Amita Kumari acxggn@r.postjobfree.com

407-***-****

Visa: H1B Valid till 2018

Current Location: Orlando FL Skype id: amita.sharma314

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/amita-kumari/19/b05/a28

Expertise Summary

6 Years of experience in the field of Software Analysis, Testing and Quality Assurance

Currently working as a QA /Project Test Lead - Quality Assurance Automation at Orlando, FL

4 Years of Experience in development of VB Scripting for Automation in HP Quick Test Professional.

Experience in Automation & Manual Testing of Online Web Services/SOAP & Offline .NET/JAVA applications

Experience in Automation & Manual Testing Web, POS and Middleware Applications

Advanced knowledge of quality assurance tools like Selenium Web Driver, IDE, HP QTP 11.5, HP ALM 11.0 & SOAP UI

4 Years of experience in designing and executing exceptional modularized re-usable automated scripts using - Quick Test Professional (QTP), VBScript, VBA, JavaScript, TSL for testing client/server, web-based n-tier applications.

2 Year of Experience in Selenium using NUnit, JUnit

3 years of Experience in .NET, Web Based and Windows Based application Testing.

5 Years of Experience to develop SQL queries and interpret stored procedures in SQL Server Management Studio

3 Years of Experience of using HP ALM, TFS, Microsoft Test Manager 2015 for managing test cases and keeping track of Sprint Backlog task

5.5 Years of Experience in Waterfall SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum frmework, Defect Management & Global Development Process 3.5

Strong knowledge of testing methodologies like Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Smoke, Latency & UAT

Expertise in preparation of Test Plans, Test Schedules, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Reports, Defect Reports, Test Coverage & Traceability, Test data management.

Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE/WebDriver), JUnit, Eclipse and preparation of automation test framework.

Expertise in using Element Locators like Firebug and Fire path for identifying web objects

Expertise in using different unique identifiers like XPATH/CSS Selectors/ID/Name etc.

Experience in Continuous Integration in Junit

Experienced Testing professional with Black box functional testing experience and Whitebox testing techniques

Configured the Defect Tracking Tools like HP ALM, Quality Centre, JIRA for managing Test Plans, Test Cases and Defects.

Thorough involvement in Project Reporting, viz., Progress & Status Report, Defect Report, Execution Dashboard, Risk Assessment, Impact Analysis, Requirement Analysis & Cost Estimation

Expertise in test management using HP ALM Quality Centre.

Involvement in Process Improvements, Value Adds, Innovations & Effort Reduction initiatives through various automation frameworks & tools

Proficiency and 5 Years of experience in Onsite-Offshore Delivery Models, Client-Facing SPOC and Project Lead Activities

Strength of excellent Interpersonal Skills, Verbal & Written Communications, Cohesive Team Player, Mentor to Team Members.

Educational Background

Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation & Control

Technical Skills

Operating Systems : Windows 2008 server, Windows 7/8, Mac, UNIX

Languages : VB, JAVA, SQL, PL SQL, Shell Scripting

Web Technologies : XML, HTML, SOAP, Web Services

Defect Tracking Tools : HP ALM QC 11.0, Microsoft Test Manager 2010, JIRA

Databases : SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle 8i-9i, MS SQL Server 2008, MySQL, SQL Dev

Testing Tools : SOAP UI 3.6, QTP, Web Test Tool, Selenium, IDE, RC, WebDriver

Internet Technology : XML, HTML & PHP

Framework : Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid, BPT, Linear, FIT

Version Control : CVS

Documentation : Adobe Acrobat9 Professional, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Excel

Protocols : Http, Https, SMTP, FTP, SOAP, LDAP

Portfolio Profile

QA Project Test Lead – LHH (Lee Hecht Harrison) - CRN Career Resource Network, (Orlando FL) Jul 2015 to Current

Project Description: The Career Resource Network (CRN) is LHH’s proprietary, web-based job resource and search web based portal that connects individuals to career, industry and company information, networking opportunities and new job leads.

As a QA project lead for this project I lead Test Planning, Design, Testing Framework, Test data design and Selection of Automation tool. This being an agile project I participate in daily scrum meetings and manage testing in all iterations.

