Saritha Vuppula
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Over Fifteen plus Years of experience in Quality assurance and testing diverse applications on various platforms. Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation Ability to prioritize the backlog collaborating with both the business and the development team Excellent knowledge of Agile & Scrum development environment, Provided the technical solutions that support the business requirements Assisted product and the scrum to prioritize the tickets in backlog grooming Elaborated epics into user stories Proven ability to communicate effectively with all the levels of the management Experience in developing strategies and the roadmap Ability to recommend continuous improvements and best practices to support the business strategy and the operational needs. Ability to define groom document and maintain user stories in partnership with the engineering team Ability to maintain roadmaps and new backlog for the projects Very well expertise on providing subject matter expertise on the projects. Coach and mentor the peers in delivering customer focused results. Participated in all the agile ceremonies Knowledgeable in understanding the use cases and KPI’s to evaluate the product performance Experienced in working with multiple delivery teams to execute successful delivery of the features. Experienced in providing appropriate updates and reviews with the partners and the management team. Participated in client feedback sessions and documented the requirements based on the user feedback Heavily involved in Facilitating book clubs and COP (community of practice) to improve test community Extensive experience in Manual and Automation testing of various applications on different environments. Expertise in designing and developing Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Reports for both manual and automated tests Led teams across technical, business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time with the desired results. Experience in writing test plans, defining test cases/Gherkin Scenarios, developing and maintaining test scripts. Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and System Testing. Experience in agile tools such as Mingle, VersionOne, Jira and Rally Experience in using testing tools such as WinRunner, Test Director 7.2/7.6, ALM, Quality Center 8. 0/9.0/11.0 and Quick Test Pro. Interacted with developers and other team members to ensure high quality software. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product. Proven ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations with positive results.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical QA Manager
Cox Automotive Inc
Atlanta, United States
09.2009 - Current
- Project : OVE, Simulcast, Manheim.com, CP/CSA (Gavel-to-Gate) and Recon (Manheim Retail Advantage)
- Responsibilities:
- Managing and supervising 16 test engineers across several teams
- Managing multiple applications and their critical integration points
- Implementing automation framework for all the latest and the greatest technologies
- Developed innovative testing strategies and streamlined processes with development activities to reduce testing redundancy
- Defined best practices, test strategies, and methodologies for Functional, Regression, and Automation tests for mobile, flutter applications and AWS services using appropriate SDKs
- Successfully managed a diverse range of projects from conception through implementation
- Lead testing activities in all project phases from specification to release for critical safety applications
- Supervise the planning, estimation, and prioritization of the release backlog in close cooperation with the product owner and team leads
- Implement and supervise the use of best practices and innovative techniques, striving for high quality and efficient testing deliverables
- Report progress to project management team, raise and handle concerns regarding timeline, milestones, and quality issues
- Work directly with the business owners, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories
- Contribute actively to grow the team through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and team spirit-building activities
- Support an agile delivery process working in conjunction with the end-users and technical team
- Worked with the scrum master and product owners to prioritize backlog and work with the team and ensure that the output is aligned as per the expectations
- Work as a member of an Agile team delivering high-quality deliverables in two-week sprints
- Define and document test scenarios based on user stories
- Work with the team to continuously improve product ownership and other agile/scrum processes
- Facilitated planning meetings for the team and helped to split the effort into effectively measured pieces of work
- Effectively interact with interfacing organizations and work together as a team to deliver projects on time and on budget
- Contribute towards team estimation and scheduling process
- Assisted in creating user and clear distinct tasks for the team following the 3- amigo concept
- Worked with Scrum master and tech lead in managing weekly and biweekly sprints
- Closely working with the scrum master and product owner to ensure product health is intact
- Designing Test Scenarios for manual and automation in Gherkin format
- Heavily involved in Scrum meetings, sprint planning, Business review discussions
- Responsible to provide mentoring on high-value strategic projects
