Manjula Potluru

I am a highly motivated and progress-focused Scrum Master and  Senior Test Analyst with a long-standing background in this industry of around 8.5 years. With a track record of initiative and dependability, I have devised strategic initiatives that I believe will prove valuable.

Throughout the course of my career, I have perfected my manual testing abilities. I am a capable and consistent problem-solver skilled at prioritizing and managing projects with proficiency.

In my previous role, I contributed teamwork, time-management, and mentoring junior resources toward team efforts and business improvements. I am progressive minded and in tune with new developments in my field. I have proven to be effective and collaborative with strong communication talents. I enjoy collective brainstorming sessions which allow me to coordinate activities to achieve a common goal.

Career Summary:

• Total 8.5 Years of experience in the Information Technology Industry in Software Quality Assurance.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Contributed towards project goal by continuous improvement, Problem Solving, Issue management, identifying potential problems that can impact the team, mitigate and transparency
• Coached the developers team,Product owners and other stakeholders to improve their skills and work as a team
• facilitated and lead the team by following Core Agile Principles
• Effectively lead the execution of scrum ceremonies - sprint planning,estimation,backlog grooming,daily scrum,sprint reviews,retrospectives,reporting & metrics. 
• QA roles: Senior Software Test Analyst, Associate Consultant & Associate Software Engineer
• SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Manual Testing for PEGA PRPC.
• Having good knowledge of TOSCA Testing concepts including develop & Maintain test modules, Handling dynamic values in test cases, Creating Test Template for test instances, Executing automation scripts on different web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome using TOSCA
• Highly skilled professional at Manual Testing and Microsoft dynamics CRM.
• Exceptional Experience in multi browsers testing(IE,Firefox,Chrome & Safari)
• Experience testing Web based / dynamics CRM / GUI-based applications
• Experience in API Testing using Soap UI, Postman
• Great experience in Mobile Testing ( Android & iOS ) for Client based applications.
• Sound Knowledge in Financial & Retail domains.
• Involved in all the phases of software development life cycle from Requirement understanding to Defect tracking and co-ordination in Defect life cycle. Defect Reporting and Tracking using Tool Quality Center.
• Good at analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Having excellent performance record as a team member, Lead Team player, mentored junior resources and proven capabilities as an individual.
• working experience with multiple software development approaches and methodologies such as Waterfall/Iterative/Agile
• Experience testing of functional/non-functional scenarios in support of integrated multi-platform systems supporting high volume Payments processing
• experience in writing Simple and Medium SQL queries, performed Data validation and verification of batch/log files
• performed smoke testing post production deployment and documented the issues

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering)