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Rachal Sajjan Raj

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Goal-oriented Test Lead with overall 7 years of extensive work experience at leading companies including Amazon development center and Infosys Limited, driving innovation in testing and team management and contributing to significant process improvements. Knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and possess a solid understanding of all phases of SDLC and STLC for dynamic projects. Highly proactive, friendly, quick learner and punctual with a team-oriented mentality and has good communication skills. Consistently meets deadlines while delivering high-quality products.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Lead/Sr. Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
2023.10 - Current
  • Handled several releases as QA lead and responsible for overall testing deliverables on project.
  • Involved in design and architectural discussions, sprint meetings, attend grooming meetings to understand complex business requirements and functionality.
  • Led the Functional & Regression Automation suite design, development and supported with implementation.
  • Prepared test plan, test strategy, test scenarios, test cases for conducting testing with development activity and provide walkthrough to the business.
  • Extensive experience performing system testing, integration testing, SIT, UAT, graphical user interface
    testing, black box testing, functional testing, smoke testing, test automation and regression
    testing including:
    o Designing and implementing test cases using Data driven testing Framework
    o Locating and writing XPath, developing test automation scripts in Java and Java Script
    o Experience on Cucumber, BDD Framework with Gherkin and feature files.
  • Competency in providing end to end testing and regression reports to sign-off for production release.
  • Coordinated and led offshore/onsite teams by assigning, tracking, reviewing code, Demonstrated the work accomplished to management and Leadership.
  • Expertise in customer interaction and communicating release testing status, defect leakage
    and overall quality aspects of releases ensuring client satisfaction.
  • Coordinated with the different testing teams (QA & Systems Assurance) & facilitated testing activities between multiple teams, defects tracking(Triage & resolution), conducting daily test status calls, Environment readiness, provide testing updates on weekly status calls with business partners & technology teams.
  • Prepared estimates for testing for the release.
  • Prepared of Test Data, Test Cases based on project needs. Execution of Test cases.
  • Optimized regression testing efforts through continuous improvement of test cases and methodologies.
  • Performed database checks with SQL scripts. Written complex queries to retrieve test data.
  • As a SME on Client Applications, conducted trainings for testing team members on Application knowledge, Testing practices, Client interactions, Testing skills, Defect tracking & resolution and Agile best practices.
  • 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.
  • Engaged in continuous learning to stay abreast of latest testing methodologies and tools, applying best practices to daily work.
  • Won multiple awards and GEM recognitions.

QA Lead/Sr. Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
2022.02 - 2023.10
  • Handled QA team with 5+ resources as Team leader Offshore.
  • Created Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test data as per BAs requirement. Modified existing test cases based on requirements and changes in existing Test.
  • Created Test strategy document and Test plan for releases. Achieved test estimates by coordinating with Onshore lead and project managers.
  • Executed Progression and Regression Test cases. Worked on smoke, E2E, SIT, Exploratory and Integration testing.
  • Written Test Completion Report (TCR) when test release is completed.
  • Worked with dev and Project leads to understand new requirements, setup triage calls and recurring meetings to update project level progress.
  • Scheduled Retrospective meetings after every release to know concerns from QA team on feedback to improve process.
  • In depth knowledge in JIRA: created dashboard in JIRA for every release, created defects and tests in JIRA.
  • Worked as critical member for “Customer create tool” to automate customer creation process..
  • Performed duties as individual contributor and can manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously. Excellent interpersonal communication, analytical skills.
  • Raised BTN(Process improvement idea) and reduced testing efforts by 0.5hrs/day.

Senior Quality Service Associate

Amazon Development Center
2017.07 - 2022.02
  • Planned and delivered full life cycle projects by analyzing business requirements. Written and optimized test cases, converted bugs to test cases.
  • Worked on E2E, Functional, Regression, Domain and BAT testing. Worked in Agile Methodology.
  • Written test plan and test scripts and trained teams as critical task owner(Single point of contact) for test case execution and defect creation.
  • Played an integral role in launching successful products(Echo) in US and Indian markets from 2017 to 2022. Worked as Senior tester(single POC/SME) for 4 product release(launch of ECHO products 2019 - 2022).
  • Prepared Bug Report and Tracked in Bug Tracking tool JIRA.
  • Knowledge in software tools: Testrail, JIRA, Kota, Kbits, Amazon Intra tools.
  • Raised Process Improvement in December 2019 which saved 150 USD/week.
  • Promoted from level 2 to level 3(team leader). Handled team of 3 QAs.
  • Evaluated product functionality and created test strategies to access product quality.
  • Worked with internationalization and Localization team in "Echo" product testing for German language to convert test cases from English to German.
  • Coordinated and supported testing team and development with test execution, application troubleshooting with proper engagement.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Women's Christian College
Chennai, India
04.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer science

JUSTICE BASHEER AHMED SAYEED COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
Chennai, India
04.2015

Certificate II - German Language And Literature

Goethe Institut
Chennai, India
02.2020

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript. Automation tools: Selenium WebDriver Cucumber.
  • Databases: SQL.
  • Frameworks: Behavior-driven BDD, TestNG, JUnit.
  • Project/Defect tracking tools: JIRA HP ALM.
  • Other tools: Jenkins, Maven, Postman, Rest assured, Gradle, Splunk, BDD, Bitbucket, GIT.
  • Test plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, and cases
  • Testing: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, UAT, UI,API, Load, White box, Blackbox, Functional, Database
  • Methodologies: AGILE (SCRUM), Waterfall, SDLC, STLC
  • End to End Project & Test Planning, Co-ordination Execution & Management.
  • Skilled Accessibility tester.

Timeline

QA Lead/Sr. Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
2023.10 - Current

QA Lead/Sr. Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
2022.02 - 2023.10

Senior Quality Service Associate

Amazon Development Center
2017.07 - 2022.02

Master of Science - Information Technology

Women's Christian College

Bachelor of Science - Computer science

JUSTICE BASHEER AHMED SAYEED COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

Certificate II - German Language And Literature

Goethe Institut
Rachal Sajjan Raj