Quality Assurance Software Testing

Nikita Athavale

919-***-**** ad5czq@r.postjobfree.com NC

CAREER SUMMARY-

Software quality assurance lead with 12 years of experience in software testing. Lead and manage the end-to-end testing process, collaborating with cross-functional teams and product owner to establish business requirements and objectives, prepare detailed test plan, design test cases and test scripts to effectively cover all aspects of the project. Oversee the execution of various testing phases and fully support user acceptance testing. Expertise in Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, User acceptance, black box, white box testing. Experience in Agile - scrum and Kanban methodologies. ISTQB certified software testing professional· Vskills certified Selenium professional having experience in developing test scripts in hybrid framework using Selenium Webdriver in Java. Having knowledge of CI/CD principles using Jenkins and version control using Git. Hands on experience in automation using UI path. Experience in data validation- PL/SQL, snowflake, Salesforce. Experience in incident reporting and handling bug lifecycle using Jira, Rally, HP Quality center. Identify, document, and track defects, working closely with development teams to ensure timely resolution.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE-

CISCO SYSTEMS INC, Mumbai (Aug 2021 to current)

QA lead and automation SME for salesforce application - Partner Experience Platform (PXP).

Responsibilities –

Analysis of the requirements and participate in user story refinement and design reviews.

Creating test plan and coordinating the test scenario reviews, test execution, defect discussion among 4 modules.

Participating in end-to-end data flow testing.

Identifying and prioritize test cases for automation. Creating automations test cases in UI path in existing UI path framework.

CISCO SYSTEMS INC, Mumbai (Mar 2018 to Aug 2021)

QA Automation Engineer for World Wide Inventory Point of Sale (WIPS), web based application used by Cisco Systems to capture Point of Sale (POS) and Inventory information.

Responsibilities –

Planning QA tasks for the Sprint, User story analysis and estimates, peer review

Progression, Regression, End to End, Smoke test preparation and execution,

Report and maintain defect lifecycle and execution status.

Coordination with cross track and cross functional teams.

Automation of Regression test cases using Selenium in JAVA

CISCO SYSTEMS INC, Mumbai (Jun 2014 to Mar 2018)

QA Engineer for Quoting-Cisco Commerce workspace and Next Gen MDM, a web based platform for creation, pricing, submission and approval of deals and quotes for Cisco Managers and Cisco partners

Responsibilities –

Participated in requirement analysis, designed and executed manual test cases.

Performing data validations in Pl-SQL for different process flows.

Reporting bugs and working closely with Dev team for RCA and resolution.

Zipcar, Mumbai (Jan 2013 to Feb 2014)

Test Automation Engineer for Zipcar, a car rental company in the United States, a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group. Zipcar provides automobile reservations to its members.

Responsibilities- ·

Implemented page object framework using selenium webdriver.

Created automation scripts in Java for reservation, all types of registration, admin pages like vehicle creation, driver creation, launch vehicle, location creation. This saved time of manual effort.

Created test Suite for regression of the application using testNG.

We created 3 major regression suites each comprising of 120-150 test scripts covering major functionalities of the application.

CISCO SYSTEMS INC, Mumbai (Mar 2011 to Dec 2012)

QA Engineer for Cisco-IT-GPSS- ODS Migration for Partner Platform Program

Responsibilities -

Analyze and understand the scope of testing for migration.

Preparation of test cases and test data.

Execute the informatica workflows, DB links and Dollar Universe jobs and perform detailed end to data validation.

Report defects and log them in QC.

Status reporting to offshore lead.

EDUCATION SUMMARY-

Distinction in Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from University of Mumbai

CERTIFICATIONS-

ISTQB foundation

ISTQB agile

Vskills certified Selenium Professional

UI Path Developer Foundation

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