Summary

Over * years of IT experience in Software Testing, primarily manual testing

International assignments and experience working at client/customer locations

Experience working in large teams/functions and assignments with multinational financial giants like Citibank, Scotiabank

Professionally trained and certified on QTP. Beginner in QTP automation testing

Trained and certified on ISTQB testing practices

Experience leveraging tools like HP Quality Center, QTP, SOAPUI

Thorough knowledge in developing test goals, objectives, and strategies

In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Waterfall and Agile - SCRUM

Actively participated in Sprint planning and estimations

Expertise in performing Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing and Adhoc Testing

Experience preparing UAT plans and execution, together with application users

Experienced testing variety of systems & applications developed on Mainframe, Web and client/server architectures

Well versed with QA methodologies and QA processes, Requirement Analysis, Test Case Design, Traceability Matrix, Test Execution, Defect Management

Experience writing/using basic SQL to check data validity and integrity

Ability to work individually and in teams, quick learner, adapts to new ecosystem

Experienced executing complete testing processes/lifecycle working with global teams, both as team member and team leader roles

Employment Summary

Organization

Designation

Duration

Tech Mahindra

Senior Software Engineer – QA

05/2012 – 04/2016

Value Labs

Senior Software Engineer

01/2011 – 04/2012

Satyam Computer Services

Software Test Engineer

03/2005 – 03/2010

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, V

Programming Languages: SQL, C, C++, Java, .Net, XML, Visual Basic, HTML, VBScript

Databases: Oracle 9/10/11

Testing Tools: Quality Center 12.20,11, 10, SoapUI 6.0, QTP 10.0.,

UFT 12.02, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and UNIX.

Other Tools: Putty, Toad, Oracle SQL Developer

Achievements

Awarded performer award “BRAVO” by Tech Mahindra Management for contributions towards the projects in the year 2015

Awarded performance “Pat on Back - POB” by Tech Mahindra Management for the contributions in year 2014

Project Details

III). Employer

Tech Mahindra

Client

Nova Scotia

Project Assignments

1.Customer Info Mgmt. (CIM)

2.FATCA

Location

Hyderabad, India and Toronto, Canada

Duration

5/2012 – 04/2016

Project Description

Customer Interaction Management (CIM) was aimed at delivering a highly integrated Customer Interaction Program by building a common systems infrastructure that will Facilitate a consistent and coordinated approach to customer interactions across channels, Enhance data analytics to drive more effective focused sales efforts and Gather and share back key information across channels. The application focuses on improving the overall customer experience, enable cross channel referrals and allow agendas to be managed more efficiently. CIM ensures a “One Bank” experience and more sophisticated sales targeting.

FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) is an US initiation under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act . The application mainly requires individuals to report their financial accounts held overseas and foreign financial institutions to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about their American clients. FATCA was designed primarily to combat offshore tax evasion and recoup federal tax revenues. The challenge was to exhaustively and coherently test the entire functionality of the application, while carrying forward knowledge of known problems and associated fixes to further levels of testing and coordinating with other dependent Projects.

Contribution

Analyze business requirement specifications and involved in requirement meetings

Involved in all the requirement meetings and sprint planning, retrospectives

Understanding logical flow of the applications and data

Test case design

Review of designed test cases with the requirements and execution

Plan and execute regression testing cycles as required for the application

Participate in Release planning meetings

Maintain the project related documents in Quality Center

Defects management in HPQC

Involved in daily status reporting and work allocation/distribution

Prepared UAT test strategies and test completion report documents

Executed UAT test cases/scenarios in partnership with end user teams at their simulated labs

Participated in post implementation/warranty support thru the project closure

II). Employer

Value Labs

Client

eSpendWise

Project Assignment

ORCA (Inventory Management Application)

Location

Hyderabad, India

Duration

1/2011 – 04/2012

Project Description

eSpendwise is the global, eBusiness-systems provider for indirect spend specializing in the supplies and services industry. Their customers can centrally control spend on indirect supplies and services, automating processes, and drive standardization of best-practices throughout their organizations. eSpendwise’s hosted eBusiness platform contains a suite of powerful tools for gaining visibility, directing ordering, spend management and invoice flow, managing inventories, controlling capital equipment and work order, and supervising supply chains.

Contribution

Was involved in analyzing scope of testing

Prepared manual test scripts covering all modules of the application under test. Executed test scripts and the scenarios

Worked closely with BA and development teams to investigate data issues

Prepared test data as necessary as need for testing purposes

Performed data verification and validation for UI and database

Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems

Involved in weekly status meetings with Project Managers.

Validating the defects, updating the defect status and bring them to closure

Execute the regression testing cycles as required for the application

I). Employer

Satyam Computer Services

Client

Citi Financials NA (CFNA)

Project Assignments

Existing Merchant

Location

Hyderabad, India

Duration

3/2005 – 03/2010

Project Description

Existing Merchant project aims at establishing a new CitiFinancial Retail services website for both prospective and existing merchants. The website would have the capability to register the existing/ new merchants in to CitiFinancial Retail Services. The site allows the CFRS merchants to process sale transactions, return transactions, payment transactions on a customer account online. Also the merchant is able to view the transactions in a batch and also able to void the transactions. The merchants can Request credit line increase and authorizations online with the help of the website.

Contribution

Analyzed business requirements, data mapping requirement specifications along with the team

Developing test plans and validation on templates for UI enhancement.

Created test plans and performed smoke testing

Understand and implement the field level validations and thereby identify the business logic behind the individual fields

Involvement in Test Design and using Black box Testing Techniques

Involved in extensive data validation using SQL queries and back-end testing

Experienced in writing test cases, test scripts, test plans and execution of test cases and documenting the test results using Quality center

Tested and Developed test data for the entire project

Worked with Production environment to resolve several data issues

Prepare manual test scripts covering all modules of the application under test.

Execute the test scripts and the scenarios

Performing Sanity, GUI, Functional and Regression Testing

Tracking the defects, updating the status and bring them to closure (in QC)

Education

Degree

Specialization

University

Year

B.Tech

Electrical Engineering

Sri Venkateswara University

2001

References

Available upon specific request

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