JAYAPRAKASH LAKSHMANAN
Associate Principal Product Engineer
Chennai
Summary
Accomplished Associate Principal Product Test Engineer, passionate about delivering outstanding quality and service. Offering 13 years of experience in the industry with a history of recognition for performance. Defined frameworks and supported innovation across automation development lifecycles. Influenced test approach strategies and coached testing teams to grow department capabilities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Associate Principal Product Engineer
Temenos India Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
10.2021 - Current
- Analyze requirements and design specifications
- Devised innovative test automation programmes and upgrades to improve operational efficiency.
- Assessed software functionality and designed automated tests to identify bugs and validate application performance.
- Prioritised and executed tests based on different criteria, meeting milestone targets and delivery timelines.
- Detected causes of test failures, adjusted testing parameters and scripts and reran tests to validate test outcomes against expected results.
- Designed and wrote test automation scripts for testing new or existing software using specialized tools and frameworks.
- Originated, designed and applied automated testing strategies to achieve quality assurance targets and deliver high-quality software.
- Followed test automation guidelines in creating tests, executing scripts and interpreting results to achieve test objectives.
- Report the defects using the JIRA
- Responsible for selecting the test suite for regression and acceptance phases
QA Test Lead
Sword Global India Pvt
Chennai
09.2018 - 10.2021
- Contributes as an Offshore QA lead - Involved in the knowledge transition from client
- Actively involved in QA and playback sessions during the KT
- Involved in Estimation, analyzing requirements and design scope, and Preparing RTM
- Involved in managing Offshore QA by assigning tasks to the team, monitoring & reviewing the work, and tracking their effort
- Update DSR and report the daily status to the customer
- Maintain and update the Weekly status report and metrics
- Analyze requirements and design specifications
- Creating for different test scenarios covering all aspects of application functionality
- Review test cases for content, coverage, and adherence to department standards
- Developed Page Object Model Design Selenium framework on TestNG Platform
- Involved in developing and execution test scripts using Selenium Web Driver with Java
- Web application automation testing was carried out using Data Driven and TestNG frameworks over Selenium
- Test Data preparation for Data Driven Test
- Test execution over data driven framework to handle scenarios requiring multiple data sets
- Update/Modify the scripts and preparing Summary report
- Designing Scripts based on the new functionality requirements
Module Lead
Mindtree
Chennai
12.2015 - 04.2018
- Contributed as a Module lead and - Involved in Estimation, analyzing requirements and design scope, and Preparing
- Involved in managing QA by assigning tasks to the team, monitoring & reviewing the work, and tracking their effort
- Update WSR and MSR and report the daily status to onshore counterparts
- Maintain and update the Weekly and Monthly status reports and metrics.
- Analyze requirements and design specifications
- Calculate Estimation hours for the Module working
- Creating for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality
- Written test cases for the requirements, performed test case review and executed test cases for the releases
- Monitors and updates bug reports as needed including bug report closure
- Ensure that technical issues and/or problems are properly documented and addressed
- Testing the Production issues and performing regression testing to make sure the fix didn't break the current functionality
- Preparing Daily Status Report and shared to the project stakeholders
- Preparing Test Summary Reports and shared to the business and project stakeholders.
Senior Software Test Engineer
CSSCORP PVT LTD
Chennai
01.2011 - 11.2015
- Contributes as a Senior Software Test Engineer - Involved in the project right from the initial phase and participated in the knowledge transition from client
- Involved in analyzing requirements and design specifications for Mobile Testing for the team with different OS versions on Android, iPhone, iPad, and Blackberry devices
- Involved in managing QA by assigning tasks to the team, monitoring & reviewing the work, and tracking their effort
- Create Test plan, update MPP and report the daily status to onshore counterparts and Clients
- Calculate Estimation hours for the Module working
- Write/Review Test Condition Matrix which includes Test conditions
- Write efficient test plans and test cases that exercise all logic paths
- Report the defects using the Bugzilla
- Monitors and updates bug reports as needed including bug report closure
- Responsible for selecting the test suite for regression phases
- Used Agile methodologies to aid team delivery of effective, quality software solutions.
- Support Automation team to automate the regression test suite and smoke test of Estee e-commerce and m-commerce applications and execute the automation test suite during the regression and smoke test on every major and sustenance releases.
Test Engineer
FBS Technologies Pvt Ltd
CHENNAI
09.2009 - 12.2010
- Analyze requirements and design specifications
- Participate in SRS, HLD reviews providing feedbacks to Stakeholders
- Write/Review Test Condition Matrix which includes Test conditions
- Creating for different test scenarios covering all aspects and requirements of project functionality
- Write efficient test cases and Review test cases for content, coverage, and adherence to department standards
- Involved in Change Requests to see the impacts in the Test cases
- Test Execution of functional as well as regression test cases
- Report the defects using the Mantis
- Tracking the issues raised during the testing cycle and update bug reports as needed including bug report closure
- Ensure that technical issues and/or problems are properly documented and addressed
- Responsible for selecting the test suite for regression and acceptance phases
- Responsible for preparing Test Summary Report and defect Report after Feature execution
Education
B. TECH - Information Technology
Anna University
Chennai, TN 07.2005 - 06.2009
Skills
Automation scripting
Test-driven development
Defect monitoring
Web and API testing
Selenium framework development
Manual test case preparation
Cross-platform testing
Team leadership
Process improvement
Team player
Accomplishments
- Regional Recognition Award for innovation and excellence - May 2022 and Apr 2023
- Dedication and Continuous Support Award from Client (Goeasy) for quality deliverables from offshore - Nov 2020
- Best Performer Award from Client (Genesys) for managing deliverables effectively and client coordination - Jan 2018
- Top Performer of the Year for Contribution to the Quality of Deliverables - APR 2012, 2013, and 2014
- Ideation award from the Client & Product Manager for innovating a new Mobile testing tool for the organization - Jul 2013
Certification
ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation level)
Timeline
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals training
08-2023
Associate Principal Product Engineer
Temenos India Pvt. Ltd
10.2021 - Current
QA Test Lead
Sword Global India Pvt
09.2018 - 10.2021
Module Lead
Mindtree
12.2015 - 04.2018
ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation level)
01-2015
Senior Software Test Engineer
CSSCORP PVT LTD
01.2011 - 11.2015
Test Engineer
FBS Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2009 - 12.2010
B. TECH - Information Technology
Anna University
07.2005 - 06.2009