NANDAKUMAR RADHAKRISHNAN
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Senior Associate in Software Quality Assurance with a proven track record of ensuring the highest standards of software quality and reliability. Proficient in leading testing efforts, implementing QA methodologies, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver superior products. Skilled in Functional testing, test automation, Business analysis, and process improvement, dedicated to optimizing software development lifecycle. Strong communicator and team player committed to driving continuous quality enhancement.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Associate
State Street
07.2021 - Current
- Working as part of State Street Global Technology Services - Software Quality Assurance Team.
- Ensuring Quality of Exchange Traded Fund(ETF ) application.
- Collaborating on software testing efforts among 18 SQA's distributed across three agile teams spanning three regions (US, China, India) to ensure a smooth production release.
- Enhanced team performance by implementing effective project management strategies and providing consistent guidance
- Collaborated with stakeholders to establish clear automation testing objectives and priorities, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
- Collaborated with development teams to establish clear test objectives, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify areas for improvement in software design, Effective Requirement Gathering leading to more efficient solutions.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends in order to incorporate relevant innovations into company processes and methodologies for continuous improvement in automation testing practices.
- Reduced product defects by developing and enforcing rigorous testing standards throughout development process. Effective Defect life cycle management
- Enhanced test efficiency by implementing automated testing processes and tools.
- Experienced in developing innovative test automation framework utilizing Java, Selenium, Maven, TestNG, Rest Assured and other latest technologies. This versatile framework seamlessly facilitates both UI and backend test automation, offering effortless integration with CI/CD pipelines.
- Participating in Agile ceremonies like Daily stand ups, Sprint planning, PI planning, Grooming, Retrospective etc.
- Business Analysis.
- Designing test plan, estimation, test scenarios & test cases and Prior review of the test case designed, UAT Test Execution results of Team members across Teams. Clearing Impediments team is facing by effective collaboration.
- Preparing SQA Sign off documents for each release getting necessary approvals and getting ready for Prod Release.
- Creating customized Jira Dashboards.
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
09.2012 - 07.2021
- Participated in Agile ceremonies like Daily stand ups, Sprint planning, PI planning, Grooming, Retrospective.
- Collaborated on software testing efforts among 6 SQA's distributed. Led cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Test Case Review, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Execution, Defect Tracking/ Defect Management, Component Level Testing/System Integration Testing/ DB Testing/API Testing/Regression Testing/Live User Acceptance Testing, Test report presentation
- Working with Developers, Product owner for identifying the requirements and gathering product specific details
- Post requirement analysis, perform Quality assurance automation planning, Feasibility study, Tool identification and preparing the test plan.
- Based on the test plan approval from the stakeholders, Creating POC using the identified automation tools and designing the suitable hybrid automation framework step by step
- Performing application testing and developing scripts using established automation framework and tools such as selenium, Micro Focus - UFT. Improved software quality by designing and executing comprehensive test plans.
- Increased overall test efficiency by maintaining an organized repository of test cases, scripts, and supporting documentation.
- Streamlined testing processes through the creation of automated testing scripts and tools.
- Execution of test scripts prior and post build deployment
- Focusing on functional execution, regression and end-to-end automated scripts for products front-end and back-end applications
- Working with Dev Ops team to bring CI/CD in place.
Education
M. Tech - Software Engineering
12.2012 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Science -
03.2009 - 03.2012
Skills
Data Analysis(Excel, SQL, Python)
Eclipse PyCharm WINSCP Putty Postman
MS Office Suite
Data Analysis(Excel, SQL, Python)
Micro Focus - UFT ALM VB Scripting
Java Selenium Web Driver SQL GIT
AWS
Project Management Project Coordination Team Leadership
Issue Resolution
Timeline
Senior Associate - State Street
07.2021 - Current
BITS PILANI - M. Tech, Software Engineering
12.2012 - 12.2016
Senior Test Engineer - Wipro Technologies
09.2012 - 07.2021
University of Calicut, Kerala - Bachelor of Science,
03.2009 - 03.2012
Personal Information
- Passport Number: W4294186
- Date of Birth: 10/27/91
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married