Swati Katyal
Add: Glenwood, NSW, Australia
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PROFILE
As a highly experienced QA Software Automation Testing Specialist, I possess extensive experience in IT Consulting and services. More than 6 years of professional experience in testing with deep knowledge of software methodologies(SDLC, Agile) which includes BDD and highly adept at managing and tracking project deliverables and coordinating end to end testing activities from test strategy, through to test procedures, test phase planning, defect reviews and reporting. I have a demonstrable record of success in the quality assurance processes within large multinational organisations.
Utilising my customer-centric focus and well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, I am proficient at establishing relationships with key project stakeholders whilst concurrently developing rapport at all levels within an organisation in order to achieve project milestones, often in complex and difficult circumstances.
Technical Skills
Skill
Last Used
Yrs. Exp.
Manual Testing((GUI Applications, SIT, UAT, Sprint Testing, Regression, Functional Testing, Database, Mobile Device Voice based Application, Peripheral Testing and Backend Systems).
2015
6
Development of Master test plans, test strategies, mapping requirements to test cases, creating traceability matrices, develop detailed test cases
2015
6
End to end testing, Feature/Functional, UAT, SIT testing
2015
6
Excellent problem determination and analysis skills
2015
5
Excellent skills at collaborating across teams and maintaining a win/win approach
2014
5
Experience in defect analysis, defect log and defect review
2015
5
Coordinate with technical team for defect fix
2014
5
Lead teams through managing and allocating activities
2014
1
Prioritised defects, risks and issues
2015
3
Experience in Android Testing
2014
2
Web Services/ API Testing with usage of SoapUI and understanding of XML(including usage of GIT and SVN)
2015
2
Black and white box testing using Junit
2015
6
Testing on Desktop Applications inclusive cross-platform
2013
3
Testing on Web Applications inclusive cross-browser testing
2014
5
Agile(Kanban and Scrum)
2015
4
MySQL
2012
2
Bug Tracking and Reporting- JIRA, Bugzilla, IBM ClearQuest, Confluence, TestLink
(Test Management)
2015
4
Java Development(Core Java) and creation of test cases using Junit in Eclipse
2015
3
Working knowledge with C# within Visual Studio 2013
2015
1
Experience with Automation Tools (QTP and Selenium Webdriver)
2015
3
JavaScript and VB Scripting
2014
0.5
Selenium(Java) Web Drivers
2015
2
HTML/CSS
2014
2
Good knowledge of Apache Tomcat
2014
3
Performance Testing using Jmeter
2015
2
Career Summary
Role
Organization
Year
Projects
Software Engineer- Work Experience
Aristocrat Technologies
Oct 2015 to Nov 2015
Aristocrat Systems
Senior Software Engineer 2
Samsung R&D Institute India – Delhi
Dec 2012 to Apr 2015
Samsung Music Android App, Reader Hub Android App
Senior Quality Engineer
Vocollect India Private Ltd.
July 2012 to Nov 2012
Voice Solutions
Member Technical Staff
Interra Information Technologies
July 2009 to June 2012
HP VideoBook, vCO BMC ITSM Plug-In, Integration Analyzer, VMware Ready Optimize Solution
Intern
Interra Information Technologies
Jan 2009 to June 2009
VMware Ready Optimize Solution
CAREER HISTORY
Oct 2015 to Nov 2015
Aristocrat Technologies Australia
Software Engineer – Work Experience
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX100 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. Aristocrat Systems project dealt with the reporting of the games played in the game station to be installed in casinos. The Systems 700 dealt with management of many machines at a time, on multiple floors, managements of promotions and marketing, membership and loyalty and the support of the entire product. It was an entirely Agile based environment with daily meetings and Kanban board. I assisted team with their ongoing project by working on various defects (in JIRA), working on Electronic
Gaming Machines and also worked on a mini project which was a Prototype Compatibility Matrix using HTML/CSS and JavaScript
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding the Systems 700 Project
Verification of bugs and updating them on JIRA
Worked on bugs related to EGM(Enterprise Gaming Machine) Management, Promotions Management, Membership Interface, Advanced Gaming Reporting.
Testing the payments management of games on EGM using an external device interface.
Exposure to Support team including Operational Support/Maintenance meetings and scrums
.Net and Crystal Reports Integration exposure
Understanding Code in C# and C++ for integration purpose and issue logging.
SQL & PL/SQL code exposure for the database management
Daily Status updates and part of stand-up meeting.
Creation of Prototype Compatibility Matrix using HTML/CSS and Jscript.
ENVIRONMENT: .Net, Visual Studio, JIRA
Dec 2012 to April 2015
Samsung R&D Institute India – Delhi
Senior Software Engineer2
Samsung R&D Institute India – Delhi (SRI-Delhi) contributes to Software development on Samsung's global products, such as Smart TV, LED/3D DTV, Set top box, Tabs & Mobile Phones. I was a part of Software Testing team and my role involves R&D activities in various domain of business with multiple roles like SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) and QA (Quality Analyst). I have experience working on multiple projects like Automated and manual testing of applications (Android domain using HPE Mobile Centre) and Code analysis.
Project: Samsung Music and Samsung Reader Hub Android App
Role: Senior Software Engineer Level 2
Samsung Music App was an Android based app that provided with users to purchase, download and listen songs on the cloud. The app was an instant market hit and used in many countries across the world.
