Sindhu katikala

· Worked in the form of sprint team with business analysts and developers in agile methodology. Performed tests on various sprints of Agile/scrum development process.

· Reviewed business requirements and technical specification documents.

· Performed specification analysis, created test cases, test plans, tested software applications, and logged defects, worked with development team in resolving defects and assisted in production issues resolution & retesting.

· Collaborated with business analysts to understand and help clarify requirements and assess testability.

· Designed High Level Test Cases and Scenarios that map back to High Level Requirements and Use Cases.

· Executed and managed functional, integration, and system test cases, recorded and managed defects.

· Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using HP ALM/Quality Center.

· Assisted Business analyst by providing test cases for use at the User Acceptance Test Level.

· Executed Regression test cases by using functional tool Selenium Web Driver.

· Developed Automation Scripts for desired test scenarios with the help of XPATH/ID/CSS/NAME/CLASS NAME.

· Extensively involved in Defect/exploratory/Adhoc/smoke testing after each build (Validation &Regression).

· Developed ANT Scripts to run the automation tests and integrated it with Continuous Integration System.

· Involved in writing unit test cases using TestNg and executing them as test suit.

· Provided back end testing for data validation using SQL.

· Involved in testing the database and data validation using SQL Queries.

· Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium.

· Reported the Coverage status of test performed on the daily/weekly basis.

· Run the Automated Regression suite and analyzed results and file bugs.

Environment: Selenium Web driver, Quality Center/ALM 11, Junit, Java, Soap UI, SQL server 7.0, MS Project, Eclipse, TestNG, XML .

• Analyze computer systems and generate a test plan based on applicable software requirements specification documents, and business user processes.
  Analyze central gaming systems and perform acceptance testing, ensuring the system functions in accordance with the computer systems requirements;
  Analyze and test computer systems upgrades, and update lottery clients and vendors based on the test results; and
  Analyze computing systems infrastructure of lottery gaming providers in order to perform functional, regression and user acceptance testing on lottery computer systems.
• Undertake mentoring and staff development for Testers, Level I and Level II Engineers.
  * Game Testing
  * Jurisdictional Requirements Testing
  * Emulation of the game
  * Evolution Questionnaire
  * GPS document repository for archiving
  * Artwork Testing

• Mentored junior team members, fostering growth and enhancing team performance.
• Standardized bug reporting methods for better communication between QA and development teams.
• Implemented automation tools, increasing testing accuracy and reducing manual effort.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.

Ø Extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle, Test Driven Development methodologies, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile methodologies.

Ø Developed and implemented robust MVC pattern base testing with Selenium WebDriver which cut down the script development time in half.

Ø Designed and Developed Test Cases for automated testing using Selenium, TestNG and Eclipse IDE.

Ø Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and TestNG framework.

Ø Created test cases, scripts based on functional specification, prepared test data for simultaneous and combined Trade testing.

Ø Developed Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using open-source tools like Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, SOAP UI, Maven and Jenkins.

Ø Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in

the testing, environment using Selenium WebDriver.

Ø Developed test automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver for regression and performance testing of the various releases of the application.

Ø Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators.

Ø Created XML based test suit and integrated with Jenkins Server to execute automation scripts on a regular basis by scheduling Jenkins jobs in different test environments with different test configurations.

Ø Involved in acceptance testing using Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver.

Ø Involved in validating Sanity, functional, Integration and Regression test suites using Selenium and the request and response of the Webservices (SOA) through SOAP UI.

Ø Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test REST API.

Ø Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI to create and execute automated functional, regression, compliance, and load tests.

Ø Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

Ø Used GIT for code repositories and Maven for the dependencies.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, SOAP UI, Eclipse, TDD, Agile, HTML,

XML, XPath, JavaScript, JIRA, Oracle, Windows.