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SYAMALA MOPARTI

Summary

Dynamic Software test Engineer with a proven track record at Best Western Hotels & Resorts, excelling in test automation and defect management. Adept at leading teams and fostering collaboration, I leverage my ISTQB certification to enhance testing processes and deliver high-quality results. Committed to continuous improvement and stakeholder communication. Detail-oriented professional brings proven experience in defect identification, documentation, and reporting. Not shy about raising concerns or advocating for customers' needs. Expert in writing test cases and scripts.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr IT Engineer

Best Western Hotels & Resorts
05.2022 - Current
  • Foster open communication within team, stakeholders and management.
  • Develop and maintain test plans, test cases and test scripts.
  • Coordinate and manage test data creation, data masking and data deletion.
  • Assign tasks and allocate resources to team members.
  • Pride guidance, coaching, and mentoring team members.
  • Coordinate testing schedules with development teams, stakeholders, and QA engineers.
  • Ensuring testing processes and procedures are followed, and quality standards are met.
  • Report defects and track progress with stakeholders and development teams.
  • Manage defects, track progress, and ensure timely resolution.
  • Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, management and development teams.
  • Prepare and distribute test summary reports. Highlighting test results, defects, and recommendations.
  • Serve as a liaison between test teams, stake holders, and clients, ensuring clear communication and issue resolution.

IT Analyst

Sherwin-Williams - Corporate Office
04.2019 - 04.2021
  • Responsible for planning Sprint testing.
  • Understanding the scope of the application for the specific sprint, and planning the testing to be delivered on time.
  • Create test cases using the JIRA tool, and conduct peer reviews for the test cases.
  • Review regression results in Jenkins daily and send daily reports, which include an overview of test results and failure analysis.
  • Analyze the automation failures, correct the failed scripts, and raise the defects if required.
  • Verify the coverage of the existing automation test suites, and make sure that the major functionality is covered.
  • Create new test scripts whenever required. Attending code review meetings and providing input.
  • Identify the tickets for automation in each release, and plan for automation.
  • Continuously updating the regression test suite before each release to ensure the regression suite has proper coverage.
  • Prepare a test coverage execution and improvement report, and share it with management.

Software Development Engineer in Test

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc, AFSI
07.2017 - 03.2019
  • Responsible for communicating with the business analyst to obtain information on the application.
  • Attending all agile meetings and planning for testing activities.
  • Responsible for testing the ANA Producers after each UT push and give QA sign off.
  • Responsible for writing the regression suites and automating them using Selenium (Java).
  • Consolidating the automation test results. Identifying the defects and following up on them until closure.
  • Responsible for giving sign-off on production after every new deployment.
  • Responsible for manual testing and sending the results to stakeholders.
  • Responsible for identifying automation test cases and creating scripts.
  • Review the regression results at the end of each release, and create defects if necessary.

QA Test Analyst

MTD Products Inc.
01.2017 - 06.2017
  • Responsible for handling the service console testing.
  • Understanding the requirements and writing the test cases .
  • Coordinating with business analyst, CSR ‘s to know the Live scenarios and communicating the same to the team
  • Reviewed and Created Test Plan, Test Case, Test strategy for the testing to be done.
  • Raising defects and following up until closure. Executed required test cases manually and updated the reports
  • Developed automated scripts for performing regression testing through Selenium WebDriver.
  • Involved in Performing the web services testing with SOAP UI by validating request and response for XML.
  • Implemented regression and smoke test execution as a separate step of the deployment process.

Team Lead

Accenture Services
08.2011 - 10.2013
  • Reviewed and created test specifications, test results, and test results.
  • Involved in preparing high-level test plans based on user requirement documents.
  • Created RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) to match requirements. Responsible for preparing test plan and test strategy. Involved in preparing test cases and test data.
  • Developed automated scripts for performing regression testing through Selenium WebDriver.
  • Involved in Writing selenium automation scripts and running the scripts based on the functional requirements.
  • Communicating and coordinating with various teams for the preparation of test data.
  • Responsible for preparing the daily and weekly status reports, and circulating them to the stakeholders.
  • Responsible for managing a team of five members. Documenting the key learning in each release and share it with the concern people
  • Mentoring the new joiners, or the juniors in the team, and helping them to understand the application, as well as the testing concepts.

Functional Tester

Accenture Services
03.2010 - 07.2011
  • Studying and understanding the requirements of the application.
  • Involved in the preparation of the Test Strategy Document.
  • Responsible for the preparation of status reports.
  • Responsible for communicating the daily updates to the client and stakeholders.
  • Involved in the preparation of the test cases.
  • Recorded and run the already recorded scripts to perform the regression testing.
  • Mentoring junior team members and helping them understand the requirements and the testing components.

Software Tester

Tech Mahindra
03.2006 - 02.2009
  • Preparing the test case documents for various functionalities to be tested.
  • Involved in the preparation of the traceability matrix.
  • Involved in regression testing of the PRs, and prepared SQL queries required for testing.
  • Identifying Test Scenarios and acquiring QG from Dev team for further augmentation.
  • Preparing the test plan documents and test case documents for various functionalities to be tested.
  • Conducting actual testing of various OSD components and performed Next Box testing with other Components whenever required. Participated in internal reviews of the test case documents and all required documents for the AUDIT.
  • Tracking IVVT defects in Quality Center and preparing reports weekly and monthly after analyzing the defects.
  • Mentoring new joiners and freshers.
  • Maintaining the test log, preparing the daily summary report of the testing conducted.
  • Raising PRs (problem reports) when ambiguity is found in change synergy, which is an internal tool.

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Andhra University
India
06-2005

Skills

  • Test Design
  • Test case creation
  • Automation scripting (Java ,Test NG)
  • Agile methodologies
  • Test plan development
  • Defect management
  • Test automation
  • Test metrics
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Team leadership
  • ISTQB Foundation Level certified with 75%

Certification

  • Completed ISTQB Foundation Level with 75%

Languages

English
Professional
Hindi
Professional

Timeline

Sr IT Engineer

Best Western Hotels & Resorts
05.2022 - Current

IT Analyst

Sherwin-Williams - Corporate Office
04.2019 - 04.2021

Software Development Engineer in Test

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc, AFSI
07.2017 - 03.2019

QA Test Analyst

MTD Products Inc.
01.2017 - 06.2017

Team Lead

Accenture Services
08.2011 - 10.2013

Functional Tester

Accenture Services
03.2010 - 07.2011

Software Tester

Tech Mahindra
03.2006 - 02.2009

Master of Computer Applications -

Andhra University
SYAMALA MOPARTI