Quality Assurance Life Cycle

LAKSHMI PRASANNA VANAM

********.*******@*****.*** Boston, MA +1-339-***-****

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SUMMARY:

Over 4 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance, including over two years of manual testing and over two years of Automation Testing, Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment, Test Data, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Metrics.

Firm knowledge of different phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including agile and waterfall methodologies.

Experience in writing Test cases, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts based on use cases, Requirement documents and functional/technical design documents & analyzing the results of Test cases & and able to interact with developers in fixing the errors.

Good knowledge in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scenario, Designing Test cases, Test Summary Report, and Traceability Matrix for defined business processes.

Experience in performing various kinds of testing including Functionality, Black Box, Positive and Negative, Usability, Smoke, sanity, database, regression and Integration testing.

Developed a page object model (POM) design pattern to keep all the page objects separately and used Maven as a dependency management tool and Used REST Assured framework to automate Rest APIs.

Proficient in API testing/ API Automation using Postman.

Designed and executed automation tests for complex API tests, including both back-end and UI-based components using JMeter.

Involved in integrating the JMeter API Tests into CI/CD process to monitor the tests on daily basis to make sure the no leakages with the code deployment.

Experience in using JIRA for Test Planning and Defect Reporting and Tracking, thorough understanding of the Defect life cycle process.

Effective communicator with strong people skills, presentation and collaboration between geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams.

Good knowledge in preparing Test Plan, performing risk analysis, development of test strategy based on risk factors, specifying system input, output and limitations, entry/exit criteria etc.

Possess excellent analytical, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills; with the ability to work in a team or independently in tight schedules.

Self-motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility drive and a person of CAN-DO attitude.

Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking & Reporting, Detailed status reporting.

Experience in back-end testing using SQL queries for data validation.

EDUCATION:

Worcester, MA Clark University Fall 2022-May 2024

Master of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.7/4.0

Vijayawada, India Mic College of Technology Fall 2014-Spring 2018

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications, GPA 3.5/4.0

CERTIFICATIONS:

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level v4.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Frameworks & Build Tools

Maven, Page Object Model (POM), Page Factory, Hybrid Framework.

Testing Tools

Selenium Web Driver, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, JMeter, Cucumber (BDD), Postman, REST Assured.

Test Management & Tracking

JIRA, Zephyr.

IDE & Platforms

Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code.

Programming Skills

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Gherkin.

Databases

Oracle DB, SQL Server, MySQL.

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux, Mac OS.

CI/CD & Version Control

Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Docker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Amensys Inc Mar 2025 – Present

Lewisville, TX

Role: QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Analysed and reviewed Functional Design, Technical Design Documents to write test cases.

Involved in writing Business Scenario Identification and Screen Identification documentation.

Actively took part in Sprint Planning Meetings to understand and build user stories and retrospection meetings.

Writing and Reviewing the Test scenarios, Test scripts, and Test cases.

Set up and used Chrome Driver with Selenium WebDriver to run automated tests on the Chrome browser.

Responsible for designing new test cases for the new functionalities and refining test scenarios for existing functionalities.

Designed and implemented the Page Object Model (POM) to make test scripts more reusable, readable, and easier to maintain.

Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in Git over the time for improvements and new features.

Used the Page Factory pattern to initialize web elements with annotations, which helped improve script performance and manageability.

Extensively involved in Defect Reporting and Defect tracking process using Jira test management tool.

Developed Automation scripts for new Enhancements using Selenium WebDriver and JUnit framework.

Reported bugs during testing and regularly checked with developers and other teams in daily meetings to track the progress and fixes of those bugs.

Connected automation test scripts with Jenkins to support Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

Prepared Feature files and step files using Cucumber with BDD framework using Gherkin language.

Set up Jenkins jobs to automatically build and run Selenium tests whenever code was updated.

Scheduled nightly test runs in Jenkins and created automated test reports.

Used Maven in Jenkins to handle project builds and manage test dependencies.

Linked Git/GitHub with Jenkins to trigger builds automatically after code changes.

