Quality Assurance Software

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GAYATRI ARITAKULA

469-***-****, *************@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Detail-oriented quality assurance and testing professional offering strong research and debugging skills. An individual who works well in a team environment. Seeking a challenging quality assurance position with an esteemed organization. Effectively priorities and manages multiple projects. knowledge of testing methodologies and the software development cycle. Excellent analytical and programming abilities combined with attention to detail.

SKILLS

As a QA Lead engineer, I am responsible for ensuring the quality of the final products. I have a strong knowledge of coding and developing frameworks and automation to execute tests at various stages and parts ofproduct development.

I focus on the business logic of an application at the early stages of development before any code is written. I analyze the business needs, plans high-level development, and build use cases to test manually to ensure that an idea is viable.

Implemented shift left testing, getting involved in the early project at a very early stage and gain knowledge

of the product and implement the following:

Software planning and design

Writing and reviewing code

Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating all QA activity

Designing and deploying testing processes

Developing, tracking, and improving QA metrics

Ensuring the timely completion and deployment of software

Overseeing software integrations

Creating a plan and processes for release management Ensuring compliance with in-house QA guidelines and relevant legislation related to data use and protection.

Expertise in test automation in building Hybrid frameworks using Page Object Model (POM) with Cucumber BDD and Selenium WebDriver, Grid in Eclipse utilizing TestNG, JUnit, Apache POI and Maven JEST and cypress automation frameworks using JavaScript and typescript.

Proficiency in designing and developing of Automation Framework, Business Scripts and Generic Functions.

Experienced in making Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid framework using Page Object Model with Selenium to maintain test suite.

Experience in configuring application frameworks by processing excel spreadsheets using Apache POI.

Expertise in writing Automation testing scripts using JavaScript in Test Complete Automation Tool for developing High Quality Automated Test Cases (ATC).

Expertise in Requirement Analysis, Defining Test Strategy, Designing Test Plans/Cases, Executing Test Cases (Manual and Automated), Monitoring/analyzing test results, Detecting/Tracking Bugs and interacting with development team in fixing them, collecting test metrics, and Conducting test reports.

Expertise in performing extensive Exploratory, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, Ad-hoc and User Acceptance Testing.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

10+ years of experience in performing Manual and Automation Testing on Web based Applications.

Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experience to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes.

Having first class executive leadership, negotiating, and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third-party test teams.

Experience on Agile, V- model and Waterfall models for testing the applications.

Involved in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle and SDLC, and Strong working knowledge of Software Testing (Functional, Integration, System and Sanity).

Highly experienced in developing Automation Scripts in Java and Java Scripts and Manual Test Cases using zephyr, Test Plans, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and defining accepting criteria in Jira, and Report Generation using Jenkins based on functional specifications.

Experience in using the defect-tracking tool JIRA.

Hands on with Jenkins, API using postman and working towards CICD and AWS Cloud. WORK HISTORY

11/2021 - 3/2024

QA Lead

UBS – New York

Leading IVR, Genesys test team to deliver within the project schedule.

Defining the scope of testing for each release/delivery which included Customer self service, inbound rouiting, digital channels,voice services, Integrations and reporting.

Managing available resources for testing with appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team

Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any testing tasks.

Participate in test planning and in testing activities on multiple devices for multiple projects. Assessing the progress and effectiveness of the test effort

Advocating the appropriate level of quality by the resolution of important Defects

Advocating an appropriate level of testability focus in the software development process Lead Quality Assurance Automation engineer 09/2020 - 10-2021 AT&T – Dallas, Texas

Review requirements and writing, updating test cases, troubleshooting defects, and analyzing test results.

Execute test cases, logging defects, triaging defects, and testing multiple mobile devices. Reporting status to Test Mgr.

Leading different functional areas of a project or multiple concurrent projects.

Participate in test planning and in testing activities on multiple devices for multiple projects.

Testing - review requirements, analyzing requirements, determining testing needs, writing, and reviewing test cases, running test cases, troubleshooting, logging and regressing defects and analyzing test results; point of escalation for team members and will work closely with project stakeholders.

Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium Web Driver with TestNG framework.

Experience in setting the Test Environment.

Developing Automation Framework using Katalon API and UI with Cucumber, Groovy

Through hands on experience with all levels of testing including Smoke, Regression, and Sanity Testing.

Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.

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Quality Assurance Senior Automation engineer

Cancer Research UK - London, UK 05/2015 – 08/2020

Hands-on with a few AWS services like Cognito user pools, cloud watch, lambda, s3 bucket etc...

JEST and cypress automation frameworks using JavaScript and typescript

API testing with Cypress framework

Defect/User Story Tracking Tools: JIRA, Quality Centre, VSS, TFS, Bugzilla Projects:

Activity management, Online fundraising, Cancer chat, ECTF, Gift Aid, Nurses Email, Facilitators, Stand-up to Cancer

Technologies:

Java, JavaScript, Drupal, Siebel, Postman, React Tools Used Selenium, Cypress Responsibilities:

Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of the project.

Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents/artefacts is documented and maintained.

The document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.

Check / Review the Test Cases documents.

Keep track of the new requirements/change in requirements of the Project.

Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.

Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.

Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project. Test analyst

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Project name: HR Management (Human Resource), Digital Dictation (Dictapro). 09/2010 - 04/2015

Technologies Visual Basic, .Net, SQL, PL/SQLTesting Tools QC, Manual Testing, Human Resources is a client-server application that serves as a hub for all the employee related activities, including communication, development, measurement, and compensation.

HR Management allows you to adopt structured approaches to attracting, retaining, developing and using the critical skills and knowledge needed to optimize the workforce.

Responsibilities:

Requirements gathering, Creation of test plan and Test Strategy.

Setting up of QA process for full engagement.

Understanding the initial requirements and getting clarifications from the business.

Smoke, Functional, Integration and Regression testing.

Preparation of Test case-based design docs and functional requirements.

Demo the intermediate releases to the client to share the development progress and get the early feedback.

Preparation of reports and sharing it across different stake holders for release decision. EDUCATION

Certificate of Higher Education: Bachelor of Commerce Andhra University - Vishakhapatnam 05/2005

Certified ISEB professional

Certified AWS cloud practitioner

Certified Agile tester

Visa Status : GC

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