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srilakhsmi - QA AUTOMATION LEAD/SR.QA ENGINEER

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Location: San Jose, California, USA

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SUMMARY 10 Years of solid experience in Software Testing. 2+ Years of experience in Leading a QA Team. Proficient in software testing life cycle - test plan development, test case creation, test execution and bug tracking. Excellent experience on Selenium IDE and creating scripts in Selenium Web Driver using Python. Strong skills in Backend Testing using SQL queries on SQL Server. Expert at Web based testing: GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing. Expertise in analyzing User Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications. Possess good interpersonal and communication skills, positive attitude and excellent issue solving skills. Highly proficient in accurate reporting and tracking bugs using tools JIRA, Remedy. Proven experience to work in agile/scrum and Kanban environments. Good at multi-tasking and working well under tight deadlines with high efficiency. TECHNICAL SKILLS Operating Systems MacOS, Windows, Mainframes Programming Languages Python, Core Java, C Web Technologies JavaScript, jQuery, XML RDBMS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, DynamoDB IDE Eclipse, PyCharm, Atom, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA Automation Tools Selenium Suite (Selenium IDE & WebDriver), Appium Integration Tools Cruise Control, Jenkins, GitHub Actions Version control Tools SVN, Perforce, GIT Bug tracking Tools Rational Clear Quest, Kaizen, JIRA, Remedy, Rally Testing Tools Mercury Quality Center, TestNG Framework, QPST, QXDM, Perfecto, Sauce Labs, qTest, Rally, Xcode, ADB, Charles Proxy EDUCATION Masters (Information Systems Management), Coleman University, San Diego, U.S, 2014 (GPA 3.89) Bachelors (Computer Science Engineering), Vignan College (JNTU), Visakhapatnam, India, 2007 (GPA 3.89), U.S, 2014 (GPA 3.5) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Walmart #SENIOR SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER, San Jose, CA Jun 2023 Current ACCOMPLISHMENTS Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches which increased productivity by 50%. Build test plans, test cases and test scripts for the projects which improved project timelines by 35%. Maintained Automation framework and standards to manage all automation set up activities. This reduced overall testing hours 40% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts in the framework. CONTRIBUTIONS Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Metrics. Oversee tests to ensure that quality products conform to established policy and standards. Work closely with agile team Developers, Product Owner, and Scrum Master to understand overall technical architecture of the projects. Create Manual, Automation and Regression tests to fully test software products. Performed Test Automation across multiple platforms using Selenium WebDriver, Python and Pytest framework. Executed automated tests using Postman to test RESTful API s for multiple web applications. Worked on testing both web and mobile applications on iOS and Android devices, emulators, and simulators. Identify and track defects with JIRA and support developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests. Participated in Defect triage meetings with development team, business team and project managers for defect triage and provide analysis on the nature of the defect. Developed user manuals and assist in fellow team members to increase their knowledge of the system. Y Media Labs #SENIOR SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER, San Jose, CA Sep 2020 Mar 2023 ACCOMPLISHMENTS Led a team of Onshore and Offshore Test Engineers and helped the Purpose Financial Client in launching their new Progressive Web Application (PWA) product. Enabled userbase of 1 million across 6 Markets in USA for Geo Location-Powered Personalized Care Notifications Feature for the Client Kaiser Permanente (KP) Mobile App from the requirement phase to PROD Deployment phase. Elevated User Appointment experience for 40,000 users by testing and helping in the launch of National Rollout Feature Appointment Mode on KP Mobile App. Achieved Team Leadership role 10 members - by proactively working through the processes and delivering results and coordinating across multiple teams. Reduced testing time about 20% - by identifying automatable test cases and delivered test automations using Java & Python, Selenium, Appium, TestNG for both Web and Mobile (iOS and Android) applications. CONTRIBUTIONS Have a test lead experience of managing onsite and offshore members and drove handling all the testing activities in the project. Responsible for all the testing activities - right from project requirements grooming session until the production deployment. Has Expertise in both Manual and Automation testing activities for all the scrum work in each sprint as well as the Regression testing. Effectively developed and maintained automated Python test scripts to validate accuracy and integrity of web applications with Selenium. Developed Automation scripts for Mobile testing using Appium for Android and iOS applications. Conducted API testing using tools such as Postman. Analyzed testing results to locate, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a timely manner to ensure product quality. Was supporting all the testing activities for both Internal prod and actual Prod deployments. Extended help to the Product team and validated all the essential features in Pre-Prod and Prod environments. Conducted Defect Triage Meetings with developers and Project Managers and aimed for the defect resolution in a timely manner. Trained different teams with testing process and infrastructure - Developers, Product managers and internal QA team. OUTWARD, INC. #SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER, San Jose, CA July 2019 May 2020 CONTRIBUTIONS Worked closely with developers and Product owners to maintain a full understanding of the requirements and how software is utilized to accomplish business goals. Analyzed requirements and developed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases based on User stories/software requirements specifications. Executed test cases for functional, end-to-end and regression testing for the Web applications on devices Desktop, Tablets and Mobile phones (both iOS and Android). Reported and tracked bugs, replicated reported customer bugs, verified bug fixes and new functionalities, regression tested new releases, supported developers by examining console