SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
Expert in UAT, Functional, Automation Testing Strong domain knowledge in Airlines and Banking Investments
Profile
Senior software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits.
Qualifications include 8+ years of QA software testing experience – Adept in handling the entire project for testing entail, understanding client’s requirements, preparing Test Estimation, Test strategy, Test plan and Test cases, executing test cases and working on final testing.
Backed by strong credentials including a Master degree in Computer Applications (MCA), ISTQB certification, Waterfall and Agile methodologies; and cross-platform skills in Windows, Linux and Unix.
Strong domain knowledge in Airline industries (Cabin Crew and Customer Management) and Banking Investments. Worked at UK for UAT testing – interact with business end users to understand their requirements and successfully done the UAT.
Skills Summary
SQA Testing & Methodologies
Test Plans, Cases & Processes
Functional Requirements
Scripting & Documentation Regression & Negative Testing
UI & Compatibility Testing
Data Interface & Migration Testing
User Acceptance Test (UAT) Testing Automation
Defect / Bug Tracking
Test Strategies & Coverages
QA & QC Standards
Professional Experience
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)— Chennai, India
Quality Assurance Test Lead,
02-Feb-2011 to Jan-29-2015
Working for a reputed Airlines customer and serve as Test Lead for different projects:
Airline Cabin Crew Management:
It is third-party product for Cabin Crew Tracking as per generic Airlines standards and rules. Customer purchased this product to replace their old legacy application and customizing this product as per business needs of their Airlines.
Worked as Test Lead for 10 member team at offshore and successfully done the Migration Testing, System Testing, End-End Testing for this application.
After successful completion of System Testing at offshore, travelled to onsite to do UAT Testing. Interacting with Business SMEs to understand their conditions and test cases are written as per business conditions
Effectively communicate with different stake holders (product supplier, IT team, Business team, Technical Leads) and received sign-off for UAT Testing.
Airline Customer Management:
It is huge application to handle all the customer activities in Airlines industry. Different modules (starting from Customer check-in till Customer Arrivals and baggage collection at their destination).
Agile Methodology used for Development and Testing cycle of this project.
I worked as Test Lead for offshore End to End Testing team (teams located at different cities in TCS India)
Involving Test Plan Preparation, Estimation, Allocating resources as per cost and budget.
Effectively coordinating all offshore testing teams in India and sending the status reports to onsite.
UAT defects found at earlier stage (End to End Testing) and received appreciation from customer. I did best practice like interacting with UAT team and analyzing their defects on current cycle and applied that knowledge on next release End to End testing and found the defects at earlier stage.
MVR TECHNOLOGIES
Chennai, India
External software testing company providing quality-assurance services for US based Investment Banking Software Products
Quality Assurance Specialist and Automation Tester, 19-Sep-2005 to 31-Jan-2011
My career started here as QA Tester and later promoted to serve as QA Specialist, overseeing quality-assurance testing and teams for client software and systems development projects.
Worked on Investment banking software products and did complete test cycle on those products as per different customer needs for that product.
Created Test Plans, Test Cases and involved in peer review and review with all stakeholders.
Created Automation test scripts by using WinRunner.
Involved in all types of testing – system, unit, performance, load, regression, stress and data interface testing.
Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.
Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.
Qualifications
MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE — Sivakasi, Tamilnadu
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), 2004
V.V.VANNIAPERUMAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN — Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu
BSc in Computer Science, 2001
ISTQB Foundation Certification
Technology Skills
HP Quality Center, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Selenium Suite, Agile; soapUI, Java, VBScript, SQL, XML, Windows, Linux, Unix
