Software Test Engineer Hari Manohar Varma

Mobile: +27 641897734

E-mail: kalidindi.hmv@gmail.com

Professional Summary:

 An incisive ISTQB IT professional having 6 years of experience as a Software Test Analyst with
thorough understanding of Software Quality Assurance principles and methodologies.
 Having Experience with agile testing environment & worked on manual testing with good
understanding of Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking.
 Well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC)
and Defect Life Cycle(DLC).
 Solid experience in creating and executing Test Cases based on business requirements documents,
use cases and design documents.
 Good Experience in Verification and Validation Process.
 Good Knowledge in Automation Selenium.
 Experience in identifying web elements by various Selenium Locators (XPath, CSS, Id, Link
Text, Tag Name, Partial Link Text and Class Name).
 Good Experience in Software Testing Methodologies like Smoke, Sanity Testing, Functional
testing, System Testing and Re and Regression testing, UAT.
 Involved in Walkthroughs and Review Meetings.
 Experience in preparing Test Effort Estimations and Test Plan creation.
 Worked for Agile Team, SCRUM some of the sprints (review meeting, retrospective
meeting, burn down charts, daily scrum, sprint planning, release planning)
 Good Knowledge on Test Management Tools like Quality Centre, HP ALM.
 Extensive work experience on Bug Reporting tools like JIRA and BUGZILLA.
 Experience in analyzing defects, preparing test summary reports and traceability matrix.
 Good in implementation of Automation framework using Selenium.
 Ability to analyze new functionality and identify potential areas of impact.
 Good experience in writing SQL queries in order to validate the data.
 Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage within deadlines.
 Interacted with the Business users and the client to test according to their requirements.
 Client coordination and working closely with the project team (DEV, QA, and PM).
 Efficient with time management, task planning and prioritization.
 Effective communication and interpersonal skills with analytical thought edge.

Professional Experience:

 Worked as Software Test Engineer for Anvisoft Solutions, South Africa from
July ’2018 to Feb’19
 Worked as QA Test Analyst for Aniglobe Technologies, South Africa from
July ’17 to June’18
 Worked as Test Analyst for Digi-sky Technologies, Bangalore from Sep’13 to
Feb’17

Academic Profile:

 B-tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from Kakatiya University.

Software Skills:

Testing Tools Knowledge in Selenium

Methodology Agile, Waterfall,V-Model,Iteractive
Test Management Tools HP QC, Bugzilla
Defect Tracking Tool JIRA
Operating system Windows.
Database MS-SQL Server

Project # 1

Project Title : New Products

Client : Affinity Health
Duration : July’ 2018 to January’2019.
Role : Test Analyst
Development Module : Agile

Project Summary:

New Products involve introducing new benefits into the market thereby allowing clients to
upgrade their benefits to the new ones there by providing the provision to cover comprehensive
medical cover.
Allowing the existing benefits so as to qualify for some discounts for some discounts for
premiums.
Involves differential pricing for the agencies who create policies for affinity health to the good
will of company.

Project
Responsibilities:

 Developed test cases for manual testing based on User story document using Quality Center.
 Developed test cases

 Participate in Daily stand up calls, Team Retrospectives and Story grooming sessions
suggesting and implementing improvements.
 Make sure that appropriate testing tasks are scheduled during every release and iteration
planning.
 Execute all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
 Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
 Updated test cases as and when a new version of User Story Document is released.
 I have done Functional (Re and Regression), Compatibility, Sanity Testing, Usability Testing.
 Prepared Test Data for the test cases and test execution.
 Responsible for logging and tracking the defects to closure using Quality Center.
 Responsible for preparing defect summary report, regression status report and participate in daily
defect calls to discuss the unresolved defects with development team
 Interaction with Business Analyst on regular basis to understand the changing requirements.

Project # 2

Project Title : SBV Trinity

Client : SBV
Duration : June’2017 to March’2018.
Role : Test Analyst
Development Module : Agile

SBV Services (Pty) Limited (SBV) is a South African company jointly owned by ABSA, First Rand
Group, Nedbank and Standard Bank. It is a recognized business in the cash value supply chain
and also a trusted partner to the South African Reserve Bank, the Banking sector and the Retail
industry.

SBVTrinity is a windows form application which allow banks and retail customers to place the
order or collection for cash flow management between the banks or between the banks and
South African Reserve bank. UI is designed using visual inheritance, inheriting one form from
other form. The application has been installed at 24 centers across South Africa with each
center having its own data base. Communication between data bases happens through SQL
replication.

Modules: Administration, Cash Operations, Accounts, Transactions (Withdrawals / Deposits),

Clearing Operations, Term Deposits, Loans, Safe Deposit Values, General Ledger.

SBV Trinity is a Web Based application and feature registering the agents, employees and
maintenance of the profiles. Apart from these it features payments and sales capturing as well.

