Qa Tester Qa Lead

RESUME

Prathima Golla

Mob: +1-412-***-****

E-mail ID: **********@*****.***

Objective: Looking for a long term association in an organization having dynamic work environment, where my skills could be enhanced and grow in the hierarchy of the company.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

7+ years experienced resource in Healthcare & Banking Industry with hands on experience on Functional, Regression and Web App Testing.

4 months of experience in Indotronix International LLC, working for large banking client in US.

3.5 years of experience in Accenture India, working for a large health care insurer for US.

4 years of experience in Accenture USA, working for a large health care insurer for US.

Adopt in handling entire project for testing, understanding client requirements, creating specification documents, preparing test cases, working on final testing deliverables and getting the project approved by the clients. Skilled in preparing test plans, test cases and following the test methodologies of the organization.

An effective communicator & team leader with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills, strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities. Possess a positive, flexible and detail oriented attitude, strive to be my best.

Analysis of the application requirements, Test Plan preparation, Conduct Test Plan walkthroughs with the clients and obtaining sign off, Data Preparation, Test Execution, Log Defects and ensure their closure after re-test, Supporting the test team by providing clarifications

Passionate to learn and deliver using new IT technologies.

PROJECT SUMMARIES:

PROJECT-1

Client/Company : Bank Of America (USA)

Project Duration : Oct. 2021 – Till Date

Role : QA Test Lead

Project & Role Description

Project : Contact Center Desktop Modernization

Project Time Span : < 1 Year

Domain : Banking

Tools : QTest, Jira, HP ALM, DataX

Technology : Web App Testing

Description: As part of the program, different LOBs pertaining to Customer Accounts, Credit\Debit Cards, Wealth Management, Investments, Brokerage, Goals would be managed via a centralized platform while providing access containers to Individual LOB workspaces and with different customer agent roles. The program involves modernizing existing legacy applications to the new platform while ensuring that the existing flows are retained and enhanced customer agent experience is delivered.

Role Description: As a Test Lead, was involved in overseeing test planning and execution for ‘2’ agile teams and was participating in the PI events. Standups with the testing team and with the squad are a daily activity. Was leading a team of ‘7’ resources at Offshore while working closely with the client leads to address daily test activities and escalations. Conducting working sessions with the development team and the business teams, Analyzing, debugging of defects, data mining, data conditioning and delivering requirement understanding sessions to the Offshore delivery teams are few of the activities that were conducted. Status reporting, detailing lessons learnt during the retrospective meetings have been an activity that was overseen during each sprint. Provided test deliverables within the scheduled time frame and with no Critical\High defects turning up in Production. Won accolades\appreciation from the Client management for successfully testing the project.

Responsibilities:

1)Review the epics and document User stories

2)Assign sub tasks to the team members

3)Create data using data mining and data conditioning techniques

4)Provide daily testing status on the standups

5)Participate in PI Planning and Retrospective events

6)Drive testing and defect retest sessions with the business teams

7)Ensure that deliverables are delivered with quality and with sufficient details

8)Log defects and follow-up till closure

9)Support on-boarding and ramp up of new team members.

10)Train the test team members on the project and take the accountability of the project completion with quality

11)Conduct daily meetings with the team members to ensure that everyone are on the same page and to have work tasks assigned

PROJECT-2

Client/Company : Highmark (USA)

Project Duration : Oct. 2008 - Feb. 2013

Role : Sr. QA Tester\Test Lead

Project & Role Description

Project : Membership Modernization

Project Time Span : 4 Years

Domain : Healthcare

Tools : Rational Test Manager, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, File Aid

Technology : Mainframe\Web App Testing

Description: As part of Membership Modernization, legacy mainframe screens to access and manage members are replaced by Web Application. Underlying membership data processing and storage are still managed on Mainframe. The objective is to ensure all of the functionalities and workflows available on Mainframe CICS screens are available on web and are matching in functionality.

Role Description: Was leading a team of 4 resources at the client location and successfully planned the test effort and estimates by having thorough discussion with the Business Analysts and the project team. Provided the test deliverables within the scheduled time frame and with no Critical\High defects turning up in Production. Won accolades\appreciation from the Client\Accenture management for successfully testing the project.

Responsibilities:

1)Review the requirements received from the Business Analyst's

2)Conduct discussion sessions and obtain clarifications

3)Prepare Test effort documentation and conduct walkthrough with clients to obtain signoff

4)Conduct discussions with the project team to ensure there are no communication gaps with the test team regarding delivery

5)Train the test team members on the project and take the accountability of the project completion with quality

6)Conduct daily calls with the team members to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

7)Participate in defect calls and discuss on the defect status and any follow ups

8)Conduct test results walkthrough and obtain signoff on the projects.

9)Preparing Job aids and any necessary project presentations to be useful for future projects.

PROJECT-3

Client/Company : United Health Group

Project Duration : Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2008

Role : QA Tester

Project & Role Description:

Project : TOPS Application Development

Project Time Span : 3 years

Domain : Healthcare

Technology : Mainframe

Tools : Mercury Test Director\HP ALM, QAH+, Code Coverage, Hyperstation

Description: As part of the Claim processing program, as number of enhancements were implemented every release. Core test validations from each project used to be recorded using Hyperstation on Mainframe. Objective of the team is to ensure that the recorded regression tests across all projects are managed centrally and re-executed during the regression window. Parallel test executions on production code base are performed for results comparison and defect logging.

Role Description: As a tester objective was to ensure that the requirements from each project are clearly understood before the regression tests are executed and results are reported. Mainframe Batch and Online results validations are expected to be performed.

Responsibilities:

1)Understand the requirements and the detailed system specifications

2)Mainframe Environment refresh and test data setup

3)Maintaining regression files received from across the projects

4)Executing the regression scripts and performing parallel tests on production code base

5)Perform test results compare using QAH+

6)Utilize Code Coverage tool to report metrics on the code coverage from regression suite executions.

7)Review of Batch and Online regression reports.

8)Execute the test cases and report daily status to the Lead and update the test lab in Mercury Test Director

9)Log defects in Test Director when found and monitor till closure.

10)Train and help new joiners in the team as and when required.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

University/College

Degree

Year

Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

BSc Computer Science

2005

Board Of Intermediate Education A.P

Intermediate

2001

Board Of Secondary Education,Andhra Pradesh

Class X

1999

SKILLS

Domain : HealthCare, Finance

Tools : Mercury Test Director\HP ALM, QAH+, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Hyperstation, Code Coverage, Rational Quality Manager, POSTMAN, File Aid, VSAM, JCL, DB2, Jira, QTest, DataX

Technology : Mainframe, Web App

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional in Academy of Healthcare Management (PAHM) – AHM 250

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