Padma K adxiwl@r.postjobfree.com

Senior QA Tester / Analyst Ph: 732-***-****

SUMMARY

Result focused and customer-oriented QA Testing Lead / Analyst with professional expertise in designing test strategy, test planning, test scenarios, test cases, and leading testing effort for large/complex projects.

Over 12 years of IT experience in manual & automated testing of client/server-based applications and in areas of business analysis, quality analysis, and implementing QA methodologies.

Knowledge & experience of complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Expertise in end-to-end testing with a complete QA Cycle – requirement analysis, test planning, test case development, environment setup, test execution, defect logging, verification, and closure.

Established an efficient UAT strategy, optimized UAT processes to improve quality & productivity, retained knowledge within UAT test team to reduce turnaround time.

Expertise in performing different types of testing: White Box (Unit Testing, Integration testing), Black Box, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Stress, Volume, System, Performance, Security, Regression and Full Life Cycle Testing.

Expertise in backend testing using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules for database application of PL/SQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Expertise in maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), identifying test objectives, creating test strategy, test cases, test scripts, developing/updating test scenarios, executing functional and regression test scenarios for a web-based applications, documenting defect log status.

Experience in test techniques and programming with excellent analytical and diagnostic skills.

Extensive experience in Defect tracking tools like Quality Center/ALM and Rational Clear Quest..

Expertise in following/using Agile methodology tools like VersionOne, JIRA and AZURE DevOps

Extensive different industrial experience like Mortgage/Housing, Financial, Insurance and Federal.

Self-motivated, responsible & accountable with a strong team player spirit, great project management skills. efficient planning skills and an ability to adhere to deadlines.

Quick learner to execute new ideas, processes, concepts, and technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools:

Cypress, Selenium IDE/RC/WebDriver/GRID, Cucumber, Gherkin, SOAP UI, REST services, HP ALM 12.3/11, Quality Center 10, QTP 10/11, GIT Bash

Bug Tracing Tools:

HP ALM, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA and Splunk

Testing Methodologies:

Black Box Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance and End to End Testing

Development Methodologies:

Agile, Waterfall, Modified Waterfall, RUP and Lean

Databases:

MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle 9i, DB2, MongoDB & MS Access

Web Technologies:

HTML, XML, XHTML, DHTML, Json, Java, Node JS, python, ASP.Net, Java Script, SOAP UI, REST API and SOAP Web Services, and AWS

Operating System:

Windows, UNIX, and Linux

SCM & PM tools:

ADO, VersionOne, Visual Source Safe, Subversion, MS Office

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in science with majors in Electronics from Nagarjuna University, India (2007)

Diploma in Computer Applications from Vision Technologies, India (2008)

Certified and trained in Quality Assurance Methodology and best Testing Practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Freddie Mac Mc Lean, VA

Role: Senior UAT Tester / Analyst May22 - Present

Freddie Mac is a government-owned corporation that buys mortgages and packages them into mortgage-backed securities. Critical member of Modern Delivery team and accountable for Quality Assurance. Participated and supported UAT testing of Microservices, APIs, and pricing application dataflows for projects Cash contract Mod UI, and Guarantor Pricing Modernization.

Responsibilities:

Participated in the designing test strategy, test planning, and leading the project for large/complex projects. Actively involved in Scrum meetings, work assignments and deliverables follow up.

Established, documented QA best practices, planned and managed QA test projects, implemented testing framework, and automated regression test suites for UI using Cypress.

Architected and developed complete regression/sanity testing for Pricing application data flows, using Rest APIs calls to test microservices.

Performed end-to-end testing of database, validated XML responses generated for different Web Services using Postman.

Analyzed business requirements, functional requirements, use cases and developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts to cover both positive and negative test scenarios.

Performed data validation and data persistence to check the accuracy and quality using SQL queries.

Developed automation framework from scratch for API Testing to test REST APIs with REST Assured Library/REST templates and to test SOAP Web services and client’s emerging SOA architecture.

Developed Cypress code for data validation in Visual Studio and defined pipeline jobs with source code to run in Jenkins pipeline.

Executed GIT Bash commands to pull, commit, push, and merge the code to master and to run in pipeline.

Worked on Cash contract Mod UI, and Guarantor Pricing Modernization projects and tested BUBD ratio and BUBD proceeds, credit fee calculations, asset price adjustor UI (IO & SF grid upload), PMA setup for Gfee, Dfee, seller adjustors, product adjustors and updated the BUBD and Gfee set up per case scenarios.

Validated API calls from UI and verified request and response in Pricing Manager Operations dashboard.

Performed end-to-end testing for Freddie LSA application to verify the purchasing statements, funding reports, and database validations.

Supported performance testing activities by importing more than 150 contracts at a time, adding 900 sellers to seller group, uploading the Asset price adjustors grid, and making sure no errors are reported. Worked on the adjustors set up for the seller groups are applied for the calculations.

