Shwetha Shivaprasad

Email: acxh25@r.postjobfree.com

Ph.No: 913-***-****

Objective: Looking for a progressive career where I can utilize my technical and analytical skills in manual and automation testing to provide Quality product to end-user.

Summary:

Over 11+ years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in performing Manual and Automated Testing as a Test Lead/Sr. Automaton Test Engineer

Sound Knowledge in Test Coordination, Test Architecture/Framework Design & Implementation, Test Specifications Development, Test FW/Suite Design

Good understanding of Software development life cycle and QA Processes including requirements analysis, Testing, Defect Tracking,Test Results and Metrics Reporting.

Prepared QTP Automation POC (Proof Of Concept) and implemented in the project.

Good scripting experience in VB Script for HP/Mercury Quick Test Professional, developing function libraries in VB script for QTP, Indexing Objects, shared repository, Descriptive programming, runtime error handling, database connectivity and validating data from QTP / VB Script. Good understanding of object oriented analysis and design (OOAD).

Extensive experience in Black box Testing, White box testing, Unit Testing, User acceptance testing, Functionality, Integration, GUI, System, Usability, Regression, Performance, Security, Stress Testing. Experience using SoapUI for Web Services and XML.

Assisted setting up TestNG framework and successfully implemented selenium in the project.

Strong experience in developing Test Plans (Master Test Plan, Functional Test Plan), Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts from Requirements and Use Cases.

Solid Backend Testing, Data Validation,creating SQL queries and executing with front end database validation tools

Hands-on proficiency in preparing daily, weekly status reports etc.,

Participating in defect review meetings, coordinating with development team in defect fixes.

Ability to grasp different technical concepts and skilled in coordinating testing efforts and clearly communicate with rest of the team and accomplish the requirements.

Involved in all phases of testing lifecycle including developing and implementing test plans, test strategy, quality assurance and automation testing.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels

Good at prioritizing along critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates

Very good experience in quality metrics and quality audit

Involved in Business requirement, Product design and Visual design meetings and reviewed the Business documents

Very good understanding of HIPPA, CMMI and Six Sigma Compliances.

Education

Masters in Software Systems, BITS Pilani (2007)

Certifications

ASTQB Software Testing Certification (CTFL)

HP Mercury QTP 9.2 Certification

Technical Skills & Expertise

Operating Systems

HP-Unix 11, Win XP, Win 2000/2003, MS-DOS, Microsoft Visio.

Software Testing / QA

Functional Testing –Integration Testing, System Testing, Usability, Backend Testing, Compatibility Testing (Browser).

Non-Functional Testing – Performance Testing.

Test Automation

QTP(Quick Test professional)/UFT, Selenium, Winrunner, Loadrunner

Test Management / Defect Management

Effort Estimation for Automation and Functional, ROI Calculations, Statistical Analysis for Automation, Release coordination as Lead, Defect Management, Quality Center 9.2,ALM, Chart, PVCS, CVS, VSS, JIRA,CONFLUENCE

RDBMS/Tools

Oracle, Informix 6.0, Sybase, IBM DB2

Languages

C, VB Script, HTML, XML, Java

Scripting Languages

HTML, DHTML, TSL, VBScript, Java script

Tools / Other

SoapUI, WebServices, PRO-E, CAD/CAM

Major Achievements

Project Star award for Automation projects in HP

Presented Tech paper in HP Tech On 2014.

Presented Poster in HP Tech On 2013.

Awarded with HP e-Award for assistance with the Automation of ITRC Testing.

Awarded with HP e-Award for hard work and dedication to delivering the quality solution in ITRC H1 Ohio forums release.

Awarded with HP e-Award by HPIT for contributions in ITRC release testing with passion to customer.

Submitted a white paper on “Test Automation Architecture for Localization Testing” in HP Techon

Submitted a white paper on “Methodology for reducing rate of defect delicacy in defect tracking systems” in HP Techon

Professional Experience

Client: HP, Bangalore, India Feb 14 to May 16

Role: Automation QA Lead (Automation)

Project: Electronic Fulfillment of Care Packs (Elf Pack)

Elf application makes it easy for partners to find and select the appropriate services to apply to hardware, HP Services is driving the way forward with eSelling. eSelling has some important advantages for HP and HP Services. It promotes ease of doing business, both for the partners and their customers. Ease of selling -- ease of buying – speed -- world-wide access -- always available. These are the attributes that partners will find so appealing when they search out and select services online.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the application and prepared automation Proof of concept for the project

Designed Automation Framework and implemented.

