Test Lead-Sr .QA

Sudha Kompella

I have more than * years of IT experience as a Lead QA and Quality Assurance Analyst experience. I have experience in a lead capacity and am highly adept in the areas of software development life cycle, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Test Automation. A leader and mentor can able to adapt and go quickly in dynamic environments.

I have working experience in QA agile testing with extensive knowledge of agile software testing and development lifecycle and SDLC cycle. Seeking a responsible position as a test lead in a renowned and fast paced working environment

Professional Summary:

• Comprehensive knowledge of agile software development cycle ,and SDLC cycle with white box testing, and web based application testing

• In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies, functional, and regression testing

• Excellent knowledge of Agile & Scrum development environment, multiple web browsers, and automated testing suites

• Excellent Knowledge of SDLC Cycle involved in Functional and Regression testing.

• Sound knowledge of change management toll user acceptance phases, programming technologies, and automated testing fundamental concepts.

• Well versed in software debugging, load performance testing, JavaScript, and Perl Concepts

• Developed Test Automation Frameworks with Quick Test Professional.

• Quick learner with excellent analytical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies CMM, UML, SDLC

Automated Testing Tool WinRunner, Mercury Quick Test Professional, Load Runner

Bug Reporting Tool Test Director, Mercury Quality Center

Req-Repository Mercury Quality Center, Test Director

Management tools Mercury Quality center, Test Director , Test manager, TOAD

Programming Languages C, C++, PL SQL, SQL.

Data Bases MS-Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle 9i/10g, TOAD

Operating System Windows (XP/2000/NT/98/95), Unix

Packages MS Office, MS project

GUI ASP, JSP, Visual Basic, Power builder.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Client: Sedgwick CMS-Full time June2011-Current

Role: IT Software Specialist QA-SR/Lead

Line of Business: Insurance

Project Title: TAMS-Absence Management System

Location: Columbus

To develop, maintain, test and debug tests for software to meet defined requirements; to formulate and define moderately complex system scope and objectives; to prepare detailed specifications for testing applications; and to design, implement, test, debug, document and maintain test scripts.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business meetings to gather requirement’s for prioritization and Triages to understand the application (reports, Parameters, Claims management, intake services)

• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and implement automation testing projects.

• Maintained and updated automation test scripts.

• Work with product development to design new automated test cases.

• Automate and test software programs, including test case design and execution of functional, regression, and smoke tests.

• Update and install new releases of testing tools used by the QA automation group and keep aware of new developments.

• Write and distribute reports to describe automation program evaluation problems found, corrections needed, and problem areas.

• Track overall test coverage for application.

• Log any issues/defects encountered during test cycles and conduct fix verification.

• Identify, create and maintain automated Functional and GUI based tests.

• Update and install new releases of testing tools used by the QA group and keep aware of new developments.

• Write and distribute reports to describe program evaluation problems found, corrections needed, and problem areas.

• Work with and understand distribution and Version Control mechanisms.

• Assisting in the professional growth of other quality assurance analysts.

• Follows pre-established standards and guidelines as they pertain to design and development of tests and test plans.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, VB scripter, SoapUI ,Load Runner, SharePoint, Windows NT, UNIX, .Net, Unix, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, UML, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS office, MS Project.

Client: Nationwide Insurance Mar2010 – May-2011

Role: Lead Tester

Line of Business: Insurance

Project Title: NBH-I-Hub

Location: Columbus

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), in analyzing the Business requirement Document (BRD), Functional specification documents (FSD), Use Cases (UC’s) and system specifications to understand the application.

• Developed detailed Master Plan and Test Plan using Mercury Quality Center, gathered all the documents related to testing.

• Managed test planning and test execution for invoice management product that is part of the part of project by writing SQl queries.

• Created Test scenarios and Test suites to ensure complete test coverage, raised and managed issues using eRoom.

• Involved in outlining the test activities and types of testing to be performed in an effort to effectively validate the requirements.

• Assisted the team with by writing and executing Test Cases, Test Plans, and traceability matrices for functional, System and Regression testing.

• Performed Manual Testing with Quality Center and Automation Testing using Mercury Quick Test Professional and created Baseline.

• To Identify the Inbound test Scenarios after communicating with the Business.

• Facilitated UAT testing sessions and assisted Business Users in test execution, Managed and retested defect fixes manually Using ecsiControl, identify the queue name to be used for testing the inbound test file Using Putty (Unix Prompt) To generate the error file sent to the clients, run the script Testing Outbound maps or Inbound maps that don’t send data Building Regression suites from the data Regression suites are checked into CVS.

• Created Test Strategy, Test Cases and System Test Scripts for both Manual and Automation Testing Created Requirement Traceability Metrics (for test completion, test coverage, strategy tracking reports) using Quality center.

• Each and every stage is informed to developers and users using Mercury Quality Center to mail updates.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, Pearl scripter , Windows NT, UNIX, .Net, Unix, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, UML, Oracle,Websphere,Weblogic MS SQL Server, MS office, Winsql,MainFrame, MS Project.

Client: Scotia April 2009 to Jan 2010

Role: Test Lead

Line of Business: Banking

Project Title: Mortgage Loan Application

This is a Mortgage web based application. . This application allows creating loans From beginning and closing the loan by Funding. Using this application, Credit can be pulled From Credit Vendors directly which interacts with various interfaces. This Involves interaction with various access levels from an account executive to funding specialty groups. In this process, the application goes to different modules like Loan origination, Decision making, Loan approving and Loan serving.

