Project Software Engineer

VENKATESH P

QA Lead/Manager

Summary:

• **+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing.

• QA experience includes System testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Analysis,

Design, Development, Automation testing of Client/Server.

• Expertise includes System Testing Functionality Testing, Regression Testing using automation Tools

like Win Runner, Quality Center9.2,10.0,11.0

• Experience in testing Web-based GUI Interface, Client/Server applications conducting both Manual,

Embedded and Automated testing.

• Performed functional, Integration, regression and Browser compatibility testing using Selenium

WebDriver.

• Expertise in Manual testing includes Requirements Analysis, writing Test plans, Test Cases and

Test Execution Matrix.

• Experience in Real-Time Information Systems (RTIS) data testing, troubleshooting various remote

communication software’s such as IP Link, Web Server, and Communication Server for missing data.

• Expertise in problem solving and Bug Reports using Bug Tracking tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla,

and PR Tracker.

• Knowledge of Automation tools like QTP, and running scripts for Functional and Regression Testing.

• Good Working knowledge of Web Services, Client/Server applications to validate test for Bed

management.

• Expert using HTML,DHTML and basic knowledge of DHTML.

• Used Firebug and Firepath for object identification and debugging the automation script failure

• Web Services testing using SOAPUI to verify the correctness of the xml responses and checking the

error codes

• Experienced in eclipse for automation of applications with Java language.

• Almost 2 years of experience in agile environment and effectively used Rally in Agile process.

• Excellent experience in test coordination between business leads from onsite and offshore

teams.

• Tested the applications of Banking, Retail, Supply Chain solutions and Smart card.

• Having 5 years of experience in developing java and visual basic applications.

• User interface and Business Requirement Analysis

• System Specification Analysis, Testing Methodology and Test Plan Formulation

• Experience in writing Test Strategy and Plans, definingTest Cases, developing and maintaining test

scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, leading team members in analyzing and validating defects.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree from Andhra University, Vizag 1990-93.

Technical Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic 5.0 with 81.3%

• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from Institute Of Computer Sciences

Skills/Tools:

Testing Tools: WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director, QC, SOAPUI, Selenium, Webdriver

Reporting Tools: Test director.ALM QC, Rally

Languages: C, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, TSL, VBScript, JavaScript

GUIs :Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0, Developer/2000

RDBMS : Oracle 7.1, MS-Access, MS –SQL Server

Operating Systems: Windows 95 / 98, Win2k / NT, UNIX, MS-Dos

MS Office Tool: MS Office, MS Visio, MS project

Project

Client: Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX [8/14/2013 to till date]

Project: Aircraft Operations Releases testing

Role: QA Lead

Platform: Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle 11g, QC 10.0, Selenium and Rally

Southwest Airlines Co. is a major U.S. airline and the world’s largest low-cost carrier, headquartered in Dallas,

Texas. Crew Scheduling System (CSS) is responsible for staffing Crew members to flights in accordance with

applicable federal regulations, contract provisions, company policy and procedures.

There are two departments in CSS:

• FlightOps – This department manage operation of pilots

• InFlight- This department manage operation of Flight Attendant

FlightOps is related to Pilots and Inflight is related to FA (Flight Attendant).

There are two applications under CSS which works as Management tool for the Planners, Schedulers,

Trainers and Payroll and Self Service tool for Flight Operations&InFlight as below:

• CSS Client for Scheduling,Planning & Payroll group for administrative work

• CWA for Flight Operations/ InFlight for Self Service like trading vacation, trips, etc.

Responsibilities

• Create Test schedule and maintain

• Create Test Scenarios & System Test Plans based on User Stories in Rally.

• Working in Agile methodology, Attended SCRUM meetings, and standup meetings.

• Participate in story sizing, backlog grooming, and iteration planning and retrospective meetings.

• Driving Defect Triage meetings with all Stake holders

• Co-coordinating with Development teams for issues

• Automating regression test scripts with Selenium Web driver using java language.

