VENKAT VARADA

• Environment : Cucumber, Selenium, Gherkin, Java, Maven, Postman, Apigee, AWS EC2, Amazon S3, Reltio, Snowflake, SQL, Trillium Control Centre, JIRA, Xray Responsibilities
• Provided test strategies and managed different aspects of testing
• Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
• Ensured security clearance, access and account creation for required tools, databases and environments for new QA team
• Automatically upload S3 cloud box files to databases in AWS snowflake
• Work with source system personnel on source data delivery issues and interacted with DBA for setting up test environment
• Involved in collecting Business Intelligence reporting data from managers, staff across divisions and across geographies
• Training of new team on QA tools, processes and existing application architecture
• Managed creation and upkeep of complete test case suite for project in Test manager
• Provided project timelines, level of efforts, detailed status reports, risk assessments and gap analysis to all project stakeholders
• Participated in bug review meetings to explain and prioritize issues with PMO, Development and Product Managers
• Functional, Smoke, Load, Regression, Performance, Integration, 508 Compliance, Web Service, ETL and workflow testing
• Managed all phases of testing from requirement to implementation e.g
• Perform role of SME and help clarify queries from offshore, onshore teams
• Track and provide regular updates on testing progress and issues to stakeholders
• Interact with developers to discuss technical problems, Business changes, and Specification changes
• Prioritize test activities according to complexity and schedule targets
• Prepare Test Closure Reports for each release
• Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality.

• .Net MVC, SQL, Snowflake, SoapUI, CSS3, HTML5, WireMock, Azure, BrowserStack, Appium and JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Assess size and complexity of project
• Played an integral part in proposal writing, requirement review process, use case identification and use case creation
• Authored and presented master test plan to all project stake holders
• Perform the role of an SME and help clarify queries from the offshore, onshore teams
• Track and provide regular updates on testing progress and issues to the stakeholders
• Conduct peer reviews of the deliverables of colleagues
• Interact with developers to discuss technical problems, Business changes, and Specification changes
• Review of release notes for each build
• Coordination of smoke test with QA and Dev teams
• Compiling and reporting deployment issues thru Test Track,
• QA certification and acceptance of each build and overall certification of entire application upon code freeze
• Prepare Test Closure Reports for each release
• Prioritize test activities according to the complexity and schedule targets
• Categorize review defects and prepare review efficiency report for the releases

• Environment : C#, Asp.net, .net MVC, SQL, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, Protractor, Jasmine, NodeJS, Jenkins, Docker, SuccessFactor and JIRA

Responsibilities :

• Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Estimation document for the releases
• Perform the role of an SME and help clarify queries from the offshore, onshore teams
• Conduct peer reviews of the deliverables of colleagues
• Prepare Daily status and consolidated Weekly Status Reports
• Prepare Test Metrics and Lessons learned document at the end of each release
• Prepare Test Closure Reports for each release
• Prioritize test activities according to the complexity and schedule targets

• Environment : Java, Gherkin, Cucumber, Selenium, Maven 3.1.1, Eclipse, GIT, JIRA, Appium, Protractor, Soap UI, Jenkins, TestNG, Junit, Agile (SCRUM)