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Kavya Swaminathan

Kavya Swaminathan

Quality Assurance Engineer
India

Summary

  • Having 5.2+ years of experience in Automation and Manual testing and meticulously followed Agile Methodologies.
  • API testing, UI testing, Functional and System Integration testing.
  • Additionally hands on in Jmeter and Python API automation.
  • Experience in AWS S3 and Elastic bean.
  • Extensive usage of Rapid7, NewRelic and LogEntries.
  • Well versed in writing test cases, testing, documenting errors (depending on the phase of the project), checking the bug tracking system for the fixed errors, conducting meetups, learning the requirements and their clarification with the customer, communicating with developers and finally writing test documentation.


Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineer: Independent Contractor

Fourkites
Chennai, India
07.2021 - Current
  • Worked in Real-Time Transportation Visibility Platform (Supply Chain)
  • API End to end testing performed
  • Pytest API automation done for most of the APIs used in project.
  • Involved in release activities on monthly basis.
  • Maintained test coverage 100% for all projects worked.
  • Automated REST API test cases.
  • Works closely with Product team and gives demo for every release to Operations team.

Freelancer, Product Designer

Freelance
Chennai, TN
01.2020 - 02.2021
  • As a UX Researcher and Designer User Experience Researcher and Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in User Experience (UX), Visual Design, Sketchbook Pro, User Interface Design, and Adobe XD. Strong arts and design professional with a Bachelor of Engineering - BE focused in Computer Science from Anna University.
  • As a freelancer In order to appreciate and understand the entire gamut of SDLC, I have taken up the role of a Product manager in many freelancing projects to define the success of a product, set the vision, mission and road map of the product.

Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
07.2013 - 09.2015

● Filed Quality software defects and worked closely with developer to get the issue fixed.

● Handled customer escalation and done RCA for the issue and automated the case to sort out the gap.

● Prepared test plan along with test case procedure for the given scenarios.

● Mentored New Joiners and made them productive in short span of time.

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
Chennai, TN
05.2011 - 06.2013
  • Project: IPSQA Testing (HCL-Brocade)
  • Hands on experience in Python
  • Expertise in testing more than 15+ features
  • Created Test Plan document and Traceability Matrix
  • Worked on both Waterfall and Agile methodology
  • Daily status update to client and delegation of work to juniors

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
08.2007 - 03.2011

Skills

    API and Functional Testing

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Accomplishments

  • Accomplished 7 project releases well ahead of agreed timelines. (4 projects with Waterfall method and 3 projects with Agile methodology).
  • Outstanding employee for 2 consecutive years in HCL.
  • Rewarded ‘HCL O2 Award’ in the year 2015.

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer: Independent Contractor

Fourkites
07.2021 - Current

Freelancer, Product Designer

Freelance
01.2020 - 02.2021

Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
07.2013 - 09.2015

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies Ltd
05.2011 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
08.2007 - 03.2011
Kavya SwaminathanQuality Assurance Engineer