Anitha Gaddameedi

Phone: 314-***-****

Email: ad2m3a@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

16+ years’ experience in Software Quality Testing in Banking, Manufacturing and Research domains.

8+ years of Test Coordination & Test Manager experience

3+ years as a Scrum Master

6+ years of experience working with offshore teams.

Working experience throughout the software development life cycle in Agile & Waterfall methodologies.

Experience in testing Web, client/server, mobile, Business Objects and Legacy applications.

Experience in both Manual and Automation testing.

Expertise in analyzing business, technical, and functional requirements and writing Test plans, Test cases and Test strategies.

Expertise with Mercury Interactive Tools (QTP, Win Runner, Quality Center), Selenium using both Black Box and White-Box testing techniques.

Expertise in defect management using Bug Tracking Tools like Quality Center, Fogbugz and Serena Business Manager, Jira Align.

Experience testing SOAP and RESTful web services.

Experience in using API test frameworks like TestNG.

Experience leading salesforce team.

Experience testing and leading a Mobile testing team.

Experience in automated frameworks testing applications using Selenium Web Driver.

Experience in Lockbox testing.

Strong skills in backend testing. Writing SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validating business rules.

Experience with leading multiple teams and projects.

Excellent client interaction skills and experience in working independently as well as in a team.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Team player and Self-Starter.

Certified in Scaled Agile Framework.

Certified Scrum Master

Professional Experience

CereTax (QA Lead) Oct22-Present

CereTax automates sales tax for complex industries and enterprise level challenges. New technology enables hyper-scaling, limitless flexibility, and granular visibility into actionable analytics all while reducing or eliminating the demands of your IT team.

Initiated and implemented new QA workflows and processes, streamlining operations and ensuring higher-quality deliverables

Lead a dynamic team of 6 QA engineers,fostering collaboration and achieving project goals within established timelines

Implemented a robust automation framework for UI testing, resulting in increased efficiency and reduce manual efforts

Developed comprehensive Test Strategies based on test objectives, Number of environments, Automation tools, Contingency Plan and Risk Analysis

Actively participated in Architecture reviews, contributing valuable insights to enhance system reliability and performance.

Collaborated seamlessly with the QA team to ensure effective communication and coordinated updated throughout the testing process.

Documented all the updates to submit it to management

Successfully implemented a dual approach by combining a 2 week sprint cycle for development tasks with a Kanban process for ongoing QA and other continuous improvement activities, providing agility and adaptability in project workflows

Created detailed test plans for each release, obtaining management approvals and ensuring alignment with project objectives

Managed and manipulated S3 files efficiently, leveraging Amazon S3 storage capabilities to handle and organize data efficiently within cloud environment.

Environment : Azure Dev Ops, TestNg, Test planning, MSWord, Postman, Manual Testing, Selenium,API Testing, AWS S3 storage, GitHub .

Merchante (QA Manager) Aug16-Oct22

Merchant e-Solutions helps merchants accept payments anywhere and easily manage all on one platform. Merchant E provides a global network and enables merchants to securely do business in multiple channels including online, mobile, and in-person.

Application : Featurespace, Risk scan,ME Invoice, HPP, Business Platform, Flexible funding, Payment Gateway, Split funding, Salesforce.

Responsible for leading QA activities for 4 diversified applications including UI, web services, mobile, Legacy applications.

Participate in the requirements gathering, develop test plan, test case specifications from the requirements.

Documented all the E2E workflows for future reference

Planning and coordinating test activities, resource planning, and test execution with onsite and offshore teams.

Created Test Stratergy based on test objectives, No. of environment, Automation tools, Contingency Plan and Risk Analysis

Created Test plans based on Scope, objectives and approach of testing.

Participated in Lean Business case meetings to scope the project and define the T-shirt size of project.

Participated in Architecture review of the projects.

Conducting reviews to address the issues at early stages of the product development.

Conducted Daily standup calls, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Sprint review, Sprint Demos.

Perform Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance testing.

Jira Align is used for defect management and status reporting.

Experience working on BDD framework using cucumber.

Manually testing mobile applications in both Android and iOS platforms for E-invoice and HPP projects.

Perform Back end Testing and data Loading into Oracle tables using SQL Developer and Toad

Used Jmeter for performance testing.

Used Agile process with Sprints of 2 weeks’ time in development, testing and UAT.

Performed Web Services testing using postman.

Experience working as a scrum master for 3+ years

Experience working as a TCOE QA Lead.

SME for most of the applications.

Environment: Jira, Selenium, Manual testing, SQL Developer, Java,Cucumber, Agile (Scrum), Postman, Excel, MS Word, Rest services, Jenkins, TestNg, Rest Assured, Bitbucket, XML, SAFe, Linux, Salesforce, Test planning, Test startergy.

