VENMATHI RAVI

475-***-**** ad2uot@r.postjobfree.com North Attleboro, MA02760

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Methodical QA professional with 7+ years of experience in Software Testing/Quality Assurance with Manual and automation testing of various Software Applications. Open and clear communicator with good multitasking skills, organized nature, and strong attention to detail. Certified in ISTQB Foundation Level.

Strong structured testing knowledge and thorough understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies and concepts, demonstrating deep knowledge and hands on experience mainly with Functional and Automation testing across various applications.

Extensive knowledge in SDLC and Worked with different Software Development Model such as Waterfall Model, V Model and Agile (SCRUM) Methodologies.

Extensive knowledge in STLC and core Testing Techniques and approaches and Proficient in designing Test Cases, Test conditions/scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Preparation and Test Execution of various desktop, mobile and web Applications, Test Reporting .

Extensively worked in various types of testing such as Functional, Integration, System, Sanity, Smoke, Regression, User Acceptance testing on various domains like Health Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Wealth Management, E-Commerce Retail and Transportation, Telecom Equipment.

Experienced in Automation testing of Web Applications UI and API using Selenium Web Driver with TestNG using JAVA programming language.

Good experience in using Java OOPS (Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism) concepts.

Knowledge on Array List, Linked List, Hashmap and Hash set usage concepts.

Extensive knowledge in writing Selenium commands using various Selenium locators like (XPath, CSS Selectors, etc.,).

Good Knowledge in various Automation Frameworks using POM (Page Object Model) and Test Driven Development (TDD) like Data Driven Development and BDD.

Knowledge in build tools like Maven.

Experience in API testing and hitting different proxies/endpoints using Postman tool for manual API Testing.

Good knowledge in using HTTP Methods like GET, PUT, POST and DELETE requests and the response validations.

Knowledge on response status and error codes/categories and the status messages.

Hands-on in API automation testing using Rest Assured.

Extensive knowledge in Defect Life Cycle and Defect Management.

Experience in performing backend testing using SQL queries to verify data integrity and data validation.

Extensive experience in database testing using PostgreSQL and Mongo DB. Used SQL queries to fetch test data and for table validations.

Good experience in using Jira as project

management scrum board in maintaining Epic,

User Stories, Backlogs, Task, Bugs/Issue

tracking and management.

Extensive knowledge in TestRail in Test case creation and maintenance.

Hands on experience in most popular Test Management and Defect Management Tools like TestRail, HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla and have knowledge on Azure DevOps.

Involved in prioritizing, reporting the defects and Conducting Defect review / Defect triage meetings with business, project management and development team to assess the status of the project.

Solid understanding of Business Requirements Specifications and Functional Specification documents.

Possess strong interpersonal skills, communication and presentation skills with the ability to interact with people at all levels and easily adapt to new environments.

Self-motivated, energetic, team player and highly ethical in all work related assignments thus able to immediately contribute to corporate goals and objects.

SKILLS

Programming Languages – Java, SQL

Automation Testing Tools - Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured API, Maven, Eclipse IDE, Postman, TestNG, Extent Reports

Frameworks- Data Driven, TDD, Page Object Model (POM), BDD

Test Management, Defect Management and Project Tools- TestRail, HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, Rational Quality Manager, Confluence, Swagger, Splunk, Salesforce, AWS, Sentinel, PostgreSQL, Mongo Db, Conducktor, Azure Devops

Software Model-Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, V Model

Package - MS Office

Operating Systems-Windows 7/8/10/11, Linux

CERTIFICATIONS

ISTQB – Foundation Level in Software testing from BCS(UK Testing Board) with a score of 98%.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2023 – Present

Quality Analyst/ T-Mobile, Washington, USA

Participated in Sprint planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint review/retrospective, designed the Test Strategy / Plan, Detailed Test cases and traceability matrix.

Design and Develop test cases for API functional and regression testing using Test Rail.

Design and develop detailed test plans based on product requirements.

Worked and created test cases for vast APIs with complex Architecture with both Internal and External Endpoints and various proxies.

Tested APIs in different environments like UAT, Staging.

Participated in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, and API Integration and End to End testing.

Involved in the execution of test scripts for manual testing using Postman.

Used Postman to hit the End Points with HTTP Requests like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE.

Good knowledge on Authorization and Authentication and in using the Bearer token and Pop tokens as Authorization tokens.

Extensively used Postman for Collections, getting and setting of Environment and collection variables.

Good Knowledge in validating JSON, XML responses and parameterization of test scripts in Postman.

Played an active role in allocation of responsibilities, training, and organizing the testing team efforts.

Experience in creating Weekly Status Reports, Sprint Summary Reports.

Experience in testing of UI applications. Involved in Regression, UAT, Functional, E2E testing.

Widely used SQL Queries in PostgreSQL to fetch test data and responsible for the test data update in Confluence.

Actively involved in Defect reporting, Triage, Defect Tracking, Summary Reports & Regression Testing.

Used Jira as Project Management Scrum Board, and Bug Tickets creation.

Participated in daily status calls to discuss the progress of testing.

Tested the Change Requests (CRs) requirements from the business users and modify the test collections to include any of the additional test cases

Extensively used various tools like Confluence, Pact Jira, HSI Jira, Swagger, Git, Gitlab, Splunk, Sentinel, Salesforce, AWS, Postman, TestRail, PostgreSQL, Mongo Db, AWS.

Able to prioritize the tickets on a daily basis and collaborated with the team in the absence of Team Lead. Was responsible for assigning tasks, test case reviews and provided suggestions to achieve test coverage.

Suggested design improvements and process improvements for the QA Alignment to ensure Quality.

Used AWS to analyze SNS/SQS for various events to check if it is consumed.

