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Mythili GANESAN

Mythili GANESAN

Aalborg

Summary

  • IT professional with Master of Science degree and around 14 years of experience in various roles in different domains. Extensive experience in Testing Domain with functional and non functional Testing expertise, understanding of SDLC, Software Testing (STLC) and Software Test Automation.
  • Have always been motivated and delivered Quality Software using promising verification/test plans/QA in Manual & Automation testing for different Clients in Denmark, France & USA
  • Experienced working in a multi-site and multi- cultural environment.
  • Throughout the career, I have proposed and implemented many Innovative solutions in different projects in Testing and also via Automation which has proved to have significant impact on performance of the team, reduced duration in deliverables with Quality, early bug detections in early phase(enabling shift left test) in SDLC and also implementations that increased the ROI of both Clients and Service Providers. .

Overview

14
14

Years of professional experience

Work History

QA Manager

Amadeus Rail
11.2021 - 06.2022
  • Test plan design review and contribute/improve test coverage of impact areas, brain storming on unidentified risks - Regression, Functional Tests, Automation Tests
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to identify the impact areas due to the range/state of cohesiveness in the program and improvise the test plan accordingly
  • Creation of testing strategy, practices and process Improvement
  • Co-ordination between different teams involved in development and ensure the code changes are good enough for the production load
  • Ensure the communication and prioritization of tasks are done and ownerships are taken between teams
  • Handling PMRs between Project Management, QA and Production Support team

Machine Learning Software Engineer

Bayer Healthcare
05.2021 - 10.2021
  • Developing Machine Learning solutions Development of machine learning solutions to extract and fill the training data using R
  • Involved in building of the model that works by comparing unknown data point to the nearest neighbours

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Oticon Medical
06.2020 - 04.2021
  • Responsible for Test Automation of Identified Product backlog
  • Development of Test Automation Framework from scratch
  • Scripting Manual Testcases creating modular framework in TestComplete using Javascript
  • Maintenance of Test Scripts
  • Exploratory testing & Defect logging

Software QA/QA Manager

Amadeus
07.2019 - 04.2020
  • Test Management for New features & Green Moon co-host Project
  • Creation of testing strategy, practices and process Improvement
  • Test plan design - Regression, Functional Tests, Automation Tests
  • Taken up the QA Manager role in short period & handled the Change Control Process well
  • Product Owner for Software Test Automation, Identifying the gaps of the issues and guiding team for improvement on test Automation
  • Release Co-ordination -Weekly cycles, Responsible for CCB and ensuring Product quality
  • Support for Production load by assessing the quality of the changes and test coverage done by the team
  • Co-ordination between different teams and ensure the code changes are good enough for production load
  • Ensure the communication and prioritization of tasks are done and ownerships are taken between teams
  • Handling PMRs between Project Management, QA and Production Support team

Value Additions

  • Effective Communication and Lean Implementation, identifying the gaps helped the project to identify right resources and resulted successful Product release cycles
  • As a QA Manager had always ensured successful weekly s/w deliveries & handled the Change Control Process well
  • Identifying the gaps and addressing the challenges for best practices, helped team for the improvement on test Automation with reduction efforts by 15%
  • Creation of testing strategy, practices and process Improvements

Automation Lead/SME

Walmart USA / Wipro Technologies
11.2015 - 08.2017
  • Automation Lead for the team working on Retail Application automation for various warehouse operational modules using UFT
  • As SME (Subject Matter Expert) grooming scrum teams from the early phase in project to achieve the Sprint Objectives, Handling Pre-receiving, Receiving & Shipping Modules
  • Guiding the test team in testexecution & task prioritization, production support, Single POC for ASN feature
  • Handling Sprint deliverables, Sprint Tasks follow up and co-ordination between Onshore, Offshore teams
  • Guiding the team working on Automation for US & International Markets – End to End Test coverage
  • Defining Testing Strategy and training the team on the technical aspects for the feature verification activities and Automation
  • Test Plan creation & Resource Allocation for release cycles
  • Project status updates to Stakeholders and Walmart Management

Value Additions

  • Breakthrough innovation on automation for the retail application, helped the team to incorporate the test suite in CI/CD pipeline, which was also adaptable and could be used across many divisions in Walmart. After this innovation, Client estimated that their current ROI to be doubled/tripled i.e. $5 Million- $7.5 Million
  • Innovative development of Automation framework (ASN Processing Tool) for the very complex feature verification which was taking ~1.5 Months – 2months. Harnessing it for various Markets like Mexico, United Kingdom & Japan, which then used in different Testing Phases like Sprint Testing, Regression Testing & UAT
  • Effort Reduction up to 98 % and was a great value add which helped the organization and customer to save 40 % of their investment
  • Successful deliveries of test verification results with bugs identified at early stages (Automated Framework and Tool was used early phases in SDLC, right from white box testing till production tests)
  • Innovation solutions, Proof of Concept/feasibility Study for new proposals, Defining new strategies, Overnight test schedule and assistance for CI/CD setup and execution.

