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Sameer Gudla

Irving,TX

Summary

Over Around 8+ years of experience in QA testing that includes around 3+ years as a QA Lead/Onsite coordinator and extensively involved in Test Planning Creation, developing & executing test cases, reviewing and monitoring progress, planning & managing dependencies, risks and resources, schedules, estimates, test reports in Banking & Financial, Pharma and Telecom domains for Quality Assurance/Testing Client Server of diverse applications on various environments, Web Based applications. 7 years of experience as a QA in Selenium with Java , mainly with Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Cases, Campaigns, Opportunities, Orders and Services entities In Service & Sales applications Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Automated testing and quality assurance of Client/Server and Web applications using Black Box testing. Experience in creating Test Plans, Test Case Procedures, Test Scripts, Test Logs and Test. Excellent experience with Software Quality Assurance Testing on GUI based Client-Server & Web Based applications, Web Services, Data Driven Applications, Data Warehousing projects using Manual and Automated testing procedures. Involved in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementing Waterfall, V-Model, and Agile, Iteration, Scrum methodologies. Excellent experience testing applications in Agile development environment including TDD. Expertise in performing different kinds of testing like Sanity, Smoke, Black Box, GUI, Functionality,Unit, Integration, Regression, Compatibility, System, Performance, Load, Stress and UserAcceptance Testing(UAT) of web and client/server applications. Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing using Test Director or Quality Center in real time and unattended testing environment across multiple operating systems and technologies. Hands on experience in Core Java and Collections. Experienced in Automation of Testing activity using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber. Experienced in Black Box, White Box, Smoke Testing, Sanity, Shakeout, Integration, Regression, Functional, Front End and Back End Testing. Efficient in implementing QA processes, establishing standards, procedures and methodologies. Possess extensive experience in analyzing the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications. Proficient in developing/writing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, and Test Scripts based on User Requirements, Specifications and System Requirements documents. Experience in designing Test Cases/Test Scripts/Test Conditions for the Unit Testing, verifying and validating Web based e-commerce applications, like Boundary Value Analysis. Responsible for Analysis and Defect Tracking using HP Quality Center, Test Director, , IRA, IBM Clear Quest. Good experience in using HP service test and SOAPUI tool for web services testing. Experienced in software Analysis, Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management and Change Control. Extensive working knowledge in Shell Scripting, UNIX, LINUX and Windows platforms. Proficient in writing Complex SQL Queries, Stored Procedures and PL/SQL programs. Has good knowledge of web technologies like Web Services, SOAP, XML, HTML, Style Sheets, ASP, JSP, ASP.NET, .NET, JavaScript, Java, C#. Extremely involved in managing defect tracking system like Workflow and BugzillaRecording test, debugging test, editing test-using Mercury Suite Tools, running and analyzing results. Coordinating onsite / offshore activities. Over 2 Years hands on experience on UiPath Advanced RPA. Proactive, result-oriented RPA developer with problem-solving and analytical skills. Experience building RPA solutions using UiPath.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior QA Lead

Mphasis Corporation
Dallas, Texas
01.2024 - Current
  • Conducted root cause analysis and identified corrective actions for software defects.
  • Developed test plans, strategies, and cases to ensure product quality.
  • Mentored team members in the development of QA processes and procedures.
  • Evaluated existing automation frameworks and recommended improvements.
  • Created automated scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG.
  • Developed detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce issues.
  • Collaborated with developers and stakeholders to resolve technical issues quickly.
  • Monitored system performance metrics to identify potential problems early on.
  • Assisted in developing web services testing strategy using SoapUI Pro tool.
  • Analyzed user requirements specifications and created test scenarios accordingly.
  • Implemented continuous integration process using Jenkins server for automation execution cycles.
  • Provided regular feedback to project managers regarding progress of tasks assigned.
  • Defined standards for source control management, change management, defect tracking, and reporting.
  • Identified areas of improvement in terms of workflow optimization and resource utilization.
  • Performed exploratory testing techniques such as pairwise testing and boundary value analysis.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously ensuring deadlines are met within budget constraints.
  • Facilitated cross-functional communication between development teams and other stakeholders.
  • Conducted research into new technologies and tools that can be utilized for better results.
  • Generated comprehensive test reports documenting all findings and recommendations.
  • Implemented safety training for new hires and re-training for current employees.
  • Monitored compliance to specification for production at facilities.
  • Developed effective testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
  • Collected and shipped product samples to customers.
  • Reviewed quality trends to prevent or reduce defects, determined problem causes and initiated actions for correction.
  • Made recommendations to division managers concerning facility and employee quality issues.
  • Coached, mentored and motivated QC managers and inspectors to improve quality control process.
  • Spearheaded occupational safety and health in facility, assuring compliance with federal, state and local requirements and laws to prevent hazards and injuries.
  • Performed annual audits and random quality inspections of plant facilities.

