PADMA NUTHIVANA

Email: adbr7k@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 678-***-****

Professional Summary

** **** ***** ** ********* experience in Information Technology business/Strong business analysis and quality assurance testing skills.

Worked with business stakeholders and other SMEs to assess current capabilities, understand high-level business requirements and apply technical background/understanding in the development of System Requirements Specification (SRS) documents

Participate in the design process to ensure that business requirements are being satisfied, facilitating design reviews with business users

Communicate project status to internal and external stakeholders

Create detailed Use Cases that directly align with the business requirements document and System Requirements Specifications document

Maintain compliance with Software Development Lifecycle documentation

Conduct analysis of business process changes for potential system impacts

Support the development team and QA team during build and testing to resolve any issues and questions that arise

Develop and execute IT test plans and coordinate IT testing and UAT activities.

Strong Functional/Technical background in Retail and Health Care platforms.

Excellent human relations skills proven by experience with a diverse customer and employee base.

Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.

Self-motivated with a positive attitude to meet/exceed goals unsupervised and in a team-oriented Environment.

Dependable and responsible, thrive in challenging situations requiring the ability to learn new skills.

Excellent time-management skills; Recognized for the ability to handle multiple time-sensitive tasks simultaneously system analysis, development, Quality Assurance testing.

Software Skills:

Create detailed Test Scenarios/Cases from Use Cases that directly align with the business requirements document and System Requirements Specifications document

Created Epics/UseCases/stories using JIRA board from the pre inception/Inception analysis with BU and DEV team in fast faced agile methodology.

Created BRD, SRD and Test Plan documents for projects.

Created RTM using HP ALM.

Extensive experience in Ad-Hoc, Functional, Black Box, Integration, Regression and System Testing.

Strong skills analyzing business specifications and involved in Test Plans, Preparing Test Cases, Executing Test Scripts and Defect Tracking.

Tested and executed Test Cases and Test Plans for complex business calculation part.

Executed GUI and functional tests of multi-language web-based interactive applications.

Leaded projects for manual and automated testing of the applications developed in various flatforms.

Have hands on working experience on mainframe systems with retail business applications.

Experienced in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE, DB2 and MS SQL Server, Teradata and GCP BIG Query. Good knowledge of SQL and data validation.

Test Automation experience with REST API and Selenium for Web applications..

Familiar with new technologies, Operating Systems, applications in order to maintain an awareness of technological advance.

Knowledge of various Tools and technologies such as Test Director, JIRA, HP Quality Center (ALM), TFS, Bugzilla, Test Manager, Test Case Manager, Star Team, Test Track, Win Runner and Quick Test Pro, RTM, Eclipse, POSTMAN, Selenium IDE, Cucumber BDD, Junit.

Macys Systems and Technology, GA (August 2013 to Present)

Senior Test Analyst

Projects Included:

Price Application

Price System is one of the Macys core applications. Price is an old standalone VB 6 application, supported by the background technologies .Net, C, C++ and C sharp technologies, Mainframe, DB2, Batch jobs. This application is core for price management system that interacts with other systems to maintain the strategic business goals.

As a Core member of the teams followed Agile Methodology principles by participating daily stand ups, Jira boards, stories and discussions for biweekly sprint deliverables.

Participated in elaboration meetings to discuss the Requirement specifications.

Created Epics/Use Cases/stories using JIRA board from the pre inception/Inception analysis with BU and DEV team in fast faced agile methodology.

Created BRD, SRD and Test Plan documents for projects.

Created RTM using HP ALM

Lead for many projects for the team Sprints to ensure the test coverage for all the system requirements as well as the functional requirements.

SME for the Price application for the new contractors with in the team to make good understanding of the system.

Supported and worked with the offshore team members for the project support.

Worked in the fast-faced environment as well as the legacy environment such as mainframes to support multiple applications at Macys.

Work environment includes Jira, DB2, Mainframes, Batch jobs, reports.

