Qa Automation Business Analyst

T.S. Sandhiya

998-***-**** ********.**********@*****.***

Bangalore, India www.linkedin.com/in/sandhiyats

Experience Summary:

I have around 18+ years of software development & Testing experience in Healthcare, Textile, Banking and Defense - Aviation domain. I have worked in various leadership and individual capacity for 13 years in software development as Business Analyst (PO)/Project Manager and 6 years as QA Automation Engineer – SDET. Roles & Responsibilities:

Played a key role as product owner in defining the road map for critical modules in Healthcare and Banking applications.

Expertise in understanding Business Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications and Design Documentations.

SPOC for user requirement gathering, project management, implementation, and support for all the projects handled

Successfully manage project scope, risks, and issues and proficient in managing the cross-functional team (both Technical and Non-Technical Teams)

6 years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer - SDET, extensively worked on Manual and Automation using TDD/BDD Cucumber.

Proficient in Core Java, Selenium WebDriver, Agile Scrum and BDD

Good knowledge of STLC - Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking

Worked with Eclipse and Apache POI.

Expertise in using different tools as Maven (Build Tool), Jira (Proj. Mgt./ Defect Tracking Tool) and Jenkins (Continuous Integration Tool) and frameworks such as Junit, TestNG, Cucumber & POM

Good knowledge and implementation skills in Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)

Point of contact and accountable for QA for Indian Navy Combat Management system for Bharath Electronics Ltd.,

Possess extensive business process knowledge, strong result-oriented leadership, communication and interpersonal skills to build teams that meet/exceed goals Technical Skills:

Database: Oracle, SQL

Programming Languages: Java, VB, .Net

Web Technologies: HTML

Version control: Visual Source Safe, SVN, IBM Rational Synergy, GIT, GITHUB Defect Tracking Tool: JIRA

Build Tools: Maven

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver

Automation Framework: JUnit, TestNG and Cucumber

Defense and Aviation Standards: IEEE 12207 and DO 178B Requirement Management Tool: IBM Doors, MS Visio and MS OneNote Familiar with – Python and Data Science

Educational Qualification:

• Master of Computer Applications (Regular) from Bharathidasan University, 1998

• Bachelor of Business Administration from Bharathidasan University, 1995 Professional Experience:

Company Name Designation Duration

Pinaka Aerospace Solutions Pvt Ltd QA lead/ PO 2015 to 2019 Sinech Inc. QA/Business Analyst (PO) 2012 to 2015

Business One Technologies India Pvt Ltd Project Manager and Business Analyst (PO)

2003 to 2012

Vesta Software Technologies Pvt Ltd Software Engineer 1999 to 2002 Process & Methodologies:

I have a good understanding of SDLC and led teams from procedural to OO programming, waterfall to agile software development.

Taking additional challenges of driving change from traditional to Agile development practices and championing for successful execution

Driving a culture of servant leadership to bring in productivity and higher velocity from the team members

Team Management:

I have made contributions in building teams - hiring, ramping up, transitioning projects to newer tech stack, mentoring & coaching team members, supervision, rewards and recognition. I work well with the team to bring out the best in them and drive team’s overall growth, local and virtual teams. I have been a transparent, inclusive and very approachable team player/leader

Project Profile:

Organization: Pinaka Aerospace Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore, India Project: Ship Data Network for Naval aircraft carrier, Destroyer and Frigate vessels

Role: PO/IVV Engineer

Duration: Nov 2018 to June 2019

Responsible for:

Worked closely with project stake holders, SMEs & staff to understand the requirements & specifications.

Review, analyze and audit of Software Development Lifecycle artifacts with IEEE 12207 standard.

Extensively involved in GUI & Functional Testing, Software Qualification Test, System Integration, Acceptance and Regression testing.

Automating Test scripts using Selenium web Driver for web-based application and created BDD feature files.

Daily status reporting, Attending Scrum calls, peer review.

Meetings with client regularly to discuss about defects and prioritize them.

Accountable for guiding and mentoring the team to achieve their milestones and accomplishing their task on time.

Adjudicate Software lifecycle documents anomalies and submit the comments/reports.

Report, document and track the software test anomalies.