Jan 2021 – May 2023

Freelance QA/ UTest, US A

Worked as Freelancing QA in various projects of UTest. Involved in the test case execution, usability study, exploratory testing of Web,iPad and Mobile applications(Android,iOS) and defect reporting. Involved in the testing of Google Bard, IKEA mobile application, Shaws mobile application, Amazon tablet, Fire TV Stick and many more projects.

March 2019 – May 2020

Senior Analyst/ Domino Energy (Wipro), USA

Participated in all phases of agile ceremonies like Sprint planning, Story grooming, Scrum meeting, Sprint retrospective meeting.

Participated in functional requirements review and designed the detailed test plans based on product requirements.

Designed the Test Strategy / Plan, Test Scenario, Test cases and maintained the RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to verify the test coverage.

Responsible for creating test scenarios for user stories and creating automation test suites using Java integrated with Selenium WebDriver.

Involved in various levels of testing like Functional, Integration, UAT, System, Regression and Smoke testing.

Created reports like TestNG, Extent Reports.

Responsible for the test execution of both manual and automation test scripts.

Used Maven project and maintained a POM (Page Object Model) framework with Data Driven Testing and used Jenkins for CI/CD integration and Test runner.

Involved in designing BDD framework using Rest Assured for API automation testing using Given, When and Then criteria and TestNG reporting and used Postman tool to hit the endpoints.

Good knowledge in HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

Responsible for maintaining the test metrics, test coverage and played an active role in allocation of responsibilities, training, and organizing the testing team efforts.

Actively involved in Defect reporting, Triage, Defect Tracking, Summary Reports and used Azure DevOps for defect reporting and tracking.

Used Azure DevOps as Project Management dashboard, Test case management and Defect

Management tool.

Participated in daily Scrum meetings to discuss the progress of testing and the obstacles in task execution.

Received the Change Requests (CRs) requirements from the Stakeholders and modified the automation suite to include the additional test cases.

Generated Weekly, Monthly Status reports, MOMs to summarize the project status, defect status and sent to Project Manager.

Assisted junior members of the team in their tough situation and involved in the test script reviews.

Good at documentation and always acted as the first point of contact to describe the project.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2019

Associate Consultant / SJP(Intellect), UK

Involved in all stages of Software testing life cycle (STLC), Test Driven Development methodologies and Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using agile methodologies.

Participated in functional requirements review and designed the Test Strategy / Plan, Detailed Test cases and traceability matrix to verify the test coverage.

Created Test Automation scripts for UI automation and new enhancements in Selenium Web Driver using Java integrated with TestNG.

Used BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber in Gherkin language, and created feature files with identified scenarios to define Given, When and Then criteria for each scenario.

Using Page Objects Model (POM) design pattern and page navigation framework for readable test script and easy maintenance from developer perspectives.

Used Maven as the build tool and Jenkins as the CI CD integration.

Prepared the automation scripts for UI Validations using Selenium-Java language.

Involved in various testing like Regression, Functional, Integration, UAT and cross browser testing.

Involved in designing BDD framework using Rest Assured for API automation testing using Given,When and Then criteria and TestNG reporting.

Created Traceability Matrices, Test and Bug Reports and other Test related documents.

Performance and functional testing of all the dynamic and interactive features of the website.

Maintained the Java and Selenium test source code and resources in the GitHub source control repository tool.

Actively involved in Defect reporting, Triage, Defect Tracking, Summary Reports & Regression Testing and used Jira for defect reporting and tracking.

Used Jira as Project Management dashboard, Test case management and Defect

Management tool.

Created/Updated automated test cases based on release test cases.

Provided weekly status reports to project manager and team lead, worked closely with Business and Development teams.

Feb 2013 – May 2014

Software Test Engineer/ Danfoss Industries, Denmark

Closely worked with software developers to gather information about the application.

Involved in daily stand-up meetings and weekly meetings to discuss workflow and project specifications.

Created Test scenarios and Test cases for testing.

Created traceability matrix and mapped requirements to Test cases.

Created test cases for Regression, GUI, Integration Testing and End -To End Testing.

Interacted with Developers and management to identify and resolve technical issues.

Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.

Tracked and reported defects into the Quality Center and notified management with details.

July 2012 – Feb 2013

Software Test Engineer / Mastercard (Wipro), USA

Preparation of Test Cases by referring Functional Specifications.

Identifying and creating test scenarios.

Execution of Test Cases.

Performed GUI Testing, System Testing.

Conducting Test Environments.

Bug analysis and reporting using Quality Center.

Preparation of defect report.

Preparation of Test Summary Report on daily basis.

Dec 2011 – July 2012

Project Engineer/ All Nippon Airways (Wipro), Japan

Execution and Validation of Test Cases using SQL Queries.

Identifying and creating test scenarios.

Performed Functional Testing, Database Testing and System Testing.

Conducting Test Environments.

Report generation using FileZilla.

Defect analysis and reporting using Rational Quality Manager.

Preparation of defect report.

Preparation of Test Summary Report on daily basis.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2011

Project Engineer/ Nokia Siemens Networks (Wipro), Finland

Preparation of Test Cases by referring Functional Specifications.

Execution of Test Cases.

Identifying and creating test scenarios.

Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Component Testing and Regression testing.

Conducting Test Environments.

Bug analysis and reporting using bug-tracking tool Bugzilla.

Preparation of defect report.

Status Tracking in the Quality Center.

Preparation of Test Summary Report on daily basis.

Reviewing change requests, analyzing the impact and associated testing efforts and organizing the resources for successful testing of the change requests as a major responsibility.

Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.

Tracked and reported defects into Quality Center and notified management with details.

Analyzed root cause analysis for defects and documented it.

EDUCATION

Aug 2004 – May 2008

Bachelor of Engineering / Anna University, India GPA: 8.1/10.0

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