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Gowrishankar M

Data QA Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

Overall 13.7 years of experience as a Test Lead or Senior QA Engineer in Agile methodology implementing the scrum frameworks both for Manual and Automation Testing with respect to c#, including selenium and web services testing. Professional Summary Hands on experience agile scrum testing life cycles using Kanban and scrum frameworks. Hands on experience in communicating with On-shore & On-site team. Extensive experience on sprint planning meetings, releases and estimations. Extensive experience in testing effort and test automation estimations. Hands on Experience with Eclipse or visual studio and Java or c# selenium automation. Able to debug related scripts which are failing and finding the root cause where the error is getting thrown and submit the bug. Hands on Experience on Visual studio automation scripts like c# and selenium. Hands of experience in Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Functionality Testing, Usability Testing, and Integration testing types. Well versed with Bug Life Cycle. SME on Market Research, Retail, E-Commerce, Advertising agency. Profound knowledge on SDLC, STLC process. Good knowledge on burns down charts and sprint planning process. Very good at Test management process like auditing of the internal projects whether they are following CMMI standards. Prepared the weekly, fortnightly, monthly score cards and prepared the Test plans for the project. Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects. Involved in the build deployments which will occur weekly or monthly 2 times and conducted sanity and smoke tests and addressed critical, high bugs which were found. Worked on dev, stage, production environments all the times whenever there is issue or critical functionality need to be checked. Worked on various tools like elastic Bean stack, Mongo db., and other tools like Splunk for finding errors, tracking their logs, and reporting them correctly to developer teams. Knowledge on JMeter, Load runner performance tools Experience on the web service testing by using tools like postman and testing whether the data base results got matched with front end and UI application. Good knowledge on the selenium cucumber with BDD framework, maven repository. Ability to extract the reports from Jira tool, and pie diagrams and finalize the bugs. Planned the regression, smoke tests, functional test which are required for the current releases. Worked on the change requests, Incidents, Problem for the production support. Educational Experience Graduated in B. Tech from Andhra University in 2005.

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Work History

Production Support and Automation Engineer

Affluent Global India Pvt (Vendor to Microsoft)
Hyderabad
06.2020 - 04.2021
  • Team/Module lead cum Individual Contributor.
  • Testing and developing the automation scripts.
  • Involved in daily scrum calls sprint planning meetings, and Retrospective meetings.
  • Created tasks and sub tasks in Jira, and also estimations for the current sprint.
  • Ability to use the different comparison tools for testing and comparing the text of responses from xml, Json, and even excel.
  • Prepared the burn down chart whenever team is needed to check how the project is going on.
  • Release maintenance support, Production support.
  • Client Communication for clarifications and solving any bugs.
  • Suggesting best techniques to team for a problem.
  • Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects.
  • Involved in daily scrum calls, and sprint planning meetings and sprint releases during testing.
  • Using Splunk able to address any critical issues found in the production after release.
  • Worked on dev, stage, production environments all the times whenever there is issue or critical functionality need to be checked.
  • Planned the regression, smoke tests, functional test which are required for the current sprints and releases.
  • Worked on successful, desktop and Mobile build releases.
  • Involved in SEO related testing in the front end with the help of JMeter.
  • Worked in the production support for the INT, QFE, Production support by executing sanity tests.
  • Worked in the production support issues by going through the user story and test cases.
  • Involved in the Production Support K1 issue calls for the corresponding assigned module, : RNA-Test Team (Renault Nissan Alliance, The Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance is a French Japanese strategic alliance between the automobile manufacturers Renault (based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France), Nissan (based in Yokohama, Japan) and Mitsubishi Motors (based in Tokyo, Japan), which together sell more than 1 in 9 vehicles worldwide.
  • Originally known as the Renault–Nissan Alliance, Renault and Nissan became strategic partners in 1999 and have nearly 450,000 employees and control ten major brands: Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Infiniti, Renault Samsung, Dacia, Alpine, Datsun, Venusian and Lada.
  • Responsibilities: Executed Kusto query’s in the Kusto explorer to check the Int, QFE, SIT Environments related queries working fine without any errors or any other exceptions got logged.
  • Worked on the Azure storage explorer were used to connect to different environments related to INT, SIT, PRD and checked whether the data is getting logged into the tables correctly or not.
  • Done the sanity tests in the different regions and try to check the errors.
  • Done API Testing through Post man for different web services with headers, body, and Parameters to find the response is correctly seen or not.
  • Having Hands on the Azure related execution of sql queries in the Data Explorer for the related tables in different resources like int, prod, and qfe.
  • Worked on the IOT hub based on the available subscription and location options connect to the IOT Devices and then check whether they got updated or not for the done changes in the Vehicle life cycle management.
  • Worked on the Azure cosmos db.
  • Based and ran related sql queries and check whether the table is shown correctly or not for the environment.
  • Worked on the creation of test plan in the MTM for the required release sanity test.
  • Support the Change Request regression test plan and need to the testing based on the available change.

