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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Professional with 10+ years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets, roles, and industry verticals. Worked as SDET/Automation Test Lead at Cognizant Technology Solutions India for different clients like Comcast Telecommunications, Discover Bank, and Lloyds Banking Group. Strong testing experience Automation- script development using Selenium, TestCafe, and Nodejs for Web Applications, Mobile Applications, API Integration, Expertise in Mainframes Batch & Online testing, and Python. Proficient in Requirements Analysis, Requirement Traceability, Estimations, Test Plan design, Creation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases, Test Data creation, Test case Execution, Defect Reporting and Tracking, Defect Re-test, Test Closure, Sign-off, Defect Attainment, Defect Classification, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Change Management for large programs and Test Metrics. Expert in developing Automation Framework Using Selenium Web Driver and TestNG. Good Knowledge of using BDD Frameworks like Cucumber. Expertise in Waterfall and agile/Scrum methodologies and involved in various phases of agile. Have experience in Mobile testing which includes testing devices like Android Phones, Tablets, iPhones, and iPads using Perfecto, and BrowserStack tools. Comprehensive knowledge of writing SQL scripts and executing them based on complex business rules for ETL projects. Hands-on knowledge of developing & executing Mainframe batch Jobs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS and DB2. Proficient in preparing Test Summary Reports, Defect Summary Reports, Weekly Status Reports, and Daily Execution Summary reports. Expertise in test management tools HP Quality Center, Rally, and JIRA. Expertise in Compiling/Producing Metrics for Senior Leadership Teams. Great experience in Telecommunication and Banking & Finance domains with logical and in-depth analytical skills. Having leadership and management skills with the ability to inspire/mentor/manage QA teams. Have Hands-on knowledge of Python and Data science tools. Skills and ToolsProgramming Languages C, C++, Java, SQLScripting Languages JavaScript and PythonMethodology Agile and WaterfallAutomation Skills and ToolsSelenium, TestNG, TestCafe, Nodejs,Maven, Cucumber, SOAP UI, Parasoft,Email id: EMAIL AVAILABLEMobile: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLELinkedIn: Nithya2Perfecto, POSTMAN, Concourse CIpipelineDatabases & ToolsMicrosoft SQL Server, Oracle Database,Microsoft SQL Server ManagementStudio, Microsoft WorkbenchMainframe Skills and ToolsIBM OS 390, TSO/ISPF panels,COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS &IBM UtilitiesVersion Control & Content Management GitHub and Sitecore 8.1 Defect Tracking Tools Rally, JIRA, HP Quality Center, and HP ALMTools/Packages/Open Source Kibana, JSON Viewer, Eclipse, Anaconda, and BrowerstackFunctional Modules Telecommunication, Banking andFinancial ServicesPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCECognizant Technology Solutions, India (Jan 2012 Nov 2022) Comcast TelecommunicationsAutomation Test Lead (Feb 2016 Nov 2022)As an Automation Test Lead, My role was to design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts. Day to day I utilized test tools to create automated test suites that were robust, performant, and reusable, enabling my Agile team to deliver high-quality releases more efficiently. As an Agile team member, I collaborated closely with development, product, and other cross- functional groups to provide high-quality test strategies and frameworks. Also, I was responsible for creating metrics and notifications to prioritize failed and pending testing. Responsibilities: Design, develop and maintain Automation Framework using Javascript, Nodejs, Concourse, and Jenkins for Web Applications. Automating test suites for functional and regression scenarios and executing through the Concourse CI pipeline. Implement continuous integration and deployment of automation script in the GitHub Repository and merge the scripts in the master branch. Working on soap UI, Postman, and Parasoft API testing tools for checking backend API services and analyzing JSON data of backend calls using the JSON viewer tool. Performing mobile testing using Perfecto and Browserstack mobile emulation tools. Collaborating with Management, Business, Product owners, QE Engineers, Scrum Masters, Development, UAT & client partners to understand the Project scope and track the Overall risk and issues. Coordinating and participating in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings, Sprint demos, and retrospectives. Creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Outputs, Daily/Weekly status reports, 3and finally Test Closure. Communicate the status of the project executions to the project management and clients. Performing