Pramela Balan
Ballwin,MO
Summary
QA Test Lead / Test Engineer with 9+ years of experience using Manual Testing. Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Skilled in analyzing requirements, system specifications, and technical specifications. Experienced in testing web applications, client-server applications, and database systems. Proficient in creating and executing test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Strong expertise in GUI testing, regression testing, data-driven testing, functional testing, database testing, and user acceptance testing. Familiarity with SOAP and RESTful services using SoapUI tool for web service testing. Proficient in SQL queries and joins as well as executing shell scripts in UNIX/Linux.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr.Quality Assurance Analyst
Edward Jones
St. Louis, MO
09.2019 - 04.2024
- Worked on Advisory Trading application which provides 13 functional menu options for Advisory Trading activities, such as viewing the trade activity details, trade entry and trade corrections
- Also, worked on Trade Ops & Mutual Fund applications
- Responsibilities: Attending daily morning stand up meetings and discussing on day-to day testing activities, such as test monitoring and status reporting at the end of the testing day
- Proficiency in Test Scenarios, Creating and Update Test Cases, Test data, executing test cases, Logging and Tracking Defects in Quality Center
- Leading Offshore members in providing tasks & communicating to client status
- Expertise in various forms of software testing: Smoke testing, regression testing, functional and non – functional testing, User Acceptance testing, etc
- Worked extensively in Advisory Trading Application on all Trading activities and acted as SME for the application creating Knowledge base articles, provide expert advice etc
- During the project and as part of my responsibility performed below activities: Based on test scenarios placed a current day dummy trades (Advisory / Guided) for Buy/Sell/Sell All and compared the trades created by the Algorithm to the Buy/Sell Calculator
- Verified the trades appeared on Trade Creation Processed Report & Communication Screen
- Entered multiple event (dummy) trades or individual MFS/ETFS via a spreadsheet
- These events can be done on the current day or as of
- Compared the trades created by the Algorithm to the Buy/Sell Calculator
- Verified the trades appeared on TCP & INQ
- Adding single or multiple accounts to create an account hold for current or future dates, weekends & holidays
- Adding MF’s or ETF’s cusips on cusip hold dashboard
- Via AAS & INQ verifying the cusips on holds
- Creating single or multiple Price Overrides with cusip, and entering valuation/share EST price for ETF’s & MF’s
- Placing As of Dummy trades through correction screen
- Correcting the previously entered order and choose the option of correction like Cancel, Replacing Reject Amount & changing the amount (Increase / Decrease) for a specific event or an as of dummy for a specific account
- Using the correction template correcting the previously entered order and choose the option of correction like Cancel, Replacing Reject Amount & changing the amount (Increase / Decrease) for a specific event or an as of dummy for a specific account
- Collaborating with the other member of the team to ensure that testing is efficiently and effectively covering all possible testing scenarios
- Strong QA concepts including testcase development, test execution, test report sharing, defect filing, following up with developers to close critical items
- Tested all modules – Model Management Maintenance, Account Target Allocation, Dummy & Event Trades calculated through new Trade Algorithms and Individual & Bulk Corrections
- In Clone using the Trade Entry functionality placing the current day dummy buy/sell/sell all/rebalance trades
- Gained experience in Proxy voting, it's an application for Financial Advisory Managed Solutions account
- This is a brand-new advisory program that EJ is creating, where another team is opening these accounts and will send us the account numbers to verify that the field is being updated correctly on these accounts
- HTTPS Migration - Tested the ability for the programs to maintain connection to one another throughout the migration between protocols
- Performed TRDOC010 Regression on the below topics – Ineligible Assets - : When ineligible assets like AMZN, Alphabet C, APPL, are bought into the account or any security that's not in the account's model is bought into the account then next day after the ineligible assets job runs, then a Sell order will be placed that selling ineligible asset that's bought previous day and the day after a buy order will be placed with whatever amount we got from selling ineligible assets
- Liquidation of Funding Assets – Creating packet entry for some fixed income cusip on C status account
- Next day needs to verify in Jones Order Activity that the changes are made to the fixed income trading system
- Ineligible assets or funding assets are the same, MASJ430 runs thru the process of fixed income/ ineligible assets
- Collaborated with Developers to complete testing with best practice
- Identified and escalated the testing road blocks to complete the testing on a required timeline
- Collaborated with BA's through 1:1's to understand and gain the knowledge on unknown new topics to incorporate best practices in testing
- Performed test cases in QTest and executed steps needed to integrate the test result to JIRA Story
- Frequently asking questions and clarifying the doubts for the best interest of the team
- Focused on test automation as new functional test scripts are created and existing regression test scripts are updated.
