Quality Assurance Control

Sreedhar Kakarla, PMP

+1-713-***-**** ***************@*****.*** Sacramento, California

Professional Summary

•Accomplished IT professional with a multifaceted career and a broad range of skill sets, roles, and industry verticals with 20 years of experience.

•Proven experience working on complex projects across Telecom, Banking, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Mortgage, Child Support, and Healthcare domains.

•Highly adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies to stay current and contribute to team success.

Testing (QA & UAT)

•Expertise in the development and execution of test plans, test strategies, and test scripts.

•Experience in testing system interfaces using APIs and Web Services.

•Demonstrated experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, ensuring confidence among internal and external stakeholders.

•Mapping and generation of Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) reports, test status reports, defect reports, and dashboards in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.

•Lead UAT teams in Functional, Interface, Data Conversion, Automation, Accessibility, and Performance testing.

Technical Expertise

•Strong expertise in setting up automation frameworks for regression test suites using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Log4J, Extent Reports, Jenkins, Maven, and the Page Object Model/Factory framework.

•Proficient in Quality Management Software and leading project lifecycles such as Predictive, Adaptive, and Hybrid models.

•Strong test validation experience in SQL, Data Warehousing, ETL, BI, Data Analytics Reporting, Data Migration, and Big Data Testing.

•Experience with data setup to mirror production environments, including test data analysis, cleanup, and identification of sensitive data for protection. Familiar with cloud environments

Project & Process Management

•Experience in effort estimation, test planning, resource identification, team building, test execution, and control.

•Run triage and project test status meetings; prepare and update test progress reports weekly and on demand.

•Planning and resolving test issues and risks, with clear mitigation strategies and risk responses.

•Demonstrated working experience with multiple vendors (clients, end users, PMO, implementation partners, QA, and certification teams).

•Strong expertise in Scrum ceremonies and Agile events: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and backlog refinement.

•Rich experience in Agile, Scrum, Adaptive, Predictive (Waterfall), SDLC, and Software Testing Methodologies.

•Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision, ensuring consistent productivity and accountability.

•Point of contact for providing required access and permissions for applications and ALM tools.

Soft Skills

•Demonstrated strong problem-solving and analytical skills to identify issues and implement effective solutions.

•Possess excellent project coordination and customer interaction skills.

•Highly adaptable IT professional with a proven ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies and methodologies, ensuring continuous growth and value in evolving environments.

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, C and SQL

Databases: SQL Server, DB2, Oracle

Web Technologies: Java, HTML, XML, SOAP UI

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix Linux

Test Tools: HP ALM, RFT, Selenium WebDriver

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel, Project Visio

Professional Experience

Client: State of Nevada- DWSS, Carson City, NV (Employer: Mudrasys)

Role: UAT Lead / Test Manager April 2018 – Present

Roles & Responsibilities:

Lead UAT team in Functional, Interface, Data Conversion, Automation, Accessibility and Performance testing

Expertise in development and execution of test management plans, test strategies, and monitoring and reporting on child support case management systems

Lead Triage and project test status meetings, prepare and update test status progress weekly and on demand basis

Planning and resolving test issues and risks with mitigation and risk responses

Experience in Effort Estimation, Test Planning, resource identification, team building, test execution and control. Responding to test risks and issues with risk plan response

Demonstrated working experience with multiple vendors (Client, MSA’s, End Users, PMO, Implementation partners, QA and Federal Certification team)

Mapping and generation of Requirements Traceability Matrix reports.

Authored weekly status reports with test coverage summaries and defect metrics, keeping QA and product leadership informed.

Manage and support Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Offers (RFOs), and Master Service Agreements (MSAs), ensuring alignment with procurement policies and project requirements.

Automation testing

Identify the critical functionality of the NV Kids System for implementation of Automation framework.

Develop Automation of regression test suite scripts using Selenium WebDriver

Write test scripts using Selenium web element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations. Debugging Selenium test scripts and fixing errors.

Prepare Data driven Testing, Cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution scripts using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG

Functionality and System Integration Testing

Review Requirements specifications & design documents to ensure full understanding of technical deliverables and provide feedback. Develop, publish and implement Nevada Kids User Acceptance Test Plan

Provided training UAT team on test case preparation and test data set up

Map requirements with test cases and generate Requirements Traceability Matrix

Perform Accessibility testing to ensure Application is ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and Section 508 compliant.

