SHRADDHA KALE – Test Lead/Automation Lead

New York, USA Phone: +1-732-***-**** Email: add1nj@r.postjobfree.com

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

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