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Pravin Murugan

Summary

Resolute and purposeful Test Lead/Senior Automation Consultant with over 10+ years of firsthand experience in manual and automation functional testing. Demonstrated expertise in designing, developing, and enhancing test automation frameworks for functional testing. Exceptional client-facing skills and adept at designing implementation and executing comprehensive test strategies to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products. Proficient in various types of testing, including ST, SIT, UAT, end-to-end, manual, automated, and API testing. Strong experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SIT/UAT Test Lead

AMP Wealth Management
07.2024 - 12.2024

Company : Wipro

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and bug fixes.
  • Developed comprehensive test plans and strategies, ensuring thorough coverage of all product functionalities.
  • Implemented risk-based testing approaches to prioritize high-impact areas for targeted testing efforts.
  • Analysis of the requirements and creating high level SIT & UAT API test scenarios and walkthroughs with product people and Ops users and get sign-off for the test coverage
  • Performing the SIT and UAT API Testing and test managing activities like test evidence, test data, defect details in the Jira & Confluence
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Showcased the value of effective testing efforts by consistently delivering high-quality products with minimal post-release issues.

Senior Automation Consultant

BPAY (Australian Payment Plus)
01.2022 - 03.2024

Company : Wipro

  • Delivered high-quality presentations to stakeholders, effectively communicating project objectives and results.
  • Evaluated client needs and expectations, establishing clear goals for each consulting engagement.
  • Identified areas of improvement for clients'' operations, implementing targeted solutions to increase productivity.
  • Analysis of the requirements and creation of Test automation scripts according to the stories in the sprint for the functional UI testing by using Selenium (Java), Cucumber BDD, Maven, WebDriver, TestNG, Serenity & GitLab
  • Analysis of the requirements and creation of Test automation scripts according to the stories in the sprint for the functional API testing by using Postman(Java Script), Newman and Selenium(Java) with Rest Templates
  • Managing the automation scripts using Git & Source Tree and Running the DevOps pipelines by using GitLab
  • Performing manual UI & API testing of the Application and test managing activities in Jira & Confluence

Senior QA Engineer

MLC - Wealth Superannuation
05.2017 - 01.2022

Company : Infosys Limited

  • Conducted thorough system testing to ensure seamless integration of new automation solutions into existing systems.
  • Ensured seamless integration of new features by performing end-to-end system testing across multiple platforms.
  • Involved in the Sprint planning to review the stories then assign the story point and plan to current sprint
  • Analysis of the requirements and creation of Test automation scripts according to the stories in the sprint by using UFT and Test management in Jira, GitHub & qTest.
  • Execution the scripts by using Jenkins job from the GitHub and updated the same in the qTest
  • Interacted with developers and BAs to resolve the defects within a Sprint
  • Involved in the Sprint Showcase at end of every sprint to showcase the test results to product owners to get the sign-off
  • Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Integration Testing, Functionality Testing and Regression Testing of the Application
  • Handover the automation scripts to Asset Team after the completion of project
  • Installations of software and implementation of CI/CD approach with involves Jenkins and multiple thread execution
  • Created complete Selenium Hybrid framework using Cucumber and TestNG framework and Triggered Jenkins jobs to run the progress scripts overnight
  • Setting up test data by running automation scripts thus reducing the effort of Asset teams and automation test results
  • Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug
  • Verify functionality, system interfaces, and business processes function according to documented requirements
  • Ensured high-quality user experiences by evaluating usability, compatibility, accessibility, and performance across multiple platforms and devices.
  • Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
  • Mentored junior QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
  • Optimized QA processes by adopting agile testing methodologies, resulting in faster delivery times.

Test Engineer

NAB Banking & Insurance
12.2014 - 05.2017
  • Company : Infosys Limited
  • Worked closely with Project Business Analysts while writing test objective matrix / test scenarios
  • Created System Test Plan and System Integration Test Plan and Involved in creating BPT Automation framework using QTP.
  • Taken Initiative to automate the few modules using UFT/QTP
  • Participated in a daily defect triage meeting and provided development team with defect information
  • Provided defect retest support during warranty phase of testing post deployment of the code in production
  • Preparing Traceability Matrix to identify the extensive coverage of the requirements
  • Setting up test data by running automation scripts thus reducing the effort of different manual team
  • Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
  • Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering Technology -

Kumaraguru College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
05-2014

Diploma of Engineering -

K L Nagaswamy Memorial Polytechnic College
Madurai, India
06-2011

Skills

  • Selenium(Java)- Intelli J
  • UFT/QTP(VBScript)
  • API - Postman (Java Script)
  • API - Rest Templates
  • API - Rest Assured
  • Mainframe - AS400
  • MS SQL, Oracle
  • Jira, ALM, qTest
  • Git, Sourcetree
  • Confluence, Zephyr
  • Serenity, JUnit
  • Maven,TestNG
  • Datadog, Newman
  • Swagger
  • Cucumber, Serenity
  • GitLab, Jenkins
  • TOSCA Automation
  • Playwright(Java)
  • Functional testing
  • End-to-end testing

Certification

  • Mastering Modern Test Automation with Playwright in Java(Wipro Internal - Udemy)
  • TOSCA Test Automation - Hands On UI and API Automation(Wipro Internal - Udemy)
  • The Complete Job Control language ( JCL ) Course (Wipro Internal - Udemy)
  • The Complete Mainframe Professional Course (Wipro Internal - Udemy)


Timeline

SIT/UAT Test Lead

AMP Wealth Management
07.2024 - 12.2024

Senior Automation Consultant

BPAY (Australian Payment Plus)
01.2022 - 03.2024

Senior QA Engineer

MLC - Wealth Superannuation
05.2017 - 01.2022

Test Engineer

NAB Banking & Insurance
12.2014 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Engineering Technology -

Kumaraguru College of Technology

Diploma of Engineering -

K L Nagaswamy Memorial Polytechnic College
Pravin Murugan