Software Test Engineer - QA & ETL Validation

NIKITA SANKPAL

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

■ Pirangut, Pune 412115

■ +91-915*******

■ **************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Detail-oriented QA Professional with around 4 years of hands-on experience delivering high-quality software solutions in Investment Banking, Capital Markets, and Telecom (BSS+CRM) domains. Proficient in executing full Software Testing Life Cycles (STLC) using JIRA, SQL Server, Snowflake, Postman, and UNIX. Adept in Agile methodologies, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless and defect-free production releases. TECHNICAL & CORE SKILLS

Testing Tools & QA: JIRA, Putty Terminal, Postman, Selenium, Singleview, Siebel CRM Databases: SQL Server, SQL Developer, Snowflake

Core Capabilities:

Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Functional & Non-Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, API Testing, ETL Testing, Database Testing, Usability Testing, UAT

Methodologies & Processes:

Agile Methodology, SDLC, STLC, Test Case Design, Test Execution, Defect Life Cycle, Requirement Analysis, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) Languages: SQL, UNIX, JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hexaware Technology (Payroll: Yespivot Tech Pvt Ltd) — Software Test Engineer

Jan 2025 – July 2026

Project: Achmea ADP

• Designed and executed high-coverage functional, integration, regression, smoke, sanity, and end-to-end test cases.

• Performed extensive ETL validation and data reconciliation by verifying source and target structures using SQL and Snowflake.

• Validated mission-critical Investment Banking data flows across multi-tiered environments to ensure precision and integrity.

• Logged, triaged, and meticulously monitored defect lifetimes using JIRA to accelerate development deployment cycles.

• Collaborated directly with software developers and business analysts during high-velocity Agile sprints to protect milestones.

• Prepared comprehensive test evidence documentation for compliance audits and actively drove daily standalone triage reviews. CSG International — Test Engineer I May 2022 – Aug 2024 Project: MTN Siyakhula Bangalore

• Executed thorough end-to-end manual testing passes, covering system functionality, smoke, sanity, regression, and API verification.

• Deconstructed business requirements to architect robust, optimized test steps and pre-map baseline test data dependencies.

• Engineered structural Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) ensuring complete feature testing coverage across hidden edge-cases.

• Discovered, tracked, and expedited critical application bugs through to successful patch resolution stages via JIRA environments.

• Regularly refactored and updated regression suites following patch deliveries to continuously maximize system validation efficiency.

• Contributed technical metrics during status reviews, sprint updates, and collaborative cross-team testing workstreams. EDUCATION & PERSONAL DETAILS

EDUCATION

BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application)

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English, Hindi, Marathi

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