Overview
Work History
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Sreenivas Vegapa

Brisbane

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
Brisbane
12.2017 - Current
  • Understanding functional and non-functional requirements by working with business analysts, architects, and product owners and translating them into test JIRA stories and ensuring traceability matrix criteria is met
  • Preparing the test plan, test case writing, estimates, system test execution, logging defects in JIRA and organizing meetings with the developers to bring it to closure
  • Providing guidance and expertise for new proposals and strategies in relation to software testing tools and standards, providing financial estimates regarding tools purchases
  • Development and revision of project test artifacts e.g., Documentation, Automated test scripts and performance test scripts
  • Conducting peer and self-reviews, offering guidance to the team in ensuring high quality product output with no outstanding issues
  • Participating in backlog refinement, retrospective, defect triage meetings and producing test deliverable reports by consulting with various stakeholders
  • Led a 5-member QA team in key projects that required meticulous testing of complex software ensuring compliance with industry standards
  • Played a key role in development and implementation of continuous integration process and enforced automation wherever possible that enhanced the software development lifecycle reducing critical bugs by 40%
  • Performing QA checks on training manuals, user manuals and other documentations pertaining to test deliverables to share with the end users
  • Mentored junior software testers

Software Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
Melbourne
07.2016 - 11.2017
  • Understanding functional and non-functional requirements by working with business analysts, architects, and product owners and translating them into test JIRA stories and ensuring traceability matrix criteria is met
  • Preparing the test plan, test case writing, estimates, system test execution, logging defects in JIRA and organizing meetings with the developers to bring it to closure
  • Participating in backlog refinement, retrospective, defect triage meetings and producing test deliverable reports by consulting with various stakeholders
  • Development and revision of project test artifacts e.g., Documentation, Automated test scripts and performance test scripts
  • Conducting peer and self-reviews, offering guidance to the team in ensuring high quality product output with no outstanding issues
  • Performing QA checks on training manuals, user manuals and other documentations pertaining to test deliverables to share with the end users
  • Develop, document and maintain functional and regression test cases and other test artifacts, including tests data, data validation and harness scripts
  • Established the test automation framework and applying automation wherever possible
  • Drafting the user manuals and supporting documentation to facilitate UAT process
  • Preparing the test execution and defect summary reports and sharing it across business stakeholders

QA Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
Bangalore
03.2012 - 06.2016
  • Understanding the business requirements and translating them to testing requirements and establishing the traceability matrix
  • Drafting the test plan, test cases and test scripts
  • Performing the test execution and ensuring entry/exit criteria are maintained across each stage of testing
  • Logging the defects in JIRA, conduct root cause analysis and participate in design solution meetings and recommend changes in procedure to mitigate the issues in early stages
  • Established the test automation framework and applying automation wherever possible
  • Participating in backlog refinement, defect triage meetings and following up with the development team to track the defects to closure
  • Develop, document and maintain functional and regression test cases and other test artifacts, including tests data, data validation and harness scripts
  • Drafting the user manuals and supporting documentation to facilitate UAT process
  • Preparing the test execution and defect summary reports and sharing it across business stakeholders

Timeline

Senior Software Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
12.2017 - Current

Software Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
07.2016 - 11.2017

QA Tester

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
03.2012 - 06.2016
Sreenivas Vegapa