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