Involved in Manual Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Unit Testing, UAT testing.

Written and executed SQL queries for verifying correct data storage in the backend database Using MY SQL DB.

Automated and tested APIs using REST, SOAP, XML, and JSON formats.

Worked on GET, PUT, POST Methods and developed Test scenarios and Test cases based on the API.

Performed Assertion validations at the test suite level to validate JSON Responses.

Environment Eclipse IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Chrome Driver, Java, MS Excel, Windows, TestNG, JIRA, JUnit, HTML, Cucumber with Gherkin (BDD), XPath, Maven, Jenkins (CI/CD), Android Studio SDK, JavaScript, Postman, Page Object Model (POM), Page Factory Model (PFM).

Successful Capital Ventures, LLC Feb 2024 – Mar 2025

Nutley, NJ

Role: QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed the Standard Documentation for the Test Plans and Test Summary Sheets.

Participated in daily scrum meetings to report daily progress of automation activities and sprint planning for test planning activities.

Involved in walkthroughs, requirement gathering, attending BRR meetings (Business requirement request), BRD based discussions.

Understanding Business Requirements and participated in data validation.

Experience in JIRA.

Working experience of software development methodologies like waterfall and Agile.

Created Test Approach documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrices to ensure coverage of test requirements and comprehensive regression testing.

Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in Git over the time for improvements and new features.

Prepared Feature files and step files using Cucumber with BDD framework using Gherkin language.

Set up Jenkins jobs to automatically build and run Selenium tests whenever code was updated.

Scheduled nightly test runs in Jenkins and created automated test reports.

Used Maven in Jenkins to handle project builds and manage test dependencies.

Estimating automation efforts for entire automation life cycle & preparing automation Test Plan.

Preparing automation scripts & doing reviews.

Created and executed Selenium test script suites using Selenium Web Driver.

Designed and developed Automation Framework (Hybrid, Keyword-driven) using Selenium Web Driver.

Handle responsibilities of applying testing methodologies for testing various networking platforms

Written test scripts in Selenium Web driver for new modules using reusable components and to ensure a robust code structure.

Maintenance of test scripts and frameworks.

Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.

Execution of test suites and HTML report generation using TestNG.

Performed API testing for REST services using Postman, covering GET, POST, PUT methods.

Worked on GET, PUT, POST Methods and developed Test scenarios and Test cases based on the API.

Implemented different logging techniques using Log4j.

Executed cross-browser and parallel testing using TestNG.

Updating automation test status to all stakeholders.

Environment: Eclipse IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Chrome Driver, Java, MS Excel, Windows, TestNG, JIRA, JUnit, HTML, Cucumber, Gherkin, XPath, JMeter, Maven, Jenkins(CI/CD), JavaScript, Postman,Log4j.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Dec 2018 - Sep 2020

Hyderabad, India

Role: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Interacted, coordinated with the Design team, Business analyst and end users of the system.

Analyzed test specifications and converted them into Manual Test Cases.

Used Agile scrum methodology and actively participated in the stand-up meeting to keep the whole team informed about the test status.

Performed manual testing on application before going for automated testing.

Executed functional and system tests manually.

Wrote SQL Queries for backend testing.

Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs by manually.

Performed Integration and User Acceptance Tests throughout the SDLC of the application.

Generating Test Reports and Maintaining Bug Status Report.

Identified the initial setup, input data, appropriate steps and the expected responses in the manual test cases.

Performed End to End Testing and involved in User Acceptance Testing.

Used JIRA as a bug tracking system.

Written Complicated SQL queries in MYSQL for Update Dimension Tables, Export Data from Target tables etc.

Coverage Status Report of tests performed on weekly basis.

Created weekly issue logs and provided documentation to discuss and share with the team for a resolution to common problems and solutions.

Performed API testing using Postman to validate RESTful services by sending various types of HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and verifying response status codes, payloads, headers, and response times.

Environment: Manual Testing, Jira, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, MYSQL, API Testing, Postman, Agile Scrum, User Acceptance Testing, SDLC, MS Office(Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Test case Design, Defect Management, Requirement Analysis.

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