Started from the initiation of the project and responsible for the automation of the project.
Ensure the scripts are built for the new features and run regression suites when required.
Here are my major responsibilities
 Designing and Implementation of test cases according to the business requirements.

 Worked in highly dynamic agile environment and participated in scrum meetings and team
retrospective meetings.
 Participated in Agile software testing process with regular QA meetings to discuss major
features of the application, test cases to write and execute.
 Reviewed project specifications and and worked closely with BA and development team
for creating test cases.
 Executed the test cases and log defects in QC.
 Performed final testing on production server at the time of release of the applications.
 Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional (Positive and
Negative), and Integration Testing.
 Reviewing Test cases and preparing Peer reviews.
 Involved in application GO Live to public.
 Reviewing Test cases and preparing Peer reviews.
 Prepared and posting the Daily/Weekly Status Reports to Team lead.

Project # 3

Project Title : Loan Processing

Client : ING Vysya Bank
Duration : June’ 2016 to Feb’17
Tools Used : HP QC.
Role : Test Analyst

Project Summary:
This project is a CRM based application and was developed in user-friendly manner. It
mainly deals with all types of term loans provided by the bank.
This was divided into several modules and each module deals with transactions and details
regarding the customer, interest calculations done according to the specifications provided
by the banker. Liability, Ledger sheet is prepared for each term loan. Accounting
information from the preparation of ledger accounts to the preparation of the Balance
sheet. Reports like expected liability sheet, overdue notices, mailing list, advances
sanctioned by the branch manager etc. are taken using reports.

Project
Responsibilities:

 Understanding the Client Requirements and functionality of the system.

 Participated in complete Software Testing Life Cycle.
 Worked on manual and automation of the application and involved in Regression and Smoke
testing.
  Performed initial Smoke testing to determine if the product was stable enough to withstand a
major testing effort and performed regression testing on various builds.
 Used Quality center as the test repository for writing and executing test cases and scripts and
used Quality center for maintaining defect Cycle (creation, reporting, fixing, retesting and
closing.

 Performed sanity, GUI, Functional and regression testing manually.

 Conducted Cross Browser testing to check the compatibility of the APP with different Browser's.

Project # 4

Project Title : E Banking

Client : BOH [Bank of Hawaii]
Duration : Aug’ 2015 to June 2016.
Tools Used : HP QC.

Project Summary:
E-banking system is a comprehensive corporate and small business banking solution providing a
single unified view of the corporate banking relationships across asset and liability products,
limits, trade finance and cash management. Corporate customers of the bank gain the flexibility
to view details of each account, capability to make Inter-bank and Intra-bank payments, access
to trade finance information and transactions, and the ability to perform cash management
activities.
Admin: This module allows admin to define and manage master data such as Branches, Roles,
Users and Employee details of the First Rand Bank.
Banker: This module allows bankers to define and manage customers of his branch and also to
book receipts and payments.
Customer: This module allows the registered users to perform various activities such as
Accounts Summary, Money Transfer, Smart Money Order, and Online Bill Payments and Online
request for Cheque Book etc.
Project
Responsibilities:

 Understanding the functionality of the application.

 Hands on design of test cases and test scenarios.
 Involved in functionality, usability and regression testing
 Detected the Defects, communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting tool and
tracking the defects using Quality Center.
 Performed final testing on production server at the time of release of the applications.
 Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional (Positive and
Negative)
 Reviewing Test cases and preparing Peer reviews.
 Involved in application GO Live to public.
Environment: Manual Testing, QC, JIRA, SQL, Windows, Selenium, Selenium RC/ IDE, Eclipse,
XPath

Project # 5

Project Title : Online claim submission

Client : Aetna.
Duration : Sep’2014 to Aug’ 2015
Tools Used : HP QC.
Environment : Visual Basic, MS-Access and Windows XP.

Project Summary:

The purpose of this project is to create online claim form. A new Handy web claim form
in the non -us expat member portal visible in existing claim center section of member portal.
This online form will serve the purpose of pdf – claims forms which is going to be evolved with
a nation to increase the effectiveness of claim submission by avoiding claim rejections due to
invalid data / type errors.

Project
Responsibilities:

 Understanding the client Requirements and projects Functionalities.

 Prepared and Executed the test cases as per requirement.
 Test the application using different test cases and prepared RTM.
 Conduct the test cases and prioritize the defects based on priority and severity.
 Functional testing, Regression testing, Retesting, and System testing.
 Used Quality Center to track and report system defects and bug fixes.
 Prepared Daily Test status summary reports.

Personal Information:

Name : Hari Manohar Varma

Date of Birth : 18-Nov-1989
Permit : Critical skill work permit (Valid till March 2022).

Declaration:

I hereby declare that all the information furnished here is true to the best of my
knowledge.
Hari Manohar Varma K