SATEESH MAGGIDI Sr. QA Test Engineer

E-mail: acxaa7@r.postjobfree.com

Contact: 408-***-****

Professional Summary:

Over 8 years of IT experience in Software Testing of web based and Client-Server applications with full understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Quality Assurance Life Cycle in Global Marketing Information Services, Telecom, Social Networking, Banking, Insurance, and Pharmaceutical domains.

Extensive experience in writing Business requirement Documentation (BRD), Functional

Documentation and System Requirement Specification (SRS).

Extensive experience in developing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Metrics, Test Reports

Proficient in System Testing, Integration Testing and assisted in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Experience in requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Proficient in Black Box, System/Database, Interface, Functional, White Box, Regression, Performance, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Automation Testing, Test Harness and End-to-End Testing.

Experience in testing the financial transactions of different applications.

Expertise in using tools like Test Director/Quality Center, Jira, Spira, Rally Software, QTP 9.5/10.0/11.0,Win runner, Bugzilla and Test Track tools for Defect Tracking.

Testing the mobile APPS and creating test cases and test plans and Having good experience in CRM creating and testing in different environments.

Expertise in using CRM for data and testing purpose.

Expert in Using Automation tools like QTP and Load Runner and Experience in testing web applications utilizing QTP and Win runner.

Expert in QTP Linear Frame work, Data Driven Frame work and Hybrid Frame work.

Is capable of setting up a test environment for testing different web browsers, operating systems, virtual machines, install testing tools, and database software

Hands on experience in HTML, XHTML, SOAP, XML, Web Services.

Ability to collaborate with testers, developer, project managers and other team members In

testing complex projects

Expertise in protocols SOAP, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP.

Good at Oracle & SQL databases, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Joins, SQL Queries.

Expertise on Testing Web Based Applications.

Goal oriented professional with strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal and Organizational skills.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Quick test Pro, Quality Center, Rally Software, Jira, Spira, Test Director, Win Runner, Silk, Load Runner,TFS and Rational Test Manager.

Operating System:Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP/Win 7 e.t.c, MAC 10.7, chrome OS,UNIX, HP-UNIX, MS-DOS.

Languages:C, C++, SQL, JAVA, and PL/SQL.

Databases:MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server.

Front-End:Visual Basic, Developer 2000, and Power Builder.

Script: VBscript, UNIX.

Other Tools:MS Office Suite, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Visio.

Education Qualification:

BTech in Electrical and Electronical Engineering, JNTU University, India.

Professional Experience

Experian

Costa Mesa, CA Mar 2013-Current

Sr. Quality Assurance

Experian is a leading Global information services company, providing data and analytical

Tools to client in more than 65 countries. The company helps business to manage credit risk,

Prevent fraud, targeting market offers and automate decision making .Experian also helps individuals

To check their credit report and credit score.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Conducted walk through meetings with team leads, analyst and developers in discussing the requirements and to test environment to be setup and writing test cases.

Participated in daily scrum stand-up meeting with project team, stake holders, and off-shore resources.

Performed Ad-hoc testing, smoke testing, Sanity Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Block Box, End to End, Navigational and Regression tests Back end validation Testing, End to End Testing.

Testing all different types of Memberships, Accounts, credit reports and credit scores.

Verifying billing for all transactions and different types of billing, verified in CST of all the created data.

Verified all files processed through control – m jobs for all transactions.

Involved in testing Mobile Apps of all ECT sites on Iphone and Android devices.

Worked on Emulators for testing ECS sites on mobile.

Responsible for testing and reviewing of ETL mapping and transformation specifications based on the business requirements from various teams and the business teams.

Developed scenarios for ETL testing and creating data for validating the data transformation.

Tested various ETL Transformations which facilitate Daily, Weekly & Monthly Loading of Data.

Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation testing.

Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.

Running daily and nightly jobs in putty and monitoring the jobs, updating parameter files

accordingly.

Executed test cases, Documenting Defects, Resolved defects and Signed Off from Application.

Writing SQL Queries for testing data that transformed through informatica.

Validating Reports in cognos and verifying all transformed data for Daily, monthly and annual.

Involved in Project co-ordination between different teams and onsite teams for maintaining mutual communication and update information by sending Daily Status Reports of maintenance and development of the project.

Environment: Serina, Test Link, Putty, Visual studio, QC/ALM, Quality Center, Rally Software, VBScript, Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint, Microsoft Communicator 2007, HTML, Excel, Unix, SQL Server,Jira.

Professional Experience

J.D.POWER & ASSOCIATES (McGraw-Hill) Sep 2012 – Feb 2013

Westlake Village, CA.

Sr.QA Tester

J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information services company operating in key business sectors across a variety of industries, providing customer satisfaction research, market research, automotive forecasting, social media research, and performance improvement programs. Established in 1968. J.D. Power and Associates is a business unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies. The Company expanded to serve a number of other industries, including telecommunications, travel and hotels, marine, utilities, healthcare, homebuilder, consumer packaged goods, electronics and financial services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in testing and planning, writing test cases for the Web based different Applications.

