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Priyanka Arepu

Quakers Hill,NSW

Summary

An accomplished and results-oriented Senior Test Lead with 12 years of experience working across diverse sectors, including retail and financial services. Expertise includes client relationship management, user acceptance testing, business requirements gathering, functional testing, test management, project management, and performance testing. Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects under tight deadlines while fostering effective collaboration with stakeholders at various levels. Recognized as a trusted team player employing a solutions-oriented approach to empower leaders and teams in achieving sustainable technology objectives.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, Sydney
10.2021 - Current
  • Test Lead for SAP CAR Portfolio in Woolworths. Leading 20 members QA team both Onshore and Offshore.
  • Project Team's Strengths and values to the clients.
  • Showcase QA Productivity Improvements and value adds to the clients.
  • Work with the Product Owners and get the visibility of upcoming projects that requires QA Testing.
  • Provide estimates for the upcoming QA works, and prioritize based on the business requirements.
  • Optimized resource allocation, assigning appropriate testers to specific projects based on expertise and skill set.
  • Organizing various QA workshops to derive the Test Requirements for bigger programs, and document them for IT purposes.
  • Enhanced software quality by implementing effective test strategies and test plans.
  • Conducting regular progress review meetings with the product owners, and tracking minutes for the follow up meetings.
  • Supporting the team to deal with the short QA timeline projects, calling out risks and dependencies when appropriate.
  • Capable enough to work on the new implementations projects that have minimal documentation and work towards enhancing them in the journey.
  • Lead for a program from onsite, organize Defect Triage calls, and regular status review meetings with the IT & Business teams.
  • Actively participated in Agile planning sessions, providing valuable input on test scope and effort estimation.
  • Conducted a few Scrum meetings including Daily calls, Sprint Planning meetings.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.

Prime Program Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, Sydney
02.2020 - 09.2021
  • Test Lead for Woolworths Promotions Portal CAR & Java upgrade programs at onsite.
  • Participated in project workshop meetings with the SAP COE team and the Woolworths functional team.
  • Created Test Strategy & Test Plan documents and got the approvals from multiple stakeholders.
  • Analysed defect patterns and presented findings to facilitate continuous improvement.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Worked with the TCS Automation COE team to build new automation framework for the upgraded promotions portal.
  • Coordinated End to End Testing for 15+ downstream and upstream applications.
  • Organized Defect Triage calls, and tracked the progress.
  • Coordinated Business UAT testing and shared daily status emails to the PMs and other stakeholders.
  • Consolidated overall QA Sign off emails, and created Test Completion Reports for change processing.
  • Showcased the value of effective testing efforts by consistently delivering high-quality products with minimal post-release issues.

Program Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd
11.2018 - 01.2020
  • Test Lead at onsite for Partnerhub Project that integrated Woolworths Master data between SAP & Salesforce application.
  • Explored Salesforce application and completed a few trail blazer courses ahead of the project commencement, and accumulated a few trailhead badges.
  • Gained expertise in performing API testing.
  • Developed Expertise in Integration testing across multiple integration layers that involved SAP PI, Webmethods, and Informatica.
  • Identified good number of defects that turned out to design changes.
  • Contributed in End to End Test Automation using TOSCA & Service virtualization.
  • Reduced defect leakage rate by conducting thorough root cause analyses and proactively addressing areas of concern in future release cycles.
  • Collaborated with the business team to perform End to End functional and integration testing.
  • Coordinated with a team of 10 members Onsite & Offshore to track the testing progress and reported accordingly.

Test Coordinator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd
08.2017 - 07.2018
  • Test Coordinator for multiple small and medium sized projects in SAP Master Data and SAP Promotion areas.
  • Gained expertise in handling multiple projects in parallel, and prioritizing it.
  • Performed End to End Testing between Java, SAP & GCP applications.
  • Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements.
  • Collaborated with development teams for seamless integration of testing efforts, resulting in faster issue resolution.
  • Optimized resource allocation by accurately estimating required testing effort for each project phase.
  • Conducted root cause analysis on recurring defects to identify areas for process improvement and future prevention.
  • Presented QA Status in weekly PWG & PCG meetings to different project stakeholders.


Test Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, India
11.2016 - 08.2017
  • Test Lead for Promotions Portal BAU changes at Offshore, leading a team of 6 members.
  • Gained exposure to different integration tools like SAP PI, Webmethods, and Informatica.
  • Responsible to coordinate with the onsite leads and assign daily tasks to the team, and guide them in case of any queries.
  • Tracked team progress to ensure testing deliverables are met.
  • Boosted team efficiency through effective knowledge sharing sessions and mentoring the testers.
  • Shared Daily Status Reports by highlighting risks and dependencies when needed.
  • Prepared Process Flow Diagrams and Accelerated Induction Documents that helped new joiners in the team.

Test Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Masters Home Improvement, Woolworths Ltd, India
06.2013 - 10.2016
  • Worked on various projects that involved testing in multiple Oracle Retail applications like RMS, ReIM, & SIM.
  • Gained expertise in SQL queries.
  • Collaborated with a team of 10 members to perform End to End integration testing.
  • Worked with the Onsite team to perform testing related activities.
  • Built Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Traceability Matrix from the requirement documents.
  • Published Daily Status Reports to the Project Managers and other stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering

JNTU KAKINADA
BHIMAVARAM, INDIA
04-2012

Skills

  • Client relationship management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Project management
  • Reports creation
  • Business Test Coordination
  • Agile methodologies
  • Problem solving
  • Quality assurance
  • Data analysis
  • Google Studio Reporting
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Test strategy & optimisation
  • Test cases development

Functional and Technical Skills

SAP ECC  - MM, SD

SAP CAR - PMR, POSDTA, UDF

SAP Finance - Accounting & Settlement

SAP Fiori - Applications & Reporting

SAP Integration - PI/PO

Other Integration Applications - Webmethods, Informatica

API Testing

SalesForce Admin

Oracle Retail - RMS, ReIM, SIM

SQL Queries

JIRA

QTest

TOSCA

Selenium & UFT Basic level

UI Path

Certification

  • ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Manager
  • Udemy : SAP Test Analyst Certification
  • TOSCA Automation Specialist Level 1 & 2 Certification
  • UI Path Learner - Level 1

Timeline

Senior Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, Sydney
10.2021 - Current

Prime Program Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, Sydney
02.2020 - 09.2021

Program Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd
11.2018 - 01.2020

Test Coordinator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd
08.2017 - 07.2018

Test Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Woolworths Ltd, India
11.2016 - 08.2017

Test Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | Client: Masters Home Improvement, Woolworths Ltd, India
06.2013 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering

JNTU KAKINADA

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