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VIKAS SHASTRULA

Melbourne

Summary

Have exceptional skills in Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing and API testing in the Financial Services domain niched on Australia Payment system, Customer Journey and cards. Have exceptional skills in Test Planning, Test case Development, Test Execution, Defect Management and Testing Retrospective. Analyzing requirements and understanding complex functionalities during the project planning phases to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Expertise in developing macros using Microsoft Excel-VBA. Expertise in test automation of Web and Mobile applications tests using Selenium-TESTNG and Perfecto-Appium frameworks respectively. API and web services testing using Postman. Versatile in both Agile and traditional Waterfall environments. Expertise in Test Management tools like Zephyr, JIRA Xray and HP ALM. Hands on Experience in CI-CT tools like Maven, GIT and Jenkins Excellent Communication, Interpersonal and Management skills

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Analyst

PROCRM Melbourne
06.2023 - 04.2024
  • Worked in various short-term projects in this portfolio for the functional testing of web application, mobile applications(Android & iOS)
  • Involved in Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test case Development, Test Execution and Test Cycle Closure phases of the project
  • Testing APIs that connect the mobile application with the server
  • Verifying that the API endpoints returns the expected responses and data when invoked by the mobile app
  • Daily Status reporting, defect management
  • Automated various front-end Web applications like Internet Banking using Selenium-Java, JUNIT and TestNG framework.

Tools:

Selenium-webdriver, Jira Xray, JUnit, Perfecto, Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, Postman

Test Analyst

Infosys Sydney
04.2021 - 05.2023
  • Involved in Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test case Development, Test Execution and Test Cycle Closure in various phases of the project
  • Daily Status reporting, defect management
  • Testing the APIs used in the financial systems to ensure their proper functionality, security, and compliance with standards
  • I was part of the daily stand-up meeting with Key Stakeholders during the UAT phase of NPP
  • Worked on SWIFT messages standards to test international payments (ISO 20022)
  • Worked under stringent timelines to meet the project deadlines.

Tools :

Selenium-webdriver, Altova XML-SPY, Jira Xray, Postman

Business Consultant

Pactera Melbourne
02.2022 - 06.2022
  • Conducting comprehensive analysis of clients' business processes, systems, and challenges to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth
  • Developing strategic recommendations and action plans to address clients' business challenges and support their objectives
  • Managing end-to-end project lifecycles, defining project scope, creating project plans, and ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.

Test Analyst

Vision IT
09.2017 - 09.2018
  • Team responsible for transferring data from source systems like CRM, Firefly to EDW data warehouse using an internal framework called DDEP that uses Hadoop architecture for storage and Hive architecture for processing
  • It uses multilayer architecture to ingest data from edge-node to DDEP landing layer and process it through different layers for transformation and send to corresponding outbound location using WinZip, putty for Unix commands, DAS to query hive DB, Control M to schedule jobs and tera data for data warehouse
  • Work on the requirement analysis, test estimation and test plan in the initial phase
  • Understanding the project business requirements and maintaining the clarification trackers and map to traceability matrix
  • Identifying the impacted applications, test environments and test data requirements and raise request for requirements
  • Prepare test cases and peer review
  • Test allocation and mentoring junior resources
  • Perform test execution, capture the results, and handle defect triage calls.

Tools:

Data Analytical studio, Unix, WinZip, Teradata, Putty, Azure Devops, Jira-Confluence

Education

Master of Information and Communication Technology -

11.2020

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science & Engineering

06.2017

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • SQL
  • Functional Testing
  • JIRA
  • Manual Testing
  • Appium
  • Java
  • Selenium
  • Github
  • HP ALM
  • API Testing
  • Mobile & Web Application Testing
  • Test Automation
  • Jenkins
  • Postman
  • Microsoft Azure

Title

Test Analyst

Accomplishments

    ● Half-Yearly PDO Award : Westpac-2022

    ● I have been Awarded with TOFU (“Take Ownership and Follow-Up” ) : Westpac-2021

    ● Latrobe University- Student Achievement award- 2019

    ● Latrobe University- Certificate of Participation and Appreciation

    ● Latrobe University-Advanced LTSU Award

Certification

· Certified Tester ISTQB Foundation Level

· ITIL 4 Foundation, Xelos

· Certified by Cisco as Network Associate

Timeline

Test Analyst

PROCRM Melbourne
06.2023 - 04.2024

Business Consultant

Pactera Melbourne
02.2022 - 06.2022

Test Analyst

Infosys Sydney
04.2021 - 05.2023

Test Analyst

Vision IT
09.2017 - 09.2018

Master of Information and Communication Technology -

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science & Engineering

VIKAS SHASTRULA