Summary of Qualifications

Over Five years of diverse experience in creating, managing and executing test cases/test plans during testing cycles for critical software builds

Ability to excel and lead in high pressure environments

Good communication, team management, leadership and administrative skills

Versatile team player with the ability to work unsupervised

Good knowledge on both Waterfall model and Agile Methodology.

Experience in cross systems analysis, data design and quality analysis in all phases of testing for client/server and Web applications.

Experience in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.

Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process, Use Cases, and SDLC.

Expertise in functionality testing through product investigation, direct interaction with development team and understanding product requirements.

Extensive experience in Matrix evaluation and collection for effectiveness and efficiency of test design and test execution, overall product quality and bug statistics.

Experience in manual and automated tests, analyzing problems, providing detailed failure information, and working with development to facilitate defect resolution.

Strong in Release Management, Resource identification, work allocation and utilization tracking

Experience in testing native applications on IOS, Android and windows phone

Experience on MTAF key word automation

Experience in developing SQL queries to view the database

Experience in Smoke, Integration, Functional, Performance, Load, Regression, and System Tests.

Documenting Defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps.

Expertise in using Rally, Jira and Xqual for Test Management and Defect Management.

Experience in Software Verification, Validation and Testing Methodology.

Experience with Section 508 testing on Windows, Mobiles and MAC.

Proficient in writing test plan, test cases, test reports, test scripts and preparing the test result matrices.

Analyzing the customer requirements documents and assisted the team functional specifications.

Hands on experience with Home device management console and CSR console (tools used for CPE management)

Hands on experience in Unit testing, Integration testing and regression testing.

Expertise in testing web applications developed on J2EE, JSP

Experience in working with customers in gathering the requirements.

Proficient in installing windows in a network environment.

Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills.

Technical skills

Test case Management

X-studio, Fish Eye(Peer Review), Rally, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager, Jira

Testing Areas

GUI Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Business Requirement Analysis, System Testing, Black Box techniques and Manual Testing Methodology, Reporting.

Languages

C, Visual Basic

OS

Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, XP, Vista, Windows 7,Windows 8, Windows 10, MAC

Mobile OS

IOS, Android, Windows

Automation

MTAF

Defect Management

Team track, Jira, Rally, Bugzilla

Education

M.S from University of New Haven, CT

B.Tech from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India

Professional Experience

QA Analyst

Alcatel Lucent June 2011 to Present

Worked on Multiple projects like AT&T Troubleshoot and Resolve, AT&T DSL Activation, AT&T U-verse Activation, Centurylink Self Service Console, AT&T Customer Service Console, Windstream Activation and Centurylink Activation. Involved in writing detailed test plans and scripts. Execution of Test Scripts and regression test suite. Logging defects and Tracking them until closure. Working with developers to assess severity and impact of proposed fixes etc.

Responsibilities:

Device end to end testing for testing the activation flows through HDM

Verify the new firmware on the device to make sure it is compatible with HDM

Extensively used HDM for checking the device status during and after the activation to make sure that policies are running correctly

Participate in calls with the customers to troubleshoot the production issues

Participate in requirements analysis

Prepare Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Reports based on the Requirements

Create and update Test Matrix and campaigns using Xqual before and during test events

Prepare high level Test scenarios and sent for business review

Conduct reviews of test documentation.

Participate in deployment testing during pushes to production

Responsible for mobile, native applications & desktop portal testing on different devices with different operating systems.

Responsible for Section 508 testing on desktop and mobile device.

Testing BOBI reports on database using Oracle

Environment set up for test execution

Test data preparation and sending for business review

Prepare RTM (Requirement traceability matrix) in Xqual and mapping of test cases

Prepare MAT Test cases (Minimum acceptance testing) test cases and sending them to dev team before accepting build to SAT

Create automated scripts for workflows in MTAF

Help the team through all phases of the testing after developers release QA ready version of Code

Create defects against the application and assigned to concerned developers with detailed Information about the defect

Requirement/Test case documentation using Xqual

Participate in Daily Scrum meetings

Participate in Sprint Planning meetings

Setting up the testing machines, preparing ghost images for Windows OS’s

Environment: Team track, Xqual, Jira, JAVA, Web Services, Solaris, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, MAC, IOS, Android, Windows Mobile.

Teaching Assistant

University of New Haven Sep 2008 – Mar 2009

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Worked as a tutor for CE203 Course and provided instructional support for about 40 students in the Engineering department.

Responsibilities:

College of Engineering – UNH

Assisted Mr. Gregory Broderick with his Elementary Surveying Course.

Assisted the students in Basics and Fundamentals of Surveying.

Preparing assignments and uploading them on the web.

Preparing the test papers and grading them.

Uploading the marks in blackboard vista.

Proctoring the exams.

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