Identified automation scenarios and trained the team.

Developed Automation test Plan and Execution plan during releases.

Trained team on framework standards and design.

Used Descriptive program to develop test scripts.

Trained manual testing team to maintain test scripts.

Used Quality Center tool to maintain and execute test scripts.

Developed Automation Test Strategy document.

Automation Script Review based on Framework Standards Checklist.

Assisted to implement TestNG framework.

Designed and executed selenium scripts.

Prioritizing critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates

Environments/Technologies: Windows 7, Oracle, Quality center, UFT, Oracle 11g, Selenium, Java

Client: HP, Bangalore, India June ’12 to Jan 2014

Role: Automation QA Lead (Automation)

Project: Global Channel Service Network (GCSN)

The HP Channel Services Network is a virtual, global community made up of HP customers, HP service channel partners and HP. The HP Channel Services Network provides partners opportunities to enhance business capabilities to sell and deliver global IT services through a Web-based management system. Utilizing the expertise and resources of partners, the HP Channel Services Network ensures that HP customers receive state-of-the-art IT solutions more efficiently, skillfully and competitively.

Responsibilities:

Designed Automation Framework and implemented.

Developed Automation test Plan.

Trained team on framework standards and design.

Used Descriptive program to develop test scripts.

Trained manual testing team to maintain test scripts.

Used Quality Center tool to maintain and execute test scripts.

Developed Automation Test Strategy document.

Automation Script Review based on Framework Standards Checklist.

Very good in Team Player and good in communication Skills

Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels

Prioritizing critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates

Environments: Windows 7, Oracle, Quality center, QTP, Oracle 11g.

Client: Advance America, Spartanburg, SC, USA April ’11 to Dec ‘11

Role: Automation QA Lead (Automation / Manual)

Project: Payday Loan - eAdvantage

Advance America offer a wide range of fast and convenient financial services at over 2,500 locations in 29 states in US, UK and Canada. It offers different services like Payday Loan, Installment Loans, Money Gram services and Visa prepaid cards with Check-to-Card.

Responsibilities:

Designed Automation Framework.

Implemented hybrid framework.

Developed Automation test Plan.

Trained team on framework standards and design.

Used Descriptive program to develop test scripts.

Trained manual testing team to maintain test scripts.

Used Quality Center tool to maintain and execute test scripts.

Developed Automation Test Strategy document.

Automation Script Review based on Framework Standards Checklist.

Efficient in Database testing. Used Oracle 11g.

Good experience in testing Accounting reports.

Reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications documents.

Understand the User stories and writing the test scenarios.

Very good experience in Regression, System testing, Backend testing and Integration Testing.

Used Clear Quest for Defect tracking.

Very good Experience in QC for managing testing activities.

Very good in Team Player and good in communication Skills

Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels

Environments: Windows XP, Oracle, Quality center, QTP, Oracle 11g, Clear Quest.

Client: NavteQ, Chicago USA Nov ’10 to April ‘11

Role: QA Lead

Project: Research and Development / Discover Cities -Map Data

R&D is creating technologies in Creating content (Maps, Traffic, POI’s and Dynamic Content) and connecting people to Content. Focus areas are: Develop new products and enhance current products (Map and content, Location Based Services Platform).Develop next-generation capabilities and platforms (Community participation, Probe Data Processing, Automatic Map creation, etc.).Continuous process improvements (Data driven improvement, productivity and cost-efficiencies).

Responsibilities:

Reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and User Stories.

Understand the User stories and writing the test scenarios.

Set up the environment in the UNIX platform

Executing the shell scripts for dropping the Schema and evolve the schema

Copying Map data based on the new version.

Used inbuilt tools Transit Editor for creating new data in the map.

