MALLIKARJUNA VALLUR

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Extensive 11 years of work experience in the design, development, analysis and Testing/Quality assurance/ Business Analysis of Mainframes, web and client/server-based applications. Proficient in testing applications manually and using automated test tools Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, TFS, Lotus Notes, IBM Rational Robot, HP-ALM12.x, HP-Quality Center10.x, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, and HP-QTP9.x. Possesses excellent technical knowledge and strong interpersonal communication skills.

•Extensive support in Designing Business Requirements, designed Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams using VISIO, Test Matrices, Test Designing, Test Development, Test Enhancement and Test Execution of applications using WinRunner, HPALM v12.x, TFS, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, Katalon Studio, HP-Quality Center v10.0, Test Director and Lotus Notes.

•Experienced in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

•Having experience in Agile, V-Model and Waterfall SDLC process.

•Experience in Telecommunications (AT&T) Domain and Mainframe testing.

•Involved in meetings to review the requirements as a Test Lead.

•Coordinated Defect Triage meeting the team as and when necessary.

•Hands on experience on technologies such as AS/400, CL/400, IBM Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, PL/1, File-Aid, DB2 WORK BENCH, SPUFI, POS, MS-Project, Lotus Notes, SharePoint, STE and Crystal Reports skills.

•Running Batch process.

•Proficient in obtaining project requirements from user and manager, formulating the requirements into design specs, preparing system specifications, assigning tasks to team members, and tracking project progress.

•Good experience in project planning, scheduling, estimation, resource and work allocation, risk identification and mitigation plan, product delivery and communication.

•Excellent Client Management experienced in building effective winning/successful relationships with both customers and development/testing/support teams.

•Working closely with support teams and deployment of the applications and providing necessary handover to support teams during pre-postproduction

Education: - Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools

HP Quality Center/HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM 12.x), Azure DevOps, Rally, JMeter, JIRA, SOAP UI, TestNG, Cucumber,Selenium WebDriver, Postman, Katalon

Defect Management Tools

JIRA, Azure DevOps, Rally, TFS, Redmine, RMTracker

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall, V-Model

Databases

SQL Developer, Oracle, TOAD

Operating Systems

Windows7, Windows10, Mac OS, Android, iOS

Web Technologies

HTML, XML, Core Java, Web Server

Office Tool

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Access, SharePoint, AWS

Reporting Tools

Informatica7.x and Cognos Reporting Tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Thomson Reuters, CA May’23- Till now

Sr.Software QA

Responsibilities:

Developed the Automation Test Scripts in Katalon Studi using Page Object Model

Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the Application and automated it by using Katalon Studio

Set up the required reusable actions, repository, environment variables, Global Variables test data and functions required for the automation scripts functionality.

Followed Agile testing methodology, participated in daily Scrum meetings and test each sprint deliverables.

Identifying the locators and writing methods for the respective actions for each Page using POM

Helped in preparing driver scripts, data driven tests and test suits.

Analyzing Existing Test Scripts and modifying based on Change Requests and sprint goals.

Performed testing methodologies like smoke, functional, Regressing testing.

Prepared End to End Automation test scripts based on UAT test cases and Execution process.

Enhancing the test scripts for Global functions and execution.

Used GitHub, source code management tool for code re-usage.

Generating the automation execution summary report for each step and test case wise and to the Client.

Reported defects using JIRA and interacted with the developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Java, Katalon Studio, Agile/Scrum, GitHub, and JIRA

AT&T, Plano, Texas May ‘22- Apr ‘23

Sr. QA Analyst

Digital Sales Test- Wireless provides services to New User by to Buy devices- mobile/Tablet/Wearables & Plans & Accessories from att.com sales site & thereby becoming an ATT subscriber. The application has also various features like- add a line to an existing customer, opting Buy One Get One/Special Offers, Company specific accounts, Click2Store/Same Day Delivery Shipping, Different Payment methods etc.

Testing Team needs to test all the new functionality implemented as per business requirement in all supported browsers & mobile/tablet devices & deliver a bug free application by testing at various stages of test- QA/Stage/PVT. Testing team also does regression test to confirm no existing features break due to the new changes.

Responsibilities

Worked with CPOP & Catalog team to test various offers/data in AT&T Wireless scope.

Execute automation script using Katalon for E2E testing in AT&T Wireless scope

System Integration & PVT Validation using Automation scripts.

