QA Analyst with AWS & Automation Expertise

Padmaja Godavarti Email:*******.*********@*****.***

Phone: 612-***-****

Professional Experience Summary:

• Around 7 years of experience as a software quality assurance analyst.

• Have knowledge and experience in Quality Assurance in both manual and automation testing.

• Good Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle.

• Have experience in programming languages. Can write small to medium programs, compile and run in Java.

• Experience in writing test plans preparing and executing test cases.

• Experience in writing SQL statements to perform backend testing.

• Have experience in AWS services like CloudWatch, S3, IAM, Dynamo DB, SQS, and Lambda.

• Experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI.

• Experience in API testing using tools Postman and Swagger UI.

• A good amount of experience with QA tools like HP ALM (QC), qTest, and JIRA.

• Knowledge in Automation testing using Selenium Web Driver.

• Knowledge in performance testing using J Meter.

• Have testing experience on different devices like Windows, Mac, iOS, and Chrome books.

• Have testing experience on different browsers like Chrome, Safari, iOS.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in communicating with development teams and discussing the designs and solutions to problems.

• Quick and independent learner.

• Good interpersonal skills, committed, result-oriented, hard-working with quest and zeal to learn new technologies.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering Certifications:

• ISTQB

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Technical Skills:

Software Testing Manual and Automation

Testing Tools Selenium Web driver, HP QC, HP ALM, SOAP UI, JIRA, qTest, Zephyr

Database Tools SQL server Management Studio, Azure Programming Languages Java, C, C++, SQL, HTML

Operating Systems Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Linux

RDBMS MS Access, MY SQL, Oracle11g/10g, MS-SQL Server Others AWS, Postman, Swagger

Projects Experience:

Project: Scoring

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Environment: Zephyr, Jira, SQL server, Agile Methodology, AWS, Swagger, Postman. Project Duration May 2022 - Current

This is an educational system software to conduct the tests for the students and the scoring. After student test submission, items are divided into machine and Human scoring items. The score results will be verified using the Rules engine. The application was deployed in the cloud platform. Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test Scenarios based on RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix).

• Analyze system requirements and developed detailed Test plans and Test cases.

• Validate scores in the database using SQL.

• Manage the testing process, bug reporting, test results, tracking the testing progress, and providing daily status to the project manager.

• Participate in Scrum meetings such as daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retro.

• Involve with all types of manual testing like Functional, Smoke, Positive and negative testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, GUI testing, and browser Compatibility testing.

• Validate test sessions and scores in AWS (S3, Dynamo DB, CloudWatch, and SQS Queue).

• Verify the endpoints using Swagger and Postman.

Project: Score Point

Role: QA Analyst

Environment: qTest, Jira, SQL server, Agile Methodology Project Duration October 2020 – January 2022

The Scorepoint is a web-based application where the student responses are stored, and the scorer gives the scoring for the responses. Test Admin is a web-based application where users can create students, move students to the class, and schedule the classes to the forms. Responsibilities:

• Communicate with developers to gather use cases before each sprint.

• Responsible for writing test cases for each new sprint story.

• Prepare Test Scenarios based on RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix).

• Analyze system requirements and developed detailed Test plans and Test cases.

• Manage the testing process, bug reporting, test results, tracking the testing progress, and providing daily status to the test lead/project manager.

• Participate in Scrum meetings such as daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retro.

• Develop SQL statements to query the database for data consistency, quality, storage, and retrieval.

• Involve all types of manual testing like Functional, Regression, and Smoke testing. Project: TDS - Reporting application

Role: Lead Quality Assurance Associate

Environment: qTest, Jira, SQL server, Waterfall Methodology Project Duration October 2017 – September 2020

It is an educational software where the students log in and take the tests. Once the test results are submitted, the system will automatically validate the test scores and assign the ranking. The system generates the reports and assigns the performance levels. In End-to-End testing, validate the workflow from requirements to student Achievement reports. Responsibilities:

• Communicate with the tech team and project manager to gather requirements.

• Analyzed business requirements and developed Test cases and scenarios for manual and automation testing to ensure complete testing coverage.

• Perform functional testing, regression testing, database testing, System Testing, System Integrating Testing, and UAT.

• Developed test cases and modified them according to the new features.

• Use Jira for error reporting and communication between developers, product support, and test team members.

• Use SQL statements to extract data from the tables to validate test results in the SQL server.

• Work with users on User Acceptance Testing.

Project: Test Delivery System

Role: Quality Assurance Associate

Environment: Jira, Jenkins, SQL, Confluence, Waterfall Methodology Project Duration January 2017 – September 2017

Test Delivery System is a web-based application for students to log in and take tests online. Responsibilities:

• Perform Acceptance Testing to check the functionality as per the business requirements.

• Performed Browser compatibility testing to ensure the built is compatible with the hardware, operating system, database, and other system software.

• Create student logins in the Nextera database using SQL.

• Perform Positive and negative testing.

• Perform secure browser testing.

• Perform Smoke testing.

• Perform Offline testing for all clients.

• Perform data validation using SQL.

• Verify the tools functionality using Jenkins and SQL. Project: Billing and Loans

Role: Junior Quality Assurance Analyst

Environment: QC (HP ALM), SQL

The banking application is web-based, and it offers a wide range of financial services such as credit cards, home loans, auto loans, online banking, online bill pay, Quick Pay, Quick Deposit, Account alerts, Text Banking, and Paperless statements. The project was to implement and enhance the web-based online banking application for features including "Find Credit card" and ATM.

Responsibilities:

• Identify the test requirements based on the business requirements of the application.

• Design and review of test plans and test cases.

• Perform ad hoc, Integration, System, and Functional Testing (Positive, Negative, and Boundary).

• Track and document defects throughout the Bug Life cycle using QC (HP ALM)

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