Qa Automation Management Specialist

JACQUELINE WILLIAM THARAKAN

*** ******* ** **** *****: 217-***-**** (C)

Collierville, TN 38017 e-mail: ******************@*****.***

Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Eng. – Apr. 2004 (GPA – 3.7/4.0) - Bharathiar University, India

ANIIT Software Engineering – Jan. 2006 – NIIT Technologies, India

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Design and develop metrics,Power BI

Conflict resolution and risk management

Process Audits

QA review and approval of documents

Develop efficient process flows

Correction, Corrective and Preventive actions

Create training modules & train

Review,analyze and assess software life cycle data

QA Automation (Java Script)

Experience with aviation industry (DO-178B)

Root cause analysis

Kevlar Automation Framework

Relational Database : SQL Server, DBeaver

Technically sound Software Engineer effective in analyzing relevant information and guiding product cycle from conception to completion. Having 15 years of expereice in Software and Automation. Strong analytical thinking and keen observation which helps in determining potential process improvements and discovering simple, easy to implement solutions, increasing productivity at minimal costs. Possess innate qualities of perseverance, enthusiasm, common sense and a strong desire to help the firm excel. Continually rated as a top performing employee.

Experience building automation framework from scratch using seleniumwebdriver and JAVA. Creating BDD framework and automating BDD Scenarios. Extensively used automated test tool like Selenium for Functional and Regression testing.

Experience working in fast pace agile environment(2 week sprint) and maintaining Test strategy, Test plan and managed test data from testing.

Lead teams being a scrum master in standups, planning and retro sessions.

Data managemnet specialist with 2+ years of experince in technical and data analysis working in various projects.

Excellent communicator, team player with good organizing,analytical and problem solving skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Data Management Specialist - Product Management Jan. 2020 – present

Northwestern Mutual, Franklin WI

Northwestern Mutual connects your finance with what you want in your life and create a plan designed to make it happen, revealing possibilities while protecting you from the unexpected.

●Mature enterprise data management capabilities.

●Implement and manage new enterprise metadata management and data quality solutions

●Develop metadata management standards, best practices and policies

●Manage product backlog and feature development. Work with business users to define requirements. Define and document business use cases.

●Provide data management shared services for enterprise data assets.

●Build and manage data management components, as needed, to support enterprise data engineering goals and objectives

●Build out data catalog, data dictionary and business glossary to support regulatory requirements for our most critical data assets

●Define and develop data management metrics and PowerBI to report on the health of the application and practice

●Develop systems which will consolidate source data systems into an enterprise data vie.

●Build and maintaining development patterns for use by the data integration organization, such as CI/CD patterns and monitoring tools.

●Analyze business requirements and functional specifications to design and build data solutions.

●Maintain development best practices to optimize maintainability and supportability of systems through all environments.

●Scrum master and leading a team of 5 engineers in all agile planning sessions .

Lead Software Engineer Jun. 2016 – Jan. 2020

GE Healthcare/API Healthcare/Symplr, Wauwatosa WI

GE Healthcare is a global leader in the design, development, manufacture, and systems to manage their

workforce to help lower manage their workforce to help lower labor costs, improve quality of care and deliver

operational efficiencies .

●Determines best testing practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.

●Expert in quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects.

●Works with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.

●Worked with Rally to track features and writing user stories based on each requirement. Each requirement is then tasked to testing requirements.

●Drive to closure open issues or ensure appropriate evaluation and risk mitigation or justification/rationale is documented before release.

●Verification and completes features with Architect and Product owner’s acceptance

●Working with offshore team and leading automation team on converting ALM test cases to BDD and implementing automation scripts while regression testing.

●Coordinated with teams and developed web applications

●Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development teams

●Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported findings including improvement recommendations

●Recruited and trained new staff

Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer / Internal Auditor Jul. 2007 – Jun 2016

Astronautics Corporation of America - Milwaukee, WI

ACA is a global leader in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of state-of-the-art equipment,

electronics and systems for air, space, land, and sea applications.

●Led a team of 3 Software Quality Engineers for a high priority project to meet a demanding project timeline while ensuring good work output

●QA review for gaps in the Software Planning, Requirements, Design, Code and Test and fix issues found with cross-function teams.

●Drive to closure open issues or ensure appropriate evaluation and risk mitigation or justification/rationale is documented before release.

●Audit software life cycle data and ensure that software developed for airborne systems and equipment performs intended functions with a level of confidence in safety that complies with airworthiness.

●Responsible for internal audits and findings for each audits were documented in internal audit checklist and entered into Corrective Action Request (CAR) database.

●Verification of implementation of remedial action for closed issues reported in the Software Change Request (SCR) database before sending it to the Configuration department.

●Support the updating and maintenance of Project specific Quality Assurance Checklists with reference to the DO-178B guidelines

●Author for several major updates to Astronautics’ Software Quality Plan.

●Implementing the highest levels of quality through investigative process analysis.

●Effectively use various data sources to develop actionable metrics to monitor quality performance, drive quality initiatives and improve cycle time.

●Trained SQAE on reviewing Airbus documents and performing reviews using DOORS, proof reading forms and using tracker database to ensure consistency within the SQA group.

●Completed ENEA training for DO-178B guidelines in Phoenix, Arizona on November 2007.

Software Engineer Oct. 2006 – Apr. 2007

Strata Decision Technology - Champaign, IL

Strata Decision Technology is a pioneer in the development of innovative software tools and decision-making processes for senior financial and operational decision-makers in the healthcare industry.

●Develop, maintain and run regression suite for each release of StrataX.

●Baseline/reset test environments in the QA Lab on PCs by reconfiguring them with various operating system/browser version/type combinations for regression test.

●Create product test plans and Establish test procedures.

●Identify test scenarios, create and execute cases.

●Enter caveats into DMS and verify caveats have been fixed.

●Create test matrices and complete build checkoff lists.

●Imagine new creative ways to test products for increased robustness in field use.

Languages : SQL/TSQL, .NET/ASP, Java Script, C/C++, BDD framework

Environment : AGILE, Java, Windows, SQL Server 2008 & 2012, Rally, Jira, Manual Testing, API testing, JSON Object,Collibra

IMMIGRATION STATUS: US Citizen

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