Krishna Gangichetty

Montreal, Canada J*L*K* (***) -995-3243

ad33uc@r.postjobfree.com

Work Status: Citizen of Canada.

Professional Summary: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with experience in detailed technical specifications and automation. Expertise in defect reporting and defect resolution by providing insights to the dev team. Over 7 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing of Web applications and client server applications. Maintaining regression results. Developing test plans and identifying use cases. Active team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Company: Bank of Nova Scotia Oct 2020 – Nov 2023

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Project Outline: Develop and maintain the menu list of the banking website.

Responsibilities:

Lead the QA team in designing and executing comprehensive test plans for software products, ensuring the highest quality standards.

Ability to use git commands for repository management.

Collect information and discuss with clients and team members for test coverage.

Prepare FTS for the features and work along with the team to meet the expectations.

Experience in using Azure Dev Ops. We used it for managing and executing testing activities, collaborating with development teams, and gaining insights into the quality of software products.

Used SharePoint for organizing test plans, test cases and other test related documentation.

Testing for Mainframe systems ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Review the test basis and software requirement specifications and clarify with business analysts.

Expertise in using XPath and CSS selectors for locating and interacting with web elements.

Good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and DOM manipulation for effective identification of web elements.

Used XML based assertions to validate the structure and content of XML responses from web services and APIs.

Experience with REST Assured for testing applications with RESTful APIs.

Used HTTP methods to interact with different API endpoints.

Review existing manual testcases and select suitable tests for automation.

Verify, update, maintain and execute the tests and follow requests from clients.

Review team members PR’s and provide support when needed.

Expertise in using docker and k8s for deploying latest builds via command line.

Good experience in creating Jenkins jobs for auto deployments.

Install new build for testing whenever new changes are introduced.

Help manual team to do Adhoc testing.

Track, monitor and communicate with client about progress of the project.

Train new members about general testing knowledge and automation using company tools.

Create product backlogs or user stories and document detailed acceptance criteria and compile recent functional requirement specifications.

Submit defects to the developer and automate them if missing in the existing suite.

Retrieving logs from the database for any submitted defect and provide insights to the developer for a fix.

Deploy fixed builds and verify defects.

Analyze requirements from customers and product owners, provide feedback and improvements for products.

Performed rollback testing to validate no regression is introduced.

Performed upgrade and downgrade testing.

Automated frontend UI and backend API using IntelliJ.

Report and maintain automated test results on a daily basis.

Validating the rules and violation of the UI via accessibility testing.

Skill set: Postman, swagger, git, confluence, DevOps, bitbucket, Kubernetes, Jenkins, DBeaver, IntelliJ, SQL,JAVA, selenium, cucumber BDD, cypress, total validator pro, light house, JIRA, manual testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, API testing, UI and API automation, Docker.

Company: MD Financial Management (CMA), Montreal Oct 2015 – Sep 2020

Role: Quality Assurance and support Analyst (Contract – Tek Systems)

Project Outline: Maintain MD online channel and develop financial calculators.

Responsibilities:

Design, reviews and execute test cases.

Performed manual functional tests on API endpoints with postman and swagger.

Verify bug fixes of development on pre-prod and production environments.

Responsible for GUI, functional and API testing.

Executed load and stress testing using Jmeter.

Successfully conducted testing for ERP applications- Microsoft dynamics 365, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Involved in performing Regression, smoke, sanity, integration and database testing.

Focused on testing user accessibility and user experience with TVP.

Performed cross browser testing and parallel test execution using selenium web driver and test NG.

Hands on experience with mobile testing on different platforms( MacOS, iOS, Android applications).

Experience with Microsoft SQL integration services but building custom workflows.

Report defects via defect tracking system and provide support to developers to reproduce and resolve them.

Responsible for setting up/configuring/maintaining test environments and tools.

Design, document and review manual test cases on windows, macOS, iOS and android environments.

Collaborated with teams/departments to understand data needs and deliver tailored datasets for diverse purposes.

Involved in release process and deployments. Also created tickets for client issues post deployment and ensured to resolve them.

Have experience in managing bugs and assign to it the concerned teams based on the priority.

Involved in test strategy estimation and planning discussions every sprint.

Create performance suites for some specific clients.

Participated in daily scrum and plan feature release testing strategy.

Maintain regression for the automated tests in Jenkins.

Monitor and track testing and development progress and report to team project managers during scrum meetings.

Participated in team challenges that are organized every quarter.

Skill set: Postman, VSTS, eclipse, PG Admin, JAVA, Selenium, TestNG, MSIS, WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool, Manual testing, Regression testing, performance testing, Jmeter, UI and API automation, accessibility testing.

Company: Tech mahindra, Hyderabad, India Oct 2012– Aug 2013

Role: Quality analyst (Intern)

Project Outline: Embedded systems validation of Mahindra Reva vehicles

Defined test strategy by identifying, evaluating and institutionalizing the tools and test equipment.

Defining the test architecture and test specification.

Implement and maintain the verification methods including automation to improve the quality and efficiency.

Identified system defects and executed, analyzed test results.

Maintained records of defects in failure tracking system.

Institutionalized software test process compliant with automotive standards (e.g. ASPICE, ISO26262).

Responsible for the validation of embedded system software.

Education:

Master’s in Quality Systems Engineering: Concordia University 2013 – 2015

Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering 2008 - 2012

JNTU Hyderabad

Certifications: Scrum Fundamentals Certified.

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