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Education
Skills
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Agile Scrum Meetings
Accomplishments
Certification
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Volunteering Experience
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KAVITHA SHANKAR

KAVITHA SHANKAR

Chennai

Summary

  • Proven Software Quality Assurance Engineer with a track record of enhancing software quality at Cognizant Technology Solutions through comprehensive test plans and efficient defect management.
  • Expert in Functional and API Testing, alongside strong collaboration skills, significantly improved testing processes.
  • Achieved key project milestones with meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
12.2020 - 06.2024
  • Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
  • Improved software quality by designing and implementing comprehensive test plans, identifying bugs, and suggesting improvements.
  • Worked as a part of Agile team covering End-to-End (front and backend) testing activities for the product.
  • Performed Functional, Smoke, Sanity, System Integration, and Regression Testing.
  • Creation,Support,Management,Storage & Exchange clinical data of various electronic health information(EHI) in HL7, EDI or NCPDP formats from other payer-maintained applications to US CORE Interoperability FHIR site standards for all data, inquiries and responses.
  • SFTP Data Ingestion testing using NDJSON and CSV file formats in Microsoft Azure Data Lake and Validation in MongoDB.
  • GET, PUT ,POST and DELETE methods in API testing.
  • MDM (Match&Merge) functionality testing on Healthcare Domain resources - Patient, Practitioner and Organization.
  • P2P (payer to payer) data ingestion testing.
  • Defect management using Azure DevOps (AZDO).
  • Documented results from testing procedures and generated detailed reports for management review.
  • Conducted various environmental testing including QA Testing,Staging and Production environment.

Test Analyst

Wipro Technologies Ltd
09.2019 - 08.2020
  • Analyzed and understood product requirements.
  • Prepared test cases and test scenarios.
  • Performed System Integration, UAT and Regression testing.
  • Achieved project milestones and deliverables with an internal and external team of 10 analysts within timeline

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
12.2017 - 07.2019
  • Provided ongoing support for users experiencing issues or requiring assistance with application functionality.
  • Contributed to successful project completion with effective time management and prioritization skills, meeting tight deadlines consistently.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features into existing applications.
  • Analyzed and understood product requirements.
  • Prepared test cases and test scenarios.
  • Performed System Integration, UAT and Regression testing
  • Logging defects and maintenance.

Programmer Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
02.2017 - 11.2017
  • Service Virtualization to virtualize software service behavior and model a virtual service to stand in for the actual service during development and testing.
  • Creating Service Images, Editing Service Images, Editing a VSM and virtualizing a service and tracking transactions.
  • Logging defects and maintenance.
  • Feasibility Study.
  • Preparation of Automation test script using Selenium Webdriver.
  • Preparation of manual test cases.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jerusalem College Of Engineering
Chennai, India
06.2016

12th - Mathematics And Computer Science

Sri Sitaram Vidyalaya Matriculation School
Chennai, India
04.2012

10th - Computer Science

St. Mary's Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai, India
04.2010

Skills

  • Functional Testing
  • API Testing
  • SQL knowledge
  • Software development life cycle
  • UI Testing
  • Smoke Testing
  • Sanity Testing
  • Database Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • MDM Testing (Mastering and Data Merging)
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Quality Documentation

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Used:

- READY API

- POSTMAN

- Rest Assured

- MongoDB

- SSMS SQL

- Azure DevOps (AZDO)

- JIRA

- Informatica MDM

- Eclipse

Agile Scrum Meetings

Involved in Agile Scrum meetings:

1. Product Grooming Meeting

2. Sprint Planning Meeting

3. Daily Scrum and Sprint Execution Meeting

4. Sprint Review Meeting

5. Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Accomplishments

    Above and Beyond Award:

    Americas TZ (Trizetto) Products Practice Project:- Awarded with an Above and Beyond Award in October 2022 for continuous improvement towards product knowledge which contributed to quality.

Certification

ISQTB Foundation Level Certificate

Training

Undergone training in EETP program conducted by BSNL regarding Telecommunication Network including practical sessions with live equipment with modules involving Digital Switching System, Optical Fiber Communication, Mobile Communication, and Telecom support Infrastructure.

Volunteering Experience

Volunteered in various Cognizant Outreach Programs supporting educational, global environmental, and cultural development programs, helping with tasks that make a real difference to the lives of people, animals, and organizations in need.

Timeline

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
12.2020 - 06.2024

Test Analyst

Wipro Technologies Ltd
09.2019 - 08.2020

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
12.2017 - 07.2019

Programmer Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
02.2017 - 11.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jerusalem College Of Engineering

12th - Mathematics And Computer Science

Sri Sitaram Vidyalaya Matriculation School

10th - Computer Science

St. Mary's Matriculation Higher Secondary School

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