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DHINAKARAN VADIVEL

DHINAKARAN VADIVEL

Test Lead At Cognizant
Coimbatore

Summary

An enthusiastic and dedicated IT professional with around 9.10 years of work experience in Software Automation Testing, Web based testing, Quality Assurance and Support. Having extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Web Application testing of Payments applications including understanding the business requirements and functional specification documents, and decomposing them into testable functions, test ware preparation. Clear understanding of requirements and technologies and building automation framework to reduce manual effort. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in software industry.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology
Coimbatore
09.2022 - Current

· Tracked, Prioritized and organized defects with software, working with development team to facilitate timely corrections.

· Authorized and maintained well-organised, efficient and successful automation test cased for entire team.

· Complete in-depth usability testing on Web application and mobile application.

· Reduced overall regression and smoke testing hours 50% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts for web application.

· Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvements recommendations.

· Implemented shift-Left approached and carried out end to end testing and identified the issues at early stage.

· Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

· Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.


Project 1:

Project: GSP(General Servicing Portal)-Cards

Client: American Express

Tools: JIRA

Testcase management Tool: Rally

• Involved in creating the automation test framework/scripts for the General Servicing Portal.

• Trained and supported new team members, maintaining culture of collaboration.

• Involved in execution of test cases and raising defects if any and involved in defect triage calls with appropriate teams to resolve the defect.

• Defined work plans in alignment with stakeholder requirements.

• Involved in collaborating with the Product owners for deriving the user stories.

• Involved in daily standup calls with the team members to get the track of the daily testing status.

• Involved in code review calls on weekly basis for the automation suite.


Project 2:

Project: ISP(Intuitive Servicing Portal)-Cards

Client: American Express

Tools: JIRA

Testcase management Tool: Rally

• Have worked on designing the test cases based on the user Stories in rally.

• Have worked on static testing with the help of the mock page developed from the user stories.

• Have worked on comparison testing with the mock page and dynamic web page based on the user stories.

• Have worked on developing the regression test framework from the scratch by creating the reusable methods to handle the UI actions, test data.

• Have worked on developing the sanity test suite.

• Have done the reporting for the whole team on the test progress, defect reports.

• Raise and track defects based on execution. Highlight the impact of the defects if the timelines are at risk.

Product Support Engineer

Aperta LTD
Coimbatore
12.2016 - 08.2022

Project 1:

Project: Electronic Fund Transfer

Client: Bank of Guyana (including all the banks in Guyana)

Tools: JIRA

• Involved in creating the automation test scripts for the Electronic fund transfer system.

• Involved in execution of test cases and raising defects if any and involved in defect triage calls with appropriate teams to resolve the defect.

• Presentation of pass logs, defect logs and closure logs using the Extent reports and log4J.

• Performed extensive Automation, Manual and Regression testing of the application.

• Preparation of user manual for the Electronic fund transfer system.

• Raise and track defects based on execution. Highlight the impact of the defects if the timelines are at risk


Project 2:

Project: Cheque truncating system (Positive pay-fraud detection)

Client: Mizuho bank (New York-USA)

Tools: JIRA

• Created the Hybrid Automation framework for the Cheque Truncation System.

• Involved in testing the payee’s name in the cheque with third party tool like Parascript and A2ia.

• Involved in testing the integrating the Parascript and A2ia to detect the fraud in cheques payee name.

• Presentation of test results are done with the help of Log4J and Extent Report

• Preparation of automation test scripts for positive pay solutions and defects identified are raised.

• Clear understating the QC operations for tracking of test execution.

• Involved in attending the calls with development team to fix the defects raised during the testing.

• Raise and track defects based on execution. Highlight the impact of the defects if the timelines are at risk.


Project 3:

Project: Cheque truncating system

Client: Nationwide bank (United Kingdom)

Tools: JIRA

• Understanding client's business requirements and functional requirements.

• Involved in preparation and execution of test scripts.

• Performed extensive Manual and Regression testing of the application.

• Presentation of test results are done with the help of Log4J and Extent Report

• Involved in maintain the issue tracking list from the client.

• Review of test scripts and delivering it to the client.

• Involved in defect triage call with the clients.

• Raise and track defects based on execution. Highlight the impact of the defects if the timelines are at risk.

Support Engineer

ISYX Technologies
Coimbatore
09.2015 - 12.2016

Consultant

Sutherland Global Services
Chennai
10.2014 - 06.2015

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering

K.S. Ranga Swamy College of Technology
08.2010 - 04.2014

Accomplishments

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Cognizant Technology:
· Received an appreciation for developing a automation script(Service Now application) that provides the daily report with the Incidents and Changes raised on daily basis.'

Aperta LTD:
· Received an appreciation and approval to implement the automation for our web application.
· Created the hybrid framework that automates and reduces the time and resource involved in Regression and Smoke testing.
· Created a windows application for maintaining the issues for our project internally.

Onsite Experience:

Aperta LTD:

Guyana (South America):
• Experience in handling international clients.
• Successfully Implemented Electronic fund transfer system in Guyana.
• Conducted training and KT on EFT projects for clients in Guyana.
• Designed and created the automation test scripts for EFT projects to implement the project in short interval by reducing the testing period.

United Kingdom:
• Transferred from India to UK head office to work on various projects for countries like US, Caribbean, Bangladesh, South America and Philippines.
• Hands on experience in handling international client's queries and supported them via remote support.
• Designed training manuals and conducted training programs for international clients.

Timeline

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology
09.2022 - Current

Product Support Engineer

Aperta LTD
12.2016 - 08.2022

Support Engineer

ISYX Technologies
09.2015 - 12.2016

Consultant

Sutherland Global Services
10.2014 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering

K.S. Ranga Swamy College of Technology
08.2010 - 04.2014
DHINAKARAN VADIVELTest Lead At Cognizant