Summary

Sruti Sheela has over 6 years of experience in the field of Information Technology, with expertise in Software Test Automation, Functional Testing and Quality Assurance for Web and client/server applications. She was extensively involved in establishing test strategies, test plans, writing test cases, preparing automation test scripts and execution of test cases. She has rich experience in QTP, QC and Load Runner.
She has strong communication, presentation and problem solving skills as well as very good Interpersonal skills and is a great team player.

• Proficient in functional, negative, regression, system integration (SIT), browser compatibility and performance testing
• Well acquainted with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle with high proficiency in Black Box testing
• Excellent professional and interpersonal skills working independently and as a team member to prepare and design test plans, scripts and test cases for Functional and Automated Testing
• Documenting the plan and securing the required approval from the Sr. Management
• Expertise in using automation tools including Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and Load Runner
• Strong knowledge of SQL and database structures, including ability to query large volumes of data
• Team player with excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in working with team in an onsite-offshore model

• Bachelor of Technology – Information Technology

Hardware Platforms:

IBM PC Compatibles, Mac PC

Operating System:

Windows 95/98/2000/XP/7, Unix

Framework and Solutions:

SharePoint, Reporting Services

Programming Languages:

VB Script, Java Script, C, C++, JAVA, VB.NET

Web Technologies:

HTML, XML, ASP,ASP.NET

Databases :

MS SQL Server 2005, MS Access, Toad, Oracle 10i

Other Utilities & Tools:

MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Quality Center 9.0, JIRA, QuickTest Professional 9.2, LoadRunner 9.0 Eclipse, Perfmon, TrueCrypt, Query Analyzer, Management Studio

Relevant Project Experience

Confidential,Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation\'s leading fashion specialty retailers, with 169 U.S. stores located in 28 states. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 109 Full-Line Stores, 56 Nordstrom Racks, two Jeffrey boutiques and two clearance stores. Nordstrom also serves customers through its online presence and through its catalogs.
Project – Credit Data Warehouse (CDW)
Description: - The project involves performance testing of Nordstrom Credit Data Warehouse (Nordstrom credit data warehouse consolidates all data elements of credit lending risk, including those derived from credit scorecards.). The scope of the project was to determine how fast some aspect of a system performs under a particular workload. It also considered validating the security and reliability of the system.
Duration: - June -2011 to till date
Role: - Test Engineer
Responsibilities: -

• Analyzed user requirements, technical specifications, functional specification and strategic QA documents such as test approach document, and test plan to identify test environment
• Gathered, consolidated requirements for generating performance goals and test plans.
• Involved in writing of documentation like test plan and validation procedures.
• Involved in configuring test environment
• Developing, documenting and executing test scripts in Controller by interacting with business Team and Development team.
• Participate in daily defect resolution status calls to discuss defects with project management and development team.
• Documented Test Logs and various reports on the weekly basis for management in order to verify test process.

Environment: - Load Runner 9.0, Mercury Quality Centre 9.0, and MS SQL, JAVA, UNIX, Windows 2000/ XP
Project – Confidential,
Description: -The project involves software testing of Nordstrom Direct Systems (Nordstrom applications & its web site). The scope of the testing was to provide an end to end testing solution to Nordstrom for its family of applications in its client/server and web based platforms. The primarily focus is on building a complete test strategy, creating an elaborate test plan and to create automation test scripts using QTP.
Duration: - June-2010 to May-2011
Role: - Test Engineer

Responsibilities: -

• Analyzed user requirements, technical specifications and functional specification for the project.
• Developed Test plans, Test cases, Automated Tests and Test Data
• Developed automation Scripts in QTP using VB Script
• Executed Test Scripts using QTP and Generated bug reports
• Verified backend data by executing SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data
• Performed Functional and Non-Functional (Availability, Usability, Reliability and Compatibility) Tests
• Maintained documentations and followed processes as per companies CMM/CMMI Standards
• Documenting test logs and various reports on periodic basis for project team

Environment: -QTP 9.2, Quality Centre 9.0, and MS SQL, JAVA, Toad, Windows 2000/ XP, Oracle 10i

Confidential,– Chicago, IL
Walgreens MyWHI.com (Walgreens Health Initiatives) is a one stop convenient source for valuable pharmacy and health benefits information and helpful online tool to save time and money and to search for lower cost prescription medications and to know whether the drug is covered by customer’s health plan.
Project – Confidential,
Description: - MyWHI.com PBM (Pharmacy Benefits Management) was customized to accommodate specific business requirements from its new client Novant Health Care located in NC.
Duration: - October-2009 to May-2010
Role: - QA Engineer
Responsibilities: -

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test plans and test cases for testing
• Executed test cases using both manual and automated testing methods
• Performed GUI, functionality, regression and system testing for every new build and system enhancement
• Modularized the test scripts by creating Generic Functions that deal with different sets of test data (parameterizing)
• Used Load Runner for load and performance testing
• Worked closely with the business analysts and development team to ensure that the testing issues were resolved

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.2, Oracle 10g, TOAD, HTML, XML, VB.NET, Windows 2000/ XP

Confidential,Houston, TX

Confidential,is a diversified financial services company providing banking, Insurance, Investment banking, mortgage and consumer finance from over 1000 branches, Internet and other distributed channels across US.
Project – Loan Origination System (LOS) Enhancements
Description: - The LOS project was a maintenance project for the existing system and involved testing the file intake, file assignment, underwriting systems and funding systems.
Duration: - February -2009 to September-2009
Role: - QA Analyst
Responsibilities:-

