Akash Kona
Summary
In-depth Quality Assurance Specialist with success in prioritization and multitasking. Exceptional communication and organizational skills. Committed to paying impeccable attention to defects and their tracking procedures. Experienced Quality Control Analyst with demonstrated track record of improving products and procedures by leveraging hands-on testing methods and documentation. Disciplined professional with systematic approach to STLC. Applies excellent attention to detail and critical reasoning to successfully conduct experiments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Quality Assurance Specialist
TCS/BA VHS
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Performed end to end complete functional testing on VMT
- Analysed, evaluated complete workflow of telecommunication tasks in TDC
- Performed regression testing on functional details to ensure optimum quality
- Performed API Testing (Manual API Testing using
- Postman)
- Evaluated accurate data flow through Inca
- Analysed the functionality of every Main & Sub task in VMT
- Executed smoke testing for every Main & Sub task in VMT
- Lead the demo presentation meetings with stakeholders and developers regarding defects
- Planed test strategy for every sprint in an Agile environment & participated agile ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings.
- Analysed Agillic Integration dataset accuracy with VMT
- Performed documentation and reporting of defect using Jira
- Updated the test cases in QC & shared overall report for every release
- Performed automations using Jenkins (continues integration) tool
- Analysed every new features of new release and preparing accurate test cases accordingly.
TRMS ANALYST(TRANSACTION RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)
AMAZON
04.2019 - 05.2020
- Analyzed, researched, evaluated & deep dived in all payment transactions
- Interpretation of financial reports such as bank statements for authentication
- Taken appropriate action on buyer transactions based on
- Database using SQL
- Research across multitude of sources for accurate action on buyer transactions
- Worked in a high performing transformation team shaping the BI platforms.
- Initiating KPIs, developing, providing and monitoring ops performance dashboards
- Worked with the Data Management team to provide input on logical and physical database design, data modeling
- Exposure to QA activities while working on NAUTILUS such as test result, leaked defects reporting & root cause analysis
- Performed Quality Assurance for the tool NAUTILUS (Amazon specific) which is used for transaction risk management
- Certified AGILE training was completed as part of Amazon training process
DATA ANALYST
Shamgar Software Solutions
02.2018 - 03.2019
- Big vehicular traffic data mining: towards preventing accidents and congestion
- Application of feature selection algorithms onto the
- UK -Government’s “Road Accidents and Safety” data in order to single out the most significant predictors of accidents
- Underwent training in R - worked on analytical assignments related to an assorted range of datasets
- Assisted with formulating data insights post model generation and running on different parameters setup by developer team
- Compiled final outputs from the system and identified top causes of accidents.
QUALITY ASSOCIATE
AMAZON
09.2017 - 01.2018
- Established and streamlined operational processes for data augmentation efforts, independently drive process excellence initiatives to re-engineer processes to quickly respond to business needs
- Continuously evaluated existing tools and processes for employee engagement and task management, and propose solutions to invent and simplify for efficiency gains and high- quality throughput
- Delivered high quality work under tight deadlines handling ambiguity and fluctuating volumes
- Managed day-to-day operations of the data curation in close coordination with last mile Tech & Science teams, and ensure seamless reporting for the data quality improvement across their span.
Education
B.Tech - COMPUTER SCIENCE
GITAM UNIVERSITY
Visakhapatnam04.2017
Skills
- Functional testing
- Api testing
- Regression testing
- Automation Testing
- Software testing
- Smoke testing
- Manual testing
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Postman
- Regression testing
- Cucumber
Timeline
Lead Quality Assurance Specialist
TCS/BA VHS
09.2021 - 01.2023
TRMS ANALYST(TRANSACTION RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)
AMAZON
04.2019 - 05.2020
DATA ANALYST
Shamgar Software Solutions
02.2018 - 03.2019
QUALITY ASSOCIATE
AMAZON
09.2017 - 01.2018
B.Tech - COMPUTER SCIENCE
GITAM UNIVERSITY
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