Software Quality Assurance Analyst with 4+ Years Experience

Vijaya Naganathanahalli

Atlanta, GA 678-***-**** USC ******.******@*****.***.***

Software Quality Analyst

A highly organized, detail-oriented Software Quality Assurance Analyst with over 4+ years of professional experience delivering highly valued projects, customer satisfaction, and quality assurance. I have applied my knowledge and skills in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (STLC) of Web and Client/Server applications within Agile Scrum environments. I am highly adaptable to new situations, difficulties, and responsibilities. Excellent knowledge in ETL validation and Data Model validations.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Agile Experience: Skilled in Agile Scrum methodologies, actively participating in scrum ceremonies, refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

Testing Expertise: Expertise in Smoke, Functional, System, Regression, GUI, User Acceptance, end-to-end testing.

Automation: Executed and maintained Tosca scripts for the regression suite for every release.

API Testing: Conducted integration tests using API endpoints in Postman and contributed to the design and execution of comprehensive automation test cases.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated with developers, product owners, and QA teams to ensure high-quality deliverables and thorough test coverage.

SQL: Developed and executed fundamental SQL queries to generate and manipulate test data for back-end testing, ensuring thorough data validation and integrity checks throughout the testing process.

BI Reporting Tools : Business Objects, Power BI

Skills: ADF, SSIS Power BI Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake Python, PL/SQL, .Net, Selenium, CI/CD, GITHUB, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Agile, salesforce, Tosca

Professional Experience

Project: Quality Assurance Analyst

CVS Health • Woonsocket, RI • July 2022 – present

•Worked as a QA Analyst in an Agile Scrum environment with two-week sprint cycles.

•Contributed to sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospective, and Sprint Review.

•Documented test plans and test cases for business rules and requirements using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops.

•Performed Functional and Regression Testing manually.

•Created tickets for found bugs, in Azure Dev Ops.

•API testing using Postman.

•Involved in ETL process testing using well known ETL tools.

•Performed data validation testing writing SQL queries

•Wrote detailed recreation steps of found defects to the easy job for the development team.

•Created basic SQL queries to set up test data for Back-End testing and data validation.

•Assisted the Automation team in their Regression testing by providing them with test data.

•Work closely with Test Lead during the Software Testing Life Cycle by ensuring full test coverage of the assigned test cases.

•Executed and maintained test scripts using the test automation tool (Tosca) for each release.

Project: Quality Assurance Analyst I

Alma Bank • Long Island City, NY • March 2021 – June 2022

•Worked as a QA Analyst in an Agile Scrum environment supporting iterative development cycles.

•Involved in Reviewed & Analyzed Functional Specification Requirements.

•Responsible for developing a Test plan based on Functional and Technical specifications.

•Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results.

•Performed Smoke, Functional, Systems Integration, Regression, and Database testing at various development and test cycle phases.

•Performed query operations on Oracle to do database validation.

•Interacting with Development and QA Teams to ensure the overall quality of the software.

•Reported daily/ weekly status of test cases executed and the status of the defects.

•Create and maintain test plans and scenarios in a wiki such as Confluence and track issues in an issue tracker like JIRA.

•Provide estimations for the test effort and prioritize the areas needed to be tested first.

•Strong attitude for learning new technologies and concepts

Education & Credentials:

•BS – Sri Krishna Devaraya University, India.

Certificates

•Microsoft certified (PL 300) Power BI Data Analyst Associate Salesforce Administrator

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