Test Analyst Business

Sathiyavathy Narasimman

Phone: +1-989-***-**** ************.**@*****.***

Professional Summary

Seasoned Software Quality Assurance engineer, Lead Test Architect and Test manager with 6+ years of experience in storage domain (Cloud and Content Address Storage) and Unix environment

Earned below certifications

oCertified Scrum Master (CSM)

oSix Sigma Green belt

oInternational Software Testing Qualifications Board Certified (ISTQB)-Foundation Level.

oEMC Storage Technologist Foundation (STF).

oSolaris system administrator 9

oSAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement

oSAP Certified Application Associate - Extended Warehouse Management with SAP S/4HANA

3+ years of experience in Project Management, Planning, managing a team and communicating with clients

Experience in project metric maintenance, reporting and review meetings with stakeholders

3 + years of experience as QA lead and received customer satisfaction index greater than 95% for projects managed

Strong experience in analysis, estimation, test plan, test strategy, test case design, execution and team handling

Received below awards and recognition for work

oEMC gold award twice for QA team management

oEMC silver award for Test Architect work

oTCS "On the Spot" award for flexibility and quick learning capability

Experience in basic Unix/perl Scripting, Selenium 2.0, Python and Jython

Extensive experience in testing web applications using Agile Methodology and V-Model.

Experience in automation testing using test framework

Expertise in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

Well Versed in GUI application testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and Integration Testing and exploratory testing

Experienced in preparing QA documentations like feature documents, test summary report and requirement traceability matrix

Experienced working with teams based out of various geographical locations.

Experienced in providing training sessions for employees in Unix and ISTQB in organisation level

Contributed for innovation and process improvement projects

Experienced in conducting interviews for recruitment process

Ability to multitask and prioritize work to meet deadlines.

Excellent communication skills, Strong problem solving skills and a result oriented attitude.

Ability to work independently as well as team player.

Scrum Master

Reflecting Agile and Scrum values to the team.

Facilitating the Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting.

Establishing an environment where the team can be effective.

Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.

Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.

Mediating through conflicts and helping the team to get rid of impediments.

Helping the team to continuously improve their process.

Education :

Master of Science in Software Systems [7.67/10.0]

(BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY * Pilani, Rajasthan, India)

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering [8.62/10.0]

(GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY * Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)

Technical skills

Test Management Tools: Test Link, Mingle, EMC test management system, Mingle (scrum based)

Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, Seapine TestTrack, Jiira

Tools: Selenium 2.0, Automation test framework, Apache Jmeter

HPQC HP ALM, JIRA, SharePoint

Languages: Unix, Perl, Jython, Python

Platform: Windows and Linux

SD Methodologies: Agile- Scrum, V Model

Version Control: Clearcase, SVN

Career Gap

July 2020 – Dec 2021:

Training on SAP ERP supply chain management and got certified

Learned automation tools, Python, agile to get back on track for work

July 2014 – June 2020:

Took maternity break and took care of family and kid with special needs.

Job search withhold waiting for work authorization in US

Project Summary

Client : EMC Corporation, Project - Centera software release, India

Role : Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Dates : June 2011 – June 2014

Project Description:

EMC is a global leader in offering data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

EMC Centera: Content-addressable storage (CAS) platform for data archiving. Centera provides content authenticity, governance and compliance, long-term retention, and high availability with maximum efficiency and low total cost of ownership (TCO)

Responsibilities

Led TCS QA team from offshore for three consecutive software releases which involves end to end V- model testing model

Test Organization - identifying the test team and recognizing the importance of independent testing

Test Planning and Estimation - recognizing the objectives, exit and entry criteria. Preparing the schedule for testing activities considering the risk factors

Test Progress Monitoring and Control - Comparing the metrics in terms of test reporting and defects reporting

Configuration and incident management - making sure the test cases changed during execution are version controlled for future reference. Making sure defects are documented appropriately

Closure activities after a software release - conducting brainstorming sessions on lessons learnt. identifying documentation required for future reference

Actively contributed in Agile scrum projects and managed daily scrums, retrospection meetings.

