SWETA PADMA PANIGRAHI

Quality Assurance Leader (Certified Software Test Lead)

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Washington DC – Baltimore Metro Area

SUMMARY

●Quality Assurance Specialist with 14 years of enterprise software product quality experience, including test planning, implementation, and execution, ensuring the quality of desktop and web-based applications through verification and validation. Effective communicator and problem solver.

●Subject matter expertise in Manual, Functional Testing, and Automation testing using various frameworks.

●Working knowledge and experience in the healthcare, finance, real estate, and title industries.

Worked on Projects that used Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile Method, Distributed SDLC, and Test Automation Framework

●Provide Testing Design and feedback to Project Leadership by involving in the regular quality improvement process.

●Proficiency in Build Management process and Release cycle using Tools such as final builder and Microsoft team foundation Server.

●Experienced in designing and creating automation frameworks for C# and java-based applications.

●Participate in all cycles of SDLC, starting from requirement analysis, designing, Code review, Test Planning, defect tracking, and managing Defect Cycle.

●Expertise in performing different types of testing like White Box, Black Box, Functional, System Integration, Sanity, User Acceptance, Client Side, deployment, and regression testing for Client Servers, Web technologies, and Mobile Applications.

●Possess good Programming skills and understanding of C, C++, C#, HTML/CSS, VB.net, Java and Python

●In Charge of managing the on-site and offshore Quality and Release teams. Led testing Projects that required working with onsite and offshore vendors, clients, and third-party data integrators.

●Have Experience drafting project contracts with vendors and negotiating project deliverables for Quality Assurance.Capable of handling and simultaneously executing multiple projects across Business Domains.

●Experienced in Setting and Maintaining cloud infrastructure like Virtual Machines on AWS. Equally capable of doing the other Cloud Vendor and PaaS Platform.

●Experienced in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases, and Test Scripts for Automated testing using Taiko Gauge, QTP, TEST Complete, and Ranorex automation Frameworks.

●Involved in resolving technical queries of team members and providing viable solutions.

●Involved in preparing retrospections and implementing quality assurance procedures.

●Executed SQL statements for data validation to check data integrity, error handling, data redundancy, data validating, and data consistency.

●Experienced in Tools like Quality Center, Test Director, and Atlassian products like JIRA & Confluence.

●Experienced in all MS Office, MS Windows operating systems, designing and implementing web-enabled and enterprise client/server applications with various software tools in various architectures.

WORK EXPERIENCE

08/01/2021 - Current Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Softrams - (Client - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service-Federal Healthcare)

Specialized in AWS Cloud Gov and Ranked in Gov. Medicare and Medicaid Projects.

Plan help to develop and execute the overall Quality Assurance Strategy for the Medicated Drug Program (MDP) a Web based progressive application.

As a Quality Specialist, I am Involved in the complete SDLC Process in SAFe Agile Methodology.

Create and execute test cases while adhering to established software quality standards for measuring software quality.

Evaluates the quality of the project that will be delivered.

Performed both Manual and Automation Testing. Initiated the Automation Testing process in this Federal project.

Use the Taiko Automation tool for automating the modules in the federal healthcare project

Provide Input and feedback in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Retrospective.

Coordinate with Client for Sprint Demonstration.

Review Issues, defects, and Product Requirements with Leadership and Stakeholder

Use SQL Queries for Database Testing.

12/01/2013 - 07/30/2021 IT Quality Analyst and Software Testing Engineer

First American Title Insurance, USA.

No. 1 American financial services company in title insurance and settlement in the real estate and mortgage industries.

Involved in Full SDLC, Coordination with the Onshore/Offshore team, Defect Reporting, and making test Strategy/plan.

Reports to IT Director of Software Development.

Provide Input and Feedback in Sprint Planning and Sprint Commitment.

Provides Domain and Process Training to the newly onboarded resources for other onsite and offshore.

Co-Ordinate Work With development team members across different time Zones.

Involved in build management for all the products using Final Builder Tool.

Plan and communicate product releases by coordinating with IT Development Teams, Product Owners, and clients.

Responsible for Managing AWS Virtual Machines for testing.

Responsible for maintaining all the build automation scripts for all the products.

Provide Quality Reports to Senior Leadership and Development Managers.

Handle Client Complains, Co-ordinate Issues with clients, Track Client Requests, Provide assurance to Customers for timely fixes.

Maintain Multiple Source Control Repositories, including Visual Source Safe, and Team Foundation server.

Coordinate a team of senior and Junior testers who work on multiple projects and Product testing.

Review issues, Defects, and Product Requirements.

Work With the Product Owner to make decisions of a product release based on the severity of the issues of a build. Worked with the product development team to develop test scenarios and test cases for scheduled releases and patch releases. These include creating and maintaining the test data for both Web and Desktop applications.

Worked with system and database administration to maintain the function testing environment.

Participated in Business Narrative, User Story (Requirement Document) and Design Document review discussion.

Created Both functional and non-functional Test Plans

Used Ranorex to automate test cases and participated in the test script review.

Applications tested included Title Express, 1099 Application, and Posipay in the real estate industry.

06/04/2009 – 11/30/2013 Software Tester and Quality Analyst (QA)

Title Support Service

Performed functional, user interface, integration, regression, and acceptance testing.

Wrote test cases for system integration and acceptance testing based on client specifications.

Executed test cases, generated problem reports, and recommended improvements for the development team.

Successfully implemented test plans and produced summary reports.

Automated Test Data setup and cleanup using Excel Macros.

Involved in writing end-to-end testing scenarios. Planning and executing Regression test activities and reporting to Test Lead.

Application tested included Real Estate, 1099 Application.

Testing, Build Management, and Product Quality Assurance Skills

üManual Testing

üAutomation Testing

üFunctional Testing

üWhite Box Testing

üSanity Testing

üSmoke Testing

üEnd-To-End Testing

üBoundary Testing

üRegression Testing

üUAT Testing

üConfiguration Testing

üBlack Box Testing

üAWS

üGray Box Testing

üUsability Testing

üCompatibility Testing

üCross-Platform / Cross-Browser Testing

üIntegration Testing

üBuild management.

üTest User Management

üTest Planning and Execution

üTesting Vendor Management

üTraining and Testing Support Coordination

üTest Data and Device Management

üTest Environment Build Management

üStakeholder Communication

üRelease Review

Production Quality Service Level Agreements

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology Institute of Advanced Computer & Research

Certified Software Test lead by IIST

SKILLS GLOSSARY

Test Automation using Taiko, QTP, Ranorex, Test Director, Quality Center, BugTrack, Test Strategy, Test Policy, Performance Testing, Regression testing, Automate Business Flow Testing, Browser Testing, Web Application Testing, Client server testing, Java Web Application Testing, HTML, Multi Development Environment, ASP.NET, Java C#.NET,VB.NET, Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, MS IIS, Linux, Unix, MS-Excel, SAFe,, Agile SDLC Model, AWS.

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