The project has been planned across multiple releases, currently we are deploying CRN 3.0 for FR.

Releases: Legacy CRN, CRN 3.0 (UK, US, CA)

Roles & Responsibilities:

Set up and maintained test environments to facilitate exploratory, manual and automated testing using Visual Studio 2015, TFS, MTM, Selenium WebDriver with NUnit

Create automated test scripts from business functional requirements/User Stories and manual test cases in TFS.

Create test plans, conduct test plan reviews and execute test plans every sprint iteration.

Lead agile test planning activities, test task creation and maintain test suites and test data for new and existing products using TFS/MTM

Work with development team to prevent software defects by attending story review sessions/ requirements walkthroughs and architectural/design reviews during every sprint iteration.

Work with product owner to validate business requirements against user acceptance tests every sprint iteration.

Implement automated tests using Selenium Web driver with C# to verify functionality, performance, reliability, scalability and security of applications and components.

Participate in product backlog meetings to help prioritize bugs based on urgency, severity and business value.

Participate in daily scrum meetings with development team to review software issues found

Led testing using Windows desktop (.NET/C#/WPF) & web applications (ASP.NET MVC/Angular JS)

Experience in testing iOS and Android mobile applications using Chrome Dev tools for android

Manage automated build/test/stage/deploy systems in a Continuous Integration environment (Team Foundation Server).

Experience with source control management systems (Team Foundation Server).

Experience with test and lab management in a virtual environment is required (Microsoft Test Manager)

Lead defect management, Bug tracking and reporting in Team Foundation Server/ALM/MTM

Provide input during Retrospective/sprint review meetings to provide quality assessment to all stakeholders.

Environment: Team Foundation Server/Team Edition, MS Test Manager 2015, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Selenium WebDriver, C#, NUnit, Angular JS, iOS, Android, Mobile testing

QA Project Test Lead – FedEx - Revenue Pricing, (Orlando FL) Oct 2013 to Jul 2015

Project Description: FedEx Revenue pricing project is a strategic initiative by FedEx to streamline its Billing & pricing. Goal of the project is to validate end to end Revenue flow with pricing logic changes. FedEx is revamping its holistic approach towards pricing its customers. The structure based approach has huge revenue impacts.

As a QA project lead for this project I manage an Onsite Offshore based team of 15 members. I lead the Test Planning, design, Testing Framework, Test data design and Scripts creation. The goal is to ensure the pricing structure changes that are integrated in pricing system reconcile to revenue generation and is hitting appropriate Revenue systems in order to bill customer correctly. The project has been planned across multiple releases, currently we are in Release 2.0.

Releases: FedEx Revenue Pricing 1.0, 1.5, 2.0

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a QA lead of Pricing E2E Revenue Project, I have been involved in all the phases of testing which starts from Smoke Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT Testing and Production Checkout.

Lead & represent testing during planning phase, provide feedback during BRS and SRS reviews. Identified gaps in requirements during Definition phase.

Creation of TSS and sign off from the stakeholders.

Creation of TCS out of TSS and conducting review of functional test cases, structured test data creation process to make functional test strategy more efficient from functional as well as business standpoint.

As Project Lead on Pricing Revenue Project, I have led Test Planning, Test Case Design, Execution & defect Management of shipping engines integrated by revenue’s using QTP, QC, Soap Ui, Caliber RM, Team Forge

Work as SME for the FedEx domain providing business level support to client on “One over One” basis throughout the STLC along with giving them a first level support for issues reported.

System & Integration testing using Manual or Automation test tools on Revenue application.

Performed TSS creation, Test Case Informal and formal Work Product reviews and walkthroughs

Initiated HFLOW Sign-Offs for Test artifacts starting from DTPS (Detailed Test Plan Spec), TSS (Test Scenario Spec) to Test closure report and obtained approval from the stakeholders

Lead data Shakeout testing for optimal test coverage and execution.

Test data creation using stubs and drivers which flows from E2E covering revenue engines.

Designed test cases to ensure that the application meets the business requirements.

Participating in BRS and SRS reviews and provide feedback and initiate test planning

Creation of TCS out of TSS and conducting review of functional test cases, structured test data creation process to make functional test strategy more efficient from functional as well as business standpoint.

