MAHESWAR THATIPAMULA
Email:
Phone:386-279-9487
8617 Enoch Pratt Dr
Ellicott City,MD 21043
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Professional Summary:
Nine (9) years of experience in Software Quality Assurance (IT) as Sr QA/QA Lead with exceptional Leadership qualities and handled multiple projects in finance and Health Care Systems.
Strong Experience in Financial, Banking, and Health Care domains.
Well versed with Software Testing Life Cycle & QA Process.
Expertise in Preparing Test cases, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Project Estimates and Release Management activities.
Well versed in Manual and Automated Test Execution. Possess solution-oriented thinking & out of box thinking.
Good Exposure on automation Selenium web driver.
Strong Experience in Financial, Banking, and Health Care domains.
Professional expertise in performing Manual and Automated Regression Testing.
Experience in scripting VB Script and Descriptive Programming in QTP.
Strong expertise in all phases of Software Test Management: Preparation and Review of Test Strategy, Test Plans, Project Estimate, planning testing processes, Test Execution
Involved in release management for all the environments QA, Staging and PROD.
Experience in usage of defect tracking and reporting using QC, Mantis, StarTeam.
Knowledge in Quality Standards and implementing QA in writing test cases.
Strong in using various manual testing techniques.
Professional expertise in Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, End to End Testing, Adhoc Testing, Integration Testing, Database Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box Testing and Smoke Testing.
High degree of initiative ability to work independently and with a team.
Highly motivated, hard working, result oriented, can quickly learn any new environment, flexible in work timings.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Education Summary:
Master’s degree in computers science (M.Sc computer science) fromkakatiya University, Warangal. A.P. India (2000-2002)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science (B.Sc computer science) fromKakatiyaUniversity, Warangal. A.P., India(1997-2000)
Certifications:
ISTQB Certified tester
Certification in HP QualityCenter
Accomplishments:
Awarded Spot award from TCS for leading QA team and appreciation from client for handling successful releases in 2012
Awarded spot award from DaVita for my contribution towards process improvement and effective status reporting in the year 2011
Awarded as tester of the project for raising highest number of defects in 2010
Awarded as star performer of the project by the client wolters kluwer in 2009
Received 100% Customer satisfaction index for successive years
Software Exposure:
Testing Tools:HP Quick Test Pro(QTP),Selenium
Web Technologies : HTML,XML
Databases : Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL
Scripting Languages :VBScript
Operating System:Windows 98, UNIX, Windows XP, Dos.
Languages:C, VB 6.0, Java, VB Script
Database Tool :SQL Developer
Tools & Packages:QTP, Quality center,Star Team, Mantis, MS office 2000/XP
Version control System:VSS
Project Profile:
Project # 1
Employer:Valsatech Corp/TCS
Client: Davita Inc
Project : Davita Falcon Lab QA
Testing Type: Manual and Automation
Team Size:10
Duration: November 2010 to till date
Environment:Flex, Oracle, Crystal Reports,.Net, Borlando Star Team, Sharepoint,QC/ALM 11.0,QTP 11
Description:
Davita Inc is a leading kidney care provider in USA. Falcon Lab has two applications Falcon LSO and Falcon CKD. Falcon LSOis labscope outreach which mainly deals with Labs and Facilities. Falcon
FalconDCR: Davita Clinical Research
The Falcon DCR is a web based data collection tool that manages clinical laboratory study data including demographics, visits, laboratory test orders and laboratory results. It was created from the Falcon Lab System currently in production at DaVita.
Access to the Falcon DCR is through a defined web browser. Access to the program requires a valid User ID and password. Site Support creates Clinical Research Locations. Users create Subjects, assigned to Clinical Research Locations. Users enter appropriate demographic and medical data for subjects, including required medical tests. Required medical tests are reported to RefLab. Results of the tests are reported back to Falcon DCR. Data is transmitted between Falcon DCR and RefLab using eGate. Reportfunctionality is provided by Crystal Reports.
Responsibilities:
Offshore co-ordination
Lead a team of 6 people in off shore and 2 people in onsite at client place
As an onsite team lead resolved the offshore queries, escalate issues and share project knowledge via Webex, conference calls, and status meetings.
Setup an offshore-onsite workflow process & provide all the necessary documentation, presentations & updates.
