Engineer Lean Six

Sharanya Ashwin

E-Mail: *************@*****.***

Cell #: 267-***-****

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SUMMARY

PSM certified Scrum Master and results-oriented engineering leader with 10+ years of progressive experience in Enterprise Software Quality Assurance PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CSC Global

Lead/Sr Software Test Engineer, Delaware, DE December ‘18 – Present

Create Test strategies, test methods, design test frameworks on AWS and legacy applications

Lead the test automation for UI/APIs and manual Quality Assurance process for Digital Brand Services team

Lead the E2E testing effort for cloud migration projects

Manage testing teams, assign tasks and successfully plan releases. Key member of release management committee

Organize daily Scrum, triage and release meetings. Co-ordinate and prioritize testing effort with the offshore testing teams

Comcast Cable

Lead Quality Assurance Consultant, Philadelphia, PA Oct ‘16 – December ‘18

Led E2E integration testing efforts for Stadium, SMB and Hospitality projects

Manage QA team and coordinate with other stake holders

Created Test strategies, Test cases and execute the regression suite for every release

Created, prioritized and reviewed Automation tests using Cucumber framework on Toast

Performed System testing, Negative tests and Doomsday scenarios. Perform UAT for multiple releases

Attend change control board meetings and support release management.

Key point of contact and SME for Commercial syndication partners

Coordinated activities with multiple teams for projects such as RDK firmware download, Activation of Set top box, XRE guide, Pointing to VM and other XRE feature automation tests SevOne Inc, Newark, DE

Quality Assurance Engineer January 2014 - August

2016

Led QA work stream in an agile development team focused on Analytics feature enhancements, Import and export

Defined Test strategies and performed white box and black box testing for a scalable network performance monitoring, management and reporting platform

Identify Load and stress testing effort for Import and Export spk files and assign tasks to team members

Attended Scrum meetings and supported sprint planning, backlog grooming and sprint retrospectives

Initiated and successfully completed a project to develop a test case repository with around 700 regression test cases in Qtest and Confluence

Successfully completed Scrum trainings

Performed automation testing on network management platform using Selenium Java and PHP scripts for Soap API testing. Supported end-to-end testing on multiple releases and sprint stories.

Trained interns and junior members of QA and Development on products, tools and QA best practices.

Supported release compliance initiatives and ensured adherence to release standards. Comcast Cable, Downingtown, PA

QA Analyst May 2013 – December 2013

Analyzed and monitored defect backlogs across multiple projects. Drove defect resolution and took corrective action on aging and deferred defects

Compiled Test Result reports, Test Time estimation and TQM Risk Register for senior leadership.

Implemented Lean Six sigma on Test Compact and Test Strategy processes to identify and eliminate wastage

Performed Web Services Testing on video products and performed verification of logs, database inserts and data integrity

Coordinated with offshore team and vendor in support of project objectives.

Developed Lean Six Sigma Training portal on SharePoint Villanova University, Radnor, PA June 2012 - April 2013 Research Assistant

Supported development, maintenance and quality assurance of www.computingportal.org, an NSF funded project aimed at establishing a distributed digital library for computing education

Developed online community portal that supported interaction among educators from various universities in the United States

Attended weekly status meetings in support of user reviews, discuss design and implementation aspects

Published software testing papers and completed graduate thesis on Software testing practices Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India January 2008 - June 2009 Software Engineer

Involved in Production support and maintenance activities of legacy Mainframe systems.

Supported maintenance and enhancements of client reporting portals.

Performed Unit Testing using Junit.

Participated in E2E testing of Mainframe systems. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Selenium, Jira, Qtest, TestNG, Confluence, ARGO, Cucumber, RDK, Splunk, JUnit, VSS, IntelliJ, Eclipse IDE, MS Office, SVN/CVS, Microsoft Visual Studio, QTP 8.2, Microsoft SharePoint, HP Quality Center (ALM), DOORs, MS Office Suite, VMWare, GitHub, Anthill, Servicenow, Cherwell, Workday, Postman Languages: Java/J2EE, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Python, CSS, XML/XSLT Servers/OS : WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, AWS Databases: MySQL, Redis DB and DB2

Processes: Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Develop Test Strategy, Report Quality data, Identify and track defects, Offshore coordination, Backlog grooming, Test Automation, Regression testing, Software solution design, Release management, Scrum Principles and Lean Six Sigma principles Domain: Networking Products, Entertainment & Communication, Domain & Brand protection EDUCATION

Villanova University, Villanova, PA

M.S. Software Engineering - 2012-2014

Dr. MGR University, India

B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering - 2004-2008

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