Automation Testing

MAK Reddy

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

A challenging position with a progressive and reputed organization that will effectively utilize acquired expertise and experience. While being resourceful, innovative and flexible, acquire domain knowledge and effectively utilization of my skills to organization.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Around 5 years of experience in IT Software testing (Manual & Automation) activities.

Experience in working different domains- Insurance, Banking, Retails. Both web based and client server applications.

Good experience in using QTP, Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver Automation tools.

Knowledgeable of Software development life cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life cycle (STLC), Including Agile and Water fall methodologies.

Experience in Functional testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing System testing, Performance Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Good experience in Web Application Testing, Proficient in Cross Browser Testing.

Experienced in conducting reviews on Business requirements.

Well versed in understanding Functional Requirements, Tractability Matrices and Design Documents.

Hands on experience Testing web applications using Soap UI.

Experienced in interacting with clients, understanding and analyzing requirements and change requests.

Knowledgeable of Bug life cycle.

Expertise in running Test scripts from Quality center and QTP on different hosts.

Strong Knowledge in Bug tracking and reporting using Quality center, JIRA and Bugzilla.

Proficiency in Performing Back end testing using SQL queries in Oracle & SQL server.

Strong in communication, both written and verbal. Ability to handle multiple priorities and a genuine interest in personal and professional development.

Strong leadership skills - ability to take ownership over projects.

Versatile team player with excellent analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills with an aptitude to learn new technologies.

Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, training and presentation skills.

Intact Insurance, Ottawa, ON July’15 – Till date

Role: QA Analyst

Project 1: EDW & Data Migration Project

Project Description:

Intact Financial Corporation is largest provider of causality and property insurance in Canada. This includes Home auto and Business Insurance and Coverage Benefits. The project involves testing of various projects implemented across releases that involve data extraction, transformation and loading into Entire data warehouse from various business applications.

Created test measures from requirements documents, best practices, and user interviews.

Analyzed the transaction workflows, review the change requests to develop Test data and test cases.

Maintained and Updated Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Environment through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Assisted with preparation of briefs, including Operational Test Readiness Reviews (OTRR) and other technical briefs based on the business functional requirements.

Conducted Test plan reviews with cross-functional teams.

Performed Sanity testing and involved in Module, Integration testing.

Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information.

Data received from sources is transformed and loaded into database using Hyperion Essbase.

Conducted testing on Essbase database of size around 10 TB with Cubes carrying huge volume of raw data.

Explored various functionalities of components in Hyperion Essbase.

Follow up with developers on issues that were causing problems in testing in QA environment.

Interfaced with other design teams to resolve design issues and Logged defects and Tracked the test cases and defects using Quality Center.

Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification of Request issues.

Environment: HP Quality Center ALM, HP QTP 12.54, Oracle12x, Java, Unix log files, Windows, Visio, Load Runner, MS Office suite, JIRA, Hyperion Essbase 11x, UML, Essbase Smart View, Internet Explorer 11x/10x.

Sirius XM, Toronto, ON Dec’13 – June’15

Role: QA Analyst

Project 2: E-Commerce Application.

Sirius XM is one of the leading satellite radios in the industry, company has a vast range of customer range providing different subscription options. Using Sirius XM online web application customers manage their membership.

Responsible for Test Planning, Execution and Analysis through the test failures.

Performed testing process considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases.

Executed automation test suites for daily builds, created and updated automation configuration files.

Worked on gathering requirements for integration of a Salesforce CRM system with an Order Management system and Optimizing, Updating and Monitoring customer data.

Performed Test Planning and Test Management using HP QC/ ALM 12.01.

Identified the Test data based on Test scenarios and Test cases and mapped the test data to test cases.

Performed Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.

Performed Test Management and Defect Management using HP Quality Center and JIRA.

Documented Rules of Engagement (ROE) and defined technical procedures needed for execution of operational tests.

Automated manual test cases using HP UFT/QTP.

Ported automation scripts and repositories through different projects and responsible of redundancy of the repositories.

Walkthroughs and Defect reporting meetings periodically, triage through the defects with different development teams.