Automation and Agile Scrum

Affluent Global India
Hyderabad
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • TMHG does this by offering a broad range of products, centered on a full range of forklifts complemented by a comprehensive range of business solutions such as Fleet management, Rental, Used, Finance and After sales services.
  • This is achieved by offering products for every situation in the material handling business and by consistently delivering products of the highest quality, safety and efficiency.
  • Responsibilities: Understanding the project requirements by involving in study of business requirement and functional specification documents through JIRA tool.
  • Involved in the daily stand-up call for the scrum and sprint planning meetings and Retrospective meetings.
  • To establish automated test environment for both UI based and non-UI based testing Involved in Test Cases design for the sprints.
  • Involved in developing automation scripts using POM framework with maven and selenium java Currently implementing BDD framework using cucumber with java.
  • Solved Critical, High bugs, which came across while doing testing for the alpha rooms reported by real time production issues by end users.

Automation Engineer

Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI), Insurance Company
11.2019 - 01.2020
  • Is an,.
  • It is a web-based application.
  • SGI CANADA sells property and casualty insurance on properties such as Auto, farms, and Habitational in five Canadian provinces.
  • It operates as SGI CANADA in Saskatchewan, SGI CANADA Insurance Services Ltd.
  • In Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario.
  • The Main aim of application is to provide all facility’s through online, they are Quoting, Messaging, Policy, Claim.
  • Etc.
  • Responsibilities: Understanding the project requirements by involving in study of business requirement and functional specification through the Microsoft share point portal.
  • Involved in the daily stand-up call for the scrum and sprint planning meetings and Retrospective meetings.
  • Design of the test cases based on the sprint calls and also on the scrum discussions and one-one design-based calls.
  • To establish automated test environment for both UI based and non-UI based testing.
  • Involved in Test Cases design for the sprints.
  • Solved Critical, High bugs, which came across while doing testing for the alpha rooms reported by real time production issues by end users.
  • Title : ALPAHROOMS (related to Flights, Accommodation), 7/6s, Samsung s8, Iphone5, Browser stack Team Size : 04.

Senior QA Engineer

Teletext Holidays India (AlphaRooms-UK)
Hyderabad
03.2017 - 03.2019
  • Alpha rooms are based in London and sent away over 500000 travelers in 2016 alone.
  • Outside of the UK they expanded services and bookings to Ireland and the USA.
  • They work with some of the world’s largest hotel suppliers so can provide competitive rates anywhere around the world.
  • Responsibilities Understanding the project requirements by involving in study of business requirement and functional specification documents through JIRA tool.
  • Involved in the daily stand-up call for the scrum and sprint planning meetings and Retrospective meetings.
  • To establish automated test environment for both UI based and non-UI based testing Involved in Test Cases design for the sprints.
  • Involved in the SEO related testing for the meta tags by using JMeter with regular expressions.
  • Involved in developing automation scripts using POM framework with maven and selenium java Currently implementing BDD framework using cucumber with java.
  • Solved Critical, High bugs, which came across while doing testing for the alpha rooms reported by real time production issues by end users.
  • Tracing and logging the defects by using using Splunk of staging and qa and Live environments.
  • Prepared Test Plan documents for the Release specific based on the availability of the resources and project requirements Ensure the Test Estimations, Risk Level Report, Tracking Release preparation Project #5: Title : VISIO FOR SMART DIAGRAMS, MY-SQL, ORACLE Team Size : 03.

