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Kanimozhi K

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Tamilnadu

Summary

Results-driven QA professional with 8 years of comprehensive experience in Software and Device Testing, spanning both Manual and Automation testing domains. Currently leading a high-performing team of 15 members, overseeing end-to-end testing deliverables, stakeholder communication, audit compliance, and metrics reporting. Possess strong expertise in various testing methodologies including Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), and full Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Proven ability to thrive in Agile environments, ensuring high-quality deliverables aligned with business objectives.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Device specialist

Amazon
04.2022 - Current
  • Working in automation, fixing the core behavior as per the new feature changes.
  • Responsible for test plan creation and sign-off after testing.
  • Improved the stability of the automation framework and increased productivity from fixing or automating three cases per week to six cases per week per resource.
  • Responsible for regular one-on-one meetings with employees to understand their concerns and share performance goals.
  • Owned business processes and metrics for the team handling product launch.
  • Handled escalations and owned troubleshooting, providing root cause for incidents. Written mini COE.
  • Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders.
  • Managing the team of 15 members.
  • Identified and groomed top talent, and developed leadership principles within the team to continuously raise the bar.
  • Optimized the test plan and reduced the number of test cases from 3,000 to around 2,500.
  • Developed comprehensive training materials to improve team proficiency in device operations.
  • Streamlined troubleshooting processes for faster resolution of technical issues.
  • Tested and analyzed devices to improve performance and reliability.

Senior Associate, Quality services

Amazon
07.2019 - 03.2022
  • Manual Testing: test planning, test case creation, execution, bug reporting, and follow-up.
  • Automation Testing: fixing automated cases, automating third-party streaming applications like Netflix, YouTube, and others in the US/CA regions.
  • Tested core features of the Fire TV device and third-party applications, including streaming and gaming apps.
  • Delivery management: managing testing, automation, and production support teams across multiple geolocations, test plan and strategy sign-off, backlog and risk updates and mitigation sharing, leading automation teams in Chennai and Shenzhen, customer review analysis, quality metrics ownership, and team training during BCP.
  • People management: regular one-on-one meetings, performance goals sharing, business process and metrics ownership, escalation handling, stakeholder communication, managing a team of 15 members, talent grooming, and leadership development.
  • I have experience in testing applications like Netflix, YouTube, Apple TV, and 200+ streaming and gaming applications.

Associate, Quality services

Amazon
01.2017 - 06.2019
  • I worked in testing the core features of the Fire TV device from 2017 to 2018.
  • Tested third-party applications supported on the Fire TV device, including streaming and gaming apps, from 2018 to 2024.
  • Responsible for daily build acceptance testing.
  • I conducted regression testing and integration testing for new and existing Fire TV streaming devices.

Education

B.E. - ECE

Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering
04-2016

M.B.A. - Human Resource Management

Pondicherry University
04-2019

Skills

  • Manual testing(Functional, regression, integration, Sanity, UAT)
  • Agile Framework/Methodologies
  • Selenium
  • Python Language
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Testrail
  • Pycharm
  • Postman
  • Jenkins
  • Asana tool
  • Stakeholder Management

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Delivery management:

  • Responsible for effective management of backlogs and addressing backlog.
  • Updated risk and shared mitigation to leadership.
  • Experience in leading the manual/automation team in Chennai and Shenzhen.
  • Been a part of customer review analysis to identify the gaps and improve product quality.
  • Owned the day-to-day deliverables for testing, support and operational teams.
  • Trained and lead team in China as part of BCP (Business continuity plan) during Covid.
  • Owned quality metrics to improve the test efficiency and bringing down the defect leakage.


People Management:

  • Responsible for regular One on One with employees to understand the concerns and sharing the performance goals.
  • Handled escalations and owned troubleshooting/providing root cause for incidents
  • Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders.
  • Identified and groomed top talent, developed leadership principles within the team to continuously raise the bar.

Certification

Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

Timeline

Device specialist

Amazon
04.2022 - Current

Senior Associate, Quality services

Amazon
07.2019 - 03.2022

Associate, Quality services

Amazon
01.2017 - 06.2019

B.E. - ECE

Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering

M.B.A. - Human Resource Management

Pondicherry University
Kanimozhi KSenior Quality Assurance Engineer