Shireesha Cherekar

Sr. Software Tester

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PROFESSIONAL SUMARRY:

Fourteen years of experience in field of Software Quality Assurance as a QA Analyst and Business analyst with extensive experience in the Web domain, Insurance, and Client Server domain.

Experienced in various Test strategies like Functional, Integration, Regression, System, End to End, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Smoke/Sanity Testing.

Over five years of web services testing. Strengths include Automation, manual testing, designing and developing test automation suites using UFT, Selenium and Soap UI Pro for web services application testing.

Experience in developing Test Scenarios, Test Plans, writing Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Procedures, analyzing Test Results, Building Reports and Tracking Defects.

Specialized in analyzing the functional specifications and writing detailed test cases, execution of test scenarios, analyzing the actual results against the expected results, creation of test data manually and automation of test cases.

Hands on experience JIRA, ALM for managing the Test cases, tracking defects and reporting.

Sound knowledge of various Software methodologies like V-V model and AGILE methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: UFT 11.5, Selenium, JIRA, ALM 11.52, SoapUI 4.5, Altova XML spy,, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, MySQL, MS-Office, MS Project, VB 6, C, C++, Visual C++, Java, JSP, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, XMLT, Shell Scripts, VB.Net, Jenkins, Microsoft Silverlight 4.0, 508 Compliance JAWS, MAGIC, Dragon, Green Hopper 5.9.5, DevOps, Jira, Rational Jazz, Clear Case.

Firmware: Windows, NT, UNIX, Linux, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Hubs, PC Networking, LAN, WAN

EDUCATION

M.Sc.Computer Science - Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, NANDED, INDIA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Gritter Francona Inc., Rockville, MD Oct 2018 – Till Date

Role: Sr. Software Tester

My HealtheVet (MHV) is a web-based product that gives veterans information and tools to improve their health. Registrants can access more than 18 million pages of health information from the site’s Health Education Library. They are able to: Add information to a personal health journal about over-the-counter medications, allergies, military health history, medical events, tests and allergies. Record and track personal information such as contact information, emergency contacts, health care providers, and health insurance information. Record and track personal health metrics (blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, heart rate, body temperature, weight, and pain) in Health E-logs. Print a wallet ID card with the personal information entered into the personal health record.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design.

Participate in workshops with Business to understand product scope, objects, goals and expectations for every planned release of the application.

Review the priority items for each release and plan the work to be completed within the time frame.

Analyze the complex requirements for the various user roles like Champ VA, DSLogon, VA Patient, and Non-VA Patient etc.

Determine feasibility of the design by checking the integration points with My HealtheVet, Access VA, Delegation tool, SSO, Admin portal, Clinician portal, National portal, mobile applications for the data flow between the applications.

Participate in daily sprint meetings with business analysts, management team, testers, and engineering team to resolve roadblocks and discuss planned work for the day.

Involved in the designing workflow for the national, admin and clinician portals as per the requirements.

Develop and maintain the code for automating national portal web application.

Develop function libraries, and reusable functions for the integration between the various modules.

Coordinate with team to track development progress during sprint.

Review the code as part of the peer review process.

Involve, support and maintain reference data platforms for the Admin portal

Created and maintained test automation scripts for regression suite using selenium.

Regularly participated in writing and compiling automation scripts.

Add the comment the scripts so others can understand the intent of the code.

Work with Business analysts and review the defects, new products and enhancements requirements.

Discuss with the team the integration points and different areas effected with the new change.

Modify the code to update the changes as per the change scenarios.

Worked on writing automation test scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Junit and Gherkin.

Identified web elements using Selenium WebDriver locators such as Class Name, Link Text, ID, CSS Selector, and XPath.

Prepared gap analysis document in assessing the differences in performance between information systems to determine whether business requirements being met and, if not, what steps should be taken to ensure they are met successfully

Participates in lessons learned meetings held after every release to continuously improve processes within the information technology program.

Works collaboratively in Agile environment with other technical staff and business owners and subject matter experts that follow the industry standard Scrum.

