Kanakadurga Deepa Srinivasan

Cell: 703-***-**** n aczajl@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Result-oriented professional with 7 years of experience in the field of Information technology with extensive experience as a senior analyst in the areas of manual and automated software testing, business analysis and data analysis.

Excellent understanding and well versed with various types of Quality Assurance Methodologies like Waterfall Model, Agile, Iteration, Scrum methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Extensive experience with Software Quality Assurance Testing on GUI based Client-Server & Web Based applications, Web Services, Data Driven Applications using Manual and Automated testing procedures.

Hands on experience in performing Smoke, Functional, System, Integration, Backend, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.

Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on business requirements and functional specifications.

Involved in developing and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) to trace requirements with the test cases and procedures in DOORS, Clear View (CV) as well as performing Gap Analysis

Strong experience in working with TOAD, SQL Plus in performing the back-end operations.

Experience in working on automated scripts using UFT/QTP for front-end, functionality, integration, system, data driven and regression testing.

Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver), JUnit, Eclipse to conduct functional and regression testing.

Experienced in enhancing the QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and Checkpoints.

Expertise in using Test Management Tools such as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center (QC) and IBM ClearQuest for planning, organizing, managing, executing the test cases and defect tracking.

Extensively worked on XML and XSD for data creation

Excellent Documentation and Process Management Skills with an ability to efficiently understand the business requirements to develop the quality products

Ability to work as a team member or independently while achieving critical deadlines.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, able to prioritize and meet established deadlines.

Versatile team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Good understanding on CMM, levels of the CMMI and key process areas.

QA Testing Experience

FANNIE MAE – Reston, VA

Application Quality Analyst, March ’13 to Oct 2016

MHA - HAMP (Homeowner Affordability and Modification program) – the project is part of the President’s broad, comprehensive strategy to get the economy back on track during housing bubble. Involved in testing the web based applications to verify and validate the Business compliance and performed UAT (BCT – Business certified testing) testing for all the modified loans from the borrowers.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

Contributed to high-reliability technology releases as a result of thorough UAT testing.

Created manual test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM.

Developed extensively different scenarios to perform User Acceptance testing (UAT) to execute test cases

and tested the Business rules for complete lifecycle of a loan at different stages and performed end to end testing

Created Positive and negative test cases for testing the Business rules.

Created test data in different formats using CSV and XML files SPY and executing them in batch in UNIX

Environment.

Performed Data mining based on test scenarios using SQL.

Involved in UAT testing for both the applications BKFS and IR2 systems.

Multitasking between projects and delivered releases on time.

Performed extensive back end testing using TOAD for oracle.

Used QTP tool for automated testing regression functions related to validation of loans for business compliance and guidelines.

Performed data driven testing using descriptors in QTP.

Worked on Selenium IDE to automate test scenarios using Selenium Web driver for BNPV application.

Used DOORS 9.6 for Business Requirements and traceability to perform UAT testing.

Reviewed requirements to find out gaps, ambiguous area that needs clarification.

Partnered with Business Analyst team in every stage of requirements creation process.

Produced High Degree reusable Test Cases for future releases.

Reviewed Tet Suite (Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Data) with business stakeholders

Requested Test Suite Approval from business stakeholders and got it with less difficulty.

Identified crucial defects and investigated defects in the application under test.

Created Test Execution Matrix for System

Utilized ALM for Test Management purpose and stored all the testing artifacts for System.

Performed Batch Testing using Autosys and validated the data in UNIX environment using Putty/Exceed.

Interacted with developers and Business Analyst to perform root cause analysis for all the defects identified and heavily involved in validating the same after fix.

Used Rational Clear quest to open, track and analyze defects.

SALLIE MAE – Reston, VA

Quality Assurance Specialist, June’11 - Jan’2013

Sallie Mae being the nation’s only financial services company specializing in education loans

have multiple projects such as TPP (Tuition Pay) and Net Pay which is a web application designed for students from different universities to help them with their monthly payments or refunds.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

Analyze functional and business requirements to create Test plans & Test cases for various releases.

Primary point of contact for reviewing requirements to find out gaps and ambiguous area that needs clarification.

Partnered with Business Analyst team in every stage of requirements creation process

Created Test Cases using HP Quality Center for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.

Involved in daily Scrum meetings. Also, involved in Iteration/Sprint planning meeting to plan the stories that needs to be developed and tested in the upcoming sprint based on the priority and estimated effort.

Performed System testing for components with in application and integration with all modules in the system.

Created Test Cases using Quality Center.

Created SQL scripts to validate various reports present in the ECLIENT which are used by the universities for daily reconciliation of data.

Performed Back-End Testing using SQL Queries to validate the data in the database was staged, transformed and loaded into the database as per the specs.

Written and modified SQL queries to test different scenarios in the application.

Performed web services testing using SOAP UI by passing the parameters to the XML nodes to get the response.

Checked the UNIX logs generated during the process.

Multitasking between projects and delivered releases on time.

Configured the PeopleSoft Settings as an ADMIN to set up the test product to validate the payments.

Conducted walkthroughs to go over the Test Cases with the Development team and the Business.

Supported the business by generating data as per the requirements during their testing phase which included setting up data in ORACLE FORMS.

Department of Public Welfare (DPW), Deloitte Consulting, Harrisburg, PA

QA Analyst, April’10 - May’ 2011

HCSIS is an information system to store information about all individuals served by the Office of Mental Retardation (OMR). It is built that will automate the collection and storage of information in business activities performed by regions, counties, providers, state facilities and the reporting requirements needed by the OMR.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

Involved in creating the Test Execution Plan.

Responsible for working closely with subject matter expert (SME), Business Analyst in preparing test scenarios and test cases.

Tested the application using agile/Scrum methodology along the development iterations throughout the life cycle of the project.

Extensively used QC (Quality Center) to execute Test Cases and Tracking Defects.

Performed functional and 508 compliance testing.

Performed extensive System Integration testing, conducted SIT meetings for the same.

Wrote SQL queries and verified data in the database

Involved in maintaining automated test scripts to support regression testing using QTP for Client Registration, Waiver Enrollment/Eligibility, Office of Monitoring of Counties (OMOC), Incident Management (IM), Individual Service Plan (ISP), SC Individual Monitoring, Offline Reporting, State Center Demographics, Case Management Wizard (CMW), and Shared Consumers modules.

Tested the properties of the tables using table checkpoints using QTP.

Created page checkpoints to test the properties and contents of the web page using QTP.

Responsible for testing web reports and Cross browser testing

Used Share point to store all the relevant documents and artifacts.

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, Chennai, India

Software Tester and Technical Writer, Nov’01 - Oct’2002

A fully automated online system with an automatic re-order facility. The system is centralized where all the metro locations enter Cheque book orders into a single database. The system covers comprehensive parameterization and maintenance of the various types of Cheque books and the various types of delivery mechanisms with respect to the customer’s profile with the bank.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

Primary Point of contact for reviewing requirements to find out gaps, ambiguous area that needs clarification.

Analyzed user/business requirements and developed a Test Plan and Test Scripts which would cover all the functional specifications in detail.

Responsible for functional and regression testing of Web-Admin application

Responsible for GUI testing application screen changes and enhancements

Worked with business analysts, developers, and content department to resolve issues.

Assisted Project Management Team in creating System and User Acceptance Testing scheduling

Responsible for preparing online help using HTML and User Manuals

Education

Masters in Commerce (M.Com), Annamalai University, INDIA.

Immigration Status:

US Citizen.

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