Project Quality Assurance

Vidhya Rangarajan

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Profile:

• More than 3 years of Software Quality Assurance experience in all phases of software life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking & management

• Good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

• Proficient in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall software development methodologies and QA processes

• Expertise in Manual and Automation testing for Data/SV&V in Telecom domain

• Extensive experience in Functional, Smoke, Regression, Integration, Load, Performance, Reliability and User Acceptance Testing

• Proficient in design and execution of test plan, requirement traceability matrix, test case, test data, test bed, build deployment, defect summary, test exit and performance reports

• Expert in both black box and white box testing and have good experience in CMMI level 3 processes

• Experienced in creating automated test scripts (SQL) using SOAP UI tool

• Experienced in end-to-end multi-tier application testing including debugging using eclipse IDE

• Proficient in deployment and testing of EAR’s IBM WebSphere and Oracle Weblogic Application Server

• Certified as Sun Java Programmer (SCJP) and Oracle SQL certified

• Facilitated induction training and domain knowledge transfer to team members

• Awarded spot excellence for Outstanding Performance in team for IRP CIT project

• Appreciated by Manager for dedication and smart work and delivering tasks in stringent timelines

• Capable of performing cross functional team member

• Good communication, analytical, troubleshooting, decision-making and management skills followed by sound professional ability to work independently as well as a team member

Technical Skills:

Tools Eclipse, SOAP UI, Putty, WinSCP, CVS

Software Testing skills Functional, Regression, System Integration (SI), System Verification and

Validation (SV&V), Load, Performance and Smoke Test

Testing/Bug Tracking tools HP (Mercury) Quality Centre (MQC), Bugzilla and JIRA

Programming skills/Framework JAVA, SQL, XML, HTML, JUNIT

Application Server Oracle Weblogic, IBM WebSphere Application Server

Database Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL

OS/Software’s Windows Family, Unix, Linux and MS Office

Career Summary:

• Software Engineer July 2007 – Sept 2010

Torry Harris Business Solutions (THBS) - Bangalore, India

Education:

• BE - Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University, India June 2003 - May 2007

Career Experience:

Project 1: IRP Phases 1, 2 & 3 and Components Integration Testing May 2009 - Sep 2010

Environment: Weblogic Server, Soap UI, Java, XML, Informix, SQL, HP QC, Bugzilla, WSOA framework

Key Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analyst and Developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in Agile environment

• Actively participated in Scrum meetings, reviews and developed test strategies, test plan, estimation, requirement traceability matrix, test cases, test exit, defect summary and performance reports

• Prepared and executed automated test suites, test scripts (SQL) using Soap UI tool with Oracle weblogic server and test data from Informix database

• Executed functional, sanity, integration, regression, performance, load, stress, user acceptance testing (UAT) using SOAP UI tool

• Logged & Updated defects in bugzilla and coordinated with developers in troubleshooting critical bugs

• Found logic critical bug and proposed major functionality change to module

• Developed and maintained test cases, test data and results in HP/Mercury Quality Center (QC)

• Presented walkthroughs and worked as offshore coordinator for project release

• Responsible to lead a team of 4 members for Components Integration Testing (CIT)

Project 2: Billing Replacement Program June 2008 - Apr 2009

Environment: Java, XML, Eclipse, Informix, SQL, HP QC, Bugzilla, IBM Websphere Application Server

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, design & functional documents and developed test procedures, test plan, estimation and requirement traceability matrix of business modules in tight deadline

• Proactively came up with innovative methods to improve software quality, test coverage, efficiency & regression coverage

• Developed test cases, test bed, test data, defect summary, performance and test exit reports in HP QC

• Deployed EAR’s in IBM Websphere application server and executed smoke test on the build

• Executed data verification & validation, performance for backend database using XML through eclipse IDE

• Presented service offering and business unit presentation to client and team members

• Worked as offshore user support and key contact person for onsite consultants

Project 3: Babel Jan 2008 - May 2008

Environment: Weblogic Server, Soap UI, Java, XML, Informix, SQL, HP QC, JIRA, WSOA framework

Key Responsibilities:

• Reconciliation between Babel services and Encina services

• Involved in multiple brain-storming sessions for understanding various business services and domain

• Prepared requirement traceability matrix, test case, test suites, performance and defect summary report

• Hands on experience in setting test environment on IBM WebSphere server and executed smoke test on deployed builds

• Developed and executed automated SQL query script using Soap UI tool with Informix database

• Executed functional, regression, performance, system Integration and user acceptance testing

• Logged defects in Jira tool and escalated critical issues on time to management

• Peer review of test scenario, test case document and monitored quality of module

Project 4: Knowledge Management System (KMS) Sept 2007 - Dec 2007

Environment: Deki Wiki, IBM WebSphere Application server, CSS, SQL, Bugzilla, HP QC

Key Responsibilities:

• KMS - Web based application contains information about all projects and reports of domains/systems

• Developed test scenario, test case, defect summary, test exit report and user manual document

• Performed functional and non functional testing using different web browsers

• Coordinated with developers to resolve issues and suggested functionality changes

• Peer review of test scenarios, test cases and monitored quality of module

• Coordinated with audit team for Software Quality Audit (SQA) activities

• Prepared minutes of meeting and presented progress updates on daily status meetings

References available upon request

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