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Swapna Soma

Skill Set

Technical Skills

• DevOps: Jenkins, Git

• Languages :JavaScript,Linux,SQL

• Automation Tools : Selenium Web driver, Appium,

Eclipse, Maven

• Project Management Tools : JIRA, Agile and

Kanban Methodologies

• Collaborative Platforms : Knox Teams, Mchat,

SharePoint, Slack

Career Summary

• Highly Skilled and dedicated QA automation Lead with extensive experience of 10 years in implementing and monitoring quality control systems for ecommerce projects

• Proven track of delivering large-scale quality projects, complex projects across AEM within strict timelines

• Rich experience in end-to-end execution of Customer Journey across Ecommerce platforms.

• A strong hold on Agile Methodologies/Scrum Master role. Mentored employees at all levels, including client, seniors, juniors on agile principles, providing them guidance on Agile Adoption Strategy, Backlog Grooming, Estimations, Capacity Planning, Sprint Burn down Sprint Retrospective. Managed scrum of scrums.

• Played a major role in designing and implementing the overall automation framework of www.samsung.com/us by using Selenium/Webdriver, TestNG.and Appium for mobile web application and App.

• Led cross functional Project global teams of 8 to ensure successful execution and completion of projects within the tight deadlines

• Setup and maintained automated test environments to achieve business objectives across customer purchase journey.

• Leveraged continuous integration and development platforms like Jenkins to improve overall operational efficiency.

• Experienced across Source code management tools such as Github.

• Experienced in automating testcases using TestNG,Cucumber.

• Experienced with NewRelicTool to create PYTHON based synthetic monitoring scripts and integrate with PagerDuty alerts to keep track of Performance of the application across multiple geo locations.

• Extensively worked on creation of PageObjectModel(POM) using Selenium Webdriver and worked on Eclipse IDEto develop Test scripts.

• Exposure reading and manipulation JSON/XML.

• Experience in Webservices Testing using Postman. Critical Strengths &Competencies

Program / Project Management Delivery Management

Agile Methodologies Training & Team Management

Stakeholder Management Release/Change Management

Planner

Career Timeline

Growth Path

Certifications

Professional Experience

Jun’16 – Till Date: Samsung SDSA

Key Result Areas:

• Leading a global team of 8 QA professional across different geographies in Onsite- Offshore model and engaged in end-to-end project delivery with strategic visioning, process redesigning, implementing Automation Framework designing and implementation

• Leveraging Agile and Kanban methodologies, rollout/training/change management.

• Planning project activities (Test scoping, estimation, delivery management, client engagements, staffing, reviewing requirements and test cases)

• Mapping requirements; providing best solutions involving evaluation scope of project and finalization of project requirements and delivering within pre-set deadlines.

• Recognizing technical glitches up-front, offering technical solution to internal and external stakeholders by providing a proof of concept/ research spike when required

• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings, Backlog Grooming and authoring Sprint artifacts & processes

• Maintaining the Scrum team’s capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts

• Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule

• Working on quality and risk management activities, preparing defect metrics for various project releases, defining the quality metrics through quality gate reviews and participating in quality audits for the ecommerce project.

• Building and maintaining strong alliance with external vendor’s teams.

• Extensive experience in testing applications on Adobe AEM(adobe CQ) platform Experienced in workflow validations.

• Experienced in Web Analytics testing using Omnibus that was helpful in Adoble Analytics in driving information and analyse the data in the customer user journey.

• Created Authoring Guides across different Component and Template-Component mapping for business users.

• Worked with team in creation of testcase to validate Page templates, components and Page/Dam properties. Reviewed test scripts created by the team .

• Driven and followed up on client reviews and signoff

• Authored Pages and validated against design documents. Validated properties and values in CRXDE. Validated PIM data flows .

• Performed extensive workflow validation -Process steps, Publishing, Resuming, Terminating workflow instances.

