Life Cycle Qa Engineer

Harini Kundoor

Email: ******.*******@*****.*** Contact # 361-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Senior QA Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Manual and Automation testing. Experienced in all phases of Software Testing life cycle (STLC), developing Test Plan, deriving Test Scenarios, Test Cases and developing Automation test scripts using Selenium.

Experience working in domains including Retail, Healthcare, Insurance and Telecom domains.

Expertise in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile and Waterfall environments.

Strong knowledge in implementing Waterfall and Agile (Sprint/Scrum) methodology by analyzing requirement specifications and responsible for developing Test Objective, Scope, Test Procedures and Test Metrics.

Experience in performing Smoke, Sanity, Functional (UI Testing), Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, Retesting, Positive, Negative, GUI testing, Black box, Database testing, ADHOC, Exploratory, Performance Testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability and User Acceptance testing (UAT).

Experience in developing scripts for Automation using Selenium Web Driver, Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, Test NG, POM framework.

Experience writing programming scripts for Automation testing using Java, C#.

Experience with Cross-Browser and Compatibility testing to test whether the applications are working as desired in different browsers and environments.

Experience in locating various GUI elements using ID, Name, Class Name, XPath, CSS, Link Text, Partial Link Text to create scripts for automation.

Experience in using build management tools Maven and ANT to manage dependencies and configuration Management tools like GIT.

Experience in API Testing/Web Services testing using Soap UI, Ready API and Postman tools. Validated request and response XML, JSON files for SOAP and RESTFUL Web Service calls.

Experience working on different HTTP methods including GET, POST, PUT and DELETE operations for Creation, Updation, Deletion and to Get the details.

Validated different status codes from service response as part of API Testing.

Performed Positive and Negative Testing using API’s and Validated Request/Response JSON files and compared with Data base results and also checked Response time.

Experience working on Mobile Application Testing and developed Test Plans and executed Mobile Test Cases.

Developed test scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber.

Experience writing SQL Queries using SQL server, Oracle Server and SQL developer for data validation.

Experience using Test Management tools VSTS, Azure Devops, Microsoft Test Management tool (MTM), HP ALM, Test Rail, Octane and Defect Management and Reporting tools JIRA.

Strong knowledge in continuous integration (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins and good experience using Sauce Labs.

Quick in becoming skilled in new areas of knowledge and good in decision making to complete the task successfully with no rollovers.

Good Interaction and communication with Project Managers/Product Owners, Business Analysts, Test Architects, Developers and other QA Team members.

Good Team player, strong interpersonal and communication skills combined with self-motivation, initiative and the ability to think outside the box.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodology

Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, STLC, Bug Life Cycle

Artifacts

Test Plan, Test Case, Test Scripts, Test Suites, RTM, Test Summary Report, Bug Report

Automation Tools

Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, Sauce Labs, TestNG, JMeter, Cypress, Protractor, SoapUI, Ready API, Postman, Rest let Client, Talend API

Project Management Tools

HP Quality Center, ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), JIRA, Rally, Version One, MTM (Microsoft Test Manager), VSTS/TFS, Test Rail, HP ALM, Octane

Test Build and Integration Tools

Maven, Ant, Jenkins, SVN, GitHub.

Frameworks

Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid, Page Object Model, BDD, Cucumber.

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, C#, Python, HTML, XML

Database/Database Tools

SQL Server, Oracle Server, MySQL, SQL Developer

Packages

Eclipse, Intellij, ASP.Net framework, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, Outlook

Operating Systems

Windows, MAC, Unix, Linux

Education:

Bachelor’s in Engineering, Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT), Osmania University, Hyderabad (2009-13)

Master’s in Engineering (MS), Texas A & M University (2015-16), Kingsville

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client: Charter Communications / Spectrum June 23- Till Date

Job Title: QA Lead

Location: St Louis, Missouri

Responsibilities:

Participating in Sprint meetings including Planning, Grooming, Scenario Review calls with Architects, Test Case Review calls, Project Hand-Off calls, Review, Retrospective and Bug Triage meetings.

Experience writing, reviewing and executing Test Cases, writing SQL queries to fetch the data from data base and validating results using Oracle Server database.

Identifying Test Scenarios and test cases analyzing and understanding the requirements.

Communicating with Business Analysts for any questions related to functionality or User stories.

Preparing Test Cases and Test Data ready before the code deployment to QA environment.

Experience with Test Plan documents, adding new release related test cases and also Regression test cases and executing test cases from Test Plan and preparing Report summary.

Performing Test Case execution after code deployments and make sure working as per user stories and raising defects if there exist any issues.

Performing UI Testing for Frontend Spectrum Retail application logging and tracking defects.

Identifying test cases for automation and developing Automation test scripts for Smoke and Regression tests.

Developing new Automation test scripts for the test cases for each Release.

Run the Sanity and Smoke test cases on a daily basis and log the defects and triaging them.

Maintaining existing automation test scripts and analyzing failures and identifying root cause.

Filing and tracking defects and coordinating with Developers, DB Team and Triaging team regarding issues.