Followed Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Attending SCRUM meetings and defect tracking meetings

Worked with 17 members Offshore team

Very good experience in Regression, System testing, Backend testing and Integration Testing.

Used Clear Quest for Defect tracking, Good experience in preparing test reports.

Prepared QTP Automation POC (Proof of Concept) and implemented in the project.

Very good Experience in QC for managing testing activities.

Good Team Player and good in communication Skills

Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels

Environments: UNIX, Windows XP, Oracle, Clear Quest, Quality center, QTP, Linux

Client: Wellsfargo, Minneapolis, USA Sept ’09 to Oct 2010

Role: Automation QA Lead

Project: Financial management / Trading / Online Account Access

TMS is a middleware business service provider that provides money movement services for multiple channels/clients. TMS orchestrates authorization of debits and/or credits, rationalization of the authorization, and routing of the transaction for posting.

Responsibilities:

Developed Hybrid Automation framework and successfully implemented.

Developed an automation team from the scratch and trained team on QTP tool.

Developed Automation test plan, Framework design document and estimation to develop test script using QTP

Developing scripts using descriptive language

Provide training on Automation concept and developed POC for the project

Developed nearly 150 QTP scripts using web service add in.

Actively involved in reviewing User Stories (requirements) and developed test plan and test cases, performing functionality, unit and integration tests.

Detected Defects, communicated to the developers using Defect Reporting Tool and tracking the defects using Quality Center.

Participating in defect review meetings, coordinating with development team in defect fixes

Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect, developers and business users.

Used SOAP Scope tool for manual execution of test cases

Involved in complete QA Life Cycle. Executed mainframe online batch jobs

Good at prioritizing along critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates.

Very good in communicating with cross teams and resolve the issues.

Environment: Windows XP, QTP 9.2, Quality center 9.2, Hogan, UNIX, SOAP Scope and Bugzilla

Client: BI, Minneapolis, USA Sept ’07 to July ‘09

Role: Test Lead (Manual & Automation)

Project: Point of Sale (POS), Supply chain management

RED 5 is an E-Commerce platform where the participants earn points through different client applications seamlessly log into Red 5 to browse the catalogue and redeem their points to purchase Merchandise products or Travel products.

Responsibilities:

Reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications

Followed Agile methodology

Work estimation, test planning and release coordination

Test case Designing and execution using QC 9.2

Conducting defect meeting, risk management and daily status meetings

QTP tool evaluation and framework design

Participated in UAT

Worked closely with other teams which integrates our application

Involved in system testing, integration testing, regression testing and browser compatibility testing

Very good experience in Backend testing

Involved in business Requirement meetings.

Conducted quality health checkup for the project

Very good experience in quality metrics and quality audit

Environment: Windows XP

Tools: Quality center 9.2, SQL Tools 1.5, People Soft and Bugzilla

Client: HP, Bangalore, India July ‘04 to Aug ‘07

Role: QA (Manual & Automation Tester)

Project: Online Web Portal

HP ITRC is a customer support web portal application for all HP Customers to log their support calls, get information on HP Products, Get Solutions from HP Discussion Forums, Download Drivers, and Patches etc.

Responsibilities:

Reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications, and Design Sequence diagrams for all the Use Cases identified

Attending and moderating reviews/walkthroughs with developers, architects, and business teams to better understand the application and resolve questionable items in the SRS and BRS

Release Planning, Client & Release Coordination for testing, status tracking, resource allocation & status reporting

Formulate Test Plans and Test Cases as per user requirements and business design

Involved in Performance Testing & Monitoring of one of the ITRC Backend Business Process (Service) for running in multiple modes.

Utilizing Defects module in Quality Center to communicate and track the defects effectively

Participated in User Acceptance testing along with the Business Users

Script development, maintenance & execution using Mercury QTP

Automation Script Review based on Framework Standards Checklist

Mercury Winrunner script execution and maintenance

Conducted Data Driven Testing using parameterization to test the application with different sets of data.

Participated in change request meetings, project status meetings and test review meetings daily.

Supporting & giving consultation for QTP issues for different projects within the organization.

Environment: HP-UX, CHART, Quality Center 8.2, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, QTP 8.2, Informix, UNIX

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