Manual Tester

SASIREKHA SAMBATH

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Manual Tester

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

●Overall 6 years of IT experience in Dynamic Software Tester with experience in writing test scripts, defects and working on regression tests to help applications run smoothly.

●Have experience as a Business Analyst, in Business Analysis, System Analysis, Design, Development, Business Re-engineering, Requirement Gathering/Analysis, internal control reviews, and financial statements and implementation of Business Applications, Project Team Management. Has good domain knowledge in diversified fields of Auto Insurance and HealthCare (Care Management).

●Have excellent knowledge in Agile Test Methodologies.

●Proficient in Testing the Database using SQL queries.

●Proficient in ETL Testing using SSIS packages and database.

●Proficient in Testing the reports using SSRS and database.

●Proficient in Testing API using SOAP UI tool and validating JSON and XML format and Mobile testing.

●Testing the application in WEB as well as mobile platform.

●Proficient in using testing/defect tracking tool Quality Center and Rally.

●Expert knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.

●Involved in the Testing cycle, which includes requirements analysis, identifying and writing test cases, reviewing the test cases, test case execution, and posting/Testing defects.

●Involved in creation and implementation of Test Procedures, Test Plan. Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analysing the results of scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.

●Have experience in designing Test Conditions, Test cases and executing the Test cases in QC, Performing functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and Smoke testing for the application.

●Experienced in interactions with developers, managers and team members to coordinate the project tasks.

●Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.

●Ability to test backend applications by writing SQL.

●Experience in test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center/Rally/Jira.

●Well versed in analysing Results, Bug Tracking & Reporting, Detailed status reporting

Technical Skills:

Project Methodologies

Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, Iterative

Testing Tools

Quality Center, IBM ClearQuest, Rally, Jira, Soap UI, Test Project, ETL Testing using SSIS, Reports testing using SSRS.

Utilities

Firebug, Fire Path, Chrome Developer Tool.

Database

Microsoft SQL Server, MY SQL, Oracle

Test Methodologies

Waterfall, Iterative and Agile

Agile Tools

JIRA, Rally

Languages

HTML, SQL

DataInterchange Formats

XML, JSON.

Operating Systems

Windows XP/7/2008/10, Mac OS, Android, IOS, Citrix servers

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari.

MS Office Tools

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Professional Experience:

Client: Vertex, Boston, MA Dec 2020 to Current

Role: Manual Tester

Project Description:

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents.

●Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.

●Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases

●Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.

●Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.

●Designed and Analysed Test case design document based on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement through testing process.

●Analysed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules.

●Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.

●Baseline and Regression tests were scheduled and performed on every Release and build.

●Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.

●Creation of Test Data for Member data’s according to the scenarios.

●Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.

●Involved with Test Coverage Metrics, Defect metrics and various other measurements.

●Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.

●Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users. Prepared end user documentation for the new system

●Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.

●Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center

●Prepared and presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using Quality Center.

●Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Centre for the project stake holders and the project Management

●Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Centre.

●Conducted Integration Testing and Regression Testing with developers in development and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with UAT team. Safety reporting on system-based projects, acted as a liaison, writing documentation and increased project coordination.

Client: American Airlines, Phoenix, AZ. Nov 2018 – Apr 2020

Role: Manual Tester

Project Description:

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is one of the largest energy holding companies in the United States. Its Electric Utilities and Infrastructure business unit serves approximately 7.5 million customers located in six states in the Southeast and Midwest. The company's Gas Utilities and Infrastructure business unit distributes natural gas to approximately 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its Commercial Renewables business unit operates a growing renewable energy portfolio across the United States.

Responsibilities:

●Organized Test Plan during initial phase of project, prepared test scripts, created Release note in Rally, setup/link Test Lab with release cycle, executed test cases and recorded results in Rally. Executed all test cases in different phases of testing like GUI Testing, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Sanity and User Acceptance Testing.

●Wrote Structured Query Language (SQL) queries to check proper data population in application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against Oracle Database.

●Prepared meeting notes on daily execution/highlight of the project and send out the reports to managements.

●Interact with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).

●Involved with Trainer's training calls by presenting every project's new enhancement and functionality changes for the Branch Users.

●Created Initial test plan, developed test cases, test scripts and Defect Management Templates manually.

●Used Rally to store all testing results, metrics, created Test Cases, and Reporting.

●Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans which involved various Test Cases for all assigned module/projects; Review Test Requirements, Creating Test Plans and Test Strategy documents.

●Prepared a Defects Tracking Log for the SharePoint Site to track defects while testing.

●Involved in UAT testing, SIT Testing, Regression Testing and Functional testing.

●Actively participated in all QA and testing activities during UAT and PROD SDLC.

●Actively participated in smoke, functional and ad-hoc testing.

●Prepared Test Reports and submitted the bug findings in Rally.

●Involved in defect reporting, defect tracking and defect reproducing.

●Developed detailed Test Plan for system Testing based on SRD and BRD.

●Developed SQL queries to extract data from the source tables.

●Involved in writing and implementation of the various Test cases and Test scripts.

●Created Test Cases as per the business requirement and executed them.

●Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users.

●Involved in cross browsing testing of the application on various browsers to ensure it functions.

Client: Consumers Energy, Jackson, MI Feb 2017 to Oct 2018

Role: Product Specialist – Testing

Project Description:

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2020 sales of nearly $90 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

Responsibilities:

●Testing API using SOAP UI tool and validating JSON and XML format.

●Testing the database using SQL queries.

●Testing the application in WEB as well as mobile platform.

●Writing Test plan, test strategy documents.

●Understanding the Requirements, product specifications, analysing, understanding Test Conditions and map them to requirements.

●Analyse Business Use cases and develop test scenarios accordingly.

●Identify Test Scenarios and review the test scenarios with Business and development folks.

●Reviewing the Test Objectives/Scenarios as per requirements.

●Log defects in QC and tracking of Defects.

●Writing/Reviewing Test Cases for the Test Conditions mapped to requirements

●Preparing the Traceability matrix which maps each requirement to test cases

●Planning for Test Execution activities to accomplish tasks on daily/weekly basis.

●Reporting Defects/Defect Management using Quality Center

Client: Hitachi, San Ramon, CA July 2015 to Nov 2017

Role: Associate Test Engineer

●Collaborate with Developers and system analysts to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

●Collaborate work with various teams to solve problems and improve efficiency for software testing.

●Write Test Scripts for Software enhancement validations.

●Optimize test cases to maximize success of manual testing with consistent, thorough approaches.

●Identify and apply reusability in test planning.

●Create regression test bed and maintain it release over release.

●Create learning documents for enhanced functionality to help other team members.

●Supporting new hires and providing application training to them.

●Establishing healthy business relations with developers and other stake holders.

●Share latest testing matrix with leadership.

●Ensuring customer centric operations and identifying areas for improving and enhancing customer experience through implementation of feedback received from them.

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