Project Management Qa Engineer

Ajay Merugu

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PROFILE SUMMARY

Having 15 + Years of Experience as a Lead QA Engineer in Manual and Automation Testing.

Experience with Java, Selenium and Cucumber Framework

Expertise in Performing Mobile MEW and App testing through Wi-Fi and Cellular network

Have good knowledge in Retail, IIOT, Auto Finance, Insurance Domains

Have good experience in Web Services Testing (SOAP)

Strong Exposure to Agile methodologies

Completed ISTQB Advanced Level – Test Manager Certification

Expertise in project management skills, Team handling, Tasks Assigning, Estimations and appraisal reviews.

Having good experience in conducting daily scrum standups, Sprint Iteration Planning, Review and Retrospective meetings, review of blockers with team

Resourceful in creation and execution of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Bug Documentation and Bug Tracking

Well versed with the knowledge of SDLC & STLC Management

Proficient in performing Smoke / Functional / System / Regression/ UAT / Ad-Hoc Testing/ End to End testing

Deft creation of project documents like Release Notes, Test Plans and Defect Tracking Reports

Having exposure towards ITIL process

Having good experience in writing Feature Files in Gherkin language.

Having good experience in using DevOps tools like Jenkins and C9.

Proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilizing it in a productive manner

An effective communicator with exceptional analytical and technical skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Working for AiZen Algo Pvt Ltd, India as Lead Engineer from Oct 2024 to till Date

Worked for ThoughtFocus Pvt Ltd, India as Senior QA Lead from December 2020 to Aug 2024

Worked for OSI Digital Pvt Ltd, India as a Test Lead since October 2007 to November 2020

CORE COMPETENCIES

Manual /Automation/ Database Testing Team Management Work / Time Estimations

Client Interaction / Requirement Gathering Project Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools / Techniques Used

Cloud-9, Test Link, JIRA, Mingle, OnTimeWeb, QC, CI, qtest, Confluence, Big Bucket, Ruby Mine, Confluence, Bit Bucket

Operating System

Windows /XP/Vista

Domain Knowledge

Insurance, Retails, Network and Utility

Markup Languages

HTML, XML

Version control tools

SVN, Git

Defect & Project Management

Jira, Mingle, On Time Web, Zoom (Internal tool), ALM

DB Query Tools

Toad, DB Utils, Elastic Search

Functional Testing Tools

DB Utils, Test Link

Environment

Client Server and Web Based.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors in Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) in year 2006 from Acharya Nagarjuna University

CERTIFICATIONS

ISTQB Advanced Level – Test Manager Certification in 2015.

Scrum Fundamentals Certification from Scrum Study in 2020.

PROJECTS

Project 6: ZenVector Application

Role: Lead QA Engineer

Duration: Oct 2024 – Till Date

QA Team Size : 13 Members

Project : ZenVector

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leading the QA team of 13 members working across different modules

Ensuring all requirements are finalised before assigning tasks to the QA team

Reviewing test scenarios and providing sign-off

Ensuring Operational Qualification (OQ) level test cases are clear before sharing with the respective teams

Supporting the client with Performance Qualification (PQ)

Reviewing production issues and providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Ensuring release-level activities are tracked and delivered as per schedule

Involved in prioritizing team activities

Sending consolidated daily/weekly updates for ongoing testing activities

Project 5: Spectrum Data Conversion

Role: Senior QA Lead

Duration: Dec 2020 – Aug 2024

Client: Exeter Finance

Roles and Responsibilities:

Analysis and Review of Mapping documents related to Data Conversion

Verify Data from source and Target tables

Expertise in module like Charge off, SCRA, DMDC

Worked on Loan origination System

Comparing data from different tables and reporting defects.

Attending defect triage meetings

Sending consolidated update on weekly bases to onsite team.

Preparing Weekly and Daily reports and sharing with onsite team

Attended retrospection meetings and providing inputs from QA team.

Project 4: Pennsylvania Power and Light

Role: Test Lead

Duration: Sep 2016 – Mar 2020 QA Team Size: 8

Client: GE Digital

Description: PPL Corporation, formerly known as PP&L or Pennsylvania Power and Light, is an energy company headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. It currently controls about 8,000 megawatts of regulated electric generating capacity in the United States and delivers electricity to 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania. It also provides natural gas delivery service to 321,000 customers in Kentucky as well.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead role in QA, analyzing business and technical requirements

Attended retrospection meetings, Defect triage meeting

Analyze and identify gaps in functional/business requirement

Experience in Automating Web Application using Selenium WebDriver

Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.

