Vanaja Katakam

Background

About Vanaja Katakam

SUMMARY: 9 plus years of information technology experience in Financial, Educational, and Healthcare fields with the emphasis on Software Quality Assurance. Expertise in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. Organized weekly calls with the clients, Vendors and daily status meetings with the BA's, Developers, Project Manager and QA Team Involved in developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, Test Scripts based on User Requirements Specification (URS) and System Requirements documents. Expertise in performing various testing types including Functional, System, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke, Ad-hoc, Configuration and Usability testing. Ability to apply technical expertise to organize and implement white and black-box test efforts and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation. Experienced in GUI application testing, Front-end testing, Back End testing, Database testing on Client-server, Standalone and web-based applications with multiple server domains. Preformed active role in Requirements Review, Functional Document review, Testing Review and key resource for UAT phase and production roll-out. Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them. Strong Team player and contribute towards the team goals. Ability to work productively and effectively in a team as well as individually. Specialties: SQL, PL/SQL, C, BASIC, UNIX Shell Programming Visual Basic6.0, IVIS plus System Oracle8.0, MS Access7.0, MS SQL Server 2005, Affinity, ETL Additional Skills: Crystal Reports, Active Reports, KRONOS and PMM Testing Tools: WinRunner 7.5/7.6, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, Test Director 8.0, Track-It, Edit Plus Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows XP 2002, Windows 95 & 98 & MS-DOS