Ashok Varma Thirumalaraju

• Developed and maintained a defect database for tracking known issues and ensuring quick follow-ups.
• Operated within Agile and Scrum frameworks to achieve timely releases and facilitate well-organized sprints.
• Regularly updated scripts and test cases to align with evolving project requirements, ensuring maximum test coverage.
• Recommended changes and improvements to developers to optimize software performance and enhance usability.
• Monitored bug resolution, verified fixes, and collaborated closely with developers to address ongoing issues from a QA perspective.
• Authored and maintained organized and efficient manual test cases, serving as reliable references for the entire team.
• Implemented automation scripts to reduce manual testing time and enhance test efficiency, focusing on regression and functional testing.
• Conducted cross-browser and cross-platform testing to ensure consistent user experience across diverse environments.
• Integrated automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment reliability and identifying issues earlier in the development cycle.
• Performed root cause analysis on defects to identify patterns and suggest preventive actions, enhancing product quality.
• Participated in sprint planning and retrospective meetings, contributing insights and advocating for quality-centric practices across teams.

• Understanding the feature requirements and create test scenarios and performing Regression Testing
• Complete test management of project setup in X-ray Test management in JIRA
• Performing regression testing on the Japan Odysseus builds

• Create and update of help manuals, test plan reports, PDC reports and release notes reports
• Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance

Client: - IBM

Project 1: - Synchrony Financial- Collateral Management System

Role: - Software Test Engineer

Project Description: Synchrony is one of the nation's premier consumer financial services companies

• Synchrony is a leading consumer financial services company with roots dating back to 1932. As the largest provider of private label credit cards in the United States by volume and receivables, Synchrony offers a diverse range of credit products. We collaborate with a variety of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations, and healthcare service providers. Our programs are designed to drive growth for our partners while providing financial flexibility to our customers, enabling them to meet liquidity needs by borrowing against their asset value while retaining ownership of the asset during the loan term.

Client:-Boots

Company Overview: Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemists Limited), trading as Boots operates a number of stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland primarily in high streets and shopping centers

• It sells many health and beauty products and also provides optician and hearing care services within stores and as standalone practices
• Boots also operates a retail website and runs a loyalty card programme branded as the Boots Advantage Card
• Understanding the feature requirements and create test scenarios
• Involved in Test case Preparation and Test Execution Activities and also as backup of team lead
• Critical resource in Testing and handling CIAM (Customer Identity Access Management) Module functionalities
• Reporting the Defects in Reporting Tool (JIRA) and retesting the defects and tracking the Defects to Closure
• Worked with design teams and Senior Software Engineers to build customized software products for consumers
• Delivered project reports and milestone updates to supervisor
• Verified product success through collaborating with stakeholders and product owners and estimating accurate project deliverability timeframes
• Analyzed source code to identify functionality issues
• Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemists Limited), trading as Boots operates a number of stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland primarily in high streets and shopping centers
• It sells many health and beauty products and also provides optician and hearing care services within stores and as standalone practices
• Boots also operates a retail website and runs a loyalty card programme branded as the Boots Advantage Card