Engineer Test
Resume:
Kavitha Alegala
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Professional Summary
11+ years of Software testing experience for Web Based Applications with Mortgage, Email and Telecom Domains.
Expertise in Testing the applications in Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform and very good exposure to agile methodologies.
Expertise in preparing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Audit check lists, maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), and Defect Management.
Well versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle.
Specialized in Design and Execution of Test cases, Test Environment setup, Defect Verification and Management.
Expertise in Functional, API and Web Services Testing.
Extensive experience in Regression testing, Integration Testing, Database testing, User acceptance testing, Disaster recovery testing, Cross browser/platform testing, browser security, Antivirus, Toolbar testing.
Extensively used TFS, MTM, TestLink, Bugzilla and JIRA for Test case design, Test Execution and Defect management.
Well versed with other tools like POSTMAN, SOAPUI, Fiddler, Query Analyzer, Altova XMLSpy and JMeter.
Well versed with handling releases as main release head for Production/Staging environments and Involved in pre/post release activities.
Extensively involved in taking up ownership of features from SD1 phase to certification.
Training the new team members with project architecture, application modules, Tools and process followed in the project set up as organization standards.
Professional with an excellent record of accomplishing projects using innovative approach within limits of time, budget and stakeholders’ satisfaction.
Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.
Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) and Microsoft Azure Developer (AZ-204).
Work Experience
Sr. QA Lead, Bank of America, Hyderabad, India Aug’16 – May’18
RealEC delivers a suite of advanced, Web-based technology solutions designed to support lenders loan quality programs, minimize loan repurchase risk and drive efficiencies in the mortgage transaction workflow. This secure and integrated platform allows lenders and their service providers to securely Connect and do business electronically and manage the loan origination process. BAC orders TCDS predominantly and a closing insight customer. Both web and integration order are placed to Exchange Platform. This project BAC Data Migration is focused on creating separate database for BAC and update related components workflows.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for taking up ownership for assigned features right from SD1 level to feature sign-off, includes resource and test planning, LOE finalization, review of test design, review of executions and defect management.
Involved in kicking off technical meetings with stakeholders to understand requirements and determine test effort for test planning and execution.
Make sure test case review meeting is given for owned feature and signed by stakeholders before kicking off with test design activity.
Involved in Schedule Demo for Customer Facing/Impacting Features for Delivery and Support groups once Feature is stable.
Being core member of the project participated in brain storming sessions to understand complexity of the impact on other components of the architecture.
Extensively took leadership on giving technical sessions to assist team for better understanding as various systems were impacted due to database changes.
Responsible for identifying test cases for automation and participated in discussions on test cases selection criteria.
Tracking & auditing defects, requirements & feature tickets.
Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and Disaster recovery testing
Extensively participated in Data Migration testing and well versed with SSIS / SSRS packages.
Involved in testing new instrumentation as part of refactoring of code.
Led Defect Triage calls, contributed to Junior Level team on assigned tasks & Reported daily status.
Involved in preparation of Go/No-Go slides, CCM Tickets, Prod Ops tasks as part of pre-release effort, responsible for Release and Post Release final Audits
Involved as release lead during staging/production and point of contact for customer support.
QA Lead, Wells Fargo, Hyderabad, India Jun’14 – Jul’16
Closing Insight is a comprehensive technology solution that is designed to streamline the closing process and support the RESPA-TILA Integrated Mortgage Disclosures rule (TRID). A key feature of Closing Insight is the Closing Collaboration Portal, a secure, neutral platform where settlement agents and lenders can communicate closing needs, from fee refinement to settlement statement preparation to closing package delivery. Closing Insight offers a suite of services designed to streamline the complex, multi-party closing process, and help lenders remain compliant as they generate mortgage disclosures that borrowers must receive when applying for a closing on a loan.
Responsibilities:
Was Core team member from the QA front on this product and had the responsibility of validating and verifying the test cases and also delivering the same
Designed & Created LOE (Level of Effort), Test Planning, Test Stubbing & Test Cases preparation
Prepared requirement traceability Matrix (RTM) to map the requirements and maintained it throughout all the Testing phases of the project.
Involved in Sprint planning and deciding the complexity of user stories.
Attended daily scrum calls, working sessions and responsible for providing accurate end of day status updates for all features owned throughout the testing phase.
Expertise in execution of test cases for Functional Testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and Disaster recovery testing.
Performed End to End testing while coordinating with the team members in US and Bosnia during 1st go live for this product [ Was Onsite Houston, Texas-US for a month to support Go-live activity]
Actively participated in technical discussions with BAs, Solutions and Development teams for better understanding on the system changes and the outcomes.
Tracking & auditing defects, requirements & feature tickets.
Led Defect Triage calls, contributed to Junior Level team on assigned tasks & Reported daily status.
Test Specialist, AOL, Bangalore, India Feb’11 – May’14
Phoenix is a new ground up web mail development project using zimbra architecture with a goal of building a best in class web mail application, with a focus on significant performance, clean user interfacing, and leveraging the new mail functionality exposed by the Angelia backend. Phoenix is made of an application (server-side) layer that's as thin as possible, a lightweight client (browser-side) layer with moderate UI richness. The client layer will retrieve data directly from the host services where possible, without proxy’ing it through the application layer. Custom JavaScript code and widgets, rather than third-party, are preferred.
