Vignesh Babu Mobile: 224-***-****

E-Mail: adkxtj@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-babu-61932622

Demonstrated expertise building, managing, and optimizing test infrastructure and continuous delivery strategies. Proven history of leading high-performing collocated and offshore QA test engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, validate test data and requirements and ensure continuous progress toward goals. Skilled at developing test plans and strategies, setting up test environments, writing test cases and scripts, and implementing right-fit test methodologies with appropriate coverage. Adept at planning, prioritizing, and executing testing in agile continuous delivery life cycles to ensure rapid deployment of relevant, quality solutions that meet business, consumer, and end user needs.

PROFILE SUMMARY

Comprehensive knowledge of all phases of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experience with Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology.

Experience with manual and automation testing of Desktop, Mobile, Web and Cloud (AWS and Azure) applications.

Worked in different levels of testing (Sanity Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing).

Well versed in creation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Case, Defect Report, and Test Summary Report.

Skilled in understanding, analyzing and streamlining test requirements.

Have experience in mobile testing Android and iOS devices. Well versed in debugging using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) commands.

Have experience in testing Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Automation testing with Selenium IDE and Web driver (TestNG Framework) and HP UFT tools.

Have experience in creating automation frameworks (Keyword Driven + Data Driven).

Well versed in version control using GIT and BitBucket.

Experience with scheduling jobs using Crons.

Web Services and API testing of SOAP and RESTful services using Postman and SoapUI tools.

Experience with Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers.

ETL and Data Warehouse testing of batch jobs using Putty in validating the data extraction, transformation logic, mapping and loading the data into the database.

Experience in creating VB Macros and Shell Scripts to minimize repeated manual tasks.

Working experience with Virtual Machines like VMWare and Citrix.

Experience in defect tracking and management tools - JIRA, HP ALM, BMC Remedy, BugZilla and ServiceNow.

Implemented test metrics to communicate the status of testing for various types of Projects - Automation Coverage, Test Execution Coverage, Schedule Variance, Estimation Variance, Production Defect leakage.

Work Experience with mobile testing - Android and iOS applications.

Hands-on experience in Java, JavaScript, VB Script, WebSphere, Eclipse, Putty, WinSCP, Toad, SQL Developer.

Experience in writing SQL queries to conduct database testing in Oracle 11g and 12c, Microsoft SQL Server.

Experience in hosting working sessions between multiple teams/vendors for troubleshooting the issues.

As a QA test lead, experience in leading the QA team and completing the testing of complex projects with stringent timelines without any production leakages.

Ability to think out of the box and possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Good communication skills and ability to work independently and proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains, and technical applications.

EDUCATION _

BE (Computer Science and Engineering) from Saranathan College of Engineering, Trichy, Tamil nadu, India in 2010

SKILLS

Testing Knowledge

: Manual and Automation testing, Web services testing, ETL testing, Mobile testing, Database testing, UI and compatibility testing.

Operating System

: Windows, UNIX, Linux, iOS and Chrome OS.

Programming Languages

: Java

Scripting Languages

: VB Script, JavaScript and Shell Script

Automation Tools

: Selenium and HP UFT

Testing Frameworks

: TestNG and CRAFT

Databases

: Oracle 11g and 12c, Microsoft SQL Server

Other Utilities

: Soap UI, Postman, Eclipse, WebSphere, WinSCP, Putty, Toad, SQL Developer

Defect Tracking Tools

: JIRA, HP ALM/Quality Center, BMC Remedy, BugZilla and ServiceNow.

Domain Knowledge

: Retail, Healthcare and Finance

CERTIFICATIONS

S.No

Diploma/Certificate

Name of Institution

1

ISTQB Certificate in Software Testing

NIIT

2

Computer Hardware

Systech Hardware Academy

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2017 to Present with Cognizant, Pittsburgh, PA as ‘Senior Test Analyst’

Significant Accomplishments:

As an onshore test lead, created test strategy, test plan documents, effort estimation and walkthrough with business stake holders.

Hosted daily defect triage call with business, dev and product owners for tracking the issues and took it to closure.

