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Chandana

Dallas

Summary

Over 9+ years of experience in Quality Assurance including work in Client/Server, and Web based environment. Experience in working with offshore QA teams and coordinating efforts between onshore and offshore groups. Has good knowledge on different software development models like SCRUM, AGILE, CMM, and RUP. Excellent knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Continuous Process / Quality improvement based on Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Self-starter and a team player with excellent communication, interpersonal, positive thinking and mentoring skills and a good aptitude for learning. Familiar with Defect Management Life Cycle. Verifying and Reporting ‘bugs’, documenting the QA business process. In-depth participation in design reviews and requirement analysis with development team and the client. Have diversified experience in Quality Assurance, Development, Design, Documentation and Implementation of application software using client-server and Web based environment. Can work well individually or in a team environment. Specialized in analyzing functional specifications and writing Test Cases. Worked on Functionality Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing. Excellent efficiency in performing System, Integration, Database, Smoke, Functional, Regression, Black Box, Ad hoc and GUI tests. Experience in problem solving and tracking bugs using bug/defect tracking tools like CAAC(Rally), Quality Center, Jira and locally developed tools (Bug-Tracker). Strong analytical, problem solving and presentation skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr.QA Analyst/QA onshore Lead

Lumen Technologies
Dallas
03.2015 - Current
  • Company Overview: Lumen Technologies is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.
  • Joined the team as Agile Team test lead test engineer to assist in Crucial projects of Ordering and Billing Applications.
  • Involved in early stage of requirements to understand business requirements and created test cases in CAAC /JIRA before development delivers for QA. So, it will be easy at the end of cycle to execute test cases and better understand features& user stories from business point.
  • Participated in Bi-weekly user story grooming session and iteration planning meetings with Scrum master, product owner and Agile team members.
  • Developed Test cases, Test data and reusable test scripts in Jira for User Stories based on the Acceptance Criteria during each Iteration.
  • Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings.
  • Coordination of testing efforts between multiple (local, remote, and global) testing teams. Work with architects, development and UAT teams to manage the dependencies and risks pertaining to testing efforts.
  • Mentor junior members of the team in best practice and testing methodology.
  • Reported defects in JIRA that were found during testing of multiple versions of applications on various test environments daily and retested defect fixes after each Promote to respective QA environments.
  • Reduced Defect leakage by Automation and improved Customer & end user experience.
  • Performed thorough Functional, System and Regression testing and resolving all the critical and open Bugs prior to Deployment.
  • Participated in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Team members.
  • Monitored Tester’s progress, supported test case preparation and answered project or QA related Questions.
  • Coordinates across project teams for information gathering and sharing required to perform testing activities.
  • Performed system demos at end of each sprint for completed user stories.
  • Expertise in Web services testing using SOATEST, POSTMAN and SOAP UI.
  • Performed UI testing for web based applications (java based and Salesforce).
  • Supported integration, E2E testing and validated testing sceneries from APi services.
  • Verifying logs using SPLUNK for troubleshooting issues.
  • In-sprint Automation for new services using SOA Test tool.
  • Decreased testing time by 50% by implementing automation for functional and regression test cases for PPP and sanity scripts for EDS.
  • Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Maven and Jenkins.
  • Automated EDS webservices using Selenium STAFF framework.
  • Accomplished testing goals on time and within budget throughout various testing phases like Smoke, Functional, Database, Negative testing, and User Acceptance testing.
  • Performed Back End testing by executing sql queries.
  • Conducted and Participated in Defect triage meetings.
  • Lumen Technologies is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.
  • Environment: Jira, Para soft SOA test, Java, VB Script, PL/SQL, SOAPUI POSTMAN, Oracle, Windows 10, Splunk, Oracle SQL Developer Mongo DB, Selenium, GitHub and Jenkins.

Sr.QA Analyst

FreshDirect
Long Island
09.2013 - 03.2015
  • Company Overview: FreshDirect is an online grocer that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. It also offers next-day delivery to much of New York City, Hoboken, Newark, and Jersey City; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Analyzed the Business requirement and Design documents to develop Test procedures and Test cases.
  • Attended Walkthroughs and Peer Review meetings with Business Operations, Analysts, and Design & Development teams.
  • Responsible for writing test scenarios to create test scripts based on requirements and use cases.
  • Created Traceability Matrices (RTM), mapping Test Cases with Requirements, Design and Use Cases.
  • Worked closely with the business users to come up User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test scenarios.
  • Interacted with the development team and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
  • Prepared daily and weekly project status reports, completely implemented and involved in agile process.
  • Performed mobile API testing for iPad and iPhone.
  • Tested the storefront application on iPad, iPhone and Android devices, when new version of operating system was unveiled and made sure the application was enhanced to be compatible with the new operating system.
  • Involved in testing backend systems using SQL queries to validate the data in the Oracle database using querying tools like Toad.
  • Expertise in performing Defect Management Life Cycle. Verifying and Reporting ‘bugs’, documenting the QA business process.
  • Prepared the Daily status report and shared to QA Lead.
  • Involved in Writing Test cases as per the Functional specifications.
  • Trunk build and deploy.
  • Primarily used Hudson to trunk build and deploy to environment for testing tickets related to release.
  • Developed test cases/scripts and execution of test scripts with predefined expected results.
  • Interacted with the development team and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
  • Trained / mentored new team members end users.
  • FreshDirect is an online grocer that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. It also offers next-day delivery to much of New York City, Hoboken, Newark, and Jersey City; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Environment: Jira, TOAD 10, Testing Anywhere, HTML, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, VB Script, Spira, SQL, PL/SQL, Cross Browser Testing, Oracle, Hudson, Windows 7.