Senior Developer/Test Lead

Radiometer / Wipro Technologies
01.2013 - 11.2015
  • Member of the core development team
  • Main Contribution is towards Defect fixing, Feature Implementation, Unit testing, External communication integration testing
  • Handled Translation Process for multiple releases
  • Handling field issues/ defects related to the Software. Assistance to the other team members for issues related to the Software
  • Worked on Automation Framework development and scripting Test Scenarios using QTP Tool
  • Served as the Onsite-Offshore coordinator for the teams located in Copenhagen and India
  • Troubleshooting field issues and customer support for technical guidance
  • Release co-ordination and process co-ordination
  • Fixed the Cybersecurity issues raised from the customers’ hospitals related to the persistence of viruses on the device software. This was a comprehensive solution to the cybersecurity problem which was found to be existing in 6 Major flows of the Product
  • Successful Implementation of new Strings for 3 releases with huge part of co-ordination via email alone with 24 translators
  • Persistence Feature four Major Show Stopper Defect fixes (Handled alone the Major fixes when there was crisis in the team and with no open defects due the fixes)

Value Additions

  • Implementation of Automatic SW Installation on AQT. Created a new Framework for overnight unattended installation of builds on Medical Devices as part of CI. This saved the efforts up to 25-30% in the regression testing and also used for project in CI/CD process.

Senior Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (HP USA) / Wipro Technologies
10.2006 - 12.2012
  • Involved in Functional Testing, Stress testing, Memory leak testing, Performance testing
  • Test Automation for SFP and MFP (Legacy & Widget)
  • Scope identification for Feature verification and test plan creation for Beta requests, interim testing
  • Developing test scripts, Maintenance of common libraries in the Automation Framework
  • Task Assignment, Status updates, Monitoring and tracking, test optimization, Lean implementation
  • Involved in Defect characterization, tracking, Defect Prioritization, Weekly Status and daily status report preparation
  • Training new team members and handling verification activities for Major release and Beta requests
  • Report and tracking bugs

Value Additions

  • Developing small utilities to reduce the efforts in repeated manual testing
  • Developed automation framework for Lab Monitoring system and a Triage Tool to reduce the manual efforts to a greater extent
  • Trained the whole set of new team for the test Automation of the Widget and Legacy Printers.

Education

MASTER OF SCIENCE - Software Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani
2010

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Computer Technology

Anna University
Chennai
2006

Skills

  • Test Management, Test Strategy, Planning and Estimation, Test Case creation, Reviews and Execution
  • Test Automation and development of Test Automation framework in different platforms using different tools
  • STLC - Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Non-Functional Testing
  • Defect Tracking and Reporting
  • Lean Implementation (process improvements , optimization of testing efforts, best practices)
  • Test Automation tools - Smartbear Testcomplete 1450, UFT 125, HP Quick Test Professional 110
  • Scripting/Programming Languages: VB, VC, C#, VBScript, Javascript, Perl, TCL/TK, VBA
  • ALM Tools - HP Application Lifecycle Management 110, Team Foundation Server, Azure Devops
  • Database MS SQL Server and Sybase SQL Anywhere
  • Atlassian JIRA & Confluence
  • Misc: Reflection, Putty, VSS, Git, SVN, Rally, SoapUI, TTS, Anteater, PATT, Visual Studio, MS Visio, Mastercontrol, Caliber RM, PVCS Tracker

Accomplishments

    Significant achievements


  • Breakthrough Innovation for Qualifying Legacy Software Product with Zero added cost, besides tripling the existing ROI of $ 2.5 Million by implementing a new Test Automation Framework.
  • Reducing Manual Efforts for a Complex Feature Verification for Retail Application from Months to hours (98%) of Test Efforts by implementing innovative automated solution, which enabled scrum teams to Shift Left the testing and helped to find earlier bugs with increased test coverage.
  • A fool proof & Light weight tool designed in such a way even a rookie could perform this complex feature verification on his/her first day in the organization.

Languages

Tamil
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
French
Elementary
A2

Timeline

QA Manager

Amadeus Rail
11.2021 - 06.2022

Machine Learning Software Engineer

Bayer Healthcare
05.2021 - 10.2021

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Oticon Medical
06.2020 - 04.2021

Software QA/QA Manager

Amadeus
07.2019 - 04.2020

Automation Lead/SME

Walmart USA / Wipro Technologies
11.2015 - 08.2017

Senior Developer/Test Lead

Radiometer / Wipro Technologies
01.2013 - 11.2015

Senior Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (HP USA) / Wipro Technologies
10.2006 - 12.2012

MASTER OF SCIENCE - Software Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology & Science

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Computer Technology

Anna University
Mythili GANESAN