Saranya Mahender

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Email: adyi96@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

* ***** ** ** ********** in the field of Quality Assurance, leading client-server and web-based, distributed, multi-tiered applications. Offer complete understanding of the entire software development life cycle and solid knowledge of Agile and Waterfall. Accountable for the quality in all phases of the project including Requirement gathering, test script preparation, and test execution, manages testing needs with Shared Services, reports on overall application status. Collaborate effectively with testers, developers, and other cross-functional team members to ensure overall product quality. Extensive experience in managing onshore and offshore teams. Extensive testing in ETL and excellent knowledge of Database systems. Manage defects tracking and facilitate resolutions. Proficient in Agile Development frameworks and methodologies which includes creating user stories, track progress, plan sprints, and aligning priorities across available resources using JIRA.

TECHINICAL SKILLS

Tools: Informatica 8.7, 7.1, Cognos reports, SOAP UI, Postman, DB Visualizer, IBM Rational (Test Manager, ClearQuest, Functional tester and ClearCase), Selenium, Toad, JMeter, ESRI ArcMap 10.8.1, ArcCatalog 10.8.1, IBM Maximo Asset Management, ArcFM Mobile, ArcFM Solution Center, Service Now, Service Suite, Salesforce ClickSoftware (Click Mobile, Service Edge)

Databases: Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, SAP CRM, Azure

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM (v15, v12) and HP Quality Center (v9.2), JIRA, Rally

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by Scrum Alliance

DTE Energy, Michigan, USA (Mar 2021 – Present)

Senior IT Test Lead

Worked in ESRI Upgrade GIS Platform from 10.2.1 to version 10.8.1. This includes ArcGIS and ArcFM COTS Software, DTE’s Custom Components (custom ESRI and ArcFM objects and extensions), DTE’s Geodatabase for electric and gas.

Upgrade Oracle Enterprise Geodatabase from Oracle 11.2.0.3 to 19.3.0.0

Experience in working DTE’s IBM Maximo (CUs and Estimates) Application. Performed regression testing of Maximo Interface IDDs.

Experienced in working with Energy Electric and Energy Gas Distribution GIS Business Scenarios, GIS Regression testing and End to End production validation to meet Stakeholders expectations.

Collaborated with Gas IT SME’s and Developers, multiple Gas Unit Stakeholders to design and execute Gas End to End test scenarios and worked with Business units to obtain UAT signoff for production deployment.

Worked in Salesforce ClickSoftware applications like Electric, Gas, RMP and Meter Reading.

Worked on ESB Integration layer and tested SAP CRM & ISU Applications

Experience testing a top-tier Electric Utility OMS Outage Management System or ADMS Advanced Distribution Management System

Expertise in Writing, analyzing business requirements, functional requirements, use cases, developing test plans, writing test cases, and been involved in all stages of Software Lifecycle in a project.

Attending the Business Requirements Meetings and performing the test Impact Analysis. Understand Business Use Cases to capture acceptance criteria and exit criteria standards. Going through the Vendors SOWs to understand the project scope and map test scope based on project needs and timelines.

Worked on Various process methodologies (Waterfall and Agile Scrum)

Creation of ServiceNow Incidents and Requests as needed for Project support activities, tracking requests and incidents to closure based on Project defined SLA’s.

Responsible for executing and showcasing SIT and UAT Status reports on a daily/ weekly basis to key project Stakeholders (Test case Burndown, Test case Status, Defect metrics)

Rich experience in defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work, managing defects, and communicating status during the product release cycle.

Responsible for creating, designing, and executing test scenarios in various phases of testing project lifecycle (Functional, integration, and Regression testing) with Multiple Product Vendors and DTE Project teams. Coordinated UAT testing with Vendor and DTE Stakeholders/ Clients to manage Project Expectations

Expertise in SOA test tools such as SOAP UI, Postman

Implementing Continuous Improvement Process by contributing to Software Quality Assurance (SQA) development policies, procedures, SDLC and testing methodologies.

Implemented RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix). Mapped RTM Test Plan & Test case creation to Ensure requirements have complete test coverage & test execution standards.

Identify, report, and documents risks associated with testing, as well as facilitate meetings pertaining to product requirement to ensure effective communication.

Developed and executed Test Plans in HP ALM based on the Business Requirements and run it through stakeholders to obtain the sign off process.

Create Project Test closure report by Iteration & Submit test reports and traceability matrix to Audit teams (Burndown Charts, Test Metrics).

Participating in daily and weekly testing status review meetings and responsible for Test summary report generation.

Write SQL scripts Via DBVizualizer for data validations.