Maintained Knowledge repository for transition to new team members.

Review and baseline test cases and scripts

Used Selenium WebDriver to write the Automation Test Suite and Testing Test framework to design tests.

Used core Java as Selenium Client library to develop the test suite.

Used Subversion to store all Automation framework, functional test, test suites and custom functions.

Execute Automation Test Suite from Subversion to Selenium Grid.

Used Build tool Maven to generate test report.

Identify web objects using element Locators like Firebug and Fire path

Used unique identifiers like XPATH/CSS Selectors/ID/Name etc.

Evaluate cycle completion criteria based on - Time, Test coverage, Cost, Software Quality, Critical Business Objectives

Prepare test metrics based on the above parameters.

Prepare Test closure report

Qualitative and quantitative reporting of quality of the work product to the customer.

Test result analysis to find out the defect distribution by type and severity

Weekly Status reporting via conference calls & status reports to Revenue Senior Management & all stakeholders.

Environment: VB, SOAP UI, Selenium WebDriver, Junit, Eclipse, Java, HP QTP, HP ALM QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, MS Office, SQL, PL/SQL, WSDL, SOA, Crystal Reports, Web Services, Putty, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Mainframe, Team Forge, Caliber RM

Sr. Test Engineer - FedEx Corp. – CDAT – Pricing Defect Analysis Team, (Pune India) Oct 2012 to Sep 2013

Project Description: FedEx CDAT team acts as a bridge between IT Leads and testing groups to make sure all CONDOR 3.5,Pricing, C3PO & Lite Shipping issues –Defects, Code delivery, Architecture issues, Requirement issues, Change requests and feature prioritization are handled appropriately. Core team manages issues related to pricing spanning Xopco, Multiple work streams or Subsystems. As part of this group my role was to lead and resolve any issues across multiple work streams with the techno functional knowledge acquired. Any critical issue is escalated to CDAT team and a quick response to negate the issues. CDAT team analyzes the issues and formulates a solution along with an action plan in order to ensure Shipping continuity.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Work closely with various groups within FedEx such as Business, Development, marketing, testing to resolve CONDOR 3.5, C3PO, Lite Shipping, International Returns, FedEx Ship & Get, International Signature Service and HAZARD Ph.1 project issues

Perform Business & Requirement Analysis, defect research, quick turn over of defects towards resolution, helping testing to understand requirements, coding logic, identifying & resolving design gaps etc.

Review functional test plans & test cases, structured test data creation process to make functional test strategy more efficient from functional as well as business standpoint.

Involved (execution & validation) in L2 & L3 Readiness which stabilized the initial cycles of corporate loads for functional & End to End testing for these projects.

Worked as SME for the FedEx automation and revenue systems providing business level support to client on “One over One” basis throughout the STLC along with giving them a first level support for issues reported.

Work with business, development and QA teams to correctly prioritize test cases based on criticality.

Operate at the Full Feature scope level.

Design and develop test plans for software product applications for market sale or large-scale proprietary software applications for internal use.

Maintained Knowledge repository for transition to new team members.

Document the learnings out of each project

Write individual test cases and perform tests for each function for the feature component that effectively exercises the code and surfaces bugs or design issues. Testing approach conforms to group testing standards, is consistent, thorough and meets schedule and quality expectations.

Enter clear and concise bug reports with detailed, accurate reproduction steps.

Environment: VB, MS Team Foundation Server/Team Edition, HP ALM QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, MS Test Manager 2010, SQL Server, PL/SQL, WSDL, SOA, Crystal Reports, Web Services, Putty, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Selenium IDE.

