Associate Software Engineer 2- QA

Monika Kanapathi Rajendran

*************@*******.*** 513-***-**** Cincinnati, OH

Professional Summary

Highly motivated and dynamic QA Engineer with 5.5 years of solid experience in Automation and Functional testing with excellent communication skills. Proven excellence in ownership and leading QA teams in Software development projects using Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies on cross functional teams distributed across the globe.

Technical Summary

• Defining the testing strategy and test plan for large scale programs and ensuring requirements traceability throughout the system development lifecycle.

• Strong Test automating experience in Selenium Webdriver and Test complete which involves the creation, maintenance, and execution of automated test suites implemented in the POM-Hybrid and Test NG Framework.

• Ample experience in Continuous Integration and deployment using Jenkins, and GIT Bash.

• Skilled in preparing and updating end-to-end test scenarios, test cases, and test data and executing the test cases with laser focus to detail.

• Performing Back End Testing, database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries.

• Planning and performing Unit Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Exploratory, Regression, and Adhoc testing

• Responsible for raising risks on the Project and take it to all the Project Stakeholders.

• Reporting & Tracking the defects and complete responsibility of Defect management (Bug Cycle) by filing excellent bug reports, and quickly identifying regressions.

• Experience troubleshooting test environment issues and environment maintenance.

• Daily /Weekly status reporting in Scrum and review meetings. Test metrics preparation for audits.

• Led Teams with Strategic projects, Iterative Testing Model. NGD/Win2K8 Server migration projects, Data migration projects, Agile environments and ensured quality through domain expertise.

• Involved in Business and System Requirements Walkthrough with Business Analysts.

• Planning and implementing Knowledge Transition to the resources in the team.

• Passionate about testing strategy, problem-solving, learning new skills, sharing expertise, and knowledge.

Work Experience

Tenure

Company

Designation

June 2016 -July 2019

MatrixCare

Associate Software Engineer 2

Nov 2013- May

2016

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Programmer Analyst

Education

Course/Degree

Year of Passing

Institution

University/Board

Master of Engineering in CS-Data Science

2021

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

University of Cincinnati

Bachelor of Engineering

2013

K.L.N College of Engineering, Madurai, India

Anna University

Certifications & Other Courses

‘Data Science Prodegree ‘from Imarticus in collaboration with GENPACT

INS 21 (Property and Liability Insurance Principles) certified by The Institutes.

Graduated BULATS-Praxis level through Comex program arranged by Cognizant.

Cognizant certified professionals in General Insurance, QC, Insurance in Claims, Underwriting principles, Reinsurance & Homeowners Liability.

Cognizant certified professional in QTP, Automation Testing for Learners.

Skill Set

Expertise

Description

Domain

Health Care, Insurance

Tools

Selenium Web Driver, Test Complete, Rest API, JIRA, QTest, Quality Center, QTP, UFT, Soap UI, Rest API

Programming

C++, Java, Python

Scripting

VB script

Database

SQL Server 2012

SDLC Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall

Awards /Accolades

Received “Delivery Excellence “Award from Customers within a short period of joining the team.

Received “Star of the Year” award from Cognizant for an initiative which helped the team to get a high learning score.

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