Lakshmi Gottumukkala

Software QA Lead

425-***-**** (C)

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Phone:

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SUMMARY

** + years of diverse experience as QA/Lead

in the IT industry working on Web based and Client /Server

applications, Mobile applications and IBM Business process Management systems.

Leading more than two teams under BPMS projects including both offshore and onsite QA engineers in a

complete Agile environment.

Good understanding of the SDLC and analysis of business, functional and technical requirements

Very good experience in Agile, scrum and waterfall development models.

Experience in Creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures Test Metrics, Defect Reports,

and

Status Reports and Change Requests.

Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression, Integration, GUI, frontend,E2E testing,

Browser Compatibility, Adhoc/exploratory and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Extensive experience in Hiring,employee training, mentoring, and coaching.

Good Experience in training team members to seamlessly integrate new software, procedures, and

technology into daily responsibilities.

Understand what the customer wants and deliver it flawlessly.

Member of BPMS Center of Competency

( COC) team.

Support diversity by valuing the skills, strengths and perspectives of a diverse team

Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently and a dynamic team player who

is consistently motivated toward success and completion of project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP,Selenium, Fiddler, UFT

Bug Tracking Tools:

HP ALM (Quality Center), BugZilla, JIRA, RTC,CARTS+

Microsoft Technologies:

.Net Framework, Visual C #, ADO.net, SharePoint.

Languages:

Java, SQL, JavaScript, VB Script

Operating Systems:

Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Mac10.5

Databases:

SQL Server2000/2005 /2008, MS Access, MySQL.

Mobile: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile

Web Technologies:

HTML, XML, CMS

Browsers:

IE, FF, Chrome and Safari.

IBM Technologies:

BPMS

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelors Degree in

Electronics (Mathematics and Electronics).

Completed certification at

University of Washington (UW) in MS SQL Server Specialist in Database

Design and Database Development.

Computer education in Bellevue college

(BC) in Visual C#

University of Washington (UW) certification in Software Test Automation through C #

EXPERIENCE

Costco Wholesale corporate July13 Current

http://www.costco.com

Sr.Software QA Lead

Costco Wholesale Corporation is a membershiponly rehouse club that provides a wide selection of

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merchandise. It is the second largest retailer in the United States, the seventh largest retailer in the world and the

largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Currently Leading a team of up to 12 team embers for one of the costcos BPMS project which

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includes multiple projects.

An ze the Business Requirement Documents, Prepare Test Plans & Test cases and ensure proper Test

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Coverage by developing detailed Test Strategy & entry/exit criteria.

Participate in daily Scrum meetings, Scrum planning meetings to review the scope of activities within sprints,

Review the functional requirements, Possible Change Requests, Estimate and commit to the QA tasks for

the sprint.

Conduct and Review Acceptance criteria review meetings implement cleaner features by working with

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product owners to evaluate their stories and acceptance criteria for completeness ahead of the sprint.

Prioritize and assign testing tasks to QA team members.

Use Selenium for automation tests and executing Funonal, Regression, Build Verification, Sanity/Smoke

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tests.

Performed Black box, AdHoc, UAT, and regression testing using Selenium.

Responsible for creating the test plan, test coverage and testing activities for production Hotfixes

Responsible for scheduling Defect triage meetings for reported ftware defects and interacted with

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developers to resolve technical issues.

Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing efforts and open issues to be

resolved.

Environment: Agile, Windows, RTC, Selenium, BPMS, DB2, QTP, HP ALM, UFT

Symetra Financial Aug12 July13

www.symetra.com

Sr.Software Test Engineer

Symetra Financial is an insurance company providing three main products Retirement plans,

Benefits, and Life insurance through independent distributors nationwide. Retirement division offers fixed and variable

deferred annuities to consumers. Its Benefits division offers medical insurance, group life insurance, accidental death

products to employers .Its Life division provides universal life insurance, including single premium life insurance, as

well as bankowned life insurance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked as ar. STE r one of the Symetra IT project.

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Involved in test planning the user stories and requirements.

Interacted with the product manager, developers to understand the requirements.

Created Test Scripts based on business requirements for the GUI, functional, Integration, System and

endtoend testing

Worked in Scrum Agile Process and used QTP for regression testing.

Used JIRA for bug tracking and test planning and HP ALM for Test cases.

Responsible for preparing daily status Reports and Defect reports.

Environment: ava, SQL server, SharePoint, Access, QTP10.0, Quality Center 11.0.

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Real Networks July 08 Aug12

Game House and Real Arcade (International)

http://www.gamehouse.com

Software Test Engineer /Lead

GameHouse a provider of Internet media delivery software and game services based in Seattle.

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GameHouse games has downloadable casual games for PC, MAC, Web, Mobile games, and social networking site

for casual game players .Real Arcade site for International (Zylom) and North America partners like AOL, Comcast

and Life time and RAC (Real Arcade Client) and every week releases new games.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked a orefront QA ad for one of the GameHouse Development teams.

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Used to lead 45 Software Test Engineers for GameHouse storefront and Game Release teams.

Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews testing and

documentation for applications developed in Agile environment.

Responsible for testing daily promotions, deals and ads in the Site Manager pages.

Responsible for daily games release on site for PC, MAC, Online for GameHouse and International

Releases for Real Arcade and North America as a senior release QA.

Responsible for weekly eComm release for new games to enter into database and run automated test

scripts in QTP for regression and defects are logged in JIRA.

Involved and responsible for Customer service issues for troubleshooting, testing and signoff.

Tested GameHouse mobile pages for mobile games content on iphone and Android phones.

Environment: Java, MYSQL, CMS, XML, HTML, QTP 10.0 Quality Center, iOS, Android, WM.

Action Engine Corp Dec' 07Jun' 08

Software Test Engineer (Mobile Apps)

AOL's My Mobile Beta an interactive suite of AOL services and content designed just for phones

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small screen and buttons. From one screen, user can access many of the favorite applications, including AIM, AOL

Mail, MapQuest, City Guide, MovieFone, News, Weather and more. With My Mobile, user can stay connected to the

people and information you need the most when you're on the go! .Supporting devices are Windows Mobil and RIM

Roles and Responsibilities:

Wrote Test cases for the MovieFone, Weather applications.

Checked AOL feed for the News, Sports scores and schedules, Weather and MovieFone.

Performed Regression tests and Smoke test for every new build.

Developed test cases to test the Performance for AIM and Mail applications manually.

Worked on various releases for applications on all the supporting devices like, Blackberry, Windows Mobile

5 and 6.

Responsible for daily builds and BVTs.

Defects are logged in the Action Engine internal Bug Management tool.

vironment: C#, XML, AEML (XHTML), XSL, Action Engine SDK, WM 5, 6, Blackberry.

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University of Washington Certification (UW) and Nov05 Nov07

Bellevue College (BC) Bellevue.

Developer/Tester

This System deals with the Movie rental transactions of the Movie rentals to a small business. It is an online web

based project. In this customers can enter into the site and search for the movies and rent them online

Roles & Responsibilities:

Member of a team to design and develop the Front End Screens for project Movie Rentals using C# and

ASP.NET.

We developed screens so that the user can enter the customer information and creating accounts and logins

Used ADO.NET for data retrieval, querying, storage and manipulation.

Also, worked to set up tables, views with the correct naming conventions.

Created users and logins for security purposes.

Created stored procedures for data entry, deleting unwanted data, annual sales reports, and customer

existence checks.

Environment: SP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2005, ADO.net.

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VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals Campaignhrough Costco IS to Seattle Children's Hospital.

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