Lata Bommakanti

Cell: 973-***-****

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SUMMARY

Total 12+ yrs. of experience as a QA/BA Analyst in the Software Testing field with skills in manual testing of Web, Windows, Web Services, Client/Server applications and databases.

Hands on experience with testing /defect tracking tools like HP Quality Center/ALM and Unified Functional Testing (Quick Test Professional) for Web or Desktop based application, SOAP UI for SOA/REST based services and API methods, Jira, Zephyr.

Worked in agile and waterfall software development environment with Test Drive Development (TDD) and Behavioral Drive Development (BDD) approaches.

Mainframe Testing experience with retail applications.

Good experience in testing both SOAP and REST services using SOAP UI, Postman, Rest Assured and Tested both XML and JSON formats.

Good knowledge in preparation of test plan, test cases, test execution, bug tracking and test summary reports

Proficient in bug logging, working with requirements traceability matrix (RTM), defect triaging, scheduling and execution, test automation, creating QA reports and test scripts.

Experience in different types of testing for example black box testing, functional, system, regression, integration, user acceptance testing (UAT) and performance testing

4 years of non-IT experience in Operations/Back Office with leading investment and banking firm.

Excellent analytical and communication skills, proactive, well organized, efficient, team player and foster collaborative work environment.

TECNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools

HP ALM Version 11.0, HP Quality Center (HPQC) 10/11, SOAP UI, JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Zephyr, SOAP UI.

Methodologies

Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall

Databases

Oracle SQL Developer, AS400, DBeaver, Dynatrace.

Languages

VB Script,SQL,AS400, C#, Core Java, J2EE, Python

Web

HTML/XHTML, CSS, Web Services, jQuery, JSP, JSON, Servlets

Operating Systems

Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows 2000/XP,CA WA Workstation (Job scheduling tools)

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari

Frameworks

Angular JS, Spring. Page Object Model, Cucumber.

Professional Experience

SR BA Analyst.

Sr BA Kforce

Client:Washington University of St louis MO Feb2023-till date

SR BA/QA Analyst

Enterprise Fleet management St Louis MO Nov2021– Feb2023

Working Knowledge of EFM applications like EDGE, PeopleSoft, Billing services, Gain Management, ICE and other EFM applications.

Worked with client to determine the user requirements and goals at requirements elicitation stage using the Agile methodology.

Analyzed the business requirements and created a uses case to assist the development and QA/UAT in design and testing.

Assessed and analyzed user stories and participated in Sprint planning, review session and scrum meeting and developed test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, Test Procedures, Test reports.

Presented Test result analysis during daily Agile stand-up meetings.

Responsible to understand business logic of service and locate real user’s scenarios.

Web services testing using postman.

Provided front end user interface validation and back-end validation.

Created and ran SQL queries on AS400 and Oracles developer, Postgres to gather data and ran the test validation.

Provide a UAT After Action Report that includes description of the UAT, issues/findings, and resolution or remediation of the issues.

Responsible for planning regression test stories in every Sprint.

Bug Reporting and Tracking through JIRA.

Sr QA Analyst.

Client Edward Jones -St Louis MO Nov2020- Nov2021

Worked with Advisory Trading team as manual tester- AO Trading team.

Knowledge of Advisory and Guided solutions account for current day and as of trade for both mutual funds and ETF’s trade.

Placing Bulk ETFS trade and doing correction on the trades via Advisory Ops Dashboard.

Knowledge of Trade creation Algorithms for Event and dummy trades via Advisory ops Dashboard. Checking the Individual trades created on the communication system to view using INQ.

Testing the various reports like, ETF Mismatch, Trade creation Reject report, True up Reject Report, AGG report, Dummy Cusip etc

Developed plan to identify, track and manage all issues and risks associated with responsibility areas with the client management team.

Coordinated defect management calls between various teams’ development, support and management and participated in defect review calls with the development team.

Provided proposals on proper escalating processes and procedures for quick defect resolution.

Performed detailed test results analysis after each test execution cycle and maintained Test results.

Conducted extensive Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing on the application.

Performed Load, Volume, Capacity and Stress Testing on the application using Load Runner.

Designed and implemented Automation Test Frameworks using QTP.

Analyzed test Conditions and developed Manual Test Scripts for new Functionality test cases in QTP. Performed sophisticated Black Box Testing on the application.