• Extensive experience in ECM(Enterprise Content Management), Worked closely with Content Management team by helping the team across challenges in template/component mapping . Guiding through the right components that meets the business needs. Education & Credentials

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 12th Dec 1983 Languages Known: English, Hindi & Telugu Oct’11 –Dec'13

QA Tester

Dec'14 – May'16

QA Analyst

Jun'16 – till date

Automation QA Lead

2016

Certified Tester

Foundation Level

2024

Certified Lambda

Test Automation

Professional

2007 Master of Computer Application from

From Osmania University

2004 B.Sc. From Osmania University

Oct’11 -Dec’13

VRadiant-India

Rokittech INC -US

Dec’14- May’16

Samsung– US

Jun‘16 – Till Date

Projects Undertaken:

SDSA-Samsung

Period: June 2016 – Till Date, QA Automation Lead

Role:

• Managing a team of size 8 assigning task, release planning, risk management and executing the project.

• Utilizing project management, team leading, Driving the Spring Planning sessions and conducting retrospective meetings.

• Defining quality gate review processes and Agile processes.

• Organizing daily stand-up meetings and Scrum of Scrum meetings with different vendor teams

• Collaborating with the Product Owners in finalizing the scope and ensuring that there is a healthy backlog

• Describing DevOps process in terms of Continuous Integrations, defining the Environment Strategy to align with the project timelines for UAT.

• Identifying potential risks for project delivery, raising risks and issues to highlight project delivery concerns to management.

• Planning sessions for doing Impact Analysis of Use Cases in each Sprint and the reviews of FDD/TDD well in advance before UAT phase to minimize the risk at later point

• Mentoring team and ensuring the project deadlines are met with minimum defects and with high quality

• Interacting with cross application leads for resolution and communicating the status updates to Global Leaders.

• Integrated Mobile Automation testing framework APPIUM (Android) in to webdriver automation framework.

• Trained team members for running the functional Test Automation suite developed with JAVA Programming language .

• Acted as a subject matter expert in regression testing carrying out training sessions for new comers.

• Reduced QA testing turnaround time by30%, enabling the company to take more projects without increasing manpower.

• Worked across fully functional testing while creating and executing 300+ Regression test in JAVA using selenium WebDriver frame work.

Rokittech Inc

Period: Dec 2014 – May 2016, QA Analyst

Role:

• Utilized project management and team leading capabilities along with Salesforce technology skills in terms of doing core development stuff in various areas like Sharing rules, Workflow Rules, Roles and Profile Management for Visibility, Data Migrations, Reports & Dashboards, Code Deployments and release Management/Production Cutover

• Managed the Sandbox Strategy to align with the Project timelines for Testing, UAT and Training. Delivered Problem Analysis and Solutions by adhering to client SLAs

• Managed Migration of Code/Configuration between Sandbox to Sandbox and Sandbox to Production by using Ember, IO tool and Eclipse and Change Sets

• Identified potential risks for project delivery, raising risks and issues to highlight project delivery concerns to management

• Conducted the detailed root cause analysis of incident raised; proposed detailed fix after analysis of issues is complete

• Interacted with cross-tower application leads for resolution and offshore Incident Analysis and Problem Management team

• Worked on Quality Assurance documentation using Confluence, Test Rail, Test Link for proposed fixes below go Live projects

vRadiant Technologies

Period: Oct 2011 – Dec 2013, QA Tester

Role:

• Resolved critical system issues and ensured timely delivery of Quality products in collaboration with 5+ development Teams.

• Designed and Executed tests on an enterprise-wide data management application which impacted overall department productivity by 20%

• Created detailed bug reports documenting all defects found during the QA process with corresponding priority levels based on potential risk factors associated with each issue.

• Successfully identified around 500 source code issues leading up to large scale software launch, preventing unexpected problems from arising upon release.

• Gained Knowledge of test process, understanding of testing artifacts like test plan, levels of testing and Testing Techniques.

• Doing smoke test after every roll.

• Preparing and sending test reports after each iteration.

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