Test Engineer Software

ANU. C. VARGHESE

SOFTWARE TEST/ QA ENGINEER

+1-512-***-**** AUSTIN, TX *******@*****.***

Summary

ISTQB and PSM Certified software testing professional.

13+ years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Experience in Business / Requirement Analysis

Excellent understanding of the Software Development and Test Life Cycle

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Received recognition award within Texas State DFPS and McLaneAT for the successful completion of Texas State DFPS IMPACT Batch Modernization project.

Skills & abilities

Team Leadership, Problem Solving & Process Improvement

Python, Selenium, SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripts

Toad, PL/ SQL Server, Oracle 11g

HP Quality Center and ALM, Load Runner, QTP

Azure DevOps / CI/CD, GITHUB, Salesforce, Tableau, TFS, MTM, Bugzilla, Zephyr Scale, and JIRA

API Testing using SOAP UI, Swagger, Postman with XML requests and JSON Responses.

RTM Development, Technical Writing and Documentation

Agile /Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

Experience

Software Sr. Engineer in Test - SDET Aug 2022– Aug 2023

Dell Technologies, Round Rock, TX

Worked as a Sr. SW Engineer in Test at Dell Technologies- ISG Validation team.

Requirement analysis, creation of user stories, Test Strategies, Test cases, RTM.

Automation of user stories using GitLab, Python, Robot and Selenium Framework

Subject Mater Expert for OSM feature Epics and Hardware testing.

Led Scrum Team under Agile environment and performed issue tracking using JIRA.

Coordination between Austin Team and Bangalore Team

Worked on OSM Project dealing with different features of the Open BMC.

OS installations, Updating and testing BIOS, CPLD and other firmware.

Sr. QA Analyst July 2015– July 2022

NAVIENT, Austin, TX

Worked as Sr. Test Analyst for Navient for the implementation of Tolling Solution in Puerto Rico (AutoExpreso) for PRHTA and Metropistas.

Leading FAT Demo – Led and presented the tests to the service Recipients

Performed BA and Scrum tasks alongside QA tasks.

Parallel Projects – ORB Tolling Project (with Kapsch) and Payment Processing.

Creation of User story, Test case, RTM and Defect Management using JIRA

Execute and debug Automation scripts with Selenium.

Testing Java and .Net Applications, API, PPI, Tableau Reporting and Back-End Testing using SQL.

Test Engineer – Texas State DFPS IMPACT Batch Modernization April 2014 – May 2015

McLane Advanced Technologies (MAT), Temple TX

Test Engineer for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) Information Management Protecting Adults and Children in Texas (IMPACT) Batch Modernization (COBOL to Java) effort alongside PMO and IV&V.

Analyze batch shell scripts to develop Test plan, Requirement Document, RTM Test Matrix

Led the development and management of Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test execution using Zephyr Scale and HP ALM.

Led and mentored junior testers to form a team.

Implemented Defect Management Process using Bugzilla

Worked alongside IV&V Team and followed Texas Project Delivery Framework

Recognized within the DFPS and McLaneAT for the successful completion of the Project.

Technical Test Analyst May 2013 – July 2013

BSkyB, Livingston, Scotland, UK

Tested Data transfer from Chordiant v0.2 (BSkyB CRM System) and Click Schedule (Engineers’ visit scheduling system) to the field engineers’ hand-held device (PDA) and vice versa.

Identified, recorded, and reported defects using Quality Centre 10.0

Performed test execution on Chordiant, Click Schedule, Salesforce CRM, and PDA

Test Analyst July 2012 – March 2013

Capita, Prudential, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Led Requirement Analysis, the development of Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts

Supported UAT with the Client team.

Performed Functionality, Regression, Report and Web testing.

Defect Management done using HP Quality Centre 10.0

Participated in preparing Test Completion Report.

Software Tester/Register Inspector October 2010 – July 2012

Argus Vickers, London, UK

Performed manual testing of any changes made to the in-house Management application

Website Management and Testing

Worked with SCRIP system, MS Office Suite, and in-house tools

Technical Advisor October 2006 – March 2011

BSkyB, Livingston, Scotland, UK

Led the team to meet organizational performance targets and KPI requirements.

Advised customers of Television, Broadband and Sky Talk with technical enquiries Chordiant CRM tool.

Managed Sales for Sky Business using Salesforce CRM

Business Service Officer/Software Tester January 2005 – Oct 2006

Lloyds TSB Registrars, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Tested the website for Share Dealing Services, and the intranet site

Trained, mentored, and led junior team members within the team.

Performed duties as a Business Service Officer dealing with processing the share sale and purchase orders on-line.

Software Trainee Engineer and other jobs June 2002 – June 2005

Trainee Software Engineer - IIC Software and Exports, Kochi, India

Embedded Systems, RTOS, C, PIC Microcontrollers and Microsoft Office Suite.

Guest lecturer - Cochin University, India

Lecturing the Second-Year students of B.Engg in Electronics Circuits and Lab

Education

PSM-1 Certification – June 27, 2024

Training on QTP and LoadRunner Automation Testing, Jan 2012

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), Nov 2010

Modules in System Level Integration

Institute for System Level Integration, Livingston, UK, Sep 2006

Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication

Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, Jun 2002

Communication

Excellent communication skills enable me to collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality results.

Leadership

Mentor junior developers, coordinate project tasks, and implement best practices to ensure timely delivery of successful project tasks.

References

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