Performed Ad-hoc testing, smoke testing, Sanity Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Block Box, End to End, Navigational and Regression tests Back end validation Testing, End to End Testing.

Involved in Mobile testing on devices like Iphone, Tablet and Andriod.

Conducted walk through meetings with manual QA and developers in discussing the framework and test environment to be setup, schema to be designed and tables under test to be pulled in for validation.

Performed POC (Proof of Concept) for QTP 11 to overcome WPF (Windows Presentation Forms) issues persisting in testing the application.

Have setup environment for the team by installing QTP 11, QC/ALM and all required, establishing connections to the database servers and also done integration testing between the applications to setup test environments.

Developed automation framework from scratch, for automated comparison and automated regression testing for the different Applications.

Developed Excel object and HTML framework for creating and reporting the test result files in excel format and as cross-platform compatible HTML formats.

Created, Developed and maintained Application areas which consist of Object repositories, function libraries.

Developed and scripted Automation Frameworks and in developing scripts in Descriptive programming of VB Script for QTP automation and in deploying and executing the existing and developed test cases in QTP 11.0

Involved in Project co-ordination between offshore and onsite teams for maintaining mutual communication and update information by sending Daily Status Reports of maintenance and development of the project

QTP 11 has been used for automation development of this framework and development and defect analysis has been done on the same using Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management (QC/ALM 11)

Automation testing for recording, extraction and validation phases has been in place and have developed framework for database record validation between different available and needed schemas.

Conducted and involved in daily stand-up meeting with project stake holders and off-shore resources analyzing defect and discussing on-going automation development.

Environment: QTP 11.0, QC/ALM, Quality Center, Rally Software, VBScript, Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint, Microsoft Communicator 2007, HTML, Excel, Unix, SQL Server.

Professional Experience

AT&T March 2011- August 2012

San Ramon, CA.

Sr.QA Tester

AT&T, Inc. is one of the world’s leading Data, Voice and Internet service providers. Through its world-class networks, AT&T provides a full range of voice, data, networking and e-business services, as well as directory advertising and publishing. A Fortune 30 company and Americas leading provider of high-speed DSL Internet Access services, AT&T currently serves 57 million access lines nationwide.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participated in Walk troughs with Team lead, System Analyst, HCD Designer, Project Coordinator and the Development team to discusses the outstanding and scope change requests and Attended triage meetings to understand and consider the scope changes for the release during the test execution phase.

Testing data creation and collecting standardized test data request information, verify requests and translates parameters into detailed application transactions and CRM system is used for order management.

Expertise in Testing Web based Application testing.

Performed Ad-hoc testing, smoke testing, Sanity Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, GUI/design, Block Box, End to End, Navigational and Regression tests Back end validation Testing, End to End Testing.

Involving the testing in billing process using the debit and credit transactions.

Involved in testing different AT&T registration pages in different environments and verifying the results in different sub-systems UST (Universal sync tool) as a part of Back-end testing.

Involved testing in Lab with ATT modems to complete registration and connecting to Internet.

Involved testing with different modems devices like Motorola, Netgear, Belkin.

Worked with offshore team involved in planning and production implementation and validation.

Reviewing the test cases for the current releases, executing the test cases manually and using automation tool, test planning, test plan preparation, functional testing, system testing, test script automation, automated test execution, test reporting and logging defects.

Performed testing using APIs and Testing IPV4 and IPV6 testing.

Analyzed results, managed defects and issues using Mercury quality Center,Carried out Performance.

Validating the back end logs by using tool Remotex and putty using UNIX and Testing the SPI encryption fields and validating in logs.

Written and Executed SQL queries to access the Data Base(MPS) for checking result.

Environment: REMOTEX,API SIMULATOR,UST,QTP, SOAP, QA Tracker, PUTTY, XML, ASCII/TEXT, SQL Server 05/08, Windows NT/2000, MS Office,QTP, Quality Center, Unix.

CML Media Crop,

Los Angeles, CA. May 10-Mar 11

Sr.QA analyst

Description: In TheMO is a social network and city guide used to connect with friends and get recommendations for spots around the world. Find out who's visiting your profile and get detailed reports and users can claim the business.

Responsibilities:

Review Business requirement documentation, Functional documentation and Technical Documentation.

Involved in writing and enhancements to Test Plan and developed Test Strategy, test Cases, test Scripts for functional and automation.

Performed testing in mobile(Iphone) and Ipad(tablet) for the apps and application((www.inthemo.com,,inthemo append Imo available in app store which i worked on)

Involved in mobile Application testing in Ios and also cross browser,compatibility testing.

Involved in application testing like video,audio and media files

Performed Video testing in different formats, testing audio and compatibilities.

Performed Application GUI,functional testing and reported issues.

Performed Ad-hoc testing, Sanity Testing, System health check before start testing officially, Functional testing, regression Testing, Manual and automation Testing, Integration testing, Backend validation Testing, End to End Testing.