- Facilitated Retrospectives and other agile ceremonies
- Proficient in proposing process changes based on the complexity of the project
- Contribute to the project success in a team environment while simultaneously completing individual tasks and goals
- Ability to simultaneously handle multiple technically complex projects to perfection
- Active role in grooming and reviewing user stories and developing the test strategy based on the discussion
- Extensive involvement in preparing and setting up the Test Data across the environments for all the releases
- Worked on Triaging defects and addressed the issues effectively on time
- Participated in the showcases
- Writing gherkin scenarios using cucumber and committing them to git hub
- Experience using Jenkins and code pipeline for deployments
- Following Agile methodologies and heavily involved in facilitating meetings
- Collaborating with SIT and UAT teams in resolving the defects and helping them to meet the project timelines
- Mentoring New members of SIT and UAT team
- Developed and executed functional testing such as functional, exploratory, integration and automated regression
- Executing non-functional testing such as browser compatibility, usability and internationalization
- Completed quality assurance testing of developed applications and identified code areas that needed improvements
- Excellent collaboration with all stakeholders in development projects
- Highly responsive to client needs and changing software requirements
- Work Efficiently with high level of energy
- Environment: AWS, Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, Windows, Quality Center 11.0, AWS, Oracle 11g, AS400, Oracle Apps, Applets, EJB, Servlets, LDAP, Unix, Shell Scripts, POST and REST API, Github, protractor, Ruby and Cucumber.
- Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
- Communicated cross-functionally with technology leaders across analysis, architecture, build, quality assurance, deployment and support teams on project execution.
- Analyzed project-related information and made recommendations based on discoveries.
- Designed, implemented and monitored integration between applications while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
- Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
- Guided, coached and lead project teams, delegating tasks and evaluating performance and progression of project pace.
- Recruited and trained IT team members.
- Managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency.
- Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
- Gathered requirements and maintained communication between project teams, internal clients and external stakeholders.
- Headed and successfully managed multi-department rollout of robust, flexible, and secure electronic data interchange.
- Assisted product owners with prioritization of backlogs.
- Created, managed and integrated application interoperability while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
- Met with clients to gather and understand requirements and coordinated with system administrators and directors to plan and schedule project activities.
Test Lead
Cox Communications
Alpharetta, GA
04.2009 - 09.2009
- Project : KANA, live chat application
- Responsibilities
- As a Quality Analyst involving in QA Analysis, Software Testing & Documentation
- Identified high-level and low-level requirements of the application to assign more emphases of testing on pressure points of the application
- Interacted with Business Analysts in design reviews and for constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements
- Interacted with the end users to learn the System requirements prior to the testing of the application
- Coordinated with developers in fixing defects and monitored the work
- Analyzing user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, test procedures to test the UI and multiple Bridges functionality
- Extensive involvement in preparing and setting up the Test Data across the environments for all the releases
- Performing System Integration, End to End and User Acceptance on audio integration
- Developed many OA assisted functionality test cases for manual execution
- Using Quality Center for test planning, test sets execution and for bug tracking
- Involving in extensive database testing by validating data using SQL Scripts to verify all the bridges information is populated
- Interacting with business users to test efficient business process that span multiple business units
- Involved in preparing the test metrics on daily basis
- Involved in weekly walkthroughs and inspection meetings, to verify the status of the testing efforts and the project as a whole
- Evaluated the progress and took initiatives to meet the testing milestones according to the project schedules
- Coordinated and communicated closely with all the team leads, developers, and QA support in setting up the Test Data and solving Issues to meet milestone deadlines
- Environment: Java, J2EE, ASP.NET, XML, HTML, Windows, Quality Center 11.0, Oracle 11g, MS- Office Suite, Applets, EJB, Servlets, LDAP, Unix, Shell Scripts, WSDL, SOAP, Citrix, Informix, XML
- Recorded test results in JIRA, detailing testing processes, results, and suggestions for the production team.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Worked alongside management to develop testing and improvement plans.
- Interacted with product managers to deliver performance issue resolution reports.
