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Pavithra Pochamreddy

Atlanta,GA

Summary

  • Quality Test Engineer with an experience of 10+ years of software testing.
  • Skilled in Manual testing Methodologies and Automation with experience of creating Test Scenarios, Test Plan, Test Case, Test Methodology, Preparing Test Summary report and defect Summary report.
  • Hands on experience in performing different types of testing like Black Box, Functionality, Integration, System, Smoke, End-to-End, Regression, Production and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (Feasibility Requirements Analysis, testing, Implementation).
  • Expert knowledge in creating Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Strategies, Defect Management to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements.
  • Well-versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC, Software Testing Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies such as Agile Scrum and Waterfall approach.
  • Experience in UNIT Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functionality, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Accessibility Testing and Performance Testing.
  • Ability to communicate with different individuals of various internal and external groups stakeholders, Users, Business Analysts, Development team and Testing Team.
  • Experience in usage of defect tracking tools ALM Quality Center, Clear Quest for logging the defects, generation of reports and analyze the reports.
  • Designed comprehensive test plans and test cases for batch processing workflows, ensuring coverage of all business scenarios and edge cases.
  • Performed security, cross-browser, and compatibility testing on various browsers, such as Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and IE, on macOS and Windows.
  • Experience in creating and executing very large and complex end-to-end test scripts across different application interfaces, both automated and manual.
  • Knowledge in Database Systems: SQL Server, DB2, and Data Warehouse concepts.
  • Experience in business intelligence testing in various reports using Business Objects, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Dashboards (Xcelsius).
  • Excellent knowledge in MS Office, MS Access, and MS Visio.
  • Excellent Knowledge in MS-Office, MS-Access and MS Visio. Very good team player with excellent Communication, Presenting and reporting skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. QA Engineer

TikTok
10.2021 - Current
  • Expertise with Agile Methodologies (Sprints, Product grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective).
  • Involved in SDLC model, Waterfall and Agile Methodology Projects.
  • Collaborate with SME, Scrum Master and Product Owner to drive continuous improvement.
  • Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings.
  • Experience in manual testing which involves web-based application testing for provider and claims system.
  • Written test cases for checking the populated data correctly into fact and dimension tables.
  • Extensively used Informatica power center for extraction, transformation and loading process.
  • Wrote and implemented manual test scripts for Risk Warehouse decision support system using HP Quality center.
  • Coordinated with development team in system integration test and services level unit testing.
  • Actively participated in creating requirements Traceability matrices and test Plan.
  • Conducted cross browser testing with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome and Safari.
  • Tested the mobile application for UAT, Usability, performance, compatibility and load testing for iOS and Android devices.
  • Manual testing of mobile native apps on different mobile platforms such as Android mobile devices to track user interface performance and bug fixes to ensure stability of release.
  • Tools used: Informatica, ALM/HP Quality Center, SQL, SQL server, XML, Excel, Ms Office, BI Business Objects, JIRA, Confluence, TestGrid, Appium.

QA Engineer

Itron
San Antonio, USA
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • Worked in a Software Development Lifecycle Using Agile (SCRUM) methodology.
  • Involved in a complete software development process producing test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC assisting QA Team Lead in writing the Test Plans and Test Scenarios for the project.
  • Analyzed System Requirement Specifications, involved in each step of the test documentation such as writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Reports.
  • Testing Application functionality using different kind of testing like smoke testing, Sanity testing and regression testing.
  • Interacted with the Business Client, Product Owners, developers and QA managers for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional User requirements & Change Requests to Test Plans and Test Scenario.
  • Performed Defect Management by prioritizing the issue and communicated the issues to the developer.
  • Performed manual testing to test the functionality and GUI of the Application.
  • Used HP QTP/UFT for automation tests for functional and regression testing.
  • Thoroughly tested the application to reduce the defect rates.
  • Extensive knowledge on using SQL queries to perform back-end testing and to extract data from database.
  • Done thorough testing of an application along with bug reporting and tracking until they were closed.
  • Performed extensive Manual, Automation and Regression Testing of the application.
  • Attended daily scrum meeting and co-coordinated with developers.
  • Tools Used: JIRA, Confluence, SmartFTP, HPQC, Ms Office, JIRA and DB2.

QA Analyst

General Motors
, USA
12.2015 - 08.2019
  • Understanding Business Requirements Specification.
  • Design & Preparation of Test Scenarios & Test Cases.
  • Review test cases with business analyst & application owner.
  • Upload test cases into Quality Center.
  • Developed and Implemented test case matrix to ensure requirement trackability (RTM) to improve requirements coverage.
  • Execution of test cases.
  • Bug tracking and Bug Reporting in ALM/HPQC.
  • Responsible for UAT Testing, Integration and Regression testing of the applications.
  • Co-ordination with developers and system testing team for active progress on defect fixes.
  • Implemented Best Practices.
  • Preparation of Status Report, Defect Summary Reports.
  • Used Selenium IDE for recording and playback of testing.
  • Tools Used: MS Word, MS Excel, ALM/HPQC, Jira, Selenium IDE.

Education

Bachelor's - EEE

JNTU
India

Master's -

University of Central Missouri
USA

Skills

  • Testing Tools: Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Soap UI, Jira, Confluence, ALM, Quality Center
  • Languages: HTML, XML, Java, SQL
  • Utility Tools: SQL Developer and SQL Assistant
  • Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall
  • Microsoft Office: Word, PPT, Excel, MS-Access and Visio
  • Databases: SQL Server, MS-Access, DB2, MySQL
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, UNIX and Linux

Timeline

Sr. QA Engineer

TikTok
10.2021 - Current

QA Engineer

Itron
09.2019 - 09.2021

QA Analyst

General Motors
12.2015 - 08.2019

Bachelor's - EEE

JNTU

Master's -

University of Central Missouri
Pavithra Pochamreddy
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