Salatha.A.N

E-mail: ad03pq@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +1-945-***-****

Summary:

•Test Lead with 8+ years of experience in software testing spanning across QA management, Agile methodologies.

•Mentor and problem solver.

•Formed efficient, competent team members, integrated into all aspects of software lifecycle, resulting in significant improvement in quality of software deliverables.

•Excellent interpersonal skills, proven track record of building strong relationships and establishing credibility with key stakeholders across different lines of business and hierarchies.

•Well-versed with different test estimates and managed estimates and schedules for large/complex projects. Closely worked with Scrum teams to align expectations on schedules and effort.

•Ability to lead medium to large teams by outlining clear expectations for the team, Assigning & prioritizing individual tasks, organizing workflow to align the progress with project schedules.

•Served as user advocate within engineering team.

•Sound knowledge of change management tools, User Acceptance Testing phases.

•Sound Knowledge on Stream sets testing and Data validation(ETL).

•Driving scrum, sprint planning, story pointing, retrospective meetings and application enhancement demo .

•Have sound knowledge on AWS Cloud Computing, Kafka, Casandra, Map Reduce.

•Amazon Web Services(AWS) Cloud testing and deployment

•In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies, functional, and regression testing

•Expertise on Testing REST API using SOAP UI.

•Expertise in documenting the Business Requirements Document (BRD), generating the UAT Plan, maintaining the Traceability Matrix and assisting in Post Implementation activities.

•Hands on experience in test driven development (TDD), Behavior driven development (BDD) and acceptance test driven development (ATDD) approaches.

•Expertise in Automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, Java, Jenkins (Continuous integration, Regression tests), Maven (Regression tests), Cucumber, TestNG (Regression tests), Eclipse, and Junit.

•Proficient in the use of Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.

•Executing Automation scripts and analysing the results, debugging the failed test cases

•Involved in preparing testing related documents (Test plan, RTM, E2E Scenarios, Test Case, and Test Report).

•Significant understanding on Requirement analysis, test planning, Estimation, Documentation, presentation, reporting, co-ordination with downstream modules

•Proficiency in defect tracking and reporting using various bug tracking tools e.g. Bugzilla and Clear Quest, Quality Centre, Test Rail.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, GIT, Postman, Firebug, SoapUI

Programming: Java, JavaScript, XML, SQL

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ

Defect Tracking Tools: Jira, Bugzilla.

Build CFG/CI/Tools: Maven, Jenkins, GitHub.

Testing Frameworks: Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid Framework, TestNG, Junit

Project Methodologies: SDLC, STLC, Agile (Scrum), Waterfall.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Mongo

Others: Web browsers, MS Office tools, Windows OS.

Professional Experience:

•Worked as Testing Lead in HCL as Kafka and stream sets testing from March 10th 2021- June 30th 2022

•Worked as Testing Lead in CMEGroup as AWS Cloud testing from August 14th 2019- March 9th 2021

•Worked as free launcher for 3 years in Utest (April 2016 to June 2019)

•Worked as Software Engineer-Testing in CenturyLink, Bangalore (27th April 2011 to 22nd September 2015.)

•Worked as a Software Engineer for ZTE R&D centre, Bangalore (17th March 2010 to 21st April 2011.)

Education:

•B.E in Information Science% from R.L.Jalappa Institute Of Technology, Bangalore(2004-2008)

•P.U.C with 64%from Sri Dharmastala Manjunatha College, Mysore (2002-2004)

Professional Experience

Project 1 :

Project

HCL Limited

Clients

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Bug Tracking tool

Jira

Platform

Banking

Duration

March 9th 2021– July 30th 2022

Details :

At RBS, our purpose is to serve customers well. We serve around 24 million customers across the globe, and our aim is to consistently meet their needs wherever they find us.

User Notifications is one of the most Important service Users are provided free of cost, RBS provides multiple means of Notifying users and Notifications can be sent to users based on user profile settings.

As part of our Notification Project, we test all kind of notifications like User Debit/Credit card transactions and, deposit/withdrawal from Savings/Personal Account, Balance Details, Posting Adds about new Products, investments, Loan Disbursements etc,. There are multiple applications taking care of all these activities, but all services make use of Notification applications which can send Email, SMS to Mobiles or Notifications to Mobile Apps. As a member of Notification application Testing team, we will be integrating with all applications and will be testing different types of User Notifications for different operations and make sure users are notified based on User Profile settings.

Responsibilities:

•Understanding the Functional Specifications, design test case, user manual documents.

•Functional Business analysis and functional setups, issues analysis and testing

•Analysed the Business Requirements Document (BRD), developed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under test.

•Gathering the test data from other upstream for testing activities .

•Thorough experience in Agile, Scrum methodologies.

•Verified and audited Data conversion for accuracy and proper transposition

•Usual errors included data read errors, which were corrected by reviewing the sources document and comparing to the output.

•Performed UAT, positive, negative and boundary testing using the approved test cases.

•Attend Weekly/ Daily reports to clients based on the status of execution/ defects.

•Test effort estimation, executing test cases and reporting bugs.

•Actively participated and Interacted with product management teams in the review and analysis of functional requirements.

•Involved in testing various business rules User/Customer Functionality, Change Process, Configuration Data Requirements, Legacy Data Requirements, and Access Permissions Requirements.

•Used Git repository for developed test scripts

•Configured Selenium Web Driver, Test-NG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using Test-NG prior to next quarter release.

•Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.

