Engineer Scrum

Prashanth Tumkur Ramaswamy

+1-416-***-**** *********.***************@*****.***

Toronto, Ontario

https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanth-tumkur-ramaswamy-59415a166/

Profile

Detail-oriented and highly motivated Quality Assurance Analyst with over 5 years of experience in Software testing. Information technology professional specializing in the testing of Web Application, mobile and client-server applications. Expertise in manual and automated testing techniques and methodologies, including integration, system, functional, non-functional, regression, sanity, smoke, user interface, database and user acceptance testing (UAT) and performance testing. Well-versed in all facets of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), the software testing lifecycle (STLC) and bug lifecycle. Highly skilled in applying design techniques to identify and implement optimal test case scenarios and thus being accountable.

Core Competencies

Quality Assurance

Testing Automation

Documentation

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Waterfall Model

Project Management

Web Application

Process Improvement

Regression Testing

Black Box Testing

Integration Testing

Smoke Testing

Test Rail

SOAP RESTful API

Web Services

JIRA

GUI

User Acceptance Testing UAT

Project Life Cycle

Test Strategy

Mobile Application

Test Plan

Chrome Dev tools

Test Data Creation

Decision making

Defect Management

HTML Xpath CSS

Jenkins

POM Framework

Test Automation

Professional Experience

Software QA Tester Oct 2018–June 2020

SDI Marketing Toronto, Ontario

Created test case that involved a sprint period of bi weekly.

Assess software compatibility with unique geographical locations and browser platforms to ensure all products worked as designed for Web application.

Collaborate with developers to track backlog items to eliminate redundancy in logging bugs and fixes.

Provide support rollout across multiple code releases of product.

Set up and execute Prioritization Module Testing and Root Cause Analysis.

Execute gap analysis, aligning customer expectations and perceptions with optimal services, design and quality standards.

As part of Agile Development Environment, participated in daily scrum meetings, bi-weekly sprint planning, release planning, retrospective session and Project Documentation.

Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills.Strong in writing SQL queries to perform backend data validations.

Expertise in writing Test strategy, Test Plan Preparation and Implementation, Test Case design, Test Tool usage, Test execution, Defect Management and Defect Tracking. Experience in SDLC like Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and V-model

Involved in preparing Test plans from scratch.

Created automated test cases with Java, JavaScript, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver that involved a sprint period of bi weekly including status reporting.

Used Jenkins and Excel to manage data-driven testing and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

Used expertise in SDLC, STLC and bug lifecycle to design test cases and execute testing on company's eBanking and PrimeInsurance platforms.

Used requirement specificiations to develop test cases on JIRA.

Identified and classified defects based on severity and Defect Triage Handling protocols.Designed and documented RESTful API /HTTP, SOAP APIs, including JSON data formats and API versioning strategy.

Writing simple to complex SQL queries for testing purpose.

Validated SOAP UI and Restful API services for web application.

Investigating page load errors using developer tools.

Strong understanding of AODA and WCAG compliance

Senior QA Engineer April 2014 – December2017

Binary Vibes Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India

Designed test cases that improved the quality of client's Delphi and SpacePixel applications, increasing profits 15%.

Experience in SDLC like Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and V-model.

Experienced in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle.

Adept in identifying Test Scenario’s and Writing Test Cases by applying Test Case Design Techniques.

Extensively worked on various Testing types such as Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, User-interface (GUI), Data base and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for mobile application.

Used manual and automated tools, including Selenium and WebDriver, to effectively execute functional, regression and system testing.

Uses Test Rail for creating test cases for request fields and also Test rail used for reports.

Technical Skills

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, HP QTP, TestRail

Bug Reporting Tools: Quality Centre, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows

Project Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Scrum, Waterfall, V – Module

Languages: SQL, VB Script, Java

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server RDBMS

Interests

Reading technology articles and thus increasing the analytical and problem solving skills.

Going through discussions in Stack Overflow and increase technical knowledge

Led five-person team in preparing test cases for ShopHub platforms, listing defects that prevented a loss of worth $20,000, as well as reducing project completion time from five to four years.

Manually developed and maintained test cases.

Performed database testing and data retrival/update/inserts in relational database using MS SQL Server and Oracle Server.

Identified features for and performed regression testing that increased net compatibility by 10%.

Executed test cases for smoke, component, system, regression, compatibility, adhoc and integration testing.

Track Defects, critically reporting the blocker defect and retesting the fixes immediately for both web application and mobile application.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic & Computer Engineering

Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)

Manual Testing

Structured Query Language SQL

Selenium

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