QA Analyst

Emaestro Inc
Chicago
02.2008 - 06.2009
  • Company Overview: Mysis is the leading U.S. provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians and other healthcare professionals use to improve patient care.
  • Worked with multiple projects, phased deliverables risk analysis, proposals, requirements gathering and manual as well as automated software testing on various platforms.
  • Involved in designing and developing QTP automation framework using custom function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions.
  • Writing and executing Test cases based on baseline requirements.
  • Identified individual Test Cases from detailed design descriptions, develop systematic procedure for each test case, reviewed the test cases using Quality Center.
  • Executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results.
  • Coordinated with the development team for the timely resolution of test incidents, identified defects, recorded defects, monitored defect status, verified defect resolutions, and closed defects.
  • Involved in identifying the test scenarios to automate using QTP.
  • Involved in preparing Test Plan based on Requirements and Design Documents.
  • Conducted Regression testing during the various phases of the entire QA life cycle.
  • Performed smoke testing, regression testing and functional testing using QTP.
  • Responsible for daily/weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing and open issues to be resolved.
  • Conducted root cause analysis of identified defects, providing development/business with sufficient details to understand, replicate and resolve the defects.
  • Facilitated positive working partnerships between QA, development, and business teams.
  • Conducted periodic process audits to ensure compliance with approved practices.
  • Managed end-to-end QA efforts between onshore and offshore teams.
  • Develop functional/regression automated testing solutions using Vbscript, QTP and data driven techniques.
  • Execute test script, report detailed defects description through Quality Center 9.0.
  • Designed modular and reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy testing requirements.
  • Develop/enhance and document automated testing methodology.
  • Mysis is the leading U.S. provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians and other healthcare professionals use to improve patient care.
  • Environment: Quality Center 9.0,QTP 9.2, Infragistics Test Advantage 2007, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, VB Script, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, Unix, VMWare, Windows XP/Vista.

Software Test Engineer

Pace Incorp
01.2005 - 08.2007
  • Company Overview: This website holds the school information online like profile of the school, admission dates, downloadable admission forms, events, photo gallery, online results, fee payment etc.
  • Develop automation scripts using vbscript to automate smoke and regression testing.
  • Automated test data load for every build cycle.
  • Worked with multiple projects, phased deliverables risk analysis, proposals, requirements gathering and manual as well as automated software testing on various platforms.
  • Report tracked defects with reference to severity and priority using Test Director.
  • Developed Custom User Controls to reduce the Complexity in User Interface Coding and provide better look and feel.
  • Identified individual Test Cases from detailed design descriptions, develop systematic procedure for each test case, reviewed the test cases using Test Director.
  • Perform black-box testing including smoke tests, regression, system and function testing.
  • Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report using Test Director.
  • Reviewed and analysed all the required documents to develop test cases.
  • Preparing test cases and performed Test cases execution.
  • Performed database testing using SQL in order to check data validation and data Integrity.
  • Involved in preparing Test strategy document, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
  • Good Understanding of Traceability matrix and test matrix.
  • Generated the Test Status Reports from Test Director and regularly presented to QA Team lead and Project team lead.
  • Authored test cases and test scripts directly into Test Director.
  • Performed Black box, Validation testing to check that all functional requirements satisfied.
  • Designed and developed custom functions, Generic functions by using VB script.
  • Active participation in regular project status meetings related to testing.
  • Completing testing and documentation as per assigned schedule.
  • Submitting weekly status reports to QA Manager.
  • Regularly followed up with development team to discuss about bugs that are identified during testing.
  • This website holds the school information online like profile of the school, admission dates, downloadable admission forms, events, photo gallery, online results, fee payment etc.
  • Environment: Microsoft VisualStudio, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Crystal Reports, XML, SQL Server, PL/SQL, HTML, WinRunner, QTP, Test Director 8.0, Microsoft .NET framework 1.5.

Education

Bachelors of Electronics -

JNTU
India

Skills

  • Windows 9x
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Selenium
  • Parasoft SOA Test
  • C
  • C
  • XML
  • Oracle 9i
  • Oracle 8i
  • Oracle 7x
  • Oracle 10g
  • MS SQL Server
  • Java
  • J2EE
  • JSP
  • Flash
  • ASPNET
  • VBNET
  • VBscript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • MS-Office
  • Oracle Developer 2000
  • Visual Basic 40
  • Visual Basic 50
  • Visual Source Safe
  • Serena
  • Clear Case
  • Continuous integration
  • Database validation
  • Communication skills
  • Problem solving
  • Time management
  • Attention to detail

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Certified Safe 4 Agilest
  • Received the CIO's Spotlight Award for Q4 2018

Linkedin Profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandana-vodlakonda-92b06bb1/

Timeline

Sr.QA Analyst/QA onshore Lead

Lumen Technologies
03.2015 - Current

Sr.QA Analyst

FreshDirect
09.2013 - 03.2015

QA Analyst

Emaestro Inc
02.2008 - 06.2009

Software Test Engineer

Pace Incorp
01.2005 - 08.2007

Bachelors of Electronics -

JNTU

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