technical analysis on the production/QA issues reported and defining a mechanism to avoid them in future releases. Reviewed test cases and test results and provided feedback to the testing team. Test Execution and Test Signoff before the project is deployed to production. Responsible for defect triage- this includes being in touch and knowledgeable about the overall functioning of the application or program and reaching out to the right set of folks to get the issue resolved. Creating sub-tasks for offshore teams and driving the tasks to be completed for projects. Preparing Monthly forecasts, invoice actuals, and metrics calculations for project team members. Involved in the knowledge transition sessions to guide the new team members to understand the application. Possess excellent communication and analytical skills and can work independently as well as in a team environment. Flexible and Versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any Application (have demonstrated the ability to handle a steep learning curve in all my engagements). Having very good knowledge in the Telecom domain. Discover Financial Services (Nov 2015 Feb 2016)Senior Test AnalystAs a Senior Test Analyst, my role was to design, develop, execute, and maintain test scripts for web and mobile applications. I train and guide new additional testers on the QA tasks. Also, responsible for creating metrics and notifications for prioritizing failed and pending testing Responsibilities: Worked as UI and Mobile QE Engineer for one of the banking applications of Discover Bank. Involved in executing mobile scripts via real Android and iPhone devices. Proficient in executing mobile scripts using the Perfecto mobile emulator tool. Involved in Design, planning, and executing End-to-end (E2E) testing and validation activities across multiple domains and technologies. Responsible for coordinating and ensuring that all testing activities and deliverables are on time. Reported defects using defect tracking tool HP Quality Centre (Waterfall Model projects) and had discussion on the defect is done in defect Triage calls with developer and business teams. Performed Root Cause Analysis for any test misses and documented the same. Create defect attainment reports for discussion in metric meetings. Provided timely Status reporting to Project management and other Business and Technical Leads on the Customer side.4Lloyds Banking Group (Jan 2012 Oct 2015)ETL Tester/QA AnalystAs QA Analyst or ETL Tester, worked on a major migration project for Lloyds Bank where mortgage and unsecured collection accounts were migrated from CACS and DB4.2 to the DB6.2 application. Generated the mainframe files (daily, weekly, and monthly) from CACS and DB4.2 and transferred them to Staging tables in the Database by running mainframe and UNIX batch jobs. Once the files were loaded into Staging tables, we checked the staging tables to confirm that the records and fields in the extracted files were successfully transferred to the staging tables. Also ensured the data in the staging tables meet Data Quality rules and Criteria (Completeness, Uniqueness, Accuracy, Consistency). Once I confirmed the data in the Staging tables were good, ran UNIX jobs to move the data from the Staging to the Target tables. Once data was loaded to target tables, validated all the fields and confirmed it met the transformation logic and business rules based on their requirements.Responsibilities: Developed & executed Mainframe batch Jobs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2 using IBM CICS and ISO/TSBF. Wrote SQL queries for Complex business logic using joins, nested queries, Window functions, Aggregate functions, String functions, and Date functions. Validated Inbound and core table names, structure, data types, and configuration. I have performed Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification, and identified data mismatch. Validated the data (record count and values) between the Inbound and core tables, by applying business logic and mapping. Handled negative testing to validate the rejection logic and reject reports to check records are rejected as per business logic. Involved in Full STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) right from Requirement Analysis, Test Estimation developed test plan/strategy, Defect Reporting, and Coordination with the Onshore team. Involved in the gathering of requirements for the enhancements and analysis of the same for implementing the enhancements in the application. Responsible for quality test deliverables Master Test Document, Test Schedule, Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Readiness report, Defect Triage, Test Execution & Defect report, and Test Closure Report. Involved in the knowledge transition sessions to guide the new team members to understand the application. Involved in the Defect management Life cycle and tracked defects using HP Quality Center and ALM tools. |