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, SQL, Oracle, SAP CRM, Java, ServiceNow, API, Maximo, Arc GIS, Confluence, Service Suite, Salesforce, ClickSoftware (Click Mobile, Service Edge), Postman, ESRI 10.2.1, ESRI 10.8.1, ArcCatalog, Schneider Electric (ArcFM) and ESRI tools.

Green Shield Canada, Windsor, Canada (Jan 2018 – Mar 2021)

Senior QA Analyst/ ETL/ SQL Tester

Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate wide ETL Solution using Informatica

Performed Data analysis and developed Data Mapping documents for ETL (SSIS) projects.

Attending the Business Requirements Meetings and performing the test Impact Analysis. Understand Business Use Cases to capture acceptance criteria and exit criteria standards. Going through the Vendors SOWs to understand the project scope and map test scope based on project needs and timelines.

Develop test plans based on test strategy. Created and executed test cases based on test strategy and test plans based on ETL mapping document.

Created test cases for ETL mappings and design documents for production support.

Developed SQL queries and similar artifacts to validate Completeness, Integrity, and Accuracy of Data within an ETL process testing cycle.

Basic knowledge of Test Automation using Selenium.

Worked on Various process methodologies (Waterfall and Agile Scrum)

Rich experience in defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work, managing defects, and communicating status during the product release cycle.

Successfully mentoring/leading a team of three testers. Managed Offshore/Onshore Testing Teams.

Coordinating functional, integration, and Regression testing with Multiple Vendors and coordinate UAT testing and manage vendor/Client Expectations

Implementing Continuous Improvement Process by contributing to Software Quality Assurance (SQA) development policies, procedures, SDLC and testing methodologies.

Implemented RTVM (Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix). Mapped RTM Test Plan & Test case creation to Ensure requirements have complete test coverage & test execution standards.

Managing end-to-end testing of impacted processes to ensure business functional readiness.

Identify, report, and documents risks associated with testing, as well as facilitate meetings pertaining to product requirement to ensure effective communication.

Developed and executed Test Plans in HP ALM/JIRA Zephyr based on the Business Requirements and run it through stakeholders to obtain the sign off process. Create Project Test closure report by Iteration & Submit test reports and traceability matrix to Audit teams (Burndown Charts, Test Metrics)

Experience in Business Intelligence testing using Cognos reports.

Participating in daily and weekly testing status review meetings and responsible for Test summary report generation.

Hands on experience in Test Management tool - AzureDevOps

Expertise in SOA test tools such as SOAP UI, Postman

Environment: JIRA, HP ALM, REST, SOAP, SQL, Oracle, SAP, Toad, Informatica, ETL, Cognos, Java, API, Zephyr, SOAP UI

Scotia Bank, Toronto, Canada (Jun 2015 – Dec 2017)

Senior QA Analyst

Define and capture requirements for implementing web-based client & client-server architecture Projects. Developed Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure business requirements match the software functionality artifact.

Developed, documented, verified & maintained Test Plans and associated Test cases to meet the business requirements and user specifications.

Experience in automated tools IBM Rational Functional tester, Rational Quality Manager

Created automation regression scripts through Rational Quality Manager to support web baed application.

Co-coordinating with teams for estimation and planning, risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking and management of progress, issues, and risk.

Performed Back-end testing to validate the data flow and storage in database using SQL.

Performed Sanity, system integration, End to End and UAT testing.

Leading the QA team in using test tools, defect tracking tools, other test support and implementing process improvements.

Conducted walkthroughs and defect triage meetings with various lines of business.

Involved in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review & Demo and Sprint Retrospective

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 7, HTTP, HTML, XML, Confluence, HP ALM 11.52, SQL.

Bank of America, Chennai, India (May 2013 – Apr 2015)

IT Application Test Engineer

Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements to understand Business Functionality.

Defined the scope of the testing, identifying the objectives. Involved in developing Testing Strategy and Plan.

Used Agile Scrum Methodology (Rally tool).

Designed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and developed Test Scripts.

Hands on experience in functional, System, Integration, Compatibility, Security and Regression Testing.

Developed Test Cases for GUI and Functionality Testing.

Maintained automated regression test suit.

Extensively used Quality Centre for Test and Defect Management.

Performed Regression Testing for Phase-I and Phase-II Releases; Verified and Validated functional requirements in all Iterations for both the phases.

Extensively tested applications that are integrated using middleware tool called TIBCO.

Attended daily scrum meeting.

Involved in the Defect Triage meetings with Business and Development team.

Environment: HP Quality Centre 9.2/11.0/ALM, Rally, Windows NT/XP, XML, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, MS Visio, Java, TOAD, SQL

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:

Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering, (Anna University, Chennai, India).

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