7 years of Software Testing experience

SUKANTI MADALA

Phone: 484-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sukanti-madala/86/710/b78

SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

* ***** ** ******** ******* experience with expertise in Client-server and Web based Applications

Result oriented and hardworking professional with proven track record in Quality Assurance Testing for diverse Web Software domains such as Finance (investment/insurance), Life science, Health Care, Performance Management and Facility management Software.

Awarded for Excellent Performance by Chicago based $11 billion company RR Donnelley.

Extensive experience in testing of launched products, Enhancements and deployment.

Expertise in Test planning, Test Estimations, Test team formation, Front end and Back end testing, Black box and White Box testing, Manual Testing, System software testing, creation and documentation of Test strategies and Test Cases, Test Automation. Efficient Project scheduling skills using prioritization of the tasks to achieve high quality deliverables with in stipulated timelines.

Well versed with end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle as well as Software Testing Life Cycle including: Setting up of Test Environments, Test Data Preparation, Requirements Management, Client Interactions, Test Designing, Test Execution, Defect Reporting, Test Status Reporting, Test Closure activities, Risk management as well as Performing manual and automated Security testing.

Extensive testing experience with a wide variety of projects, environments and methodologies such as functionality, compatibility, reliability, exploratory/ad hoc, load/stress, usability, installation, security and related test methodologies.

Experience in Defect Triage and investigating technical support.

Experience in Functional and Regression Automation testing using Selenium.

Expertise in Backend testing with databases like SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS.

Experience in API, Web Services and Multi layered application testing.

Expertise in Rapid Software and production verification testing.

Expertise in different test types such as Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance, Compatibility, exploratory/ad hoc, load/stress, System, security,UAT, Usability testing.

QA/Test background augmented and complemented by diverse experience in software development, system administration, user/tech support.

Expertise in testing with Agile, Waterfall, Cyclic model.

Superior analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving skills, planning and organizational skills. Recognized for strong interpersonal skills, communication and presentation skills.

Received the recognition award from Knack Software for excellent quality of their software system.

Mentor and Enabler with strong personal leadership skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Testing Tools / Utilities: MTM, JMeter, Load Runner, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Selenium, MS Office

Project Tools: ALM, TFS, HPQC,JIRA

Protocols: SMTP, WSDL, FTP

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, Macintosh, LINUX

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, XML

RDBMS: Oracle9i, MS SQL Server 2008, MySQL

Web/Application Servers: IIS Server

Domain: Investment, Health Care Insurance, Multimedia, Data Warehousing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Application Security, Financial Systems development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RR Donnelly

(July 2010 – Mar 2015)

SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Client: MetLife Insurance Company, Chennai

Product: MetLife Shield Level Selector

MetLife Shield level Selector is an investment designed application tool. It ensures the investors about the limitations, exclusions, charges, termination provisions as well as multiple risk factors of the Insurance for keeping it in force. It automates the shield option calculator to support the MetLife representative in examining the various scenarios of shield product coverage.

Responsibilities and Key Achievements:

Involved in Test Estimation and preparation of Test Plan for testing using ALM.

Scripting and Execution of Functional and Regression test cases for different modules.

Logging, verify and reviewing the defects summary in ALM.

Mentoring the team and guiding the testing engineers in designing test scenarios and test cases.

Conducted Compatibility Testing by executing the Workflow Manager Web application related Test cases on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and on different operating systems like Windows, Mac, Android, iPad, Tablets.

Implemented selenium scripts to automate search feature like universal search, advanced search results, special result snippets/oneboxes. Maintained the test cases by fixing the broken ones.

Developed SQL Queries with multiple joins, Creating, Retrieving, Updating and Deleting data from the database.

Implemented Cron jobs for the periodic execution of test scripts, build versioning checking and monitoring their output. Implemented and maintained dashboards for automation status and bugs status tracking.

Conducted Unit Testing, Sanity checking, Integration testing (from the developers end) which involved my efforts beyond the QA domain while handling multiple releases simultaneously.

Worked on testing effort estimates and provided the Timely feedback on progress of the testing activity.

Prepared reports and test results after each release cycle for Management review and future test planning.

Conducted peer code reviews and peer test case reviews for completeness and accuracy,

Led bug-bash meeting and bugs status discussions to improve daily status communication in the group.

Recognized for creating test scenario matrices to ensure complete and exhaustive test coverage.

Coordinated and liaised with developers, business analysts and user representatives in application design and document reviews.