•Expertise in developing automation scripts in BDD format using cucumber and proficient in writing cucumber scenarios in GHERKIN format.

•Support all the environments Dev, QA, NR and Prod.

•Validating and monitored the security groups on AWS and custom monitoring data source API’s and checked the logs for Cassandra for PII using Cloud watch

•Expertise in different types of testing like Automation testing, Manual testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, JUnit testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, Compatibility testing, Database testing, GUI testing, Web / UI and (UAT)User Acceptance Testing.

•Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from SQL Server.

• Verifying the Enriched data in end point like Mongo DB, end point, Oracle.

•Closely work and coordinate with the technical teams to deliver the solutions as per the functional designs and customizations.

Project 2(Details can be shared if required)

Project

CMEGroup.com

Clients

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Bug Tracking tool

Jira

Platform

Amazon Web services

Duration

August 2019 – Till Date

Description: CME is a global trading company. CME also provides settlement and clearing of Trade exchange. CME provides a range of trading services like equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. CME provides a platform where Merchants and Traders across globe come together and take part in the trading process. The purpose of this product is to process the various types of messages from different sources like MDG, PRS, OTC ref Data Etc,. and enrich it. The enriched data records are then rendered on CMEGropu.com website. All the services are hosted on cloud platform comprising of Kafka, AWS, Hadoop, Casandra DB and many latest technologies.

Responsibilities:

•Understanding the Functional Specifications, design test case, user manual documents.

•Functional Business analysis and functional setups, issues analysis and testing

•End user/ business interaction

•Thorough experience in Agile, Scrum methodologies.

•Testing on AWS component like Kafka, elastic search, Ticker plant, Clusters.

•Attend Weekly/ Daily reports to clients based on the status of execution/ defects.

•Used ALM for Defect Management.

•Test effort estimation, executing test cases and reporting bugs.

•Support all the environments Dev, QA, NR and Prod.

•Injecting the data via IntelliJ IDE to Flink apps on AWS.

•Verifying the Enriched data in Casandra DB.

•After the services are deployed in AWS Could, Verifying the deployment ad checking the logs using Splunk.

•Deploying and Verifying AWS components to Non-Prod Environments and supporting the Production deployment activity.

•Closely work and coordinate with the technical teams to deliver the solutions as per the functional designs and customizations.

Project 3 (Details can be shared if required)

Project

SDP (Service Delivery Platform)

Clients

CenturyLink Private Limited

Bug Tracking tool

Jira

OS

Windows 10

Database

Oracle 9i

Team Size

15

Duration

May 2013 – September 2015

Description: SDP allows users to request internet services through a web portal. The program consists of many applications. Orders can be created through two portals. Access to each portal will be given to users depending on the status and relation of the user with the organization. The ordering portals include QCENTRAL and QPARTNER. These portals feed the QCQUOTING, QCORDERING and QCCOMMON applications. These applications then feed the Order u System (OES) which eventually feeds the provisioning systems CORE and EFLOW along with the billing systems LATIS, etc.

Responsibilities:

•Understanding the Functional Specifications, design test case, user manual documents.

•Functional Business analysis and functional setups, issues analysis and testing

•End user/ business interaction

•Thorough experience in Agile, Scrum methodologies.

•Designed and documented REST/HTTP, SOAP APIs, including JSON data formats and API versioning strategy.

•Conducted the team meeting for discussing the status and issues.

•Attended Weekly/ Daily reports to clients based on the status of execution/ defects.

•Used ALM for Defect Management.

•Testing on AWS component Ticker plant, Clusters.

•Deploying and Verifying AWS components to Non-Prod Environments and supporting the Production deployment activity.

•Test effort estimation, executing test cases and reporting bugs.

•Support all the environments Dev, QA, Perf and UAT in data Fixes/Issues

•Working closely with the business users to understand the requirements of each release/project

•Closely work and coordinate with the technical teams to deliver the solutions as per the functional designs and customizations

•Train and present to different module owners and downstream impact

Project 4 (Details can be shared if required)

Project

RX (Repair Xpert)

Clients

CenturyLink Private Limited

Bug Tracking tool

Clear Quest

OS & Database

Oracle 9i, SQL Developer, Pl/Sql

Duration

March 2011 – May 2013

Description

Repair Xpert(Rx) is a java and eclipse-based application used by phone and chat agents in CTL repair call centres globally. Rx leverages the mature technologies that emerge from the open source communities in order to keep home-grown components to minimum. Rx is implemented using industrial strength J2EE technologies (Java, EJB, and XML) and is deployed in ECOM environment which allows high availability and scalability.

Project 4 (Details can be shared if required)

Project

CRBT (Caller Ring Back Tone)

Clients

Various telecom Operator across the globe (example: Star hub - Singapore, BSNL -

India)

Bug Tracking tool

Clear Quest

OS & Database

Windows XP/ Linux, SYBASE/ORACLE

Duration

March 2010 – March 2011

Description

This is value added service, which enables the caller user to hear the melodious tunes that the called user has subscribed. It involves WEB, SMS and IVR services. After registering the CRBT service, the user can set different rings tones for different calling numbers. When one dials the mobile phone registered with the CRBT service, he/she can hear the present customized ring back tones, along with these features some advanced features also added in this version.

Personal Profile

Date of Birth

7 Dec 1986

Sex

Female

Marital Status

Married

Languages Known

English, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi

Nationality

Indian

Hobbies

Listening to Music and drawing

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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