Test Cases Engineer

Varini Ananthalakshmi M.C

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Professional Summary:

CSM certified Scrum Master with 9+ years Industry experience with 2 years as Scrum Master managing teams both in Scrum and Kanban and 7 years of Software Quality Assurance Analyst in Client Server, Mainframes and Web applications with expertise on Web Testing, Manual Testing and Automation

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models Agile(Scrum,Kanban)Waterfall, Iterative and understanding of FDD, XP,DSDM

Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burn down charts. Makes sure the team adheres to the definition of DONE

Solid understanding of Agile values and principles

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.

Proficient in Black Box Testing, ad-hoc manual testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, User acceptance testing, Integration Testing and Negative Testing

Expertise in writing and executing Test Approach, Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Reports for manual tests

Worked extensively in banking and financial services, telecom billing and enterprise legal management business domain

Skilled in SQL, SQL Server 2005, XML, Cognos 8 insight reports

Cleared CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer) with 75.25 % in Sep 2006

Proven ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations with positive results

Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

Worked in offshore/onshore model, Strong team player, commitment towards learning, possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills, fast learner and quickly adapt to new environments TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, JCL

GUI: VB.Net, Java, ISPF, VSAM, TSO

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center 9.2, Bugzilla, QTP 9.0/9.5 BI Reporting Tools: Cognos 8 (insight reports, Query studio) Configuration Tool: VSS, SVN, Stash

Project Mangement: Rally, Confluence, Jive, Zendesk Data Bases: MS-SQL Server 2005, MS-SQL Server 2008 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ADP Solutions Pvt Limited Jan’14 – Mar’16

Scrum Master Nov’14 – Mar’16

ADP, LLC., is an American provider of business outsourcing solutions. ADP is an online Human Resources Management system that drives efficiency through the automation of HR processes, allowing for a streamlined and more accurate facilitation of employee life cycle events, such as On-boarding, Training Management, Leave Management, Payroll

Roles performed

Currently performing the role of scrum master for one agile scrum team and one Kanban team

Successfully guided the development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.

Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts. Makes sure the team adheres to the definition of DONE

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Conducted Scrum Daily stand- ups, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Size work items at story points and have a Kanban board setup in Rally with WIP for each state, used value mapping technique to identify the waste and effectively eliminated the waste during project execution

Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning. Communicated the progress to senior management thru

'Burn down Charts'.

Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.

Work closely with the Business Analysts and Stakeholders for understanding the functional and system requirements. Work closely with the Architecture Team to ensure architectural integrity and product quality Senior Software Test Engineer

Work directly and collaboratively with the integration development team

Effectively communicate with project leaders and Professional Services management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts

Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of customer requirements. Develop detailed test cases based on customer acceptance requirements

Was part of the QTP automation team, completed automation using the in house framework Tools: TFS, Rally, Zendesk, Jive, Confleunce, Visual studio 2012, SQL server, Quality center, SharePoint Domain : HR payroll, Talent Management, Leave and Absences Wolters Kluwers ELM Solutions(Formely Datacert) Jan’11- Jan’14 Sr.QA Analyst

Datacert was an early pioneer in legal technology, offering one of the first and most successful e-billing products to corporate legal departments and their law firms.

Was involved in the Professional services group which handles the customization of the matter and spend management products offered. The team is responsible for gathering the customization requirements, develop, test and implement the product to a customer.

Roles performed:

Work directly and collaboratively with the integration development team

Effectively communicate with project leaders and Professional Services management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts

Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of customer requirements

Develop detailed test cases based on customer acceptance requirements

Execute test cases for the following types of testing: Functional, Regression, Integration, System, GUI and Install along with Database Validation

Develop SQL Queries to perform Database testing. Executed SQL queries to check the integrity of data.

