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Meghana B R

Vijayanagar, Bengaluru

Summary

Senior Test Analyst with 8 years of experience designing and implementing quality assurance tests. Evaluated test objectives to develop and implement test procedures optimized for relevant results. Reported on test results and suggested interpretations relevant to product applications and further test development. Oriented towards streamlining testing and reporting processes to lower costs and optimize production efficiency.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate

Cognizant
05.2016 - Current


  • Overall, 8 years of strong experience in Functional Testing in Agile & SAFe Methodology
  • Have performed lead level role in Manual + Automation Testing, Functional & Database testing projects and has been involved in various phases of testing activities that include Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Execution, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Defect Management
  • Skillful in selenium scripts execution and Test Report Analysis
  • Analyze and locate the exception layer where failure of test scripts occurred and fix the scripts
  • Provided setup for various new project proposals and acted as POC Continuous Integration
  • Good knowledge in various Software testing methodology in SAFe Agile
  • Have reasonable exposure to software test automation in selenium for the web-based applications
  • Extensive hands-on experience working knowledge of HP ALM, HP Octane, JIRA, Concourse, Rally, Postman, Soap UI and SQL
  • Effective coordination and interaction with client stakeholders, onshore and offshore teams
  • Implemented process improvements that led to significant time savings and increased accuracy in deliverables.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive successful completion of complex projects within deadlines.

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant
05.2019 - Current


Client: Comcast Corporation (Core application: Café)


  • Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings, is an American mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue
  • It is the largest cable company and home Internet service provider in the United States and the nation's third largest home telephone service provider
  • Comcast services U.S Residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia
  • The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Responsibilities:


  • Worked as both Functional and Automation tester
  • Managing the quality of the application by preventing the defect leakage in production release
  • Working in migration of data from legacy systems
  • Involved in regression testing for the existing application
  • Preparation of Test Cases in HP Octane based on the change request given by the client
  • Functional test execution for the changes made to the application
  • Preparation of RTM for both Functional and Regression testing
  • Defect logging in ALM and Octane
  • Attending bug triage call
  • Having experience in handling the projects and release of feature packs individually
  • Attending scrum call and conveying the daily deliverables to the client
  • Attending Sprint Retrospective meetings
  • Generated reports for analyzing the number of test cases runs, the number of test cases passed, failed, and skipped using Test NG
  • Create, debug and handle exceptions - Web Driver scripts and enhance the scripts to work in Selenium web driver / IntelliJ for test automation
  • Update and maintain the automation test scripts based on new features
  • Run Regression/Smoke suite, whenever there is a new feature added and troubleshoot the failures with the help of Concourse tool
  • Collaborated with development teams for seamless integration of testing efforts, resulting in faster issue resolution.


Leadership:


  • Have helped the team over the knowledge transition for the application
  • Have been handling regression as single resource for the application
  • Taking up the activities from other team members in their absence
  • Have been leading the QA team in absence of QA Lead
  • Support for Production and Deployments in application and guiding other members of the team
  • Point of Contact for any queries in Application from Cognizant end
  • Grooming new joiners – junior associates to next level
  • Have been sharing Automation metrics from all the applications under BSD bundle which is sent to CIO on monthly basis
  • Successfully organized EWF- Team Lunch Party which included COMCAST, NBCU and COX with around 130 pax with more appreciation.

Test Analyst

Cognizant
01.2017 - 04.2019


Client: WVO-EOL Upgrade


  • WVO has five tracks which are undergoing a server upgrade, hence the application under each track is affected
  • The root cause for the Papyrus upgrade is the remediation of compatibility issues between the current Papyrus instance and the Windows 2003 server upgrade


Responsibilities:


  • Analyzing functional and business requirements for creating HLTC (High Level Test Conditions) and then converting them into test cases to cover the critical business functionality
  • Involved in exporting test cases to HP ALM
  • Have been part of Papyrus team and taken the ownership of UBS (Universal Business System) Application
  • Have worked on Client walkthrough, QA approach document preparations
  • Have worked in creation of Test Case Design for Functional, Regression and Defect reports and Test summary reports
  • Involved in executing Shakedown and Regression testing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Govt. SKSJTI
Bengaluru, India
07.2015

Skills

  • Regression Testing
  • Test case development
  • Test Planning
  • Functional Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Manual Testing
  • Automated Test Analysis
  • Agile Methodology
  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Service Delivery
  • Software Testing

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant
05.2019 - Current

Test Analyst

Cognizant
01.2017 - 04.2019

Senior Associate

Cognizant
05.2016 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Govt. SKSJTI
Meghana B R