Experience with SDLC, Agile methodology,Test documentation and QC

Vindhya Chinthapally

SUMMARY

Quality Assurance Analyst with eight years of experience and knowledge in software development life cycle and hands on experience in Software Testing Life Cycle process and methodologies.

Exposure to E-commerce, Financial (retail/Investment banking) and Educational applications. Supported testing on continuous integration and delivery practices.

Proficient in preparation of detailed test plans, test cases, test data, test estimation and test (manual/automation) execution, defect logging & tracking defects/test results. Extensively used testing tools like QC/ALM, QTP, Selenium (web driver), TestNG, Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Clear Quest, Team Tracker, PVCS and MS Suit.

Experience programming in java and working with data driven, keyword driven & hybrid frame works using open source tools Selenium (web driver), Selenium Grid, TestNG, JUnit, Jenkins, Maven.

Expertise in end to end testing in Functional, UI, Smoke, Integrations, Exploratory, Performance, Regression and UAT testing and also involved Cross Browsers/Platforms, Web, Mobile (IOS, Android & Tablet) devices testing.

Proven skills in Agile/Waterfall development & capable to handle multiple environments simultaneously.

Maintained testing activities independently, with the offshore, onsite & cross functional teams. Participate release, standup, sync-up meetings provide and take testing updates from the project team and also apply on testing.

Present and train team and cross team members on applications and in other functional areas.

Strong problem solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly in a fast-paced environment and possess excellent written/oral communication, documentation & pay attention to details skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP/NT and UNIX, Linux, Mac, Windows, IOS & Android

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB, VB Script, C, JAVA Sctipt, XML, Groovy Script, SAS and TSL

RDBMS: Oracle, MS Access, Sybase, SQL Server 6.5, 7.0/2000/2012

GUI: Visual Basic and Crystal Reports

Domain Knowledge: Investment/Retail/Mortgage Banking, Capital Market, Fixed Income, Home Equity Loans, Stocks/Options, 401 k, Regulatory, Compliance, Educational and E-commerce

Workflow Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Share Point and Lotus Notes

Testing Tools: Selenium (Wen Driver), TestNG, JUnit, Jenkins, Maven, QTP, QC/ALM, MTM, TFS, JIRA, Clear Quest, Soap UI/Restful Confluence, Test Studio, Cycle Manager, PVCS Tracker, Silk and LR

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Mozilla

WORK EXPERIENCE

ETS (Educational Testing Service), PRINCETON, NJ November 2016 – Present

UAT Tester (Currently working on PISA 2018)

PISA had science as the major domain, reading, mathematics and collaborative problem solving as the minor domains. Financial literacy is an additional domain. Approximately 170 countries participated and the assessment will be entirely computer-based.

Analyzed the requirements, created new test cases, updated existing test cases based on the requirement changes.

Participating daily scrum meetings with project stake holders provide testing updates and at the same time understand current & upcoming builds and also plan testing activities independently based on the priority.

Performing end to end testing on web and multiple devices. Escalate issues, bugs and track them until fix & close.

Independently managing entire PISA 2018 application (122 languages) testing and releases across the world.

Perform defect logging, tracking, re-test fixed defects and apply regression testing and also document test results.

Environment: C++, Oracle, .Net, HTML, JAVA, DB/2, Windows 2000, XP, Mac, Windows NT, Tablet, Agile/Scrum, QC & Microsoft Office, Fire Fox, IE and Google Chrome.

Church & Dwight, Ewing, NJ July 2015 – March 2016

UAT/QA Tester

Tested compatibility of the Web, Mobile applications using different browsers and OP Systems. Gained good knowledge of E-Commerce and Checkout process which includes adding products to basket, checkout, select delivery method, select payment method, make the order, receive the confirmation email.

Worked with research team & collected list of supported applications. Created spreadsheet, collect /manage application information (like application web interface, current version, contact number, browser compatibility, etc.) based on the research results provided browser recommendations and involved testing on web/mobile applications.

Collaboratively worked with user’s development team & implemented. Created check list, test data before start of the test execution and supported automation testing using Selenium.

Participated end-to-end (Smoke, Functional, UI, Performance & Regression) testing independently as well as with the app owners and make sure that functionality of the application in multiple browsers and multiple (handset, tablet, PC etc.) devices. Documented test results, track & maintain test cases, defects and test results.

Worked on agile scrum environment, attended daily standup meetings provided application testing status to the team and at the same time take updates from team members and apply on testing.

Identified, discussed issues and provided details to the team. QC is used to open/track/update the defects, re-tested after fix and applied regression testing, make sure that users are comfortable on their applications.

Environment: C++, Oracle, .Net, HTML, JAVA, DB/2, Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT & Microsoft Office, QC, Web Services (Soap UI), Selenium, IE, Google Chrome, IOS/Android and Agile.

ETS (Educational Testing Service), Princeton: Worked on (PISA 2016) project November 2014 – April 2015

DEALOGIC, NY October 2012 – July 2014

Sr. Test Engineer

Worked with the Regulatory team on Compliance projects in a fast paced environment and provided support testing on multiple web applications like Compliance Manager, ECM, UIE and delivered quality products.

Understand/analyze the requirements, use case documents. Developed test documentation like test plans, test tasks, test estimations, test cases, test scripts & test frame work using multiple tools like JIRA, TFS/TM & Selenium.

Participated end to end test execution on Functional, UI, Integration, Performance & Regression and also supported browser compatibility testing on multiple versions of multiple browsers using Selenium (Web Driver), TestNG tools.

