SARITHA G. ANANTHULA

Mobile # 937-***-****

Email-id: adk51w@r.postjobfree.com

Linked-in: www.linkedin.com/in/sarithagone

Address: *** ******** ***, ***** ****, TX 78613

WORK STATUS

US Citizen & Authorized to work for any employer in USA without any sponsorship.

SUMMARY

12 years of IT Experience in different Roles: Senior Product Owner, Senior Lead QA Engineer, E2E Tester, Web Services/API Tester, ETL/Data Warehouse Testing, Business Intelligence (BI) Tester, Front-end Tester

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist (Certified in Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe)

Facilitates & Participates in scrum ceremonies (Backlog Refinement/Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily scrum stand ups, Sprint Review (Demos) & Sprint Retrospective)

Actively participated in Epic/Feature analysis & Hand-offs, Story reviews, Code walk-through and quality assurance/System/Story Acceptance Demos

Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Life Cycle, Bug Life Cycle.

Experience in waterfall and Agile Methodologies - Scrum and Kanban.

Experience in different project management tools, test management tools for test cases & defect/bug tracking tools

Strong Experience in accessing Database for analyzing and validating data

Working Experience in e-commerce, HealthCare insurance, Property and casualty insurance, and telecom industries.

Experience in leading onsite and offshore Scrum Teams (QA & Product)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA/Dev Tools: Jira (Atlassian), Confluence((Atlassian), CAAC (CA Agile Central/Rally), Quality Center/ALM, SOAP UI, SOA Test, Swagger, Postman, XML, JSON, Splunk

Databases: Mongo DB (NoSQL Booster), ORACLE (PL/SQL Developer), MS SQL Server (SQL Server Management Studio), IBM DB2 (Toad), Netezza (Aqua Data Studio)

Collaboration Software: MS Teams, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, TeamViewer, Google Docs, WebEx, Zoom

SOFT SKILLS

As a Team lead, encouraging team for high team spirit by showing model behavior & also helping the team in all aspects as Team member.

Motivating the team to stay focused to achieve team & organizational goals.

Lead Teams with clear direction and provide necessary support.

Proven ability to support multiple projects independently, under tight deadlines, often with competing priorities and complexities.

Excellent communication and negotiating skills.

Dedicated, detailed oriented and can work with minimal or no supervision.

Flexible to change plans and adapted to unexpected/unplanned changes

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in MVSR Engineering College, Osmania University, India

EXPERIENCE

CenturyLink, Monroe, LA

Senior Product Owner / Data Product Owner / Digital Product Owner / Technical Product Owner / API Product Owner Jan 2018 – Till now

CenturyLink, Inc., is an American multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. CenturyLink provides Internet, network for Internet & communications and data services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers in many states.

Product Owner for E2E process of product development (Digital transformation UI to Web Services/APIs for Order Management, Billing and Reporting applications)

IT liaison between Business/stake holders and Feature/Component/cross-functional Scrum teams

Set the expectations to team on delivering the key business objectives based on product roadmap

Responsible to manage & prioritize Team backlog for capturing Data, Reporting, Technical, Business & Functional Requirements.

Supports between Webservices and Data Lake/Data warehouse reporting teams

Collaborated with Business Owners/Stakeholders/sponsors, Solution Architects, System Architects, Subject Matter Experts, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, RTEs and E2E Testing Team

Program Increment (PI) planning:

Participate in discussions to understand PI vision & goals for Value Steams and Agile Release Train (ART) by business value

Participate in Requirements reviews (Capabilities & Epic/Feature reviews) with Solution Architect, Project Manager to analyze & identify impacts to End 2 End applications.

Collaborate with PM, RTE, Business Owner to prioritize Features in ART/Scrum Teams by WSJF

Review Features with Scrum Team, Dev Leads & System Architects for Design ideas.

Participate in PI Planning event to plan the road map for Features in release milestones, stories in sprints, align to shared vision of Agile Release Train (ART), plan roadmap and identify cross-team dependencies.

Identify PI objectives, Team level Risks, allocate Features & stories by release Milestones, allocate story points by sprint, high level design discussion, identify E2E Test scenarios --

Identify cross team dependencies, link features & stories with dependent team, communicate & negotiate the sprint, milestone (release) alignments.

Manage Team Backlog:

As a Product Owner responsible for defining Stories by providing Acceptance Criteria

Translate Business/Technical Requirements (Jira Features) into User Stories and prioritize Team Backlog

Writing User Stories based on Design ideas in discussions with Dev leads/Designers/System Architects

Review User Stories with Scrum Team, Dev leads, SMEs, Business Owners & Engineering Managers

Prioritizing the Team Backlog, representing the voice of the customer/stakeholder to Scrum teams to align with PI Objectives & Vision

Maintain a robust and manageable Team backlog, with well-defined acceptance criteria to ensure Scrum teams are working on planned stories and technical work (non-functional requirements/NFRs)

Identify or Provide High level Test Scenarios using BDD and review with QA Engineer to develop Automation Test scripts.

Reviewing E2E Requirements, helping/coordinating with E2E Test team to identify test scenarios.