Responsibilities:

• Have experience in writing test scripts, executing tests related to test release management.

• .Responsible for extensive testing of different modules of the web-based application and whole testing life cycle for the various modules of this application.

• Pre-testing phase involved understanding/analyzing project, vision, goals, specifications and requirements.

• Had experience in creating test scripts from functional and technical specifications.

• Worked as Black box tester on the software modules, documented Test cases and results in the standard templates of MS Excel and MS Office.

• Assisted the team with by writing and executing Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Strategies for functional, System and Regression testing.

• Worked with Developers, Business Analysts regarding various details of project.

• Automated the Regression Test Cases.

• Initially performed Manual Testing for functionality testing and developed automated execution of test cases using Quick Test Professional (QTP 9.2) for Regression testing.

Created test cases based on the use cases (UC), Business Requirements and the Process Flow documents.

• Developed SQL Queries to perform Database testing. Executed SQL queries to check the integrity of data.

• Developed several SQL queries to perform backend testing of the database.

• Involved in writing and executing Test Cases for manual and automated Testing.

• Create, develop and manage content for organization’s web presence (requires working with content management software)

• Coordinate web projects across departments

• Maintain a consistent look and feel throughout all web properties

• Working with a cross-departmental team, maintain and develop the master content calendar for all web properties

• Copyedit and proofread all web content

• Have experience and knowledge in testing various kinds of applications relating to fund accounts.

• Performed Negative and Positive testing manually.

• Used Test Director/Quality Center to write and execute test cases, verified actual results with expected results.

• Bug Reporting is done through the Test Director/Quality Center.

• Reviewed manual Testing methods and developed and executed automated scripts.

• Performed Black Box testing of entire application.

• Worked with Test Director/Quality Center in writing and executing test cases, to track and report system defects and bugs and assigned severity ratings.

• Verification of Expected Results with Actual Results, logging the defect in Test Director/Quality Center with priority/severity level and assign the defect to QA Manager/Developer for further process.

• Initially performed Manual Testing for functionality testing and developed automated execution of test cases using QTP for Regression testing.

• Used Quick Test Pro to perform regression Testing.

• Master GUI Map is maintained in the central repository and changes are made to it for every version.

• Regression Testing is performed and the additional scripts are generated for each version.

• Used Quick Test Pro 9.2 (QTP) and generated various scripts for performing functional testing.

• Data driven testing is performed and the scripts are enhanced.

• Parameterized and Co-Related QTP scripts to execute the scripts against multiple environments and test the application with real time data and assist the appropriate groups in analyzing QTP Analysis Results.

• Have strong understanding and experience with VB Scripts.

• Wrote and executed automated Data Driven VB Scripts for different test scenarios.

• Written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track and resolve the problems.

Environment: Windows2000, Mainframe,MSV,Cobol, HTML, Netscape, .NET, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, Windows NT, MS Office, MS Access 2000, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word, Internet Explorer 6.0, Test Director 6.0/7.0/7.6/ 8.0, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional 9.0/9.5.

Client: Cigna Health Insurance, June 2007 - Aug 2009

Role: Test Lead

Line of Business: Health care/Insurance

Project Title: CRSA and CARS and SRO Mainframe Application

Responsibilities:

• Client Reporting Name, Client Reporting Structure, Report Category, Report Definition, and Administrator Set up.

• CARS are designed to support daily management of absenteeism and help manage payroll through notification of pay advisements. This information can be accessed through:

• Claim Status Report, Claim Intake Reports, Individual claim status information, Ad hoc reporting capabilities.

• Contribution, Identified Automation test scenarios, Develop Automation test scripts for the application using QTP.

• Develop the scripts using the Automation framework

• Test the Automated scripts with different sets of data to ensure they meet the requirements

• Develop supporting documentation for the Automation scripts

• Perform the maintenance of the scripts after every release

• Support Regression and functional testing execution

• Support data setup execution

• Environment: Mercury Quick Test Professional, Mercury Quality Center, TOAD, , PL SQL, Java, .Net, VB Script, Windows XP, UNIX, MS office .

Client: GalxosmithKline, Feb 2006 - June 2007

Role: QA Tester

Line of Business: Pharama

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Test Management tool using Test Director.

• Extensively developed Queries using SQL for Testing Data.

• Reviewed Manual Testing documentation to write generic Scripts using Mercury Quick test Professional.

• Involved in Data Driven Test, executed SQL Statements to extract data from Database and verified the output.

• Performed Manual Testing to assess applications overall functionality and performance

• Modified Automated Test scripts using Mercury Quick Test Professional.

• Involved in White-box testing, Black- box testing and Back-end testing.

• Worked Mercury Quick Test Professional for Functional and Regression Testing.

• Performed data Validation and Verification by extracting data from the Database.

• Conducted GUI Functional Testing.

• Reported Bugs through email notifications to Developers using Test Director.

Environment: Mercury Quicktest Professional, Test Director, C++, J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL/PLSQL, Mainframe, Windows XP/NT and Toad.

EDUCATION: MSC (Statistics), Andhra University

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