Akshatha sasihitlu

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Summary of Profile:

Over 10 years of expertise in automation testing and manual testing.

Proven track record in managing testing teams, proficient in manual test script vs automation mapping, risk identification, estimation, planning, tracking, and reporting for effective project delivery.

Skilled in Selenium WebDriver with Python and Java, as well as UFT/QTP.

Experience in integrating and managing Continuous Integration builds using Jenkins.

Designed, developed, and implemented different Test automation frameworks including Keyword Driven, Data-driven, and Hybrid.

Expertise in working with various mobile devices (Android, iPhone, tablets) for browser compatibility and configuration testing.

Experience in testing Web Services using Postman and SOAP UI.

Experience in various testing types, including Regression, Functional, White Box, Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, Unit, Integration, System, End-to-End, GUI, UAT, and Performance testing

Experience in Mobile Automation (Appium), Page Object, Hybrid, and TestNG Frameworks using Selenium WebDriver.

Experience in Test Methodology, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts.

Adept at monitoring team activities, providing guidance, making realistic commitments, and consistently delivering results.

Experience in working with different modules of Quality Centre such as Requirements, BPT, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects.

Experience in using Jira, Confluence, email-testing tool.

Experience in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access.

Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on Testing

Strong working knowledge of QA life cycle and methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.

Knowledge of basic AWS services like EC2, Autoscaling, S3 Bucket, EFS, Load balancer etc.,

Understanding concept of DevOps, pipeline tools like Git, Jenkins .

Have basic knowledge of Boto3, NumPy, pandas in python.

Basic concepts of terraform.

Technical Skills:

Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center (QC version 11), ALM QC (QC version 12), JIRA

Testing Tools: QTP/UFT, iAF, Selenium IDE, SoapUI, Postman, Appium, Cucumber

IDE: Eclipse, PyCharm, Visual Studio Code

Version Control Tools: Tortoise SVN, GIT

CD/CI Tool: Jenkins

Languages: Python, JAVA, SQL basics, VB scripting, shell scripting

Operating System: Windows family, Linux

Project Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

RDBMS:MS SQL Server, Oracle

Project Management Tool: PeopleSoft, MS Project

Achievements:

Prestigious BT Excellence cash award (2014) for UKB release 30E2E Test.

Pat On the Back award (2014) for excellent contribution to project delivery.

Associate of the Month award (2015 Q1) for on-time project delivery.

Blue ribbon certificate in BT Challenge cup Bravo Award (2016 Q1) for Automation team lead.

Best team award (twice).

Pat On the Back award (Q4-2018-19) for automation execution ownership.

ACE (Associates Consistently Excel) Award (2021).

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering

Work Experience:

Cloud Zenix

Project #1: Client Name- IQVIA as Tech Lead Aug 2022 -Dec 2023

Creating, executing and maintaining selenium WebDriver scripts using python language.

Part of scrum team for analysis and automation of new functionality of product.

Attending design calls with designers and product owner.

Preparing automation report for business.

Testing Web/REST Services (xml and JSON) using Postman and SOAP UI.

Used Jira, Confluence, TestRail Crossbrowser.com testing tool, email-testing tool.

Develop test cases (both positive and negative testing, boundary conditions) and use cases based on technical documentation and feature description.

Identify opportunities for process improvement within the testing and development lifecycle.

Managing team of 3 and ownership of product.

Performing compatibility testing on different browsers.

Identify areas for process improvement in the testing and development lifecycle.

Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Jira

Tech Mahindra Ltd: Feb 2012 - June 2022

Project #1: BT Ecommerce (2019-2022) - Senior Test Engineer and Tech Lead

Managing team of 7 and ownership of BTTV and BT Sport product.

Understanding new requirements and design changes to provide estimates to carry out testing.

Attending design calls with designers and product owner.

Part of scrum team for analysis and automation of new functionality of product.

Manual test script vs Automation mapping and risk identification.

Designing and implementing test scripts and managing Selenium test automation processes.

Modifying automated test scripts as per system functionality and functional requirements.

Testing production scenarios before Go-live, production testing and support during Go-live.

Coordinating between different teams under automation testing.

Preparing complete Automation regression report for business.

Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Jira

Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and resolve issues.

Performing compatibility testing on different browsers.

Document test cases, test plans, and testing results for future reference and compliance purposes.

Testing component level microservices. Preparing data for the same.

Project #2: E2E testing of BT’s UK Business Solutions (2014-2019) - Test Engineer

Analyzing online journey Test AD applications and developing Test Scripts.

Maintenance and development of Regression Test suite scripts in BPT and excel driven framework of QTP.

Developing testing script for mobile testing using Appium in POM and test NG.

Developing Test Scripts for regression testing and on Selenium for Online Journeys such as OT.

Preparation of test data for both automation and manual regression pack.

Maintenance and running of test scripts and publishing the results.

Tracking Defects and taking them to closure.

Ensuring that the deliveries made meet and exceed the expected quality.

Analyzing CAT (BT tool – Continuous Automation Test suite) and IMPs and ensure that Test Scripts will cover all necessary checks of Live and CAT test cases.

Optimizing and organizing the sanity test bank for UKB Sanity automation.

Attending Defect status calls, coverage and regression calls with onsite Test Coordinator, clients and Manager.

Handling end to end sanity of Agent desktop application.

Handling Team of 4 people, Assigning tasks to them.

Handling Critical Products like BT sports, Jeopardy etc and performing live testing after deployment.

Involved in test data creation, execution on time. Played critical role in defect cycle.

Attending Business severity calls with clients to discuss about the Severity of a defect.

Writing Cucumber for behaviour-driven development (BDD) and test automation purposes.

Created feature files using Gherkin syntax to define executable specifications for user stories, enhancing collaboration among cross-functional teams.

Developed step definitions in programming languages like Java, java script to automate acceptance criteria specified in feature files.

Integrated Cucumber with testing framework TestNG to execute automated tests and generate comprehensive test reports.

Debugging and troubleshooting issues related to Cucumber test execution, including identifying and resolving conflicts in step definitions and feature files.

Project #3: (Child Project) DHL project (2013) - Developer

Developed GUI for DHL with login module and Credit/Debit card validation.

Performing White box testing with Eclipse and publishing report.

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