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Swathi Sama

Summary

Driven Software Developer in Test with over 10+ years of hands-on quality assurance and automation testing experience. Highly skilled and detail-oriented QA professional with extensive offshore and onsite experience seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization. Proven track record of ensuring product quality and delivering successful projects. Committed to continuous improvement and driving efficiency in QA processes.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr UAT Analyst

Oncourse Home solutions
08.2023
  • Collaborated with business analysts and stakeholders to translate business requirements into test cases and scenarios for UAT
  • Designed and developed UAT test plans, test cases, and test data based on user workflows and acceptance criteria
  • Executed UAT test cases, documented test results, and identified and reported defects or issues using a defect tracking system
  • Coordinated with development teams to ensure timely resolution of defects and retested fixed defects
  • Provided consistent and repeatable testing processes for UAT, improving processes and reducing post-implementation issues
  • Communicated and collaborated with business users, developers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, gather feedback, and address questions or concerns related to UAT
  • Prepared comprehensive UAT documentation, including test scripts, test data, and test reports
  • Coordinated UAT activities, including scheduling test cycles, managing resources, and ensuring UAT timelines were met
  • Provided regular status updates on UAT progress, test results, and any issues or risks to project stakeholders
  • Assigned as a point of contact (POC) for minor tasks, projects, or releases.

Sr Software Engineer in Test

Dearborn National
02.2019 - 05.2021
  • Collaborate with ETL developers and business analysts to understand project requirements
  • Design, develop, and execute ETL test cases and test scripts to validate data transformations
  • Perform data profiling, data validation, and data quality checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data
  • Conduct regression testing for ETL processes to identify and resolve issues
  • Maintain and update test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test results
  • Use SQL queries to perform data validation and identify data anomalies
  • Create and manage defect reports using issue tracking tools like JIRA
  • Participate in daily stand-up meetings to provide testing status and updates
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of ETL testing processes
  • Involved in running Selenium automation scripts and updating the scripts according to enhanced requirements using Selenium WebDriver.

Sr Software Engineer in Test

One Main Financial
06.2015 - 02.2019
  • Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created the test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort
  • Implemented Data-Driven test to verify the same functionality with multiple sets of data
  • Involved in defining test automation strategy and test scenarios, created automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium WebDriver
  • Have written the complex queries to verify the data
  • Implemented test automation scripts for mobile testing using Appium for Android and iOS applications
  • Edit and debug tests using Selenium Participated in meeting, teleconferences walk through with the development team, QA manager and Project manager (PM)
  • Performed Cross Browser Testing Using cross browser Enterprise version and Automated that using Jenkins
  • Improved test automation solution via functional testing gap coverage and framework updates
  • Performed manual exploratory testing during regression cycles to ensure product consistency
  • Assisted with daily root cause analysis of regression test failures and triage
  • Contributed to company-wide QA efforts to streamline CI/CD pipeline
  • Improved internal testing processes via knowledge shares and strategy meetings
  • Create and maintain defects using Trello boards
  • Perform Post release checks along with the PM team using Pivotal Tracker
  • Perform cross browser testing running Jenkins Job/updated the job when required
  • Monitor Librato spaces to see the impact of new functionality/updates after production release
  • Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate and retrieve data from the database for executing user-specific test cases.

Automation Test Lead

Staples INC
03.2015 - 06.2015
  • Ensured seamless collaboration between testers and developers by facilitating consistent communication channels regarding bug tracking and resolution progress.
  • Reported test findings to development personnel, advising staff on efficacy of subsequent remediation attempts.
  • Improved overall software quality by identifying and addressing critical defects through meticulous test execution.


Selenium Scripter

Kaiser Permanente
10.2014 - 02.2015
  • Reviewing the Project Requirements and Preparing Test Plan and estimating the testing effort
  • Extensively worked in – Selenium, Maven, Jenkins, web services and TestNG functionality.
  • Production Testing with Beta customer from sales to Provisioning entire for new functionality implementing in member registration.
  • Performing New Functionality and Regression testing in all Browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE8 and IE11.
  • Reading the FDD, manual test cases and automating the test cases using Selenium Web Driver. Maven and Jenkins.
  • Conducted in the Daily Defect's Status Meetings along with QA team and Development team, working closely on High priority and Severity defects.
  • Writing several complex SQL queries to fetch the data and verify Production test data
  • Mentoring for automation test scripts using Selenium IDE for regression testing Test.
  • Writing UAT test cases and executing the test cases to identify potential defects
  • Manage daily status mail and calls to provide updates for issues within the Team.
  • “Risk –Based, time-boxed” approach adopted for the management and delivery based on the Business Priorities.

