Highly adept at creating a positive and reassuring work atmosphere. Looking for a challenging position where my technical, organizational, team playing skills will contribute to elevate the quality and success of projects. Sandhya Narayanan
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5000 K Ave, Apt 2628, Plano,
TX-75074
On Dependent Visa (H4 Visa) – Plano, USA – Currently H4-EAD
Certified Salesforce Administrator - As a part of the Continuous Learning Process, I am exploring trailhead, acquired badges, and have completed a few projects.
To keep myself aligned with the industry, I have completed courses on Automation Testing – Selenium web driver + Frameworks (TestNG, ANT, Page object, Maven, Jenkins, Excel Data driven, Cucumber, log4j) and a course on “A complete guide to Software Testing Bootcamp”.
Completed certification on “MySQL for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence” & “Introduction to NoSQL”.
Done various online courses in Udacity, Udemy and Coursera on SQL, Python. EXPERIENCE
Ph.
Jan 2020
– Present
Automation QA test Engineer @ Cookies Technologies - Coimbatore, INDIA Roles and Responsibilities:
Worked as a Software Quality Assurance test engineer (Automation testing) and having a strong background knowledge on Agile methodology.
Experience in Software Development Life Cycle and Test Development Life Cycle, Test strategies and processes.
Experience in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts by analyzing the web services and API functionalities and from requirements / Use-Cases / design documents.
Developed and executed Test Suites and Test Scripts based on the requirement documents.
Automated UI test cases with Selenium WebDriver using Java.
Experience in working on My SQL work bench and SQL developer to create complex SQL queries to verify the data in the backend tables and validated for data accuracy to cross check the functionalities of the project.
Implemented Page Objects Model (POM) and experience in working with TestNG and Build management tools like MAVEN.
Good Experience in writing XPath and CSS to locate web elements.
Worked on Cross browser testing, browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and IE using WebDriver and having experience with debugging on Firefox, Chrome and IE / Edge Developer Tools.
Worked on creating the Regression test suites by identifying the key project functionality and automated it to perform release regression before the functionality hits production. Also identified the list of manual test cases that can be automated.
Conducted Sprint Demo meetings with product owners, Business along with the technical teams
(Dev / QA / UA).
Jan 2017
– Dec 2019
Add.
Worked with the Product owner / Scrum masters and participated in every phase of Sprint development cycles and attended every Scrum meeting like Backlog Refinements, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Defect Triage and Retrospective calls.
Worked on Rally and JIRA to manage projects, track issues, report defects, determine velocity and team capacity.
Interacted with SME’S (Subject Mater Expertise) to get a better understanding of the application and functionality.
Worked with project managers / test manager to estimate time scales of various projects and provided them BEG estimates and resource allocation request.
Worked with deployment team to incorporate QA steps in back out & implementation plan.
Involved in team level audits to obtain Traceability Matrix, defect reports, etc. Technical Purview
Languages - C, C++, Java, Java Script, SQL, UNIX
Bug Tracking tools - Rally & JIRA
Framework - Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber
Development tools - Eclipse, Salesforce, Putty
Version Management - GIT
Build Management Tool - Maven
Oct 2015
– Dec 2016
Business Analyst @ Payoda Inc - Coimbatore, INDIA
Roles and Responsibilities:
Worked completely on Agile Scrum Team Environment.
Elicit, analyze, validate, verify, and manage the business needs of the clients and stakeholders and document them in appropriate Business Requirements Document.
Creating Use Case diagrams, Workflow design, Business Roles definition, Data & Behavior Models.
Owned Product backlog for each module and was responsible for bringing in new product features as per the market and customer demands.
Owned the module SSH Key management, performed Market Research analysis trends of Competitors, responsible for upbringing the module from Scratch, formulating the Vision of the Module.
Designed Wireframes for the Project and using these wireframes, Prototypes, and mockups were designed.
Identifying the scope of process re-engineering, design, and documenting the new business processes.
Documenting the Business requirements and Change Requests into appropriately formatted Functional Requirement documents, Use cases, User Stories, etc.
Preparing BRD, SRS, Change request documents, MOM, UAT release notes, and Live release notes.
Worked with Project Managers to finalize the product roadmap, Sprint planning, prioritization, allocation, effort estimation & track the status of the requirements throughout the project.
Conducting walkthroughs of new designs and ensuring sign-off from business users and key stakeholders
Work closely with the development & testing team to ensure functional understanding of the requirements and on-time delivery of projects
Perform feasibility analysis and discuss design options with Architects. July 2011
-Jun 2014
EDUCATION
Master of Eng. in Software Engineering - Anna University – Chennai, INDIA Assistant Professor @ KGiSL Institute of Technology - Coimbatore, INDIA
Focused on innovative ways of delivering content, especially on the subjects Data Structures, C, C++, Python, PHP, and SQL.
Delivered the lecture with enthusiasm and excitement with day-to-day examples and handled most of the core papers like DBMS, Operating systems, Networking, Principles of Compiler Design, and Automata theory.
Have been nominated as “The Best Faculty” by students across all the Departments.
Laid the Fundamentals of Programming by handling interactive lab sessions and motivated the young generation to land their dream job.
Jul 2011
- Oct 2015
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS
“Industry embedded technical training” at PAYODA Technologies, Coimbatore.
“Alice Programming with Java”, workshop organized by Dr. Jey Veerasamy, Texas University.
Attended workshop on AJP and CBP at Krishna college, Mobile and Wi-Fi Convergence (Unlicensed mobile access – UMA Technology), by Prof. Ramakrishna Pillay, University of Toronto and “Effective Entrepreneur” conducted at CIMAT.
Faculty Development Program on “Student Counselling” by Dr. B. Selvaraj, Associate Professor of Psychology, Govt. Arts College.
Aug 2007
- Apr 2011
Bachelor of Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering - Coimbatore Institute of Engineering & Technology (Anna University) – Coimbatore, INDIA
LINKEDIN PROFILE
Linkedin.com/in/sandhya-narayanan-sesha
Technical Purview
Bug Tracking Tool - JIRA & Rally
MS Office - MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access Diagramming tool - Lucid Chart, Draw.io, Visio
Project Management - Redmine
Programming - Oracle PL/SQL, Java