Analyzed client data elements, related data, business rules, the processes and workflows associated with a Client Profile.
Review of test plans, test cases, defects
Worked closely with Developers & Business to sort out issues/concerns, to review the system designs, work flows & to identify, prioritize defects.
Performed Production Testing
Defect Reviews, Test case reviews
Handling releases and performing post installation testing
Preparing the test plans, test cases
Conducted Regression testing using Quick Test Pro and debugged and executed custom QTP scripts.
Executed SQL Queries PL/SQL to perform database testing.
Execution of test cases with in the schedule in Quality center.
Gathering good knowledge in application and provided the same to the team.
Taken initiative in preparing Induction manuals and clarification documents.
Interactive with onsite leads.
Written adhoc test cases.
Logging and reviewing the defects in QC Defect tracking Tool.
Project # 2
Client:Wolters Kluwer.
Project: WKNASS - Global Atlas.
Testing Type:Manual
Team Size:20
Duration:March 2007 – October 2010.
Environment:Java/J2EE,JSP, Documentum.My SQL, Weblogic,SOAP, Quality Center
Description:
WKNASS - Global Atlas - QA Program is a specialized quality assurance program for Global ATLAS initiated by WK North America Shared Services. Global Atlas is a major research product developed by WK for content delivery and research
This platform provides content to Legal, Tax and Accounting firms/people. The features of this platform helps end users to search for content, save/print documents etc.
The content is available to front end users through various Research Web Interfaces.
The Global atlas platform, AKA Atlas consists online system between the content repository and the product tailored customer interfaces. It includes content import and load, core competitive capabilities,customer features and feature delivery. in business definition, Atlas is a Wolters Kluwer system responsible for accepting content and configuration from editorial and product management groups, and delivering it to the customers for research and integration in exchange for payments.
End users of this project are Legal Professionals, Accounting Professionals and government officials. It contains lot of content related to Tax, Legal and Rules and Regulatory.
A user-friendly tool,Google-style search that lets users search all their content without targeting sources. Additional search capabilities such as advanced search, citation search, thesaurus, synonym and word variation searching, and redefined search options such as date restrictions, document type restrictions.
Responsibilities:
Lead the QA team of Offshore software professionals of team 5 people.
Monitored the Organization processes, standards & map out a detail QA strategy, create and review test plans, test procedures and test results.
Defined entryexit criteria for testing.
Prepared proper checklists, templates and standard documents and ensure strict adherence to them throughout the software development lifecycle. Ensure proper documentation throughout the project.
Estimate, assign and prioritize the tasks for the team.
Experience in handling the projects in configuration management like VSS.
Acted as a single point of contact between client and the offshore team. Ensure periodic status reviews, query resolution and timely deliveries.
Performed Unit Testing, Black box testing, White box testing, Functional Testing, and Regression Testing
Technical ability to understand the code, continuously interact with development team ensure timely product release, design review, code review and identification of pain areas in the process.
Refine the QA Testing Best Practices to continuously improve the process.
Understanding Use cases, wireframes, HLR, and technical specification documents.
Writing and reviewing functional test cases.
Uploading test cases to QualityCenter.
Execution of test cases with in the schedule in Quality center.
Gathering good knowledge in application and provided the same to the team.
Taken initiative in preparing Induction manuals and clarification documents.
Interactive with onsite leads.
Logging and reviewing the defects in Mantis Defect tracking Tool.
Personal Achievements:
Recognized as the star performer in the project by client for raising highest number of defects in the project. Raised above 350 defects in a single project.
Several times awarded as top tester in the project.
Project#2
Client:Citi Financial.
Project: Maestro TPR’s.
Testing Type:Manual
Team Size:8
Duration:Oct 2006 – Till date.
Environment:QC, UNIX, Mosaic, CDS Database.
Description:
Maestro is a loan Organization System .It consists of four modules Sales support, Worklist, Branch Admin, and Customer Service. Sales Support deals with servicing new customers right from creation of different types of new Applications like (Sales Finance, Broker, Agent, regular Applications) to Booking of the loan application. Worklist is responsible for
Prioritize the tasks for the Citi Financial employee’s branch Admin consists of the entire details of
Citi Financial Employees and the Training modules for the employees, list of all the brokers, dealers, agents etc. Customer service is responsible for servicing the existing customers like renewing the Loan Applications, Taking the payments for the branches, maintaining the customer records.