Facilitate & actively Participate in scrum ceremonies for teams - Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews/Demos, Sprint Retros, Release Retros, PI Retrospective and provide feedback

Clarifying questions about priorities, Requirement clarification, process clarification and status follow-ups

Provided help needed to team for completing their tasks.

Clearly communicate customer and business needs to the scrum team

Work with Scrum team to clarify questions on user stories as necessary

Have end-to-end experience ownership, including taking final decisions on product functionality

Establish and maintain best practices across product teams

Accept/Reject Stories completion in Sprint Reviews/Demos calls and provide necessary feedback with gaps identified by suggesting for more/specific Test scenarios coverage

Works with the System Architect and the Team to understand and prioritize Enablers.

Ensures Stories and Enablers meet the acceptance criteria.

Environment: Jira, Confluence, Soap-UI, SOA Test, Postman, Mongo DB, Splunk, Swagger, PL SQL Server, Cucumber, HP ALM, MS Teams, MS Office Suite.

CenturyLink, Monroe, LA

Senior QA & BA Lead Engineer / Team Lead May 2015 – Dec 2017

Expertise in different types of Software Testing: Performed Sanity, System, Functional, Integration, Regression, End to End (flow-thru) Testing between User Interface apps (CustomerCareRep apps) and Web applications (Order Management and Billing).

Writing/Reviewing reusable Test Scenarios using BDD for team to develop automation scripts.

Leading QA resources in multiple scrum teams to supports complete flow-thru testing between up-stream and down-stream systems.

As a QA Lead, supervised QA/Testing team’s efforts/work activities by reviewing & providing feedback and necessary help & guidance on their Test cases, identified System & Regression Test scenarios, identified/opened Defects, triage defects to assign to right teams/resources, tracking defects status until re-tested & Closed.

Reviewing, coordinating & helping for Scrum Story/Feature (Reviews) Demos, and getting feedback from Business Owners, Stake holders & UAT to close Stories & Features.

Representing QA Team and communicating test status in different phases of testing with Busines Owners/Stakeholders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Dev Teams (Dev Mangers & Dev Engineers)

Hands on experience on providing Test estimations/Level of Effort estimations (LOEs) and resource estimations.

Identifying the risks. Discussing, Suggesting & clearly communicating the risk mitigation plans with Business, Dev team, QA Team and Release management.

Identifying the priorities for testing and guide the QA Team to follow the priority-based testing for covering the riskier scenarios first.

Good experience in writing and executing SQL queries to fetch Test data for complex test scenarios for QA Team and to support other applications Testers.

Providing training for new team members, helping the team to understand the requirements, and getting the test data.

Generating Test status reports to share the defects status & statistics.

Getting the necessary help & support to QA Team from management by escalating the right situations/issues in right time.

Experienced in writing test strategies, test plans and test cases with steps.

Running automated scripts using Selenium with Cucumber to perform Sanity and Regression testing for Web Application.

Reviewing the Automation efforts for Web services using Parasoft SOA-test tool.

Environment: Jira, Confluence, CA Agile Central (CAAC), Soap-UI, SOA Test, Postman, Mongo DB, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, Swagger, PL SQL Server, Gitlab, Eclipse, Selenium, Cucumber, HP ALM, MS Teams, MS Office Suite.

Westfield Insurance, Westfield Center, OH

BI Lead QA Engineer Jan 2012 – May 2015

Westfield Insurance is a multi-line provider of business property and liability insurance, personal lines insurance (including auto, homeowner's and specialty), agribusiness insurance and surety bonds.

Worked for top priority projects and various number of new/enhancements in reports.

Worked on infrastructure conversion DB2 to Netezza conversion project and Cognos upgrade.

Used Agile (Scrum) Methodology for the Cognos reports testing and data warehouse/data mart testing.

Participated in Sprint backlog, planning, Review/presentation and Retrospective meetings.

Responsible for giving the updates for burn-down charts, defect regression and Testing task estimation.

Responsible for system, integration, regression, database, end-to-end, usability and getting the user acceptance testing done.

Balanced extracted source files back to the warehouse, mart and complex Cognos reports.

Compared the data between the Mainframe systems to the data warehouse tables based on different business scenarios.

As a part of the warehouse and mart testing, verified the population/transformation logic for fields in the tables, record reconciliation and field by field validations.

Verified the different loads (Initial load, history load, daily/weekly/monthly loads and retrieval scenarios) of the data into warehouse and mart.

Proficient data balancing experience of complex Cognos reports (Report Studio), Cubes (Analysis Studio), Adhoc Packages (Query Studio) back to Netezza Tables/Views by writing SQL Queries.

Balanced views back to the source tables by writing SQL queries.

Used DB Visualizer Pro for writing and executing SQL scripts.

Utilized HP Quality Center for the test case writing and execution, defect logging, tracking and reporting.

Created test scenarios documents and balanced the instructions documents.

Tracked and bug logged until all the defects were fixed, validated and closed.

Leading and guiding QA’s analyst’s for Testing, Defects and taking status.

Reviewing QA Analyst work and provided feedback and help them to improve.

Participated in QA Analyst’s test case reviews and audits.

