SUMA CHINNIKATTI

• Work closely with business to understand user stories and guide team on test preparation
• Arranged walkthrough of user stories with business analysts and QA Team
• As QA Test Lead, worked with Product owner, scrum master and development team to understand backlog and prioritize testing accordingly
• Participated in Sprint Pre-Planning meetings and reviewed Product Backlog with team
• Worked with automation team on defining backend automation requirement, identifying job scripts, sequence of automation, regression testing automation scripts
• Involved in previews of partially developed stories and provided feedback
• Prioritized bugs by coordinating with Product owners and Business Analysts
• Developed Traceability Matrix covering
• Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.

• As Enterprise Server Upgrade test manager, handled end to end testing of around 40 interfaces within a span of 4-5 months
• Understand the critical functionalities to cover regression test scope
• Prepare all the test management related test artifacts
• Circulate with all stakeholders for review/approval
• Conduct workshops with all the impacted/involved third party system applications to discuss on the test scopes and test coverage
• Guide team and involve in identifying the scenarios
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager /Technical Test Manager/Release Manager
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project
• Directed/supported all phases of ESU project, from System Testing to User Acceptance Testing
• Supervised the work of 10 team members, offering constructive feedback on their work performance
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members
• Monitored timelines and flagged potential issues to be addressed
• Reviewed bug reports and error logs, translating data into digestible reports for senior leadership personnel.
• Maintained bug reporting system for logged faults, delegating issues to development personnel for remediation.

• Estimate and obtain management support for time, resources and budget required to perform testing
• Organize testing kick-off meeting with all required stakeholders
• As part of SIT, involved in XML testing
• Define Test Environment and Data Approach i.e., Test Strategy
• Build testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes, and motivation
• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills)
• Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
• Develop test plan for tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan
• Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 2 weeks and well-organized sprints.
• Identifying integration partners and working with respective leads to identify scripts
• Work with business to identify UAT scripts and support UAT team with execution and data creation
• Organize status meetings and send Status Report (Daily, weekly etc.) to Client
• Attend regular client calls and discuss weekly status with client
• Act as single point of contact between Development and Testers
• Track and prepare report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines
• Used JIRA to maintain Test plan and TCR artifacts
• Ensure timely delivery of different testing milestones
• Prepares / updates metrics dashboard at end of phase or at completion of project.

• Designing and debugging automation scripts regression test cases using keyword driven framework of Selenium
• Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
• Wrote high-quality test cases and scripts for use with Selenium automation software.
• Creating and modifying functions in library using descriptive programming
• Creating & Maintaining object repository for automation scripts
• Identifying manual Test Cases for module and system testing for Automation
• Preparing Test Data for test cases from DB using basic SQL commands
• Executing automation Test Cases
• Defect Tracking using QC
• Participating value add activities like fetching report from QC, daily status tracking
• Preparing Lesson Learnt documents from previous system test experience
• Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and software such as Selenium.

• Analysis of Business Requirements Document (BRD) for the test preparation work
• Involved in the test preparation phase regarding Functional Design Document
• Participated in requirements coverage and risk assessment
• Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
• Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements.
• Also, played active role in the execution of test scripts during highly critical deadlines and recorded the test results as per standards
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
• Escalated issues/risks in a timely fashion to Lead/Manager
• Identified bugs and issues within system and applied troubleshooting techniques for mitigation purposes.
• Identified and tracked defects with HP QC and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.

• Preparation of accurate test cases on the basis of (BRD) documentation.
• Reviewing and testing for totality and accuracy of data.
• Raise and manage defects raised by self and coordinate with Dev team for the defect fixes.
• Design test cases associate to change requests (regression testing)

• Execute development and production upgrades on different combinations of platform and database
• Report defects using e-Biz and tracked them
• Inform found to onsite QA engineers and followed up on defects
• Trouble shoot problems during database upgrade
• Help team in resolving issues occurred during upgrade
• Involve in Installation, Configuration of Siebel and database server, along with environment preparation.