Review test strategies to guarantee the quality of the delivered system, assist in the diagnosis of system problems encountered during testing.

Work with and support the Problem Management Group for troubleshooting and analysis and triage of problems coming out of production.

Liaised with internal teams (e.g. developers, solution architects and project managers) to identify system requirements, issues and fixes.

Defined the appropriate tests required and gathered, managed the test data, evaluated the outcome of each test cycle.

Identified and highlighted redundant functions and components of application. Improved knowledge of business applications, user needs and expectations.

Client: GEICO, Chevy Chase, MD

Role: Test Lead & QA Automation Tester Aug’19 – May22

GEICO is an auto insurance company and the second largest auto insurer in the United States. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance and offers property insurance, as well as umbrella coverage. Participated and lead the team in the designing test strategy, test planning, estimation, leading testing effort for multiple projects like AZURE migration of TSS, ROAR, CART, ML Equality Integration Service application, ML HISS Application, SQL 2 Cloud, MI3 Bundling, MIO HO4 Renters, and Assurant HO3 applications.

Responsibilities:

Identify project requirements and prepare project specifications to develop further course of action.

Lead, coordinate, manage, and conduct daily team tasks, scrum meetings and status reports with offshore team.

Perform technical and cost feasibility study and provide cost, material, and labor requirements to the Delivery Manager.

Schedule projects and prioritize according to the deadlines assigned by the client.

Integrated mobile automation testing frameworks (Android/iOS) into GEICO ETM automation framework.

Identify the appropriate tools for test automation according to the application requirements and advancement in the tools.

Coordinate with system partners to finalize the framework and designs and confirm requirements.

Investigate application bugs/issues and report the bugs to the development team using TFS. Used ADO (Azure DevOps) to analyze bugs, add and run regression testing.

Perform documentation for all test automation projects and share reports and results with the client.

Develop and implement automation frameworks using Object Repositories, XML, XPath to page classes/actions from scratch to invoke/call web page objects.

Implement automation scripts using GEICO ETM Tool to execute the test cases.

Extensively automate regression and functional test suites by developing test cases, test suites using GEICO ETM Tool.

Involved in testing PostgreSQL data access, and code changes together with our development team

Involved in backend testing using PostgreSQL, SQL queries, Sybase DB queries, creating Test Plans, Test Cases, executing Test Scripts, Data Verification and Validation.

Assisted engineering team with Sybase to SQL database migration testing.

Develop RESTful Web Services to track sales and perform Home and Auto Insurance quote analysis.

Strong technical Knowledge of UNIX Utilities, Shell Script to automate process.

Designed and developed UNIX shell scripts as part of the ETL process, automate the process of loading, pulling the data.

Developed test automation framework scripts using Python Selenium WebDriver and implemented Page Object Model framework with Python and Selenium.

Built python framework to transform Datasets and Data tables into HTTP-serializable JSON strings. Developed Python application for Google Analytics aggregation and reporting. Wrote scripts in Python for Extracting Data from JSON and XML files.

Support Prod verification, execute smoke tests in different environments, conduct regression failure analysis and generate metrics/reports.

Used Splunk and Log Viewer to check and verify error logs. Provide issue analysis and case scenarios to development team.

Responsible for identifying and documenting defects, managing defects from defect discovery to resolution.

Create and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defect Log Status documents.

Client: Freddie Mac, McLean VA

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Tester / Test Lead Apr’16 – Aug’19

Freddie Mac is a government-owned corporation that buys mortgages and packages them into mortgage-backed securities. Participated in the UAT test teams, supported UAT testing for various business teams and involved in projects like Pricing Execution Guarantor, Selling System, Recalculation application, Cash Servicing Release application, LPA GUI Changes application, Gallagher Tech application upgrade, CSR TACO, LQA Flex Enhancements, and LCLA Modernization.

Responsibilities:

Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings.

Assisted Manager by providing automation strategies, Selenium/Cucumber Automation and JIRA reports.

Manages tasks in Version One and documents (planning, test results etc) in SharePoint Libraries.

Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Selenium Grid, Cucumber.

Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing test cases, test suites using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, JUnit.

Developed and implemented automation frameworks using Page Object Model framework, Hybrid framework and Page classes from scratch to represent web pages.

Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files, SQL and Oracle Databases.

Used Maven, Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different platform, browser combinations in parallel.

Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behaviors and step definitions. Developed required Selenium support code in JAVA for Cucumber.

Wrote SQL queries extensively, queried database and generated test reports. Developed SQL queries to identify, select and develop test data. Developed and executed SQL queries to execute database verification testing.

Developed java scripts to query and extract data from MongoDB using NoSql.

Executed Project plans and implemented activities of engagement related to the UAT testing.

Involved in cross-functional Quality Assurance UAT testing activities and development of UAT test artifacts, test plans, UAT test documentation and reporting.

