RAMA G SATRABOINA
Senior Software QA Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408-746-9462 (Home)
408-393-6159 (Mobile)
Certified QA, ITIL, Agile
Status: Green Card/ Permanent Resident
[email protected]
Over 10 years of experience as a Senior Software QA Engineer (QA Lead) as per the SQA Standards with strengths in ISO 9000, SEI-CMM, Change Management, Development, Documentation, Project Management, functional and performance testing of client server and web applications. Excellent professional skills by working independently, as a team member and team lead for testing of e-commerce, Financial, ITSM, Help/Service Desk, Health Care, Trading and Banking, Transportation industry and Payroll Management applications using tools of Mercury Interactive Test Suite (WinRunner, QuickTestPro(QTP), LoadRunner, TestDirector, QualityCenter), Selenium, Ruby Watir, Segue SilkTest, SilkPerformer, OpenSTA, JAWS and Rational Suite Tools. Experienced with complete Software Test Methodologies and Procedures including Black Box, White Box testing, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Network Testing, perform User Acceptance/sanity, Integration, Regression, Security, Reliability, Section-508, Localization (L10N) /Internationalization(I18N) testing DB Migration, Upgradation, Partitions, System, Alpha testing. Specific testing experience includes writing test plan, test cases, setting up QA test environment, creating input data, data validation, executing test scenarios, analyzing test results, and creating test strategies. Exposed to all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
EXPERTISE
• Ability to develop Automation Frame Work, organize tasks in QA team; interact with the development team, Test Planning, Monitoring Test Progress and Reporting the Test Metrics.
• Work Independently to develop Test Scenarios for business process, Prepare and submit white papers on performance testing
• Expert in Test plan writing, Test Strategy defining, Test case Development, Test Scripts development in Agile, Waterfall and V-Models environments.
• Ability to identify flaws in Test process and develop improvement plan for next Release
• Experience in dealing with Off-shore India QA team
• Expert in Performance Testing using LoadRunner and Experienced in Java API testing
• Developed Automation frame work in WinRunner, Selenium and QTP
• Ability to determine estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions.
• Solid Understanding and analysis power in Multi-tiered Architecture Applications
• Setup/Configure the Performance lab and Functional Test environment including Load Runner, Win Runner, QTP automation tools
• Expert in Writing Unix Shell scripts and Perl scripts for automation frame work or Test system setup or Installation Tests
• Good leadership skills, ability to organize tasks and interact with the development team and other test teams. Good understanding in QA models: waterfall, v-model
• Expertise in QA project release schedule, estimation of QA time to complete testing, recruiting QA staff
• Configure QA lab servers and setup the complete QA environment including automation tools
• Documenting test cases, test scripts, pre-conditions, Input data and expected results for functional and load testing of applications using WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, SilkTest, SilkPerformer, QuickTestPro, Selenium, Ruby, OpenSTA and Rational Tools
• Writing generic, reusable Test Functions and Scripts in TSL. Server side (Backend) testing using WinRunner, SilkTest against SQL server and Oracle databases
• Prepare and send QA status reports to development and higher management on a regular basis
• Assist QA Manager for hiring, goal setting, performance reviews and team coordination
• Strong Administrative experience with tools WinRunner, TestDirector/QC, LoadRunner, SilkTest
• Create, update and maintain test suites (Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts) by referring SRS, High Level, A-Level design documents, SPI/API/SDK functional specifications for both automated and manual testing.
• Interacting with the client, requirement gathering, relaying the change requirements to the development team, organizing the testing effort, setting milestones, automation of test scripts and defect tracking.
• Troubleshoot problems and pinpoint sources of problems and possible areas of improvement.
• Extensive knowledge of the relational data modeling and relational database concepts.
• Working experience in Internationalization(I18N) Testing and Localization(L10N) Testing
• Proficient in the data manipulation and data validation using SQL for the retrieval of data from the relational database
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
• Over 8 years of experience in Gray Box (Black Box, White Box) testing, Troubleshooting & performing System, Regression, Security, Reliability, Unit, Network testing, Fire wall & API testing, Alpha/Beta, Performance/Scalability, Load, Functional, Volume, Integration, User Acceptance, Component, Localization(L01N)/Internationalization(I18N), Documentation, Stress & DB Partitions testing and Test Suite (Test Plans & Test Cases) creation.
• Over 7 years of experience in Manual and Automation of Web/eCommerce (Internet/Intranet) and Client/Server/Desktop, Flash applications using WinRunner8.0/7.5/7.01/6.02/6.0, QTP 9.2/8.2, QualityCenter9.0, LoadRunner9.0/8.0/7.5/7.02/6.0/5.0,TestDirector8.0/7.5/7.0/6.0,AstraLoadTest 5.4/5.0, Open STA ,SilkTest5.03/5.0, Silk Performer5.0, QuickTest Pro(QTP) 6.5, Selenium, Ruby Watir & thorough knowledge in e-TestSuite, QA Partner & Rational SQA Suite
• Over 3 years of experience with Amber (AR) Atrium (CMDB), ITSM suite (IM, PM, CM, AM, RM, SLM), repositories/channels KANA, MC, RTM, DcoubleClick (DC), DocuShare, Documentum, SharePoint, Domino, Domino.Doc, Netware, MS-Exchange, JAWS (Section-508), DocumentCentres 440/432/425,DC470, DC275 (Lakes), Mohican, DC555/554/553(Brunel), WorkCentrePro 32/40 Color, Leander, Coplan and Scan Soft OCR (Optical Character Reorganization)
• Over 6 years of experience in RDBMS (MS-SQL Server 2K/7.0/6.5/6.0, Oracle 8i/7.x), TeraData 6.2.0, DB2, Sybase, MS-Access97, ETL, Windows 2003/XP/ME/2K/NT/98/95, Mac10/9/8.6, UNIX Solaris 8.0/2.5, Lotus & Linux2.4 environments and thorough knowledge in Perl, MS-Project, RUP, J-Unit, UML and SMS2.0, Caching, Proxy servers, WebLogic, WebSphere, iPlanet and Apache web servers and Software and Hardware installations and configurations under Multi-Tier architecture. Good understanding/knowledge in Informatica/ETL/Cognos.
• Over 7 years of testing experience in Object Oriented Programming (OOPS) languages like Java, J2EE, C, C++, VC++, Shell Scripts and strong implementations of JDBC and Servlets APIs.
• Over 1 years of experience in Level1 and Level2 support for gathering, reviewing, tracking/routing, trouble shooting and solving customer issues.
• Over 2 years of experience as Software Developer in system requirements, coding, maintenance, database design, Web development and Client/Server environments using VB, ASP, Java, SQL etc.
EDUCATIONAL SUMM...
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