Data Migration Testing

Develop Data Migration Test Strategy for migration data from legacy system to new Nevada Kids System Db2 database. Create test scripts using sql for validation of data in source and target system

Verify Data Extraction, Transformation & Loading rules for the data that is being loaded into the new Nevada Kids Database.

Validate various SAP Business Objects and Crystal reports to check for the data accuracy, timeliness and completeness of data. Communicate daily and weekly execution status reports to client.

Client: Capital Group, San Antonio, TX (Employer: Mudrasys / Implementation Partner: Infosys)

Role: Test Lead Jan 2018 – Apr 2018

Responsible for creating Test plan, test case scenarios, test cases, execute test cases and exceptionally document the process to perform functional testing of the application.

Generate Requirements traceability matrix using after mapping requirements in ALM.

Used Atlassian Jira and HP ALM for creating the use cases, test cases and issues.

Client: Feddie Mac (Employer: Mudrasys / Implementation Partner: Infosys)

Role: Test Lead Jan 2016 – Dec 2018

Prepared User Acceptance Test plan and reviewed with client and received approval from respective stakeholders.

Used HP ALM for test scripts planning, executing, mapping requirements in and Defects management.

Designed use cases for performance testing of new Intranet site.

Using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework built automation framework.

Writing Test cases using Element locators in Selenium WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.

Using IBM Doors generates requirements traceability matrix after mapping requirements in HP ALM.

Communicate test reports (weekly status, test summary, defects report and Requirements Traceability Matrix) to the entire stake holder on testing status.

Performed Browser and Mobile testing on iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro for User Experience and Responsiveness of the new intranet site.

Worked on Toad client with DDL, DML and DCL sql commands for creating and updating data into database

Data Validation of the data against staging tables and warehouse tables against the transformation rules

Client: JPMorgan Chase, Houston, TX (Employer: Mudrasys)

Role: Test Lead Jul 2014 to May 2016

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating test plans, test case scenarios, test cases, execute test cases and exceptionally document the process to perform functional testing of the application.

Assign tasks to team on test script preparation and execution.

Analyzed and identified the suitable tools required for testing activities (Automation and Performance Testing)

Generate Requirements traceability matrix using after mapping requirements in ALM.

Unstructured data is streamed using flume and loaded in Hadoop ecosystem, with hive queries the data was loaded into hive tables with structured format for analysis and reporting.

Involved in creating Hive tables, loading, analyzing data using Hive Queries.

Involved in ETL Testing for the assigned projects.

Used Informatica tool Workflow monitor for verifying workflow and session logs

Triage UAT defects for resolution by identifying the right owner during triage meeting and track them till closure.

Performed User Acceptance testing and reviewed the results with Business users.

Used ALM for Test scripts planning, execution and creating defects and track defects to closure.

Used internal Test Automation Process tool to load and compare the data between Oracle tables

Verified the data comparison between Oracle tables and Hadoop Hive tables using TCS Big Data Reconciliation tool (Recon tool)

Used shell scripts to pull, move & process data files/configuration files.

Clients: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, O2, ANZ and Optus (Employer: IBM)

Role: Test Lead/Manager Jul 2004 to May 2014

Prepare Artifacts like Master Test Plan, Test Readiness Reviews, Phase closeout documents, Joint Test Workshops and responsible for all end-to-end test management activities for a given project.

Used HP ALM and IBM Clear Quest for test case preparation, defects creation and generating test reports. Involve in Business Requirement reviews for Project Releases.

Develop Level of Effort for all the UAT test activates.

Facilitate UAT defect management and resolution of all the open defects on high priority.

Managing multiple test teams and interacting with the Test Leads on an ongoing basis.

Mentoring new Test managers and training them in all the Test management/Project management skills. Facilitating timely code promotes test environments.

Participate/ facilitate all project testing meetings such as test readiness reviews, defect reviews, and daily testing status calls. Document QA training materials, policies, standards and procedures.

Mentor, train and transfer knowledge to new test analysts.

Involved in Test Data Management set up in SIT and UAT Environments.

Used Unix and Toad for file processing and SQL validation.

Education

Bachelors in Engineering- Instrumentation & Electronics Engineering, Bangalore University, India.

Masters in Digital communication and Networking from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.

Certifications

Certified Software Test Manager from Dept of Information Technology, India

Software Testing Certification from Brainbench certifications online education board

Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification from Project Management Institute valid till Dec 2027

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