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Smruti Nanadikar

Sterling,VA

Summary

Results-driven Enterprise Analyst and QA Engineer with extensive experience at Halvik Corp, proficient in utilizing Selenium WebDriver to enhance software quality. Achieved a 30% reduction in critical incidents through strategic improvements in system reliability and efficiency. Expertise in database and API testing, ensuring high standards of detail and excellence. Committed to fostering cross-functional collaboration to drive project success.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise Analyst

Halvik Corp (USPTO)
Alexandria, VA
09.2023 - Current
  • Support a 24/7 environment, providing on-call support as needed, with a high degree of responsiveness and sound troubleshooting methodologies.
  • Diagnose complex systems issues with multiple influencing factors.
  • Investigate monitoring alerts, troubleshoot, and engage the support teams.
  • Communicate the outage to senior leadership, following approved guidelines.
  • Analyze alerts using tools such as Splunk, SiteScope, Qradar, and Instana.
  • Collaborate with support teams to track and escalate the issues as needed, until resolved.
  • Participate in the identification and fixing of problems within existing systems, the design and implementation of new systems, and the enhancement of existing systems.
  • Participate in the analysis, design, and new construction of next-generation IT systems.
  • Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers, and the capabilities of the commercially available IT products, and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the development team.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams on projects related to analytics initiatives.
  • Performed data validation and integrity check using SQL Server.
  • Worked with the Product and Development teams to validate and suggest a better user experience.

Senior QA Engineer

Fannie Mae
09.2019 - 09.2023
  • Performed manual testing adhering to established standards and structured protocols.
  • Analyzing Business Requirements
  • Enhanced productivity by implementing automated testing procedures.
  • Executed comparative analysis between production and UAT environments.
  • Engaged in Daily Agile meetings to address challenges and monitor QA progress.
  • Engaged in Retrospective sessions to address newly identified JIRA items from the backlog.
  • Developed and executed manual test plan for Web service REST API testing.
  • Validated web services using POSTMAN for various HTTP methods including GET, POST, DELETE.
  • Verified results of web services through Soap UI tool.
  • Confirmed integrity of datasets within SQL Server Database across various interfaces.
  • Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity
  • Executed Jmeter scripts to check the performance on the application and report bugs if the results are not within the acceptable range
  • Troubleshoot system issues by analyzing logs to set the QA environment
  • Collaborated with six software development engineers to build a deep understanding of features and architecture prior to testing.
  • Closely worked with the BA team to understand the requirements and create a test suite as per the requirements.
  • Led root cause analysis initiatives for product failures, significantly reducing defect rates.
  • Participated in Agile Scrum meetings to plan sprints and review progress towards completion goals.
  • Monitored production systems in order to detect any anomalies or unexpected behaviors.
  • Performed exploratory testing to uncover potential issues with new features or products.
  • Created automated tests using scripting languages such as Java or .NET.
  • Implemented automation frameworks for web-based applications utilizing Selenium WebDriver and IDE technologies.
  • Performed compatibility testing on various operating systems and browsers.
  • Environment/Tools: JIRA, MS Excel, HTML, Windows, MS Office, Eclipse, Jenkins, RESTful, Git, SQL Server, Postman, Soap UI, and JMeter.

Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

INFOR
Reston, VA
01.2017 - 06.2019
  • Prepared test procedures, test cases using business requirements
  • Worked on test data management activities in helping the team in providing test data for execution
  • Executed unit test scripts using Microsoft C# .NET NUNIT framework
  • Performed Gap Analysis of business rules, system process flows, user administration and requirements
  • Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) to find out if the current project requirements are met and ensured its timely update
  • Worked on Requirement Analysis, test case authoring, test execution and defect creation
  • Used SQL queries to validate the data against database
  • Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews
  • Prepared reports showing the testing efforts
  • Performed database and ETL testing using SQL server
  • Performed API/Web service testing using Postman and Soap UI
  • Consolidated with the product management and development team to understand the product roadmap, its specifications, determined the right test strategy and drive quality control process
  • Troubleshoot system issues by analyzing logs to set the QA environment
  • Environment/Tools: Windows, HTML, SQL Server, HP Quality Center, JIRA

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Softcorner
02.2015 - 12.2017
  • Prepared test procedures, test cases using business requirements
  • Worked on test data management activities in helping the team in providing test data for execution
  • Performed Gap Analysis of business rules, system process flows, user administration and requirements
  • Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) to find out if the current project requirements are met and ensured its timely update
  • Consolidated with the product management and development team to understand the product roadmap, its specifications, determined the right test strategy and drive quality control process
  • Worked on Requirement Analysis, test case authoring, test execution and defect creation
  • Used SQL queries to validate the data against database
  • Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews
  • Prepared reports showing the testing efforts
  • Performed database and ETL testing using SQL server
  • Performed API/Web service testing using Postman and Soap UI
  • Environment/Tools: Windows, HTML, SQL Server, HP Quality Center, JIRA

Education

MBA - Information Technology

Pune University
Pune, India
04-2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Pune University
Pune, India
04-2009

Skills

  • Selenium Web Driver
  • JIRA
  • Quality Center/ALM
  • Jenkins
  • Postman
  • Soap UI
  • Ready API
  • TFS
  • MS SQL Server
  • MS Office
  • Visual Studio
  • Git Repository
  • IIS
  • Integration Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • System Testing
  • Black Box Testing
  • White Box Testing
  • UAT
  • HTML
  • XML/JSON
  • Web Applications Testing
  • Database Testing
  • Content Testing
  • Build Integration Testing
  • API Testing
  • Web Service Testing
  • End-to-End Testing
  • ETL Testing

Timeline

Enterprise Analyst

Halvik Corp (USPTO)
09.2023 - Current

Senior QA Engineer

Fannie Mae
09.2019 - 09.2023

Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

INFOR
01.2017 - 06.2019

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Softcorner
02.2015 - 12.2017

MBA - Information Technology

Pune University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Pune University

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