Gowdhami Suresh Tel: 630-***-**** Email:

acwidg@r.postjobfree.com

. Information technology professional with 4+ years of experience in

software testing

. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and

Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

. Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing,

Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, GUI Testing, Back-End Testing,

Browser Compatibility (cross browser) testing, User Acceptance

testing(UAT) in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC).

. Experience in working with Scrum/Agile methodology.

. Strong experience in writing/running manual test cases to pinpoint

software defects, tracking bugs, closed, opened defects and validate

functionality.

. Hands on experience in testing tools such as Quality Center, JIRA

. Team-player with excellent analytical, communication, and

interpersonal skills

. Professional in writing easy-to-follow bug reports and test

documentation such as test plans, test cases, test matrices, check

lists

. Authorized to work in the U.S.A. (U.S. Citizen)

TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS

Methodologies Agile, Waterfall

Test Management HP Quality Center ALM, JIRA,

Types Of Web-based, Client/Server, Desktop

Applications

Browsers used for Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Safari, Chrome

testing

Languages/Databases SQL, PL-SQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems Windows XP, Windows 7/8,

Education and Certifications

. Bachelors of Science - Gurunanak College, Chennai, India.

. Certified Professional Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer: USITplus Inc.

Client: Chefs.com

Role: QA Tester (Contract)

Date: Oct 2014 - Present

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Worked as a QA tester for an online shopping

site, chefs.com for Apollo Education Group. This site offered products

from amazon.com inventory but had their web service Interface and website

act as a drop ship company. Individuals can visit this website and browse

for products and register themselves as user. They can shop for kitchen

supplies such as cooking utensils, seasoning and spices, cookbooks, etc.

Add the products to their shopping cart, pay for their shopping via credit

card system and have their credit card authenticated by Thawte/Verisign.

This site will then send the order to amazon via web services and the

amazon will fulfill the order and drop ship the products under company's

brand.

RESPONSIBILITES:

. Performed home page testing to make sure homepage is the entry point

to the site

. Confirmed the all pages sets the tone for brands value and site

offering

. Tested for search boxes functionality

. Performed A/B Testing

. Tested Scrolling Banners and Hero Images to make sure they

conform/span to page width

. Validated testing the site with different browsers and browser

versions

. Validated Cart functionality to confirm the experience is same from

diff pages

. Validated Quantity functionality, removing items functionality, taxes

functionality working as designed in the cart

. Validated item checkout process using credit card, PayPal, etc.

. Confirmed the cookie vs cookie less experience works as designed

. Validated the site captured customer's info and stored them properly

on the backend DB

. Performed Regression testing for website with volume users

Employer: USITplus Inc.

Client: GoHealth, Chicago, IL

Role: QA Tester (Contract)

Date: Mar 2013 - Sep 2014

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: GoHealth is a Chicago-based company owns a private

health insurance marketplace that has helped more than 30 million consumers

shop for coverage. With world-class technology and a team of licensed

insurance advisors, GoHealth helps individuals and families obtain the

right health insurance coverage. Working with 300 health insurance

companies, GoHealth enables consumers to easily compare and shop for a

variety of brand-name health plans. GoHealth provides plan recommendation

and enrollment support by phone and online at no cost to consumers

RESPONSIBILITES:

. Front End applications and Back End testing

. Create SQL queries using MS SQL and Data level testing (Offerings,

Orders, etc)

. Document the end to end Process, testing Procedures and Practices

. Worked with Agile Methodology

. Performed regression testing for new builds and code drops

. Extensively used SQL to retrieve the data from databases to perform

data validations and comparisons for regression testing.

. Created testing scenarios and executed test scripts based on business

requirements and functional specifications

. Performed database querying, data manipulation and population using

SQL in Oracle and SQL Server

. Entered and Tracked Bugs using Request Tracker & Quality center (Bug

tracking tools)

. Tracked defect status, work with developers to reproduce and resolve

defects, and execute them

. Involved in implementation of Test Strategy and creating test

scenarios

. Performed execution of various test scenarios and test cases that was

suited for the application

. Involved in writing test cases based on the business requirement

specifications

. Created test cases and data for new applications, code changes, and

after execution, then logging in defects for corrections

. Work closely with end users and program developers to ensure

application development meets to user's expectations

Employer: USITplus Inc.

Client: REWARDS NETWORK

Role: QA Tester (Contract)

Date: Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Rewards Network Establishment Services, Inc. provides

marketing services and loyalty programs to the restaurant industry. Rewards

Network Establishment Services, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Rewards

Network Inc. The project involves in tracking the time and hours of

employees and serves as time management system, with the help of this web

based application all the employees are able to login and add their daily

hours from anywhere and the managers are able to access and approve or

reject timesheets from any location using PC's or mobile devices.

RESPONSIBILITES:

. Participate in preparation of Test Plans, which detailed the testing

scope and testing requirement

. Reviewed documentation and requirements for the different web

applications of the company.

. Logged and tracked defects through defect tracking tool Jira. Tested

web links, buttons and different modules related to web

. Developed and executed test cases in ALM to perform manual testing

. Performed Ad-Hoc testing manually after each build

. Performed Sanity testing as soon as the code was deployed on the

server to eliminate the possibility of show stoppers like screen

freezes and ensure that the basic functionality is working as

expected.

. Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure that the links are

established as per the documentation provided.

. Participated in stand up meeting with QA team members, BA's, and

Managers

. Logged and tracked defects using defect management process and test

management HP ALM tool

. Performed extensive test validation with SQL Queries for Back End

testing

. Strong experience identifying defect issues, and recommending

solutions

. Knowledge of software development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum,

and Waterfall

Employer: USITplus Inc.

Client: Pearson Education, Chicago, IL

Role: QA Tester (Contract)

Date: Aug 2010 - Feb 2012

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Pearson Education is a British-owned education

publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as

directly to students. I coordinate with business analysts, product owners,

developers, and clients using Agile (Scrum) Methodology.

RESPONSIBILITES:

. Strong communication and presentation skills and worked in a Scrum

Agile Methodology.

. Working as a Tester for QA and UAT and have done Manual Testing

. Executing Functional, Regression and Integration testing

. Perform testing using Silk Test tool for regression and functional

test cases Designed and Developed data validation, load processes and

test cases using SQL.

. Perform extensive Backend Testing using SQL scripts to pin point the

breakage in the Data Flow

. Tested source to target data mappings using SQL commands.

. Write queries including JOINS, UNIONS etc, and measuring performance

implications between builds & releases

. Create test data in the database to check results and performed

SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE commands on the data tables for testing

scenarios.

. Document the defects found during testing and report the issues and

bugs in JIRA

. Work with the development team to ensure that the defects and bugs are

resolved

. Generate reports out of JIRA for defects management status and overall

test execution status

. Experienced in eliciting requirements from multiple business

stakeholders and recognize the business's needs and the implications

of change

. Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and provided

the updates and suggestions

. Identified, proposed and implemented changes to SDLC when and where

required

. Analyze FRD's and requirement documents to mitigate gaps and overlaps.

Actively participate and interact with customers to understand

business needs, identify the best solution, and architect the

processes to meet the needs

. Logged defects using JIRA & Excel, Maintained defect documents and

test data

. Experience assessing testing processes, creating and implementing

testing strategies in UAT phase

. Create pages by using Adobe Experience Manger

. Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Subject

Matter Experts to identify business rules, functional and non-

functional requirements

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