Test Cases Management

Bagyalakshmi Maduraibalan 408-***-****

Professional background

Over 10 years of increasing QA & Delivery lead in Retail, Banking domains and Product based companies.

Excellent leader in end-to-end management of QA tasks in different SDLC (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall) /and Project co-ordination among different teams.

Excellent Leader experienced in building and managing on-site and offshore teams and in leading test effort of both web and client based applications in different domains.

Capable in developing test strategy based on customer requirements, project constraints and risk analysis and delivering high quality products.

Hands-on developing new and improving, existing Automation Frameworks using Selenium Web driver, Silk Test, QTP.

Good Knowledge with UI and back End test automation Frameworks.

Java programming knowledge including HTML, CSS and Java Script

Lead entire QA process to the delivery, mentored the QA team to adopt best practices. Test plan creation and reporting about test status to upper management. Helped to perform automation testing of a web-based application on different platforms, set up the QA process. Complete ownership of bug list in tracking system. Identify and balance manual / automation needs vs. coverage, updated Rally and Confluence wiki pages.

Successfully recruited, trained and mentored team of top-quality interns. Production support/handling customer calls – help to resolve critical issues by working with Tech. Support.

Experience in testing Mobile applications and documented test cases for Mobile support and cover as part of regression for every release. Make sure Regression covered for both Mobile and Desktop browsers to provide QA sign off.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP), Silk Test, Selenium Web Driver

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center.

Databases: Oracle, SQL

Programming Languages: Java, Maven and TestNG with Jenkins Build Integration

Bug Reporting Tool: Jira and Bugzilla

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript

Source Control Software: Perforce, SVN, GitHub

API Testing: Advanced Rest Client

Digital Insight with Financial Domain experience (May 2016 To Till now)

Sr. QA & Release Lead - Redwood City CA

IFS offering Online Banking Application modern web banking interface for our customers. SDP pulls the top user functions together in one view. SDP envisioned as the beginning of the next generation platform of online banking web application.

Responsibilities:

Lead QA efforts for DI online banking application and had successful release and deployments with quality. Handled customer reviews and reports with each release and deployments. Worked with Business and Products to gather Functional requirements and deliver defect free products.

Hands on with test execution and Automation with Selenium, managing end to end test effort to build a complete test Reports.

Expertise in Manual Testing/mobile application testing in both IOS and Android (Mobile) applications, client server applications and cloud applications.

Run Compatibility Testing (cross Windows/ Mac and Android/ iOS platforms, cross browsers, cross mobile devices - phones, tablets, iPads etc) . Test Mobile app`s behavior under various interruptions such as with battery strength, incoming calls, SMS, video calls etc

Performed complete UI regression with all mobile devices to make sure UAT passed for all releases. Make sure that both Manual and Automation tests executed and completed to provide QA sign off.

This project followed an Agile methodology and a release was done in every 3 months. Depending on new requirements, new test cases were automated with Selenium web driver and Test NG Framework. Front end testing with Firebug and with developer tools.

Have experience in providing both Functional and Technical specifications for SDP project and experience in managing end-to-end of both development and QA tasks in different SDLC Model for both Mobile and Desktop applications in different browser.

Excellent in building and managing on-site and offshore teams with Testing and Automation effort. UI automation with Selenium/TestNG.

Log analyzer with Splunk to get and analyze the logs to create a defect. Work with PM to prioritize the defects and put in backlog for each releases.

Develop test strategies, test plans and test scenarios. Testing includes Mobile and iPad devices. Drive E2E test effort with all devise includes multi browser testing.

Tested SDP applications in Mobile during all testing phases and bugs are captured in Jira. Mentor and guide junior QA engineers to add tests scripts into the mobile testing.

Perform and document QA testing activities and test reports in Jira and had regular defect status call on a daily basis during releases.

Environment: Java, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, Perforce, Log Analyzer with Splunk, Rally and Jira.

Sysbiz Technologies (Apr 2013 - Apr 2016)

QA Lead - San Jose CA

Leading and only solution provider for Revenue Management and Revenue Recognition for Pharma companies which allows to operate in any business model including Enterprise, Hosted, Cloud, and 3rd Party Services and provide complete analysis for Revenue recognition.

Responsibilities:

Provide product insight, organizational perspective and technical leadership to the software test and development engineers to deliver the Revenue Management and recognition software for Pharma companies.

Interact with upper management to determine BA product testing priorities, estimate level of effort and plan resources accordingly.

Experience with ETL frameworks and Data Validation testing. As this involves huge data validation, DB testing testing with SQL and validated against each table model.