A TPR is a transaction processing request if there is any issue arises in production Citi Financial SSG (Software Support Group) will raise those issues in the form of a TPR. Development team will fix these issues and send the TPR for testing.
Responsibilities:
Understanding SRS documents.
Understood the Mainframe Applications – Maestro, Butler & Action.
Performed testing on the Mainframe Applications – Maestro, Butler & Action
Writing and reviewing functional test cases.
Uploading test cases to QualityCenter.
Execution of test cases with in the schedule.
Gathering good knowledge in application and provided the same to the team.
Taken initiative of preparing understanding documents and clarification document.
Interactive with onsite leads.
Performed Functional Testing, System Integration testing and Regression Testing
Written adhoc test cases.
Logging the defects in QualityCenter.
Project#3
Client:Citi Financial.
Project: Maestro 2005 Phase-2 Single Source One.
Testing Type:Manual
Team Size:8
Duration:Apr 2006 – Sep 2006.
Environment:Quality Center,Oracle, Mosaic, COBOL, Mainframes,UNIX,JCL,VSS
Description:
Citi Financial uses a Loan Origination System named ‘Maestro’, at all its Credit sales offices in America. This system is used by the Citi Financial Branches to sell loan products, service customers as well as enable Branch Employees to prioritize and track daily tasks. The Maestro system currently has three production versions catering to the following markets: USA, Canada, and Mexico.
This system has been developed using the Getronics’ proprietary Mosaic Open Architecture and the CDS database. At present, each Citi Financial Branch has a single instance of the Maestro system and CDS database. Citi Financial has decided to embark on an initiative to reduce the Overhead of maintaining multiple versions as well as centralizing operations as Applicable. This is to be accomplished by consolidating different versions of Maestro into a unified version addressing the needs of all three markets. Over and above the system will be re-structured to work on a centralized.
Responsibilities:
Understanding the System requirement Specification documents and developing the test cases from test scenarios.
Understanding the applications – Maestro, Butler & Action.
Involved in giving presentations on the respective modules.
Involved in the Execution of Test Cases.
Involved in implementing the Root Cause Analysis.
Involved in Review Process.
Analyzed the Test Scripts.
Reporting the Defects using QualityCenter.
. Project: 4
Client:Citi Financial, Baltimore USA.
Project:Canada Mortgage Release.
Testing Type:Manual
Team Size:6
Duration:Nov 2005 – Mar 2006
Environment:Mosaic, UNIX, CDS Database,Quality Center,Oracle, Mosaic, COBOL, Mainframes,VSS
Description:
There is a daily and weekly mortgage release processing in the US. This effort will expand upon this process and model a similar program in Canada. There will also be screen changes to the Mortgage Release Worklist and Mortgage Release Information Input screens. The actual process of releasing the mortgage will be handled through the Canadian Centralized Mortgage. This effort is being conducted to provide all Canadian branches with a systematic and consistent tracking method and follow-up program to ensure that all Mortgage Releases are processed as per company policy.
This effort will modify the Canadian Mortgage Release Worklist, the Mortgage Release info Screen and the Mortgage Release Exception Report. Currently in the Us, all branch with the exception of Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia are not required by law to track the “Received Release” and “Send to Borrower” dates of the Mortgage Release. This functionality will be mirrored for Canada by not requiring Canadian branches to complete the “Received from CMO” and “Sent to Borrower” fields unless required by law and these columns will be hidden on the Canadian Mortgage Release Worklist Screen. Those branches required to complete the fields will have access to all field and column as necessary.
Responsibilities:
Understanding SRS documents.
Understood the Mainframe Applications – Maestro, Butler & Action.
Performed testing on the Mainframe Applications – Maestro, Butler & Action
Writing and reviewing functional test cases.
Uploading test cases to QualityCenter.
Execution of test cases with in the schedule.
Gathering good knowledge in application and provided the same to the team.
Taken initiative of preparing understanding documents and clarification document.
Interactive with onsite leads.
Performed Unit Testing, Black box testing, Functional Testing, and Regression Testing
Written adhoc test cases.
Logging the defects in QualityCenter.
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Maheshwar Thatipamula