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Aruna Perala

Manchester

Summary

Seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer with 9+ years of expertise in testing web, mobile, and client-server applications across e-Commerce, Media/Digital Streaming, and State Government sectors. Adept at leading end-to-end testing cycles, from requirement analysis to defect resolution, ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr QA Tester

Civix
05.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: Civix is a product company that serves various government agencies
  • I am responsible for quality of the product that automates Secretary of State's business services
  • As part of the deployment, we customize the product to accommodate specific and unique state requirements
  • We do a complete product life cycle starting from gathering requirements, development, and QA
  • And supporting customer during UAT and production
  • The project is executed using agile methodology, functionality delivered in sprints
  • Sprints are grouped based on a cluster of requirements after discussion with client
  • Used Test Director to Design Test cases for newly added Functionalities and manually executed those test cases
  • Responsible for talent management of the team including talent acquisitions, talent development
  • Analyzing the user/business requirements and functional specifications documents
  • Assist clients, service providers, managers, and supervisors to clarify operating policies and assist in the design of concise written operating procedures
  • Create and manage framework to support development of load scripts
  • Assist QA manager to plan, estimate and manage performance testing projects for various applications
  • Interacted with the business analysts to understand user requirements and gather inputs for creating the test plan for testing user creation, transaction and bill pay module functionalities
  • Log, Track, and verify resolution of Software and specification tests
  • Document all phases of QA process
  • Collaborates with developers to improve overall quality by emphasizing defect prevention through the development process
  • Reviewed Test Cases and Conducted Peer review meeting with the team
  • Running Smoke test on Development and test environment after every deployment
  • Creates various automated scripts for the regression testing and regulatory changes
  • Work with management, account, technical and creative teams to develop and streamline workflows
  • Work with Product and Development teams to develop and execute test plans
  • Design, develop and maintain an automated test strategy that fully exercises end-user workflows and provides a framework for ongoing endurance/load tests
  • Civix is a product company that serves various government agencies
  • I am responsible for quality of the product that automates Secretary of State's business services
  • As part of the deployment, we customize the product to accommodate specific and unique state requirements
  • We do a complete product life cycle starting from gathering requirements, development, and QA
  • And supporting customer during UAT and production
  • The project is executed using agile methodology, functionality delivered in sprints
  • Sprints are grouped based on a cluster of requirements after discussion with client
  • Environment: Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, X-path, Windows, SQL Server, GITLAB, Selenium Web driver/IDE, Eclipse, JMeter, Jira, Oracle, Mainframe, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), TFS, Azure Devops, Test Rail, Test Link, Jenkins

Sr QA Tester

Disney
12.2019 - 05.2020
  • Company Overview: Disney+ is Disney’s digital streaming service featuring collection of movies, TV shows in multiple languages available around the world
  • Worked on Disney+ and Hotstar customer interaction applications enhancements to bring them into cloud
  • Involved in reviewing requirements for testability, usability, and interacted with development teams with regards to application functionality
  • Worked with Product owner, Project manager and development team to understand the requirements and taking ownership of the application
  • Created test plan, documented test cases, and test execution plans in Jira Xray
  • Involved in writing automation test cases and fixing automation script bugs
  • Involved in the Continuous Integration of the automation tests for both UI and API with Jenkins
  • Developed Integration and Exploratory test cases based on the Root Cause
  • Experience with AWS S3 services – testing lambda functions, API Gateway, and verifying data in Dynamo DB
  • Involved in Sprint planning/brainstorming, weekly release meetings, responsible for certification of bug fixes in Staging and Production environments
  • Weekly status meetings, Bug review meetings and Participated in Agile software testing process with regular QA meetings to discuss major features of the application, test cases to write and execute
  • Disney+ is Disney’s digital streaming service featuring collection of movies, TV shows in multiple languages available around the world
  • Worked on Disney+ and Hotstar customer interaction applications enhancements to bring them into cloud
  • Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Postman, webdriver.io – cucumber & gherkin, JSON, Node.JS, Amazon S3, Java, Java Scripts, Agile, XML, Mac

