PORKODI DURAIPANDI
E-Mail: **********@*****.***
Phone:+91-978*******
Domain expertise from E-Discovery and
Legal Software solutions in IT industry
Location preference: Coimbatore/ Bangalore/Cochin
P R O F I L E S U MMARY
Achievement-driven professional with an experience of 4 years in ensuring defect free release of products
Experience in SDLC process, Agile sprint cycle and QA Process
Proficiency in Database, Automation, Performance Testing, API Testing, Web-based and Manual testing for Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
Expertise in improving product quality and reducing the product failures, Agile Planning, and Estimation
Passion for and ability to lead QA teams releasing production-ready software on a time-boxed manner
Built, managed the new QA team to deliver high-quality software applications within planned releases
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/porkodi S K I L L S E T
~Agile & Scrum Methodologies ~Test Planning & Estimation
~System Testing & Regression Testing ~Quality Assurance ~Client Support Services
~Process Efficiency Improvements ~QA Risk Assessments and Mitigation ~Knowledge Based Documentation CURRENT EXPERIENCE
Associate Projects in Cognizant Technology Solutions - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Oct’18– Till now Growth Path:
Associate Projects – Oct’2018 to Till now
Key Result Area & Highlights:
Meeting client expectations in project deliverables by more than 95% with very less ratio of defect leakages / reworks throughout experience
Prioritizing QA Tasks/project initiatives based on business impact and resource availability
Participating sprint planning meetings, daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, Demo and sprint reviews with project team
Have automated a part of User stories and appreciated by team Manager
Have involved in the Performance testing activity and have developed many script for performance tesing purpose.
Have automated the Daily Status Report and appreciated by Onsite folks
Meeting the deadline of the Project. Have done with the testing for the User story on time.
Have developed the Test Case Generation tool using VB Scripts. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Senior Associate Quality Analyst, Exterro R&D Pvt. Ltd., Tamil Nadu Mar’15 – Oct’18 Growth Path:
Senior Quality Analyst Engineer: Oct’2016 to Oct’2018 Associate Quality Analyst Engineer: Oct’2015 to Sep’2016 Associate Quality Analyst Trainee: Mar’2015 to Sep’2015 Key Result Areas:
Meeting client expectations in project deliverables by more than 95% with very less ratio of defect leakages / reworks throughout experience
Prioritizing QA Tasks/project initiatives based on business impact and resource availability
Directing the timely completion of Testing deliverable ensuring scope commitments
Conducting sprint planning meetings, daily scrums, sprint retrospectives and sprint reviews with project team
Certifying and upgrading build release package to staging site for UAT testing, go live reviews as per company standards
Planning QA activities, scoping, creating tasks with defined timeline and assigning to the resources, tracking the progress of each task, updating the Sprint KPI
Producing capacity plan, member plan, detail plan that documents resource utilization and forecasts gaps in capacity demands
Ensuring QA team adheres to defined best practices, QA processes, Security policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards
Working towards creating a cohesive environment where team congenially work together for achieving targets
Reporting QA Metrics to QA / Release Managers
Development the Automation script at backlog wise and guiding and appreciating team member to involve in automation development
Involved in Performance testing and monitor the Performance of the system at backlog wise if its necessary
Actively participated in Retrospective meeting and intimate the Pros and Cons of the sprint.
Involved in Release Management activities
Highlights:
Conserve cost to QA department through removal of inactive tenants in AWS Cloud environment
Work closely with lead developers and product owners in backlog life cycle management and accelerate flow of feature deliveries to QA
Monitor & noted the AMI ID of each release for future purpose.
Involved in the Migration related Backlog when the product is upgraded from 4.x to 5.x and we confirmed with the data loss not happened.
To avoid the defect in Production build have performed Build Acceptance testing in Pre-Staging and Staging build.
To reduce the defect leakage have validated the Role Based Access Control in each release.
To mitigate the risk at initial level have conducted the Bug revalidation in Pre-Staging/Staging build for the issue which is applied as hot fixes/patches in previous release before reaching them to the Client.
Developed the Automation script for two individual module integration, due to this have reduced the manual efforts put for Build Acceptance testing
Have involved in the Performance testing for Legal hold related product and reduced the lot of efforts to be invested.
To reduce the Performance testing related issue in Production site, have performance testing for each release.
~ Phase by Phase Checkpoints ~ Sprint Retrospectives ~ Feature Turn Off Validations
~ Module Turn Off Validations ~ Persona Based Testing ~ UUI Standards Checklist
~ Mini Regression Test Suite ~ Fresh Tenant Validations ~ Utility Changes Regression Testing
~JMeter : Performance Testing ~ Selenium : Automation of all repeated Tests A C H I E V E M E N T S
Obtained 'Success Seeker Appreciation' certificate for on-time delivery of product to market General Availability Release
Have lead my team as a second level lead during the absence of Lead successfully TECHNICAL SKILLS
Automation testing Tool: Selenium
Test Management Tool: Test Link, Mantis
Agile PLM Tool: Version One, Rally
Client Support System: Kayako
App Servers: Tomcat, Fargate
Web Servers: Apache
Database Server: Microsoft SQL
Performance Testing tool: JMeter
API Testing Tool: SOAP UI, Postman
Security Testing: SAML ADFS, NTLM, Basic Authentication A C A D E M I C D E T A I L S
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering in EBET Group of Institutions, Tamil Nadu in 2015 with 8.08 CGPA
P E R S O N A L D E T A I L S
Date of Birth: 29th October 1993
Languages Known: English and Tamil
Address: 3/126, Pillayar Kovil Street, Y.Narasingam, Y.Othakkadai, Madurai - 625107