Sr.QA Analyst and Automation Engineer

Mphasis (Charles Schwab -Bank)
Phoenix, AZ
06.2019 - 01.2024
  • Company Overview: The Charles Schwab Corporation (Charles Schwab) provides services to retirement and other benefit plans and participants as well as equity compensation plan services and other financial and retirement services to corporations and executives through its separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries, Schwab Retirement Plan Services
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company
  • It offers banking, commercial banking, investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients
  • Leading or coordinating the Clients, Business Analysts with off shore team
  • Preparation of Test Plan and approach based on the Business requirements
  • Framework Development and Creation of Automation scripts using different Automation tools
  • Lead and provide appropriate knowledge transfer to offshore testers to assist in efforts
  • Develop and maintain test data as necessary to support testing efforts
  • Mostly worked with Cases, Contacts, Accounts, Solutions and Reports entities in Service cloud application
  • Verification & validation of Inbound Emails as converting as Cases
  • Validating the Assignment rules of Cases
  • Checking the functionalities of Escalation rules of Cases
  • Testing the Flow functionality of the Cases by using the Call Guides
  • Verification of Target and Non-Target Account functionalities
  • Verification of Inbound and Outbound Cases requirements
  • Validated the pick list vales based on the Record type layouts
  • Thoroughly validating the validation and business rules
  • We followed the Scrum SDLC approach to implement the project
  • Execution of Test scripts and Defects rising in HP QC/ALM
  • Maintain test environments to support testing efforts
  • Review requirements, designs, and other documentation to ensure testability
  • Conduct testing to ensure that GUI, functionality, usability, reliability, and performance of IT solutions are consistent with requirements and established acceptance criteria
  • Report and manage defects to ensure that all issues are resolved according to established guidelines and expectations
  • Assist development team in troubleshooting and determining root-cause of application defects and issues
  • Document test results and communicate to Project Management and other Project Stakeholders
  • Work with upstream and downstream application teams to execute E2E test cases
  • Attend and collaborate in all stand ups, planning and design
  • Preparing the Traceability Matrix between Requirements & Test cases
  • Responsible for Setting up Web Services project using WSDL in SoapUI and provided setup help to other team members
  • Run Defect Triaging and Review the Test Scenarios/ Test Cases with Business
  • Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front end using Selenium
  • (IDE and Web Driver) & created Data Driven framework using TestNG
  • Designed, executed and maintained Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, automated test cases for regression test cases
  • Worked on Hibernate for mapping the Java objects to relational database and SQL queries to fetch the data, insert and update the data from the database
  • Used SQL Queries in performing data validation to ensure data accuracy and data integrity by testing back-end components of new data warehouse products
  • Maintained and executed Maven build files for running automated tests
  • Used Java language and Cucumber framework for scripting
  • Used Maven for building the WebDriver project
  • Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation (Charles Schwab) provides services to retirement and other benefit plans and participants as well as equity compensation plan services and other financial and retirement services to corporations and executives through its separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries, Schwab Retirement Plan Services
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company
  • It offers banking, commercial banking, investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients
  • Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, TestNG, Appium, JMeter, Maven, Soap UI, Quality Center, Eclipse IDE, Appium, Agile, SVN, Git, Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, SQL, Oracle, Windows, Mongo DB

Sr. QA Analyst

Mphasis Ltd. (Charles Schwab-RPS)
Bengaluru, India
07.2016 - 05.2019
  • Company Overview: The Charles Schwab Corporation (Charles Schwab) provides services to retirement and other benefit plans and participants as well as equity compensation plan services and other financial and retirement services to corporations and executives through its separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries, Schwab Retirement Plan Services
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company
  • It offers banking, commercial banking, investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients
  • Worked on Agile/SCRUM environment
  • Wrote test cases, implemented ran and added versions and iterations using Microsoft Test Manager for positive, negative and END-TO-END Test cases
  • Migrated Test cases from HP ALM to MTM
  • Run Defect Triaging and Review the Test Scenarios/ Test Cases with Business in TFS
  • Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front end using Selenium
  • (IDE and Web Driver) & created Data Driven framework using TestNG
  • Designed, executed and maintained Selenium Web Driver, TESTNG, automated test cases for regression test cases
  • Setup and Configured the testing environment with Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG
  • Converted all manual test cases into Selenium automated scripts using Java using Spring for the lightweight Framework
  • Tested micro rest services developed using Spring boot and deployed
  • Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing)
  • Involved in ETL Mapping Design and Performance tuning to Load mapping process using MongoDB
  • Strong in BI report validation developed using Mongo/Business Objects/SSRS BI
  • Exposure to DB tools : Mongo/PL SQL developer/SQL Plus
  • Strong in SQL preparation in Mongo/SQL Server/DB2/Teradata RDBMS
  • Strong knowledge on ETL and BI processes
  • Exposure to ETL data validation developed using Mongo/Abinitio/Datastage/SSIS ETL environments
  • Develop and Design ETL test cases, scenarios, and scripts to ensure quality Data warehouse / BI applications
  • Worked on Hibernate for mapping the Java objects to relational database and SQL queries to fetch the data, insert and update the data from the database
  • Used SQL Queries in performing data validation to ensure data accuracy and data integrity by testing back-end components of new data warehouse products
  • Involved in Writing Maven build dependencies to automate the compilation and execution of test cases/suites
  • Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators
  • Committed Selenium WebDriver scripts to Git using EGit plugin for Eclipse IDE
  • Wrote Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites and used Splunk for providing logging information in AWS Environment
  • Maintained and executed Maven build files for running automated tests
  • Automated RESTful APIs and SOAP APIs using the SoapUI
  • Integrated with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation (Charles Schwab) provides services to retirement and other benefit plans and participants as well as equity compensation plan services and other financial and retirement services to corporations and executives through its separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries, Schwab Retirement Plan Services
  • The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company
  • It offers banking, commercial banking, investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients
  • Environment: SalesForce Testing ,Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, TestNG, Appium, JMeter, Maven, Soap UI, HP ALM, Quality Center, Eclipse IDE, Agile, SVN, Git, Internet Explorer, SoapUI, Splunk, AWS, Chrome, Firefox, SQL, Oracle, Windows

