Ananya Reddy
Summary
IT Specialist with 11 years of professional experience in Software Testing. Highly familiar with Functional testing and Software life cycle management tools. Have a working experience in roles as below: SME in applications, Senior Software QA tester with full system development life cycle experience, including designing, developing, and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes, thereby fueling corrective actions, significant cost savings, and fault-free audits. Manual/Functional Test Analyst and Test Lead with functional testing experience in various domains (Retail, Banking, Securities) and applications and knowledge on Test Objective Matrix, Test case preparation, Functional Test execution, Defect tracking and triaging, Test documentation and reporting.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
CDPH
Sacramento
01.2023 - Current
- Developed and maintained automated scripts using Playwright, reducing manual testing efforts by over 60%
- Integrated automation test into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless continuous testing and delivery
- Performed backend testing by writing SQL queries to verify data quality and ensure accurate data integration, using Azure Data Studio
- Identified and reported critical defects early in development cycle, improving overall software quality
- Authored comprehensive functional requirements and detailed test cases for both front-end and backend changes
- Conducted extensive manual testing for scenarios where automation is not feasible, ensuring comprehensive test coverage
- Provided UAT support
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish the best practices for test automation and quality assurance
- Analyzing results, reporting, and tracking defects in the JIRA tool
- Attending daily Agile and Scrum meetings
Senior QA Engineer
Winsupply
Dayton
01.2020 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: (Volunteering through DVR Softek Inc.)
- Owning the modules for testing UI - functional, integration, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing
- Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating quality testing activities
- Performing data analysis, testing, and validation using complex SQL queries and data-driven testing methodologies
- Developed SQL queries for Back-end testing/Database testing and participated in end-to-end testing
- Strong ability to use subqueries, aggregate functions and SQL joins under different conditions
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or equivalent data analysis tools
- Identified bugs as a part of both frontend and backend testing and coordinated with software developers in resolving the issues
- Overseeing the drafting of testing documents and test automation
- Ensuring comprehensive test coverage
- Supporting automation testing
- (Volunteering through DVR Softek Inc.)
Senior QA Engineer
ANZ
04.2015 - 12.2019
- Company Overview: (WIPRO, INDIA)
- Asserting with developing test plan timeline
- Assisting and cooperating with team and management conducting hands-on functional and system integration testing
- Automating Web Application testing using Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver
- Attending project-level meetings to understand requirements
- Performing ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents
- Developing strategies and plans
- Work as a part of a team to perform manual, regression testing on the Data Invariant Layer project
- Ensuring comprehensive test coverage
- Leading team in reporting, tracking and following up on issues promptly
- Analyzing results, reporting, and tracking defects in the JIRA tool
- Verifying changes and performing regression testing
- Working on SQL Queries as a part of database testing
- Expertise in Buy/Sell side of Order Management systems
- Working closely with technical and non-technical peers and senior management to promote successful delivery of products and services
- Log, track and verify resolution of software and specification defects
- Providing estimation for new fixes
- Involved in Web-based application testing
- (WIPRO, INDIA)
Test Engineer – L2
PTBC
11.2014 - 04.2015
- Company Overview: (Subsidiary of Common Wealth Bank Australia, WIPRO, India)
- Preparing test plan and test strategy and getting it signed off by business stakeholders
- Identifying test cases that require automation
- Complete owning of the module from requirement gathering to system testing
- Designed and executed test cases with maximum coverage and reported the defects in ALM
- Asserting with developing test plan timeline
- Understanding the requirements of the project, designing test cases, writing SQL queries for execution, and ETL testing data
- Developed SQL queries developing duplicate check mechanisms to eliminate duplicates
- TOSCA automation for regression testing
- Attending defect triage calls and stand-up calls
- Writing SQL scripts to extract data from various databases and systems and compare it against the data warehouse
- Verifying data transformations according to business rules
- Develop, implement and maintain quality and test procedures, processes and best practices for QA
- (Subsidiary of Common Wealth Bank Australia, WIPRO, India)
Test Engineer
KOHL’S
02.2013 - 11.2014
- Company Overview: (WIPRO LIMITED, INDIA)
- Understanding requirements of the project, execution from test cases designed by leads, application testing, and providing inputs for status reports
- Analyzing dependency among the modules and determining the sequence of the test execution
- Verifying if the database is updated with proper details of the new customers and order details
- Reporting defects in HP ALM
- Work closely with project managers and developers
- Analyzing System Requirement Specifications, involved in each step of the test documentation
- Execute manual test cases, analyze results, report and track defects, verify fixes and perform follow-up work to resolve issues
- Assists and cooperates with co-workers, supervisor, and management
- Work with the QTP automation team to develop and execute automated tests
- Assist with developing test plan timeline
- (WIPRO LIMITED, INDIA)
Education
Bachelor’s - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
SASTRA University
Skills
- Requirement Analysis
- Test Plans and Test Methodologies
- Functional Testing
- Application Testing
- Regression testing
- End-to-end testing
- Database testing
- Data-centric testing
- System Integration testing
- SQL Queries
- JIRA
- HP tools QC
- HP tools ALM
- Agile Methodology
- Defect Tracking
- Defect Reporting
- Automation Tools
- Selenium IDE
- Selenium WebDriver
- Playwright
- C
- Python
- SQL Server
- Testing Expertise
- Windows-based Applications
- Web-based Applications
Timeline
Senior QA Engineer
CDPH
01.2023 - Current
Senior QA Engineer
Winsupply
01.2020 - 01.2023
Senior QA Engineer
ANZ
04.2015 - 12.2019
Test Engineer – L2
PTBC
11.2014 - 04.2015
Test Engineer
KOHL’S
02.2013 - 11.2014
Bachelor’s - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
SASTRA University
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