Responsibilities:
Creation of test data, test conditions and test cases from Test Scenarios, Identification of test cases to be automated for regression testing.
Involved in installing Builds, Log analysis, Verify check ins on daily basis and involve in Bug scrub meetings.
Involved in preparation of test plan and environment setup for test execution.
Execution of Smoke Test, Functional Test, Regression Test and User Acceptance Test.
Involved in User Interface testing, Cross browser/platform testing, browser security, Antivirus and Toolbar testing.
Identification of Defects and creation of Defect Report. Defect logging and tracking using BLT. Conducted defect review meetings on a daily basis.
Escalate and obtain resolution of the issues by coordinating with the Testing, Client and Development team members related to the test environment and team.
Organize/Attend the status meetings and send the daily status Report to the Client.
Actively involved with Knowledge Sharing, Walkthrough Sessions and Technical Reviews.
Test Analyst, AOL, Bangalore, India Nov’08– Jan’10
Web suite Standard is a web-based application that is made up of several components: Mail, Address Book and Calendar and plug-in gallery. In addition, the product is tightly integrated with other AOL services such as AIM, AOL Pictures and AOL Journals etc. User can have all the applications available at one click and the authentication is needed only once to access any component. Web suite LITE is a web-based application that is made up of three components: Mail, Address Book and Calendar. The product shares the same backend architecture of Web suite Standard while the user interface design will be based on Web suite but optimized for narrowband and lower end system requirements.
Responsibilities:
Designing of Test Cases and Execution Process for various modules.
Involved in functional testing, regression, and user acceptance testing across different platforms/browsers.
Exposure to landing page testing with different toolbars and browser security testing.
Testing with different account types like AOL/PD/AIM/Tunome Generic affinity accounts/Custom affinity/Kids/Young teen and France accounts.
Expertise in JSAPI testing and Address Book regression.
Exposure to Calendar API testing using JMETER.
Exposure in Omniture testing using fiddler.
Logging bugs in BLT and verify the existing bugs.
Preparation of Test Execution consolidated report on daily basis.
Test Analyst, Stanford University, Bangalore, India Jan’08– Oct’08
Woodside Logic in collaboration with Herzenberg lab of Stanford University offers for clinical and research laboratories involved in Flow Cytometry studies. Their products include: CytoGenie helps in designing high quality protocols/experiments for flow cytometry studies. CytoHub helps in execution of protocols/experiment. Evertrieve helps in protocols/experiment data storage and retrieval. Account Manager, administrator’s tool to manage user accounts, their privileges, user resources.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for the entire testing life cycle at offshore and all the testing needs that keep changing due to concurrent features development.
Creating and reviewing test cases of all the enhancements before start of execution.
Interacting with client for receiving sign offs on all the enhancements.
Testing the production servers and providing sign off after each release.
Reporting Status and taking status call with client on release progress
Coordinating with support team on the issues/challenges faced production server and on the production defects.
Test Engineer, Aztech Soft, Bangalore, India Aug’06– Jan’08
Commission Agent Software is the complete Trading Management Tool that provides end-to-end management of Trading activities, purchase from farmer till it is bid and sold online. The Farmer Details system is responsible for handling the details of farmer. The Farmer Purchase system deals with transactions between the agent and the farmer. The Bidder Details system is responsible for handling the details of Bidder. The Bidder sale system deals with transactions between the bidder and the agent. Loan and Advance system is responsible for handling the loans given to the farmer and advance given by the bidder.
Responsibilities:
Designing and execution of test cases.
Designing/Modification of End User Acceptance Test cases.
Involved in Functional Testing along with Regression, Smoke, Sanity and Ad hoc testing.
Executing SQL queries using Query Analyzer in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data.
Reporting the Coverage status of test performed on the daily/weekly basis.
Involved in Project meetings and interacted to other team members in order to resolve the problems.
Tracking and Reporting the Bugs using Test Director.
Systems Engineer, Sprint Communications, Chennai, India Dec’02– Dec’04
This project is for Sprint communications, Denver, USA. The Service order system creates service orders for the services provided like Activation, Deactivation, and Suspend for non-pay and Reactivation. The Equipment system creates updates and maintains equipment orders. The Billing and Rating system is responsible for validating and applying charges to usage records. The Customer Management system is responsible for setting up the customer account using the Equipment and Activation system.
Responsibilities:
Executing Tests and Analyzing results as per client requirements.
Detecting the bugs and classifying them based on the severity/Priority.
Involved in Functional Testing, GUI Testing and Compatibility Testing.
Regression testing performed on every new build of the application.
Reporting the Coverage status of test performed on the daily/weekly basis.
Involved in Project meetings and Status updates.
Employment Summary:
Black Knight Financial Services: Title – QA Lead (Jun’14 - May’18)
Mindtree Ltd: Title – Test Specialist (Jan’08 - May’14)
Aryans Solutions: Title - Test Engineer (Aug’06 - Jan’08)
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd: Title - System Engineer (Dec’02 - Dec’04)
Academic Qualifications:
Master of Computer Science, Osmania University, June 2002
Bachelor of Computer Science, Osmania University, June 1999
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