PRASANTHI MACHA

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QUALITY ASSURANCE / SOFTWARE TESTING

SUMMARY:

Skilled IT Professional with 6+ years in Quality Assurance performing both Manual and Automation testing.

Experience in analysis of software requirements specifications, effective test planning, development & execution of test cases, analysis of test results, defect logging, tracking and reporting.

In depth knowledge of all QA phases that include Block Box, Ad-hoc, Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT and Database Testing of software applications.

Expertise in Manual and Automation testing using QC, ALM, JIRA, Selenium Web Driver & QTP.

Experience in using SOAP UI for Web services testing.

Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Expertise in complete QA life cycle through testing of application frontend, backend, defect logging/tracking and verification of fixed bugs.

Good understanding of relational database concepts and experience using SQL for data retrieval and manipulation.

Work with development teams, business analysts and other stakeholders and help to deliver quality results.

Experience in different test methodologies.

Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, taking ownership of test deliverables, status reporting, issue escalation and follow ups.

Involved in review meetings with Project Managers, Business Associates and Developers for Project Planning, Coordination and implementing various QA methodologies.

Experience in Iterative, Agile test methodology and Waterfall Testing methodologies

Excellent team player with good logical reasoning ability, coordination and interpersonal skills.

Excellent domain knowledge in Health Insurance and in Financial Services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Manual Testing Tools : Quality Center, ALM, Quick Test Pro

Automation : Selenium web driver, Cucumber, QTP

Defect Tracking Tools : Quality Center, JIRA

Web Technologies : Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, RESTAPI

Database : Microsoft SQL, Oracle SQL developer

Operating System : Windows 8, 7, XP, NT/2000, Linux

Other Tools : MS-Office Suite, SOAPUI for API testing

Testing types : Functional, System/Integration and Regression Testing,

Smoke testing, White Box and Black Box testing,

Web services/API testing, Back-end testing using SQL,

Client/Server application under Microsoft windows and Linux platform,

Data driven testing, User acceptance testing, Mobile testing

EXPERIENCE:

BackOffice QA Tester Jan2018-Current

Ascensus College Savings, Newton, MA

Project: JETT(Record Keeping system for 529 direct and Able plans)

Description: Ascensus College Savings is a leading administrator of 529 plans, dedicated to meeting the needs of its clients, their plans, and all families saving for college across the country.

Responsibilities

Worked in an agile development environment by collaborating with the team to deliver quality product iteratively.

Involved in development and execution of automation and manual test cases for Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.

Participated in Feeds execution and validating huge data files in Linux environment, Query database for huge data retrieval.

Finding, documenting and tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys.

Involved in development and execution of Jett Automation test suite using Cucumber, TestNG, Selenium.

Worked with the team to maintain the automation framework and report the issues that caused during execution.

Performed End-to-End testing of new features and products.

Participated in daily scrum meetings, Release Meeting and Status Meetings.

Performed webservices testing between Higher One and Unite using SOAP UI.

Performed Regression testing on each and every release, verified no new defects were caused by new functionality and production fixes.

Retesting of production issues.

Involved in running Nightly cycle to process transactions on Jett side.

Environment: Oracle SQL developer, Selenium, Cucumber, QTest for test case management, Jira for defect tracking, Linux,WinSCP Jenkins, SoapUI

QA Analyst May 2015-Sep 2017

Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector, Boston, MA

Project: Health Insurance Exchange Integrated Eligibility System (Federal Hub)

The Massachusetts Health Connector is Massachusetts’ online health insurance Marketplace where the Individuals, Families, and small businesses can shop among the state’s leading health and dental insurance carriers, choose the right plan to meet their needs and budget and apply for health Insurance.

Responsibilities

Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Ad-hoc, Regression and UAT testing of H-Centive application for different scenarios.

Reviewed User stories and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) documentation including project plans, and business process models.

Developed the test cases for the features added in the new sprints by reviewing the user stories and executed the test cases once the build is ready for testing.

Created and maintained test cases and test runs and reported results to management using test case management tool ALM.

Logged the defects for the issues encountered during execution in ALM. Retested the open tickets and closed the tickets once the issues are resolved.

Performed Production testing and reported the issues in JIRA.

Performed Regression testing on each and every release, verified no new defects were caused by new functionality and production fixes.

Developed and executed the automation test scripts using Selenium Web driver (Java) for Regression cases.

Designed tests by using TestNG framework and Data Driven Framework.

Created the Page Classes for web pages using Page Object Model and find the elements on web page using x-paths, CSS selector, Id’s and Names.

Used Data Driven framework to extract the test data from Excel files.

Retrieved the data from database by connecting to JDBC and verified the UI data against the back-end data.

Configured the TestNG XML file to execute the automation test suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.

Parameterize the test data using TestNG XML file.

Ran the test script with multiple sets of data using TestNG Data Providers.

