Chithra Sivakumar

737-***-****) advusq@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

• Over 8 years of diverse experience in the Information Technology industry with a focus on Software Quality Assurance

(QA/Software Testing) activities.

• Types of testing: Black Box testing, Whitebox testing, Functional testing, GUI Automation testing, Smoke testing and Regression testing of Web-Based applications.

• Performed CI/CD integration using Maven and Jenkins.

• Expertise in writing test plans and test cases.

• Experience in manual testing of web-based application.

• Experience in GUI Automation testing using Selenium IDE and Web Driver.

• Experience in developing selenium automation framework using TestNG.

• Proficient in using IDE like Eclipse and defect tracking tool like TFS.

• Good experience in using web services tool like SOAPUI.

• Good knowledge of the SDLC and Quality Assurance lifecycle and involved in all the phases of testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle.

• Actively involved in Functional and Non-functional test case creation and execution, Bug reporting, Documentation, maintaining Test results and reviews.

• Good knowledge of programming languages like Java and SQL on Windows Operating Systems.

• Actively involved in Defect tracking, reporting, reviewing, and analyzing test results using TFS.

• Good experience and understanding of waterfall and Agile methodologies used in SDLC activities.

• Actively involved in testcase review to improve product quality.

• Good written/verbal communication skill.

Skills:

Functional and system

testing

Black box testing, Regression, Compatibility testing, Install and upgrade testing. Automation Selenium WebDriver.

Test Management tools WinRunner, Test Director, LDRA. Integration tools Eclipse 3.4.1

Languages C, C++, Java.

Defect Tracking tool TFS

Webservices tool SOAPUI

Testing Methodologies Software development life cycle; QA methodologies. Database SQL server, MYSQL

Professional Experience

Thomson Reuters Mar 09 - June 2016

Project: Easel and other GUI’s.

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst.

Client: Westlaw

Project Description:

Easel is a web-based, internal tool used by LBUs and Novus consultants to facilitate product building, product styling, and content configuration and testing. Easel is a tool to create and view Novus Products. It is basically used to Search and view content loaded to Novus using the Novus services. Pub GUI tracks loads & submit data management requests. It uses Publishing API’s to build search files during load process. Collection Builder is an open-source tool for creating collections. It helps user to build and customize collections.

Responsibilities:

• Actively collaborated with Developers, test leads, business stake holders to clarify requirements in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness.

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test plans and prepared well-structured testcases, Test Case Review Template and Requirement Traceability Matrix.

• Experience in manual testing of web-based applications.

• Involved in implementation of Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Jenkins Technologies under Java platform utilizing industry design patterns and approaches.

• Experience in using Selenium APIs such as select for selecting multiple values from list, Action for various key and mouse event, By with different Locators (Xpath, CSS, id, Link text).

• Carry out Regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.

• Executed test suites and generated HTML reports using TestNG.

• Performed Functional testing, Regression Testing, Smoke testing and Acceptance Testing.

• Performed Automation testing using selenium web driver.

• Developed and Executed Automation test scripts.

• Created testcases using Test Director.

• Uploading all the Automation test programs to TFS.

• Identified and tracked defects with TFS.

• Involved in testcase review to improve product quality. Environment: TFS, Eclipse 3.4.1, Selenium IDE/ WebDriver, TestNG, XML, XPath, Maven, Jenkins, JUnit, Java, windows, Eclipse, SOAPUI, SQL.

Product Testing: OEM

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst.

Partners: Elite, Westkm.

Project Description:

The term "OEM" is an industry acronym for Original Equipment Manufacturer. Novus OEM is a portable Novus architecture which runs search platform not utilizing the centralized Novus infrastructure hosted at the Eagan data center. The Novus OEM is a search and indexing solution that is installed with the Thomson application on servers at customer sites. The Novus OEM will allow Elite to offer Full Text Searching capabilities within its products without the need for a third-party solution. Responsibilities:

• Performed Installation, setup, and upgrade testing on system application.

• Created test data and scripts for applications covering various scenarios.

• Performed testing on multiple databases.

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test plans and prepared well-structured testcases.

• Involved in replicating the bugs raised by partners.

• Performed Regression testing.

• Identified and tracked defects with TFS.

Environment: App servers, TFS, windows, SQL 2000, 2005 and Oracle DB. Honeywell Technologies Mar 07 – Nov 2008

Project: B747-8 Datalink ATS core.

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst.

Client: Boeing 747

Project Description:

The Datalink function provides efficient routing of air/ground data communications and on-board data routing. It is part of an Aeronautical Air-Ground Network that includes ground service providers. The Datalink function can support ATN Message processing on VHF and Future Air Navigation System (FANS) messages on the VHF, SATCOM and HF air/ground data links. Software System test for CMCF is performed to verify that the system meets design tolerances and specifications for initial airplane installation and re-installation following repair. CMCF collects fault reports from airplane member systems and process’s fault reports into maintenance messages that are displayed to users. Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test plans and prepared well-structured testcases.

• Created test data and scripts for applications.

• Developed, executed, and debugged test scripts.

• Prepared well-structured testcases.

• Performed software system test and structural coverage.

• Involved in execution and debugging of test scripts.

• Involved in test script review to improve product quality.

• Generation and analysis of test reports and result files.

• Involved in test script development and raising packets.

• Prepared the test data to cover various scenarios and wrote SQL scripts to verify the database updates, inserts and deletion of the records.

• Knowledge about DO-178B standard.

Environment: Unit testing, windows, RedHat Linux, Visual studio 2008, Rational Visual Test. Project: Enhanced ground proximity warning system

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst

Client: EM*

Project Description:

The EGPWS is a Terrain Awareness and Alerting system providing terrain alerting and display functions with additional features. The EGPWS uses aircraft inputs including geographic position, altitude, airspeed, and glide slope deviation. These are used with internal terrain, obstacles, and airport databases to predict a potential conflict between the aircraft flight path and terrain or an obstacle.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and software design document

• Responsible for creating test environment in VCSIM.

• Involved in writing test cases, executing test cases, and debugging of test cases.

• Involved in creation of deliverable documents such as SDRD and VDD.

• Exposures to configuration management using PVCS.

• Involved in performing BOSS test in the lab station. Environment: Windows, RedHat Linux, Visual studio2008, Rational Visual Test. Education & Certification

• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Periyar University, India 1999-2003

• Coursera: Selenium Grid: Running Selenium Test in parallel.

• SQTL: Manual, Automation and Software testing methodologies.

• Duke University (online), Business Analytics in Data Driven companies.

• General Assembly UX Design: HCI, UX/UI Design March 2021-2022

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