Autotrader.com (Senior QA Analyst) Aug14-Jul16

Double Click for Publisher (DFP):

Dart Enterprise (DE) is used to serve the Autotrader Ads on their websites, as it’s not supporting all the browsers, they are replacing DE with DFP for Ad Serving.

Responsibilities:

Used DFP (Google) API for testing the Ad Serving

Validate the data stored in DFP database when the contracts are created.

Validated that API returns the expected the data.

Validated error handling test cases using Lisa and Groovy Scripting (Mocking the services).

Validated positive test cases using SoapUI.

Personal Dynamic ads (PDAds):

PDAds is an application where the user has an option of displaying their inventory list when the user searches for their competitive model. This application uses Amazon web service and cloud database.

Responsibilities:

Performed Automation testing using Selenium and manual testing.

Validated the cloud database.

Used REST client to perform manual testing to verify JSON response from REST based web service

Defects are tracked using Quality Center.

Stories and sprint tracking is done through Version1.

Worked in the Agile Development Environment with frequently changing requirements and features.

Actively participating in Agile meetings for Sprint planning, implementation and execution.

Participated in Software requirements, Implementations, Design, Automation code reviews and attending Sprint planning meetings, Product backlog in Agile Software development.

Multi Roof Top Login:

Multi Roof Top Login is an application where all the users of Auto trader can login and check their listings. The Subscribed, Unsubscribed and Admin can login add new users and admin to their list. All the Users and Admins under the dealer can view all the listing of the dealer.

Responsibilities:

Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance testing.

Performde Automation using Selenium Accelerator for the web based applications.

ALM is used as defect management and status reporting tool.

100% automation of functionality with the Sprint.

Perform Back end Testing using SQL Developer

Working in Agile Environment of 2 weeks sprint.

Validating the Standalone applications.

Validating the Amazon Web Services using Soap UI and Advanced Rest Client.

Environment: ALM, Selenium, Manual testing, SQL Developer, Java, Agile (Scrum), Soap UI, Advanced Rest client, Postman, Excel, MS Word, Amazon Web Services, Version 1, Jenkins, TestNg, Lisa, Groovy Scripting.

Monsanto, St. Louis MO (Senior QA Analyst) Nov 10- Aug 14

Breeding platform consists of several applications that integrate with each other to create an experiment, plant the seed in the field and collect the data and send the data back to the originator who started the experiment. The applications that integrate to carry out the workflow are Protocol Manager where a protocol of high-level view of study is created. Experiment Manager where experiment are created, Field Manager where details of planting and data collected are performed. These are Java based applications within Apollo framework. The user can create reports from the data collected using Business Objects Reports. Users can create an Adhoc report or run canned reports. The access to different objects in the universe is defined by the security role of the user.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for leading QA activities for 8 diversified applications including web, services, mobile, Business Objects reports and Legacy applications.

Participate in the requirements gathering, develop test plan, test case specifications from the requirements.

Planning and coordinating test activities, resource planning, and test execution with offshore teams.

Conducting reviews to address the issues at early stages of the product development.

Perform Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance testing.

Quality Center and Jira are used for defect management and status reporting.

Manually testing mobile applications in both Android and iOS platforms.

Perform Back end Testing and data Loading into Oracle tables using SQL Developer and Toad

iTrinergy Network Emulator for Windows is used for network-related performance testing

Used Agile process with Sprints of 4 weeks’ time in development, testing and UAT.

Performed Web Services testing using Soap UI.

Environment: Quality Center, Work soft certify, Manual testing, Jira, SBM, TDR Viewer (Executing scenarios), SAP Business Objects, Itrinegy, Toad, SQL Developer, Info View, Soap UI, Java, Agile (Scrum), Excel, MS Word.

Express Scripts Inc., St.Louis MO (QA Planner/Sr QA Analyst) Jul 10-Oct 10

Single Sign On for SAML

The Single sign on for Blue Cross Blue Shield Mass. is a web application. It allows the users (User Agent) who logged onto BCBS Mass web properties subsequently clicks to a page on Member Portal, ESI’s new SAML (Security Assertion Markup language) service will validate the assertion against an Identity provider. Upon successful validation, ESI authentication measures will continue, and upon successful validation Member Portal will provide the requested service.

Responsibilities:

Developed test plan covering functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.

Developed Test Cases using the Use Cases, Business Requirements for Single Sign On functionality using the SAML technology.

Performed Manual Testing for testing the functionality of the application.

Used Quality Center for developing the test cases, defect tracking and metrics.

Coordinated the testing efforts with offshore team.

Environment: Quality Center, Excel, Manual Testing, Java, XML, Servlets, Mainframes and Scrum.

