Vandana Srivastava

Vandana Srivastava

I have total 23+ years of industry experience. In that, I have taken multiple roles and undertook them succesfully. Roles I have taken, Developer, Corporate Trainer, Oracle DBA, QA Analyst, Scrum Master.

My strengths are - Inter Personal Skills, Analytical Skills, Communication and always ready to learn.

• 9+ years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing with strong knowledge of Software development life cycle (SDLC) , Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and QA methodologies
• Having 5+ years having Agile practice primarily with Scrum Methodology
• Frequent delivery and release
• Risk Management – Accept, mitigate or Avoid
• Continuous Improvement of process and product, using SCRUM tools and artifacts
• Reported the project status to Stakeholders on weekly meetings, Documented and
• shared lessons learned and best practices
• Hands on experience in analyzing Business Requirement, Functional Requirement, Design specification documents and developing Test plan and Test scenarios
• Skilled in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing and End to End testing
• Expertise in writing simple and complex SQL queries using TOAD, SQL Navigator
• Experience with ETL Testing - Extract - Transfer - Load,  Data warehousing concepts, Familiarity with Mapping documents, OLAP, OLTP, database schemas, Star schema,  data marts, fact table.
• Extensive experience in all testing methods including Waterfall, Spiral, V model, Agile and Scrum
• Expertise in creating/developing Test cases, Test scenarios using standard and modular approach
• Experience with Quality Center/HP ALM to maintain Business Requirements, Create and update Test Cases, Test Runs, and Test Results for every iteration and report defects and link them back to the requirements.
• Experience in developing Requirements Traceability Matrix to map requirements to test cases to achieve requirement coverage and change management
• Experience in working as a single point of contact for all testing activities and as liaison between different teams members and the manager
• Experience in testing/validating the Source, Stage and Target (End-to-End) data systems
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect management and Bug Reporting using tools like Quality Center
• Experience in testing/validation of Actuate reports, Business standard and ad hoc reports
• Experience in End-to-End testing of an application/process. Performed backend testing using SQL Queries
• Proficient in creating automated test scripts using UFT
• Web services validation using SoapUI
• Hands-on with HP Loadrunner - VUGen, Controller and Analysis tools for performance testing (Non-Functional Testing) and Jmeter for performance testing.
• Web service  testing with JMeter using SOAP
• API testing using JMeter
• API testing with Postman & Swagger
• Have 10 years of past IT experience as UNIX Admin and Database administrator.  From that experience apart from the technical experience gained, I have also developed strong documentation and people skills, problem solving techniques, and Analytical aptitude.