Padma Ramprakash
Alpharetta, GA
**********@*****.***
Status: US Citizen
Skills Summary:
3+ years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance with the emphasis on Manual Testing.
Expertise in Software Testing of Client-Server, Web-based, and Mobile Applications.
Strong Knowledge on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
Experience in all stages of SDLC using various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile(Scrum)
Strong analytical skills for understanding the Functional Requirements Documents, Use Cases and detailed design of the application.
Expertise in writing, maintaining and Executing Manual and Automation Test Cases.
Experience in conducting various testing types like Smoke, Functional, GUI, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, and Band-width Testing
Experience in Defect Reporting and Tracking using HP Quality Center /ALM and JIRA.
Experience in testing Java, .NET, Windows based applications.
Experience in executing SQL Statements to extract and validate data
Used Unix commands to interact with Unix servers
Active Participation in Daily and weekly status update meetings.
Executed data driven tests with Automation Tools like HP QTP/UFT
Flexible and versatile to adapt to new environment and ability to work under pressure.
Knowledge and Skills:
Testing Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT, Rally, JIRA, SOAP UI, Selenium IDE
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle
Other Skills: HTML, XML, SQL, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point)
Experience Summary:
iBeta Quality Assurance, Aurora, CO Feb2015 – Oct 2015
Software Quality Assurance Tester
iBeta offers full range of on-demand software testing services. The project involves Beta testing the website banner ads on various websites released in various markets around the globe.
Responsibilities:
Manually tested the functionality of web applications and mobile applications.
Performed Smoke, Functional, GUI, Exploratory, Regression, Ad Hoc, band-width testing in various environments on new and existing modules and other special features like Throttling and Monitoring.
Performed Mobile device testing to check the compatibility on different Android and IOS devices
Performed web application testing on browser flavors like Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari on different Windows and Mac OS.
Performed Integration testing on modules related to host URL.
Used JIRA for creating issues and defects management.
Communicated with developers regarding the issues fixes using JIRA.
Performed Usability testing to ensure ease of navigation, user satisfaction and accessibility of the various modules.
Worked with Project Managers and other testers to ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules
Level3 Communications, Greenwood village, CO July2014-Nov 2014
QA Tester
Level 3 Communications is one of the Leading Internet Service Provider in US. The project is to carry out by front end web based application testing and data migration testing from different legacy system and functional testing of new customizations as per the client requirements.
Responsibilities:
Interact with Client Managers, Developer and getting the requirements.
Enhanced the Test Cases according to the Change Request Documents.
Written test cases and executed test cases Manually in Quality Center.
Involved in troubleshoot issues and discussed with manager, Developers and solved.
Reported software defects to development team using Quality center.
Involved in backend testing using SQL queries.
Maintained test coverage metrics, Traceability matrix
Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to Test Lead.
Maximus Inc., Denver, CO Feb2013 – May 2014
QA Tester
Maximus offers states unparalleled experience in Medicaid. Maximus partnered with states to provide easy ways to enrol consumers.
Responsibilities:
Participated in gathering, reviewing and analysis of requirements.
Developed detailed Test cases and Executed Test cases.
Participated in executing the automated test scripts.
Involved in GUI, Functional, Regression testing and System testing
Interacted with developers to resolve the defects.
Used QC to log defects and generate defect reports.
Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.
Monitored QC to close the bugs as and when developers fixed the bugs
Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements.
Automated the data driven test cases in QTP/UFT.
Interacted with Unix OS through windows machines using PUTTY
Used Unix commands to check the content of the file.
Helped new team members understand the site functions.
Responsible for daily back up of the team’s working files.
Participated weekly walkthroughs on the application progress for meeting schedules and provided the QA status update periodically to the management.
Creating reports for higher management on performance test results.
Colorado Bank and Trust Company, Denver, CO Jan 2012- Nov 2012
Junior Tester
Colorado Bank offers online banking service to their clients with single point of entry to view and edit their Deposits, Loans, Credit Cards, Brokerage, Retirement, Investment Sweeps and Trust accounts. Using this application, Colorado Bank Clients will be able to self-enroll and communicate to their Relationship Managers. Call Center is another Admin module which is used to maintain client’s data as well as messages which are send by clients.
Responsibilities:
Participated in analyzing the system requirements, scope and reviewed test cases, for testing the application
Identified and prepared test scenarios and test data and co-ordinate integration testing across multiple functional J2EE application.
Created Traceability Matrix for the entire project which clearly links the requirements, test cases and defects.
Prepared manual test cases for GUI, Functionality, Security and Regression testing
Functional execution of manual test cases and reporting of results in Quality center Defect tracking tool.
Executed SQL queries for validation purpose
Documented and maintained the system process flow for the entire application.
Education:
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), University of Madras, India.
Hands on Training on Advanced Quality Assurance Testing