BINDU VANAJA
Architect I – Software Testing
Atlanta, GA – 30338 479-***-**** *****.*******@*****.***
SUMMARY
SDET professional with 16 years of experience in designing and implementing both manual and automation tests. Detail-oriented with excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills and a passion for ensuring high-quality software delivery. Experienced in Retail, Healthcare, credit Domain.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Expertise in Waterfall and Agile, Development and Testing
Expertise in developing BDD framework using Selenium - Java/Typescript - Cucumber - TestNG and Eggplant framework
Expertise in Web/Mobile/API/POS Testing
Expertise in PHP Web development
Experience in CICD practices
Expertise in JIRA, qTest, ALM
Expertise in AWS cloud Testing
Expertise in Test Estimation, Test Plans, Test Closure Reports, Final Product Approvals
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages:
PHP, JAVA, C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Type Script
Database:
MYSQL, SQL Developer, Postgres SQL, MongoDB
API Tools:
SOAP, Postman
Automation Tool:
Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG, REST API, Bitbucket, GIT, GitHub Copilot, Maven, Eggplant
Test Management Tools:
JIRA, qTest, HP ALM
Other Tools:
Perfecto, Bamboo, Jenkins
EDUCATION
Master of Computer Application
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Oct-2006
Bachelor of Computer Science
Kerala University, India
Jul-2002
PROJECTS
Organization1: UST Global
1.Elevance Health Atlanta GA
06/2023 - 05/2025
Elevance Health is an US based health insurance organization serving the needs of approximately 40 million members nationwide. Effective 1/1/2024, and depending on employer locations, Elevance/Carelon has transitioned members to the new specialty pharmacy, BioPlus. BioPlus, which has operated for 30+ years, offers the same great service the members have come to expect with more features to enhance the experience.
Reimagine Consumer Portal – AHD Bioplus
The project focused on integrating Sydney platform with the specialty pharmacy effective 1/1. The scope of the project included development and testing services to integrate various features like Find a Pharmacy, Pharmacy Landing page, refills, renewals, view prescription, orders etc in the portal and mobile applications respectively.
DPO Art - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
AEM is a content management system (CMS) that helps business manage their marketing content and assets and deliver the right content to the right users at the right time.
Find Care Providers Redesign work
Providers portal helps to enhance care coordination and connectivity with community healthcare organizations. Healthcare providers include phycians, radiologist, labs, hospitals, urgent care clinics and other professionals, facilities and businesses that provides such services. This project integrated the map functionality, DB migration, new API endpoint change and new UI of the existing functionalities. Users can see the map view of the providers list with various features in new UI when searching.
Responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain test automation framework - Create and maintain robust test automation frameworks to support automated testing for various applications. Integrate complex tools, libraries, and technologies into the automation framework to enhance testing capabilities.
Integrate the automation framework with CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated testing during the build and deployment
Collaborate in Test Strategy Development - Participate in discussions to define test automation strategies, research and value new technologies and determine appropriate test coverage.
Define Automation Standards and Best Practices - Establish coding standards, best practices, and guidelines for writing and maintaining automated test scripts. Review automation scripts written by team members to ensure adherence to standards and provide constructive feedback.
Collaborate with Cross functional Teams - Work closely with cross functional teams to gather requirements and ensure the framework meets testing needs.
Monitor and Analyse Test Results - Review and analyse test execution results, providing insights and recommendations based on findings.
Training and Mentorship - Train and mentor QA engineers and developers on using the automation framework and writing effective automated tests. Training Junior members to diagnose, resolve issues and prepare proper documentation to ensure smooth operation.
Problem Solving - Ability to debug and troubleshoot blocking issues in all aspect especially automation scripts or frameworks.
2.Experian Decision Analytics, Atlanta GA
09/2018 – 06/2023
Experian is a data analytics and consumer credit reporting company, providing analytical tools to its clients around the world to help businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, and automated decision-making using Power Curve platforms
Power Curve suite of products is a unified decision management platform with wealth of capabilities for credit risk decisions. This platform helps businesses to make the right decisions and adopt the most effective decision.
Responsibilities
Developed and configured the test automation tool Strategy Evaluator for PCSM and ETAAF for PCO application
Developed Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Data each for the project and collaborated with multiple project or product teams to accomplish this.
Managed validating the solutions built in Experian’s proprietary software, PowerCurve Originations (PCOA), PowerCurve Strategy Management and Attribute Toolbox (ATB) performed using Experian’s Proprietary QA tools
Managed Test automation suite as a part of system testing, reviewed test execution status, generated test execution reports, reviewed defects reported by QA team and participate in defect triage meetings.
Collaborated with directly with product team and business analysts at client site to understand requirements and technical specifications and analyse the requirements and identify gaps and document them.
Review Functional Specification Design (FSD) and Strategy Design Document (SDD), raise concerns/questions.
3.Walmart Store Systems Applications - Point of Sale (POS), Arkansas
07/2015 – 08/2018
The Store Systems Project will focus on testing of Walmart’s entire Store Systems application with focus on Point-of-Sale Application. The scope of “Application Development and Testing services Project” includes QA consulting and testing services for the Store Systems and Point of Sales OS4690 system. Dedicated test labs are maintained for testing the applications. The changes are packaged together and deployed into test lab stores.
Responsibilities
Ensure the business needs and requirements are met for the business.
Ensuring quality of enhancements made to Store Systems Application.
Identify issues of project during testing, create defects in JIRA and consult with development team for resolution.
Troubleshot issues in test lab for smooth and continuous test execution.
Co-ordinate timely releases of application, deploying the application to test labs.
Perform the build verification testing after the build deployment.
Perform functional regression testing in each release to ensure the quality of deliverables.
Preparation and review of various test artifacts, maintain requirement traceability, identifying test scenarios, Test Scripts creation, and execution of test scripts.
Perform test case design and execution through ALM and JIRA
Create automation scripts for every new testcase using Eggplant and upload in GitHub and execute in each release.
4.COSTCO OMZ BizTalk Update & DCM
05/2014 - 07/2015
OMS – BizTalk Upgrade is Testing Project that upgrading the old software version of OMS and BizTalk to the latest version. The scope of this testing is to make sure the existing functionalities are not changing due to the software upgrade. BizTalk is middle tire application between the Website and OMS. The current BizTalk version is BizTalk 2006. Microsoft is going stop the supports for BizTalk 2006. Hence it is upgrading to BizTalk 2012. OMS software is also upgrading to Dot Net 4.0 and SQL Server 2012.
Data Center Move (DCM) is migration project is changing the data center from Issaquah to Wenatchee. We have supported to migrate data.
Responsibilities
Led the project and managed 8-member team
Understood the requirements and product functionalities through design documents.
Ensuring quality of enhancements and change request after performed functional and regression testing and reported defect.
Perform desktop application, web application testing.
Perform test case design and execution using HPALM.
Attend status calls and client walkthrough.
Coordinate the status with team and share daily status report with clients.
Maintain tracker for clarification and execution.
Creates Weekly Project Status Report (WPSR) and Weekly Effort Report and share with PM by weekly.
Organization2:
eBeams Infotech Kerala, India
08/2009 - 04/ 2010
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities
Collaborated with different team understand client requirements from functional specification and technical specification documents.
Analysed requirements and developing Various Web application using PHP- Drupal framework.
Customized design is implemented based on user requirements.
Performed client-side scripting using Ajax and JavaScript.
Assisted the QA team for clarifying and troubleshooting the issues.
ADDITIONAL INFIRMATIONS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Tricentis TOSCA Automation Specialist level 2
Eggplant Functional Foundation Level Certification from TestPlant
Certification from International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)