- Developed and executed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
Test Lead
Autotrader
Atlanta, Georgia
08.2008 - 03.2009
- As a Test lead gathered and clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback and JAD sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders
- Provided periodic status of testing for all small enhancement and quarterly projects and point releases in QA phase
- Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications
- Created test plans and test cases using QC
- Analyzed various combinations of dealer scenarios to insure proper test coverage
- Interacted with Business Analysts for constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements
- Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, test procedures to test the UI and GUI functionality
- Lead role in Data preparation and Data Setup in test environments for every release
- Performed System Integration, End to End and User Acceptance, Regression Testing for the Provisioning services
- Used Quality Center to create the test plan, test cases and execute the test sets
- Developed and executed SQL Scripts to fetch Source and Target data from database to verify if any mismatch occurred in the customer data
- Tested Backend with SQL Commands on Database
- Executed Shell Scripts for automation and Performed Monitoring of those
- Involved in testing of Hotfixes and CR’s both in QA as well as Production
- Bug fixes, and update bug status
- Involved in preparing the test metrics on daily basis
- Coordinated and communicated closely with all the team leads, developers and QA support (Offshore and onsite) in setting up the Test Data and solving Issues to meet milestone deadlines
- Environment: XML, , Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.2, WebLogic, Oracle, Quality Center 9.0, Java, J2EE, WinRunner, MS- Office Suite, Applets, EJB, Servlets, LDAP, Unix, Shell Scripts, WSDL, SOAP.
- Maintained records and logs of work performed and materials and equipment used.
- Verified completed projects met approved time, quality and cost estimates.
- Read plans and blueprints and communicated to workers.
- Communicated daily with vendors to keep project fully operational.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability.
- Reviewed test plans and procedures for adequate coverage of system requirements.
- Identified areas needing improvement to review with senior leadership and develop plans for improvement.
- Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
- Planned, implemented, tested, and documented solutions within the integrated testing facility for integration efforts and support of third-party engineers.
- Established functional and technical specifications and standards.
- Provided technical advice to influence and improve the quality of engineering practices.
Test Lead
FundTech
Norcross, GA
06.2008 - 08.2008
- Cash Star: Cash management System
- Responsibilities
- Wrote Test Suite, Test Plans and Test scripts based, on use case requirements and Functional Specifications
- Collaborated and coordinated with the offshore team
- Imported test suite, test plans into Test Manager
- Performed Back-end testing, System Integration, End to End and Product Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Interacted with the developers in fixing the problems
- Developed test scripts and validated requirements using QC
- Interacted with Business Analysts for constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements
- Performed functional testing, batch testing, Regression and End-to-End Testing
- Performed testing on different functionalities of the application
- Used Jira for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
- Performed testing support to Business users in UAT environment and involved in re-testing all the defects in UAT
- Since application is Back-end, tested the application functionality with UNIX scripts
- Tested the application security by modifying the executable permissions in UNIX
- Executed Shell Scripts to load the data files (Source files) into the database in SIT and UAT environments
- Developed and executed SQL queries, to fetch the data from the database for validating the output (existing value should be overridden by the new value from the new monthly file for the same static variable)
- Worked closely with all the team leads and developers in solving Issues
- Maintained the bug reports and actual results for internal evaluation/audit
- Environment: Web logic, Sybase server, QTP, Quality Center 8.0, Java (J2EE), Shell Scripts, JIL Scripts.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Worked alongside management to develop testing and improvement plans.
- Interacted with product managers to deliver performance issue resolution reports.
- Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
Software Test Engineer
Manheim
Atlanta, Georgia
06.2006 - 05.2008
- Wrote Detailed Test Plans and Test cases based on use case requirements and Functional Specifications
- Interacted with Developers, System analysts and end users to learn the System requirements prior to the testing of the application
- Coordinated with developers in fixing defects and monitored the work status till their completion
- Import requirements, test cases, validate requirements with test cases and generate reports using Test Director
- Performed Development Integration, System Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing for the data services
- Interacted with Business Analysts for constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements
- Performed functional testing, batch testing, GUI and Regression Testing across the application
- Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
- Manual execution of generated Test Cases for application under test
- Testing of individual web pages and integration between the web pages
- Developed and executed SQL Scripts to fetch Source and Target data from database and query will result out, if any mismatch occurred in the customer data
- Worked closely with all the team leads and developers in solving Issues.
