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Pooja A

Pooja A

Automation Lead

Summary

  • 6+ Yrs. experience in Automation & Functional Testing and performed as Test lead for Sales Project and other automation projects.
  • Expertise in Automating Web based Application using Selenium WebDriver.
  • Proficient in OOPs concept and Core JAVA.
  • Experience in TDD Framework - TestNG
  • Proficient in writing automation test scripts using Element locators like XPATH, WebDriver methods, Java programming features for smoke and regression test suite.
  • Experienced on build Management tools like Maven.
  • Experienced on continuous Integration tool Jenkins.
  • Exposure to root cause analysis of defects and failed test scripts.
  • Have some knowledge on ML/AI. Worked on few projects and have published paper on Signal Processing, Computer vision and NLP
  • Worked on all phases of software testing lifecycle from requirements analysis, deriving test suites, executing automated test scripts, defect retesting to support phases.
  • Experience of writing SQL queries for databases
  • Requirement Mapping, Test Planning, Data Analysis and Data Preparation, Test Implementation and Execution and Defect Management in Jira/QC.
  • Understanding of SDLC and STLC.

Work History

Automation Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solution
1 2019 - Current
  • Ensure projects are delivered according to project time guide testing team in testing best practices
  • Managed resources effectively during peak workloads, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality deliverables within budget constraints.
  • Created testing scenarios for long-term and expedited development schedules.
  • Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
  • Increased team productivity by providing training and mentorship on best practices in automation testing tools and frameworks.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to establish clear automation testing objectives and priorities, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
  • Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.

Skills

  • Java

  • Selenium

  • Agile Methodology Expertise

  • Defect Management

  • Sales Force

  • Test NG

  • GIT

  • Python

  • SQL

  • Jenkins

  • Machine Learning

Automation Experience

  • Working in Digital project - My Blue (Selenium)
  • Worked in Salesforce project- Sales force, Broker Portal & Insure Advantage, Egistics, Large Group (Selenium)
  • Worked in Claims project - Telehealth (mainframe)
  • Supported HMM project -MedhOK application (Selenium)
  • Worked for ENR project -ESS, Edifecs application (Selenium)

Education

  • M.Tech from Amrita University with 7.3 (CGPA), First Class
  • BE from Avinashilingam University with 7 (CGPA), First Class
  • 12th from VVMHSS in 2011 with 70%.
  • 10th from VVMHSS in 2002 Secured 80%.

Outside Work Projects

  • Pitch only features for the recognition of Spontaneous Emotions.
  • Tumor Detection using Machine Learning Algorithms Identifying tumor from the given X-Ray images.
  • Fingerprint analysis using Different Machine Learning Algorithms.
  • Unsupervised POS Tagging for Indian Language (Tamil)

Publications

  • X-ray Image Classification Based on Tumor using GURLS and LIBSVM, ICCSP-2016. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7754192
  • Character based Bidirectional LSTM for Disambiguating Tamil Part of Speech categories, ICAECES-2016. http://serialsjournals.com/serialjournalmanager/pdf/1487327553.pdf
  • Significance of Exploring Pitch only Features for the Recognition of Spontaneous Emotions from Speech Signals, ICACCI-2017. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8126042/

Timeline

Automation Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solution
1 2019 - Current
Pooja AAutomation Lead