Sreeram Nimmala

Sr QA Tester
Sreeram.nimmala.qa@gmail.com
215-666-0636

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

 Over 9+ years of experience in IT and worked for various domains with strong proficiency
in Automation testing. Experience in preparing Test plan for projects as QA Lead.
 Proficient in Selenium, Quick Test Pro (QTP/UFT), Rational, Quality Center (QC/ALM), Test
Partner (TP), Winrunner, Test Director, QA Center.
 Extensive experience in application Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression and End to
End User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
 Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, ADA testing, Mobile Testing,
Desktop & Mobile applications, Web services and API testing. Good experience in
Responsive Testing using Perfecto across different mobile devices of Android and iOS
operating systems.
 Strong understanding of Agile Methodology,
 Good exposure with all the stages of SDLC and STLC
 Experience in testing of Web based applications on Different environment
 Experience in understanding Customer Requirements and deriving Test Scenarios, Test
cases.
 Experience in deploying jobs using Jenkins for Continuous Integration\Continuous (CI/CD)
Deployment, Good Knowledge of Bug life cycle
 Involved in DB testing using SQL queries.
 Experience in Bug tracking and reporting using Defect Management Tools. (JIRA and TFS )
 Good experience in interacting with onsite teams in getting Requirement Clarifications,
Business flows, Test Data etc., through Emails, communicator calls. Experience in
preparation of execution status reports.
 Experience in configuration management tool (DCP)
 Expert in validating reports in Pega applications using PEGA 8.1.1
 Experience in working with tools such as SoapUI, ReadyAPI, Cucumber, Selenium
WebDriver, JIRA and Eclipse.
 Experience in gathering and analyzing business needs and requirements
 Having knowledge on debugging tools - Clipboard , Tracer
 Having basic knowledge on Pega Rules such as Properties, Sections, Flow and Flow actions

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Client: American Express, FL

Lead QA Test Engineer Jan 2019- Present
 Working as a QA Lead and responsible for understanding the business process,
creating detailed specifications, and writing the Scenarios according to the BRD’s.
 Performing Task Allocation and Involved in Regression, Functional, Integration, System,
Back-end testing and UAT Testing.
 Working on Selenium script as well because they want to move the script into selenium.
 Testing complete flow of Loan after receiving request to final decision process
 Testing Pega Application from end to end for loan applications.
 Working with Technical team and business team to write technical business test cases.
 Working with SCRUM team to translate customer requirements to the technical solutions
  Performing GUI testing, regression testing, Ad -hoc testing, and negative testing,
Functional,
End to End test cases using Micro focus ALM.
 Use tools like HP Quality Centre/ALM, Query IT, JIRA for Tracking test execution, and
defect.
 Working on PEGA Case Management, Activities, Working on Agents, Working on Agile
Environment and attending the scrum stand-up call on daily basis.
 Attending PI planning ceremonies and involved in sprint planning and grooming seasons
 Analyze the Functional Specifications (FDS), Business Requirements (BRDs) and Acceptance
 Criteria (AC) documents for testability and usability
 Monitoring current print stories, and writing test cases.
 Involved in Regression testing by reviewing the source code after each build.
 Experience in writing SQL queries in Oracle.
 Maintained, Monitored and documented the behavior of application in different
phases of testing.
 Testing REST API/Ready API using Selenium and SOAP UI.
 Good knowledge in Git commands and bit-bucket repository.
 Identified test cases to automate the test cases using Selenium WebDriver, and Java
(IntelliJ IDE).
 Performed backed testing. Validated the data in SQL server, Oracle and AWS databases.
 Using DevOps (CI/CD) in-build Pega feature and setup with Jenkins and Selenium to
validate the Code in DevOps environment also same Selenium framework using to validate
the GUI related application in both browser at the same time (IE, Chrome) using selenium
grid feature. Also Create the Maven project to support and maintain the architecture using
Selenium.

Environment: JAVA, Data base studio (DB2), ALM (Quality Center), SOAP UI, SQL server, Oracle
Toad, Windows and Mainframe, UFT, Selenium with Pega DevOps, PEGA version 8.0 (cloud) etc..

Client:-Quest Diagnostics Kansas City, KS

QA Test Engineer Apr2018 – Jan 2019
 Developed test plans & detailed test cases from functional product requirements and
design specification documents to ensure testing adheres to established company
processes
 Maintaining and running the daily regression scripts on Production and QA environments
 Designed and documented REST/HTTP, SOAP APIs, including JSON data formats and API
versioning strategy.
 Validated SOAP UI and Restful API services
 Conducted backend testing by performing SQL queries for data validation.
 Testing the claim processing system and handling the large amount of claims data through
Electronic data interchange (EDI) using SQL server.
 Worked closely with development team in creating automated scripts for the
application using Selenium.
 Prepared the TRTM (Test Requirement Traceability Matric)
 Tested the application on emulator and mobiles, once promoted onto Android and IOS.
 Executed the test cases on different mobile devices (iOS, android)
 Prepared and executed all functional test cases
 Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, Re testing,
regression testing and sanity testing.
 Implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, behavioral features and step definitions for
BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber, Nunit.
  Participated in Bug review meetings. Involved in (Daily/weekly) review and status
Meetings with the team.
 Understanding the functional Requirements Specifications.
 Performing Sanity, GUI, Functional and Regression Testing
 Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is
working as desired.
 Regular Playback and validation of above automated components on weekly basis and
reporting to the corresponding teams in scrum meetings.
 Participated in Bug review meetings. Involved in (Daily/weekly) review and status
Meetings with the team
 Incase if there are any new developments or new features included, then the
regression testing is must where all the old test cases should pass without any
exception in the expected behavior.
 Regression testing is given of very high importance and achieving it 100% in all the worst-
case scenarios.
 Participate in Defect Review Board meetings to verify and review various defects
logged against the application.
 Participating in QA team meetings and bug tracking meetings
Environment: SQL, SQL Server, Soap UI, Toad, Android, iOS, Windows, Excel, Microsoft Office,
WinMerge, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Notepad ++, Beyond Compare

