Balaji Arulmozhi
Adelaide,SA
Summary
Experienced Test Manager with over 16 years of experience in ensuring high-quality software testing and implementation. Proven track record in leading testing teams, creating test strategies, and maintaining test documentation. Currently working at Data Action and seeking new opportunities to apply expertise in test management and contribute to the success of software development projects.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Manager
Data Action
Adelaide
11.2022 - Current
- Orchestrated the allocation of Change requests, hotfixes, and projects among a team of 20 testers within the organization, ensuring optimal resource utilization and on-time project delivery
- Obtained funding approval for key resources, ensuring timely project delivery and adherence to budget constraints
- Analyzed test results and provided actionable feedback to developers, leading to continuous improvement in test coverage and accuracy
- Utilized technical skills in testing tools and methodologies to streamline risk management procedures effectively
- Coordinated performance testing for quarterly releases and led financial control auditing processes
- Spearheaded a quality assurance team of 20+ members, overseeing 8+ successful software release cycles, resulting in a 30% decrease in critical post-launch defects.
- Trained team members on best practices for QA processes.
- Managed test environments, data sets, and configurations.
- Generated metrics reports for management review of QA progress.
Senior Tester/Test Lead
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
05.2022 - 11.2022
- Oversaw System Testing of product releases on a quarterly basis, ensuring 100% compliance with project timelines and accuracy in the identification of defects
- Prepared 50+ System Test Cases and Regression Test Cases using Azure Devops for the EXDOC product
- Collaborated with product owner, business analyst, and developers on a bi-weekly basis to review sprint goals, resulting in 100% test coverage for each release
- Demonstrated expertise in Agile methodology and software testing techniques during sprint planning and review meetings
- Participated and provided my feedback in the PI planning sessions.
Test Manager (Consultant)
ASG Group
Adelaide
10.2021 - 05.2022
- Managed the testing process of mobile maps application at APA
- Involved in preparation of UAT Test Plan of SA Rollout of the application
- Performed UAT test execution and coordinated with the business SMEs' during UAT
- Organised and managed defect triage sessions with the relevant project stakeholders
- Preparation of Non Functional Test Plan
- Coordinated with the vendors during Security Testing and Performance Testing
- Preparation of UAT and Non Functional Test Completion Report.
Test Analyst
Statewide Super
09.2020 - 09.2021
Katalon
- Involved in BAU Releases test planning, test design and test execution
- Coordinated with the business users to get testing signoff for the releases and projects
- Performed feasibility analysis of Zephyr plugin and implemented it for testing activities
- Performed feasibility analysis of test automationKatalonKatalon Studio and Selenium Webdriver
- Designed a test strategy for the organisation.
Test Lead (Test Manager)
AccessHQ
Adelaide
04.2019 - 09.2020
organisationStudio, SOAP UI to automate web applications, mobile applications and web services.Organise
Test Lead(equivalent to Test Manager)
Courts Administration Authority
Adelaide
07.2017 - 03.2019
- As a Test Lead I was responsible for the managing the testing activities of ECMS project
- ECMS project involves the modernisation of court systems and the testing focusses on 2 web applications: External portal and an internal application
- Created a Test Plan for ECMS project
- Created a Test strategy for ECMS project
- Managing resources allocation and interviewing process for ECMS testing
- Analysing the various specification documents and estimating the testing efforts involved in the project
- Designing and executing the test cases
- Managing the System Testing, System Integration Testing, Data Migration testing, Load Testing, Penetration testing for ECMS project
- Sending daily status reports to the management regarding the testing status
Test and Support Analyst
SATAC
Adelaide
03.2015 - 07.2016
- Involved in the System testing of various web applications of SATAC
- There were separate web applications for every admission cycle like UNDERGRADUATE 2016, POSTGRADUATE 2016, etc
- These web applications are based on JAVA Technology
- Involved in Database Testing
- Queried the various tables to prepare the test data for System Testing
- Tested the tables that are impacted due to the project changes to ensure that the data is captured correctly in the database
- Automated various web applications of SATAC using Selenium IDE
- Prepared the regression suite and sanity testing suite of all the web applications for both TEST and PRODUCTION Environments
- This was a huge achievement within a short span of time which earned me lot of recognition in the organization
- Automation of Desktop based applications using Sikuli
- Developed few scripts for SANTAS (Desktop application of SATAC which provides the information of an applicant stored in the database) using SIKULI tool
- Prepared various test artefacts like Test Requirements, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Summary Report which aided in standardizing the testing process in SATAC
- Designed test cases and raised defects using JIRA
- Liaised with Business Analyst to gather the requirements of a project
- Liaised with the developers to fix the defects and ensure that the defects are released into the TEST Environment on time
- Ensured that the project is successfully deployed into the Production Environment by carrying out Production verification testing
- Performed Load testing using LoadStorm tool
- Efficient in creation of HAR files, executing the scripts and generating the test reports
- Provide project daily status reports to the management during the test execution phase.