Established Traceability between the Requirements and the Tests in Traceability Matrix using Quality Center.

Assisted in Creating Detailed Timelines, Test Plans and Test Strategies for major releases and organized strategy review meetings.

Performed Functional, Regression, Load, Stress, and Performance tests of Trading Systems.

Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script

Participated in bug review meetings and Go/No-Go meetings.

Participated in weekend release testing.

Sr QA/BA Analyst

Client: Save-a-lot (SUPERVALU) Aug2017- June2020

St Louis MO

In the process of transition business form Supervalu to Onex corporation. SUPERVALU implemented Oracle ERP Cloud along with HCM Cloud to replace Oracle EBS, Lawson and AXSONE applications.

Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility of this position is to plan and execute testing of software changes originating from upgrades and new software development for an assigned group of products.

Participate in testing of new systems, system and environment enhancements and upgrades, and defect resolution activities. Create test data to meet specific test objectives.

Perform manual functional testing, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing. Document testing defects with proper level of detail and retest for compliance. Adhere to test management processes, procedures.

Develop test plans and manual test scenarios and scripts, Defect logging done in HP ALM tools.

Experience testing the legacy mainframe UI/Batch Systems. CICS command on the green screen for dong the verification and validations of testing.

QA testing on multiple platforms (AS400, Mainframe, client/server, Oracle DB etc.)

Report on status of testing activities to the Test Manager as defined in the test plan and/or required by the test management process.

Sr Business Analyst

Client: MasterCard- St Louis MO Sep2016 to Aug2017

The Billing Services department provides centralized billing for products and services billed to customers using the Client Consolidated Billing System (MCBS). MCBS supports the billing for all Client branded transactions, Cirrus/Maestro switch fees, assessment fees, and various other fees. Core mission is to provide core billing services, drive billing assurance, provide value added services and enable growth as Client advances commerce globally.

Responsibilities:

Consult with Operations team to identify, define, and document business need/objective.

Gain an understanding of the current operational procedures, including all the input/outputs within the existing architectural data landscape.

Identify opportunities for improving business processes including proposal for new technology changes.

Develop Use cases to support Business Requirement Documents to expand on Business Scenarios

Create Test Plan, Scripts, & align stakeholders to the overall testing approach.

Manage changes to baseline requirements with the use of effective application of change control processes and tools.

Functional experience Oracle eBusiness Suite Record to Report (R2R) modules.

Assist Billing Services Management with special projects and other functions as required including training, and monthly statistical reporting.

Software Test Engineer

Oct 2015 – Sep2016

Citi Mortgage - Safe Box Accounting -O Fallon, Mo

A safe box, is an individually-secured container, usually held within a larger safe or bank vault. These boxes are generally located in banks, post offices or other institutions. Safe deposit boxes are used to store valuable possessions that need protection from theft, fire, flood, tampering, or other perils. This application is for management of Safe box such as process accounts payable and accounts receivable, prepare bank deposits, follow up on collections, bank reconciliations, end-of month-account reports etc.

Responsibilities

Understanding the Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) Document. Identify the scenarios based on FRS

Conducted user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients as specified in the functional requirements.

Designed developed and implemented user acceptance testing protocols as the final phase of applications development.

Captured and tested all modifications to proposed functional requirements.

Used Quality Center to prepare and execute test cases for Functional and User Acceptance testing.

Scheduling and carrying functional, integration, regression test cases and execution with SOAP UI

Used Soap UI for Test case execution, validating messages with help of schema, assertion test step.

Simulated small user base load testing in SOAP UI

Created MOCKS response using SOAP UI for intermediate components during the testing of other components in flow, completed the development for integration testing.

Testing of UI components of web applications compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox).

Involved in defect reporting, defect tracking and defect reproducing.

Prepared Test Reports and submitted the bugs/defects in HP Quality center.

Good communication with development team and collaborated closely with clients during testing process.

Wipro (Walmart) – Apr-2014-Oct-2015

Inventory & Price Management- Bentonville, AR

Stock inventory and price management application aims to provide a centralized source for Inventory availability and local pricing of all store items. A daily feed from each store on stocks and pricing is sent to centralized repository so that this application can provide accurate visibility on stocks and lost items.

