Test Cases Manager

Malarvizhi Krishnaswamy

**** ********* **, ***** ****, TX 78665 Mobile: 512-***-**** Email: *************@*****.***

Objective

An accomplished Software QA Tester with Five years of experience looking for a challenging QA Analyst in an environment with the distributed global teams.

Experience - Five years of software testing experience in testing distributed applications developed in various technologies like Java, .NET and VB.

Agile Methodology - Very good understanding of SDLC and STLC methodologies in waterfall & Agile Environments - Work closely with project management, product owner, scrum master, development teams in a distributed global team environment

Test Documentation - Created documents, Test matrix, Test Status Report, Test Summary Reports, Test Logs, Defect and Bug reports, RTVM to apprise project team members as to the status of meeting defined quality goals.

Manual Testing -Very good experience in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Grey box Testing, Front end Testing, Back end Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, System integration Testing, User acceptance Testing, Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad hoc Testing, GUI Testing, XML Data Validation Testing, Performance Testing

Automation testing–Hands on experience in Selenium Web driver executing Automated Test cases written in Python Scripts and Robot Framework to execute Acceptance Test Driven Development test cases..

Database – Adept in writing SQL queries to validate data and verify data integrity

Leadership - Good experience in leading and mentoring the team; and liaising Onsite-Offshore team. Expert in scoping, estimating, allocating and reviewing tasks to team members and track tasks to closure.

Technical Skills :

Testing Tools - JIRA, Team Foundation Server 2008 & 2013 (TFS), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), HP Quality Center, Trac (Cloud Teamforge, and Team City)

Test Management/ Defect Tracking Tools -QA Complete, MTM, TFS 2008 and TFS 2013, HP ALM, Bugzilla, Trac, JIRA

Automation tools - Selenium, Robot Framework, Postman, Load Runner

Database -MySQL, PostgreSQL database

Methodologies – Waterfall, Agile & Scrum methodologies

Other Tools - Test Case Migrator plus, Visual Studio.

Browser –IE, Safari,Firefox, Chrome

OS – Windows and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gila LLC, Austin, TX

QA Analyst Aug 2015- Present

Project: Toll Application for Puerto Rico Highway Transport Authority.

Description: Tolling Day project is about the Interoperability data is to be developed with the purpose of coordinating the exchange of Electronic Toll Collection data between Metropistas BOS and the AutoExpreso for Puerto Rico Highway Transport Authority.

Role and Responsibilities:

Analyzed and understood business and functional requirements and developed comprehensive test plan, Test cases based on User Story, ICD, BR, Functional Specification documents for testing Tolling applications, XML files, Web UI, Web API and Tableau reports.

Interacted with the Scrum Master, development teams, end users and Product Owner for creating the Test Plans.

Has participated in daily scrum standup meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review meetings for the project.

Created and executed Test cases for XSD schema validation, XML Manipulation, File naming, Business rule validation of XML files through Test Harness.

Performed software functionality test on client server and web based applications.

Tested Web API with REST API tools Postman and Swagger using JSON Script.

Wrote extensive SQL queries in Microsoft SQL server Management Studio 2014 as Part of Analyzing and migration of Data for Backend Testing.

Performed manual front-end testing by generating test data to verify incorporated functionality to ensure data integrity.

Executed Test Harness to validate xml files by running it under varying conditions and monitoring its behavior and outputs.

Executed UI testing by inspecting the properties of web elements and web pages using Firebug.

Performed Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (I.E, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and safari), FAT, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Retesting, End to End testing, system testing .

Logged descriptive bug report for failed Test cases in TFS 2013 supported with logs and screenshots and assigned them to the developers.

Verified and closed bug reports once they were resolved.

Technical Environment:

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2014, Postman, Swagger, SoapUI, FileZilla SFTP server, Tableau reporting, .Net

Test management and execution tool –Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), TFS 2013

Wayne Fueling Systems

Software Tester Apr 2013-July 2015 Project: Fusion and Nucleus POS

Description: Wayne is a global innovator of retail (Point of Sale - POS) and fleet fuel dispensers and technologies. Fusion Automation Server ties systems and devices together; including Nucleus (POS), dispensers, price signs, and tank gauges.

Role and Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Requirement documents and User Stories to develop test plan, test cases and test scripts for Fusion and Nucleus in Global Fusion Forecourt project.

Executed Vendor Certification Test Scripts for First Data to certify Fusion 6000 ATL105 non-EMV to go to the field.

Worked for Exxon Mobil client. Apprehend the product functionality in no time and actively participated in major implementations running in tight schedule.

Created and executed Test cases for POS transactions supported for payment card processing like credit card, debit card, gift card, fleet card, other store valued cards and validated the payment processing and receipts based on the requirements.

Setup various hardware and software configurations, configured IP addresses and test various features enabling them in a computer network for security and communication.

Created test cases and test sets in QA complete, MTM and TFS 2013.

Executed Automated Test scripts written in C# in Visual Studio 2013.

Executed the test cases in different hardware configuration, software environments, POS systems, protocols and on pump types with all possible combinations.

Logged descriptive bug report for failed Test cases in Jira, Visual Studio TFS 2008 and 2013 supported with logs and XML documents.

Generated test summary report for the project and management teams

Participated actively in Daily standup or Scrum meetings, biweekly Sprint review, planning, retrospective, and Backlog grooming meetings

Worked with development and field technician team on critical issues

Worked on extensive agile scrum methodologies in multiple projects with the distributed team members across the globe.

Created documents (QA Status Report, QA Summary Reports, QA Test Logs, issue and defects) to apprise project team members as to the status of meeting defined quality goals.

Technical Environment:

Smartbear, .Net, C#, C++ Java, Smartbear QA Complete, Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), Microsoft Team Foundation Server, TeamCity, VMWare Workstation, Microsoft Excel, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Windows Embedded POSready, Windows XP/7, Windows 8 server, WinSCP, SFTP server

Testing Integrated Tools – JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS 2008 & 2013

Test management and execution tool – Load Runner, QA Complete, MTM, Test complete

Source Control - Team City.

Gravitant

Software Tester Apr 2011- Mar 2013

Project: Cloud Matrix

Description: Gravitant is a software company that enables enterprises and solution providers to become IT service brokers. CloudMatrix is a consumption portal that makes hybrid and multi-cloud services easy to procure, consume and manage.

Role and Responsibilities:

Performed manual testing Java enterprise product, cloud matrix.

Worked in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements

Practical working experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, VMware and SaaS-based product/application design and development.

Developed and executed the test cases in development, test and product environments and Created Test case coverage with the trend

Tested the portal functionalities and the billing & Reconcile modules

Validated business rules and data mapping rules for reports.

Reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications

Executed test cases and track defects in Trac and JIRA.

Validated the user input into the Oracle database using database queries

Performed regression, integration, smoke, ad hoc, smoke, and UAT test

Interacted with business analysts, QA Managers and developers for bug reviews

Technical Environment:

Application Environment – Oracle Database, JBOSS application server

Defect Tracking Tool – Trac, JIRA

Education & Training:

Automated software testing course with Selenium, Robot Frame work from Austin Community College

CCA - Certificate in Computer Applications from Dr.Avinashilingam University, India

Second M.S as a class topper from Bharathiar University, India

M.S as a class topper from Bharathiar University, India

Volunteering Experience:

Volunteered as class room helper for 4 years at Backland Prairie Elementary School, RRISD.

Volunteering as Teacher at Austin Tamil School affiliated with American Tamil Academy

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