QA Analyst

ThinkFinance
Benguluru, India
03.2015 - 06.2016
  • Company Overview: Think Finance was a company that provides technology, analytics, and marketing services to financial businesses in the consumer lending industry
  • Worked in Agile software development model and involved in daily meetings with program managers, modelers, product owners, developers, etc
  • Automated test cases using the Selenium web driver and TestNG to cover all the quality risks identified as needing extensive or balanced testing
  • Developed and executed test plans, test cases and test matrices utilizing QA best practices and standards
  • Tested both RESTful and SOAP web services using SOAPUI
  • Designed, developed and implemented MVC Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium Web Driver
  • Involved in designing and implementing of hybrid automation framework to be used with Selenium WebDriver
  • Involved in the designing of the Java Collections and Object oriented design
  • Created Test plan, High level scenarios, test case construction and test estimates, resource estimates and weekly status reports
  • Used Maven for building the Web Driver project
  • Integrated with Continuous Integration (CI) tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically
  • Used Selenium WebDriver for automating of Cross Browser Testing on IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome
  • Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium
  • Configured Continuous Integration environment, using Jenkins to kickoff daily builds and automation suites Jenkins, Maven and GitHub
  • Used Selenium tool (selenium IDE is a plug-in to Firefox) to record and playback tests and then export the recorded test in other language e.g
  • Html, Java
  • Involved in Functional Testing as Unit test, Method test, Test Suite, Integration Testing using different Junit methods
  • Experienced in DW projects ETL testing against DW testing with Informatica and data stage tools
  • Written Complex PL/SQL Queries to test the data from the ETL developers and data linked in different tables through joins in Oracle and MySQL
  • Wrote Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of TestNG test cases/suites and log4J for providing logging information
  • Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the Selenium server and to execute the tests in browser
  • Testing the Web applications using Apache JMeter
  • Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter to perform Web Services testing
  • Think Finance was a company that provides technology, analytics, and marketing services to financial businesses in the consumer lending industry
  • Environment: JIRA, Selenium Web Driver, Agile, Java scripting, Java, PL/SQL, SOAP UI, Web Services, Data Warehouse testing, Oracle, TestNG Selenium RC, Selenium, Log4J, Jenkins, Maven, JMeter

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Gandhi Institute of Engineering And Technology
Rayagada, India
03-2014

Skills

  • Intellij IDE
  • Windows
  • Visual Studio
  • Selenium
  • RPA
  • UiPath
  • Mobile Testing
  • Jenkins
  • Junit
  • TestNG
  • Soap UI
  • JMeter
  • Test Director
  • QTP
  • Rational Clear Quest
  • Win Runner
  • Load Runner
  • Test Tracker
  • PVCS Tracker
  • Team Foundation Serve
  • TFS
  • Test Manager
  • MapR
  • Hadoop tools
  • C#
  • Java
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • VB Scripting
  • Net
  • Visual Basic 5/60
  • HTML
  • XML
  • JSP
  • DHTML
  • Java Script
  • Oracle
  • MS SQL Server
  • Transact SQL
  • Hadoop DB
  • PCF
  • Continuous deployment
  • Release management
  • Continuous integration
  • Defect management
  • Version control systems
  • Load and stress testing
  • QA
  • Integration Testing

Timeline

Senior QA Lead

Mphasis Corporation
01.2024 - Current

Sr.QA Analyst and Automation Engineer

Mphasis (Charles Schwab -Bank)
06.2019 - 01.2024

Sr. QA Analyst

Mphasis Ltd. (Charles Schwab-RPS)
07.2016 - 05.2019

QA Analyst

ThinkFinance
03.2015 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Gandhi Institute of Engineering And Technology
Sameer Gudla