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Swati Alapati

KITCHENER,ON

Summary

Quality Assurance Lead with 11+ years of experience making sure products and services meet internal and external standards. Skilled in project management and statistical analysis. Organized and analytical with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Methodical Quality Control Analyst skilled in developing protocols to positively impact manufacturing quality. Practiced at completing exhaustive tests of incoming materials, components and finished products. Proven experience within IT industry performing direct hands-on work in QA and QC functions with strong familiarity of general practices. Detail-oriented Quality Control Analyst well-versed in qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. Strong background in collecting and analyzing quality measures and making recommendations for process and quality improvements.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Lead

Moody’s
Toronto
12.2020 - Current
  • Project : Global Payroll and Career Website CRM testing,HRIS application
  • Client : Moody’s
  • Test Methodology : Waterfall/ Hybrid , AGILE Methodology,
  • Technology : Manual testing, Integration testing, Automation selenium
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • As QA Lead involved in all phases of testing, beginning from Test Planning to Production Smoke Test
  • Interacting with QA team members, Developers, Project Managers and Clients to resolve issues
  • Regularly participated in Technical and Use Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application
  • Sent out daily status reports to the QA managers, QA team members and Developer teams
  • Coordinated with onsite/offshore teams, conducted necessary KTs and provided full support whenever it was required
  • Preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy document
  • Extensively involved in writing of the Test Cases by analyzing Software Requirement Specifications
  • Analyzing the component’s functional requirements and writing Functional Level Test cases
  • Writing Test cases / Scenarios for Positive and Negative flows
  • Performed Manual & Integration testing, Cross-browser testing
  • Testing of New Features and Regression Testing
  • Executed test cases and participated actively in system testing and regression testing
  • Efficiently creating and executing test specifications
  • Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects.

Automation QA Lead

Manulife
Toronto
05.2017 - 07.2019
  • Project : TRS
  • Client : Manulife
  • Test Methodology : Agile Methodology, Technology : Automation testing (Selenium, UFT, C#, N Unit, Visual Studio)
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for identification of automation scenarios and preparing the test data accordingly
  • Involved in designing of automation frameworks for AUT
  • Creating automated scripts using OR, VBS, jQuery, Descriptive programming in QTP tool
  • Generating Test Cases (Test Scripts) using Selenium using C# in Nunit Framework, Element locators and WebDriver Methods, Xpath
  • Debugging the scripts and fixing the errors
  • Sending daily test execution status reports for project activities along with the defect status
  • Active participation in daily status calls with onsite and sending of daily status reports
  • Helping team members for resolving issues (troubleshooting)
  • Responsible for documentation of product automation for users to be able to setup and execute the automated test case
  • Accountable resource for scripting of all the modules of the application
  • Responsible for preparing Test Scenarios Specifications
  • Involved in selection of automation approach
  • Responsible for identification of automation scenarios and preparing the test data accordingly
  • Involved in designing of automation frameworks for AUT
  • Creating automated scripts using OR, VBS, jQuery, Descriptive programming in QTP tool
  • Debugging the scripts and executing the scripts
  • Sending daily test execution status reports for project activities along with the defect status
  • Active participation in daily status calls with onsite and sending of daily status reports
  • Helping team members for resolving issues (troubleshooting)
  • Responsible for documentation of product automation for users to be able to setup and execute the automated test case
  • Accountable resource for scripting of all the modules of the application., Automation testing ( UFT)
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Creating automated scripts using OR, VBS, jQuery, Descriptive programming in QTP tool
  • Debugging the scripts and executing the scripts
  • Sending daily test execution status reports for project activities along with the defect status
  • Active participation in daily status calls with onsite and sending of daily status reports
  • Helping team members for resolving issues (troubleshooting)
  • Responsible for documentation of product automation for users to be able to setup and execute the automated test case.

Quality Assurance Analyst

FedEx
Chennai, TAMILNADU
11.2011 - 08.2017
  • Project : E-Pass
  • Client : FedEx
  • Test Methodology : Waterfall, Agile Methodology
  • Analyzed and tested different builds to identify, trace and help resolve bugs.
  • Created and achieved product quality objectives and met product specifications.
  • Developed reports and materials for key stakeholders related to quality goals, progress and challenges.
  • Adhered to standardized software quality assurance best practices, policies and processes.
  • Participated in requirements and used case reviews.
  • Supported company in maintaining work environment focused on quality, communication, collaboration, integration and teamwork.
  • Determined server operating limits with weekly load tests.
  • Mentored and coached team members on QA topics and strategies.