Provide support for Factory Acceptance Test and responsible for creating the Final closure reports of the project and ensure timely deliverables by meeting project timelines.

Submitting the results/reports to the client and getting it reviewed and signoff.

Project: IAF Fighter Jets TGT Amplifier – Defense Sector Role: PO/Independent Verification and Validation (QA) Duration: Aug 2017 to Oct 2018

Responsible for:

Understanding and evaluating the business requirements of the Customer from Test design and Functional design documents

SPOC for the project requirement gathering to project implementation.

Derived the requirements from the Technical Specification document and prepared System Requirement Specification

Gate keeper in ensuring requirements are meeting clients’ needs

Designing Test plan and presenting the high-level scenarios to the clients

Triaging the defects raised by the team to provide initial analysis on defects.

Generated all aviation Artefacts using MIL STD 2167A and with guidelines of DO 178B

Project: RADAR – Defense Sector

Role: Project Lead

Duration: Oct 2015 to July 2017

Responsible for:

Accountable for generation of Software Development Lifecycle Project Artefacts.

Derived the requirements from the Technical Specification document and prepared System Requirement Specification and evaluate them.

Generated all other Project Artefacts (SAD, SDD, STD, STR, VDD, Traceability Matrix) with guidelines of DO 178B.

Review and evaluate the Test Design and Functional Design documents Organization: Sinech Inc. Bangalore, India

Project: Online Healthcare Management System, Client: Confidential Role: Business Analyst (PO)/QA

Duration: Aug 2012 to Sep 2015

Responsible for:

Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g., functional, integration, end- to-end)

Participate in peer reviews of Test Cases, Test Plans and Automation scripting

Worked closely with project stake holders, SMEs & staff to understand the requirements & specification for new application along with reengineering the existing application.

Gathering requirements for business definition and working with users to formulate the same

Identifying, investigating, and Analyzing business processes, procedures and work practices

Developing functional specifications for use by system developers

Interacting with business users, understanding their business processes and current IT systems.

Creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), and technical requirement specification for application development.

Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and verifying performance and reliability. Organization: Business One Technologies India Private Limited, Bangalore, India Project: Workflow Management

Environment: C# 2.0, SQL Server 2005

Role: Project Manager/Business Analyst (PO)

Duration: Jan 2010 to July 2012

Responsible for:

System Requirements-Understanding user requirement converting it into feasible technical requirement. Escalation of risks and management of scope/resource to meet project deliverables

Accountable for all project deliverables i.e. New Project Release, maintenance, bug- fix and enhancement, support and maintenance, leading a group of 6 engineers responsible for software development activities from development, testing and documentation

Cross functional team management from user requirement-anlaysis- development-verification-validation-implementation-suppport -end to end Project deliverables.

One point of contact from Bangalore and first level of analysis for any issue or information, pass it on to the developer for further analysis/action/solution.

Process management –Code review process, peer review process, code configuration process, Design and analysis process, user requirement preparation, design document process, verification and Bug fixing process, validation process, staging and implementation process

Responsible for driving the team to achieve the milestones, resource hiring and mentoring.

Accountable for Functional Testing, System Integration and Regression testing.

Responsible for Pilot Test and Signoff

Monitoring bugs and other project issues to ensure that they are resolved in a timely manner.

Managed and executed the Continuous Improvement Process (CIP). Project: Managed Care (Health Care) & Sales Force Automation Role: Project Lead

Environment: Oracle 8.0/8i, MS-Access & Visual Basic 6.0 Duration: June 2006 to Dec 2010

Responsible for:

Requirements gathering from business stakeholders and users

Understanding the system requirement and preparing the requirement/Functional Specifications

Work assignment to team and resource management

Database design, Coding and Peer Code review

Unit/System/Integration Testing and Implementation support Role: Senior Software Engineer

Duration: May 2003 to May 2006

Responsible for:

Form Designing and Coding

Coding, Peer code review

Unit/System/Integration Testing

Organization: Vesta Software Technologies Pvt., Ltd India Project: Vesta Account Solutions, Emolument Solutions (Payroll), Enterprise Automation System

Role: Software Developer

Environment: Oracle 8.0/8i & Visual Basic 6.0

Duration: April 1999 to Oct 2002

Responsible for:

Form Designing, Coding and Unit Testing

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