Senior QA Engineer or Lead

Zen3 Technologies (Vendor to Microsoft)
Hyderabad
08.2016 - 03.2017
  • Visio can be used to create simple or complicated diagrams.
  • It offers a wide variety of built-in shapes, objects, and stencils to work with.
  • You can also make your own shapes and import them if you’re willing to do all that extra work.
  • The driving idea behind Visio is to make diagramming as easy as possible for the user.
  • Responsibilities Understanding Project requirements and Functional specification documents.
  • Written high level test scenarios to meet the testing requirements.
  • Validated various Visio diagrams how they are behaving and checking the functionality.
  • Involved in the daily stand-up call for the scrum and sprint planning meetings and Retrospective meetings.
  • Involved in testing of Sql server 2012, 2013,2014 and working with databases and compare the data with respective databases.
  • Setting and running the different virtual environment builds and checking whether those builds are having the corresponding Visio related stuff or not.
  • DIRECT HEAT (Media Sellers.

Sr. Test Engineer

Kantar Technologies Pvt ltd
Hyderabad
01.2007 - 06.2016
  • Direct Heat is the powerful digital tool that helps user to see the creative information.
  • It provides comprehensive creative information for advertisers based on media properties they have selected.
  • Responsibilities Understanding the project requirements by involving in study of business requirement and functional specification documents To establish automated test environment for both UI based and non-UI based testing.
  • Involved in Test Cases design and peer reviews.
  • Involved in developing automation scripts from scratch in c# using the visual studio express versions.
  • Smoke tests preparation and reviews.
  • Solved Critical, High bugs, which came across while doing testing for the direct heat.
  • Prepared selenium Automation test cases for the Direct Heat Application by using the Page object model framework using data driven and key word driven frameworks.
  • Tracing the defects in each testing functionality and logging the defects Executed the selenium automation test cases.
  • Participated in CMMI level 3 Internal audits for the current Direct Heat project Prepared the monthly, quarterly, Half Yearly scorecards Prepared Test Plan documents for the Release specific based on the availability of the resources and project requirements Attended daily meeting or weekly status call with offshore team and prepared the minutes of meeting Build Test Strategy document based on the Test Estimations for the current project.
  • Ensure the Test Estimations, Risk Level Report, Tracking Release preparation Prepared the Estimations summary, Requirement Elicitation report, Regression testing summary.
  • Conducted some performance test scenarios for the loading time of the browser and load taken by the browser by inducing virtual users through JMeter tool.
  • Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects.
  • Good Communication with Development and manual testing team helps developing scripts in early time, 2 Team Size : 03.

Test Engineer

05.2008 - 12.2009
  • WBI consists of four products namely Strategy, Market Advisor, Magazines Advisor, Strategy is the powerful information tool that helps user to see the complete media picture 24/7.
  • It provides comprehensive advertising information on 2.4 million brands across 19 media, covering $150 billion in advertising expenditures.
  • A vital resource for advertising professionals, media specialists and marketers, Strategy is the gold standard for timely, relevant and actionable advertising information; delivering answers to the important media questions that impact users business.
  • Market Advisor is single source for multi-media, multi-market advertising information, allowing user to delve deeper for a complete view of market development, allocation of advertising dollars and emerging opportunities.
  • It's the web-based solution that gives user access to all this information and more, whenever and wherever user needed.
  • The premier information tool for publishers, research, marketing and sales professionals.
  • Magazine Advisor delivers a full-page view of the vibrant consumer magazine marketplace.
  • Gives a complete view about who is advertising, where and at what cost in consumer and Sunday magazines.
  • From pages, dollars and ad size information to sales prospects and more, Magazine Advisor delivers the magazine intelligence that helps you achieve sales and marketing goals.
  • Responsibilities Designed Test Scripts for Regression Testing, Functionality Testing and smoke testing.
  • Involved in Test designing of scripts for the given Requirements Able to solve the footprints raised by the onsite team without prior knowledge on them Takes part in estimations, showcase and build deployments Tracing the defects in each testing functionality and logging the defects Build reusable methods for each functionality.
  • Prepared the monthly, quarterly, Half Yearly scorecards Prepared Test Plan documents for the Release specific based on the availability of the resources and project requirements Attended daily meeting or weekly status call with offshore team and prepared the minutes of meeting Good Communication with Development and manual testing team helps developing scripts in early time.
  • Testing Team Size :.

