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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Affiliations
Accomplishments
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Payal Karmakar

Payal Karmakar

Bangalore,

Summary

Detail-oriented and results-driven QA professional with 9 years of experience in manual testing, functional validations, and database and GUI testing across diverse domains. Proficient in identifying software defects and ensuring the highest quality of products. Passionate about continuous improvement, and maintaining high-quality standards in software development.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Lead

Tech Mahindra - MasterCard (Finance/Banking)
11.2023 - Current

• Coordinate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to clarify requirements.

• Designing and developing test strategies, test plans, test reports, and driving BAT kickoff, TDW meetings, and SQS walkthroughs.

Selecting appropriate testing methodologies based on project needs.

• Create, review, and execute comprehensive test cases that cover various functional and non-functional aspects of the software.

• Managing and routing test environments that are connected to other applications as needed, and also owning test data setup and environment refreshes from the production database as required.

• Managing a team of five members, assigning tasks, and reporting regular progress and issues to managers and stakeholders.

• Involved in Production validation tests.

• Mentoring junior testers and contributing knowledge sharing.

• Analyzing test results and reporting defects and preparing graphs

• Identifying, writing and executing test cases after reviewing the business artifacts and technical specifications

• Manual black box testing, regression test, sanity, boundary, smoke, positive testing, negative testing, cross browser testing, Gui, functional are some of my regular testing activities I am involved in

• Post release support like hypercare activities is also being provided by me.

Test Engineer

Tech Mahindra - Coles (Retail/E-commerce)
12.2021 - 11.2023
  • Created traceability matrices between user stories and test cases.
  • Planning, writing, and executing test cases, and reporting if there are any issues.
  • Coordinating with cross-functional teams to perform integration testing.
  • Provided technical guidance to junior team members on testing processes and procedures.

Test Engineer

Capgemini - Ikea - CopGemini (Retail, E-commerce)
08.2015 - 12.2021

• Traveled to Germany to assist the business in testing a new central warehousing functionality in the complete North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.

• Assisted managers and leads in test planning and reporting.

• Participated in Test Strategy meetings.

• Identifying, designing, and executing test cases.

• Reporting defects while testing.

Involved in coordination with multiple teams for test environment setup.

• Trained a few new joiners and helped them in upskilling.

• Involved in database and GUI testing.

Education

BTech in Electronics And Communication

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
Sikkim

Skills

  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
  • SQL queries
  • Putty
  • UNIX
  • GUI Testing
  • WinSCP
  • API
  • JIRA
  • ALM
  • Confluence
  • SDLC and SDTC
  • Rally
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • XML
  • Mobile Testing

Certification

  • ISTQB Foundation Level Certified

Affiliations

  • Worked in a client-facing environment, supported release testing, and travelled to Germany for the same.

Accomplishments

• Project Star Award for excellent performance in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

• Awarded best performer from IKEA client 2017

• Awarded with Spot Award in 2019

• Awarded Project Star by Coles for testing a total new and complex functionality in Coles in 2023

• Awarded Project Star award by Mastercard for planning and executing a critical functional around transaction simulator in 2024.

Timeline

Test Lead

Tech Mahindra - MasterCard (Finance/Banking)
11.2023 - Current

Test Engineer

Tech Mahindra - Coles (Retail/E-commerce)
12.2021 - 11.2023

Test Engineer

Capgemini - Ikea - CopGemini (Retail, E-commerce)
08.2015 - 12.2021

BTech in Electronics And Communication

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
Payal Karmakar