Utilized Exception Handling to rollback and resume the test scenarios in case of exceptions or unexpected halt of the Program.

Utilized Collection frame work of JAVA-Map, List and Set in Java.

Executed SQL queries to verify the database for the relevant test cases.

Performed webservices testing between HIX and Hub Services using SOAP UI.

Participated in daily scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Grooming, review, retrospective meetings as part of agile process.

Participated in defect triage meetings and working sessions by providing information required to triage and resolve issues encountered during testing.

Environment: H-Centive IP and Agent Portal, QA utility Tool, AVV, ALM, JIRA, Selenium Web Driver, SOAP UI, Oracle, Share File, MS Office Suite, Windows 10, Java.

QA Analyst Sep 2014- March 2015

State of Massachusetts, Quincy, MA

Project: Health Insurance Exchange Integrated Eligibility System (Federal Hub)

The Massachusetts Health Connector is Massachusetts’ online health insurance Marketplace where Individuals, Families, and small businesses can shop among the state’s leading health and dental insurance carriers, choose the right plan to meet their needs and budget and apply for health Insurance.

Responsibilities

Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Ad-hoc, Regression and UAT testing of H-Centive application for different scenarios.

Reviewed User stories and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) documentation including project plans, and business process models.

Developed the test cases for the features added in the new sprints by reviewing the user stories and executed the test cases once the build is ready for testing.

Created and maintained test cases and test runs and reported results to management using test case management tool ALM.

Logged the defects for the issues encountered during execution in ALM. Retested the open tickets and closed the tickets once the issues are resolved.

Performed Production testing and reported the issues in JIRA.

Performed Regression testing on each and every release, verified no new defects were caused by new functionality and production fixes.

Developed and executed the automation test scripts using Selenium Web driver (Java) for Regression cases.

Designed tests by using TestNG framework and Data Driven Framework.

Created the Page Classes for web pages using Page Object Model and find the elements on web page using x-paths, CSS selector, Id’s and Names.

Used Data Driven framework to extract the test data from Excel files.

Retrieved the data from database by connecting to JDBC and verified the UI data against the back-end data.

Configured the TestNG XML file to execute the automation test suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.

Parameterize the test data using TestNG XML file.

Ran the test script with multiple sets of data using TestNG Data Providers.

Scheduled the Jobs using Jenkins to run the tests at regular intervals.

Utilized Exception Handling to rollback and resume the test scenarios in case of exceptions or unexpected halt of the Program.

Utilized Collection frame work of JAVA-Map, List and Set in Java.

Executed SQL queries to verify the database for the relevant test cases.

Performed webservices testing between HIX and Hub Services using SOAP UI.

Participated in daily scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Grooming, review, retrospective meetings as part of agile process.

Participated in defect triage meetings and working sessions by providing information required to triage and resolve issues encountered during testing.

Environment: H-Centive IP and Agent Portal, QA utility Tool, AVV, ALM, JIRA, Selenium Web Driver, SOAP UI, Oracle, Share File, MS Office Suite, Windows 10, Java.

QA Analyst Feb 2014 –June 2014

OPTUM, Waltham, MA

Project: Health Insurance Exchange Integrated Eligibility System (Federal Hub)

The Massachusetts Health Connector is Massachusetts’ online health insurance Marketplace where Individuals, Families, and small businesses can shop among the state’s leading health and dental insurance carriers, choose the right plan to meet their needs and budget and apply for health Insurance.

Responsibilities

Hands on experience in creating and executing test cases both in HIX Worker Portal and Individual portal.

Developed the test scenarios from Traditional rules document and Mass health document provided by state and break down these scenarios into test cases.

Performed Cross browser - Cross Platform UI testing in HIX WP, IP on different configurations (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome).

Compared the WP and IP Test cases with requirements by using traceability matrix.

Executed QHP and Mass Health Test cases in HIX IP and did Program Determination (PD) verification in HIX CSR portal.

Created data for Group A, B,C test cases(State Business Analyst divided test cases into three groups based on the Income, Immigration Status, Disability that are Group A,B,C.) in HIX WP and determine the PD/Aid cat and check the document verifications and notices in HIX CSR portal.

Validated the back-end data by running SQL queries on “Oracle SQL developer”.

Validated the data by extracting the data from two different data base systems HIX IP and HIX WP database.

Performed Sanity, Functional, Integration, Ad-hoc and Regression Testing in HIX for different scenarios.

Logged the tickets for failed HIX WP test cases in Jira. Retested the open tickets and closed the tickets once the issues are resolved.

Automated the data seeding for QHP, Mass Health scenarios in HIX WP by using “Selenium Web driver”.

Environment: HIX WP, HIX IP, SAACT, K-diff, JIRA, Oracle, Java, Selenium Web Driver, Windows 7, SharePoint.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science JNT University, Hyderabad, India

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