Worked with Jira, HP ALM for planning and executing the test cases based on the project type.

Strong knowledge of writing SQL Queries against databases such as DB2, GCP BQ, Teradata, Oracle for data validation and backend testing.

As a lead tester ran the Mainframe batch jobs for the PLU process and financial reporting.

Worked as test automation engineer for one of the projects using Macys Artemis framework.

Have knowledge of Selenium which is a java-based test automation tool. Cucumber for BDD.

Good understanding of Rest API automation. Worked in a small project to automate the Price Department API to see the responses.

Worked in GCP Big Query.

Tools used such as Test Director, JIRA, HP Quality Center (ALM), TFS, Bugzilla, Test Manager, Test Case Manager, Star Team, Test Track, Win Runner and Quick Test Pro, RTM, Eclipse, POSTMAN, Selenium IDE, Cucumber BDD, JUnit.

Worked in various environments such as QA, Regression, Staging and Prod.

Environment: Windows 2008, MS SQL Server, Java, HTML, .Net, Silver light, Web Services, Manual Testing, HP ALM, MS Visual Studio 2010, Jira, DB2, Mainframes, Batch jobs, GCP BQ, Teradata, Oracle, Rest API, GIT, MAVEN, Jenkins, JBehave.

McKesson PPS, GA (July 2012 to Aug 2013)

QA Analyst 3

Projects Included:

Practice Partner

Practice Partner is one of the McKesson PPS group of applications. Practice Partner is an old standalone application developed using .Net, C, C++ and C sharp technologies, which is a quality product from McKesson for Practices. This application is very much useful for all sizes of the practices which fulfill all the needs of a practice.

Actively involved in planning meetings to verify Requirements.

Participated in elaboration meetings to discuss the Spec

Performed as Scrum Master for the Team Sprints.

Supported and worked with the offsite team members for the project support.

Participated in daily team stand ups to discuss and update the status with team members.

Worked with Microsoft VS2010 TFS (Team Foundation Server) for Sprint Planning activities, updates, Test activities, Defect filing and tracking.

Worked with Test Case Manager and TFS for planning and executing the test cases.

Worked with Microsoft SQL server and Oracle for backend testing.

Worked with the DBViewer to query the database tables

Used Raf utility to view the huge files

Written Oracle SQL by joining different tables to validate data between front end web application and back end database, cross system data validations.

Validated the Patient records while exporting and importing in to the system that are in XML format.

Worked in different areas/modules of the application such as Schedules and Appointments, Reports, Patient Charts, Payments and Claims.

Worked in various environments such as QA, Regression, Staging and Beta.

Environment: Windows 2008, MS SQL Server, Java, HTML, .Net, Silver light, Web Services, Manual Testing, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Test Case Manager, Test Track, Star Team, MS Visual Studio 2010.

Professional Experience

Home Depot, GA (February 2012 to July)

QA Analyst

Projects Included:

SKU Length Finance Integration

Finance Integration is a web-based application that is designed to run securely on mainframe machine.

Finance Integration is a complex retail business application which deals with Finance Accounting system of HD retail business which runs on mainframe system.

Analyzed business and functional requirements for SKU length extension project which is designed to meet the growing retail business objectives for HD.

Integrated Application deals with the Inventory management of Domestic and Imports products using SKUs.

All various sub systems of the application are integrated and monitored using Key Recs and SKUs

Developed Test Scenarios, test cases based on System Requirements and Design Documents in MS Excel2010 and Quality Center.

Performed System testing and Regression testing for the application.

Analyzed various reports that are created after nightly batch process to validate SKU expansion.

Participated weekly team meetings on project status.

Performed database testing using SQL against the DB2 database to verify the loaded data after batch process.

Connected and worked with mainframe system using Unix emulator.

Worked with the different sub systems within the application such as Import Accounting System (IAS), Purchase Repository and Vendor Services.

