SAPNA VENKATAKRISHNAN
Masters in Computer Management
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Overall 9+ years of experience in IT as Process Consultant and Sr Quality Assurance Engineer in Banking, Automotive & Retail industry
AREAS OF FOCUS
Interpret client's business needs and identify opportunities to improve and streamline process
Interpret the requirements into Test Plan, Test Scenarios &Test Cases
Execute SIT and UAT; Defect management
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Expertise in analyzing the Business Specifications, Case writing, executing and maintaining Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Results and generating software defect reports.
Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Defect life cycle management and different methodologies like Waterfall and Agile
Specialized in Salesforce application Testing
Worked on various projects, and extensively involved in Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Integration Testing, System Integration testing (SIT), sanity testing, compatibility testing of web-based applications.
Exposure in creation, execution of Test cases, testing processes, bug documentation, defect/bug reporting, Defect management using bug reporting tools.
Good experience with defect tracking tools - Bugzilla
Excelled in performing Manual Testing, Regression, GUI, Functional, Integration Testing, Data driven Testing, System Testing and Black-box testing
Worked as an onsite / offshore testing coordinator, gathered requirements from the business and interpret the same into proper Test cases for the full coverage of the requirements.
Experience on review documentation of software defects and assignment of software developers to investigate and resolve the issue
Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
Has participated in Review meetings and Defect Report meetings periodically.
Possess very good analytical skills, keen to work with the technical and analytical elements of the project.
Flexible enough to take up extra responsibilities and challenges.
TECHNICAL SKILL
OS : WINDOWS XP, UNIX
Browsers : Chrome, IE9 & 11, Mozilla, Safari
Automation tools : Selenium
Defect Tracking Tool : Bugzilla
Management Tool : HP QC
MS-Suite : Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel),
Microsoft PowerPoint, MS Access
Databases : Oracle 9i/10g/11g
Testing Methodologies : Agile and Waterfall
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Tech Mahindra Americas Associate Process Consultant CLIENT: ZF TRW
03/17 to Present – Livonia, MI
Involved in streamlining the processes like Change Request for Service Catalog, Procurement of computers
Involved in setting up the POC for chat solution through skype for business in Livonia region
Worked with users to improve the quality of chat solution by survey study
Requirement analysis and developing Test Requirement Specification document.
Test Effort Estimation
Review Business documents and Prepare Test Strategy document.
Business walk through on Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Data, Test Scenarios, Test Cases & Test logs.
Test Cases development and Execution.
Identify and create test data for Testing.
Identifying and development of reusable functions.
Functionality testing and Regression testing
Documented all test results & Bug Tracking using Bugzilla
Checklist creation of main features to maintain effective test coverage
Participated in daily client meetings, where discussed the application features and test cases
SRM TECHNOLOGIES Sr. S/W Quality Assurance Engineer & Business Analyst CLIENT: Shinsei Bank
07/2015 -07/2016 – Chennai, India
Requirement analysis and developing Test Requirement Specification document.
Test Effort Estimation and Resource Management.
Review Business documents and Prepare Test Strategy document.
Business walk through on Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Data, Test Scenarios, Test Cases & Test logs.
Developed the traceability matrix between test requirements and test scenarios & Functionality testing and Regression testing
Smoke test to validate the test environment/build for test readiness.
Identify and create test data for Testing and Identifying and development of reusable functions.
Performed Compatibility testing on different platforms in various browsers: Chrome/Safari/IE
Documented all test results & Bug Tracking using Bugzilla
Participated in daily client meetings, where discussed the application features and test cases
VIRSTRA I TECHNOLOGY Sr. S/W Test Engineer & Onsite Coordinator CLIENT: Shinsei Bank
05/2006 – 02/2010 – Tokyo, Japan & Pune, India
Functioned as an onsite coordinator, created a bridge between offshore and onsite team and fill up the gap in understanding requirements
Involved in understanding Business Requirements at clients site
Created Test Scenarios, Test Cases & executed to test the application
Involved in finding the defects
Involved in regression testing, Usability and GUI
Was involved in giving Technical support to team members
Was involved in facing challenges with developers to get bugs fixed
Involved in sending daily defect report to development team
WNS GLOBAL SERVICES Sr. Customer Service Associate CLIENT: SITA
11/2002 –01/2006 – Pune, India
Performed black box testing on SITA’s new SIEBEL based application “BOSS”, Order Entry DBR System and Core
Registration system
Generating problem reports for SITA applications
Manage User acceptance testing of the application at client
Test Execution and reporting of bugs to Accenture Team in Paris
Provide maintenance support to client for application.
CVDPL PUNE, INDIA Trainee Associate CLIENT: KINKOS
10/2001 –12/2002– Pune, India
Providing value added telephonic Networking Support to SITA clients across the globe
Assisting the clients in trouble shooting problems related to Cisco routers, leased lines, X25, X28, Frame Relay
Assessing the customer feedback, evaluating areas of improvements & raising CSD Tool Ticket for any tool issues & defects reported by agents
Rendering viable solutions to the clients on the phone; providing first & second line customer support by answering queries & resolving their issues
EDUCATION DETAILS
Master’s degree in Computer Management [MCM] Pune University, India 1999 -2001
Bachelor’s Degree in Science [BSc] in Electronics Pune University, India 1996-1999