Environment: Windows, Java, DevOps, XML, SQL, ORACLE, JIRA, Rational Jazz, Selenium, Java, Mark logic, IBM Rational Team, IBM Rational DOORS Next, IBM Rational Quality Manager, HTML and Java Script.

Client: Information Innovators, Inc. (Triple-i), Rockville, MD Oct 2016 – Sept 2018

Role: Sr. Software Tester / QA Tester

My HealtheVet (MHV) is a web-based product that gives veterans information and tools to improve their health. Registrants can access more than 18 million pages of health information from the site’s Health Education Library. They are able to: Add information to a personal health journal about over-the-counter medications, allergies, military health history, medical events, tests and allergies. Record and track personal information such as contact information, emergency contacts, health care providers, and health insurance information. Record and track personal health metrics (blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, heart rate, body temperature, weight, and pain) in Health E-logs. Print a wallet ID card with the personal information entered into the personal health record.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Participates in the workshops with Business to understand product scope, objects, goals and expectations for every planned release of the application.

Review the priority items for each release and plan the work to be completed within the time frame.

Analyze the complex requirements for the various user roles like Champ VA, DSLogon, VA Patient, and Non-VA Patient etc. and provide the future and enhanced business workflow for development and implementation.

Worked on creating Cucumber BDD framework by using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG and JUnit.

Created and executed automation test scripts by using Selenium WebDriver for UI testing with Java.

Determine feasibility of the design by checking the integration points with My HealtheVet, Access VA, Delegation tool, SSO, Admin portal, Clinician portal and National portal for the data flow between the applications.

Develop and maintain the code for automating national portal web application.

Develop function libraries, and reusable functions for the integration between the various modules.

Develop, modify, and maintain general computer applications.

Work with Business analysts and review the defects, new products and enhancements requirements.

Determine the Scope of Incorporating the Change, analyze why the changes are important, and what impact it has on the web application.

Environment: Windows, Java, Mark logic, IBM Rational Team, IBM Rational DOORS Next, IBM Rational Quality Manager, HTML, XML and Java Script.

Client: QSSI, Columbia, MD Jan 2015 – May 2016

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst.

Project: FFE is an online health insurance marketplace providing core capabilities of a state-based exchange and allows individuals, employees and employers to assess eligibility online and to enroll in the insurance program of choice. This Project is implementing “The Affordable Care Act” called Federal Facilitated Exchange (FFE) system helping 35 million uninsured Americans to get insurance and adds 20 million to Medicaid roles. It is a transparent, centralized marketplace to provide individuals and small employers access to affordable health insurance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzing the requirements and preparing test scenarios.

Participated in peer reviews and inspections throughout the software development life cycle.

Participate in the Change Control Board (CCB) meeting to determine the changes to be done in the FFE application and coordinate with prioritization of the change.

Involved in testing the various modules before, after and during the auto re-enrollment process.

Mocking up the IRS output files to calculate the OIV process and verifying the groups assigned, income returned and the notices contents, based on the OIV process and FPL % entered.

Executing the scripts to auto generate 2016 applications.

Validated the error reports for various statuses.

Used SOAP UI to verify the plans available based on the zip codes.

Developed the Request XML and Verified the response XML received.

Verified the correctness of monthly, annual files sent to IRS

Involved in testing the application from CCR and Agent broker.

Verified that the plans are correctly effectuated and communication is sent to the providers

Environment: Windows, Java, Mark logic, ALM, JIRA, SOAP UI, Selenium WebDriver, SOAP UI Pro, Groovy Script, HTML, XML, Java Script and Jenkins.

Project: Hi-tech NLR

The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs is to provide incentive payments to Eligible Professionals, Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) as they adoption, implementation, upgrading, or demonstrate meaningful use of Certified EHR technology. These incentive programs are designed to support providers in this period of Health IT transition and instill the use of EHRs in meaningful ways to help the nation to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient health care. This web system is for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Those wanting to take part in the program will use this system to register and participate in the program.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Assisting with the NLR business cases.

Organization, planning and monitoring of business requirements and Provide LOE for each CR.

Eliciting, translating, analysis and simplifying business requirements in close coordination with stakeholders.

Perform GAP analysis of the requirements.

Requirements management and communication within QSSI and with other stakeholders.