Sr QA Tester

General Electric (GE)
01.2018 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: The Movement Planner (MP) is a network level planning system for railroad traffic control
  • It automates the movement of train traffic and improves on-time performance while moving trains across its entire network
  • Movement Planner works by constantly assessing and determining a plan consistent with business objectives
  • These plans are automatically implemented in signaled territory using an auto-router (AR)
  • The auto-router follows the instructions of the Movement Planner and clears signals to automate train movement
  • In non-signaled territory, Dispatchers will continue to issue track authorities
  • By looking across the entire network, the Movement Planner enables to achieve network objectives, which cannot be achieved with each dispatcher managing their individual territories
  • Involved in Requirement Analysis and Validations
  • Involved in meetings with users to validate business requirements
  • Performed Functional Testing in QA, Staging, Pre-production, and post-production builds
  • Configured Selenium Web Driver, Test-NG, Maven tool and created Selenium automation scripts in Java using Test-NG prior to next quarter release
  • Updating the test cases based on the Change Requests/Enhancements
  • Created Test Plans against Application Design Specifications
  • Created, modified, and executed various types of Manual Test cases for Functional, Integration and Regression Testing within limited timeframe & releases
  • Communicated with Development, Business and Support teams to resolve any issues
  • As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews
  • Worked with different modules of JIRA such as Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects and Dashboard Module
  • Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database
  • Tested applications compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS), browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome) and Mobile Devices (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
  • Resolved queries by coordinating with different teams like Development and Environment teams
  • Creates various automated scripts for the regression testing and regulatory changes
  • Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness
  • Documented test results in accordance with documented processes
  • The Movement Planner (MP) is a network level planning system for railroad traffic control
  • It automates the movement of train traffic and improves on-time performance while moving trains across its entire network
  • Movement Planner works by constantly assessing and determining a plan consistent with business objectives
  • These plans are automatically implemented in signaled territory using an auto-router (AR)
  • The auto-router follows the instructions of the Movement Planner and clears signals to automate train movement
  • In non-signaled territory, Dispatchers will continue to issue track authorities
  • By looking across the entire network, the Movement Planner enables to achieve network objectives, which cannot be achieved with each dispatcher managing their individual territories
  • Environment: Selenium Web driver/IDE, Eclipse, JMeter, Jira, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, X-path, Windows, SQL Server, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Center, Test-NG, SVN, SOAP UI, Fire bug, Fire Path, QTP, TFS, Test Rail

QA Tester

Tilpos
07.2015 - 12.2018
  • Analyze the Business Requirements Documents
  • Experience in using Quality Center for Test Planning and Defect Reporting and Tracking, thorough understanding of the Defect life cycle process
  • Updating the test cases based on the Change Requests/Enhancements
  • Updating the Requirement Traceability Matrix document
  • Responsible for Bug management activities using Bugzilla
  • Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing
  • Involved in Preparing the Status Reports Every Week, which includes Revision History, test case status, QA Issues and Defects
  • Performed various tests such as Sanity, smoke, System, Integration, and Regression on new builds as well as enhancements
  • Performed Black box and White box testing
  • ENVIRONMENT: Bugzilla, Quality Center 10.0, IIS, SQL Server, Windows 2008

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Kakatiya University
India
12.1995

Skills

    Skills

    Technical Proficiencies

  • Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver (Java), webdriverio, QTP
  • Test Management: HP ALM, JIRA, TestRail, Azure DevOps, TFS
  • API/DB Testing: Postman, SoapUI, SQL, XML/JSON
  • Languages: Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, NET

    • Tools & Frameworks

  • Frameworks: Data-Driven, Hybrid, BDD
  • Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle
  • Platforms: Docker, BrowserStack, Android Virtual Device Manager

Timeline

Sr QA Tester

Civix
05.2020 - Current

Sr QA Tester

Disney
12.2019 - 05.2020

Sr QA Tester

General Electric (GE)
01.2018 - 12.2019

QA Tester

Tilpos
07.2015 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Science -

Kakatiya University

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