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.
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.