• Performed Manual Testing and Automation testing using Load Runner
• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases to fulfill the business requirements
• Reviewed Design Specifications and Functional Documents
• User Test Director for documenting Test Plans, Test Cases, Bug tracking and reporting.
• Analyzed business needs, user requirements and specifications, formulated changes and identified various test scenarios to make sure that the application is adhering to the business standards
• Conducted data Integration testing by extensive use if SQL
• Involved in defect tracking defect reporting and analyzed reports and documentation using Test director
• Conducted Compatibility testing on variety of browsers to ensure that users with different browsers do not experience problems
• Performed Functionality testing manually as per the test cased and evaluated the test results
• Performed white Box testing, Performance testing, Load testing using Load Runner
• Executed the Test cases and Reported Bugs using Test Director
• Created graphs and generated performance reports using Test Director
• Conducted Validation and Verification of Bug Fix

Environment: - Load Runner 9.0, QTP 9.2, SQL and XML, VB.NET, Windows 2000/ XP

Confidential,Memphis, TN
Confidential,is the leading full-service provider of financial services in Tennessee, offering deposit products, loans, and investments, insurance, financial planning, trusts, asset management, credit cards and cash management services.
Project – SCARAB
Description: - Project SCARAB is an artifact tracking system which has features like defect management system, data entry, queries, reports and Version control.
Duration: - September-2008 to January-2009
Role: QA Test Engineer

• Involved in analyzing System Requirements and developing test plans for Functional and Regression testing
• Developed test cases and test plan for Hogan system application
• Tested the front-end functionality of the interfaces
• Executed manual and automated test cases and verified actual results with expected results
• Conducted End to End Regression testing using Quick Test Pro
• Used Quality Center 8.2 for tracking defects
• Transferred defects from SCARAB defect tracking database to Quality Center
• Used Load Runner for load and performance testing
• Actively involved in weekly status meetings along with the QA team and development team

Environment:- QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Load Runner 9.0, JAVA, , Unix, IBM, Windows 2000/ XP, MS Access and Oracle10i

Confidential,
Confidential,is a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 6.8 billion. The company defines designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. It also provides a complete range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.
Infosys\' service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing
Infosys has a global footprint with over 50 offices and development centers in India, China, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK, Canada and Japan. Infosys has over 145,000 employees.
Project - TC Gen
Description: - TC Gen is an application that records user actions and navigations in the web application and allows testers to generate test case documentation from the recorded actions. This application is extensively used by the Infosys testing community to automate the test case generation as per the company standards.
Duration: - January-2008 to August-2008
Role: - Test Engineer

Responsibilities: -

• Analyzed user requirements and created Test Cases
• Performed Manual Testing of the functionalities involving all core functions of the application.
• Created and tested scenarios using positive and negative test data.
• Tested backend tables for appropriate data.
• Participated in daily defect triage status calls with project team.
• Raising defects found in the system and tracking them.
• Performed batch testing where some of the applications functions are depend on external data and process of various jobs.
• Documented Test Metrics, test logs and various reports on the weekly basis for management to verify test process.

Environment: - Quality Centre 9.0, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Windows 2003, MS SQL
Project – Web Automation Test Script Automation (via) Confidential,
Description: - iTAA (Infosys Test Automation Accelerator) is an application that can be integrated with QTP, for the automation of web applications. iTAA is a web based test automation accelerator solution build by Infosys. It provides users a friendly interface to create test cases using English language in a simple manner and converts them automatically into “syntax-checked” and “Ready-to-Run” automated scripts.
Duration: - May-2007 to December-2007
Role: - Test Engineer
Responsibilities: -

• Analyzed user requirements, technical specifications and QA documents
• Performed functional testing which involved the testing of all core modules of the application
• Created and tested scenarios using positive and negative test data
• Created Automation Framework for the application and written various function libraries using VB Script
• Tested backend tables for appropriate data
• Participated in daily defect resolution status calls with project team
• Analyze the defects technically and retesting them appropriately
• Developing, documenting, executing and verifying “black-box” test cases/ Scripts using Quality Centre tool by Interacting with business Team and Development team

Environment: - Quick Test Pro, iTAA (Infosys Test Automation Accelerator), Mercury Quality Centre

Confidential,India
Maruti Udyog Limited is a leading Car market leader in India and now has a new name "Maruti Suzuki India Limited”. Maruti is one of the strongest corporate brand names in the country, in terms of awareness, recall, trust and customer care on the Company\'s products, services and its sales and service network across the country.
Project – Dealer Management System
Description: - This was a bundle system for the dealership management. This included various modules like sales tracking, vehicle inventory tracking, parts inventory, purchase order tracking, etc. The project involved the testing of various enhancements and new developments to the system.
Duration: - March-2006 to April-2007
Role: - Test Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Identified documents required for Integration, Functional and End to End testing efforts for all test scenarios
• Assisted and Involved with the team in writing Test cases, Test steps and Test documentation in compliance with the requirements
• Involved in Integration, functional and regression testing using Manual Testing methods and QTP Automation Tool
• Responsible for on time and quality deliverables, preparing day-to-day testing status report, weekly status report for the upper level management
• Developed scripts and GUI maps for all the test cases to be tested using QTP for functionality and regression testing
• Used Quality Center for maintaining test requirements, test plans, managing test execution and defect tracking

Environment: - Java, JSP, Quality Center, MS-SQL Server 2000, IE 6.0, UNIX