Test Cases design based on base-lined requirements as per the CMMI standards.

Peer review the test cases.

Walkthroughs with the Development, Testing and Client teams of the deliverables.

Analyzing defects and evidence file reviews and support to the testing team while execution

Extracting functional requirements from DOORs and uploading them in ALM.

Producing requirement traceability matrix.

Environment: JAVA, XML, SOAP UI, Oracle, LDAP, HP UFT, ALM11.52, SAP –BI, DOORS.

GNSI, Rockville, MD. Mar 2013 – Dec 2014.

Sr. Quality Analyst.

Project: Tobacco Registration and Product Listing Module (TRLM):

New tobacco products may not be legally marketed in the United States unless FDA has issued an order permitting their marketing. Industry users have to register the products and establishments using this module, FDA users will then review the products. According to the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), a new tobacco product is any product marketed in the United States as of Feb. 15, 2007.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Created the test case scenarios based upon the requirements for both external and internal flows for various FURLS modules.

Created test data for the various scenarios.

Provided design solutions, participates in peer reviews and inspections throughout the software development life cycle to identify issues/defects.

Verified new establishments, existing establishment and their associations to the products.

Verified new products, labeling, advertisements and their associations with the establishments.

Verified accepted file types, file sizes, templates for the advertisement and labels.

Verified both domestic and foreign registrations.

Tested the backend database for the correctness.

Coordinated with development and deployment services to trouble shoot issues related to data load, log messages, etc.

Involved in cross browser testing and 508 compliance of the application.

Validated the BOBJ reports.

Attended daily scrum meetings as part of Agile iteration.

Associated with documenting requirements, documenting technical design, conduct brainstorming sessions, planning implementation and weekly status reporting.

Meetings to discuss risks, challenges impacted, impact timelines, requested downtime and timeframe.

Environment: Windows, JAVA, ALM11.52, JIRA, SOAP UI, Oracle, Integrated Testing Regression testing, 508 Compliance testing, UAT, Functionality testing, Selenium IDE, JAWS, WAVE, AMP, SAP-BI.

Project: LACF (Low Acid Canning Food Facility Registration Module).

All commercial processors located in the United States and all processors in other countries who export to the United States that manufacture, process, or pack acidified foods (AF) and/or thermally processed low-acid foods packaged in hermetically sealed containers shall, not later than 60 days after registration, and before packing any new product, provide FDA with information

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzed the requirements and use cases and raised requirement issues.

Prepared test data and test case execution in ALM.

Following up with BA’s about the requirements issues.

Provided design solutions, participates in peer reviews and inspections throughout the software development life cycle to identify issues/defects.

Worked closely with develops in resolving the issues.

Verified all the interface pieces (status change, flag changes, inquiry, inquiry responses)

Verified all the user roles and their privileges (Super admin, admin, Read only user, TR, ATR etc)

Acted as Lead tester for the LACF1 Migration.

Involved in Migration testing to test legacy data.

Logged show stopper issues in migration data.

Environment: Windows, XML, JAVA, ALM, JIRA, Oracle, Integrated Testing, Regression testing, 508 Compliance testing.

Project: FFRM (Food Facility Registration Module)

FURLS is an FDA online registration system where Domestic facilities and Foreign are required to register whether or not food from the facility enters interstate commerce. Foreign facilities that manufacture/process, pack, or hold food also are required to register unless food from that facility undergoes further processing (including packaging) by another foreign facility before the food is exported to the United States.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Created the test case scenarios based upon the requirements in Use cases for various FURLS modules.

Involved in giving LOEs.

508 testing with AMP and Wave.

Verified Business objects (BOBJ) to test the universe

Verified request and response XMLs for FMLS address match in manufacture, distributor and agent information sections.

Verified request XMLs across the WSDL.

Used Soap UI Pro to create and submit XMLs to verify web service requests and responses.

Verified that each response has all proper fields and that each field has proper data

Verified Correct state is calculated from ZIP fields

Automation:

Developed test cases and test suites for regression testing.

Executed automation scripts using Selenium IDE.

Enhanced the scripts.

Used commands like assertTestPresent for the assertions.

