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Education
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PRIMARY AREA
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Certification
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Niraj Kumar

Niraj Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

An Innovative technology professional with 11 years of progressive experience in designing and developing software solutions with quality management. Solid history in both manual and automated testing. Seek to apply expertise to growth-oriented, dynamic position.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QE Lead

Spire Technologies
Bengaluru
08.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for handling end to end QA deliverables.
  • Documented process flows for new features and functionalities introduced in both web and mobile based applications.
  • Reviewed requirements documents and technical specifications to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
  • Identified opportunities for improving the efficiency of the QA process through automation or other means.
  • Maintained databases of known defects, tracking their resolution throughout the software development life cycle.
  • Assisted developers in troubleshooting issues related to software applications.
  • Supervised a team of QA Engineers in executing all phases of testing activities.
  • Performed root cause analysis for identified issues, tracked progress and reported results.

Senior Quality Analyst II

Rakuten India
Bengaluru
09.2019 - 07.2022
  • Automated functional and regression testing approaches to streamline software production.
  • Developed automation frameworks using Selenium, Rest Assured and Java programming language.
  • Gathered requirements, script preparation, execution and sign off.
  • Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
  • Test reporting, result analysis, defect retesting and regression testing.
  • Interaction with scrum masters, product owners, developers and architects to identify new user stories and to implement the identified stories.
  • Monitored application health through production monitoring tools such as Kibana, New Relic, App Dynamics.
  • Monitored supplier performance against agreed upon SLAs and KPIs.

Member of Technical Staff

Envestnet Yodlee
Bengaluru
10.2018 - 09.2019
  • Developed, tested and maintained REST APIs for web applications using Java.
  • Test reporting, result analysis, defect retesting and regression testing.
  • Involved in Data Driven Framework development.
  • Executing the automation script and analyzing the results.

Senior Quality Analyst

Manhattan Associates
Bengaluru
06.2014 - 09.2018
  • Understand the requirements from BA and Stakeholders.
  • Participating in scrum meeting and involved in user stories grooming.
  • Documented all aspects of the Quality Assurance process including test plans, test cases, results tracking.
  • Expertise in Warehouse management and Order management system.
  • Managed planning, balancing and delegation of testing work.
  • Involved in migration testing in different environment and Use case execution.
  • Test reporting, result analysis, defect retesting and regression testing.
  • Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Eka Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
09.2011 - 05.2014
  • To understand requirements, flow and functionality of an application.
  • Involved in reporting, tracking and closing the bugs.
  • Preparing test cases, peer review and Execution of test cases.
  • Involved in writing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Develops daily, weekly and Monthly work Status Reports.
  • Participating Project status review (PSR) meetings once in week.

Education

PG - Data Science

Amity University
07-2022

B. Tech - Computer Science & Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, TG
06-2010

Skills

  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Usability Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Continuous integration
  • Security Testing
  • Test strategy development
  • Test automation expertise
  • Test Data Management
  • Quality Metrics Analysis
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Test case design
  • Cloud Computing
  • Document Control
  • Quality Management Systems
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Defect Tracking and Reporting
  • Software Release and Versioning
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Manual Testing
  • Automated Testing Frameworks
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Version Control Systems: Git
  • Agile Methodologies
  • CICD Jenkins
  • POSTMAN

PRIMARY AREA

  • End to End QA Activities
  • Web, Mobile, API and Performance Testing
  • Java, Selenium, Cypress, Appium
  • Oracle, SQL, NOSQL

DOMAINS

  • Retail & Ecommerce
  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Warehouse and Order Management
  • Commodity Trading and Risk Management
  • Talent Management

Accomplishments

  • Received multiple Spot-on awards in Rakuten, solely responsible for web services quality release and production monitoring.
  • Received Firewall Award from Manhattan for managing multiple clients and was well appreciated for my efforts & contributions.
  • Taken Spot on Award twice in Eka Software for key role in testing team.

Certification

  • Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp
  • Project Management Fundamental
  • AWS Solutions Architect

Timeline

QE Lead

Spire Technologies
08.2022 - Current

Senior Quality Analyst II

Rakuten India
09.2019 - 07.2022

Member of Technical Staff

Envestnet Yodlee
10.2018 - 09.2019

Senior Quality Analyst

Manhattan Associates
06.2014 - 09.2018

Quality Assurance Engineer

Eka Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
09.2011 - 05.2014

PG - Data Science

Amity University

B. Tech - Computer Science & Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp
  • Project Management Fundamental
  • AWS Solutions Architect
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