Interact with Project manager, business analysts and developers to understand the application design and functional specifications.

Identified and executed manual and Automation test cases.

Extensively involved in UI testing.

Performed testing for GUI of functional regression by using squish tool.

Involved in Performed testing for GUI automation for functional regression squish tool.

Coordinate testing tasks and activities with project teams and IT staff.

Created and implemented functional tests using QTP and customized QTP scripts with VB scripts.

Verified checkpoints using QTP.

QTP 10.0 has been used for automation development of this framework and development and defect analysis has been done on the same using Quality Center.

Testing Data ware house that all the data is transformed correctly and testing data transformation and quality,performance,integration and regression testing.

Performed White Box Testing..

Performed ETL testing and validated data.

Documented the lessons learned.Prepared Test Metrics Summarizing Defect Summary along the various parameters, Test Productivity.

Responsible for understanding high level (cross-platform) business processes related to their application area and its interfaces to other applications.

Participate in all team meetings, coordinate testers, resolve issues, and provide overall direction.

Involved in planning process and investigate automation scripts to do the testing versus manual test scripts.

Environment: SAP QA, ABAP/4, EAI, JAVA, Web Sphere, SSO, QA Tracker, Main frame, CICS, XML, ASCII/TEXT, SOAP, CGI, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle, Windows NT/2000, MS Office Suite, Load Runner, Informatica,QTP, Quality Center 9.0, Unix and NT, Jira, Spira.

Prudential Financial Inc, Pleasanton, CA. May 09-Apr 10

QA Test Engineer

Description: Prudential Financial Companies serve individual and institutional customers worldwide and include the Prudential Insurance Company of America, one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S. these companies offer a variety of products and services, including mutual funds, annuities, real estate brokerage franchises, relocation services, and more..

Responsibilities:

Created and executed the test scripts using Win runner to test functionality, acceptance and limit validations.

Analyzed results, managed defects and issues using Mercury quality Center to present in team meetings held on a weekly basis. Carried out Performance Testing on existing applications and Prepared Test Plans.

Responsible for User Interface(UI) Testing.

Business requirements and create detailed test plans and conditions.

Responsible in the Design, Creation and Maintenance of Test Plans.

Involved in Regression, Automation Testing and extensively worked on back-end / database testing (Oracle, SQLServer) and validating the application against the front end application.

Created, Developed and maintained Application areas which consist of Object repositories, function libraries, and recovery scenarios.

Provided Subject Matters Expert (SME) when required.

Invovled in testing Mainframe/COBOL/SQL based applications

Invovled in testing the overall functionality of the system,ensure connectivity between Java Frontend and Mainframe Backend using CICS calls,generation of test scenarios, execution and report generation

Interacting with customers through issue tracker database to resolve issues.

Reviewed, maintained and improved existing test conditions.

Performance, load & stress testing to avoid system downtimes, potential bugs to achieve standards set by business rules.

Designed input data sheets.

Involved in Test Harness Building.

Involved in SSIS package testing.

Used SQL Server to validate report generated using applications.

Experience in data warehouse testing of ETL application.

Bugs-tracked and reported using Test Director, and managed entire Testing Process from designing to coding to analysis.

Carried out data analysis to analyze various issues on project.

Environment: Win Runner, Test Director, VB, ASP, Dot Net Frame Work, IIS, MS SQL Server,

Mainframes, Windows XP, MS word, Ms Excel, Internet Explorer and Fire fox.

Farmers Insurance, CA. Mar 08-Apr 09

QA Analyst.

Description: The purpose of the project is to develop a new system infrastructure supporting WFFL business process. The objective of this project is to re-engineer the Billing System works systems under Microsoft, .Net. About 75% of the new application will be based on the current Billing application. The remainder will be based on requirements by the success application and additionally some new requirements will be addressed.

Responsibilities:

Effectively analyzed business requirements, technical specifications and technical issues to generate test plans and test cases.

Involved in writing test cases, test plan and test strategy as per the functional documents and business requirements.

Performed Functional, Regression, Ad-hoc, Sanity Testing and Acceptance Testing.

Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirements documents.

Used Quality center for repository for Test Cases, Test Plan and Defect/Bug Tracking.

Developed Automation test Scripts for verifying the functionality and GUI of the application using Quick Test Pro.

Involved in the conversation of manual regression test cases to Automation Test Cases.

Execution of automation test scripts using Quick Test Pro.

Adapted keyword driven methodology using Quick Test Pro.

Performed Web Applications Testing with VB.NET.

Communicated key-blockers in testing phase to management and worked closely with developers to fix identified issues.

Provided complete support from identifying test requirements to writing and executing Test Plans, test Cases and automated Scripts.

Worked on UNIX and Windows environment.

Performed Extract, transform, load testing in Informatica.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Windows XP, Oracle9i, Oracle Reports 6.0, Oracle Reports 6.0, SQL, C++,MS Excel, MS Access, UNIX.

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