Sr. Test Engineer - FedEx Corp. – Automation & Revenue Execution, (Pune India) Aug 2011 to Sep 2012

Description:

FedEx BSTATS revenue testing is a complete process that focuses on the revenue cycle from point-of-origin package processing through final payment. In BSTATS testing environment is used, for Revenue end-to-end testing or stand-alone testing. A weekly time frame is given to test and validate the change requests to Revenue Batch .And another environment called Express Load is sometimes used for end-to-end testing in case of special requirement. A tool called $Universe is used to execute multiple script jobs in the UNIX environment. End-to- End testing is mainly done by executing UNIX scripts and SQL statements in UNIX environment. Processing of data for testing and production teams. Handling different application software’s and Unix server for data processing.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Test automation to build scripts without guidance. This includes working with complex configuration environments, build servers, virtual labs, generalizing tools to accommodate multiple languages and architectures, integrating test automation, and assuring that tools and processes scale to accommodate the evolving needs of our diverse teams.

Design robust and scalable test plans for feature components which can be easily incorporated into the overall feature test plans and meet customer requirements with little or no guidance.

Deliver completed test plans and test results for the feature component as scheduled.

Write individual test cases and perform tests for each function for the feature component that effectively exercises the code and surfaces bugs or design issues. Testing approach conforms to group testing standards, is consistent, thorough and meets schedule and quality expectations.

Enter clear and concise bug reports with detailed, accurate reproduction steps.

Work with business, development and QA teams to correctly prioritize test cases based on criticality.

Operate at the Full Feature scope level.

Design and develop test plans for software product applications for market sale or large-scale proprietary software applications for internal use.

Work under minimal supervision on complex projects and assists less experienced peers.

Environment: VB, MS Team Foundation Server/Team Edition, HP ALM QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, MS Test Manager 2010, SQL Server, PL/SQL, WSDL, SOA, Crystal Reports, Web Services, Putty, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Selenium IDE.

Test Engineer - FedEx - FASC POS, (Pune India) Sep 2010 to July 2011

Description: There are approximately 5,800 FedEx Authorized Shipping Centres (FASC). A majority of FASCs purchase third-party POS applications to help manage their stores. FASC’s make money on shipping by receiving volume-based discounts from FedEx and adding a margin to their customer pricing. All retail CSP’s use the FSM API for FedEx shipping functionality. This helps to ensure that FedEx rates and commitment times appear as quickly as competitor’s information, which is important when a customer is waiting for a carrier comparison. When rates change or discount tiers change, those changes are to be tested at a very short time span due to business requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Review rate, surcharge, logic changes and business impact pertaining to it referring the BRD.

Estimate testing life cycle and prepare Test plan.

Prepare Test Scenarios and cases per the BRD (Business Requirement Doc) covering change in the business.

Responsible for Testing Client application in a very short time span. Prepare Process docs and manage inventory.

Maintain knowledge repositories for transition to team members.

Performed Test Case walkthroughs, reviews & Sign-Offs.

Designed test cases to ensure that the application meets the business requirements.

Evaluate cycle completion criteria based on - Time, Test coverage, Cost, Software Quality, Critical Business Objectives

Prepare Test closure report

Test result analysis to find out the defect distribution by type and severity

Simplifying and creating User stories from Business requirements and use cases

Working with cross-functional team/ regions to get the requirements from them and write effective test scenarios from User stories

Assigned priorities, managing team members and proactively monitoring the project deliverables.

Provided technical leadership and expertise in reorganization of a complex End-to-End testing effort

Prepared test plans, test cases and validated test scenarios, and facilitated the user acceptance testing (UAT)

Created knowledge repositories to fast track transition of business knowledge to new team members

Providing status/ defect report/ progressive reports to higher management

Developed test scripts and data, assisted with testing, and with deployment and post implementation support from a business perspective

At the end of each sprint conducting Retrospective to find out lessons learnt/ + and –

Environment: UNIX, HP QTP, HP ALM QC, SharePoint, XML, HTML, MS Office, SQL, PL/SQL, WSDL, Web Services, Putty, MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Achievements

Completed Lean & Agile certification

Certification course in software testing(manual and automation) from SEED InfoTech

Appreciation from FedEx and Syntel management for Successful release planning 2014, 2015

Won manager’s “Extra Mile” and “Customer Delight” awards during the year 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015

Member of Syntel News Letter Editorial Board and NGO “Synprayas”

Client appreciation and recommendations for FedEx Quality and Standard

Published a white paper on “Testing in Unix environment”

Received “Extra Mile and Spot Accolades” Award

Event organizer for Syntel Delivery level activities

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