Indumathi Manoharan
QA Test Lead
Chennai,TN
Summary
Experienced QA Test Lead Engineer having 9+ years of experience in full product life cycle management. Proficient in manual and automation testing, along with analyzing/resolving problems, coordinating with team members, project managers and business owners to accomplish project milestone. Possess strong team building skills and have efficiently groomed interns to achieve their professional growth.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
QA TEST LEAD
Valeo India Private Limited
1 2022 - Current
- Led cross-functional team collaboration, ensuring effective communication between developers, product managers, and QA testers.
- Optimized regression testing efforts with automated test suites for quicker turnaround times during release cycles.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Reduced defect rates with thorough requirement analysis, efficient test design, and meticulous execution of test cases.
- Carried out investigations into recurring product issues by completing fault-finding, test runs and inspections.
- Collaborated with QA managers and other stakeholders to develop test plans.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints and accomplish project milestones.
- Effectively prioritized test efforts in fast-paced agile environments by continuously re-evaluating priorities based on project needs and resource availability.
- Increased customer satisfaction by proactively identifying usability issues and suggesting actionable improvements to development teams.
- Identify and select the appropriate test cases for automation.
- Write and maintain automated test scripts using selenium java and ensure test scripts are reusable, maintainable, and efficient.
- Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using Page Object, hybrid and cucumber BDD framework.
- Integrated automated tests into the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using Jenkins and analyzing the results.
- Report bugs and issues found during testing, and track their resolution.
- Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on automated test scripts.
- Design and manage test data and test environment required for automated testing.
- Reduced defect rates with thorough requirement analysis, efficient test design, and meticulous execution of test cases.
- Created end to end API automation test scripts using RestAssured and Java with TestNG and cucumber framework.
- Conducted performance and load testing of APIs to assess their behavior under various loads using tools like postman, JMeter.
- Analyze performance test results and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Trained and mentored junior testers on STLC , automation tools and testing techniques and also ensured that they completed their task on time.
- As a stretch goal, I have taken up Business Analyst responsibilities where I have closely worked with Program and Product teams enterprise level projects and designed, timely artifacts like Business Requirements, Process Requirements, Process Flow Diagram, Use Case Diagram.
SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
Valeo India Private Limited
07.2018 - 01.2022
- Setting up selenium test environments such as selenium web driver, Maven integration, TestNG, Java, and Jenkins integration.
- Designed end to end automation test scripts using Page Object model, hybrid and cucumber BDD framework
- Create reusable components, functions, and libraries to enhance script efficiency and maintainability.
- Develop and manage test data required for automated tests.
Run automated test scripts on various environments (staging, production) to validate software functionality. - Analyze test results, identify defects, and report them using defect tracking tools.
- Integrated automated tests with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (Jenkins) to ensure smooth and automated deployment processes.
- Work with other tools such as version control systems (Git), build tools (Maven), and test management tools (JIRA, TestRail).
- Worked in Scrum framework to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines
- Actively participated in all the agile ceremonies to understand the agile process and provided daily reporting on test execution and defect management to the Scrum Master and Project Managers.
- Designed Test Scenarios and manual test cases for user stories and performed Black box testing including GUI, Front-end functionality, sanity, regression, exploratory and non-functional(API, usability, compatibility and database) testing of the software application.
- Created detailed test reports and metrics to communicate test progress and results to stakeholders.
- Updated all the audit related documents as per CMMI standards and actively hosted all the CMMI external audit meetings with the KPMG auditors.
- Mentored junior testers by providing training and support to enhance their skills.
SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST
Accenture Solutions Private Limited
02.2013 - 05.2017
- Gather business requirements and conducted requirement analysis to perform black box testing
- Created End to End system test scenarios
- Designed system test cases for functional requirement
- Created the Requirement Traceability Matrix report
- Created Test Environment and Test Data by writing SQL queries using IBM DB2
- Performed Test Execution involving various levels of testing using Test link and DOORS application
- Identified enormous defects with the help of SPLUNK and created a Defect Summary Report
- Identified many defects and performed defect tracking along with designing test summary reports.
- Created automation regression test scripts using Selenium WebDriver methods for web application
- Execution of Selenium test cases and Reporting defects
- Supported Performance Team to conduct Single User testing and load testing using HP VUGen LoadRunner tool
- Involved in performing smoke, sanity and regression testing
- Conducted compatibility testing for Mobile devices using Perfecto Mobile Cloud application
Education
High School Diploma -
St. Dominic's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School
Chennai, India 01.2009 -
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication Engineer
Sri Sai Ram Institute Of Technology
Tambaram, Chennai 01.2009 - 04.2012
Skills
Functional Testing
Automation Testing
API Testing
Test Plans and Test Methodologies
Additionalinformation
Methodologies and project management: Software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, Scrum, DevOps, test management.
Core Skills: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Maven, JMeter, Git, Java & JavaScript knowledge to write automation test cases, Test Automation Framework using Selenium with TestNG and Cucumber.
Testing: User acceptance testing (UAT), Cross-browser testing, Database testing, web application performance testing, Sanity, Smoke & Regression testing, functional testing, API testing, integration testing.
Tool Expertise: JIRA, Test Link, DOORS, QTest, Postman, Eclipse, HP QC, HP Service Manager, Defect TRAC, Perfecto Mobile Cloud, IBM Lotus Notes, Visual Studio Code, Splunk Log Management, Jenkins, BrowserStack.
Product Life Cycle Phases: Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Test Planning, Test Scenarios & Test Case Development, Test Environment Setup, Test Execution, Defect Life Cycle Management, Design automation regression test cases, Test Cycle Closure, Providing extended support for UAT Testing and project closure, Designed all documents as per CMMI standards and have been a key resource in facilitating the audit review sessions.
Timeline
SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
Valeo India Private Limited
07.2018 - 01.2022
SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST
Accenture Solutions Private Limited
02.2013 - 05.2017
High School Diploma -
St. Dominic's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School
01.2009 -
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication Engineer
Sri Sai Ram Institute Of Technology
01.2009 - 04.2012
QA TEST LEAD
Valeo India Private Limited
1 2022 - Current
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