Applied various calculations to validate the Import Accounts reports.

Used Quality Center for uploading the test scripts that are documented in MS Excel2010, for defect filing and tracking.

Efficiently supported and finished the tasks by working with offsite team.

Environment: Windows 2007, DB2, Java, HTML, Java Script, web logic, IBM 3270, IBM OS/390, Manual Testing, Unix Emulator, Quality Center 10.00, SAP.

McKesson PPS, GA (April 2011 to December)

Quality Analyst

Projects Included:

McKesson Physician Practice Solutions

Physician Practice Solutions is a web based application developed using .Net technology, which is a quality product from McKesson for Practices. This application is user friendly and fits for small Practices to large Practices.

Actively involved in planning meetings to verify Requirements.

Performed as Scrum Master for the Team Sprints.

Volunteered Build deployments, involved in build deployments using Build deployment tool.

Participated in daily team stand ups to discuss and update the status with team members.

Worked with Microsoft VS2010 TFS (Team Foundation Server) for Sprint Planning activities, updates, Test activities, Defect filing and tracking.

Worked with Test Manager for planning and executing the test cases.

Worked with Microsoft SQL server and Oracle for backend testing.

Written Oracle SQL by joining different tables to validate data between front end web application and back end database, cross system data validations.

Validated the Patient records while exporting and importing in to the system that are in XML format.

Worked in different areas/modules of the application such as Schedules and Appointments, Reports, Patient Charts, Payments and Claims.

Worked in various environments such as QA, Regression, Staging and Beta.

Involved in Web services functional testing using SOA Test tool

Deployed the web services packages in QA, Integration and LOAD by seeing the deployment instructions in the packages.

Tested the web services in the QA, Integration, Staging and LOAD environments.

Environment: Windows 2008, MS SQL Server, Java, HTML, .Net, Silver light, Web Services, Manual Testing, TFS (Team Foundation Server), MS Visual Studio 2010, Test Manager.

Omnilinks, GA (May 2009 to March 2011)

QA Engineer

Projects Included:

Comfort Zone Check-in (CZI)

Comfort Zone Check-in (CZCI) is a web application, the most comprehensive location monitoring service for individuals with Alzheimer's. Users can manage devices, see location information, request a device's current location, set schedules, manage notifications, and more. Company’s other products are Amber Watch, Personal Tracker, Comfort Zone etc., all are developed using location-based technology.

Analyzed business and functional requirements for Comfort Zone Check-in Web Application.

Developed Test Scenarios, test cases based on System Requirements and Design Documents in Test Management System (TMS).

Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing to test the application.

Performed device testing as well as CZCI web application testing to verify how both the device and application together integrated as for the project intended purpose.

Tracked various alerts generated by the system to verify whether it is working as for the requirements.

Performed DST (Day light Saving Tests) for various time zones to verify system displaying accurate time stamps.

Participated in daily scrum meetings to discuss with team members the progress of the testing activities.

Tested various builds when they are ready for the deployment.

Reported and tracked the defects using Bugzilla.

Environment: Windows 2008, Oracle 10, Java, HTML, Java Script, WebLogic, Web Services, Manual Testing, TMS (Test Management System), MS Visual Studio 2010, Bugzilla, Load Runner and Business Objects Reports.

Technical Summary

Testing Tools: Test Director 8.X, Quality Center 9.0, Rational Test Manager, Win Runner 8.0, Quick Test Pro 9.2 and Rational Clear Quest

Operating Systems: Win NT/2000/XP/2008, UNIX (Shell Script), Sun Solaris, MS-DOS.

WWW Development: HTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript and VB Script.

Web Server: IBM HTTP Server (IHS), IIS, Java and Apache.

Application Servers: Web Sphere, Web logic and JBoss, Tomcat.

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook.

Data Base: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MS-Access and DB2.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP.

Education

Master’s in Science, Bhopal University, India.

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