SHARMILA PERUMAL

SUMMARY:

A vibrant professional of 10+ years of experience in the areas of Software testing and development (5 years of experience as a mainframe developer and 5 years of experience as a QA Test Lead and automation engineer), working with multiple domains such as Banking, PBM and Healthcare.

Recognized with STAR award for efficiently managing the project that was taken over from Capgemini.

Extensive experience in Automation, Project Management and Project Coordination activities involving planning, delegating, tracking, and consolidating testing activities with the resources.

Successfully managed complex projects with rapidly evolving requirements.

Effective communication skills and effectively able to coordinate between globally located teams offshore and onshore.

Possess the ability to use critical thinking and analytical skills to achieve desired results for my team.

Possess solid work experience on Web-based, Web service, Mainframe and Database applications in Windows.

Expertise in SDLC, STLC and Bug life cycle.

Competent with automated testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver and Maven for both web-based and web service.

Knowledgeable in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing, automating them by using JDBC, as well as using SOAP UI and Postman for Web Service Testing.

Practical experience with design and development in Java using Object Oriented Programming (OOP).

Experience working in Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline using Jenkins.

Enthusiasm for automation and testing for software development.

Worked in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment and participated in all relevant scrum ceremonies. Able to quickly adapt to new environments and possess strong interpersonal skills that allow for collaboration with team members and peers.

Designing of Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports.

EDUCATION

Undergraduate: St. Joseph’s college of Engineering - Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science C-GPA: 8.5/10 – Distinction

SKILLS & TOOLS

Programming Languages/Primary skills: JAVA selenium, SQL, JavaScript, COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, Stored procedure

Test Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured

Testing Frameworks: Hybrid framework (Keyword and data driven), Cucumber

Test Management/Defect tracking Tools: HP ALM, TFS, Jira, qTest.

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, DB2, VSAM, Microsoft SQL server

Version Control, Build and CI tools: Maven, Jenkins, SVN, and GIT

IDE Tools: Eclipse

Mainframe Tools: File manager, Tivoli, Control – M, CA7, Endeavor, Changeman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cognizant technology solutions

Health Care Services Corp. – Chicago, Illinois July 2018 – Present

Test Lead/Test Manager

Performed Web-based Functional, Regression and Smoke tests using Selenium with Hybrid Framework.

Performed Web Service API Testing for UI content verification and validation with business logic JSON/XML.

Reduced calibration time from 100 hrs./Mo. To 10 hours by automating the web services.

Automated the web services within my application by incorporating the best practices across portfolio.

Extensive knowledge in Agile Scrum ceremonies, Daily Stand-up Meetings, attended user story Sessions, Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint demonstration (DEMO) and Sprint Retrospective (RETRO) meetings.

Mentored the new testers to adhere to the process to meet client’s expectations.

Collaborated with the dev team to make them understand creating defects are part of SDLC life cycle and stopped negotiating with them for creating in-sprint bugs.

Used TFS for writing test cases & execution and for updating tasks and tracking defects.

Have extensive experience to handle application stack right from backend to API to UI.

Responsible for all the release activities including sign-off.

Have created multiple test strategies by understanding the application at root level.

Worked as an automation lead and emphasised the teams to incorporate all the new tools or processes efficiently.

Implemented a new hybrid framework to handle API test execution.

Utilized Maven pom.xml to manage dependencies for test execution, plug-ins and developed profiles of grouped Test Cases to run smoke and Regression Testing.

Utilized Jenkins to execute the Test Scripts periodically for CI/CD.

Used Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to connect to database source and utilized SQL for verification of data and validation from the MySQL Database.

Implemented parallel testing across different browsers and platforms with Selenium Grid.

Worked on Cross-Browser testing through Selenium WebDriver by testing the application on different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Cognizant technology solutions

Conduent – Chicago, Illinois

Automation Test Engineer July 2017 – July 2018

Functional testing in areas like pharmacy claims processing, drug rebate administration, e-prescribing programs, and benefit management.

Performed Web Service API Testing for UI content verification and validation with business logic JSON/XML.

Performed Functional, Integration, System, Smoke, Backend and Regression Testing of Medicaid and Medicare applications.

Logged defects in Quality Center, re-tested defects, analysed defect with Users and Developers.

Updated Price types pricing for the Drugs in Data base and used for Claims Adjudication.

Experienced in writing SQL queries to fetch data from Database systems (Oracle/db2/SQL Server).

Experienced in retrieving database information writing SQL Queries and transforming data to information as needed. Performed Backend Testing of the applications using PL/SQL Queries.

Experienced Audit Compliance, Business Re-Engineering and Business Modelling and Facilitating Workshops, RAD, JAD and DRP Sessions.

Experience in Analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels. Elicit and document requirements and confirm that it meets the stakeholder’s needs.

Worked with geographically disperse teams as a Lead overseeing offshore activities

Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification requests from User to upgrade or change the business specification for the product.

Used qtest for writing test cases & execution and Jira for updating tasks and tracking defects.

Cognizant technology solutions

Capital One – India and Chicago, Illinois

Mainframe developer July 2012 – Feb 2017 (India) and March 2017 – June 2017 (Chicago)

Played a critical role in development and upgrade of Credit card embossing components.

Awarded star of the year for completing the credit card migration project successfully with 0 defect leakage.

As a module lead worked with a team of junior developers and successfully delivered 2 high risk Magnetic stripe to EMV migration project that had changes to 500+ source components and 20+ systems impact.

As a lead developer worked on splitting up the heart of embossing application code into 2 programs to increase the limit of the secondary cards from 65 to infinity which had the array to limit the number of cards.

Worked with Architects and prepared a comprehensive code level impact documents for migration projects.

Implemented several value add/idea for automation of manual task and saved $ amount by suggesting the tool.

Assisting production support team in fixing the production abends and during production implementation of code changes.

Interacting directly with clients and taking the responsibility of offshore delivery.

Used ALM for writing test cases & execution and Jira for updating tasks and tracking defects.

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