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Certification
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Angel Gracious

Bangalore

Summary

Thorough quality assurance professional highly skilled in manual and automated application testing. Partners successfully with project management and development team members to put out high-quality software for customers. Offer 12+ years of IT Industry experience with focus on Quality Assurance , Business and System Analysis

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test-manager

KPMG
04.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for managing the testing team, test planning and test execution for the client
  • Analyze, Review and accept the business requirements and creating Master Test Plan and Test Strategy to the client
  • Reviewing the Testing artifacts- Master Test Plan, Test Strategy, Requirements, Test Cases and Test Results
  • Ensure testing of each application meets strategic business requirements and is completed on time within budget and with high degree of quality
  • Drive communication between testing, development and product teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage
  • Manage the end-to-end testing of the application, participate in the daily scrum discussions, consolidate the daily activities and sending the daily status resport
  • Create the testing framework using TOSCA for automation process
  • Adding the automation test scripts to Jenkin's pipeline and perform the execution
  • Identifying the defects and after analyzing assigning the defects to proper application team using JIRA and track until closure
  • Drive the triage calls and create the necessary defects and add to the backlogs
  • Involved in the code release to Staging, Pre-Production and Production environment.
  • Create and update the stories and tasks in JIRA application for Testing and close it after completion
  • Manage people: Recruitment and hiring/Line management with Appraisals and career guidance
  • Train and mentor team members as needed
  • Track project financials, progress and take corrective actions proactively
  • Responsible for signing off all test results at all the testing phases

Assistant Manager

KPMG
04.2019 - 03.2023
  • Analyze requirements and preparation of test cases and test scenarios on Insurance Domain applications
  • Co-ordination on Task allocation, task completion and daily status reporting
  • Involved in Functional, System, end to end,regression and UAT
  • Test data preparation for various streams and providing the input for the same to the test data management team
  • Given walkthrough of the test cases and test scenarios to Client, testing team, business analyst and incorporated the review comments
  • Generate the automation scripts using TOSCA, update, maintain and execute the scripts
  • Reviewed the test plans and peer reviewed the test cases/test scenarios and provided suggestions
  • Reviewing of test cases prepared by team
  • Trained new team members with testing process
  • Reporting defects in defect management tool

Consultant

KPMG
01.2015 - 04.2019
  • Understood and analyzed the requirements through Functional Specification (FS) as well as Technical Specification (TS)
  • Identified system scenarios and written test cases for the same
  • Executed test cases for smoke, component, integration, and system testing
  • Delivered all the testing artifacts ahead of the deadlines
  • Participated in reviewing test cases
  • Prepared RTM to ensure requirement coverage
  • Attending all the status calls and update the status on the test executions, defects, blockers and suggestions
  • Participated in regular KT Sessions for different modules
  • Provided the daily status to test lead and test managers

Software Engineer

CGI
06.2010 - 03.2015
  • Perform detailed test case design and execute the test cases
  • Set up the test environment and prepare the test data
  • Document and analyze all test results and made recommendations
  • Plan and execute regression test cases
  • Approach the applications from client and end user perspective
  • Reporting bugs in bug tracker and prepare bug report document
  • Participate in Bug Review meeting with the development team
  • Involve in the client/status call and implement the client needs/process

Education

B.E - Information Technology

Karunya University
06.2010

Skills

  • Test Strategy & Test Planning
  • Function Testing
  • System Testing
  • End to End Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • API Testing
  • Database Testing
  • Risk Management
  • Effort Estimation
  • Defect Tracking
  • Time Management
  • Test Execution
  • Requirements Management
  • Status Reporting
  • UAT Coordination

Accomplishments

  • JIRA
  • ALM
  • TOSCA
  • POSTMAN
  • SQL Developer
  • Python

Certification

ISTQB Foundation Certified

Unqork Novice Certified

Timeline

Test-manager

KPMG
04.2023 - Current

Assistant Manager

KPMG
04.2019 - 03.2023

Consultant

KPMG
01.2015 - 04.2019

Software Engineer

CGI
06.2010 - 03.2015

B.E - Information Technology

Karunya University
Angel Gracious