Created and shared reusable functions and objects and created documentation for the functions.

Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for every build for User acceptance testing.

Performed comprehensive and compatibility testing for the application with various cross browsers and different operating systems.

Developed and ensured adherence to testing standards and best practices.

Trained new test technicians and operators on test hardware and software.

Responsible for providing Daily and Weekly Status reports to the QA manager.

Provided status reports to the management on daily basis.

Environment: HP UFT, HP QC /ALM 12.01, Java, SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Oracle 12x, Windows XP, Salesforce CRM, JIRA.

ESSO Canada, Ottawa, ON Jan’13 – Nov’13

Role: QA Analyst

Project 3: Online CRM System ETL Data migration

Project Description:

Esso Canada is a leading provider of fleet and corporate charge cards. The project involved the implementation of CRM which includes the implementation of Marketing Automation, Salesforce Automation and Request Center Automation. This Project also includes the conversion of the current database to Oracle database and its maintenance.

Developed Test Plan, test Cases for complete end to end system testing.

Created manual test cases and test suites for different modules in Siebel Sales application.

Automated regression test suite and performed smoke test using QTP.

Identified the test cases to be automated and performed data driven testing and created different Check Points using QTP and enhanced the overall functional testing of the application.

Performed Backend testing, Written SQL queries to Retrieve and manipulate the data.

Used Oracle for database testing.

Follow up with developers on issues that were causing problems in testing in QA environment.

Coordinated the test activities with Quality Assurance team.

Maintained Defects, Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using JIRA.

Implemented testing activities as per agile software methodology followed by project team.

Identified, analyzed and reported bugs found during various phases of testing.

Used SQL queries to extract data from the target tables to prove the data mapping.

Tested various ETL Scripts to load the data into Target Data Warehouse from Actual Database.

Involved in understanding of the Specifications for Data Warehouse ETL Process and interacted with the designers and the end users for informational requirements.

Discussed defect resolutions with developers and business analysts.

Responsible for documenting the process, issues and lessons learned for future references.

Environment: HP Quality Center ALM, QTP, Load Runner, MS Office suite, Oracle, Java, CRM Salesforce, Magneto, Informatica, SQL Server, Teradata, Windows, Teradata SQL Assistant, JIRA, Google Chrome.

Andhra Bank May’11 - Oct’12

Role: Jr. Test Analyst

Project 4: - Multi Banking System

Project Description:

Andhra Bank is an Medium Sized Public Sector Bank of India. It provides Retail Business, the bank offers deposits, loans, cards, DMAT services, Payment services, insurance, and mutual funds to individual customers. The project provides the future banking system solution for the users who have multiple accounts in multiple banks. By using this portal, any client who maintain accounts in various banks can directly log on to Multi Banking System Interface and make any kind of Transactions.

Developing test processes and approaches according to standards.

Understanding the business requirement and developed test cases.

Participated in the peer reviews for test cases.

Conducted Component Integration Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance Testing & Acceptance Testing.

Preparation and maintenance of Defect Log.

Prepare Requirements matrix sheets and functionality sheets.

Preparing the Test Status Report and reporting about it to the Project Manager.

Environment: Selenium IDE, C++, HTML, Oracle, Java, SQL Server, Bugzilla, Internet Explorer.

SKILLS SET

Languages known: Visual Basic, C, C++, Java Script.

Testing Methodology: Waterfall, Agile, V-Model.

Automation Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, QTP/UFT, Load Runner, SoapUI 5x/4x.

Scripting Languages: Perl, Bash, Python, HTML.

Defect and Project Management Tools: HP ALM - Quality Center 12x/11x, JIRA, Bugzilla.

RDBMS: Oracle 12x/11x, Tera Data, SQL Server.

Operating Systems: IOS, Windows XP/07/08/10, UNIX.

Office: Microsoft 2007/10/13, Polaris.

ETL Tools: Informatica, Cognos.

OLAP Tools: Hyperion Essbase 11x/9x, Essbase Administration Services.

EDUCATION

Masters – Carleton University.

REFERENCES

Available on Request.

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