Participated in the QA analyst’s interviews and onboarding.

Environment: HP-Quality Center, SQL Server, IBM-DB2, IBM-Netezza, DbVisualizer Pro, IBM-DataStage, IBM-Cognos Report Studio, IBM-Cognos Analysis Studio, IBM-Cognos Query Studio, IBM-Cognos Workspace, IBM-Cognos Workspace Advanced, IBM-Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, OH (contracting with Rose International, Inc.)

QA Lead Engineer Jul 2011 – Jan 2012

Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and its regional operating subsidiaries; Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the autonomous regional Permanente Medical Groups

Worked in Kaiser Permanente IT BETS (Benefits Enhancement Tracking System) team, which provides benefit services to the KP Health Plan members.

Trained in Compliance, Fraud Waste Abuse and HIPPA privacy practices and security rules.

Participated in Requirement Analysis and Code Walk-thru with the designers and developers for a given change Request.

Responsible for the design, creation and execution of test cases for a web-based sales system.

Extensively participated in Functionality, Integration, Regression and Database Testing of BQT (Benefit Quoting Tool).

Testing BQT application functionality and integration with other down stream systems (Common Membership System, Claims System, National Pricing System and Health Connect).

Performed End-to-end testing on BETS (Benefits Enhancement Tracking System) system.

Checking the front-end operations impact on back end tables to perform database testing.

Proficient with HP Quality Center features and add-ons.

Able to utilize the HP Quality Center for Test Case writing & execution, Defect logging, Tracking, and reporting.

Create documentation for Requirement Tractability Matrix, Test Plan, Test cases, Test Summary and Test Scenarios.

Bug logging and tracking till all the defects got fixed and closed.

Participate in Defect Triage meetings and Status meetings to provide updates.

Coordinated with Offshore team, status checking and clarifying questions about the functionality.

Environment: HP-Quality Center, Oracle, PL/SQL, .Net, SharePoint, XML and MS-Office.

CVS Caremark, Solon, OH (contracting with Randstad Technologies, US)

Senior QA Analyst Sep 2010 – Jul 2011

Universal American was leading in Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) for Medicare members. Later Universal American was acquired by CVS. CVS Caremark Corporation consists of two major segments: retail pharmacy and pharmacy services. After CVS Caremark acquired Universal American’s Business has become the largest provider for the Prescription drug services for Medicare and Medicaid Members.

Worked in CVS Caremark PBM division, which provides Eligibility and Pharmacy Claims services to Medicare Members.

Trained in Compliance, Fraud Waste Abuse and HIPPA Privacy practices & Security Rules.

Involved in Requirements Review and Analysis with Business Team.

Developed detail Test Plans based on Business Requirements and Technical specifications.

Written detailed Test Strategy and Test Approach documents for complex projects.

Conducted peer Reviews of Test Plans and suggested necessary improvements.

Provided estimates of testing effort and supported multiple projects, often with competing priorities.

Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Smoke, User Interface, and Data Base Testing.

Verification of front-end applications to ensure the functionality and user interface as per the Business Requirements.

Validation of multiple databases and flat files to ensure the Accuracy & Compliance as per the Requirements.

Excellent experience in writing and executing SQL queries by joining multiple databases and Tables to perform the data validation.

Used Data warehousing tools – SSIS Packages for ETL and Cognos for Reporting Tool.

Expert in testing the Data loads and SSIS packages.

Used of SSIS packages to import and export data between various source and target databases.

Executing the Test Scripts, maintaining Issue logs and reporting to Bug Tracking Team.

Bug Tracking and Regression Testing to make sure the bugs are fixed.

Generated daily and weekly status update meetings.

Coordinating between cross functional teams: Development, Program Management and Business Users.

Coordinating between Vendors, Clients and Third Parties as a part of data conversion and process flow management.

Environment: Serena-TeamTrack, SQL Server, .Net, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Packages and SharePoint.

Drugstore.com, Inc., Bellevue, WA (contracting with UST Global)

QA Tester Aug 2007 – Jul 2008

Drugstore.com and Beauty.com are pair of websites, which are famous online retailers in health and beauty care products. Drugstore.com and Beauty.com was acquired by Walgreens later in 2011.

Project I: Beauty.com website Re-design

Project II: 3rd Party Payment Methods (Google Checkout, Pay Pal & Bill Me Later)

Project III: Modify Until Shipped

Participated in Requirements Review and Analysis meetings.

Designing of Test Plan and Test cases as per the requirements.

Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, User Interface, End-to-end and ad-hoc testing in the process of application development.

Performed Data Base Testing by executing SQL queries to check the Data Integrity.

Validated User Interface and back-end testing.

Executed test cases and verified the behavior of the application in a fully integrated like environment.

Defect logging & tracking has been done using Quality Center.

Bug Regression has been done in every stage of Testing.

Generated Daily QA status report and submitted to the project stake holders for the review.

Participated in project releases and verified the production stability.

Worked together with offshore team and clarified their questions during the testing process.

Successfully completed the project as per the schedule.

Environment: HP-Quality Center, Windows XP, ASP.Net, C#, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, SQL Server and Toad.

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