QA Engineer

Madhavi Latha Kodela

Email: ***********@*****.*** Ph: 224-***-**** (H) 201-***-****(M)

Summary:

• Over 7 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer

• Experience in creating Master Test Plan, Test Approach, Test cases and documentation of various approaches followed.

• Participated in complete life cycle of the SDLC for various software projects.

• Experience in working Agile, V-Model QA methodologies.

• Experience in testing, debugging, and implementation of industrial applications

• Extensive experience in functional, integration, regression, load and performance testing in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Performed device testing on Blackberry devices 7000 and 8000 series

• Expertise in using Mercury tools like Quick test Pro, Quality Center, Win Runner, Load Runner and test Director.

• Proficient in UNIX and shell technologies, capable knowledge of essential basics, including file system management, user and group settings, system performance analysis, etc.

• Knowledge of SOX.

• Strong Database validation skills, worked on SQL server, Oracle, Hyperion used tools like SQL developer.

• Knowledge and experience in programming languages like C,C++,C#, java and scripting languages like VB script.

• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.

Technical Skills:

Languages Java, C++, C, C# PL/SQL, VB

OS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, UNIX

Databases Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, Hyperion, SQL Developer

Testing Tools Win Runner 8.0, Quick Test Professional 9.2, Microsoft tools

Test Management Tools Mercury: Test Director, Quality Center

Rational: Test Manager, Clear Case, Clear Quest

Bug Tracking tools Test Director ,Quality center, Jira, Product Studio, Team Tracker

Scripting Languages VB , Perl, Power shell

Education:

• Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)

• Certificate Course In Software automation tools (Win runner, Load runner, Test Director, Silk Test, Silk performer and SQA suite)

Experience:

Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara

Sr.QA Engineer Feb 2009 to July 2009

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company.

A technology leader in communications, electronics and life sciences

Role:

Working as Senior QA engineer in Micro Array team for Life sciences with major responsibility to test the MES Applications which deal with ordering placement (OP) from the Newport Batch Create system (NBC) to shipping the orders and for internal engineering orders and catalog orders

Responsibilities

• Involved in creating test plans and test cases based on requirement documents.

• Written and executed test scripts to perform the positive, negative testing and performed boundary value analysis.

• Created the configurations used to test the applications in various modes

• Performed the build deployments to QA environments.

• Active part in testing all the applications as standalones before integrating them with main MES system.

• Participated in status reporting meetings and interacted with Development team and project manager to discuss and understand the new features.

• Responsible in performing complete system testing including GUI ,regression testing, integration, cross cluster testing and providing testing status reports

• Validated the information at the backend by writing and executing queries in, Hyperion and SQL developer.

• Involved in meetings to take decisions on release of applications.

• Active part in entire bug tracking system using Team Tracker tool.

• Actively participated in the discussions related to bug fixes and releases.

• Tested the MES system as whole by performing through integration testing of the entire system before deployment to production.

• Providing on call support on the release builds in production.

• Working on documentation and implementation for ISO certification.

Environment: .NET, C#, Hyperion, SQL Developer, excel, word, Team Tracker, visual source safe.

Rearden Commerce, Foster City, San Mateo May 2008-Nov2008

QA Engineer

Rearden Commerce personal assistant is the online application which takes care of complete trip including flight, hotel, and car rental with additional flexibility for airport parking, car service, shipping, and web conference. Based on the user preferences appropriate promotions will be displayed for various events at the destination place

Role: Worked as tester with two teams

1. Merchandising team: Performed complete GUI testing to validate various promotions that are given to the user based on certain criteria the user has .Worked on PDE (pre Departure Email) on the server side which is send to users as reminder to the upcoming trip.

2. Platform team: worked on delegate access to accounts, timers and Flight stats (on mobile devices) features.

3. Automation Engineer: Developed automated scripts in QTP

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of BRD.

• Created various test cases in excel and exported them to Quality center.

• Executed the test cases against various procurements.

• Performed through regression testing, compatibility testing along with new feature testing.

• Checked application compatibility and access against various Blackberry devices (BB8800/8700/8300/8100/7200 series).

• Involved in the configurations settings at the back end to check against various criteria’s across all verticals.

• Performed API testing by writing sample code in junit to validate the web service calls made to receive the event push for flight stats.

• Bugs are created and tracked in Jira

• Performed data validations by writing executing the queries on database

Environment: Java, Oracle, junit, Quality center, QTP, Jira, excel, VB script, UNIX

Microsoft Corporation, Mountain View, CA Jan 2007 –Apr2008

IPTV

White Box /Performance Tester

IPTV is the Triple play which includes TV, VOIP and the high speed internet.