Test Director
EarthLink
Atlanta, Georgia
06.2005 - 06.2006
- 7.2, Java, Lotus Notes Mail Server, winrunner 7.5, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Applets, EJB, Servlets, LDAP, Unix, Shell Scripts
- Maintained compliance with test center policies, practices, and procedures.
- Maintained a secure and positive environment conducive to testing.
Test Director
Quality Check Inc
Tallahassee, FL
03.2005 - 07.2005
- Maintained compliance with test center policies, practices, and procedures.
- Secured testing materials and maintained the confidentiality of all details.
- Maintained a secure and positive environment conducive to testing.
- Assisted faculty with setting up tests and coordinating test spaces.
Developer
AG Biotech Laboratories
07.2001 - 10.2003
- Project : Functional Specification of HRMS; Sales Order Processing, Material Procuring, Product Production
- Responsibilities
- Written SQL/PLSQL programming including procedures, triggers, packages with Oracle database, developed GUI using forms and written code for business functionality, tested the code and production support
- Designed forms using forms6i, implemented business logic using SQL/PLSQL programming and production support and applying software Quality Assurance methodologies; writing and executing SQL statements (both simple and complex) to perform data verification;
- Design, development, implementation and testing of application, coding SQL/PLSQL programs, forms designing and implementing business logic
- Managed requirements and developed Test Scripts and Test Cases using Test Director
- Enhanced the scripts by adding control and conditional statements using TSL
- Extensively worked with Test Director 7.2 to logon to defects
- Manually performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries
- Worked with users to develop user acceptance plan and test cases
- Tracked bugs using Test Director and performed regression testing of the entire application once the bugs are fixed
- Wrote and modified required Unix scripts and other SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs
- Reported to management about different problems and bottlenecks found in the application server and database servers
- Isolated and simplified problems discovered during testing so that developers can fix them easily
- Attended various meetings with the developers, clients, and the management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications
- Oracle with forms
- Windows 2000
Education
M.BA - Information Systems
DeVry University
Alpharetta, GA07.2014
M.Tech - Computational Science
Univeristy of Hyderabad
Hyderabad06.2002
Master of Science - Physics
Univeristy of Hyderabad
Hyderabad06.2001
Skills
- TECHNICAL PROFILE
- Operating Systems :
- Win 98/ NT/2K/XP/7/8, MS-DOS, Sun Solaris, UNIX
- Agile Tools : Mingle, Version one
- Testing Tools :
- Win Runner 602/75, Test Director 72/76, Quality Center 90 and 110, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro 82/92, Rational Tools (Test manager, Clear QUEST, Clear case)
- ERP Packages : Oracle ERP (PeopleSoft Financial and SCM modules)
- Languages : C, C, Java, UNIX Shell Script, TSL, PERL, VBScript, PL/SQL
- Web Development :
- HTML 40, XML, JavaScript, Java
- Network Protocols : HTTP, TCP/IP and SMTP, FTP
- Web Server : Web Sphere 50, IIS 50, Apache, Weblogic Server
- Front End Tools : VB 60and Visual studio, GUI-based tools
- MS-Suite : MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-Project, MS Outlook, Microsoft Office
- Data Bases : Oracle 11g, MS-SQL Server, MS-Access, Sybase, Informix, and DB2
- Cloud Technologies : AWS Services
Timeline
Technical QA Manager
Cox Automotive Inc
09.2009 - Current
Test Lead
Cox Communications
04.2009 - 09.2009
Test Lead
Autotrader
08.2008 - 03.2009
Test Lead
FundTech
06.2008 - 08.2008
Software Test Engineer
Manheim
06.2006 - 05.2008
Test Director
EarthLink
06.2005 - 06.2006
Test Director
Quality Check Inc
03.2005 - 07.2005
Developer
AG Biotech Laboratories
07.2001 - 10.2003
M.BA - Information Systems
DeVry University
M.Tech - Computational Science
Univeristy of Hyderabad
Master of Science - Physics
Univeristy of Hyderabad