Partnered with development, product management and the business to understand system requirements and translated the same to the offshore team to ensure accurate coverage of test cases.

Identified, analyzed and reported product defects and assisted with resolution of regression testing.

Prepared daily, weekly and monthly metrics reports which provides visibility to clients regarding the progression and deliverables status.

Reviewed and walkthrough the test cases with business team.

Managed offshore QA resources for ensuring timely project completion.

Worked on release planning. Also involved in product backlog meetings, product reviews and deciding upon further course of action.

Implemented test metrics to communicate the status of testing for various types of Projects - Automation Coverage, Test Execution Coverage, Schedule Variance, Estimation Variance, Production Defect leakage.

Coordinated with scrum master, product owner, dev analysts and business owners for project activities.

Implemented best practices and helped in enhancing the performance of the team.

Created test summary/closure reports at the end of the testing phase for approval from all stakeholders.

Performed testing integrating various third party applications like Address Standardization (Satori and USPS), Malvern (Shipping System), and McKesson (Automated Fulfilment System).

Manual and automation testing of both Desktop and Cloud applications.

Mobile testing of Android and iOS devices. Debugging using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) commands. Validation of Personally Identifiable Information(PII).

Tracking defects with JIRA, HP ALM, BMC Remedy and ServiceNow.

Testing EDI files for loading the data into the DB.

Performed Cross browser compatibility testing of Cloud application across different browsers.

Automated smoke test cases with Selenium tool using Javascript with TestNG framework.

Version control of code using GIT and BitBucket.

Involved in all the stages of Software Testing Life Cycle with Agile Methodology, Front end (GUI), Middleware/Server side testing and Database testing using SQL queries with Toad and SQL Developer tools.

Performed Web Services and API testing of SOAP and RESTful services using Postman and SoapUI tools.

Performed ETL and Data Warehouse testing of batch jobs.

End to end testing co-ordination with multiple domains/channels.

May 2014 to Feb 2017 with Cognizant, Chennai, India as ‘Associate – Projects’

Significant Accomplishments:

Created test plan and effort estimation and walkthrough with onsite coordinators.

Lead the offshore QA team by assigning the daily tasks and tracking the EOD status.

Hosted daily defect triage call with development team.

Reviewed and walkthrough the test cases with onsite team.

Created test summary/closure reports and reviewed with onsite counterpart.

Manual and Automation testing of Web services using Soap UI tool and validated ETL batch jobs using Putty.

Involved in database testing using SQL queries in Oracle 11g and 12c, Microsoft SQL Server.

Created VB Macros and Shell Scripts to minimize repeated manual tasks.

Involved in web services, ETL, functional, smoke and regression testing.

Involved in automating regression test cases using HP UFT and Selenium.

Prepared daily, weekly and monthly metrics reports which provides visibility to clients regarding the progression and deliverable status sharing it with onsite counterpart.

September 2011 to April 2014 with Cognizant, Chennai, India as ‘Programmer Analyst’

Significant Accomplishments:

Analyzed business and technical requirements and created test scenarios and test cases for validating the business requirements.

Created automation scripts using VB script for running the regression test cases using HP UFT tool.

Used SQL to mine data from the database as well as to manipulate the data.

Executed the test cases and tracked the defects using HP ALM tool.

Involved in testing mobile, windows and web applications.

Involved in mobile testing of Android and iOS applications.

Participated in daily defect triage call with development team.

Involved in smoke, functional, automation and regression testing.

Created test summary reports for the projects.

Sep 2010 to Aug 2011 with Cognizant, Chennai, India as ‘Programmer Analyst Trainee’

Significant Accomplishments:

Created test scenarios and test cases for testing the application.

Executed test cases and reporting the end of day status to lead.

Created defects and tracked it to closure using HP ALM tool.

Automated smoke test cases using HP QTP tool.

Created shell scripts for generating backend reports for validations.

Created SQL queries against Database for data verification.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 25th November 1988

Civil Status: Married

Address: 430 Chatham Park Dr, Apt #TB, Pittsburgh, PA – 15220.

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