Jun 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Review feature requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, design documents and bug descriptions and create solid test plans that meet functional as well as non-functional testing requirements
• Design and develop reliable, scalable and maintainable test automation framework and automated tests to validate complex features
• Isolate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that surface during testing
• Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, backlog grooming, sprint planning, release planning and other Agile meetings
• Contribute on system, installation, configuration and support documentation for tested applications
• Follow and promote best practices, testability, bug prevention strategies, and influence better software design across products
• Communicate and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance automation processes and plans
• Diagnose, debug and perform root-cause analysis of issues and defects
• Drive quality initiatives and work on additional tasks/ responsibilities that will positively contribute towards team, department, and company goals
• Integrate automation tests with CI pipeline.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2018 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Collaborate with development and architecture teams to influence the architecture and design of software and help bring quality into the design of the product.
• Work closely with product, marketing, and developers to understand requirements and create detailed use cases, test cases, test plans and identify risks.
• Create and maintain test suites for functional, regression, acceptance and UAT testing.
• Involved in design and implementation of Hybrid Framework using Selenium (Selenium Automation), JAVA language for smoke and regression test suites.
• Created automated scripts for RESTful APIs (API Automation) using Rest Assured framework, validated JSON formatted data, different http status codes like 200, 201, 400, 404, 500 etc.
• Responsible for functional, integration, data integrity and regression to ensure quality of code before releasing to production
• Create detailed bug reports by performing root cause analysis and work with architecture, development, and product teams to prioritize them
• Liaison between product, development and SQA teams to enforce SQA standards and best practices to deliver quality code.
• Provide sprint & release test reports, metrics.
• Understand deployment scenarios and manage deployment to test environments.

Dec 2010 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Reviewed requirements and specifications and provided input during requirements and specification walkthroughs.
• Analyzed system requirements specifications, developed test plans, test cases, and test data for testing the functionality, GUI, usability, user acceptance tests with both Positive and Negative Scenarios, especially focused on logical scenarios of the application.
• Created and executed SQL queries against Oracle database compared the results and analyzed discrepancies.
• Performed database testing by passing PL/SQL queries and also executed the regression test cases before handed over to UAT.
• Used Quality Center to define requirements, design test steps, run as test set, report, track and close bugs.
• Prioritized Identified defects and monitored bugs fixing status through Outlook Express, which was configured through Quality Center.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the testing life cycle.
• Worked with development teams investigated and corrected software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results (Defect Life Cycle).
• Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, PL/SQ, Access, Oracle, TOAD, Windows XP, MS Office.