Sr Tester / Test Lead
North American Med Tech Group
Atlanta, GA
02.2017 - 06.2019
- MMP (Manage My Patient) application is developed for Doctor’s Office to manage the patient portal, insurance claim etc
- Responsibilities: In Agile environment, attended daily standup meetings, reviewed user stories
- Designed and Developed Test plan based on BRD and User Stories
- Developed and Executed Test Cases in Version One Tool
- Tested all modules – Patient Management, Doctor, Admin and Insurance Claims
- Validated the connection and data between Admin web services and Insurance claims web services
- Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc
- To validate the data
- Executed automation test scripts using HP Quality Center (ALM)
- Filed and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center (ALM)
- Developed and executed test cases for EWS (Enterprise Web Services) /XML / SOAP and RESTful services using SoapUI tool
- Updated WSDL file as needed for Endpoint, Tested request and response XML
- Added Assertions to validate the response xml with database
- Added Property Transfer in SoapUI tool to transfer the values from one response XML to another request XML
- Validated reports by executing SQL queries and compared the data using File comparison tool ExamDiff
- Created Test Data for QA and UAT
- Involved in Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing
- Prepared daily/ weekly status reports on Test case execution, defects, RTM etc
- Involved in planning test execution activities, defect reporting and analyzing test metrics
- Followed Agile/Scrum Methodologies for all the project activities.
Test Analyst
AT&T
StLouis, MO
05.2014 - 01.2017
- Business ATT Plans (BAP) involves business customers with https://www.AInternet Voice, Phone plans & their management using my ATT portal
- Responsibilities: Tested different features related to plans on Voice, internet, Video services offered
- Tested all modules – Patient Management, Doctor, Admin and Insurance Claims
- Validated the connection and data between Admin web services and Insurance claims web services
- Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc
- To validate the data
- Executed automation test scripts using HP Quality Center (ALM)
- Filed and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center (ALM)
- Developed and executed test cases for EWS (Enterprise Web Services) /XML / SOAP and RESTful services using SoapUI tool
- Updated WSDL file as needed for Endpoint, Tested request and response XML
- Added Assertions to validate the response xml with database
- Added Property Transfer in SoapUI tool to transfer the values from one response XML to another request XML
- Validated reports by executing SQL queries and compared the data using File comparison tool ExamDiff
- Created Test Data for QA and UAT
- Involved in Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing
- Prepared daily/ weekly status reports on Test case execution, defects, RTM etc
- Involved in planning test execution activities, defect reporting and analyzing test metrics
- Followed Agile/Scrum Methodologies for all the project activities.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting, Banking & Statistics
University of Madras, Chennai
03-1994
Skills
- HP Quality Centre/ ALM
- Jira
- QTEST
- SQL
- XML
- HTML
- DB2
- MS Access
- Windows XP/2000
- Unix
- Linux
- Established Methodologies
- End-User Testing Expertise
- Software Quality Assurance
- Agile Workflow Optimization
- Test Case Specification
- Application Development Lifecycle
- Script Development Expertise
- Troubleshooting Assessments
- Root Cause Evaluation
- Requirements Gathering
- Team Management Expertise
- Quality Assurance Practices
Languages
Tamil
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Malayalam
Professional
Timeline
Sr.Quality Assurance Analyst
Edward Jones
09.2019 - 04.2024
Sr Tester / Test Lead
North American Med Tech Group
02.2017 - 06.2019
Test Analyst
AT&T
05.2014 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting, Banking & Statistics
University of Madras, Chennai