Provided support to the Freddie Mac End Users to complete UAT testing activities. And provided support in creating UAT test artifacts for both manual and automated testing.

Executed the UAT test case suites using real world end-user business processes. Performed both black box and white box testing. Provided UAT testing status reporting for Project Management.

Involved in full Software Test Life Cycle for Pricing Execution Guarantor project. Worked on guarantor, multi-lender contracts in the new Selling System Application with integration of new PMA to test data flow to the new sourcing database (SRCADB) as well as old legacy database. Developed and executed SQL scripts on Rapid SQL and DB2 databases for test cases.

Worked on Gallagher application for CSR (Cash Servicing Released) project by doing darkening/un-darkening services to test the bid/no bid rules for cash released contracts. Executed test cases in Wipro’s BRM tool (Business Rules Management) to test the rules, adjustments and fees for the existing 7 servicer buyers.

Participated in testing the GUI changes in Government monitoring section, introduced in the new spec 4.3 dtd files (ethnicity, race, gender etc) using different test methods like manual import, System to system, Desktop to web and Web to web for LPA HMDA (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act).

Involved in STLC for Gallagher Tech upgrade, from Windows 2003 to 2008 and from SQL 2008 to SQL 2012. Tested all Gallagher applications including pricing application, Gallagher utilities, Gallagher dialogs, BRM tool as well as bid and no bid rules to make sure the existing functionality is not broke on upgrade.

Involved in testing the cash mandatory servicing released contracts, contract template, rate sheet, and export functionality with the new attributes introduced form loan to the contract. Tested the SRP prices for loan and contract are matching with Gallagher. Participated in execution of test cases including calculating final asset price before delivery fee, and SRP validation. Tested all the bid and no bid rules are working as expected on introduction of new fields on contract for CSR TACO project.

Created a Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Business Requirements are covered with adequate testing. Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defect Log Status documents.

Performed Load and Stress testing by developing LoadRunner scripts to find out effective Web/App server configurations for best performance levels.

Performed Black and White Box Testing, Positive, Negative and Boundary Testing.

Participated in Test results analysis, reporting and defect management in addition to Test case identification, planning, development and execution.

Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.

Responsible for identifying and documenting defects, managing defects from defect discovery to resolution.

Client: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC

Role: Quality Assurance Tester Mar’16 – Apr’16

U.S. SEC – The Office of Financial Management OFM administers the financial management and budget functions of the SEC. Participated in design, execution, and documentation of UAT test cases for Filing Fees Application and Reports.

Major Tasks & Responsibilities:

Designed, documented Test plans and Test cases from Business Specification Requirement documents and User Stories to validate complex requirements of Filing Fees Application.

Developed Automation framework using Selenium Web Driver in Modular Framework model.

Developed Selenium test cases using TestNG framework.

Testing of web services using SOAP UI. Created automation scripts in SOAP UI using Groovy Script for web services testing.

Performed Backend testing using SQL Queries and validated the post processed SharePoint list data.

Tested data reports built using SSRS, and SAP Business objects to validate the report functionality.

Assisted with the test data generation, testing and analysis of reports to validate accuracy of the SQL data.

Reported and tracked all defects in Quality Center and assigned the tracked defects to associated developers.

Client: IT Minds, Herndon VA

Role: Quality Assurance Tester Jan’11 – Feb’16

IT Minds provide quality software engineering and consulting services to different clients. Worked as QA Tester for clients Lockheed Martin & Unisys Corp. Worked on Web applications and involved in backend testing using SQL Queries. Provided manual & automation support for Web Services applications.

Responsibilities:

Involved in BRD walkthroughs and analyzed business requirements, design document and prepared requirement review report.

Designed and documented Test plans, Test cases from Business Specification Requirement documents and User Stories.

Converted business requirements into test objectives and created test procedures.

Participated in complete User Acceptance Testing life cycle of CWS Project – UAT Planning, designing Test Case, executing UA Cases, documenting defects, resolving bugs, and sign off.

Experience in Web Services testing using Rest and SOAP UI. Test automation for web application using Cucumber.

Wrote tests using Java web applications. Web controls testing - wrote automation to test the controls from end to end to invoke in Internet Explorer.

Involved and ensured that business function for the user stories is validated not only from the component level but also from the system integration perspective in UA Testing and updated results in JIRA.

Assigned issues to developers to fix the bugs/defects identified during functionality testing and corrected them prior to pilot or full implementation.

Involved in data analysis and prepared required test data for validation of test cases.

Created detailed Test cases in HP ALM and developed reusable test scripts that were robust, maintainable and data driven.

Ensured all requirements are addressed and automated manually written test cases by using QTP.

Executed the developed automated scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing.

Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output data of the reports

Created XML test data & XML scenarios based on the mapping documents and XSD file.

Performed sanity and smoke testing, functional and non-functional testing.

Performed Stress test of the application by submitting bunch of requests.

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