Senior Software Test Engineer

Bhavani Ananthan

Email: ***************@*****.*** Current Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bhavani-ananthan-9488098 Mobile : 612-***-****

Professional Summary

Senior Software Test Engineer with over 11 years of experience in designing, developing, and executing comprehensive test strategies for complex software systems. Proven leader in establishing and refining QA methodologies, driving team excellence, and delivering high-quality products in fast-paced Agile environments. Expertise in test automation, CI/CD integration, and performance testing, with a track record of implementing innovative solutions that reduce testing cycles and improve defect detection rates. Business Analyst experience in the IT industry, specializing in data analysis, process optimization, and project management. Proven success in leading cross-functional teams and translating complex business requirements into actionable, user centric solutions

Technical Skills:

Testing Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), SDLC, STLC

Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, Appium, Cucumber, Jenkins

Programming & Scripting: Java, Python, SQL, C#, JavaScript, Shell Scripting, Testlink

Defect & Project Management: Jira, Bugzilla, TestRail, Quality Center, TFS, HP ALM/QC

Domain Expert : Aerospace, Retail, Insurance, Credit cards, Corrections, Finance,Banking and Insurance

Testing Types: Automation, Manual, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, API, Performance, Security, Mobile, Black-box, White-box

Professional Experience :

HCL Technologies Chennai From Sep 2007

Senior Software Test Engineer Project - BB&T Due Diligence - USA

Involved in review and updating Business requirement documents. Hands on experience in updating PMP.

Implemented test automation framework, reducing regression testing time and increasing defect detection

Led a QA team both onsite and offshore. Creating user stories and assigning to team.

Maintained test automation scripts for web and mobile platforms, improving test coverage.

Mentored junior QA engineers, in automation, test case design, and Agile methodologies.

Understanding the Client requirements from Business Requirements Specification.

Sending daily status reports to onsite and leading the offshore team

Prepared the High-level Test scenarios and Test case for every Sprint cycle.

Tracking Changes, Preparing Reports and Updating Documents. Sharing reports to stake holders.

Software Test Lead Engineer Project - CBA (Common Wealth Bank of Australia)

Understanding the Client requirements from Business Requirements Specification.

Sending daily status reports to onsite and leading the offshore team

Prepared the High-level Test scenarios and Test case for every Sprint cycle.

Tracking Changes, Preparing Reports and Updating Documents.

Validating the SWIFT Messages for every Trade transaction and updating the Trade Transaction status.

Involved in System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and performed End to End Testing.

Automated over 500 manual test cases with Selenium WebDriver, reducing the testing phase by 25%.

Improved the STLC efficiency by30%through new test planning and execution methods.

Applied functional testing to API structures, decreasing application load time and enhancing performance.

Executed performance and load tests using JMeter, identifying bottlenecks that improved system response time by 15%.

Software Test Lead Project - DOC – Department of Corrections New Zealand

Hands on Analyzing the Business and Technical Documents to understand the Data flow from Front End to Back End.

Used Waterfall/agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable QA standards.

Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.

Performed Smoke testing before the actual execution of test cases and Created and Maintained QA environment.

Experience in user accepting testing/Regression Testing.

Performed smoke, functional and regression testing on SIT, UAT and PROD environments.

Involved in writing test cases for functional, regression and user accepting testing.

Performed responsibilities of executing end-to-end testing for each module, components, and sub systems of the application.

Communicated and coordinated with developers to fix the bugs by providing more input.

Designed and executed manual and automated test cases using soap UI.

Provided a Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.

Utilized HP functional test suite (HP UFT, HP Quality Center) for test automation.

Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc. to validate the data.

Interacted with the development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

Participated in scheduled meetings and maintained good relationships with the developer community.

Actively participated & supported in frequent project or support related meetings, after hours & weekend support.

Managed the QA team during the project as the lead.

Performed the Rest Services / SOAP (web services) test through Soap UI Tool.

Mentoring the team of QA Engineers with Test Data Identification, training on automation tools.

Worked closely with the Development team, BA, and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of Management.

Software QA Engineer Boeing - FTCS

Performed responsibilities of executing end-to-end testing for each module, components, and sub systems of the application.

Utilized HP functional test suite (HP UFT, HP Quality Center) for test automation.

Communicated and coordinated with developers to fix the bugs by providing more input.

Developed test cases and plans based on product specifications

Designed and executed manual and automated test cases using soap UI.

Contributed to the creation of reusable testing frameworks.

Prepared test reports for stakeholders.

Provided a Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Madras University Chennai 2007

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