Vanitha Penchala
Austin,TX
Summary
Highly skilled and detail-oriented QA Analyst with extensive experience in software quality assurance, data validation, and test automation. Proficient in designing and executing comprehensive test plans, cases, and scripts to ensure software reliability and adherence to business requirements. Expertise in manual and automated testing methodologies, including regression, functional, integration, and performance testing. Adept at utilizing industry-standard tools such as Selenium, JIRA, and TestNG to streamline testing processes and manage defect tracking efficiently.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Analyst
Deloitte
Mechanicsburg, PA
01.2024 - Current
- Proficient in the use of database management and various Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as various project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence to log results and maintain work transparency.
- Experience in the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), starting from creating Test Plans and Test Cases, to performing different types of testing and validation.
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams, been responsible for multiple product walkthroughs, and stood in for the Scrum Master in client interface meetings.
- Maintained detailed records of discovered deficiencies, and prepared comprehensive reports to communicate findings to management and relevant stakeholders.
- Monitored compliance with company policies and external regulations, proactively identifying risk-related issues, and escalating them to management as needed.
- Performed continuous integration of the test cases periodically using Jenkins, and configured it to email reports during a build failure.
- Involved in developing the automation script for mobile applications (iOS, Android) using Appium and Java.
- Tested mobile applications using various devices, emulators, and simulators (such as Xcode, iOS Simulator, and Android Emulator).
- Leveraged Postman environments and variables to test APIs across different environments, including staging and production.
- Created JIRA tasks for all the defects found during the functional and regression testing.
- Worked with developers to create and update the defects, resolve them, and track their status.
- Validated end-to-end automated testing and debugging using Selenium IDE for CSS, HTML, navigation, JavaScript, browser and OS compatibility, and webpage performance.
QA Engineer
Genpact
Hyderabad, IN
08.2017 - 12.2020
- Design a data-driven framework for Selenium automation using the Page Object Model for web applications.
- Participated in story grooming sessions and wrote acceptance criteria with the business team, Agile/Scrum.
- Integrated TestNG with Selenium using Eclipse to generate test execution results.
- Performed regression, integration, functional, smoke, manual testing, and documented user acceptance criteria.
- Strong in SQL querying to validate data from the app to the source, and used JDBC to connect for automation.
- Involved in testing REST web services using Postman, created test cases, and validated data flow.
- Defects were tracked, reviewed, and analyzed using HP ALM.
- Worked with developers to create and update the defects, resolve them, and track their status
- Provided the status reports on test cases executed, defects found, defects pending, and defects solved.
- Performed quality-control work on software products before delivery to clients.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Indiana Wesleyan University
Marion, IN04.2023
MBA - Finance
Hyderabad School of Business
Hyderabad, IN05.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Satavahana University
Karimnagar, IN05.2015
Skills
- JavaScript
- RESTful APIs
- MS Office
- HTML
- CSS
- Manual Testing
- Regression Testing
- Test Planning
- User Acceptance Testing
- Mobile application testing
- Defect tracking
- Postman
- Jenkins
- Software development life cycle
- Software testing life cycle
- Continuous integration tools
- Agile and Scrum methodology
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Timeline
QA Analyst
Deloitte
01.2024 - Current
QA Engineer
Genpact
08.2017 - 12.2020
Master of Science - Information Technology
Indiana Wesleyan University
MBA - Finance
Hyderabad School of Business
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Satavahana University