Mentored and played leadership roles in creation and execution of QA and testing processes, test strategies and plans, bug documentation and regression, and bug tracking system development

Environment

Language : .NET Framework 4.0

Back-end : SQL Server 2008R2

Web/Application Server : IIS 7.0 and above

Tools : ALM, JMeter

Client: RR Donnelley

Product: Touchstone

Touchstone is an employee performance management system that helps to evaluate individual employee’s job performance and productivity in line with pre-set criteria aligned to organizational objectives. It provides an interactive evaluation and feedback system to identify the gaps between actual and desired performance levels.

Responsibilities and Key Achievements:

Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents.

Created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.

Coordinated with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements using Quality center.

Actively participated in GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing, Functional testing, Database Testing, System testing, Ad-hoc testing and coordinated UAT.

Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to track the coverage of requirements vs. designed Test cases.

Used Quality Center to store, schedule the Test cases and report the defects.

Decomposed Acceptance test conditions to Test cases and carried out exploratory testing.

Conducted Sanity testing for new builds. Performed Security testing to ensure data confidentiality.

Verified Report generation features as well as the Email feature to confirm the presentation, data correctness as well as data compactness.

Manually performed Backend testing by writing SQL queries.

Performed Load and Stress testing using MTM to ensure that system can handle simultaneous access by a huge number of users.

Conducted Compatibility Testing by executing the Workflow Manager Web application related Test cases on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Fire Fox and Chrome and on different operating systems like Windows, Mac.

Worked on testing effort estimates and provided the Timely feedback on progress of the testing activity.

Worked on multiple releases at the same time, to meet the project deadlines.

Prepared reports and test results after each release cycle for Management review and future test planning.

Participated in defect review meetings.

Environment

Language : .NET Framework2.0

Back-end : SQL Server 2008R2

Web/Application Server : IIS 6.0, 7.0

Tools : QC, MTM

RR Donnelly

(February 2007 – June 2008)

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Product: Human Resource Performance Management System Client: Astron Technology, Chennai

Performance Management system developed on Web/Application Server IIS 5.1 with SQL Server Management studio Express provides an opportunity to align individual performance and development to the firm’s growing standards and to receive constant feedback. It enables monthly feedback on performance to every employee through an individual monthly scorecard. It assists employees in creating a career development plan as well provides list of valued performers to the organization.

Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents to create Test plans.

Conducted GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing, Back End Testing, Software Functional testing, Negative and boundary testing, regression testing, System testing, Ad-hoc testing and coordinated UAT.

Maintained the Requirement Tracebility Matrices (RTM) to track the coverage of requirements vs. designed Test cases.

Used Quality center to store, schedule the Test cases and report the defects. Used Bugzilla to track defects.

Decomposed Acceptance test conditions to Test cases and carried out exploratory testing.

Conducted Sanity testing for new builds. Performed Security testing to ensure data confidentiality.

Verified Report generation features as well as the Email feature to confirm the presentation, data correctness as well as data compactness.

Manually performed Backend testing by writing SQL queries.

Performed Load and Stress testing using Load Runner to ensure that system can handle simultaneous access by a huge number of users.

Conducted Compatibility Testing by executing the Workflow Manager Web application related Test cases on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Fire Fox and Netscape Navigator and on different operating systems.

Worked on testing effort estimates and provided the Timely feedback on progress of the testing activity.

Worked on multiple releases at the same time, to meet the project deadlines.

Prepared reports and test results after each release cycle for Management review and future test planning.

Participated in defect review meetings.

Successfully completed the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on each release of the project with the help of end user requirements.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Involved in Manual testing multiple web applications like Edge Guru (A Facility Management System), FMS TrainingPortal for the Client: Knack Software in Knack Software from (October2004 – July2006) as Software Test Engineer.

Developed applications like Automated Cheque Printing for Client: Max New York Life Insurance, Gurgaon and Tune Pigeon for Client: Tune Pigeon, New Jersey, USA in Bytech India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi using ACP User Interface logic with JAVA, JSP, Servlet from (February2002 – February2003) as Software Engineer.

Designed and developed Skill Manage application with Program Logic using Java platform (Java, XML, HTML) for Clinent:Locus Technologies Pvt. Ltd in National Institute Of Computer Education from (July1998 – March1999) as Software Programmer.

Designed and developed On Line Music Player application for Client: HMV for a distributed architecture using JOVE, JEXEPACK, INSTALL SHIELD in The Gramophone Company of India Ltd from (March1997- February1998) as Computer Programmer.

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

CMMI Maturity level 3 certification

Training in Software Quality Process (ISO 9001-2000) at Bytechindia Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

EDUCATION

Masters of Computer Applications (M.C.A),

UTKAL UNIVERSITY, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

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