Running Full Automation suite for every Release and analyses the root cause of failed scripts.

Interacting with business analysts to freeze requirements

Analysis and Review of Mapping documents created for Adapters.

Preparing Test strategy and Test Plan documents.

Preparing Test Data payloads as per the Adapter Mapping.

Test Data is inserted through Payloads by running from Director Services.

Preparing release notes preparation for each release.

Prioritizing the tasks and assigning it to the team

Reviewing the status and consolidation.

Attending Release Meetings and calls to give better understanding on blockers for onsite and offshore teams.

Attending Retrospection meetings.

Having hands of experience on accepting tickets based of QA bandwidth.

Track and prepare the report of testing activities like testing results, required resources, defects discovered, defects resolution and closure

Having knowledge on MDN environment which used to Create Package and deploy QA build in Jenkins

Project 3: Site Support & Maintenance (SST)

Role: QA Lead

Duration: Sep 2013 – Aug 2016 QA Team Size: 6

Client: Macy’s, USA

Description: Macy's, established in 1858, is the Great American Department Store - an iconic retailing brand with about 810 stores operating coast-to-coast and online at macys.com. Macy's offers powerful assortments and the best brands.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understanding Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.

Prepared and Reviewed Test Cases as per System Requirements and executed test cases.

Identified the required test scenarios, Positive cases, Negative cases and Test data

Prioritizing the tasks and assigning it to the team

Experience with BDD Framework - Creating Feature Files and deriving Step definitions using Ruby with Cucumber.

Reviewing the status and consolidation.

Attending Release Meetings and calls to give better understanding on blockers for onsite and offshore teams.

Testing stories/issues on Mobile MEW and App in both IOS and Android devices.

Involved in story effort meeting

Involving in Iteration Planning meeting.

Executing regression in Jenkins and reviewing the test results.

Updating existing automation scripts as per the latest bug fixes.

Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing, Usability Testing,Regression testing, Re testing.

Attended retrospection meetings, Defect triage meeting.

Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.

Project 2: Improved presentation of Product (IPOP)

Duration: March 2011-Aug 2013

QA Team Size: 6

Client: Macy’s, USA

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understanding Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.

Prepared and Reviewed Test Cases as per System Requirements and executed test cases.

Identified the required test scenarios, Positive cases, Negative cases and Test data

Reviewing the status and consolidation

Attended retrospection meetings .Kick off, Defect triage meeting

Involved in story effort meeting

Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing, Usability Testing,Regression testing, Re testing and server log files verification

Attended retrospection meetings .Kick off, Defect triage meeting.

Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.

Project 1: Superior Access Insurance services

Duration: Aug’ 08 to Feb 11

Team Size: 8

Client: SAIS

Description: Agent dashboard is a web-site developed for the Agencies, Producers, Sub-Producers, Underwriters, BPO and administrators of the Superior Access Insurance Services. The core purpose of this web-site is to provide the SAIS customer’s facilities to generate view and manage their Quotes and Policies. The major criticality of this application is that, it is coupled with numerous other applications like quoting engine, AMS, Tracker, Javien and so on. The Agent Dashboard system enables agents/agencies to generate online quotes, follow up with carriers, obtain-policies and process endorsements. Collaboration is the core module of this project, which facilitates the communication between agent and underwriter, and also it enables the internal communication between underwriter and BPO staff.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing business requirements

Develop test scenarios

Preparing test cases

Analyzing the progress of testing (by monitoring the percentage of Test Cases completed)

Executing the test cases

Preparing automation test scripts as per the client requirements.

Execution of Automation test scripts for each release

Using build scripts, used to deploy the application into the IIS server.

Preparing deployment documents, Release notes, folder structures at the time production move.

Reporting bugs in terms of Critical, Major, Minor

Involved in Bugs Tracking & Prepare Bug Report Document.

Preparing work hours estimate document.

Support to the client for production move

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Qualification

School/College

Board / University

Year of passing

CGPA/% of Marks

B.Tech (CSE)

V R Siddhartha Engineering College

Acharya Nagarjuna University

2006

64.89

Intermediate

Vignan Junior College, Kaikalur

Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh

2002

68.20

SSC

ZPH School

Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh

2000

51.50

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