Manual Testing Software Development

Summary

* ***** ** ********** ********** QA testing on Client/Server and Web based applications and 2 years of experience in Debit processing system (DPS) and Troubleshooting ATM

In depth knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including traditional Waterfall model as well as Agile/Scrum, UAT and Top down and Bottom up process and methodologies.

Diversified experience in Manual testing and Automation serving various domains such as Banking, Healthcare and Agriculture company

Experience in preparing Test strategy, Test plan, Test methodology, Test scenarios, Test summary reports, Test cases and Test documents for both automated and manual testing based on User requirements, System requirements and Use case documents.

Working knowledge of core internet technologies like DNS, HTTP

Knowledgeable working in the cloud environment in understanding IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS applications.

Knowledgeable and Hand on Experience in AWS

Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE to develop automation testing scripts for web applications.

Experience in TestNG frameworks, Maven for build management and Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

Proficiency in different types of Testing such as Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Black-Box Testing, Integration Testing, Component Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Boundary Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser Testing, and Functional Testing.

Capability in setting up and carrying out browser compatibility testing environment with different browsers and versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome on different OS like Windows and Mac.

Expert using defect management and bug tracking tool JIRA and HP ALM.

Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Extensive knowledge in executing SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data from Backend using SQL developer.

Ability to adapt to new environment quickly, strong team player, quick learner, good communication, confident, cross functional.

Technical skills:

Testing Tools

Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver

Languages

JAVA, SQL, XML, HTML

IDE

Eclipse, IntelliJ, SQL Developer

Test Framework

Cucumber, TestNG, Data Driven Framework

Build and Integration Tools

Maven, Jenkins

Processes

Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tools

JIRA, HPALM

Version Control

GIT

Data Bases

Oracle, MySQL

Operating Systems

Windows

Cloud Platform:

AWS, Microsoft Azure

Education

Master of Science with Major in Management and minor in Cybersecurity from Colorado State University. Completed in April, 2024

Bachelors of Science from ANGRAU university INDIA major in Agriculture

Professional Experience

Project 1:

VISA, Highlands ranch CO June 2022 to July 2024

Analyst (DPS Forward)

Responsibilities:

Attended requirements and design meetings, review and analysis of requirements and design documentation.

Conducted user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients as specified in the functional requirements.

Managed functional-system, regression, sanity, smoke, GUI and integration testing.

Conducted and participated in the Bug Review meetings to identify, analyze and drive the issues towards resolutions based on the business severity.

Tested for data in the database by writing SQL queries for SQL Server.

Performed manual testing for checking functionality, integration, security, and regression during various phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) of the application.

Developed Test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts based on User Stories.

Imported, exported and manipulated large data sets for rapid delivery to clients or loading onto internal databases.

Worked on Agile software development environment.

Validated test results, problem analysis and resolution Documented and tracked defects found during testing.

Support production deployment activities and global business enhancement releases.

Monitor Opera Dashboard and Opera Wall board for spikes and direct the findings to PRE team, coupled with investigation and research whether it is client caused or VISA caused.

Track, update and resolve all assigned incidents via ASKNOW

Turnover unresolved issues to oncoming shifts and able to maintain established service levels; proactively monitor, recognize, and analyze issues.

knowledgeable in executing SQL queries to view successful transactions of data and for validating data from Backend using SQL developer.

Knowledgeable in the use of Netcool to determine problem resolution

Health checks are conducted in SERVICE TESTER.

Collaborate with the Development, Product and System Architecture teams to analyze, debug and resolve design and code issues.

Follow documented AHA support procedure and manage each issue through resolution or escalate where necessary for resolution.

Investigate bugs using various available tools and logs.

Have knowledge in how to get the STIP count from Vital signs.

Knowledge and Experience in creating tickets using Ask Now, creating notifications via VARP to escalate High priority issues.

Responsible for Communicating, updating stakeholders while the changes are happening.

Experience with troubleshooting ATM issues like sending the Load and Status of ATM by using the Show term command

Project 2:

Growlink, CO April 2021 to Jue2022

QA Engineer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Develop test plan and cases during requirements gathering.

Developing and Providing technical solutions for day to day IoT devices. Full technical and hardware support of IoT devices. Including ground support test equipment.

Providing high level technical expertise to test and hardware modification projects.

Execute test cases for reviewed and completed development.

Coordinate QA and UAT for IoT products / maintain test lab.

Manage deployment plans and release approval.

Document and communicate releases to company.

Analyzed business requirements, Software requirement specifications to create test plan and test cases for manual testing and automation.

Reviewed designed and documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Cases and executed test cases.

Involved in testing the application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology.

Understand the latest features like (Azure Devops) introduced by Microsoft Azure and utilized it for existing business applications.

Conducted Smoke and regression test in different test environments.

Project 3:

Walgreens, CO Feb 2019 to March 2021

Role: QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented open source web test tool Selenium WebDriver for cross browser and cross platform web testing.

Used Selenium WebDriver to test search results of Meta search engine.

Developed automated tests in partnership with developers for continuous regression testing and reducing manual testing using Selenium, TestNG and Maven.

Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG and Maven).

Participate in all ceremonies of Agile such as Sprint planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective.

Executed test cases in each Sprint to test Sprint Backlog Items.

Implemented POM based automation testing framework utilizing Java, Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver.

Used runner classes in Cucumber to generate step definition and also used tags to run different kinds of test suites like smoke and regression.

Extensive knowledge using Selenium locators like XPath, CSS Selectors to test the web application.

Setup the Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms.

Used Git to store my code to GitHub and GitHub was connected to Jenkins for continuous integration.

Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with SQL queries from oracle database.

Implemented back end testing on oracle database by writing SQL queries.

Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.

Implemented Integration testing to verify the interface between various application modules.

Identified, Reported and Tracked Defects using JIRA management tool.

Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements and solve any issues that arise during the project.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Oracle, SQL, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, XPath, CSS, JIRA, SQL, Windows, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome.

Project 4:

Navjoy inc, Colorado Feb 2016 to Jan 2019

Role: Independent Software Testing Contractor

Responsibilities:

Identified the automation feasibility for the regression suite of the application using Selenium IDE.

Conversion of entire regression suit of the application to Selenium Scripts using Java-Selenium

Extensive experience in IDE like Eclipse for using java coding standards

Used Selenium Web Driver and creation of Automation Framework with POM and TestNG

Worked with Data Driven and Modular Driven frameworks for test automation

Responsible for defining automation standard and rule required for building automation specific test lab for conducting smoke test, function and regression

Performed Functional Testing, Data Driven Testing, and Cross Browser Compatibility Testing on different browsers like IE, Firefox & Chrome.

Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules.

Reviewed the Test Reports and shared with other stake holders

Daily status report to business and project team on the test execution status

Review and validation of newly added functional test cases for automation feasibility

Supported and coordinated overall testing efforts from UAT and Production

Environment: Windows 2000, SQL, Oracle, Black box testing & User Acceptance testing, Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, TestNG, JIRA.

References:

Naga Sai Akhil Gorantla: 316-***-**** (Systems Analyst-Global Operations DPS Distributed systems Email : ********@****.*** )

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