• Performed Automation Testing of each Build and then Regression testing on each builds using Java

with Selenium Webdriver

• Used Firebug and Firepath for object identification and debugging the automation script failure

• Experienced in testing web services using SOAP UI tool.

• Experienced in writing and testing SQL scripts.

• Monitoring Testing progress and Reporting to management.

Project

Client: Brocade Communications, USA [9/18/2012 to 8/9/2013]

Project Name: RFE’s Testing and QA Process Improvement and HP Tools upgrade (i.e. QC upgrade 9.0

to 11.0 QTP 10.0 to QTP 11.0

Role: QA Test Lead

Platform: QC 9.0, Oracle 10gR2

Project Description

The objective of this project is to upgrade Quality Center 9.0 to 11.0, and also in Brocade each group is having

own QA team and having their own templates and process. The goal is to have same templates and process

across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Setup QC 11.0 Test Environment

• Validate Test Environment along with other users for any issues

• Create Test Plan /Strategy for production upgrade

• Define a new QA Process for Brocade

• Define Test artifacts templates Such as Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Entry criteria and Exit criteria

etc.

• Define Dash board metrics for Senior Management such as Progress Metrics (i.e. Test Creation &

Execution progress and success rate, Defect Metrics Etc

Project

Client: Brocade Communications, USA [12/12/2011 to 9/17/2012]

Project Name: Oracle Minimum Baseline Patch Project

Role: QA Test Lead

Platform: Oracle Apps v11.5.10.2

Project Description

Brocade using Oracle application 11.5.10.2 and oracle has published “Minimum Baseline Patches” required to

receive extended support from Oracle Development.

These patches are mandatory in order for brocade to continue to receive support from oracle. An upgrade to

R12 or fusion is not foreseen until end of FY12.

As part of Minimum Baseline Patches brocade wants to conduct performance test and make sure these

patches should not impact performance of the custom code changes in the application.

Development team identified all custom code changes and some other critical scenarios which will effect as

part of MBP.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of Test Plan document

• Coordinating with Cross functional teams

• Coordinating with Development teams for issues

• Collected Response times for all identified Seniors before Patches applied

• Collected Response times for all identified Seniors After Patches applied

• Reported the issues and assigned to appropriate development teams

• Re-run the scenarios after issues fixed

Project

[10th Mar 2008 to 25th Nov 2011]

Client: Lowe's Companies, Inc.USA

Project: Imports Sourcing and POM

Role: Test Lead/Coordinator

Platform: TradeStone Application, Mainframe, DB2, UDB, Web Methods, Soap UI Tool, Test Director 8.0

Project Description

Lowe's imports project is divided into two releases one is Import Sourcing and other is Purchase Order

Management System. The corner stone of the project implementation is third party application -TradeStone

application, and its integration to various legacy systems: JDA, People Soft 8.4 and People Soft 8.9, Genisis,

LARS, EDAM, Network Facilities, External parties like Bank, UPS, GXS, Carrier, Consolidators, etc. The first

Import Sourcing module was implemented in production in January 2009 and POM module in December 2011.

Responsibilities

• Project Plan creation for Sourcing

• Managing &Leading onsite and offshore resources

• Implementation of Defect Management life cycle

• Analyzing and Reporting of Defects

• Root Cause Analysis for Defects

• Preparation of Test Plan document

• Test Cases coverage verification and execution schedule

• Collaboration with other vendor teams

Project

[10th Sep 2007 to 29th Feb 2008]

Client: First Data Debit Services

Project: Mobile Banking

Role: Sr. Test analyst

Platform: Java 1.5, Oracle 9i, Soap UI Tool, DB Visualizer

Project Description

The Mobile banking project involves setting up of applications, frameworks, and services supporting end to

end operations of mobile banking for consumers and service providers. The project supports account balance

enquiries and payments options via mobile phones.

Responsibilities:

Test the modules for POC including web services for authorization, enrollment, and gateway to the mobile

banking servers.

Test the Webservices for various banking services (Authentication, Enrollment etc.) as an interface to the

cellular phone

• Test Plan preparation

• Writing and Executing Test cases.

