Career Overview and Capabilities

Seasoned Test Lead and Certified Scrum Master with extensive expertise across insurance, e-commerce, and childcare sectors. Specialized in QA UI testing, mobile testing, orchestrating testing endeavors across diverse teams, and nurturing testers for forthcoming projects with top-notch, production-ready solutions. Proficient in spearheading intricate test initiatives, yielding positive business impacts at the enterprise scale. Adept in the SDLC process and dedicated to ongoing enhancements for continuous process improvement.

Career Summary,

Test Lead - Nationwide Insurance

Managing test resources and providing training on test strategies to onshore and offshore teams in the agile model.

Focused on UI end-to-end testing, mobile, security, ADA, and performance testing.

Involved in the entire SDLC process from initial requirement estimations to production releases.

Working closely with business stakeholders to find opportunities in the process to improve the entire STLC process.

Conducting weekly defect triage meetings with team keys and stakeholders to prioritize the defects in the backlog.

Led enterprise scrum of scrums across 6 different teams to improve testing processes and find learning opportunities across the enterprise.

Test lead – 2CheckOut, Discover financials, Wendys.

Relentless in leading the testing team on testing E-commerce applications in regression, database, and gateway validation.

Expertized in coordinating across teams to find solutions for any process gaps in the projects.

Involved in testing the salesforce application as part of end-to-end testing.

Involved in testing digital menu boards in restaurants.

Sr Quality analyst – State auto insurance

Created test scenarios and defects for the guidewire claims project.

Involved heavily in testing in-house products and mail processing testing in databases.

Validated Enterprise content management as part of the migration project.

Quality analyst – ODJFS

Involved in testing mainframe applications.

Validated scenarios on childcare projects on calculating child support benefits.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

Education

Master’s in sociology, Post graduation diploma in software engineering, Tirupathi, AP, India

Certifications

Scrum master, Agile master, SQL, BA, Cyber security, Tera data

Tools

Test management

Quality center, ALM, JIRA

Defect management

Quality center, JIRA, Symphony (ODJFS in-house tool)

Automation

Ruby, Cucumber, Tosca

Content management tool

Share drive, Tridion

Other

Salesforce, Azure, Qualys, Contraste, Jmeter, Muel, NVDA

Carrer Details

Test Automation Lead – Nationwide Insurance, Jan 2016 - present.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing the testing teams, interviewing, hiring new team members, and training resource-based demand.

Responsible for review and conflict management and all testing deliverables.

Experience in telephony field testing with different networks like 2G/3G/4G/5G.

Working as a team coordinator between different teams and different stakeholders.

Responsible for training testers on mobile validation on different devices.

Good experience in testing products on different network carriers - AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile.

updates accurate.

Lead the security validation analysis and reports using Qualys and Contrast.

QA Lead - 2CheckOut, June 2014 – Dec 2015

Responsibilities:

Experienced in database validation using Azure.

Involved in testing salesforce applications as part of end-to-end transaction validation.

Providing detailed awareness of agile methodology to the new team members.

QA Lead - Discover Financials, Nov 2013 – Mar 2014

Responsibilities:

Conducted brainstorming sessions to find clarity about requirements with end users.

Created test scope document based on Design documents to test gateways for transactions.

Expertized in creating traceability matrix.

Created test plan and created scripts for UAT in the Quality center.

Validated XML file to execute test scripts using SOAP UI.

Extensively used SQL queries for data verification and backend testing.

Sr QA Analyst - Wendy’s, May 2013- Oct 2013

Responsibilities:

Validated XML file to execute test scripts.

Executed test scenarios to validate digital boards.

Extensively used SQL queries for data verification and backend testing

Involved in Load testing to find out the performance of the Back Office application.

Sr. QA Analyst - State Auto Insurance, Aug 2012 – Apl 2013

Responsibilities:

Working on multiple projects as an individual contributor as well as a team member in an agile environment.

Created Exposures to verify Automation triggers for claims using Guidewire.

Sr Quality Analyst – ODJFS, Feb 2011 – June 2012

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Technical Leads to proactively define testing strategies and test plans.

Involved in meetings with Requirements Analysts/Business Analysts/SMEs to discuss requirements and test scenarios.

Daily Status meetings with QA Manager. Conducted issues tracking status Walkthroughs.

Summarizing test results and sharing issues with the QA lead for solutions.

QA lead – Nationwide Financials, Oct 2008- Dec 2008

Responsibilities:

Led multiple resources to ensure timely and effective delivery of the project.

Involved in gathering test data using CICS screens.

Worked with developers to discuss defects.

QA Tester – ODJFS, Oct ‘07 – Sept’ 08

Responsibilities:

Involved in Joint application development sessions.

Created UTCs, and scenarios symphony using SRD.

Involved in collecting test data using IMS Screens

QA Tester - Nationwide Insurance, Aug 2006 – Feb 2007

Responsibilities:

Involved in Developing Test Indices and Test Cases based on Use Cases and Requirements Documents.

Created XML Templates using VOLTA XML Spy, and XML Files to automate the Testing Process in the Fitness tool.

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