Kavitha Panneer Selvam
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic QA Lead with a proven track record at Kissflow, excelling in test automation and defect management. Spearheaded quality metrics dashboards and streamlined defect processes, enhancing team productivity. Passionate about Agile methodologies, I foster collaboration and drive impactful results, ensuring high-quality deliverables through effective communication and strategic planning.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Lead
Kissflow
Chennai
02.2022 - Current
- Coordinate with Product Managers and Development teams to ensure quality requirements are defined early in the SDLC.
- Design and implemented common regression testing across various teams in coordinating the changes which reduce the effort of repetitive testing both through Functional and Automation testing.
- Create and maintain quality metrics dashboards for executive reporting and team performance tracking.
- Participate in Planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups to address quality concerns proactively.
- Streamlined the incoming Production Defects Process and implemented various strategies to overcome the areas to focus during test execution by teams, invalid bugs raised.
- Created Defect Metrics to identify root causes which are spread across various teams and improved the defect trend by various approaches.
- Streamlined the allocation of team members effectively in increasing their productivity by planning ahead and forecasting their work load across the development team of 25 members.
- Automated scripts which are indulged in often sanity testing to overcome manual effort.
Senior Automation Test Engineer
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
Chennai
06.2015 - 02.2022
- Performing as a lead in bringing together the dependencies of the various other teams involved in the implementation and completing the deliverables.
- Have knowledge in Protractor and Cucumber, working on a BDD framework AURA for developing automation scripts for functionality enhancements.
- SAFe methodology has been followed to build the Program Increments.
- Participate in each PI Planning to sort out the dependency among various teams, such that the deliverables are implemented without lack of coordination among teams.
- Managed defect lifecycle and facilitated defect triage meetings with development teams.
- Writing Performance scripts for endpoints for Services which is been developed using Jmeter.
- Giving the feature demo for each iteration to the stakeholders, PMOs, and the larger audience group who are involved in the project.
Software Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
05.2016 - 03.2020
- Involved in leading the sprint team in the committing and completion of the task.
- Involved in creating, reviewing, and executing test cases based on the functional requirements.
- Analyzing new requirements, grooming, and planning of requirements for development which includes the various features to be impacted.
- Creating and automating test cases related to new features by UFT.
- Providing suggestions on the approach to Product Owner based on analysis.
Associate Software Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
06.2015 - 04.2016
- Started to contribute for Regression and Smoke testing on support basis.
- Working in Hybrid Framework for the Automation Suite with the UFT tool during Regression testing.
- Have knowledge and created scripts for basic modules present through Selenium with Java.
- Have taken the responsibility to maintain the test cases in MTM throughout the whole application by updating the gaps in the older test cases present while executing it for Regression for major releases.
- Have also involved by picking by the gaps to create additional cases for the major modules to refrain from any escapes during the course of releases.
- Always dealt with the maintenance tickets initial analysis in helping the peers to identify the issues when assigned.
Education
B.Tech. - Information & Technology
St.Josephs’s College of Engineering
Chennai, Tamil Nadu01.2015
HSC -
Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai01.2011
SSLC -
Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai01.2009
Skills
- Test automation
- Regression testing
- Defect management
- Performance testing
Languages
English
First Language
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Timeline
QA Lead
Kissflow
02.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
05.2016 - 03.2020
Senior Automation Test Engineer
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
06.2015 - 02.2022
Associate Software Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
06.2015 - 04.2016
B.Tech. - Information & Technology
St.Josephs’s College of Engineering
HSC -
Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School
SSLC -
Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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