SHRADDHA KALE – Test Lead/Automation Lead
New York, USA Phone: +1-732-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***
Career Overview
Quality Analyst with 10 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing
Experience in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 testing 3+ years in Health & Public Services domain
Experience in Cloud CaaS/PaaS testing 7+ years in Telecommunication domain
Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodology
10 years of experience in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
Expertise in QA methodologies, test strategies, test metrics and test documentation
10 years of experience and expertise in analysis of requirement, test plan preparation, test case design, test case execution, defect tracking and analysis, defect reporting using defect management tools
Involved in business analysis, requirements gathering, gap analysis and change request management
Experienced in different phases of testing such as functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, backend testing and automation testing
7+ years of experience in designing automation test framework, creating new scripts and maintaining them using QTP/UFT for UI automation and SOAP UI tool for API/Web services testing
Experience in developing complex SQL queries to interact with the databases SQL/Oracle
Experienced in training the end-users, facilitated session for UAT
Good working knowledge in project estimation, risk management and weekly status report preparation
Led a team of onsite & offsite resources 11+ members for functional and regression releases and Led automation team of 5 members
Experienced in offshore coordination
Areas of Technical expertise
Tools – HP UFT/Quick Test Professional QFT, SOUP UI, Jenkins, Hexawise, Microsoft (Macro, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Test management tools – Rally, HP ALM/ Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest, IBM Rational/TDP
Languages – VB Script, Groovy Script, SQL
Methodology – Agile, Waterfall
Domain – Cloud and Public & Health service domain, PeopleSoft Application HCM, FCM, CRM
Testing – Regression testing, Automation testing, Security testing, Sanity testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, Back end testing, Functional testing, User acceptance testing, Manual testing, End to end testing
Professional Experience
Client#1 : State of New York (June 2017 - Present)
Project : New York State and Local Retirement System
Employer : Accenture LLP – New York USA
Role : Team Lead
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for PeopleSoft application system and integration test preparation and execution
PeopleSoft 9.2 Core HCM expertise in several of the following modules: Benefits, Workforce Admin, Self Service, MSS, Pension
Data keying and testing of various test scenarios in job data component for regularly hours, salaried and other criteria fields which impact payroll testing
Enrolled employee in different Benefit program and Benefit plans
Developed test plan and test cases for Event Maintenance, Post Enrolment, Periodic Process, Post Periodic Process
Created different queries using PeopleSoft Query Manager
Worked with users and third party vendor to understand how their business & data model works, provided feedback, addressing their needs, building relationship with clients
Collecting, understanding and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans
Led team of 5 on-site & 6 off-site resources, scheduled nightly calls for assignments, knowledge transfer and doubt clarification sessions to make sure team stays on track
Led the efforts to decide what needs to be automated and scope of automation every release
Developed solution and designed MACRO to save 750+ hours of test data creation
Led the user acceptance testing/ UAT which involved coordinating 2 different work units, implemented user’s suggestions into change requests, ease users into new system
Assisting with pre and post production support activities as needed
Participated in preparation of Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data
Meet with users, and subject matter experts to review and refine test scenarios and scripts
Reviewed requirements documentation in order to clearly identify priority and impact of test cases in IBM Rational/TDP RM module
Configured test environment for specific test cases, created test data, and executed tests, documented results, and updated defect tracking systems in IBM Rational/TDP QM module
Created and used various complex SQL queries to validate test data
Helped users to verify system with various data points and security testing
Done data analysis of input files with thousands of data before demonstrating to users and created test data which would suffice UAT scenarios when conditions weren’t met in real files
Facilitate daily, weekly status meetings with Project manager, Developers and with Business Users as well
Client#2 : AT&T (Oct 2014 – June 2017)
Project : Web services
Employer : Accenture LLP – New Jersey USA
Role : Automation Lead & Team Lead
Key Responsibilities:
Analysing the business requirements and thereby preparing the master test plan and Detailed Test Plan
Actively participated in requirements reviews, gain an understanding of functional specifications and provide feedback on documentation
Facilitated scrum meetings every day and walkthroughs with PM and team members to discuss test progress and issues
Conducted testing process through Agile process by using Rally
Participated in sprint planning meeting to finalize user stories for sprint and backlog item
Used Rally to make stories for sprint, testing sprints, maintaining backlog
Involved in daily scrums, and iteration meetings under Agile methodology
Every release is operated within a very agile environment, with daily scrum meetings; stand up meetings, burn-down charts, presentations and review
Participated defect review meetings with Dev team and QA team
Executed tests and participated actively in regression testing using QTP
Initiated Change Requests (CRs) as appropriate to capture defects and enhancements identified during testing process
Created a framework using Groovy script to have execution of 100s Restful APIs without manual intervention using SOAP UI tool
Tested Web Services/XML/SOAP and RESTFul services using SOAP UI tool
Worked as automation lead where I have designed a automation test framework for application, designed the reusable components, function libraries and reviewed scripts which are extensively used in application
Experienced with REST HTTP requests are: POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE
Configured Jenkins and slaves on different operating systems. Integrated SOAP UI with Jenkins & Send an email with its status and other contents
Created an asset called "Email Automation". User ends an email to a specific email id with Subject <Email Automation - Regression Suite Name> and my driver script will execute regression Suite on remote machine. Creates an excel reports and sends it to User
Good experience on UNIX command language
Client#3 : AT&T (May 2010 – Sept 2014)
Project : PRISM
Employer : Accenture Services – Mumbai India
Role : Software Engineer & Automation Designer
Key Responsibilities:
Designed a automation framework for application, designed the reusable components and reviewed scripts and implemented in the production systems
Identified the test cases to be automated and performed data driven testing and GUI Check points using QTP/UFT and enhanced the overall functionality of the application
Used VB Scripting extensively to automate functional test cases using QTP/UFT and Performed data driven testing by data driver wizard and parameterization in QTP for web based application
Written reusable VBScript functions and libraries in QTP/UFT
Optimized UFT scripts for regression testing with various data sources and data types
Every automation script is designed using descriptive programming so that there is no dependency of object repository and less maintenance
Creating and troubleshooting automation testing script if there are any intervention
Attended requirements and design meetings, review & analysis of requirements and design documentation
Helped the team to understand the requirements using the Use cases and Test case
Developed manual test cases and test scenarios that provide thorough coverage of implemented features, configuration changes and other change requests
Documented test results and logged defects in Quality Center/ HP ALM
Maintained and grow regression testing scenarios for automated test execution
Created test execution summary report and communicate results to manager and project team
Created updated and maintained test matrix and traceability matrix (RTM)
Developed and executed automated test scripts for functional, integration and regression testing
Performed database testing using SQL scripts for back end testing on Oracle database
Performed smoke testing before the actual execution of test cases and Created and Maintained QA environment
Education
Bachelor's degree in Electronic and Telecommunication, From Mumbai University, India. (2005-2009)
Certification
HP Quality Center/ALM
Agile certification from Accenture
HP QTP 10.0
ISTQB certified - International Software Testing Qualifications Board