US Bank, St.Louis MO ((Senior QA Analyst) Aug09 – Jun10

Wholesale Lockbox (Functional testing)

This project was established to pursue a single Wholesale Lockbox platform for 9 of 15 Lockbox locations. The platform should have the flexibility to expand into additional markets through remote capture and remote keying solution. This conversion is focused only on the conversion of existing U.S. Bank customers using the existing legacy wholesale lockbox system processing platforms to the FIS Remit Enterprise platform. U.S. Bank data will be converted from four different platforms including BancTec, CMS, Image Scan, and Wausau systems. Data used in each of these platforms will be extracted and converted into data that can be used by the Remit Enterprise system

Responsibilities:

Developed Test Cases for different modules using the Use Cases, Business Requirements for RIDS Work flows and user manuals from Metavante.

Created different Lock Box Accounts based on the requirements of client.

Demonstrate each program or application interfaces correctly with other programs or applications and equipment in the system.

Run through data functionality, display functionality, and application functionality.

Regression test to ensure existing functionality is not negatively impacted by changes being introduced with this project.

Requirements are managed using Rational Requisite Pro.

Logged defects using Quality Center.

Test cases are developed in Excels and loaded into Quality Center using Excel ad-ins.

Performed load test to check the system behavior and resolved the performance issues.

Analyzed the performance based on the reports generated.

Maintained Test Matrix for summarized test results information.

Environment: Requisite Pro (Requirements), Quality Center (Test cases, Defect Tracking), Excel, Manual Testing, Mainframes (Down Stream Applications)

Wachovia Securities (Wells Fargo), Saint Louis MO (QA Analyst) Apr 08 – Jul 09

Contact Management (NexJ Functional testing)

Contact Management is a web-based application developed for a Brokerage company (Wachovia). This is application is used to maintain the contacts of the clients and agents of Wachovia.

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements for functional testing by reviewing the documentation available and discussing with SMEs (Subject Matter Expert).

Developed the template for the Requirement, test cases and test script document.

Developed test case document that outlines all the functional test cases for the areas to be tested in the test plan document for manual test, steps, and expected results.

Developed the test scripts in an Excel document based on the requirements gathered from design document. The test scripts were loaded into Quality center using the Excel plug-in.

Functionality of the application is tested manually.

Defects were logged in Quality Center.

Performed different tests like positive and negative Testing for different Groups.

Environment: Java, Quality Center, Excel, Manual Testing.

Borran Technology Inc, Saint Louis MO (QA Analyst) Mar 07 –Mar 08

Borran Connect! ™, is a web-based, office management system developed for Real Estate Brokerage companies. This application is used by the brokers and agents to fully integrate sales functions, listing and client management, communications and easily ties agents to front office to back-office duties.

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements for functional testing by reviewing the documentation available and discussing with SMEs (Subject Matter Expert), System architect and developers.

Developed test plan that include the areas to be tested manually, the areas to be tested automatically and the tools to be engaged to perform the functional testing.

Estimated the whole effort for the Functional testing and provided a detailed time line developed using Microsoft Project to the management.

Developed test case document that outlines all the functional test cases for the areas to be tested in the test plan document and whether it’s a manual or automated test, steps, and expected results.

Automated crucial test cases using QTP 9.0.

Created Virtual Users to check the performance of the application for varying loads.

Performed manual testing for the Switchboard functionality in which users can view the availability of every member of the team in real time, send instant voice/text messages, share contacts and calendar, and ensuring that clients and appointments are always maintained.

Responsible for executing test cases & analyzing the results, validating identified defects with developers, and reporting the defects using FogBugz defect tracking tool.

Performed negative Testing for different parts of the application.

Environment: PHP, MY SQL, Apache 2.0, Quick Test Pro 9.0, VB Scripting, Load Runner, FogBugz, Windows XP, MS Project, MS Office 2003

Technical Skills

Testing & Testing Tools - QTP, Win Runner, Work Soft Certify, Selenium Web Driver,

Advanced Rest Client, Soup UI, Black box testing

Performance Testing Tools - Itrinegy

Defect Tracking Tools - QC, Test Director, Fogbugz, Serena BM, Jira.

Web Services Testing - SoapUI, Advanced Rest Client

Version Control Tools - Visual Source Safe, Clear Case, CVS

RDBMS - Oracle, SQL Server 2000, MS Access and DB2

Database tools - SQL *Plus, SQL Query Analyzer and TOAD

Scripting Languages - Java Script, VB Script, Groovy Scripting

Programming Language - C, Java, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL

Business Tools: - Word, Excel, Power point, Visio

Reports Tools - Business Objects, Dashboard

Academics

Bachelors in Engineering.

Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications.

Certifications:

Certified Scaled Agile Framework.

Certified Scrum Master

Awards

Recognition of Excellence for the years 2011 and 2013 at Monsanto.

Recognition for Excellence in 2017 and 2018 at Mes

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