Environment: Windows, XML, JAVA, ALM, JIRA, SOAP UI, Oracle, Integrated Testing Regression testing, 508 Compliance testing, UAT, Functionality testing, Selenium IDE, JAWS, WAVE, AMP, SAP -BI.

Client: ANCILE SOLUTIONS, Elkridge, MD June 2012 – Mar 2013

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project: Ancile uPerform 5.0

Ancile uPerform 5.0 is an authoring and content management tool that delivers targeted, high-quality learning content to employees. It allows authors with no programming experience to create, edit and publish procedures, task-based simulations, and eLearning courses, and then quickly deploy the content to the entire workforce via the web.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering the requirements from MRD.

Created the test case scenarios based upon the requirements in FRS.

Analyzed and prepared the checklists for the scenarios to be tested and developed test data for the scenarios.

Extensively involved in test case creation and test execution.

Involved in the installation, Upgrade and side by side testing of Various OEMs.

Cross checked the Client application installation compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.

Involved in testing the client installation in supported languages like Korean, Russian and Japanese.

Conducted Cross browser Testing on Various platforms using VMware

Involved in Accessibility testing of the application.

Developed and Executed of 508 compliance test cases using tools using Jaws.

Involved in reporting status in daily scrums and in weekly test meetings as a part of Agile iterations.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, IIS, JavaScript, XML, HTML, XHTML, and CSS, JIRA 5.0.2, Green Hopper 5.9.5, Jaws 13.

Client: MEDCO HEALTH SERVICES, Blue Bell, PA July 2011 - May 2012

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project: Campaign Management

Medco Health Solutions is a health care company currently serving the needs of individuals with Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. Campaign Management manages the Medicare and commercial communications to the patients.

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsible for the testing for in the CMS mandated campaigns.

Involved in batch testing of the claims in the Medco health store.

Created SQL queries as a part of backend testing, to test the campaigns

Tested the backend database using SQL queries and worked with where, group by, and having clauses

Used SQL queries and join operations to test database tables.

Involved in Data Analysis.

Coordinated with development and deployment services to trouble shoot issues related to data load, log messages, etc.

Worked with development teams on root cause analysis and issue resolution.

Environment: .Net, IIS server 6.0, ASP 3.0, Main Frames, SQL server, Teradata SQL Assistant Version 7.1, Unica Affinium Version 7.4, IBM Cognos 8.3.

Client: ZURICH Financials, Owings Mills, MD Jan 2011 – June 2011

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project: Phoenix Specialties

Phoenix is a web-based application used for Policy Management which is used to create all transactions like New Business, Renewal, Audit, Cancellation, Endorsement, Reinstatement etc, of an existing policy.

Roles & Responsibilities

Extensively involved in test case creation and test execution.

Performed manual testing on different modules of the application.

Automation:

Designed and developed automation framework.

Develop the reusable components to use accordingly in the Framework.

Execution of automation scripts for regression suite.

Design the Database to parameterize through Excel and MS Access.

Created the Object repositories needed for the Client and Server.

Developed the scripts to create the tasks on the server and assign it to the peers.

Developed the script to connect to server from the client, publish the documents on the server.

Developed the script to verify the completed/pending pie charts on the server.

Developed Library functions for the common functions.

Develop the reusable components to use accordingly in the Framework.

Developed the function libraries and execution coverage for capturing the Page Load time.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Quality Center, Net, IIS server 6.0, ASP 3.0, Main Frames, SQL server.

Client: DELOITTE Consulting May 2010 - Dec 2010

Administration of Court, Santa Ana, CA

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project: CCMS V4 – Security Testing.

California Court Case Management System (CCMS) will be used to handle the case initiation, case scheduling, accounting, calendaring of the whole California Judicial System. This is the biggest case management system handling all case types for the state's 58 Superior Courts.

Roles & Responsibilities

Created test plan and test cases from the business requirement documents.

Executed the automated and manual test cases in Quality Center.

Web service testing of the application.

Verified the XML’s Inbound and Outbound transactions

Performed Web services testing using the SOAP UI to verify response XML with requested parameters

Developing the XMLs and FTP XMLS and verified the Request and response.