Interacting with Business Analyst/Product Owner and design teams to understand the test scope and requirements of testing.

Responsible for on time and quality delivery of the release scope. Dealing in test management and test planning

Design and Review of Automated scripts & run-in various stages of testing- QA Test/Stage/ Regression Test by using Katalon Studio in Script mode.

Used the Data Driven test to run various scenarios using different login credentials like existing Business account, Navy, Army, Defence, Hospital, regular customer etc

Interacting with client in various daily status calls, defects & issue calls. Liaising between onshore and offshore team members

Testing carried out with different Mobile/Tablet devices

Sending of Daily Status Report to the Stake Holder by Fetching the test execution counts from TDP.

Environment: Java,,Net framework,C#,Micro Service, iTrack, SharePoint, Katalon, TLG, Zypyre

Wabtec Railway Corporation, Fort Worth, TX Jun’17- May’22

Sr. QA Analyst

Worked as a Sr. QA Analyst in the area of Positive Train Control (PTC),CAD (Computer Aid Dispatch), BOS and TMC and non-PTC is a system TMDS designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, derailments caused by excessive speeds, unauthorized train movements in work zones, and the movement of trains through switches left in the wrong position. PTC networks enable realtime information sharing between trains, rail wayside devices, and “back office” applications, regarding train movement, speed restrictions, train position and speed, and the state of signal and switch devices. I am working on multiple Rail Roads like Canadian Railways, Belt Railway Corp, Metra Rail Roads, Alaska Railways, NICTD,TRE,TexRail and NMRL etc.

•Understand the requirements and formulate the test specifications including test plan and test scenarios based on requirements

•Followed SAFe Agile and CI/CD process for all the projects.

•Wrote Test Requirements, test cases and execution using Azure DevOps.

•Prepare business process flows using QA Test that captures screen shots while performing transactions on the application and generates the document that is provided to assist business to perform UAT testing

•Analyze stories and attend grooming sessions to understand the functional requirements and validations for functional based on the acceptance criteria

•Worked with Scrum Team and daily stand up to discuss about all possible tasks and technical issues with Business System Analyst and Developer.

•As a member of the Scrum Team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

•Rail worker wayside safety Tests

•Desinged the automated test scripts for regression using Ranorex automation tool with proper checkpoints

•Attended the meetings with the Clients at the time of demo.

Environment:VB.net,ASP.net,C#, SQL Server 2018, RMTrack, Redmine, QAC, VSTS, Ranorex, Azure DevOps, Java and SVN

Bank Of America, Dallas, TX Oct’15- Feb’17 QA Analyst

Worked as a QA Analyst for LMAI Remediation project. Worked on AS/400 Mortgage Security & Logging project also. The LMAI Remediation project is Agile Train application. We followed 2 weeks iteration.

•Analyzed the requirements for UW Roster and Jrules.

•Designed the test cases in Rally and necessary positive and negative scenario xmls for each Jrule which are converted from SQL Query based on the business requirements.

•The Jrules are pushed to ILog Rule Team Server and now ODM.

•Executed the respective Jrule xmls using SOAP UI automation tool and making sure that rules fired successfully for positive scenarios and for negative scenarios rules are not fired.

•Captured the screenshots for each rule.

•Gave demo to the business and got approval.

•Ran the batch process after .Net framework is developed.

•Designed the test cases for UW Roster which is developed using PEGA.

•Executed the test cases reported the defects in Rally and communicated to the developer.

•Once the defects are fixed, retested them and gave demo to the business.

•Designed the test cases using HP-ALM SIT and end to end testing.

•Executed the test cases and informed to the respective train leader.

•Identified the AIT for each release and coordinated with the team to identify the programs for each release.

•Involved in SIT testing also and logged the defects identified in HP-ALM.

•Coordinated defect triage meeting with the testing team and developers.

•Communicated the defect report to the business.

•Coordinated with the developers to complete the project in stipulated time.

•Submitting weekly status reports and communicating to the project Manager.

•Giving demo to the Business Users.

Environment: VB.net, Jrules, ODM, RTS, SQL Server2015, PEGA; CL/400, DB2/400, ILERPG, OS/400(IBM AS/400), TEB, DMart, Rally, SOAP UI and HP-ALM12.x

McKesson, The Woodlands city, TX Jul’14-Sep’15

BI Software QA

•Attended daily stand up Scrum meeting and gave updates to the team.