Client: - QVC West Chester, PA

QA Automation Engineer/UAT Engineer Apr 2017 – Apr 2018
 Tested the E2E flow of retail domain application through desktop web and assistive web
 Tested Mobile applications in both iOS and Android and long with database testing to
check data quality of e-commerce applications.
 Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Maven, Jenkins, TestNG,
Hybrid-Framework.
 Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data
from Excel files and SQL Databases.
 Exported Testcase Scripts (Java-Selenium RC) in Eclipse IDE and modified the
selenium scripts and executed.
 Used Maven, Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different platform,
browser combinations in parallel.
 Analyzed business requirements to better understand business logic and process flow.
 Develop Test cases from business use cases, Test data and Selenium scripts for UI testing.
 Tested the various components of system, Integration, functionality, User Interfaces and
Security of the web application using SELENIUM WebDriver/RC.
 Participated in walkthrough and Periodic Meetings with Clients, Business and Development
team leads to coordinate, resolve and schedule testing efforts.
 Generated status report, Defect tracking report, Test execution progress, and
Summary report using Application Lifecycle Management.
 Executed test case manually and executed the regression test suite using Quick Test
professional automation Framework and Hybrid-Framework using selenium.
 Created and implemented Data Driven for functional and regression testing.
 Enhanced QTP scripts by using Dynamic Descriptive Programming, Dictionary Objects,
and Regular Expressions.
 Checked the performance of data retrieval, performance, and load test.
  Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
 Performed API testing using POSTMAN tool manually.
Environment: Jira, HP ALM, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Junit, Java, Jenkin, Postman for web
services, SQL, SQL Server, Firebug, FirePath, Element Locator, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac,
Excel, Microsoft Office

NSU Fort Lauderdale, FL

IT Analyst Oct 2015 – Apr 2016
 Encrypted and maintained entire faculty & research team’s desktops with university
proprietary encryption software, Casper
 Verified the database updates and insertion of the records by executing SQL queries.
 Responsible for analyzing business, functional and IT requirement documents and
prepare complete Test Plans including system test plan, integration test plan, QA project
plans and resource planning and allocation.
 Develop the web application tool to extract the information on mandatory training for
employees. This tool use JSF and CASPER framework (this Framework is very similar to struts)
 Develop, implement and deliver user stories before the deadline.
 Prepare unit test cases and unit test results.
Environment: Casper, Excel, SQL, SQL Server, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Office, Selenium

iConcept Software Services - India

Software Test Engineer Jul 2012 – Dec 2014
 Prepared Test cases for positive and negative test scenarios as referred in the user stories
keeping in mind the Boundary Value Limitations, Equivalence classes
 Work closely SCRUM team to create test scripts and test cases to ensure coverage of
all areas of the product/feature(s)
 Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the
database and checked data integrity.
 Involved in software acceptance testing and production release procedures throughout
SDLC
 Test scripts are written using Java selenium to automate the GUI test and functional
test cases.
 Performed Cross-platform, Functional, Regress
 Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and
interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
 Identify the test cases which needs to be automated and Develop the scripts in JAVA
by using Selenium Web Driver
 Designed, developed and implemented Behavior Driven Development -BDD
automation testing framework utilizing Java, Maven and Selenium Web-Driver.
Developed Coded UI test scripts to test Bing search functionality.
 In depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming- OOP and skilled in
developing automated test scripts in Selenium. Created automation framework and test
scripts using Selenium Web-Driver for multiple platforms and cross browser testing.
 Enhancing Scripts like scripting, customizing and then parameterized
 Have a complete working knowledge and have been involved in all project phases
from startup through deployment. (Startup, defines, design, build, test, deploy).
  Experienced in Test Automation for Web, Windows, Mobile, and Web Services using
Para soft SOA Test tool.
 Worked with both Traditional (waterfall) approaches as well as Parallel project styles.
 Used HP QC/ALM and Jira for executing test cases, defect tracking, and complete test
management.
 Responsible for entering bugs into an automated bug management system and performing
regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
 Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid to perform cross-browser Functional Testing by using
Ruby programming & Gherkin Language for BDD (Cucumber).
 Mentored, assist QA teammates, organize, and improve QA team workflow.
 Configured Appium for mobile 'WebView' automation tests.
 Worked in the design and development phases of the application using Ruby.
 Responsible for Integrating Selenium Tests with Jenkins for Continuous Integration.
 Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
Environment: Oracle, Windows, Java, MS Office, Quality Center, Jira, Bug tracker, TestNG, Ruby,
HTML, HTTP, Agile, Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver, Scrum, Agile Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PEGA

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdrivers, TestNG, SOAPUI, Junit, Maven, Jenkins, Ready API, Cucumber
Bug Reporting Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, Bug tracker, QA Complete, Rally
Requirement Mgmt. Tools: HP ALM 11.0, JIRA, Quality Center, Rally.
Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, Toad.
Certifications: ISTQB certified Tester, PEGA Certified System Architect

EDUCATION

Ottawa University
MBA in data analytics Jan 2022

Nova Southeastern University

Master of Science in Management Information Systems Dec 2016

Joginpalli B.R engineering college

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Information Technology Apr 2011