QA Engineer

CVS Caremark
08.2014 - 10.2014
  • Actively involved in planning process with Business Analysts (BAs), Project Manager (PMs), Developers, Architecture and Stake Holders for the entire project
  • Assisted QA Lead with business requirements and specifications analysis with Requirement Traceability Matrix to prepare appropriate Test Plan and Test Cases
  • Utilized information gathered from project requirements to design appropriate Test Environment in hardware and software system
  • Collaborated with other QA team members to come up with good design framework that could be easily implemented with manual and Selenium automation testing
  • Designed Smoke Testing to ensure project's basic functionalities before proceeding further
  • Designed multiple Selenium Java testing scripts for front end GUI testing requirements
  • Performed Data Driven Testing for positive and negative data from external Excel file
  • Designed Page Object and Page Factory patterns for appropriate tests with Selenium Java
  • Developed multiple Selenium WebDriver Java scripts for Black box Testing which includes Integration Testing and System Testing for Functional and Non-Functional requirements
  • Fully utilized SOAP UI Pro's Assertion features for data and text response validation
  • Performed Data Driven Web Services Automation Testing with Excel using SOAP UI Pro
  • Verify Web services API request, response data validations in REST and SOAP protocols.
  • Performed Regression Testing to ensure correct functionality of the whole system for each build and after any changed made to the system
  • Constructed and executed SQL queries to verify data quality.
  • Utilized Jenkins to perform multiple browser instances testing in Selenium Grid
  • Performed Load Test to measure determine system's performance using JMeter
  • Documented defects with clear explanation and assigned appropriate criteria using Quality Center for efficient debugging process.

Quality Assurance Engineer

NHS - National Health Service
02.2012 - 08.2013
  • Reviewed the Business Requirements &Technical specification documents
  • Peer reviews with BA, Dev team for the better understanding of the Requirements
  • Environment Set up for Testing,
  • Support to the UAT Testing for Business Users.
  • Developed Test approach, Test Plan, Test Cases
  • Manage Test Defect Process
  • Interface between the users and different teams involved for better understanding of the Business and IT processes.
  • Extensive experience in testing and reviewing of dimensional modeling (Star and Snowflake) of data warehouse using Erwin
  • Work experience reviewing and testing of data maps between various legacy systems and relational databases
  • Experience includes testing applications which use integrated database using SQL Server and Oracle (11g, 10g).

Education

MS in computer science -

Virginia international university
Virginia, USA

MS in computer networking -

Bedfordshire University
Luton, UK

Bachelors in computer science -

JNT university
Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • Offshore and onsite environments
  • Software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Testing methodologies and best practices
  • Manual and automated testing
  • Test planning, test case design, and defect tracking
  • Designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test plans for data migration projects
  • Identifying and resolving data anomalies
  • Industry-standard QA tools (JIRA, Selenium, TestRail)
  • Problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
  • Managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Exceptional communication skills

    • Technical Skills:

    ● Testing tools : Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Firebug, Fire Path, JMeter, Cucumber (Gherkin), Junit

    ● Languages: Ruby, Java

    ● Build Tools : ANT, Maven, Azure DevOps, Github

    ● CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure Pipelines

    ● Cross Browser Platform: AWS, Browser Stack

    ● Web: HTML5, JSP, CSS3, XHTML, JavaScript, JQuery

    ● Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, SQLite, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB

    ● Applications & Web Servers : ReactJS

    ● Test Framework: TestNG, Cucumber, JUnit, Capybara, Rspec, SpecFlow, Easy Repro

Timeline

Sr UAT Analyst

Oncourse Home solutions
08.2023

Sr Software Engineer in Test

Dearborn National
02.2019 - 05.2021

Sr Software Engineer in Test

One Main Financial
06.2015 - 02.2019

Automation Test Lead

Staples INC
03.2015 - 06.2015

Selenium Scripter

Kaiser Permanente
10.2014 - 02.2015

QA Engineer

CVS Caremark
08.2014 - 10.2014

Quality Assurance Engineer

NHS - National Health Service
02.2012 - 08.2013

MS in computer science -

Virginia international university

MS in computer networking -

Bedfordshire University

Bachelors in computer science -

JNT university

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