•Attended meeting with the business team to understand the requirements.

•Designed the Test Requirements as per the approved business requirements.

•Designed the test cases for ETL in HP-ALM as per the approved business requirements.

•Here we are getting Source file (Flat file) from the client and stored in SFTP server.

•Ran the file using Informatica 9.5.1 Workflow and monitored the successful execution in Informatica Monitor.

•After complete execution validated the data in Oracle 11g database by executing necessary SQL queries.

•Make sure MD5 unique keys are displayed.

•As per the approved requirements changed the data in Source file (Flat file) and stored it in SFTP server.

•Ran the file using Informatica 9.5.1 Workflow and make sure different MD5 keys are generated in Database.

•And again, ran the original Source file (Flat file) and make sure same MD5 keys are generated as per the initial ran.

•As per the business requirements validated the Presentation Layer also (Views).

•Validated the data in Business Object reports as per the requirements.

•Sign Off the project after approval from the team.

Environment: - HP-ALM11.x, JIRA, Confluence, Informatica 9.5.1, Business Objects Reporting Tool, Oracle 11g.

Ambit Energy, Dallas, TX May’13-June’14

Software QA

Responsibilities: -

•Attended the business requirements gathering and understand the business flow.

• Designed the test cases using TFS (Team Foundation Server) as per the approved business requirements.

•Designed the test cases for PowerZone dashboard which is having multiple widgets like My Dashboard, My Business, Business Tools, Events, Business Presentations and Success Showcase.

•Used iPad, iPhone and Android mobile apps to test the above applications as per the approved requirements.

•Designed necessary SQL using MS SQL Server 2012 for the necessary test cases.

•Entered the necessary test data on PowerZone and make sure it generated necessary output and verified them in the backend.

•Made necessary updates on PZ of the necessary consultant and make sure that correct notes are generated on CSystem.

•Made necessary registration on Ambit registration for Ambit 2013 and Simulcast 2014, make sure, that proper data is generated.

•Tested the applications in each 2 weeks sprint and entered the defects in TFS (Team Foundation Server) and assigned to necessary developers.

•Attended everyday scrum meetings and gave updates

•Desinged the automation scripts using Selenium Webdriver to run the regression scripts.

•If the defect fix is immediate, it is pushed to HOT environment and tested. If it passed, then pushed to Production.

•Once application is pushed to production, tested sanity check of Post-Production and gave updates to QA Manager.

•Tested the application using different browsers IE8,9, 10, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

•Using Safari browser tested this application in iPad, Android and iPhone.

Environment: - VB.Net, C#, ASP.net, HTML, Web forms, Restful APIs, MS SQL Server2012, Java Script, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Microsoft Test Manager, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber

MedAssets Inc., Plano, TX Jun’12-Apr’2013

Software QA

Responsibilities: -

•Interacted with Business Leads, SME’s and business analytics while designing the test requirements.

•Designed test requirements, test cases and necessary SQL queries.

•RCA is having multiple drill downs for each Dashboards (Access, Billing, Account Receivable, Financial and Denials) and designed SQL queries for each drill down.

•Designed test cases for both UI and backend testing.

•Reviewed SQL queries and UI test cases with Business Analytics and Development team.

•Ran the batch process using the copy of production file.

•Used Microsoft SharePoint to store the test requirements, test cases and SQL Queries.

•These projects used by Hospitals with Teradata database.

•Here we are using Agile Methodology to test the applications.

•Population Health application is consisting of Readmissions, Care Management, Transition Planning and Care Management Mobile.

•This application is showing the progress of the Patient admission to discharge and Readmission also.

•Care Management application is giving access to Physicians who are going to travel to the patients place for treatment.

•Care Management Mobile is having road map to the patient location.

•Population Health is giving easy access to the Physicians and Hospital Staff.

•Single Sign On (SSO) is giving access to the required applications necessary for the facilities, which are acquired by the client and includes all the applications which are developed by MedAssets for use.

•Coordinating with the development team in explaining the defects in detail.

•This application is developed in Agile methodology of 4 weeks iteration, tested the application and tested the defects which are fixed in that release.

•Tested Population Health project using different browsers like IE9,10, Firefox and Safari.

•Used iPad, iPhone and Android apps to test to the above mentioned project.

Environment: - Java, J2EE, Cold Fusion, MS SQL Server 2008, MS SharePoint, Rally.

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