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Bala Mani Surya Chandra

QA Automation engineer
New York,NY

Summary

• Around 8 years of significant experience in the software industry with expertise in Software Quality Assurance.

• In-Depth experience in performing Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Backend Testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing and API Testing using Selenium/WebDriver, Java .

• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies.

• Experience in making Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Case Point analysis (TCP).

• Experienced with various domains such as Financial, Healthcare, Retail, and Insurance.

• Experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as Selenium WebDriver/Grid,, Quality Center and SOAP UI. Expert in developing Selenium Web Driver test scripts using Java and Test Frameworks using MAVEN build tools.

• Hands on experience with sub version control tools like GIT.

• Experienced with SOAP, SOAP UI, RESTFUL technologies.

• Certified in Rest API testing automation framework with Java.

• Experience with JMeter and LoadRunner performance testing tools.

• Experience with BDD and TDD using cucumber. Developed test scripts using GherkinCucumber.

• Good knowledge on Test driven development (TDD) and Behavior driven development (BDD).

• Responsible for writing SQL queries to find out correct data for testing purposes.

• Worked on database validation using SQL queries.

• Extended experience in System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT testing, Performance Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, and Regression Testing.

• Experienced in creating and developing Test Strategies, Test Plan and Test Cases producing Bug Reports using ALM/Quality Center, JIRA.

• Tested web-based application on different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and different browsers such as IE, chrome, Firefox.

• Experience in using JIRA for reporting and tracking bugs and maintain reports on resolved bugs.

• Quality assurance for development platforms that utilize browser-based clients, Java, application servers, web services SOAPUI, XML.

• Worked with designing and building automation frameworks in Cucumber BDD.

• Experienced in continuous integration using JENKINS to support tools like CVS subversion, GIT and execute Apache ANT and Apache Maven.

• Experience in working with Agile management framework. Provided training to newcomers on testing tools and process.

• Designed, build, and coordinate an automated build & release CI/CD process using Azure DevOps.

Certifications:

• Rest API testing automation framework with Java.

• Selenium WebDriver with JAVA advanced frameworks.

• Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Test Lead

CLIENT: HSBC
New York, NY
03.2023 - 02.2024

• Provides services related to consumer and business banking in the areas of checking, savings, credit cards, loans, and mortgage accounts.
• Actively participated in regular QA Team meetings to discuss testing process and resolve issues.
• Proactive participant in weekly Agile team meetings.
• Automate Smoke & Functional test cases using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Java (Eclipse IDE).
• Performed functional testing and regression testing using Selenium and TestNG.
• Developed Maven Build scripts to run Sanity Test scripts developed in Selenium WebDriver.
• Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG.
• Tested and Validated Complex Web services, SOA Applications, SOA Interfaces, WSDL Files and Tested SOAP Files using SOAP UI.
• Experience in writing the API testing using JavaScript and creating Test frameworks.
• Developed REST Web service for automation and created web service framework.
• Conducted performance testing using JMeter.
• Extensively used JIRA for user stories, bug management and team communication.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Quality Center for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Attend daily scrum meeting with development team for reporting defects.

Graduate Test Analyst

CLIENT: AVIVA INSURANCE
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
10.2022 - 03.2023