• Regression and system testing in an agile environment with daily/ weekly changes to QA code and

data base.

• Bug reporting and verify functionality is on par with the requirements

• Coordinating with Dev team to fix the Bugs.

Projects

[18th Oct 2005to 28th Jan 2007]

Client: Microsoft Corporation

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

• MCT 2007 [20th Jan 2007 to 18th Jun 2007]

• Q2 Recert07 [15th Dec 2006 to Jan 15th 2007]

• Q1 Recert07 [Nov 2006 to 10th Dec 2006]

• Recert Access Code [Sep 2006 to Oct 2006]

• SQL 2005 Migration [July 2006 to Aug 2006]

• Charter Member Kits [May 2006 to June 2006]

• MCT2006 [Jan 2006 to April 2006]

• NewCert [1st November 2005 to Dec 2005]

• Hawkeye [25th July 2005 to 28th October 2005]

Platform: ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2000/2005, NT Batch Jobs

Project Description

Microsoft Learning (MSL) is launching a new certification product strategy aimed at simplifying the branding for

hiring managers while better distinguishing the individual. In the new product strategy MSL will have two series

of credentials.

Responsibilities

• Involved in development of test plan.

• Writing and Executing Test cases using MS Product studio.

• Bug reporting and verify functionality is on par with the requirements.

• Regression and System Testing.

• Coordinating with Dev team to fix the Bugs

• Involved in Data base Testing.

• Implementation of Feed Files.

• Involved in Running NT Jobs

• Performing Integration Testing

• Performing System Testing

• Performing Regression Testing

• Participated in test case reviews.

• Participate in bug triage.

Project

Management information system [October 2004 to May 2005]

Client: Aqua One Waters (Pepsi Bulk Water Franchise), Bangalore

Role: Tester

Platform: V.B, Ms-Access, Windows 98/NT, WinRunner, Test Director.

Project

Supply Chain Automation [May 2003 to April 2004]

Client: AquaFina (Pepsi Bulk water Division), Hyderabad

Role: Tester

Platform: C, V.B, Windows 98/NT, WinRunner, Test Director.

Project

Order Booking System [October 2002 to March 2003]

Client: Srika Aqua (Kinley Bulk water Division), Hyderabad

Role: Tester

Platform: VC++, V.B, MS-Access, Windows 98, Bugzila.

Project

Telesales

Client: Air Tel, Hyderabad [July 2002 to September 2002]

Role: Tester

Platform: V.B, MS-Access, Windows 98, Bugzila.

Project

Employee Attendance using Smart Card [December 2001 to May 2002]

Client: HITS, Hyderabad

Role: Sr.Software Engineer

Platform: V.B, Windows 98

Project

Telebanking (Interactive Voice Response System) [August 2001 to November 2001]

Client: DeogiriNagariSahakariBank, Aurangabad

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Platform: Java, JNI, Swing, Windows 95 and IVR card

Project

Financial Accounting System [December 2000 to June 2001]

Client:SriLanka Foundation Trust

Role: Sr.Software Engineer

Java1.2, Oracle7.3, Awt, Swing 2.0, JDBC, Windows’ NT

Platform:

Responsibilities: Involved in Analysis, Designing and Coding

Project

Web Page Designing [November 1999 to October

2000]

Client: India Network Foundation, Bowling Green, Ohio

Role: Software Engineer

Java, Servlets, Java Script, HTML, MS-Excel Sheet.

Platform:

Responsibilities: Involved in Analysis, Designing and Coding

Project

Enquiry Invoice [December 1998 to September 1999]

Client: Tele Logics (Pte), Singapore

Role: Software Engineer

Platform: Java, AWT,

Swing, JDBC, and MS-Access

Responsibilities: Involved in Analysis, Designing and Coding

Project

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [May 1997 to November 1998]

Client: Madhava Nursing Home, Secunderabad

Role: Software Engineer

V.B 5.0, Oracle7.3, RDO, Windows’ 95

Platform:

Responsibilities: Involved in Analysis, Designing and Coding

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