Prabhavathy Venkatesan

• Defined testing and acceptance strategies and determined quality assurance benchmarks.
• Edited software documentation to increase accuracy and reduce occurrences of user error due to confusing content.
• Reviewed bug reports and error logs, translating data into digestible reports for senior leadership personnel.
• Analyzed historical testing results to isolate failure patterns for long-term investigation into possible development protocols improvements.
• Coordinated with off-site staff to verify correct use of test procedures and confirm accurate reporting.
• Updated ongoing testing procedures for software to account for changes resulting from post-release patches.
• Professionally derived test scenarios based on business requirements.
• Supervised and involved in test scripts creation and execution via SOAP UI, SPLUNK, SQL Developer, JIRA and ZEPHYR tools.
• Promptly prepared testing report, matrix and send daily /weekly status report to executive committee.
• Involved in all agile ceremonies - Story Elaboration and Look ahead session, Sprint planning, Daily Stand up and Sprint retro.
• Involved in 3 amigos session with Product Owner and Lead BA.
• Coordinated with all platform teams and third-party stakeholders for Environment and test data facilitation.

• End to End Test Management of a transformation program involving multiple vendors and stakeholders

• Attending Pre-requisite workshop session with Business SME

• Preparing Test Strategy, test plan and Test Reports

• Enabled UAT co-ordination and Defect Triage

• Coordination with Business SME and other key stakeholders

• Project Assessment and Estimation for new projects

• Review of Test Data requirements, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts

• Ensuring all the test activities are properly documented in HP ALM

• Conducted training sessions for business users on testing processes and methodologies and HP ALM

• Ensured traceability is established for all the defined business requirement in ALM.

• Training Business SME on testing process.

• Performed HP ALM administration to customize the report and project structure to meet the business needs

• Participated in Project status meetings with Technology Owner, Business Owner and Product Manager

• Review Resource allocations, financials, meet operational goals and guiding team members during project till final delivery

• Conducted requirement risk assessment and identifying risk scores with the help of business and technology team

• Review of test data requirement, test conditions and test scripts

• Managing test documentation and process via HP ALM

• Engaging testing teams for system testing, integration testing and UAT

• Ensuring proper sign off is received for all project deliverables

• Preparing Test strategy, test plan and Testing Reports

• Forecasting monthly effort for all team members

• Participating in Weekly Project calls with all important project stakeholders

• Involved in Database and Database Migration Testing

• Coordination with customer for system acceptance

• Preparation of Functional Specification Design

• Functional gap document Verification based on BRD

• Managing customer support from onsite

• Mapping changes based on customer’s feedback

• Pro-active approach in customer support

• Weekly report presentation to the top management

• Performed web services testing using SOAP UI

• Involved in System test plan creation based on the requirement and

design document.

• Involved in review of test Scenario and test Case based on requirement and design document.

• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements.

• Involved in Test planning and coordinating with offshore on requirement sharing and test management.

• Conducting Show and Tell to enable clients understand the functionalities developed.

• Internal Reviews / Walkthrough and conducting system audits and identifying the performance bottlenecks

• Publishing the test exit reports, release notes and test metrics in client portals.

• Project metric collection/analysis and providing areas of improvement and ensuring maintaining good health of the project

• Was the ALM project Admin performing all project related QC admin activities

• Analyzing business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application.

• Prepared and maintained CMM Process Documents based on CMM Level 5 Standards.

• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements.

• Manual execution of Test cases to test application functionality against system requirements to ensure security and performance and reporting bugs in the On-line tool.

• Involved in Regression Testing.

• Internal Reviews / Walkthrough and conducting system audits and identifying the performance bottlenecks