Samsung Reader Hub was also an Android app that provided users to purchase, download and read books of various genres on the cloud. My role included writing tests using Junit in Selenium with Java and Robotium Tool, creating and assisting with the automation framework.
Key Responsibilities:
Analysed Business, Functional Requirements and design Review Documents to develop Test Plan for projects involved and wrote Test Scripts for positive, negative and edge cases.
Create Automation Testing Framework in Java using Robotium and Selenium Webdriver (TestNG and Page Object Model Framework).
Also created Junit test cases wherever applicable.
Responsible for defining automation standards and rules required for building automation specific test lab for conducting smoke test, functional test and 24/7 automation health check scripts.
Tested REST Webservices using SoapUI Tool.
Performed Code Coverage for Android Environment using Emma in ANT.
Performed record and replay automation using HPE Mobile Centre.
Partnered with the Software Development and Program Management teams to investigate and resolve product defects and coordinate with offshore team to meet internal deadlines
ENVIRONMENT: Eclipse, Java, JUnit, JIRA, Robotium, HTML/CSS, MySQL
Project: HP VideoBook – Interra Information Technologies
Role: Quality Analyst
HP VideoBook is a solution that augments enterprise knowledge document with Videos. Videos relevant to each page of the document are identified and sourced from video repositories. The videos are presented with the text material in a graphical user interface
Role and Responsibilities:
Understanding of the business logic and Search Algorithm working (NLP).
Involved in Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents and creation of test suites.
Involved extensively in Functionality and GUI development using Java and HTML/CSS.
Helped QA Team with development of test automation framework using QTP.
Testing Video search algorithm for Keywords, POS Tags and relevance Videos retrieval.
Created crawling process of document and indexing process in Solaris(Unix) Environment using vi.
Developed functional test scripts and test cases for the various test phases
Execution of Functional, Regression and load tests using JMeter.
Prioritised defects, risks and issues and reported daily to the Project Manager
Project: Vocollect India Pvt. Ltd. (July 2012- Nov 2012) - India
Role: Quality Analyst
Vocollect, is the number one developer and manufacturer of voice solutions for mobile workers worldwide. The project was involved in developing and testing the device functionality and its performance related to voice. We did complete SIT testing that includes the functionality testing, radio testing, and performance testing doing through automation and regression testing.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Agile testing methodology
Manual, Blackbox, Exploratory, Performance, Automated testing
Set up and update Tasks, User Stories etc in Rally
Create Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Strategy
Wifi and Wifi security protocol testing, BT testing
Project: vCO BMC ITSM Plug-In – Interra Information Technologies
Role: Testing
InterraIT was asked to develop a plug-in for VMware vCenter Orchestrator for the IT infrastructure of BMC Company. VMware vCenter Orchestrator is a development and process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows to allow you to create and run automated, configurable processes to manage the VMware vCenter infrastructure as well as other VMware and third-party technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Performed complete End to end testing for the complete product.
Monitored & identify the bugs in the running application along with bug reporting through Bugzilla.
Creation of Test report, Error logs reports, Test Plans and business rules/ requirements.
Lead the team for Functionality Testing that included testing of all workflows with all possible scenarios and API Testing for VMware REST Webservices and SOAP/XML.
Regression Testing after every build release and provided High Level Quality Report with Code snippets.
Chaired weekly team meetings with the client to review test progress and discuss issues and defects.
Key Achievements:
Managed risk through project lifecycle by negotiating win/win situations and escalating appropriately to management when necessary.
Improved customer satisfaction and gained customer confidence by delivering high quality product.
Project: Integration Analyser – Interra Information Technologies
Role: Test Coordinator
This project works with the development of a tool that works with capturing soap transactions between the client and the server and in generating the reports thereafter along with the analysis of the APIs captured.
Key Responsibilities:
Involved in GUI testing, Functionality Testing, Usability Testing, Look and feel Testing
Prepare documentation of the entire use-case of the product. Prepared test plans, test cases and performed detail functional test based on the test scripts.
Key Achievements:
Successfully tested the complex functionality based on the requirements. Timely issue analysis and fix resulted in smooth system rollout and client satisfaction.
Project: VMware Ready Optimize Solution – Interra Information Technologies
Role: Developer Support
Providing developer support to VMware’s Client/Partners for VMware’s APIs related to REST Web Service SDK APIs, VDDK APIs, Chargeback APIs, Perl Toolkit, Windows Powershell commandlets in Windows and Linux Environment(using the vi) and coding in languages like Java and C#.
Key Responsibilities:
Support Process includes ensuring following pre-requisites:
Ensured 100% Response Time SLA compliance and constructive response on touch date(s) with high quality delivery for Developer Support and Technology Forums.
Provided L2 Test Level Developer Technical Support to VMware Virtualization based products, managing ESX servers and virtual machines via the SDK and coding in languages like Java and C#.
Performed detailed analysis and execution of test cases performed with VMware test methodology with the help of VRMS-QT (VMware Ready Management Solution – Qualification Tool), Creation of Report, communicating with Client in various continents.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
June 2009 Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
Master in Computer Applications
Jun 2003 University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Bachelor in Science (Computers)
Cleared ISTQB Foundation Certification on 6th September, 2014
AUSTRALIAN RESIDENCY STATUS
Permanent Resident