Test Engineer

05.2007 - 04.2008
  • The Artha billing is a secure website Billing is an online tool from TNS ORSC, which allows you to manage your Billings.
  • This tool is designed for two different logins like Administrator - have access to all modules.
  • User – restricted to the Jobs pertains to him/her Responsibilities Understanding user business requirements and analyzing the user functionalities Reviewed Functional Requirements and Technical Specifications Designing QTP Script in VB Scripting language by following Actions concept Quick set-up, execution and reporting of findings for smoke test for each build Coordinating with development team for early testing Parallel, Cross-Browser Testing with various browsers like IE, FF in windows, and in Apple Mac Tracing the defects in each testing functionality and logging the defects Involving in the Peer Review and implementation comments with Developers and Testers Tracing the defects in the module and reporting them with their priority and severity Performing User-acceptance Testing, Functional Testing based on the Client requirements Facilitated user acceptance testing with business users and utilizing my Strong domain expertise Attended daily meeting or weekly status call with offshore team and prepared the minutes of meeting.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Tagore Convent High School
Kakinada
06.2001 - 03.2005

Skills

    Automation understanding

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Accomplishments

  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certificationfrom BCS, Dec 2013.
  • CMMI Appraisal Method for Process ImprovementsSoftware SkillsTesting Tools : JIRA, SALES FORCE, Visual Studio.
  • API : Selenium Web DriverEnvironment : Visual Studio Enterprise 2017Programming Languages : C#, JAVAAWS Technologies : Elastic bean stack, Mongo DB, Splunk Microsoft Technologies : Azure cosmos Db, Azure Storage Explorer, Kusto Explorer, App insightsTesting Concepts : SDLC, STLC, Testing Types, Testing process, Test estimations, Test Management, Test Strategy, Test Plan.
  • Testing Cycles : Waterfall, V Model, Agile Model or ScrumFramework : Page Object Model, Behavioral Driven Framework, Spec flowSubversion : GIT, BitBucketTest Management Tool : Azure Devops Microsoft Tool, TFSWeb Technologies : HTMLMobile Devices Tested : Iphone5,6,7, Samsung-S8 Data base : SQLServer2016Operating System : Windows 10.

Software

C#

Selenium Web driver

Javascript

Java

Sql Server 2019

Microsoft Azure cloud

Salesforce Admin

Specflow

Testng

Jira Tool

Salesforce

Certification

I am software QA Engineer with 13 years of experience in various projects in Api, database, Automation and manual testing and also in CRM testing

Interest in Cooking and watching cricket

I love to cook different foods in vegetarian i like potato fry and tomato chutney and lady finger fry, and sambar and biryani and i love to watch the good cricket play which makes me interested who will win the match and pressure situations how one team can apply their tactics over other team, in order to win the match.

Timeline

Production Support and Automation Engineer

Affluent Global India Pvt (Vendor to Microsoft)
06.2020 - 04.2021

Automation Engineer

Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI), Insurance Company
11.2019 - 01.2020

Automation and Agile Scrum

Affluent Global India
01.2019 - 03.2020

Senior QA Engineer

Teletext Holidays India (AlphaRooms-UK)
03.2017 - 03.2019

Senior QA Engineer or Lead

Zen3 Technologies (Vendor to Microsoft)
08.2016 - 03.2017

Test Engineer

05.2008 - 12.2009

Test Engineer

05.2007 - 04.2008

Sr. Test Engineer

Kantar Technologies Pvt ltd
01.2007 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Tagore Convent High School
06.2001 - 03.2005

I am software QA Engineer with 13 years of experience in various projects in Api, database, Automation and manual testing and also in CRM testing

Gowrishankar MData QA Engineer