Environment

Java/J2EE, REST Webservices, Waterfall, JSON, Oracle/SQL, SOAP UI, HP ALM Quality Center 11, Linux, IBM Mainframe.

Responsibilities

Requirements gathering and clarification sessions with the clients.

Preparing /updating Test plan, reviewing the system test cases. Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.

Involved in Web service testing using SOAP UI

Backend testing Oracle developer, Working-level experience with DB2 in a mainframe environment.

Communicating and coordinating with the Functional and development teams for quick resolution of critical issues / remedy tickets.

Used Quality Center for defect tracking. Developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases.

Used SQL extensively to validate data in databases.

Integrating with different teams to test the data flow across platforms.

Test Engineer

Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

Micros - Major Account Programming Service - Columbia, MD

The Major Accounts Programming Desk is a team focused on providing application configuration via a remote connection. It provides database configuration/programming, consultation, credit card changes of service and over the phone training

Environment

Java, WebLogic, Web services, XML, SQL, QTP 9.2, UNIX, Quick Test Professional and Test Director

Responsibilities

Involved in analyzing the applications and development of test cases.

Applications are tested manually.

Identified the test requirements based on business requirements.

Responsible for doing System testing of the entire applications along with team members.

Created test cases, test reports and bug reports.

Tested Various Modules manually.

Analyzed Results with Business Analysts.

Worked with technical analysts to develop functional specifications for the features and functions defined in the requirement document

Financial Analyst (Operations/Back Office – Non IT)

Oct 2006 - Apr 2008

Lehman Brothers - Tactical Client Reporting- Mumbai, India

The focus of IMD Client reporting team helps in setting up of client templates, creating groups (breaking account as per different asset class held in the portfolio), composites (consolidate different asset class into one composite) by adding the benchmarks confirmed by the Investment Reps.

Responsibilities

Responsible for analyzing equity and fixed income portfolios managed by institutional clients of Lehman Brothers India.

Basic process involves assessing holdings of each portfolio sent by these managers on a monthly or quarterly basis and comparing them with the performance of the benchmark sectors to Judge the performance of each portfolio.

The process involves updating of real market data retrieved from Bloomberg Terminals. This data is in the form of indexes like Dow Jones, MSCI forms the basis for the analysis.

Security Prices are derived from Bloomberg to get the correct market values of the portfolios on a given date.

Creating two pager client reports consisting of Portfolio Summary Overview since inception period (Time Weighted Performance Report).

Allocation of task, Scheduling, Tracking and reviewing of work.

Preparing scorecards of the team for weekly, monthly and year for management purpose

Risk Analyst (Operations/Back Office – Non IT)

May 2005 - Oct 2006

JP Morgan Chase - Global Fund Services- Mumbai,India

Development of TLM Configuration and Dashboards and to play a key role in the on-boarding of new reconciliations and those from legacy systems to TLM Reconciliations (V2.5).

Responsibilities

Configure front end reconciliations solution (e.g. dashboards)

TLM application configuration

Migration of reconciliations from legacy systems

Training of incumbent reconciliations business team members

Liaison with Business users for support or development queries

Maintain system, operational, help desk documentation: Support procedures, development specifications and documentation, User FAQ’s etc.

Ensure all reconciliations conform to SOX controls.

Analyst (Operations/Back Office – Non IT)

Aug 2004 - May 2005

Syntel India Ltd – Ruby- Mumbai,India

Worked for 4 UK based companies namely Schorders, Gartomre, Cofunds and Prudential as a Mutual fund dealer for third party administration under IFDS (International Financial data services). IFDS use to looks after the investor’s portfolio for above companies and deals on their behalf based on the valuation point and Nav for each funds

Responsibilities

Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification

Stock transfer from one-management companies to other, on receipt of the instructions from the investors before the valuation point.

After the valuation point we make the receipt of the cash proceeds or confirmation of stock transfer from the plan manager.

On confirmation of cash & stock in & out then close the deal according to the valuation point.

According to the client instructions we then set the mandates i.e. mode of payments of transaction.

N.L Dalmia Inst. of Management & Research (Mumbai University)

2002-2004

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Master in Management Studies (Major – Finance)

K.J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce (Mumbai University)

1998-2001

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bachelors in Commerce

CERTIFICATE & TRAINING

K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering (Mumbai University)

2002-2003

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Certification Diploma in Advance Computing (C-DAC)

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