Sr QA Analyst

Rajesh Cherukuri

Tata Consultancy Services

Email: ************@*****.***, Cell: 615-***-****

Summary of Experience:

Working as Sr QA Analyst with 13 years of experience in Health care & Telecom Domain

Strong understanding & expertise in Requirement analysis, designing Test Strategy, Test plan, Estimations, Test Design, Test execution, Defect Triage & Status report sharing and supporting UAT and Serve as SME for multiple applications and QA processes.

Worked on the Agile Methodology driven projects and attending the Daily scrum meetings and represent the QA team and highlight the Issues or risks and updating the status and participate in the sprint planning meetings & Demo’s and used JIRA tool for the task updates.

Extensive working experience in Functional Testing, Black box Testing, Smoke Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, ETL Testing, API Testing using Postman & Automation Testing using Selenium Web driver ( cucumber )

Strong experience and knowledge in writing SQL Queries, Unix commands, shell scripting and Java

Coordinating between Offshore & Onshore Teams for requirements Gathering and scheduling walkthroughs of Functional specifications documents and closely work with Business Analyst, Product Manager and Development Team

Shown Flexibility, Quick learner, Proactive attitude, excellent customer interaction skills and an amazing team player. Strong in problem Solving and quick in decision making

Technical skills

Testing Tools

Micro Focus ALM, JIRA, Selenium using cucumber framework, Intelli J, Confluence, Postman

Database

SQL Server Management studio 2008, Oracle 11i

Languages

Shell Scripting, SQL, XML, Java

Skills

Manual Testing, Test Plan, Test Design, Test Execution, Automation Testing, Database testing, API Testing, Rest API, Agile Methodologies, Requirement Analysis, User Acceptance Testing, SDLC, STLC, HP Quality Center, SCRUM, API Testing, Defect life cycle, Json, Microsoft services, javascript, html, xml

Educational Qualification:

Degree and Date

University

Major and Specialization

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), 2007

Andhra University, India

Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Professional and Project Experience:

Project : Hospitalizations & Missed Treatments, Fluidwise2, DSPM, Protocols, Maestro, Automated Water Check, DaVita Medical Group

Client : TCS - DaVita Inc.

Role : Sr. QA Analyst

Duration : Nov 2013 – Present

Responsibilities

Develop End to End, System/Integration, and User-focused test plans and strategies using product requirements and design documents

Review requirement specifications, identifying the Gaps, determine the scope of testing and Impact of Testing.

Performing the Smoke, Functional, System Integration & Regression Testing, Ad-hoc Testing and Database Testing & ETL Testing.

Performing Rest API Testing using postman Tool.

Developing Automation Scripts using Selenium Web driver in cucumber framework for the Regression Testing.

As the Projects are driven in the Agile Methodologies, attending the Daily scrum meetings and represent the QA team and highlight the Issues or risks and updating the status

Sizing of the User stories during Sprint Planning and ensure the JIRA Dashboard is up-to-date during the Sprint and DEMO’s to the Business at the End of each sprint

Coordinating between Offshore & Onshore Teams for requirements Gathering and scheduling walkthroughs of Functional specifications documents with Business Analyst, Product Manager and Development Team

Delegating the Tasks to the team, Reviewing of the testing Artifacts such as Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test Results and reporting to the client

Creating of the Testing status Report, Traceability Matrix, Metrics, Effort estimation & Resource planning for testing

Defect Tracking and setting up the Defect Triage Meetings and Maintaining the Test Environment.

Assisting the Ad-hoc requests for Dev team, BA Team & Prod Support teams

Supporting the Onsite UAT at the Fullest after SIT Completion

Serve as SME for multiple applications and QA processes.

Automation

Automate the Test cases using selenium (cucumber framework)

Tools Used

HP ALM, Selenium, JIRA, Confluence, SQL Server Management studio

Project : Technology Quality Centre (TQC)

Client : TCS - DU, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications (EITC).

Role : Sr. Test Analyst

Duration : June 2012 to Nov 2013

Responsibilities

Creating the test plan document, scheduling the reviews, reviewing of the same with business

Writing Test scenarios & test cases for major functionalities

Effort estimation & Resource planning for testing

Status Reporting on the daily & Weekly basis to the client on test execution

Leading the team of 8 members. Responsible to tracking their execution status, escalating and unblocking the test execution for the testers, conducting team meetings etc.

Enabling the Best practices, Lessons Learnt & Process improvements in the team

Helping team members in Test execution and Test Approach

Preparing assets for team (Training Plans, Functionality Documents)

Performing smoke test for the CR’s.

Preparing & reviewing the case-studies for knowledge sharing

Grooming team technically and professionally

Monitoring the TC execution & record the test results using Quality Center.

Reporting bugs, raising defects and Tracking the status of the same with development teams and managing the entire defect life cycle.

Automation

Written the shell scripts to mock/parsing the xml files

Tools Used

HP Quality Centre, Siebel CRM, Toad, putty, Citrix, Net Cracker

Project : Release 19 VSE (Versatile Service Engine) Regression

Client : TCS - Ericsson

Role : QA Analyst

Duration : October 2010 to May 2012

Responsibilities

Creating the test plan document, scheduling the reviews, reviewing of the same with system architects, design team and other test teams for regression testing and feature testing.

Root cause analysis of the field issues to improve testing process, identifying more/missed coverage areas.

End to End lab setup for execution of the test cases which includes Green Field Installation of the VSE (ATCA) and commissioning the applications.

Reporting the status to the client on TC execution status and other activities carried out by the team thereby escalating the issues faced, if any.

Prioritizing the defects to be fixed with the design team and Analyzing the risks involved in it.

Performing the system testing and regression testing.

Performing the Upgrade and backward compatibility testing, Performance Testing, Robustness testing, High Availability Testing, Failover Testing, and Recovery Testing etc.

Priming the VSE (ATCA) node of the entire CDMA nodes.

Performing Sanity Test Weekly.

Preparing & reviewing the case-studies for knowledge sharing

Grooming team technically and professionally

Creating test interaction matrix.

Monitoring the TC execution & record the test results using Quality Center.

Reporting bugs, Raising Change Requests (CRs) and Tracking the status of the same using Clarify, Quick CR, Flex CR tools.

Automation

Writing the shell scripts & expect scripts for regression testing.

Tools Used

HP Quality Centre, Amdocs Clarify, Putty, Exceed and IXIA tool (Traffic simulation)

Project : Release 18 PMR (Platform Maintenance & Robustness) & VSE (ATCA) Baseline Regression

Client : TCS - Nortel Networks

Role : Tester/ Test Analyst

Duration : Sept 2007 to September 2010

Responsibilities

Requirement Study, Test planning & Test case writing.

Test Plan reviews with client.

Review and execution of test cases.

Performing Sanity Test Weekly.

Performing the system testing and regression testing.

Performing the Upgrade and backward compatibility testing, Performance Testing, Robustness testing, High Availability Testing, Failover Testing, and Recovery Testing etc.

User acceptance testing for the new hardware.

Mentoring the new team members.

Interaction with the Client and Development team & lab support team.

Creating test interaction matrix.

Monitoring the TC execution & record the test results using Quality Center.

Defect logging and Tracking using Clarify tool.

Preparing & reviewing the case-studies for knowledge sharing

Tools Used

HP Quality Centre, Amdocs Clarify, Putty, Exceed and IXIA tool (Traffic simulation)

Personal Details

Sex : Male

Mobile number : 615-***-****

Email : ************@*****.***

Present Location : Nashville, TN

Visa Type : H1B

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