Bharath Kumar Megarajan

E-mail Id: adg5wu@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile No: 770-***-****

Experience Summary

•Total 10 years of experience of which 7+ years of experience is in IT Industry into software quality assurance and testing.

•Hold strong knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC).

•Experience in analyzing business requirement, functional requirement and review design specifications with having primary responsibility of developing test plan and test scenarios.

•Expertise in building QA test strategy, testing scripts, testing execution plan and also coordinated UAT testing.

•Extensive experience in all testing methods including waterfall, agile and scrum.

•Expertise in writing simple and complex SQL queries using TOAD.

•Experienced in functional or system, integration, regression and automation testing.

•Experience working with Version One / Quality Center/ ALM / Jira to store business requirements, test Cases, test runs, test results for every iteration and store defects and link them back to the requirements.

•Experience in testing/validation of business standard and ad hoc reports.

•Experience in end-to-end testing of an application/process. Performed back end testing using SQL queries and UNIX.

•Strong knowledge in selenium.

•Thorough knowledge of requirements induction and analysis techniques in order to define and document requirements and translating business requirements to functional test-cases and technical specifications.

•Experienced in interacting with clients, business analysts and leads.

•Expertise in defect management, bug tracking, bug reports and generating the graphs using test management tools such as Version One and HP quality center (ALM).

•Coordinated with all the team representatives and downstream users who were involved in testing for sign off approvals.

•On-time and quality delivery of the testing results for the modules/projects.

•Leading, mentoring and monitoring offshore delivery management team for project deliverables.

•Understanding and coordinating client’s needs /enhancements and customization.

•Team player with excellent analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills with an aptitude to learn new technologies.

•Good communication skills and flexible to learn advancements in the IT industry.

•Sound analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.

Technical Skills

Database Used : MS Access, Oracle, Toad, MYSQL

Operating Systems : Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux / UNIX

Test Management Tools : HP Quality Center, HP (ALM), Jira

Project Processes : Waterfall Model, Agile

Languages/Scripting : C, C++, SQL, HTML

Browsers : Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari

Others : MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint

Automation Tools : Selenium

Project # 1

Company: Maryland Dept. of Human Services - MDTHINK July 2019 – August 2020

Role : Quality Analyst

Environment:

OS: Windows

Database: Postgresql

Browser: Chrome

Scripting Languages: Angular, Node JS

Roles and Responsibilities:

Develop requirements for information systems from a project’s inception to conclusion.

Develop required specifications for simple to moderately complex systems.

Develop and document test cases, testing plans and procedures in agile environment.

Design and execute IT software tests, evaluate results to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.

Design and prepare all needed test data.

Reviews test results and evaluate results for conformance to design.

Develop and maintain regression and integration test plan for validation.

Communicate test results and feedback with development teams.

Mapping the business and technical requirements into test cases and generate test scripts.

Execute manual testing, 508 compliance, performance, UAT, Regression and Integration Testing.

Perform analysis and troubleshooting of Production Support Issues.

Project # 2

Company : Digital Minds Technologies Inc Oct 2017 – June 2019

Role : Quality Controller

Environment:

OS: Windows

Database: SQL, Oracle

Browser: IE/Firefox/Chrome

Scripting Languages: Java Script

Automation Tool: Selenium 3.13.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

Developing test plans and evaluating requirements for automation.

Designing test cases, strategies and test scripts for corresponding user stories.

Reviewing the test scripts and executes the same in selenium.

Story points are estimated and task are broken out and estimated by hours when necessary.

Road blocks are reported as soon as possible.

Develop QA process by using test management tools and techniques.

Tracking and reporting bugs by utilizing standard defect tracking system.

Providing directions in peer review to ensure that the product deliverables meet the deadlines.

Identifying the test data for automation.

Involved with test coverage metrics and defect metrics such as defects by severity, number of defects, defects per build, test effort and various other measurements.

Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.

Used Jira and confluence to store all testing results, metrics, implemented test plan document, created test cases, defect tracking & reporting.

Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Jira.

Prepared and presented weekly and monthly QA defect and status reports to the different stake holders of the project using Jira.

Project # 3

Company : Accel Frontline Limited, India March 2016 - August 2017

Role : QA Lead

Environment:

Application Type: Web Application

OS: Windows

Web Server: Tomcat

Web Page Design: JSP

Client Side Validation: JavaScript

Database: MS SQL Server

Browser: IE/Firefox/Chrome

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understand the requirements (both functional and non-functional) by going through the specifications and inputs from business analysts.

Identifying the automation scenarios from functional requirements.

Creation of automation scripts for regression testing.

Executing the regression suites through selenium.

Create manual test scripts based on the defined test strategy for the assigned module.

Prepare scripts (SQL, etc.) to create test data as required and populate test data to ensure that the test environment is setup for the assigned module in a timely manner.

Execute test script as planned for the assigned modules.

Prepare and submit daily status reports to client and provide timely updates on the tasks assigned.

Perform specific tasks as per the ""Go-live"" implementation plan with guidance from supervisor.

Document and share own learning’s from the project.

Participate in manual test script preparation on a need-basis.

Understand the test script/ scenarios, design and develop simple scripts using specialized testing tools.

Use specialized testing tools to execute the respective scripts and modify the scripts as required.

Create test analysis report for the assigned modules.

Involved in test case walkthrough, providing estimates and test result walkthrough to stakeholders.

Interacting with development team and business analyst team to baseline the requirement specifications.

Project # 4

Company : Vivek Limited, India May 2013 - January 2016

Role : Quality Analyst

Environment:

Application Type: Desktop Application

OS: Windows

Database: MS SQL Server

Roles and Responsibilities:

Analyzing requirement specifications mentioned by client. This includes the requirement specification documents, LDM, PDM, etc.

Analyze and communicate potential risks during project execution and propose appropriate moderations.

Communicate with development team in design phase and review requirement mapping documents.

Track testing progress and share status reports to all stake holders.

Perform reviews of testing artifacts, SQL scripts prepared by the team.

Performing system, functional, regression, sanity & smoke testing.

Reporting and tracking bugs in quality center & JIRA.

Preparing data dump for testing.

Hands on experience with designing, writing and executing test cases as well as covering all the test conditions and defect management.

Running SQL scripts (Database Testing) and UNIX commands as per project requirement.

Updating project status on QA calendar on weekly basis.

Closely following up with development team for all the open defects/concerns.

Tracking and scheduling day to day activities and updating daily status report to the client.

Project # 5

Company : Vcare Infotech, India May 2010 - April 2013

Role : Testing Engineer

Environment:

Application Type : Web Application

Test Management Tool : HP Quality Center

OS: Windows

Browser : Internet Explorer

Roles and Responsibilities:

Developed QA process by using test management tools and techniques.

Conducted tests and prepared reports for future reference.

Created bug reports by coordinating with software testers and developers.

Supported senior QA manual tester in the development and execution of QA continuous process.

Performed first level system testing by coordinating with QA team and business analyst.

Handled responsibilities of regression testing to ensure efficiency in product delivery.

Involved in review meetings and weekly status meetings.

Find the bugs in the application.

Involved in preparing test plans, test cases, test strategy, test case specifications,test scenarios, test data, test log and defect reports.

Work with development team to create test plans for enhancements and fixes on applications.

Experience with the SDLC in an AGILE testing environment.

Experience with lifecycle defect management.

Education

Degree University

B.Sc. Computer Science University of Madras

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