Perform requirements analysis, functional spec reviews, test case reviews and bug reviews.

Collaborated with engineering, product management and customer support for each sprint cycle.

Delivered accurate and comprehensive testing estimates in each sprint cycle.

Co-ordinate and managed QA team in India and Russia.

Performed testing

Gauge test progress activities and highlight risks involved in the testing process.

Delivered training to my team as part of knowledge transfer programs.

Prepared weekly and monthly status reports and shared with all stakeholders.

Involved in metrics tracking and reporting.

Created and documented process improvements to eliminate redundancy and rework.

Conducted client satisfaction survey for project executed and worked on suggestions.

Client : EMC Corporation, Project - Atmos CAS, (Hopkinton Massachussets, USA)

Role : Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Dates : Jan 2011 – June 2011

Project Description:

EMC Atmos is a cloud storage services platform developed by EMC Corporation. Atmos can be deployed as either a hardware appliance or as software in a virtual environment.

Responsibilities

Requirement Analysis, design review and brainstorming sessions with Business Analyst, Product Support Teams.

Design, write and execute test script to validate system functionality conforming to business and user requirements.

Worked with development and product management to optimize application performance, requirements refinement.

Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.

Defect Logging and tracking through its lifecycle.

Participated in scrum and retrospection meetings with team working in different geographic location

Participated in Change Control Board Meeting to assess proposed software changes.

Suggested process improvements to avoid redundancy and created unix scripts as part of process improvements

Actively involved in status reporting and metrics

Reviewed several user guides for various applications, tools and functionalities.

Delivered trainings on cloud and new application to the team as part of knowledge transfer programs.

Client : EMC Corporation, Project - Console and SDK/XAM tools, India and Russia

Role : Senior Test Analyst

Dates : June 2009 – Oct 2010 @ India, Nov 2010 - Jan 2011 @ St Petersburg, Russia

Project Description:

EMC Centera Console is a web based user interface which enables administrators to view detailed information concerning the health, capacity, and performance of one or more clusters in their Centera environment..

EMC tools are java based tools used to write, modify and read data from Centera. Tools use SDK (Software Development Kit) and XAM (Extensible Access Method) API's to interact with centera .

Responsibilities

Created master testplan, test strategy, test criteria and identified test team

Prepared estimation plan to test the application in multiple platforms which included windows, Linux, Solaris and HP

Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis and tracking change control.

Dynamically planned testing based on developer's input on functionality to make testing teams efforts effective

Organized review meetings on test plans, test scenarios & test cases.

Developed and executed functional, regression test cases.

Coordinate Onsite Offshore model across three geographic locations.

Performed Root Cause Analysis on defects and creation and maintenance of Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Communicated status of the projects and highlighted concerns to the senior management.

Participated in Change Control Board Meeting to assess proposed software changes.

Performed team management activities – resource planning, report generation, task creation and assignment

Planned and performed document review of help pages and user guides of each web application across various platforms

Client : EMC Corporation, Project - Centera Universal Access and Centera Platform, India

Role : Test Analyst

Dates : June 2007 - June 2009

Project Description:

EMC Centera Universal Access (CUA) provides several levels of data protection. CUA is designed to protect content within local system by minimizing single points of hardware failure and by using Centera as backup

EMC Centera Platform consists of daemon processes which enables service people to track and analyze problems from a Centera storage box. It includes file system check and mailer scripts

Responsibilities

Developed and executed Test Scenarios & Test Cases to cover the specified functionality.

Hands on experience in performing disk installation testing.

Involved in functional and regression testing following Software development life cycle process throughout the project.

Coordinated with clients and other stakeholders of the project to highlight project status.

Logging defects and tracking it to closure using Test Track.

Actively participated in defect review & retrospective meetings.

Created unix scripts for automating manual repetitive steps in manual execution

Organized Knowledge Transfer sessions for Junior Team Members

Worked on continuous improvement of QA process by reviewing and evaluating existing practices with standard testing guidelines.

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