA
2. Health Care System Boston, MA
Responsibilities:
. Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test
cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the
issues.
. After successful release of projects, developed automation
scripts using QTP and integrated the script with master
script.
. Involved in Integration testing for release of updated
modules.
. Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed test
scripts.
. Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and
coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting
tight timeline.
. Involved in Performance testing QA using Loadrunner 8.0.
. Involved in Backend Database testing in Oracle using SQL.
. In the web page testing to finding providers details using
geographical location which stored in the SQL server 2008
Database.
. Capturing customers information whoever requested online
quotes for dental plans for individual or small companies
which stored in the SQL Server 2008 Database.
. Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using
TestDirector.
Environment: TestDirector 8.0, QTP 8.2, Oracle Server, Windows XP,
UNIX, MS Access, MS Office, MS word, Excel, Power Point, QTP9.0,
Oracle9i/10g, SQL Server 2008, TOAD, SQL, Loadrunner8.0, Test
Director, Windows XP.
. Test Engineer - Impecc Consulting Services
July 2004-Feb 2006
Pharmaceutical Formulation Inc., NJ USA
Project:
1. Purchase Information System
Responsibilities:
. Performed Manual Testing on Web Based Application.
. Involved in designing of Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test
Cases, Test Scenarios and Executed Design Steps.
. Developed the Test Cases from the Testing Requirements.
. Worked on tools with TestDirector, GUI Testing, Context
Sensitive and Analog Recording.
Environment: TestDirector 8.0, LoadRunner 8.0, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX,
Oracle Server, Windows XP, MS Access, MS Office, MS word,
Excel, Power Point
. Quality assurance Engineer - Checktronix India Pvt Limited
Mar 2003- Jun 2004
Project:
1. LENS
Responsibilities:
. Writing Test cases using MS excel for manual testing.
. Writing scripts to filter the input resume which are having
missing details
. The resume, which misses the key details are separated and
made readable format to the system.
. Write manual testing scripts to check the hyperlinks are
working in the aperture system.
. Checking the web page at different browsers
. Writing manual and automating scripts to check employer
credentials and privileges
. Did Regression testing to the different versions of Aperture.
. Writing manual and automating scripts to find the duplicate
candidates.
Environment: SilkTest 6.0, Windows XP, Oracle9i/10g,
TOAD, SQL, MS Excel.
. Programmer - Uniitech
Aug 1999-Aug 2004
Project:
Worked on multiple projects for college student's curriculum using
Visual Basic and Oracle.