Lakshmi Prasanna Menta

Knowledgeable and dedicated Senior QA Analyst skilled plus SAP QA Testing experience at performing detailed manual and automated testing of software applications. 9 years of professional experience diversified in test management, automation, and leadership. Involved in several full life cycle implementations from development to customer support. Effective communicator with strong attention to accuracy and excellent teamwork abilities.

Experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environments. Diligent, forward-thinking, and adaptable to dynamic company, customer, and project needs. Well versed in implementation of operational assessments, conducting functional requirements analysis, quality assurance, process improvement as well as business and client.

Senior QA Analyst - SCI

(2021-08)

• Analyzed Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) to understand system functionality and testing scope.
• Driving quality assurance initiatives across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within Agile.
• Designed and executed manual test suites, test cases, test scripts, and test reports ensuring full coverage of business requirements.
• Developed and managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy and plans; facilitated user sessions.
• Utilized Microsoft SQL Server to perform DML operations for test data validation and backend verification.
• Identified, documented, and tracked defects using TFS, participating in root cause analysis to ensure timely resolution.
• Authored detailed manual test scripts to validate system integrations and ensure data consistency across applications.
• Optimized test cases for efficiency and consistency, improving test coverage and defect detection rates.
• Created self-documented test artifacts for transparency and reusability in future test cycles.
• Coordinated activities with offshore development and QA teams to align test execution and issue resolution timelines.
• Participated in daily defect triage meetings, effectively escalating critical issues and ensuring stakeholder visibility.

Senior QA Analyst/SAP Tester - Halliburton

(2018-05 - 2021-07)

• Define test plans by analyzing FDD's, business requirements, development design documents and use cases.
• Work closely with functional and development teams to ensure full end to end regression and system integration testing.
• Design test suites, test cases, test scripts and test reports for manual and automated testing.
• Created sales order, updated sales orders via SAP transaction codes.
• Validated the info on SAP that passed from UI like sales order number, sales order line items.
• Identify and document system bugs using TFS, assist in root cause analysis for timely resolution of defects.
• Manage and maintain Azure environment (VMs and Templates) for test teams.
• Created accurate and efficient manual test scripts to manage testing of web products and features. Driving quality assurance initiatives across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within Agile.
• Manually tested and verified features of Power BI reports based on business requirements.
• Compared the data between excel sheets using Spread sheet Compare Microsoft tool.
• Validated automation scripts developed by the team.
• Facilitated unit testing of automated scripts existing in Quick Test Professional repository and participated in developing of data driven framework.
• Logged and tracked all noted defects in the Quality Center.
• Build user stories and maintain backlog with priorities using TFS.
• Create a storyboard of backlog items in Agile and develop items according to business needs.
• Created workflow diagrams to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines.
• Delivered in-depth application training, imparting knowledge of best practices for protecting data and minimizing errors.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
• Working with our product teams to ensure a consistent end-to-end experience.
• Debugged and executed automation scripts via UFT.
• Facilitated Scrum Actives: Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning Sessions and Sprint Backlog Refinement.
• Documented software issues and enhancement requests and assists development with concise and detailed steps for duplication of the problem.

Senior Quality Analyst/IVR Tester - Dish Network Corp

(2017-11 - 2018-04)

• Driving quality assurance initiatives across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within Agile. Created test scripts based on user story acceptance, smoke test and Regression suites
• Team lead for 8 offshore members.
• Executed test scripts for multilingual interactive voice response system and documented results in form of defects and issue reports.
• Writes, debugs, executes, and maintains test cases/scripts.
• Analyze the failure test cases to identify the failure cause.
• Performs testing utilizing different testing techniques.
• Performed gap analysis of business rules, system flows, and user requirements.
• Tracked and maintained stakeholder enhancements via requirement traceability matrix.
• Performed data based (backend) testing and validation in database using SQL queries.
• Validated the fixes for defects through additional testing.
• Modifying the test scripts accordingly depend on fixes or changes.
• Documenting the test results and ensure all requirements were tested by tractability matrix.

Automation Tester - Macys

(2015-09 - 2017-10)

• Performed functional and regression testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Wrote acceptance tests using a behavior driven development framework.
• Implemented backend testing using Java Database Connectivity API in conjunction with Selenium WebDriver.
• Using Selenium to set up a full automation test suite-enabling team to create and run scripts as needed.
• Maintained Automated Scripts and troubleshoot their issues for each Site Release, Feature, and Small Enhancement Project.
• Analyzed test cases and functional specifications to determine best approach for automating scripts.
• Documented software issues and enhancement requests and assists development with concise and detailed steps for duplication of the problem.
• Timely basis improving product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes.
• Performed backend testing for data validation using SQL Queries.
• Reviewing the Test Reports using TestNG.

Senior Software Engineer - IGATE Global Solutions

(2013-01 - 2015-02)

• Migrated all Web, .NET, and mainframe application test scripts from Windows XP to Windows 7.
• Worked with JCL in mainframes.
• Validated the Data on Mainframes using batch testing.
• Performed Batch QA Testing and Manual Testing.
• Worked with SQL and Table Joins to test the database integrity.
• Created and maintained requirement traceability matrix.
• Validated RTM against development work ensuring that the team's commitment had been met.
• Facilitated unit testing of automated scripts existing in Quick Test Professional repository.
• Logged and tracked all noted defects in the Quality Center.
• Used error logging and error handling techniques to capture data in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
• Performed positive and negative testing on software applications.
• Liaison for US based client, ensuring the India team met customer's expectations.

Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Instrumentation - Acharya Nagarjuna University