logs. Attended Daily Scrum/Stand-Up Meetings with the team members to provide feedback and update on all projects. Took an initiative and automated repetitive task. This initiative helped with increasing the overall team s productivity. Tasks include: o Floor & D cor Application - Developed python scripts using Selenium WebDriver and automated the test data preparation by consolidating multiple data files and also helped in testing functionality of the application. o Klaussner Application Automated the entire manual testing process with the help of two python scripts one for data preparation and other to test the images. o Monogramming Application Helped Production and Quality Control teams by automating the process of downloading different product images from Customer websites that were used to develop different styles for monogramming options. o Self-Serve Stress Testing - came up with a python script to perform basic stress testing on Postgres Database to find users limit and breaking point/or unresponsive behavior. WELLS FARGO #SYSTEMS QA ANALYST, San Francisco, CA July 2016 Oct 2018 CONTRIBUTIONS As part of the QA group, focused on testing cutting edge Internet/Mobile functionality, content and information. Manually tested various Web applications for the products - Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Business Line of Credit Employed Selenium/Java to automate manual test cases that reside in Mercury Quality Center. Worked with test automation framework that provides the basis for effective automation results. Exercised test cases both on various form factors desktop, laptop, tablets and mobile phone devices and on various operating systems Mac OS, Windows. Worked on Mobile Testing on both iOS and Android platforms. General activities include: Object declarations, page design, creating methods and development of automated test cases for new projects and change controls, documentation of test cases, run regression tests and analyze failures, setup and maintain test data, and support other test execution engineers. Worked closely with leads and analysts from other QA business-oriented groups when necessary to manage testing effort - drafting test scenarios, test cases, test plans, test execution and defect/bug management. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product by exhibiting excellent communication skills to work diplomatically with developers, QA and other team members to ensure high quality software. Employed my strong analytical skills to successfully multi task in an interrupt driven environment. Additionally, demonstrated leadership, communication and documentation skills to work with several diverse groups of people in a collaborative environment. UNITED PARCEL SERVICES, INC. #SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER, Atlanta, GA Dec 2014 Nov 2015 CONTRIBUTIONS Analyzed system requirements and business requirement documents and developed test cases and test scripts. Identified the test cases to be automated and performed data driven testing and enhanced the overall functionality of the Pricing and Quote generation applications. Involved in Automation Environment setup using Eclipse, Java, Selenium Web driver jars and TestNG. Automated UI Testing of Web Applications with Java, Selenium Web Driver and TestNG Annotations. Performed Sanity (Smoke), Functional and Regression for various software builds using Black Box and White Box testing techniques. Performed Backend testing to verify the data integrity by passing SQL Queries. Identified test failures by performing root cause analysis and reported in JIRA. Attended the daily Scrum meetings and weekly status meetings and interacted with Developers for tracking and resolving Defects. QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. #SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER, San Diego, CA May 2013 Mar 2014 CONTRIBUTIONS Designed and implemented the automated triage reports collection. This activity drastically reduced the manual effort required to collect the triage report and helped better analysis of the problem devices. Supported Bring up of MSM8626, MM8610, MSM8974 chipsets and enabled automation set up for all Core BSP product technologies like Boot, ADSP, MPSS, RPM, WCNSS, RPM and TZ. Developed Python scripts to automate the station set up and software installation for device testing to improve the efficiency of Continuous Integration testing process. Efficient at automating the test set up in a given environment for the required test suites using Cruise Control and flashing/loading new builds on devices using JTAG. Skilled in procuring critical traces and logs that can be helpful in debugging crash scenarios using Qualcomm proprietary tool - QPST. Kept a repository of the test results and documented frequently found setup issues and reported bugs in Jira. Assisted developers by addressing test case bugs earlier in software release cycle improving the productivity of developers and focusing more on increasing test coverage. Actively participated in Scrum meetings & reviews to investigate, debug, resolve test case failures and develop tools to support automated testing and framework. MAHINDRA SATYAM #SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER, Hyderabad, India Oct 2007 June 2011 CONTRIBUTIONS Analyzed system requirements and business requirement documents and developed test cases and test scripts. Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium. Used Selenium Web driver to run test cases in multiple browsers and Platforms. Used SQL commands to validate the database and test its integration with the front end. Automated, debugged and resolved issues in test scripts. Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing. Execution of manual test cases and responsible to track and log the defects. Interacted with developers to sort out the issues and the defects. Used Selenium IDE for Open source web testing. Reporting the Coverage Status of tests performed on the daily/weekly basis. Used Remedy for Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation. Performed Integration, System, UAT and Usability Testing. Gathered requirements, prepared documents, and test cases and reviewed them for Disaster Recovery testing for both ARCO/AMOCO applications. APPRECIATIONS Awarded Positive Incit for reducing upgrade testing time by 40% on ARCO project. Awarded Positive Incit for unblocking teams held up due to automation issues thereby reaching project deadlines. Awarded star recognition award for automating triage report generation that helped increase the productivity of team. Keywords: cprogramm quality analyst user interface microsoft California Georgia