• Insurance and Claims related to electronic products.
• Played a vital role in creation of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases and executed them as per plan using automation scripts.
• Performed a variety of software testing including Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, Cross Browser and Performance testing.
• Worked in Agile environment and participated in scrum and sprint planning meetings.
• Analyzed requirements for Test automation and prepared a strategy for test automation.
• Involved in both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Used XPath, Name, ID, CSS to identify dynamic and static objects in Selenium.
Created Automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver. Executed scripts on different browser and different platforms.
Logged Defects, communicated with developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center/ALM or JIRA.
• Tested request and response XML's based web services interfaces using SOAP UI.
• Performed Backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.
• Used JIRA as the defect-tracking tool. Updated JIRA with all the changes made to the test case and closed it when all the requirements were met as specified.
• Performed the API Web Services testing using SOAP UI tool and POSTMAN tool.
• Developed/Executed Automated test cases for web application using Selenium, TestNG and Java.
• Wrote test scenarios on cucumber feature file using Gherkin language.
• Maintained Page Object Model (POM) as part of modular framework using Java with Selenium WebDriver in IntelliJ IDE.
• Maintained and enhanced the automation code and resources in source controls like GitHub and SVN.
• Performed nightly build of automation scripts using CI and CD tool like Jenkins.
• Wrote Feature files using Gherkin format and implemented the step definitions using Selenium WebDriver.
• Performed Regression Testing after the defects have been fixed to ensure no further effect on other functionalities.
• Worked on uploading all the Test cases to the HP ALM for the current and prior releases.

QA Automation Tester

client: Netpay Merchant Services
southampton, UNITED KINGDOM
04.2022 - 09.2022

• CHNP (Card holder Not present) is a digital wallet that securely stores your payment and shipping info, making shopping at thousands of online merchants simple and convenient.
• Understand the business requirement and technical specification documents of the system.
• Developed test scripts using selenium Web driver and freehand scripts in Java and Selenium. • Developing Test Cases, Test Procedures, and test data from requirement document
• Involved in test plan and test case review meetings.
• Reported bug using Project Tracking tool JIRA.
• Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse IDE and TestNG framework.
• Configured Data driven framework with Apache POI to read and write to Excel file and Created
POM
• Written Automation Test Scripts using Java, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver and used MAVEN Build tool to run the Automation.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Experienced in Defect Tracking and Reporting tools using ALM/Quality Center, Jira.
• Created Automation Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver and JAVA Technologies.
• Verified the UI elements using XPath and CSS values.
• Tested Enterprise SOAP and Restful Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Updating status report daily basis and weekly basis by conducting meetings with QA team.
• Extensively interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.

QA Tester

Myclassboard
Hyderabad, India
08.2014 - 07.2019

• Software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, governance, risk & compliance, and legal & regulatory sectors.Understanding the requirements and coding. Enhancing existing applications and adding new features in it using MVC.
• Participated in Requirement Analysis/Gathering with the development team and the client.
• Worked with the development team to set up automated CI/CD pipelines and participated in deployment activities by using Azure DevOps.
• Experience on Configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform.
• Experience on the latest features like Azure DevOps introduced by Microsoft Azure and utilized it for existing business applications.
• Worked on Azure DevOps pipelines to different environments like dev and prod environments.
• Managing AWS, AZURE infrastructure with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform.

Education

Master Of Science - Data Analysis For Business Intelligence

University of Leicester
Leicester City, United Kingdom
01.2021

Bachelor Of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Raja Mahendra College Of Engineering
Hyderabad,India
04.2014

Skills

Business Domains: Healthcare, Insurance, Financial and Retai

Automation Tools: Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Gherkin, JMeter, LoadRunner, POSTMAN, iMacros TestNG, Soap UI

Framework: Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Behavior Driven, Page Object Mode

DevOps Tools: Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps (CI/CD)

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code

Bug or Test Management Tools: Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA

Artifact: Test Plan, Test Case, Test Summary Report, Bug report

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS SQL

Programming Language: Java, HTML, XML, SQL, YAML

Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), Email on Acid

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

QA Test Lead

CLIENT: HSBC
03.2023 - 02.2024

Graduate Test Analyst

CLIENT: AVIVA INSURANCE
10.2022 - 03.2023

QA Automation Tester

client: Netpay Merchant Services
04.2022 - 09.2022

QA Tester

Myclassboard
08.2014 - 07.2019

Master Of Science - Data Analysis For Business Intelligence

University of Leicester

Bachelor Of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Raja Mahendra College Of Engineering
Bala Mani Surya ChandraQA Automation engineer