Test Lead
Syntel
Chennai, India
08.2014 - 02.2015
- Worked on IT Support Management project
- Supported CA LISA and AIM (Application Inventory Management) Applications
- ServiceNow ITSM application was used to manage the incidents raised
- Maintained and monitored all the LISA servers through UNIX
- Used UNIX commands for maintaining the servers
- Extracted the log files of LISA services for debugging the issue related to CA LISA
- Interacted with the CA Support team to resolve the issues faced by the clients
- Prepared a whitepaper on Service Virtualization which was published on IJCA (International Journal of Computer Applications) portal
- Used GOMEZ tool to extract reports of the performance of various applications available in ITSM project.
Consultant
Capgemini
Bangalore, India
09.2012 - 08.2014
- As the testing consultant and lead, I was responsible for the System Testing and System Integration Testing of the mobile application developed by ANZ
- Lead a team of 20 members in Bangalore and played a major role in setting up the mobile testing lab at Bangalore
- Responsible for preparing the test cases for UAT phase and liaise with the Business Analysts for the verification of testing results
- Integration Testing for the systems: (DataPower CAR, Semantic Hub and Oracle Security Stack) using CA LISA and SOAP UI
- Involved in Failover Testing of SAP components - Sybase mBanking and eBanking
- Automated System Integration test cases using CA LISA tool
- Creation of Virtual Services and SIT Framework using CA LISA
- Involved in Data migration testing to ensure that the data from the old systems are moving into the new SAP systems
- Reviewed the test cases prepared by the team members
- Mentored and coordinated the teams and aid in effective team building and take responsibilities to complete the task in the speculated time for the various releases
- Walkthrough of Test cases with Clients and Business Analysts
- Test management and updating results in HP Quality Center
- Received two consecutive awards for showcasing best performance in Melbourne at the client place.
Senior Test Engineer/Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Chennai, India
03.2008 - 09.2012
- As a test engineer I was responsible for preparing the test cases and executing the test cases during the System Integration Testing phase
- As a Senior Test Engineer, I was responsible for the test planning, preparation of test estimation, preparation of test cases and execution of test cases
- I was also involved in test management activities during the absence of the test manager in the team
- Adeptly carried out testing across ATMs (with BASE24) and Internet Banking, Mobile Application Testing, Telephone Banking, Web Application Testing and IVR testing
- UAT Testing for Internet Banking, P2P Mobile Payments, Mobile Banking projects
- Experienced in Agile testing
- Worked closely with SAP Configuration Team to create manual test scripts, scenarios, test data and test conditions in Quality Center
- Involved in testing SAP HR modules like Personnel Management, Personal Time Management, Master Data, Time Management, Payroll, Employee Self Services (ESS) and Manager Self Services (MSS)
- Prepared test estimates, project scheduling, high level estimates and WBS estimates, Test Plan and Test Strategy, Preparation of Test Audit report, Preparation of management reports
- Received SBSA Star of the year award twice from the clients for showcasing best performance across the entire project amongst different teams
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Jerusalem Engineering College
01.2007
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Indian Harvard College
01.2004
Skills
- JIRA
- HP ALM
- Azure DevOps
- Selenium Webdriver
- Katalon Studio
- Jenkins
- TortoiseSVN
- SOAP UI
- ServiceNow
- CA LISA
- WAPT
- New Relic
- POSTMAN
- Defects Management
- Load Testing
- Stress Testing
- Test Planning
- Regression Testing
- System Integration Testing
- Automation Testing
- Test Execution
- Time Management
- Resource Allocation
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Resource planning expertise
- Team leadership abilities
- Stakeholder Management
- Training and mentoring
Certification
- IT Leadership
- API Test Automation with SOAP UI
- Software Testing for DevOps
- Certified Scale 4 Agilist
- ISTQB
Timeline
Test Manager
Data Action
11.2022 - Current
Senior Tester/Test Lead
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
05.2022 - 11.2022
Test Manager (Consultant)
ASG Group
10.2021 - 05.2022
Test Analyst
Statewide Super
09.2020 - 09.2021
Test Lead (Test Manager)
AccessHQ
04.2019 - 09.2020
Test Lead(equivalent to Test Manager)
Courts Administration Authority
07.2017 - 03.2019
Test and Support Analyst
SATAC
03.2015 - 07.2016
Test Lead
Syntel
08.2014 - 02.2015
Consultant
Capgemini
09.2012 - 08.2014
Senior Test Engineer/Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
03.2008 - 09.2012
Master of Computer Applications -
Jerusalem Engineering College
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Indian Harvard College
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