Verified that the web method returns results

Verified the database fields updated on exchange of XMLs.

Validate the XML based on WSDL and FTP the XMLs using STUBS.

Data exchanges like Case, Warrant ID, Payments verification on XML transfers and web services testing.

Ensure data exchange between the components and the Integrated Partners (using STUBS).

Worked on SoapUI tool for testing web services executing the Integration Test scripts to ensure integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications.

Verified the Inbound and Out Bound Messages between the CCMSV4 and in IP.

Validate the Error messages Produced for the inbound messages and message failure scenarios.

Attended daily scrum meetings as part of Agile Iterations.

Automation

Designed and developed automation framework process.

Automation of Regression Test cases for Various Case initiations.

Creation of VB scripts and executing for JO module.

Designed and Developed the Test Plan, Test cases and automation test scripts.

Defect Logging and Retest the defects fixed.

Conduct and Manage the Test Automation Development/Execution

Expertise in developing QTP scripts and reviewing.

Expertise in writing functions for effectiveness and Re-usability.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, SOAP UI 4.0, Java, Java Script, Windows XP, Web logic 9.2,SoapUI Pro 3.0,SQL, PL/SQL,DB2,Oracle 10g, MS Excel.

Client: MetLife, Somerset, NJ Oct 2008 – Mar 2010

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project Name: Benefit Front End (BFE)

Benefits Front End (BFE) is an application used to build and view high-level benefit information. BFE feeds the Web application for external customers. All of whom have browse only capability.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in validation of the new Roll Over max functionality across the Application.

Verified the Benefits setup as categories instead of Type 1, 2 and 3.

Responsible for the verification of new tab named Benefit Exception added which displays the Rider information. Riders can be added and maintained through this tab.

Calculated ROM values based on members status (Active/COBRA/terminated).

Verified the default values (TRT code, Benefit Start date, Product start date, Product, ROM values etc) in current plan tab by providing the group section # and export the updated values to data table.

Update/Modify/Delete the benefits to a group and verified the benefits across all sections.

Verifying the Audit reports with various combinations (like Riders, Product, Options Group sections etc).

Validated the members benefits on the Web and verified the applied benefits, Products (like DHMO, PPO, Choice etc) to individual member of that group.

Validate the Co-Pays and the Individual Insurance Premium Coverage of the Groups-sections.

Verified the member, providers information on TOD (Mainframe)

Estimating Test Case Creation and Test Case Execution Time for each User Stories in Agile Projects Iterations.

Used HP Interactive Quality Centre to map requirements to test cases, provide traceability to requirements, defect logging, create test sets and test execution.

Environment: Java 1.5, Oracle 9i, Forms 9i, TOAD, Mainframe server, HP Quality center.

Client: MICROSOFT Inc, Bangalore, India Oct 2003 - Aug 2006

Role: Sr. Quality Analyst

Project: MSN Shopping,

MSN Shopping is the comprehensive shopping service, one of the Internet’s largest featuring the top stores and supported by consumer-focused shopping tools that make buying decisions simpler.

Roles & Responsibilities: -

Created test-cases for Text-ad and Ad-Rotation modules.

Verified orphan pages and broken links in Text-ad module.

Validated the credit card information to make sure the shopping process has been complete.

Developed manual test-scripts clearly documenting the objective, pre -conditions, design-steps, data requirements & expected results for all the test-cases and obtained sign-off

Validated usability testing for MSN logo, various other controls like email control, sitemap control, search engine controller etc.

Involved in the design and development of a comprehensive Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Test Scripts with various accounts.

Performed gap- analysis of current system and the required changed in the system

Collecting application performance requirements

Understand the application and its architecture

Understanding the performance requirements and identifying critical business

Scripting the critical business flows.

Creating the Test Scripts based on the End-User Transactions

Parameterized and correlating the scripts

Scripting the critical business transaction (time consuming)

Creation of test scripts based on the end-user transactions

Parameterized and correlating the scripts

Design and execution of the scenarios and analysis of test results

Preparation of reporting based on the analysis generation and publishing the analysis report.

Environment: C#.NET, JSP, ASP.NET, IIS, SQL SERVER 2000.

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