Validating Defects and performing Re-testing for test cases failed in previous execution.

Providing Sign-off to user stories once validation is completed.

Providing Live Presentation on the projects every Release to the Team members and do Hand-Off calls.

Maintaining the existing Regression test scripts and reporting if any issues found for every Release.

Performing API testing using Postman for different projects and validating request and response JSON and comparing the data with Database.

Performing Mobile Application Testing (MSA APP) on various Android and IOS Applications, Performed Functional testing, Network testing, Performance testing, Compatibility testing, Data Integration testing on Spectrum Mobile App.

Coordinating with multiple teams including SPS for Payment related issues, Amdocs (CRM) for Billing related and Agent OS, NBOP, RSSX during testing.

Hands on experience working on D2C portals i.e., Spectrum Mobile APP(MSA APP) and Spectrum.net applications.

Environment: Functional Testing (UI Testing), TestRail, ALM/Octane, Jira, Selenium WebDriver, C#, TestNG, Visual Studio, TOSCA, POM, Junit, CI/CD tools, Jenkins, GITHub, Postman, Splunk, Amdocs (CRM), NBOP, RSSX, Oracle Server Database.

Aug 17- May 23

Client: UPMC Health Plan

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

Participated in all Sprint meetings including Planning, Grooming, Review, Retrospective, Demo, Backlog Grooming, Test Case Review and Daily Scrum meetings.

Developed scripts for Smoke and Regression testing for Web services and Web Application testing for Angular application and including tools Selenium.

Performed functional testing (UI Testing) for the front-end UPMC Healthcare application using Selenium WebDriver.

Performed Web Service testing using different API calls including GET, POST, PUT, DELETE operations for retrieving, inserting, updating and archiving the data.

Identified and reported critical database issues, contributing to improved application performance and user satisfaction using Microsoft SQL Server Database.

Performed SQL Queries for Creating and Updating the database records using Microsoft SQL Server and comparing with UI Front end application and making sure the data matches.

Performed API Testing using Postman and created, updated and deleted the database records using POST, PUT and Archive methods and performed comparison between the data using MS SQL Server.

Worked on Soap UI tool for Web Service testing/API testing also used POSTMAN, RESTLET Client and Swagger.

Assessed and Analyzed User stories and automated testing situations using various tools.

Mapped test plans to User Story requirements.

Created Smoke tests to ascertain that the crucial functions of the application works after each build deployments and also implementing Regression tests to detect bugs after enhancements and configuration settings of the application.

Worked with various types of testing includes Smoke testing, functional testing, Re-testing, Regression testing.

Worked with Regression testing for each and every sprint release, analyzing the failed tests and fixing the failures based on the issue (CM/ DB / Service/UI), filing bugs and validating defects.

Performed Functional testing as per user stories from VSTS/Azure Devops and also performing Integration testing and System testing.

Wrote automated Data driven test scripts using Selenium WebDriver to carry out functional, data driven, Integration, Smoke and Regression testing.

Developed test scripts both for smoke as well as for Regression tests following the sprints for multiple projects.

Maintained Regression test scripts for each build including Lab and QA.

Developed and executed SQL queries to fetch the data for verification and validation and performed database testing.

Environment: Functional Testing (UI Testing), Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Protractor, Microsoft Visual Studio, Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, TestNG, Maven, C#, Cucumber (BDD), Gherkin, Microsoft Office, HTML, CSS, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MS SQL), Mobile, Testing, Agile, API Testing, SoapUI, Ready API, Postman, Restlet Client, Microsoft Test Manager tool (MTM).

Client: JCPenney, Plano, Texas June 2016-July 2017

Job Title: QA Analyst

Location: Plano, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

Involving in the System analysis of business requirements, test planning, Analyzing the User stories, Test case development and test execution.

Assessed and Analyzed User stories and participated in Sprint planning, Sprint grooming, Scenario Review sessions, Defect Triage Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings & Scrum Meetings, and developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Reports.

Reviewed product requirements, functional and design specifications to determine and prepare automated test cases.

Designed and Developed test automation Artifacts (scripts, functions, scenarios, processes) for simple to complex scenarios and automated testing situations using various tools like Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG and analyzed Test Results.

Participated in peer review with team and developers to review test cases/test scripts.

Created Smoke Tests to ascertain that the crucial functions of the application work after every build deployments and also implemented Regression tests to detect bugs after enhancements and configuration settings of the application.

Performed Functional testing as per user stories from Jira and also performed Integration testing and System testing.

Performed BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definitions, Runner Files and managed the framework dependency jars using Ant.

Maintained the Selenium & Java Automation code and resources in source control like GitHub, Jenkins for continuous integration using Selenium Grid and Sauce Labs and ALM and Jira to log and track the defects raised.

Verified Integration of various components in the application and executed end-to-end testing.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, ALM, Jira, GIT, Jenkins, ANT, TestNG, Java, Cucumber(BDD), Gherkin, Microsoft Office, HTML, CSS, Oracle DB, Sauce Labs, Web Application, Mobile, Tablet Testing, Agile, API Testing, Postman.

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