Ability to use query studio, install Cognos in a environment, import new custom views

Involved in testing Cognos 8 insight reports

Technologies: SQL Server, Cognos insight reports 8.0, Query studio 8.0 Domain: Enterprise Legal Management

Verizon Data Services India, Chennai, TN May’08-Oct’09 QA Analyst

Verizon Data Services India (VDSI) is a IT offshore unit of Verizon Communications US a Fortune 500 company. The EBS – Post billing testing project comprises various applications in variety of platforms from Mainframe JCL execution to Web portal testing. The key testing area includes bill validation in the portal with biller’s mainframe files. Have a practitioner level of experience in using SQL queries. The regression processes in the project was manual. From the start of my association I was a part of the group which looks into the area of manual testing and identify areas of automation. Worked on automating the regression suite for the web portal where the bills are viewed by the customers. Total of 500 test cases are being automated. Roles Performed

Responsible for extensive testing of different modules of the web-based application and whole testing life cycle for the various modules of this application.

Involved in writing and executing Test Cases, Test Plans for functional, System, User acceptance testing and Regression testing based on use case document, BRD and process flow documents.

Automated the Regression Test Cases.

Initially performed Manual Testing for functionality testing and developed automated execution of test cases using Quick Test Professional (QTP 9.5) for Regression testing.

Reviewed manual Testing methods and developed and executed automated scripts. Technologies:, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional 9.0/9.5. Domain: Telecom Billing

Infosys Technologies Ltd Aug’05-May’08

Test Engineer

Infosys is a well-known name in the field of software industry. It has a wide variety to domain complied together to form one of the largest Software Services Company in India Roles Performed

Responsible for extensive testing of different modules of the web-based application and whole testing life cycle for the various modules of this application.

Developed Test Plan, Test Cases for Web applications individually and also collaboratively with other testers to test the functional requirements analysing the Business requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional specification documents (FSD)

Documented the application business flow for the business users using MS Visio

Expert in Positive and Negative testing, Black Box Testing, User acceptance testing and Regression Testing.

Extensively used Test Director/Mercury Quality Center, Bugzilla for writing and executing test cases, to track and report system defects and bugs and assigned severity ratings.

Involved in the CM and CMMi activities of the project. Domain: Retail Banking, Check Processing, Credit reporting, Direct Marketing Services Technologies: MS Visio, Quality Center, SQL, Bugzilla, VSAM, ISPF, TSO Projects in Infosys

Equifax- Credit Reporting Sep’07-May’08

Role: Test Engineer. Domain: Credit reporting

Client: Equifax.

Equifax is a credit rating firm, ePort is an application which delivers credit report and credit score of an individual with the details of customers which are maintained using their SSN (Social Security Number). Multiple reports were generated according to the customer requirement.

I was a part of the testing team validating the application and was also part of the UAT testing team. During my tenure in the project I was responsible for generating the test conditions from the requirement and also define the testing effort estimate for each requirement. I was participating the requirement analysis phase and created the test plan and responsible for application testing and defect closure. Equifax – Direct Marketing Services. Aug’07-Sep’07 Role: Test Engineer Domain: Direct Marketing Services

. Equifax List Select is an application which provides with the marketing brokers with the details of customers which are maintained using their SSN (Social Security Number).During my tenure in the project I was responsible for generating the test conditions from the requirement and also define the testing effort estimate for each requirement. I was participating the requirement analysis phase and created the test plan and responsible for application testing and defect closure.

JP Morgan Chase – Bank One Check Processing Sep’05-Jul’07 Role: Test Engineer Domain: Retail Banking, Check processing services Client: JP Morgan Chase

The project was integration testing for the check processing system for bank, which consisted of testing both their backend systems in mainframes and web applications for business user. I was part of both web application and mainframe application testing which detected any fraudulent checks for the accounts according to the pre-defined set of business rules and customer preference. Testing was also time critical which requires a good ability to manage time and the capacity to grasp concepts easily. EDUCATION

Bachelor’s In Science Physics (2005) (Madras Christian College –Chennai)

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