Implemented Test Suit, Test Cases, Test steps & Investor data. Send requests & validated response and also make sure that investors data replication between different applications.

Created SQL queries (select, add & update), extracted data from database and also verified data from UIE and DB.

Setup client dealer rights on document access and verified different certifications (5131, QIB, REGS, Suitability &SMMP) view/review access from Compliance Manager and also performed security testing on client/dealers.

Worked on various reports such as document review, document expiration, document renewal, document update & request history and validated reports from web, tablet and mobile devices.

Worked in a highly dynamic agile environment & participated standup, sync-up meetings, provided overall testing progress to the project team, test manager and discussed issues, challenges & resolutions. Tracked and reported progress of the project to test lead, product manager verbally, in writing on daily and weekly basis.

Trained Compliance Direct team (Budapest) about the CM, UIE and provided all necessary information to continue their integration testing. Prepared workflow document on major areas to better understanding of CM application.

Prioritized/multi- tasks on a daily basis and implemented effectively based on the priority. Tracked out the most critical defects as early as possible & discussed details with the team until close the defect.

Used Team Foundation Server/Test Manager to create, run test cases & track/manage test results and defects.

Environment: C++, Java, Oracle, .Net, HTML, XML, Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT, Agile, SQL server 2012, JIRA, Test Studio, TFS and TM, Selenium, TesNG, MS Suite, Jenkins, Tablet (IOS & Android), Firefox, IE and Google Chrome.

ETS (Educational Testing Service), PRINCETON NJ February 2012 – June 2012

Embedded System Tester

Worked closely with BA, Development teams, and was involved in testing on monthly report releases.

Reviewed business specs, use cases and prepared test cases, test data for various programs like GRE and AP.

Used action feature& created packages for item collections (IC), assembly units (AU), set leaders, and set members.

Performed multiple combinations of print jobs with/without static and verified report templates in web/mobile.

Tested advanced, basic, quick search features and validated search results data and the count of items, SL, SM and Combined Sets from IBIS to XML Conversion reports.

Participated both manual &automation (end- to-end) testing in UAT environment

Ran various web reports (dynamic & canned) using different devices and validated data from UI to reports.

Documented, maintained and tracked test cases, defects and test results. Used QC for defect tracking.

Environment: C++, Oracle, .Net, HTML, JAVA, DB/2, Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT, My SQL, QC, Selenium, Tablet and Agile/Scrum.

BANK OF AMERICA/MERRILL LYNCH, NJ March 2010 – December 2011

QA Analyst/Test Lead

Served as a Quality Assurance Analyst and supported testing on both ML and Bank projects. Performed manual testing on functional/nonfunctional and automation testing on regression suit.

Validated various standard/web reports and made sure that as per activity setup all values like Grants, Lapses, Transfers & Cancels were displayed correctly, made sure plan sponsors and operation users could run their reports.

Created transmission inbound files to load & update option’s, grants, and exercises, tax related information into the database. Performed and tested very complex calculations to verify taxes, net proceeds, fees, and commissions.

Validated outbound and MFD (Master File Download) files that are generated from the system.

Submitted market, Limit, and GTC orders through Order Manager and validated order results.

Prepared prorate and vesting schedule settings in the front end and also made sure the proration applied for different award types like RS, RSU, DEU, PS, PU, NQ, and ISO etc.

Used TOAD to access the DB and validated backend test scenarios by running SQL queries.

Issued new grants, setup vesting schedules and made sure that grants were available on the Grant Summary/Grant Details pages and submitted exercises/lapses based on the vesting schedules.

Verified Confirms and Statements after the orders are executed successfully.

Performed dark pod testing before each release and production testing on release days.

Worked on both Agile/Waterfall methodologies, updated daily/weekly testing status to PM, TM and the RM.

Implemented Clear Quest for production defects and Quality Center for UAT. Attended bug log calls and discussed reproduction/clarifications on defects.

Environment: C++, Unix, Oracle, .Net, HTML, JAVA, DB/2, Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT, SQL Server, Toad, Selenium, Quality Center/ALM, QTP and Clear Quest.

CBNA (CITIBANK NORTH AMERICA), CITIBANK, NY June 2006 – December 2008

QA Tester

Played a major role in the analysis of different project functional requirements and development of test plans, test matrix, test scripts and implementing QA policies and procedures.

Attended various project meetings with PMO, Business, Technology and other senior project management.

Conducted walk through of the new projects TP/TC in test lab and given overview of each project functionality before start testing.

Performed manual and automation (functional & regression) testing in different regions like IT, IST, UAT and ensure that business processes are correctly mapped to the system specifications.

Provided weekly twice all project status updates to the Release Manager and STI Manager, which include progress of the project, accomplishments, issues, challenges and work planned for the next week.

Identified, created rounds for regression and new functionality test scripts for the IT, IST and UAT test environments and ensure successful test execution.

Involved automation testing of the application and created automation frame work, automated test scripts using QTP and implemented page objects, data driven testing, tracked test results, defects using Quality Center.

QC and other inbuilt tools are used and managed following modules; Requirement, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defect Management, Repot generation etc. and this is applied on all of the projects for each release.

Environment: VB Script, .NET, HTML, JAVA, DB/2, Oracle, Mainframe, Windows 2000, XP, Windows NT, Unix, SQL Server, Data warehouse, QTP, QC, Cycle manager, Team Track and SIMU.

EDUCATION: Bachelor degree, Law degree and Diploma in computer applications.

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