Sandeep Meesala(508) 250-0390 | sandeepmeesala5@gmail.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

IT professional offering 6 years of experience in Software Testing/Quality Assurance, experienced with manual testing techniques and automation tools Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing.

Experience in projects ranging from support and maintenance to development and has been part of all the phases of SDLC.

Clear understanding of Quality assurance role in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Extensive experience in analyzing business requirements, ensuring that the requirements are correct and complete and using the same in preparing use cases. Expertise in preparing test scenarios from use case documents. Hands on experience in web, DW and mainframe environments.

Tested Point Of Services and Claims Processes using ETL and Mainframe. Wrote SQL queries for data validation in DCIS Mainframe data base. Executed AS/400 Jobs by calling from the Command line and validated the data. Tested the AS/400User Interface Screens. Expert in writing test cases using the test scenarios and preparing test data. Worked extensively for preparing traceability matrix, to ensure that all the requirements are mapped with test cases, and updated it regularly. Experienced with testing BI and Informatica applications.

Experience in preparing test strategy for development project.

Expertise in GUI Testing, functionality testing, Integration Testing, Black box techniques, Regression Testing, Security testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Smoke testing and System testing. Experience in performing Backend Testing (Oracle and SQL Server databases and XMLs).

Extensively involved in Defect Reporting and Defect Tracking process using Team Track, Test Director, Quality Center (QC) and MS-Excel. Well versed in documenting test results and creating test reports. Experience in creating user acceptance test casesand supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Work across multiple cross-functional teams to execute full system, interface, and end-to-end testing.

Coordinated testing efforts and effectively managed Off-Shore teams.

Worked closely with the Development Team to ensure that test requirements are clearly defined, functionality related issues are addressed and end users are satisfied

Technical Skills

Automation Tools: QTP, WinRunner, QualityCenter, ClearQuest, Bugzilla. .

Language Skills: Java, C++, XML, HTML, HTTP, PL/SQL .

Packages:

MS Office 2000, MS word 2000, MS Excel 2000, MS Access.

Application Domain: White box and Black Box testing.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/VISTA/MAC, Linux.

Scripting Language: Shell, Javascript, VBscript

Database:

Oracle, SQL Server, MSAccess, TOAD

Browsers:

Internet Explorer, AOL, Mozilla Firefox & Safari

ExperiencePearsons MA

December 2011 PresentSr. QA EngineerResponsibilities:

Tested the ASR Process (Store Orders) generated by JDA and Processed through AS/400 Jobs to Distribution Centers.

Tested the Manual PO Creation Process in AS/400 Screens.

Tested the Print PO's Functionality in AS/400.

Tested the PO's Status Functionality. Tested the Receipts and Invoices Process in AS/400. Developed test plans based on test strategy for Data Warehousing Application.

Created and executed test cases based on test strategy and test plans based on ETL Mapping document.

Responsible for writing complex SQL queries for querying data against different data bases for data verification process. Execute batch jobs and extended support in Mainframe Testing for the online CICS applications. Prepared test cases based on the requirements document in Excel to upload into Quality Center.

Preparation of technical specifications and Source to Target mappings.

Extensively used SQL programming in backend and front-end functions, procedures, packages to implement business rules and security.

Created UAT test cases and scenarios based on Use Cases, and made sure those UAT test cases meets the business requirements.

Designed and executed the test cases on the application as per company standards.

Prevented occurrences of multiple runs by flagging processed dates.

Wrote Test Cases for ETL to compare Source and Target database systems.

Tested of records with logical delete using flags.

Interacted with senior peers or subject matter experts to learn more about the data.

Identified duplicate records in the staging area before data gets processed.

Conducted data validation testing.

Assisted in System Test and UAT testing scenarios as required.

Actively involved in the requirements gathering sessions.

Tested the source and target databases for conformance to specifications.

Conducted Conditional testing of constraints based on the business rules.

Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional.

Defects identified in testing environment were communicated to the developers using defect tracking tool Quality CenterEnvironment: Quality Center, ETL, Informatica, ClearQuest, Mainframe (DB2), Unix, SQL, SQL Server, Tibco, Java, JavaScript, QTPTarget MN

February 2010 November 2011QA Analyst

Responsibilities: Developed complex SQL mimicking the actual Informatica ETL mapping to test the ETL transformation rules and the data load into the target fact tables in different databases

Tuned test SQL to optimize the performance on a billion rows table. Tested scheduledRobot Jobsusing theRobot Schedulerand validated the data on the AS/400.

Tested Submitted Jobs inBatchand validated the data. Well expertise in Excel Marco scripting to automate the mainframe CICS/ TSO screen. Verified the data sync, whether data has synchronized to DCIS mainframe Database or not from the Self-service application to Worker Web application. Responsible for testing the accuracy of the web analytics piece of the BI application

Developed test plans, test cases, test conditions, test designs, test templates and test reports

Extensively used SQL programming in backend and front-end functions, procedures, packages to implement business rules and security.

Responsible for writing complex SQL queries for querying data against different data bases for data verification process.

Involved in functional requirement analysis, effort estimation, identifying test conditions, creating test cases, reviewing test cases and executing test cases

Perform Back-End database testing on Oracle database. Test the data integrity of the application by writing SQL and PL/SQL code

Reporting on progress and risk to management, worked on defect management system

Recommend, Streamline and established the testing processes

Extensively involved in database testing and checking the migrated data quality

Extensively done GUI testing

Extensively tested with SQL Query and Stored Procedures for data validation purposes

Extensively tested reports module which is in Crystal Reports

Extensively working on regression testing, executing test cases

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal, BI, Shell, UnixWellPoint Connecticut

August 2008 February 2010Test EngineerResponsibilities: Defined the test scenarios and created the test cases in Quality Center. Developing Functions for framework dependent and application dependent.

Review and Delivery of scripts.

Working closely with integrators to automation integration scripts for Regression and System suites Prepared for user acceptance testing (UAT) by mapping and testing interfaces. Responsible for testing Web Service application.

Creation of the Project plan, Test plan and Master Test plan. Development of Load runner scripts to perform load and stress test

Development of scripts to generate scripts for Test data creation in both dev and test region

Worked as defect coordinator for the complete project to maintain, assign defects to concern development and integration leads. Developed regression suit using QTP and VB Scripting.

Implemented all the standards and involved in the review of QTP scripts.

Used parameterization for data driven testing in QTP.

Involved in the implementation of agile QA processes and practices, including defect and test management Track defects using Quality Center issues module. Participated in daily Stand-ups, Demo Sessions and Planning Sessions as a part of Agile Testing

Work closely with Test analysts to ensure test environment and data readiness.

Responsible to ensure that automated script repository is properly maintained and that all test processes are fully documented.

Participated in design, use case reviews and quality inspections for each release.

Environment: QualityCenter, QTP, IMS, MS Visio, Agile, Loadrunner, VBScript, Unix, J2EE, Oracle.

Education

Masters in Information Systems UTD, TX