QA Analyst

Swati Alapati
11.2011 - 08.2017
  • Manual testing, Automation testing ( UFT)
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Analyzing the component’s functional requirements and writing Functional Level Test cases
  • Writing Test cases / Scenarios for Positive and Negative flows
  • Performed Manual & automated Functional testing, Cross-browser testing
  • Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application
  • Performed early testing before to the corporate load testing
  • Executed test cases and participated actively in system testing and regression testing
  • Efficiently creating and executing test specifications
  • Experience with troubleshooting using firebug (for any exceptions) while testing
  • Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects
  • Involved in selection of automation approach
  • Responsible for identification of automation scenarios and preparing the test data accordingly
  • Involved in designing of automation frameworks for AUT
  • Creating automated scripts using OR, VBS, jQuery, Descriptive programming in QTP tool
  • Debugging the scripts and executing the scripts
  • Sending daily test execution status reports for project activities along with the defect status
  • Active participation in daily status calls with onsite and sending of daily status reports
  • Helping team members for resolving issues (troubleshooting)
  • Responsible for documentation of product automation for users to be able to setup and execute the automated test case
  • Accountable resource for scripting of all the modules of the application
  • Got appreciation for the parameterization, customization and optimization of the various functions to make them more reusable and reliable
  • Have implemented better error handling approaches and implemented dynamic waits to reduce the overall execution time
  • Having hands on experience in DB Visualizer and Sql Developer
  • I hereby declare that all the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief
  • Canada Date 09/14/2022
  • Developed monthly, end-of-quarter and other statistical reports for leadership team and quality improvement programs.

State Street
Boston
01.2003 - 09.2016
  • Project : E-Pass
  • Client : State Street
  • Test Methodology : Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree - Computer Science

Gulbarga University

Skills

  • Involved in Regression execution weekly basic and sending reports
  • Skill Sets:
  • Automation Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, TFS - Coded UI, SQL Server, Visual Studios 2010
  • Bug Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Rally, Jira
  • Requirement Management Tools: Quality Center(ALM), Rally
  • Operating System: Windows Family
  • Project Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Scrum, Waterfall, V-Module
  • Languages: SQL, Core Java, C#, VB Scripting, Descriptive programming
  • Database: Oracle, SQL server
  • Frame works: N Unit Framework, Hybrid framework
  • Integration tools: BOOMI
  • Employee training
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Testing procedures
  • Quality processes

Additional Information

  • Years of industry experience in Software Testing (Manual and Automation). Experience in functional and automation testing of various web-based applications and experience in automation testing using Selenium tool, UFT tool. Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Bug life Cycle and Agile Methodologies Experience in designing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Use cases . Strong analytical experience in Functional Testing, Usability Testing, UI Testing, compatibility Testing, System Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Backend Testing and Database Testing. Extensive Experience on Quality Centre (QC) Test management tool, Rally, JIRA tool. As QA Lead involved and having strong capability in all phases of testing, beginning from Test Planning to Production Smoke Test. Adhere to Agile Methodology by attending sprint meetings and handling tasks using scrum works, stick to industry best practices and standard methodologies. Extensive experience in Test Reports preparation, Analysis Test report, Design Test report, entry and Exit criteria & Release notes during signoff. 3 years’ experience in UFT (QTP), selenium automation tool. Experience in Developing /Reviewing /maintaining the Test Cases (Automated Test Scripts using Java, JavaScript and manual), Test Results, Bug reports and Test Deliverables. Experience on designing automated scripts and execution of scripts using VB Script, descriptive programming, and jQuery in UFT and Selenium with C# using element locator, X Path, N Unit Framework. Experience in automating web applications developed on Java, .net applications. Having experience in scripting automated scripts in selenium tool using Eclipse, Visual Studio tool. Worked in Various Domain in Insurance Domain, Banking, Capital Markets and Logistics Domain. Having good knowledge in SOAPUI TOOL. Responsible for documentation of product automation for users to be able to setup and execute the automated test case. Experience in providing trainings on QTP tool, bug reporting tool and manual testing technologies. Creating test data for multiple scenario’s and evaluate the outcome of the web applications. Responsible for identification of automation scenarios and preparing the test scripts accordingly. Generating the test data and preparing the daily status reports.

Timeline

QA Lead

Moody’s
12.2020 - Current

Automation QA Lead

Manulife
05.2017 - 07.2019

Quality Assurance Analyst

FedEx
11.2011 - 08.2017

QA Analyst

Swati Alapati
11.2011 - 08.2017

State Street
01.2003 - 09.2016

Bachelor’s degree - Computer Science

Gulbarga University
Swati Alapati