Test management, Test planning & Test coverage analysis - Effort estimation for testing, Test planning & strategizing, tasks assignments to subordinates. Involved in Project plan and schedule allocation.

Execute and Review of project deliverables / Prepare Test planning & Strategy Documents.

Project was done in Waterfall methodology. Obtaining requirements for this project was a complicated issue; this being the case, a decision was made to have the Automation team follow an Agile approach only for Automation related tasks. Personally, involved in creation of Automation from scratch with selenium web driver. Hired and mentored QA engineers for Automation. Guided QA engineers on how to form a Test framework with Selenium Web driver.

After successfully creating a hybrid framework, all QA members checked in more automated test cases. Test data was driven from excel for each automated test.

Debugging the failures and send reports to the Management and provide QA sign off.

Contribution to Process improvements, provide support for Automation with Selenium. Mentor QA engineers to follow the QA process with both Automation and Manual test effort.

Verify readiness of the product for release through release review, Obtain customer acceptance on the deliverables.

Performing risk analysis when required and Authorize intermediate deliverables and patch release to customers.

Participate in release deployments to the production environment and troubleshooting production issues.

Excellent in building and managing on-site and offshore teams with Testing and Automation effort.

Environment: Java, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, SVN, Maven, Rally and Jira.

Cognizant (Client : Intuit,Walmart) (Apr 2010 – Apr 2013)

Sr. QA - Mountain view CA

SDP is an IFS offering Online Banking Application modern web banking interface for our customers. SDP pulls the top user functions together in one view. SDP envisioned as the beginning of the next generation platform of online banking to be offered by the Intuit Financial Institutions Division (IFID).

Responsibilities:

* With Intuit

Overseeing the SDP QA effort, working with our onsite and offshore QA teams to ensure adequate regression testing of SDP web application.

The primary responsibility is to support Agile/Scrum software development through planning, designing, developing and executing various software quality processes within the Scrum methodology including Selenium Automation.

Helped to create Automation Framework and helped team to involve everyone in automation to cover up to 90% coverage.

Defined overall testing objectives and methodologies in support of projects. Reviewed, modified and implemented new processes and procedures to support a rapid release objective while still insuring high quality, problem-free implementations. Developed test strategy, test plan and scenarios.

Work with development teams daily to make sure the environment is running 100% as well as assigning QA testing locally as internationally (India office).

Defect review meetings and make sure defects gets verified for every successful release.

* With Walmart :

Work with stakeholders to get requirements and make sure that test cases are covered for the complete requirements. Reviewed with QA team and brain storm sessions about the Products.

Organized QA meetings and update the project status on a weekly basis regarding test execution plan.

Organized/ran status calls for known issues in QC on a daily basis and updating upper management on the QA/fixing progress.

Design and update manual test scenarios and test conditions in Mercury Quality Center from the business requirements and use cases documents as well as track and log defects in and track the whole QA process from test to prod environment.

Analyze, test, and certify application specific software, browsers and perform variety reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents.

Automate the manual tests by our home grown tool which is built in by Java.

Environment: Selenium, Java, Junit, Eclipse IDE, Apache Tomcat Server, Mercury Quality Center9.2, Rally.

VMware, Inc. Palo Alto, California. (Jul '06 – Dec ’09)

QA Engineer

VMware, Inc. is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.

Mainly Worked in UI components for various products like VC, VMware server, OPs management and CIQ.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Preparation, Reviewing and Execution of Automated test cases of testing with Embedded Systems.

Writing Test Development Specifications (TDS) for the new framework and executing Test cases. These Scripts were developed after reviewing the requirements Spec. and technical specifications document.

Involved in Running BATs for both Windows and Linux (32 & 64 bit) for the new build on a daily basis.

Good knowledge in writing and debugging the failures of Automated Scripts.

Involved in Automation using Silk Test 2008 for VC UI framework and Java for CIQ and Ops Management.

Sufficient knowledge in VMware Server 2.0, ESX, VC server and VI Client.

Lead offshore team in India and have Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule. Successfully managed resources and mentored QA team members

Performing queries to the database using 'SQL' to check successful Transaction & to create particular test cases.

Involved in Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking and in Preparation of Defect Report using Bugzilla.

Built several Virtual Machines from different components, assembled and configured peripherals, and installed drivers and software. Tested for overall system stability and hardware compatibility.

Environment: SilkTest 2008, Selenium, Java, Eclipse, Bugzilla, Perforce, Perl, Windows XP Pro/2003 servers, Linux

Education: B.E. (Electrical and Electronics) – Bharathidasan University.

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