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Education
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HARINATH KOTLA

Quality Assurance Analyst/Lead
Melbourne,VIC

Summary


Seasoned Test Analyst with 8+ years of experience designing and implementing quality assurance tests. Evaluated test objectives to develop and implement test procedures optimized for relevant results. Reported on test results and suggested interpretations relevant to product applications and further test development. Oriented towards streamlining testing and reporting processes to lower costs and optimize production efficiency.


Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SENIOR TEST ANALYST

Australian Taxation Office
08.2018 - Current


Worked on various projects at ATO including data-center migration, introduction of new applications in and integration with existing apps, upgrading current contact center solution with modern technology (Verint - call recording, screen recording, Genesys WDE, Nuance voice biometrics) to provide a better experience to the citizens of Australia.

  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to convert business requirements into top-quality test documentation.
  • Deliver comprehensive training on contact center concepts to the newly formed test team.
  • Craft meticulous test plans and test cases.
  • Execute rigorous tests and deliver concise, actionable reports on the results.
  • Develop, maintain, and execute thorough regression test suites whenever a hotfix release is necessary to resolve a defect.
  • Defect management and resolution to ensure all issues are resolved quickly and effectively.

PRODUCT ANALYST

AfterPay
05.2017 - 08.2018


Involved in analyzing & interpreting data from a variety of sources and user behavior to inform data-driven product decisions, mainly to prioritize features to develop and enhance based on customer feedback.

  • Collect and synthesize user feedback from recently onboarded merchants through surveys, and interviews to better understand user needs and challenges.
  • Evaluate and prioritize product features/enhancements/bugs for development using A/B testing.
  • Liaise with development teams to oversee deployments and tasks for sprints.
  • Create reports and visualizations to present data-driven insights to stakeholders.

INTEGRATION TEST ANALYST

AfterPay
09.2016 - 04.2017

AfterPay is a payment method facilitating consumers to pay for their purchases in instalments. Our team was involved in providing services to the merchants to integrate their websites and POS systems with AfterPay.

  • Liaise with business stakeholders to translate business requirements to testing requirements.
  • Involved in planning of testing since the inception of the team and led the team to develop and mature a testing process.
  • Functional, integration, and regression testing of applications.

TEST ANALYST

Telstra
04.2015 - 09.2016

Telstra's Contact Centre Solution delivers complete customer support services to its client, the Department of Human Services. These services include IVR, desktop softphone, live monitoring of the agent KPIs, historical reporting of business metrics, forecasting, and scheduling of agents.

  • Acquired knowledge of nuances of Contact Centre applications
  • Analyze requirements and create comprehensive test scripts and use cases to support testing
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and other stakeholders to cover end-to-end testing activities
  • Record defects and provide thorough descriptions and evidence
  • Assisted in Incident Management post-deployment
  • Involved in End-user training and floor-walking during Go-Live.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

CLM Software
01.2014 - 04.2015

A ticket booking system has been developed to digitize manual ticket sales. It is designed for an event organizer to sell tickets online, track sales and for its patrons to purchase tickets from the web application using online payments

  • Built a scalable, highly available, modular, and testable web user interface using ASP.NET in an agile environment.
  • Performed API testing using Postman.
  • Performed system-level testing to verify end-to-end dataflow.

Education

MASTERS IN DATA SCIENCE -

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Federation University

Skills

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Certification

Certified Tester Foundation Level, ANZTB, Oct 2016

Accomplishments

  • Team rewarded for the excellent work done to complete testing of data migration project ahead of schedule (ATO, Mar 2021)
  • Nominated for Employee of the Month award for being instrumental in developing test procedures for our newly created team (AfterPay, 2017)

References

  • Tea Dukic, Test Manager, ATO, tea.dukic@ato.gov.au
  • Steven Tuttleby, Senior Test Analyst, ATO, steven.tuttleby@ato.gov.au

Interests

Scuba-diving

Chess

Cricket

Self-Help books

Yoga & Holistic health

Timeline

SENIOR TEST ANALYST - Australian Taxation Office
08.2018 - Current
PRODUCT ANALYST - AfterPay
05.2017 - 08.2018
INTEGRATION TEST ANALYST - AfterPay
09.2016 - 04.2017
TEST ANALYST - Telstra
04.2015 - 09.2016
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - CLM Software
01.2014 - 04.2015
GreyAtom - MASTERS IN DATA SCIENCE,
Federation University - MASTERS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
HARINATH KOTLAQuality Assurance Analyst/Lead