Purnima Naras

Software Quality Assurance

Cumming, GA

adwmhh@r.postjobfree.com

+1-470-***-****

• Having 4+ years of IT career with key focus on Quality Assurance of Enterprise Client Server Applications across web and mobile.

• Adept at Quality Assurance Processes to perform Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Cross- Browser and User Acceptance testing during SDLC.

• Extensively involved in Design & Implementation of Testing Framework & strategy.

• Plan, Design, Build and Execute and maintain complex Test Strategy Plans.

• Good Exposure to Testing and Bug life cycles and concepts of Software Development (SDLC) and Software testing life Cycles (STLC).

• Involved in various stages of the testing life cycle from Requirements review, Test planning, Test case design, preparation of test data, Test tool usage, Test case execution, Defect management.

• Experienced in performing various kinds of Black-Box/White Box testing like User Interface testing, Functional Testing, Integration, Regression testing, Security, compatibility, web services testing.

• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills SKILLSET

• TEST: Planning Test Case Design Test Environment Setup Test Data Setup Test log, results, metrics Test Traceability Matrix Defect Management

• ANALYZE: Requirement Gathering/Analysis System Analysis Business Requirements Document

(BRD) Functional Requirements Document (FRD) Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions Developing Use Cases, Test Approach, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• MANAGE: Project Team Management Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles Test Management Defect Tracking tools Analyze Results Bug Tracking & Reporting

• TOOLS: JIRA, HP ALM, qTest, Quality Center, Test Director, MS Office Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

QA Analyst

RCR Technologies - Atlanta, GA

March 2020 to Present

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

• Performed Functional, 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 Analyzed Test case design document basing on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement through testing process.

• Analyzed 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.

• Loaded the Test Data into the HPQC to prepare for the execution of Test Cases

• Involved in Task Creation, Task Estimation, Task Distribution, Task Prioritization and Communication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.

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

• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density,

• Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort, 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 Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management

• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center. Systems Analyst

Meritech Ltd. - Yokohama, Japan

December 2008 to December 2011

• Interact extensively with the Product Manager and Business Area Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to understand the Business Processes thoroughly.

• Identified opportunities for business process improvement through various meetings with business users and developers and initiated efforts to make improvements.

• Analysis of requirements, creating, and maintaining the Business Requirements Document (BRD).

• Created Requirement Description Document (RDD), Business Requirement Specification document

(BRS) for the application to include the business requirements, technical requirements, non-functional requirements, and error handling based on the analysis performed while creating the Process flows.

• Responsible for defining the Scope of the Project, gathering Business

• Requirements, involved in Gap Analysis, and documented them; created PowerPoint Presentations and reports for reviews with senior management.

• Set up definitions and process for scoping, document test cases, and test phases including product test, integration test, system test and User Acceptance Test (UAT).

• Identified the business experts for the different modules and set up meetings with them to gather the requirements for functionality, workflow, and business rules.

• Identified System Requirements, generated the Business and Functional Process Models and established timelines, milestones, and deliverables.

• Transformed business requirements to technical models using Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.

• Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements.

• Worked with development team in creating web forms and web-based configuration tools.

• Forecasting budget of the project at each step of the SDLC process.

• Facilitated the documenting of test cases and recorded them for the functionality testing in Test Director based on test requirements.

• Conducted and participated in walkthroughs to discuss certain issues with the development, design, and QA team.

Business Development Executive

Citi - Chennai, Tamil Nadu

September 2006 to January 2008

• Served as a business analyst and product manager for custom product for several corporate customers.

• Customer site visits to attend or facilitate meetings, observe business processes, and create recommendations.

• Main point of contact for business customer requirements development and post deployment issues.

• Supervised team of analysts and trainers.

• Coordinated work between multiple departments- marketing, operations, IT, and finance.

• Elicited and drafted functional requirements using a variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, use cases, scenarios, flow diagrams, demos and JAD sessions.

• Scheduled training designed manuals and conducted corporate training of custom applications on and offsite.

Education

MBA in Business Administration

University of Madras - Madras, TAMIL NADU, IN

June 2004 to June 2006

Bachelors in Business Administration

University of Madras - Madras, TAMIL NADU, IN

June 2001 to June 2004

Skills

• Enterprise-wide applications with multiple databases like ORACLE, DB2, and MS ACCESS.

• Defect Management

• Use of Quality Center/Test Director as repository for maintaining test cases, execution and tracking the defects

• Developing Use Cases, Test Approach, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions,

• Test Cases Design

• Project Team Management

• Test Data Setup

• Test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center, Test Director, etc.

• Requirement Gathering/Analysis

• Gather & Analyze requirements

• Test Plans/Test Cases

• Test Planning

• Functional Requirements Document (FRD)

• Test Environment Setup

• Business Analysis

• Develop/Maintain test scripts

• Test Traceability Matrix

• Test log

• Traceability & Test Data Matrix

• System Analysis

• Analyze Results to provide Bug Tracking & Reporting, Detailed status reporting

• Business Requirements Document (BRD)

• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles

• HP ALM

Languages

• English - Fluent

• Tamil - Fluent

• Telugu - Fluent

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