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Karthikeyan Pandi

Chennai,TN

Summary

  • 11+ years of IT experience with proven ability meet agreed deadlines work using defined testing methodologies within structured environment.
  • Lead QA with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes.
  • Plans test schedules and strategies according to project scope, delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions. Reviews software documentation to verify technical accuracy and completeness and to mitigate risks.
  • Extensive management skills with demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring teams to maximize the levels of productivity, minimizing schedule variations and defect rejection ratio while keeping good relationships with the client and developers.
  • Proficient in conducting data validation and backend testing to check the data integrity. Adept at using SQL queries extensively to perform backend testing.
  • Goal oriented with good communication & interpersonal skills Software-savvy quality assurance professional committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead QA Engineer II

Photon Interactive
04.2020 - Current
  • Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases.
  • Collaborated with management to establish testing plans develop improvement strategies.
  • Reviewed configuration files and logs to complete debugging and locate breakdown sources.
  • Promoted culture of continuous improvement by regularly reviewing and refining QA processes, tools, and methodologies.
  • Consulted with product owners and developers to fully understand intended features and functionality.
  • Used JIRA and Confluence tools to document project features, capabilities and requirements.
  • Monitored project progress and quickly addressed problems to complete testing on schedule.
  • Owns responsibility for provide QA Sign-Off of for multiple integrated services
  • Performed Integration testing after each story completion identifying all integration points

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2015 - 04.2020
  • Performed root cause analysis of problems, documented faults in tracking system and generated daily reports.
  • Actively involved in test preparation and sprint ticket validation in adherence to release plan
  • Performed API integration testing with backend validation and defect logging if any
  • Verification of Issue Fixes and troubleshooting PROD defects
  • Provided QA Sign-Off before each sprint releases
  • Involved in managing test environment, release details and PROD monitoring post each release deployment

Test Engineer

Collabera Technologies Private Limited
01.2014 - 12.2014
  • Prepared SRS as per customer requirements
  • Prepared and executed Test Cases both functional as well as localization
  • Reviewed Test Cases Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix Document, Test Results and Reports.
  • Verification of Issue Fixes

Test Engineer

E-Care Technology Labs Pvt. Ltd
03.2013 - 01.2014
  • Executed Test Cases for Ecare travel suite & Customer Relation Management tool.
  • Peer reviewed Test cases and made necessary update to Test Cases
  • Compared and Analyzed Expected with Actual results
  • Reported bugs in Red-mine & Preparation of daily status reports

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Jayaram College of Engineering & Technology
India
05.2010

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Quality Assurance Standards
  • Evaluations
  • Quality Assurance Requirements
  • Team Mentoring
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Test Scheduling & Implementation
  • Test strategy development
  • Scenarios and Use Cases
  • Defect monitoring
  • Bug Tracking and Resolution
  • Report Documentation
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Scrum
  • JIRA
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • API Testing
  • Backend validation
  • System Integration Testing

Timeline

Lead QA Engineer II

Photon Interactive
04.2020 - Current

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2015 - 04.2020

Test Engineer

Collabera Technologies Private Limited
01.2014 - 12.2014

Test Engineer

E-Care Technology Labs Pvt. Ltd
03.2013 - 01.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Jayaram College of Engineering & Technology

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