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Dharma Sukrin

Dharma Sukrin

CRAIGIEBURN,VIC

Summary

Well-coordinated, organized and dependable Test Lead driven to improve procedures and team effectiveness. Successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Adept at evaluating products for design compliance, sustainability and user-friendliness. Highly productive and resourceful leader bringing in 13 years of industry experience.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Test Lead - Business Lending Delivery Team 'Austin'

National Australian Bank
10.2023 - Current
  • Successfully trained 3 new test employees on team assets and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance/escalation.
  • Created robust test plan and realistic work estimates for testing phases.
  • Developed cost effective strategies.
  • Collaborated with developers/product owners/Business Analysts to stay current on product features and intended functionality, to meet deadlines and triage defects.
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
  • Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
  • Executed and delegated test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Conducted and delegated regression testing of existing products.
  • Streamlined testing processes to identify areas in need of improvement.
  • Create TSR and obtain sign-offs.
  • Conduct Showcases and UAT to stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality.
  • Coordinated work with various teams to solve problems and improve efficiency for software testing.
  • Defined and identified test cases for new application development.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
  • Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
  • Facilitate Test Environment readiness.

Senior Quality Engineer - Business Lending Delivery Team 'Austin'

National Australia Bank
07.2015 - 10.2023
  • Involved in requirement gathering.
  • Provide Test estimation during early planning.
  • Focus on test driven development to ensure quality of Data.
  • Use of Docker Containers for microservice testing.
  • Working closely with product owners, scrum master, business and other teams to have high degree of assurance on quality of delivery.
  • API Testing - Postman.
  • Focus on early Test Automation - SpecFlow, Selenium.
  • Use of GitHub for Static testing.
  • Writing complex SQL queries for data capturing and mocking up date, during test execution and performing root cause analysis.
  • Actively involved in mentoring and upskilling new resources in team. Upskilled and mentored 4 resources this year.
  • Risk analysis and provide risk mitigation strategies from quality perspective, business risk and overall project perspective enabling upper management to make better business decisions.
  • Automate manual test processes by scripting using Unix/Windows Shell/PowerShell. Improving processes - Championed Automation of batch reporting, improved communication processes between automation testers and manual testers.
  • Providing technical support to production support team.
  • Led projects to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
  • Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
  • Defect management and requirement management in Q-Test and Rally.
  • Development of Team 'Wiki' on confluence for knowledge sharing across Team Members.
  • API, Functional, Regression, Performance, Security, Shakeout, Exploratory, roll back Testing and failover testing.
  • Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
  • Supported quality team members during corrective action updates.
  • Led problem-solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolve quality and productivity issues.
  • Partnered with senior management to analyze issues and find appropriate solutions.
  • Facilitated process improvements to successfully decrease errors. Documented and developed testing procedures and processes.
  • Maintained compliance with industry standards and regulatory compliance during managed projects.
  • Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction.
  • Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.

Test Analyst - Trade-Store (Data Warehouse)

National Australia Bank
08.2013 - 07.2015
  • ETL - Extract Transform Load of Data.
  • Writing SQL queries for testing and test data creation.
  • Require strong UNIX skill to manipulate large volume of data in various formats.
  • Test Planning and Execution.
  • Functional and Regression Testing - HP Quality Centre; Investigation of job failures using DataStage/Unix/SQL Queries.
  • Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Thorough Knowledge in Warehouses.
  • Batch job execution and monitoring and failure investigation using Autosys.
  • Defect Management in ALM.

Programmer

Accenture
04.2010 - 02.2013
  • Graduate position served multiple clients: United energy - Production Support
  • January 2013 - February 2013 Managing high severity incidents; Reporting to clients and stakeholders and Writing and maintaining shell scripts
  • NBN - Test execution coordinator October 2011 - January 2013 End to End Software testing
  • Tools used: HP Quality Centre/UNIX/ Data Stage/SQL; Improved defect management process; Coordinating with Offshore team; Weekly reporting to upper management and Coaching new team members
  • Telstra - Migration Reporting Tool January 2011 - October 2011 Execution of jobs in UNIX; Coaching new team members; Producing daily reports; Automating reports; Reconciliation daily and Investigation of Job failures
  • Tools used: Data stage/SQL
  • Telstra - Test Management Team Aug 2010 - Jan 2011 Overseeing project test schedule and Migration reporting to senior management.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (IT) And Commerce - Information Technology / Finance

University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC
01.2010

Skills

  • Project Planning
  • Team Development
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Test Planning
  • Project Coordination
  • SQL server 2016
  • Azure - Cloud
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Microsoft Office Suit
  • Confluence
  • Rally
  • Report Documentation
  • Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Test Design
  • Quality Assessments
  • Testing Procedures
  • Regulatory Requirements
  • Writing Test Scripts
  • Requirements Reviews
  • Providing Feedback
  • UAT Support
  • Quality Management
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Regression Testing Management

Education Certifications

  • SCALED AGILE (2023), SAFe Scrum Master SAFe Enterprise Certified
  • NAB (2022), Progressive Elaboration Certified
  • DDSL (2019), DevOps Foundation Course
  • Microsoft (2019), AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification
  • ANZTB (2013), ISTQB Foundation Testing Certificate
  • Tertiary (2004 - 2010), The University of Melbourne (Parkville)Bachelor's in Engineering (IT)Honours in Engineering (IT)Bachelors in Commerce (Finance)

References

Available upon request

Hobbies

Culinary

Painting

Playing Table Tennis and Badminton

Work Availability

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Quote

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs

Timeline

Test Lead - Business Lending Delivery Team 'Austin'

National Australian Bank
10.2023 - Current

Senior Quality Engineer - Business Lending Delivery Team 'Austin'

National Australia Bank
07.2015 - 10.2023

Test Analyst - Trade-Store (Data Warehouse)

National Australia Bank
08.2013 - 07.2015

Programmer

Accenture
04.2010 - 02.2013

Bachelor of Engineering (IT) And Commerce - Information Technology / Finance

University of Melbourne
Dharma Sukrin