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ARTHIKA C

Bengaluru

Summary


With over 10.5 years of professional experience, I bring deep expertise in creating, editing, and implementing test instructions to enhance quality and efficiency. As a QA Team Lead, I have led the team in test automation using C# with Selenium and Playwright with Typescript. My strong technical background, leadership skills, and commitment to best practices have consistently contributed to successful project outcomes and enhanced business value.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager

EY
05.2021 - Current
  • Led multiple QA teams in developing testing strategies for applications and systems.
  • Migrated complex selenium scripts into Unified Playwright framework
  • Adopted new Playwright framework to make strong test suite
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure quality standards were met.
  • Implemented process improvements to increase efficiency of the QA workflow.
  • Mentored junior QA staff on best practices and effective testing techniques.
  • Managed QA team, assigned tasks, monitored progress, provided guidance and feedback.
  • Good exposure to each phase of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
  • Contributed to building a high-scale Selenium framework with C# using BDD, SpecFlow.
  • Created a robust CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Workflows, automated critical and P1 scenarios, and decreased manual intervention by 60%.
  • Monitoring daily pipeline run scripts and performing failure analysis.
  • Used GIT commands to pull, push codes.
  • Performed the Scrum Master role within the team when needed.
  • Strong communication and interaction with clients, developers, business analysts, and product.
  • Enhanced test coverage by 50%, resulting in a significant reduction of post-release defects.
  • Integrated ALLURE reports, JSON reports and integrated with Dev Pipelines

Senior QA Associate

Cognizant
06.2018 - 10.2020
  • Led the team in automation for functional and regression testing across multiple environments.
  • Developed reusable automation scripts using Selenium, and executed them for weekly and monthly releases.
  • Performed API testing for functional test cases.
  • Execution of DB scripts in SQL Developer.
  • Logged defects in JIRA, and maintained test scripts in GIT.
  • Actively collaborated with developers, business analysts, and managers in project planning, reviews, and QA strategy discussions.

QA Engineer

Royal Cyber
11.2017 - 06.2018
  • Created a Jenkins job and executed the scripts through Jenkins for continuous testing after each deployment.
  • Worked on the Maven tool to handle dependencies, and Jenkins for continuous integration.
  • Executed automation test cases and reported defects in JIRA.
  • Analyzed the root causes of failed scripts and provided detailed analysis to the on-site counterparts daily.

Associate Technical Consultant

Perficient
01.2015 - 11.2017
  • Created a Jenkins job and executed the scripts through Jenkins for continuous testing after each deployment.
  • Worked on the Maven tool to handle dependencies, and Jenkins for continuous integration.
  • Executed automation test cases and reported defects in JIRA.
  • Analyzed the root causes of failed scripts and provided detailed analysis to the on-site counterparts daily.

Education

Master Of Software Engineering (Integrated) -

Kongu Engineering College
01.2013

Skills

  • C#
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Playwright
  • Typescript
  • BDD Specflow
  • Postman
  • API Automation
  • BDD Cucumber
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Workflows
  • JIRA
  • SQL
  • CI/CD
  • ALM

Certification

  • AI-900 : Azure AI Fundamentals
  • AZ-900 : Azure Fundamentals
  • SAFe 6 Agilist
  • Professional Scrum Master I

Timeline

Assistant Manager

EY
05.2021 - Current

Senior QA Associate

Cognizant
06.2018 - 10.2020

QA Engineer

Royal Cyber
11.2017 - 06.2018

Associate Technical Consultant

Perficient
01.2015 - 11.2017

Master Of Software Engineering (Integrated) -

Kongu Engineering College

Awards

Winning the Client Exceptional Award 

Received SPOT Awards 

Received User Recognition Awards

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