Pallavi Kalapary

· Optimized build process by increasing system's quality level and reducing 45% of defects found.

· Established proper team communication that identified, triaged, reproduced, & found issues, and increased overall workflow by 25%.

· Created & optimized test scripts in towels which led to 9% reduction in overall testing hours.

· Created traceability matrix to fill in gap between requirements and tests covered contributing to 10% increase in test case count.

· Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

· Gathered Performance testing requirements, System requirements and identified applications performance.

· Worked in Agile development environment also.

· Developed and Implemented effective Test Plan and Test Cases based on user stories, source to target mappings, analytical and technical specification.

· Reviewed and analyzed requirements and specifications for testability and completeness.

· Organized effort estimation and forwarded it to Project Management and Program Management for future projects.

· Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and executed test cases and reported defects.

· Participated in the SDLC, designed, and executed manual test scripts in agile development.

· Actively involved in Smoke testing, System testing, Regression testing before deploying in the production on various platforms.

· Demonstrated expertise in configuring and customizing TFS to align with project requirements and team workflows, optimizing productivity and efficiency.

· Defect Detection, Reporting and Tracking using TFS & Participated in Bug-Review meetings and used Quality Center.

· Having experience in working with offshore teams and onsite teams located in different time zones.

· Conducted knowledge sharing sessions within the team.

· Created end user training documents and maintained the document in shared locations for end user support.

· Involved in writing user acceptance testing for the validation for pre-prod environment.

· Prepared and contributed to creating Test plan and Test Strategy along with arranging and executing test cases.

· Test Cases for Manual Testing

· Created, prepared, and executed Manual Test Cases based on requirements and Use Cases throughout Soft ware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)s.

· Analyzed project requirements and provided solution for deliverables, supported business to design user requirement document, coordinated with architect, business to design functional requirements, draft test deliverables, Quality Plan / Test Plan / Test strategy, support to identify test scenarios.

· Participated in designing of Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Data.

· Involved in testing of application using the Scrum (Agile) methodology.

· Involved in making QA Team to follow the Traceability matrix and resolve all the queries.

· Involved in reviewing status reports from team managers and taking appropriate action on items accordingly.

· Used TFS (Team Foundation Server) for bug tracking, Work Item Tracking, and published test results in TFS to share with the team members.

· Analysis of the requirements and finding out the areas having the scope for testing.

· Prepare Test Plan for short time deliveries, new enhancements, Change requests and Production Defects

· Identification of key Test scenarios and preparing the Test cases for them.

· Verified the data in database through SQL statements and executed stored procedures and triggers.

· Created detailed QA and UAT cases to validate the quality of the application.

· Prepared and executed Test cases as per system requirements.

· Conducted Smoke Testing for every test case. Logged the errors, reported defects, and tracked the defects using JIRA, TFS until resolution.

· Performed Smoke, Functionality, white box testing, Integration, System, Regression tests based on analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications, and end-user needs.

· Build and Hot-fixes and Regression Testing for every Release.

· Completed pre-implementation testing for new system modifications to assess potential impacts.

· Utilized Agile software development methods to increase team efficiency by 50%.

• · Increased company's ability to take and complete projects without increasing manpower by 15% by reducing QA testing turnaround time by 30%.

· Cooperated with developers to design 50+ test cases for regular maintenance and enhancements for internal applications.

· Executed functional testing of ~300 test scenarios each year.

· Worked with Team Foundation Server (TFS) for test case management.

· Co-created testing and defect-tracking documentation with 100% closure rate.

· Expert in designing Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Defect Summary Reports

· Well versed in all phases of Software Development life cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle and Defect Life cycle and its constituent aspects like Functionality, Verification and Validation. Understood the requirements and functional specifications of the application.

· Prepared and Executed Test Scenarios and Test cases as per system requirements.

· Prepared OQ (Operational Qualification) Traceability Matrix, FRA (Functional Risk Assessment) documents.

· End-to-End application testing.

· Collaborated with developers for resolution of testing issues and risks to project managers to achieve quality products.

· Testing activities included Functional, Retesting, Regression and Acceptance Testing.

· Performed Regression testing after each modification of the application.

· Detected, classified, and reported bugs through TFS.

· Production build Issues verification and preparing root cause analysis.

· Preparation of Root Cause Analysis for production issues

· Proficient in various Black box testing strategies

Key achievement: Managed defects & tracking reports using bug tracking Microsoft TFS.