Anjali Shukla
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Result focused QA professional with 15+ years’ experience in leading, testing and delivering quality products on web, desktop and mobile based applications. Strong understanding of business requirements, test strategy, requirement analysis, defect management, testing best practices and Software Development Lifecycle. Extensive working experience in working with fast paced environment and coordinating with business stakeholders, developers and management to collaboratively provide results which exceeds business expectations. The skills to lead and mentoring is backed-up with more than 7 years of experience in leading and managing the team.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Lead
Toyota Australia
01.2023 - Current
- Provided reports on milestones, defect summary and test concerns to project manager and stakeholders.
- Trained new test employees on equipment and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Triaged the defects with Product Owner to prioritise release tickets.
- Directed teams to complete regression tests to support successful product development stages.
- Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
- Streamlined testing processes to identify areas in need of improvement.
- Optimised test cases to maximise success of manual software testing.
- Documented diagnostic findings in reports to inform stakeholders of product performance.
- Worked with Test Manager to improve testing capabilities.
- Coordinated work with various teams to solve problems and improve efficiency for software testing and automation.
- Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Limited
03.2022 - 12.2022
- Leading the IBM Maximo application SIT phase
- Mentoring the team to collaborate with the stakeholders
- Assisting the team to plan test activities and track them to closure
- Prepare test artifacts and release signoff documents
- Reporting test status and impediments
- Estimating test efforts and analysing test scope
- Peer reviewing test documents and artifacts
- Prioritizing the tasks and risk assessment
- Facilitating test documents walkthroughs
- Initiating team meeting to resolve test teams doubts and problem.
QA Lead/Coordinator
Bluedot Innovation
02.2020 - 02.2022
- Collaborate with QA members to ensure timely delivery of the test artefacts
- Coordinate with test team, Project Managers, Product Managers, development team and business stakeholders on daily basis to investigate problems and propose solutions
- Mentoring and coaching team members to provide technical assistance and problem resolutions
- Managing test team’s work roasters and performing team’s reviews
- Plan test activities and track them to closure
- Prepare test plan, test strategies, test approach and defect reports
- Work on test estimation, test scope and requirement analysis
- Performing functional, regression, exploratory and release testing on mobile and desktop
- Performing mobile app testing on iOS and Android platforms
- Writing API test scripts using JavaScript and JSON to improve backend functionality using Postman
- Analysing REST API request and performing negative tests in order to test security level of product
- Involved in requirement gathering and client meetings for the product enhancement and improvement areas
- Involved in prioritizing the tasks and risk assessment
- Facilitating Grooming and Sprint planning meetings within Agile environment.
Quality Analyst
Sports Performance Tracking
08.2019 - 01.2020
- End-to-end testing including test planning, prepare test strategies and defect tracking in JIRA
- Creating test data, design test cases and documenting acceptance criteria for new requirements
- Performing functional, regression and exploratory testing on multiple browsers using BrowserStack
- Performing mobile app testing on iOS and Android platforms
- Writing API test scripts using JavaScript and JSON to improve backend functionality using Postman
- Analysing REST API request and performing negative tests in order to test security level of product
- Involved in requirement gathering for the product enhancement and improvement areas
- Checking debug logs to find the defect cause in order to help developers speed up the defect fixing time
- Involved in prioritizing the tasks and risk assessment
- Facilitating Grooming and Sprint planning meetings within Agile environment.
Lead-QA
Optergy
06.2015 - 04.2019
- Involved in test planning, test estimation, test case execution, integration testing, defect management process, regression testing and exploratory testing
- Facilitated stand-up meetings in order to communicate goals and provide direction to the team
- Worked on BACnet and Modbus IP communications protocols
- Helped the developers to debug Java and database issues
- Managed the code check-in through Eclipse tool into Mercurial repository
- Provided post deployment support and maintenance of product
- Managed and run auto build process on Jenkins and manual build on Linux system
- Performed review and analysis of the requirements to provide feedback
- Mentored automation testing team to prepare automated test script over Selenium using JavaScript
- Prioritized requirements and allocating testing tasks in a way to increase everyone’s efficiency
- Promoted productivity, quality standards and driving team towards continuous improvement
- Mentored team members and knowledge management activities.
Lead Test Analyst
Mercer Consulting
10.2010 - 01.2015
- Lead team of 5-6 members
- Requirement gathering and analysis
- Maintained requirement traceability matrix (RTM)
- Performed peer review of the test documents to ensure compliance
- Designed Test plan, test strategy, test approach and performing test case reviews
- Worked on defect triage and tracking until closure
- Created sign-off document and test summary report
- Worked solely on Vendor Management project and delivered with zero post production defects
- Risk Analysis and effort estimation with the scrum team via Planning poker tool
- Performed System Integration Testing (SIT)
- Provided post production support
- Mentored and trained new team members
- Maintained test documents on HP Quality Center.
Software Engineer
NIIT Technologies
07.2008 - 09.2010
- Created, updated and tested the common check-in engine, enhancements and CSS files
- Performed unit and functional testing on the web and kiosk check-in applications
- Worked on database
- Resolved system defects and performed bug fixes
- Created and modified PNL (Passenger Name List) in the host
- Created unit tests support testing activities.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra06.2005
Skills
- Defect management
- Test planning and reporting
- End-to-end testing cycle on web, desktop and mobile applications,
- SDLC/STLC, System Integration Testing(SIT)
- UAT support
- Functional testing
- Exploratory testing
- Regression testing, retesting and defect triage
- API Testing
- Mobile Testing
- Tools: IBM Maximo, JIRA, MS SQL, JSON, REST API, Unix/Linux, XML, GitHub, Utility, JIRA, HP ALM
- Domains: Geofencing and location tracking, QSR, Health and Benefits, Sports, Building Automation and Energy Efficiency, Aviation
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), 2019
- HP ALM - Quality Centre 11.0, 2014
- ISTQB Foundation Level, 2011
Core Competencies
- IBM Maximo,
- JIRA, MS SQL, API Testing, Mobile Testing, JSON, REST API, Unix/Linux, XML, GitHub, Utility, Geofencing and location tracking, QSR, Health and Benefits, Sports, Building Automation and Energy Efficiency, Aviation, JIRA, HP ALM, end to end testing cycle on web, desktop and mobile applications, SDLC/STLC, System Integration Testing(SIT), UAT support, Functional testing, exploratory testing, regression testing, retesting and defect triage,
- Pro-active approach towards process improvements and analytical thinking.
- Highly organised, flexible and adaptable towards organizational changes, Ability to lead and manage the team. Motivating and mentoring everyone to do their best work. Maintaining good relationship with cross-functional teams and stakeholder management skills, Ability to handle pressure situations and stay focused during tight deadlines and sense of ownership that comes from experience, Good oral and written communication skills with strong presentation, negotiation skills, interpersonal and leadership skills gained from work experience. Excellent email etiquettes, Excellent problem-solving skills. Analytical and proven capability to deliver projects/tasks within deadline
Timeline
Test Lead
Toyota Australia
01.2023 - Current
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Limited
03.2022 - 12.2022
QA Lead/Coordinator
Bluedot Innovation
02.2020 - 02.2022
Quality Analyst
Sports Performance Tracking
08.2019 - 01.2020
Lead-QA
Optergy
06.2015 - 04.2019
Lead Test Analyst
Mercer Consulting
10.2010 - 01.2015
Software Engineer
NIIT Technologies
07.2008 - 09.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science
Kurukshetra University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Kurukshetra University
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