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Gouri Rashinkar

Bangalore,India

Summary

A Software Testing professional with 18+ years of hands-on expertise in QA, test automation processes and technical leadership in Ecommerce, Retail, Supply Chain and Financial business domains and Enterprise applications.

  • Team point of contact for all testing deliverables for the project. Ownership and accountability to drive the overall test efforts from project inception to release phases.
  • Strong QA Architect experience with hands on implementation work for Manual, Automated and Continuous Integration processes using open source and commercial testing tools for enterprise applications.
  • Authored detailed Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test case designs, environment setup, test execution, results and defect reporting.
  • Worked extensively in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
  • Facilitated teamwork, focus on quality deliverables, with fast paced timelines and complex projects.
  • Product Release activities, checklist compliance, artifacts / docs, Testing signoffs and communication.
  • Fluent written and verbal communication skills, strong work ethics and respectable work relationship with teams and customers from US/UK/Asian geographies.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Bangalore, India
01.2022 - 12.2024
  • Performed Delivery Management and served as Scrum Master for 3 Agile teams to consistently deliver on project quality, budget and timelines. (Wealth Management Products).
  • Strengthened stakeholder relationships through regular updates and clear communication.

Project Manager / Sr. QA Architect

Blue Yonder Inc., (formerly JDA Software)
Bangalore, India
10.2011 - 06.2021

Product Overview: Web Commerce is web-based solution for selling highly configurable products. It can be used to manage, for example, web sites, users, organizations, products, orders, and prices.

  • Lead and implement key org level Quality Initiatives within teams. Facilitate identifying new processes for shift left and continuous testing.
  • Team's work assignments based on competing priorities, reallocations, capacity planning and release planning (in JIRA).
  • Drive and own the Product release management activities for each major/minor/patch releases. Activities included release checklist plan and updates, product documentation inputs, Test Execution reports, Performance tests, risk communication, mitigation, and stakeholder signoffs. Release day deployment, production testing and release communication to stakeholders.
  • Performed End to End testing, authored Test artifacts, environment setups, test execution, status and defect reporting for complex pricing scenarios for Web Commerce product features.
  • Defined Automated Test architecture and FW components, added automated tests for UI and Functional test layers for new product features from user stories in sprint using Java and Selenium WebDriver.
  • Enhanced test quality by implementing CI process using Jenkins jobs to run the Selenium tests [Selenium WebDriver], API tests using Postman & RestAssured, Jmeter performance tests, Blackduck HUB application security scans for 3rd party software libraries related security vulnerabilities and Security tests using IBM AppScan Standard and Checkmarx.
  • Perform Test automation code reviews using Stash/Bitbucket for the test cases written in Java.
  • Performed Proof of concept for Azure migration. Did costing exercise, to understand the costs associated for a lift and shift migration deployment mode of a legacy (On-premises private cloud) deployed product to Azure Cloud deployment model.

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Thomson Reuters
Bangalore, India
06.2006 - 10.2011

Product Overview: Thomson ONE for Investment Management supports and empowers advisors by combining client and market data to deliver holistic and actionable insights.

  • Performed In depth analysis of Technical Specifications, Business Requirements, and generation of test documentation such as Test Plan, Test Cases and RTM.
  • Test Effort Estimation, Test Planning, Test Cases (in HP Quality Center), defect reports and stakeholder communication.
  • Manual Testing UI, Functional, Integration, System and Data Validation testing areas of application.
  • Functional, UI, Smoke and Regression Automated Tests and framework libraries maintenance using HP QTP 12 for windows thick client and web-based application.

Sr. Technical Support Associate

Dell International Services
Bangalore
10.2003 - 02.2006
  • In-depth troubleshooting, analysis and solution for hardware and software issues on complete range of Dell Inspiron and Latitude Laptop series and Dell Desktops.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Supply Chain Management

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
Pune

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

B.V.B College of Engineering And Technology
Hubli

Skills

  • Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver using Java, JUnit, TestNG, Postman, Rest Assured, HP QTP, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Stash, Maven
  • Performance Testing: Apache JMeter, HP LoadRunner
  • SDLC : Agile Scrum, Waterfall
  • Test Expertise: Test Strategy, Planning, Design, Execution, Defect Reporting, Documentation
  • Tools : JIRA, Confluence, Power BI, HP QC
  • Database : Oracle 18c, MS SQL Server 2017
  • MS Azure Fundamentals Certified

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • ISTQB Foundation Level Tester
  • Professional Scrum Master - I

Accomplishments

  • JDA Pillar Team Award H1 2019
  • JDA ACE Award H2 2018
  • JDA Pillar Individual Award H2 2015
  • Part of EDGE leadership batch 2021.

Personal Information

  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital status: Married

Timeline

Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
01.2022 - 12.2024

Project Manager / Sr. QA Architect

Blue Yonder Inc., (formerly JDA Software)
10.2011 - 06.2021

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Thomson Reuters
06.2006 - 10.2011

Sr. Technical Support Associate

Dell International Services
10.2003 - 02.2006

Post Graduate Diploma - Supply Chain Management

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

B.V.B College of Engineering And Technology
Gouri Rashinkar