Eramnath Nallappa
Chennai
Summary
Quality assurance professional prepared to deliver impactful results. Proven experience in developing comprehensive test plans and identifying critical software issues. Focused on team collaboration and adaptable to changing project needs. Expertise in automated testing and process optimization, valued for reliability and thoroughness.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
Adp India Pvt LTD
06.2021 - Current
- Responsibilities as Scrum Master
- Enabled improvement in delivering sprint goals and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
- Provide help in removing impediments for the teams by applying systemic thinking
- Coached new Scrum Masters, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of shared understanding
- Enabled the team’s productivity by foreseeing the big picture of the requirements and the resulting dependencies across the teams
- Efficient use of Jira to track the tasks, user stories and sprint burndown
- Arsenal - Scrum Master May’17-Till Date
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies and enhanced team collaboration, resulting in improved delivery timelines and project alignment.
- Led cross-functional teams in the adoption of Scrum methodologies, driving process efficiency and team productivity.
- Implemented continuous improvement strategies, fostering an environment of accountability and increasing overall team performance.
- Mentored junior Scrum Masters, enhancing their understanding of Agile frameworks and promoting best practices within the organization.
- Led quality assurance initiatives to enhance testing processes, resulting in improved software reliability and user satisfaction.
- Developed and implemented automated testing procedures, increasing test coverage and reducing overall testing time significantly.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and address software defects, driving a reduction in critical issues during production.
- Mentored junior QA engineers, fostering skill development and promoting best practices in quality assurance methodologies.
- Spearheaded the adoption of Agile testing practices, resulting in faster release cycles and improved team efficiency.
- Conducted thorough analyses of testing outcomes, providing actionable insights to stakeholders for continuous product improvement.
- Evaluated and integrated new QA tools and technologies, enhancing the overall testing framework and team productivity.
- Facilitated training sessions on quality assurance standards, improving team knowledge and adherence to industry best practices.
QA Engineer - R&D(IT)
ADP INDIA PVT LTD
09.2015 - 05.2021
- Responsibilities as a Quality Test Engineer of the Scrum
- Involved in developing detailed Test Scenarios in Rally
- Comprehensive manual testing on the user stories taken up for the sprint
- Automating the User stories using the LITMUS(QTP) and LUX(Selenium,Cucumber,Ruby) Framework
- Good knowledge on Page Object Model design pattern
- Analyzing the automation results and raising the defects in Rally based on the priority and severity of the defects
- Recorded the observations from Manual Testing and Automated Test Cases in Rally and assigned Severity, Priority that communicated the impacts of the defects on the Release
- Signing off high level test scenarios and test cases before execution of test cases
- VISTA ESS - Arsenal Scrum Master/ Sep’15 – Apr’17
Test Engineer
Dexterity Business Analyst Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 05.2015
- Responsibilities as a Software Engineer - Quality Assurance
- Involved in developing detailed Test Scenarios
- Comprehensive functional and regression testing for each work request
- Ensures early turn around on spotting defects that helps the developers to work on the critical defects at the earliest
- Records the observations from Manual Testing and assigns Severity, Priority that communicates the impacts of the defects on the Release
- Designed extensive test cases and performed efficient test execution for several work requests from different modules like Pay slip, tax slip, Reimbursement claims, flexi declaration, investment declaration, timesheet, Leave management.
- Test Engineer - Mapped by Dexterity to Research suite Technologies Pvt Ltd, from Dec - 2014 to May - 2015
Software Engineer
Core Mind Techno Services
01.2010 - 05.2011
- Survey Testing – Manual
- ERewards App - A backend console management system to create survey, questionnaire preparation, panels creation, launching surveys using different launch mechanism and reporting.
- Native App - eRewards native app is for iOS and Android operating systems. This enables panelist to participate in surveys created and to redeem their points
- MiVue - is a behavioral tracker application which captured the behavioral data such as location information, device usage, phone, SMS / text usage, app usage, web usage, music and camera usage from the devices for both Android and iOS.
- Responsibilities as a Team Lead
- Crisp Communication with clients and work as an interface between team members and client counterpart.
- Discuss issues related to questionnaires with clients and suggest solutions for the same
- Manage internally sponsored benchmarking initiatives as well as proactive projects on emerging issues
- Assign work to the team members, coordinate with them and help them program & Test the surveys
- Providing instructions to team on how to test the Native app surveys in Devices such as IOS, Android, and Blackberry.
- Providing training to team on how to program/launch/test and do translation in Survey Gizmo tool.
Education
Bachelor - Computer Science
Jaya College of Arts and Science
ChennaiHigher Secondary Course - undefined
S.R.M Matriculation Higher Secondary School
ChennaiSenior Secondary Course - undefined
Ebenezer Marcus Matriculation Higher Secondary School
ChennaiMSc - Information Technology
Velammal Engineering College
Chennai06.2010
Skills
9 Years of Agile experience
undefinedRecognitions
ADP Star Performer, ADP Bravo Award-Collaboration
Timeline
Senior QA Engineer
Adp India Pvt LTD
06.2021 - Current
QA Engineer - R&D(IT)
ADP INDIA PVT LTD
09.2015 - 05.2021
Test Engineer
Dexterity Business Analyst Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 05.2015
Software Engineer
Core Mind Techno Services
01.2010 - 05.2011
Higher Secondary Course - undefined
S.R.M Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Senior Secondary Course - undefined
Ebenezer Marcus Matriculation Higher Secondary School
MSc - Information Technology
Velammal Engineering College
Bachelor - Computer Science
Jaya College of Arts and Science