The performance of the services is tested by Microsoft Visual Studio tools which mimics the real world behavior with boxes as clients. The subsystems tested are VOD, PPV, EPG, DVR, Blackouts etc..,

Role: Performed complete scalability testing by considering the various periods of television watching during the day including off peak and peal hours, special offers and game days and measured the performance of the server.

Worked on Client scalability lab involving 100 setup boxes, installed new builds to perform the testing against various modules (DVR, EPG, PPV……) , currently working on Xboxes.

Responsibilities:

• Identified and validated performance requirements that need to be tested from the requirements documents.

• Written test approach from the requirement documents.

• Generated Test mix with the various activities user is involved with including search, purchasing movies, recording, migrating between channels

• Used Pre-Execution checklist to validate the environment for testing.

• Performed load testing against various loads as per the requirements and Analyzed the server behavior under various loads

• Tested every activity and bugs are reported using Microsoft internal tool Product studio

• Performed API testing at the Server end to make sure that appropriate web services have been invoked by web methods.

• Identified the bottlenecks at various points and submitted the analysis in the reports

• Provided analysis of data for each test performed using MS-Excel for downloading the data from SQL server and generating pivot tables to present the data

• Modified stored procedures on the SQL server to get appropriate data to process the reports

• Presented demo’s to the clients while explaining the performance of the system.

• Developed the tools to automate the entire reporting process in C# programming language on .NET framework

• Modified the existing power shell scripts to apply the latest client versions on the set up boxes

• Created, modified and executed Perl scripts.

• Maintained the test bed of 20 servers.

• Worked on Xboxes to test the compatibility of IPTV product.

Environment: MSVT (Microsoft Visual Studio), SQL server, MS-Office, Product studio, C#, Power shell, Perl, MS-Excel

Mutex Computers, South Plainfield, New Jersey Oct 2006 –Jan 2007

QA TESTER

Maintenance & Engineering System-2000 (MES2000) is a computerized system, developed to provide extensive capabilities for planning and controlling an airline’s Maintenance and Engineering functions. System utilizes client server technology and a fully integrated database management system.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review and analysis of Business design summary documents, Use case documents and Screen definition documents.

• Developed test strategy for the application and developed Test plans and Test cases initially in excel and exported them to Test director.

• Identified and validated functional requirements that need to be tested from the requirements documents.

• Tested the Graphical User Interface components and conducted Functional and Regression testing for each build.

• Performed integration testing to verify the data transfer between the various modules.

• Performed database validations by executing queries.

• Created Data Driven Tests in Win Runner by adding statements and functions to existing scripts

• Created bug report detailing total number of bugs found, bugs resolved and open bugs list.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Win Runner, Test Director, Java, Oracle, UNIX.

UNITED HEALTH CARE, Hartford, CT Feb 2005 – Sep 2006

QA Analyst

United Health Care re-engineered their existing web application as an initiative to incorporate changes to enhance and add more security features to their applications. The application has different modules like plan-network-Program(PNP) – Provides information on which plan is applicable in which area and whether the plan is for the corporate or individual, client information system – Holds the data of all the members, their associated plan and groups and plan supervisor – Enables supervisor to view contract details, provider’s info and so on.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and software requirement specifications documents.

• Created and implemented a viable testing routine with the Test plans created in Test Director and then associated them with specific requirements utilizing the Tests coverage feature of Test Director.

• Participated in status reporting meetings and interacted with Development team to discuss the same

• Performed Positive, Negative and Functionality testing of the application.

• Incorporated the concept of checkpoints to verify that expected information is displayed in the application by implementing various checkpoints such as Standard checkpoint, Image Checkpoints, Table checkpoints, Text checkpoints using Win Runner.

• Used Quick Test Professional for automating test cases for a GUI based application as a process of migration from win runner to QTP

• Performed cross browser/platform testing.

• Involved in the weekly status updates with the manager and the project leader.

• Created data driven tests using Win Runner by adding statements to already existing scripts to run the test scripts against multiple sets of data.

• Performed backend testing by executing SQL queries for data accuracy and consistency.

• Executed UNIX shell commands to access logs and connect to various servers, ensuring the proper working of object and business logics.

Environment: Java, Oracle, UNIX, QTP, Quality Center, Win Runner, Test Director

Satyam Computers Ltd, INDIA Jan 2001 – Sep 2003

Developer/ Tester

Application developed is window based application called Super Automex. This is a Message Handling System for satisfying the messaging needs of organizations with geographically distributed offices interconnected through different connection media. Inter Process Messaging Menu is windows based user interface to the Super Automex system developed in Java.

Environment: Java, Oracle

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