Narmadha Sivakumar
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Key Professional Strengths
A dynamic professional with 8.5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, System Testing, Web Application Testing, and Mobile Application Testing
Have hands on knowledge in Project Management, System Analysis, Requirement gathering, implementation, Training, Documentation, Client Relationship Management & People Management.
Currently working with Harman Connected Services (Aditi Technologies)
Experience in Agile Testing and Agile test management
4.5 years of experience in performing Test Lead role
Experience in various domains like Logistics, Telecom- billing and order management, Mortgage, New Media- Publishing and Social Media
Areas of Specialization
Project Management
Certified from LIBA, Chennai
Testing
Manual- functional, system, Sanity, Security, Automation (Basic of QTP and Selenium)
Defect Management Tool
TFS, Jira, Zephyr, Quality Center 11.0
Project Collaboration Tool
Confluence
Performance Testing
Jmeter, NeoLoad
Web Services Testing
Advanced RestClient
Mobile Testing
SeeTest, Device Anywhere
Cross Browser
IE (9, 10,11), Safari 5.x, Chrome 29, Firefox 16
Professional Assignment
Harman Connected Services ( formerly Aditi Technologies)- Jan 2013- till date
HCL Technologies- June 2007- November 2012
Academic Credentials
B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, affiliated to Anna University, in 2007
M.B.A. in General Management from Part time program of Anna University, Chennai, in 2010
Completed Project Management Program from LIBA, Chennai, in 2011
Awards and Recognition
Customer Centric Team Award for CitySprint Project for the Q2 2015 in Harman Connected Services.
Received Silver, Gold and Platinum Awards for HCL Employee First Council.
Participated in CSR activities like volunteering in Organ Donation Drive, Blood donation camps, Educational help for unprivileged etc.,
Key Personal Accomplishments
Project Operations
Conducted Case / System / Process Study for project planning, scoping, estimation & tracking.
Implemented project plans within deadlines.
Defined best practices for project support and documentation.
Software Testing
Designed and reviewed of Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test cases.
Involved in scheduling project releases coordinating with Project Managers and Clients.
Involved in Identifying & analyzing the defects, questionable functions, errors, program functionality, outputs, online screens and content.
Team Management
Worked with the software engineering team for handling system & integration testing, functional & user acceptance testing.
Managed Test teams in different Agile teams.
Responsibilities held in various projects
Review the test cases and test data generated by the Software Test Engineers and get them to address the review comments.
Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects and get queries clarified by the Client/ Business analyst
Create the software test plan, get it reviewed and approved/ signed-off by the relevant stakeholders
Estimate the test effort and team (size, skills and schedule).
Create the test schedule (tasks, dependencies and assigned team members)
Forecast and Estimate the future requirements in a project.
Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
Send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.
Identify any test metrics to be gathered and work on sending regular updates to the team/ higher management
Track the new/ updated requirements in the project and update testing artifacts accordingly
Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
Conducting KT and Gurukul sessions
Notable Project Summary
Project Name
Technologies/Tools
Role
Testing Specialization
Harman Connected Services (Aditi Technologies)
CitySprint- Local Courier Mobile App
Jira, Zephyr, SeeTest, Device Anywhere
Test Lead
Mobile App Testing, API Testing
CitySprint- OntheDot
Advanced Rest Client, SOAP UI, JIRA- Zephyr
Test Lead
Web App Testing, API Testing
HCL Technologies
Commonwealth Bank of Australia - DWH Testing
Teradata, QC 11
Test Analyst
Data warehousing Testing of a DB Migration
Nintendo 3DS Photo Contest- Japan
Manual Testing, IBM RPT, PM Smart
QA Lead
Gaming Device based Web App Testing
MEME Connect
Manual Testing, Selenium, IBM RPT, JMeter, PM Smart
QA Lead
Web App, mobile App Testing of Corporate Social Networking
IDG Japan
Manual Testing
QA Lead
Web App Testing of a site in Japanese Language
USAA- Loan Originating System
HP Quality Center 9.0
Test Engineer
Web App Testing
France Telecom- OBS- WebALC
Manual Testing, Oracle PL/SQL Developer
Test Engineer
Web App Testing