Nithya Selvaraj

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OBJECTIVE

** ***** ** ********** ** Software Testing field who leverages the advantages of latest technologies and enterprise standards to deliver the best quality product by formulating various test strategies and test planning.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

·Over 10 years of professional experience as Quality assurance Test Lead in Banking, Finance, Retail and Automotive industry.

·Software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions.

·Knowledge in understanding Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement Document.

·Proficient in all stages of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and use of software Testing Methodologies, Standards and Procedures such as Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test design (Test Cases, Test Data), Test implementation, Test execution, checking results and evaluating exit criteria, Test result report, Test closure.

·Executing the Test cases.

·Work independently to manage tasks and will assist in the planning, organizing and coordinating of technical tasks and work assignments, collaborating closely with release management, product management, quality assurance, and professional services.

·Expertise in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, System Testing and Compatibility Testing.

·Proficient in using SoapUI tool, SOAP, XML, SQL, UI Path RPA .

·Experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from detection until resolved using Azure Devops (Azure Board), HP QC and Test Link.

·Hands on experience in understanding the Requirements, Analysis and Designing of Test Plans based on those requirements.

·Hand on experience in UI Path RPA.

·Point of contact for the ISO 90001 Quality Audit.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

SQA Testing & Methodologies ( Agile, Kanban, Waterfall)

Test Plans, Cases & Processes

Functional Requirements

Scripting & Documentation

Regression & Negative Testing

UI & Compatibility Testing

Defect/Bug Tracking

Test Strategies & Coverages

QA & QC Standards

Quality/ISMS Audit

ISO certification

Tools: Quality Centre 11.5, Clear Quest, Test Link, POS, SOAP Text pad, Azure Devops (Azure Boards)

ERP Tools: SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Net Weaver Portal, SAP CRM WEB UI, SAP BS, Legacy Mainframe Applications.

Testing Management Tools: Quality Center, SharePoint, Service Now

PROJECTS:

Test Lead – Worldwide Environmental Products (Brea, CA ) June 2018 to current

Worldwide Environmental Products, Inc. is an industry leader in developing innovative vehicle safety & emissions technologies and vehicle inspection program management systems.

Roles and responsibilities:

Software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions.

Run functional, nonfunctional and usability tests scripts on various web applications, Standalone applications and windows apps.

Taking ownership for own career management and improved performance contribution.

Providing management, leadership and technical guidance to Testing Leads.

Providing regular updated for the testing status, throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including UAT phases.

Verify the DAD logs and provide the team with the solution.

Providing daily / weekly testing progress / status reports and reporting to my Manager.

Test Lead – Best Buy (Chennai, India) January 2014 – October 2014

It’s a unique “supplier to store-shelf” retail technology and services enables retailers to consistently provide superior shopping experiences for their customers – driving down costs, improving online and on-shelf product availability, and providing the knowledgeable service consumers have grown to expect.

Redpriarie TMS (Transportation Management system) - Creating inbound (procurement) and outbound (shipping) orders to be evaluated by the TMS Planning Module offering the user various suggested routing solutions. These solutions are evaluated by the user for reasonableness and are passed along to the transportation provider analysis module to select the best mode and least cost provider. Once the best provider is selected, the solution typically generates electronic load tendering and track/trace to execute the optimized shipment with the selected carrier, and later to support freight audit and payment (settlement process.

User Acceptance Testing Specialist – Assisted with user acceptance testing and defect tracking of four new releases.

Involved in creation of Test documents (Test strategy, Test Plan) and updating Test Documentation discussion and interaction with Project Managers.

Being the point of contact for ServiceNow - Change Management service requests (Creation, Approval).

Lead the team and managed the Test delivery.

Coordinated the defect review meetings with the development team and Business Team. Responsible for Test Closure Activities and providing the Test Closure Document to the stakeholders.

Tools Used: HP ALM, Test Link, ServiceNow

Senior Software Quality Analyst – Standard Bank of South Africa (Onsite - South Africa)

July 2013- December 2013

Manage the process compliance of the team with respect to customer defined ITIL processes.

Conducting periodical audits to ensure compliance to Customer and Organization Processes.

Perform other audits such as Monthly Process Audit SOW audit etc. and publish audit report to appropriate Stakeholders. Follow up with teams for closure of the Non-Conformances (NC) raised in the audit (Corrective & preventive actions taken to avoid process deviations).

Test Lead – Target (POS Testing) (Chennai, India) November 2012 – June 2013

Target - The Target Corporation is an American retailing company in Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States. The company is ranked 36th on the Fortune 500 as of 2013.

POS MACHINE (A retail point of sale system typically includes a cash register which in recent times comprises a computer, monitor, cash drawer, receipt printer, customer display and a barcode scanner) and the majority of retail POS systems also include a debit/credit card reader.)

Analyze business requirements, conducted gap analysis, estimated project scope and worked closely with developers to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities in the project include Requirements Gathering, effort estimation, creating test strategy, test plan, test execution.

Senior Test Engineer – Standard Bank of South Africa Business – CIT - SIT 1 - SIT 2 Project (Onsite – South Africa) January 2010 – October 2012

CIT - To transform the way, the bank operates, it embarked on a journey to migrate its old legacy systems to SAP aided systems. Wipro was responsible for the complete end to end testing of new systems and services developed at the integration and system level on implementation of SAP within the bank. This Project involved the complete Component Integration Testing of the new services / systems that were developed.

SIT 1 - This Project involved complete end to end system testing of the new services / systems developed during Systems Connect Basic Transaction phase.

SIT 2 - This Project involved the implementation of new systems like Loan Center, MAC and System testing of these applications in the BR2 Phase of the Core Banking Transformation journey.

Execution for Component Testing was performed by SOAP UI as the front-end was not available.

Validating the response received from the SOAP UI against the SAP backend.

Automating scenarios like BP creation, Account creation and Loan account creation in SAP CRM5 for faster execution.

Worked closely with the development team and suggested optimized ideas for work around scenarios.

Executed from the SProxy layer to cross verify the request-response received from the SOAP UI.

Create the Effort Estimation using the Work Break down structure.

Attending Defect Meetings for new applications like Loan Center and MAC.

Responsible to send daily and weekly status reports to clients and stake holders.

Help the team with the technical knowledge during the execution.

Extracting requirements from Functional specification.

Involved in the preparation of Test design activities like Test scenarios and Test cases and uploading them in Quality Center.

Execution of the Test Cases, detection of defects and raising them in Quality Center.

Validating the response received from frontend like NDS against the SAP backend.

Automating scenarios like BP creation, Account creation and Loan account creation in front end.

Worked closely with the development team to reproduce the issues.

Project Engineer – EMC Corporation (Bangalore, India) November 2007 – December 2009

EMC is a global client dealing with all the data storage boxes. They sell data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

Troubleshooting the storage boxes CLARiiON remotely.

Help the data center to create islands of SCSI arrays as direct-attached storage (DAS), each dedicated to an application, often visible as a number of "virtual hard drives" addressed as Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).

Consolidating such storage islands to increase storage capacity utilization.

EDUCATION

■Anna University, Chennai, India Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication, First Class

■Completed the Management Certification Course from North Orange County Community College, Fullerton, CA.

Thanking you,

Nithya Selvaraj.

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