QA Test Lead or Sr. QA Analyst

Swosti Tripathy

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Summary

Quality Assurance expert with around 9 years of experience in Functional testing(system, integration, regression), smart phones/device testing, middleware and Automation testing with good knowledge of Agile and waterfall model of software development.

Technical skills

Testing Skills

Functional, Regression, middleware, User Acceptance testing.

Mobile Application testing on smart phones

Functional Skills

Software Testing, Quality Management, Content and Knowledge Management & project management

Automation tools

Quick Test Professional 11.0, Silk Test, Silk Central

Test management tools

ALM 11.0, Quality Center, Silk Central

Defect tracking tools

HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest, JIRA

Configuration Management tools

Visual Source Safe (VSS), Tortoise SVN

Database

MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server

Languages

C++, VBScript

Collaboration tools

Microsoft SharePoint

Other tools

Informatica

Testing Methodologies

Agile & Waterfall

Functional areas

Banking, Insurance & Telecommunications

Projects

PROJECT 1:

Customer: GTL Insurance

Role: Test Lead

Duration: June 2016 to March 2017

Location: Glenview, IL

Project Description:

GTL Insurance offers life, accident, health, Credit life and special risk insurance programs. The project involves testing of GTL online application and also at device level like IPhone, IPad, and Android OS based phones. The project is to target the end user with various devices like iPhone/Ipad to help them perform various activities performed on the web based application on the device itself.

Responsibilities:

●Review software requirements and functional specifications for feasibility from test perspective and contribute in technical reviews.

●Work with business users for Business requirement Analysis

●Engaging with Project managers for current and future releases scope

●Preparing system test plan and integration test plan

●Identify test scenarios based on requirement specification and expected functionality.

●Write Test Scripts for System, Regression Testing, and Executing Test Scripts on the various smart phones like IPhone, Androids & Ipad

●Involved in the execution of Test Scripts on the web browser and different android/windows/iphone OS based smart phones and tablets

●Creating and managing datasheets for automation testing.

●Running scenarios in Silk Test.

●Assigning and coordinating the task assignment within the onshore team.

●Defect reporting and preparation of metrics

●Sending out Daily Status reports to all the stakeholders.

●Acting as the defect co-ordinator and a liaison between different teams responsible for the project.

Accolades:

1.Appreciated for picking up the functionality in a short time and leading from front.

2.An active member of the automation team to help them start up with it by creating scenarios for them by adding data in the datasheets.

PROJECT 2:

Customer: Sentry Insurance

Role: Guidewire Test Lead

Duration: October 2011 to September 2013

Location: Stevens Point

Project Description:

Sentry insurance is implementing the GuideWire products for its different Business divisions by replacing the existing legacy systems. Recently Sentry has implemented GuideWire Policy Center product for Transportation business which is policy administration system and is expanding it to its all lines of businesses (LoBs) for different Business Products. Also GuideWire Billing Center will be implemented & upgraded in line with the GuideWire Sentry Policy Center implementation. Cognizant is partnered with Sentry to provide QA support in automating the regression bed and execute the test cases for all LoBs in different GuideWire products.

Responsibilities:

●Create project plan to carry out testing for implementation & upgrade of existing legacy system with GuideWire Policy Center & GuideWire Billing Center

●Testing lead for all functional testing efforts

●Engage with Project managers for current and future releases to get the scope information for current and future sprints

●Planning and reviewing functional requirements for current sprint.

●Coordinating with various teams across different releases for seamless testing of multiple projects.

●Helping the team in removing any blockers and helping in smooth workflow for all activities.

●Providing estimates for testing effort to senior management for each release and sprint.

●Create functional scenarios for the requirements under test each sprint.

●Developing test scripts for all functional, GUI and data verification for each functionality.

●Working closely with UAT team for development for UAT scenarios.

●Providing support to the automation team and also providing them with business critical scenarios to automate as well helping them with regression scenario execution.

●Utilizing MS SharePoint to create Team Site, out of the box forms, content management for knowledge sharing, version tracking & user management.

●Leading the defect / issue prevention activities by utilizing defect tools such as Quality Center

●Coordinating with offshore POC and keeping the issue resolution SLA in check

●Daily Status reports to all the stakeholders and keeping them apprise on any blocking issues

Accolades:

1 Helped automation team with creating base set of data sheets.

3.Appreciated by the customer for picking up the functionality in a short time and leading from front.

PROJECT 3:

Customer: AT&T

Project Title: AT&T – Device Testing

Duration: Feb 2011 to Oct 2011

Role: Device Test Lead

Project Description:

The project involved testing of AT&T online application at device level like IPhone, BlackBerry, and Android OS based phones. The project was to target the end user with various devices like iPhone/Blackberry to help them perform various activities performed on the web based application on the device itself.

Responsibilities:

●Review software requirements and functional specifications for feasibility from test perspective and contribute in technical reviews.

●Work with business users for Business requirement Analysis

●Engaging with Project managers for current and future releases scope

●Preparing system test plan and integration test plan

●Identify test scenarios based on requirement specification and expected functionality.

●Write Test Scripts for System, Regression Testing, and Executing Test Scripts on the various smart phones like IPhone, Androids & Blackberry

●Involved in the execution of Test Scripts on the web browser and different android/windows/iphone OS based smart phones and tablets

●Assigning and coordinating the task assignment within the onshore and offshore team.

●Defect reporting and preparation of metrics

●Sending out Daily Status reports to all the stakeholders.

●Acting as a lead for environment issue tracking and closure between multiple teams from different interfaces and bringing them to closure

Accolades:

1.Appreciated by the Business team for being proactive and identifying the issues from user perspective.

PROJECT 4:

Customer: American Express(Amex)

Project Title: Amex - Testing

Duration: Mar 2008 to Nov 2010

Role: Test Lead

Project Description:

This project deals with various manual and automation testing procedures for Amex online application. The objective of the team was to test existing and new processes for online applications. The application integrates the key Operational and Business Support Systems to gather data for a particular account and analyze the data to detect broad range of issues

Responsibilities:

●Test Lead for the project.

●Preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Summary Reports for Manual & automated testing based on the Business, System and Functional Requirements.

●Extensive analysis of the requirements and overall program

●Understanding the screen flow and business functionality

●Point of contact for system and regression testing.

●Test scenario and test case creation

●Helping automation team with regression testing.

●Daily execution report preparation

Accolades:

1.SPOT award for being exceptional performer for a quarter.

PROJECT 5:

Customer: American Express(Amex)

Project Title: Amex

Duration: Jan 2006 to Mar 2008

Role: Tester

Project Description:

The project was a master project to cover needs of various small projects involving company’s partners intending to have an adaptive architecture using Hub-spoke model on SOA based infrastructure. The purpose was to have intelligent routing of messages, transforming and sending information in the pre-defined formats that have been specified by the application. The data is then passed to the frontend application for various needs. The various phases include Project initiation and execution, Project Management, Coding, Testing, Production Validation Testing and Project rollout.

Responsibilities:

●Functional Tester for the project.

●Preparing Test Plan and Test Summary Reports for Manual & automated testing based on the Business, System and Functional Requirements.

●Extensive analysis of the requirements and overall program

●Understanding the screen flow and business functionality

●Point of contact for system and regression testing.

●Test scenario and test case creation

●Smoke testing after each build.

●Helping automation team with regression testing.

●Daily execution report preparation

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