Raj Kumar Bharathiya

Project: IFF (International Flavours & Fragrances)

• Leading a 5-member QA team through the entire software testing lifecycle, ensuring seamless collaboration, clear role delegation, and high-quality deliverables.
• Planned and allocated testing tasks across team members, balancing workloads to optimize productivity and meet sprint and release timelines.
• Defined QA strategy and roadmap, aligning team efforts with Agile goals and client expectations, while maintaining focus on risk areas and critical functionality.
• Oversaw test planning, case design, execution, and reporting, ensuring adherence to best practices and consistency across all testing artifacts.
• Facilitated daily sync-ups, defect triage meetings, and sprint reviews, representing QA in discussions with developers, product owners, and client stakeholders.
• Monitored team performance metrics, such as execution progress, defect density, and closure rates; implemented corrective measures to boost quality and speed.
• Mentored team members on domain knowledge, test strategy, and testing tool using ( JIRA, ALM).
  

Project: Org Remedy, PHILIPS

• Sole Test Engineer managing the complete testing lifecycle independently, utilizing tools like JIRA for task tracking and Confluence for documentation.
• Led QA efforts proactively, from reviewing requirements in JIRA/User Stories, finalizing story points, to test planning and execution using Azure DevOps.
• Designed and executed comprehensive test plans and test cases, collaborating with Business Analysts and stakeholders for validation, using tools such as Excel, Google Sheets, and Test Management Tools.
• Performed In-Sprint Testing, SIT, Regression Testing, and partial User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients; tracked defects and progress using Azure DevOps.
• Worked in Agile Scrum environment, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; documented decisions and progress in Confluence.
• Created and maintained comprehensive test documentation, including Daily Status Reports, Weekly Status Reports, and Test Closure Reports, often shared via Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Project: Capsule, PHILIPS

• Acted as a Sole SFDC tester in the team. Successfully completed 2 releases.
• Understanding New/Change requirements & technical specifications, access system in order to identify test cases with regression impacts.
• Taking ownership of requirements for the project, ensure understanding from the team, identify, escalate and resolve issues with respect to the requirements.
• Respond to the customer queries/clarifications within 1 working days.
• Zero defect slippage in production.
• Taking care of Test Plan health - Test Case Creation, Uploading test cases in test plan, Sending test cases to BA for approval, Test Environment set-ups, Test Execution, Linking test cases to US, Follow Defect Lifecycle etc.
• Following BDD format for writing test cases. Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
• Collaborated closely with developers to identify, reproduce, and resolve software bugs.
• Improved product quality by meticulously designing and executing test plans for software applications.
• Managed offshore QA resources effectively in order to ensure seamless workflow integration within the team.
• Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.

Project: POps (GOOGLE)

• Leading a Scrum with 3 Testers. Successful completion of 2 Phases.
• Understanding New/Change requirements & technical specifications, assess system in order to identify test cases with regression impacts.
• Involved in Smoke testing, Functional, Integration, Positive, Negative, End to End testing and Risk based testing of the application. Extensively involved in writing and designing Test Scenario Matrix.
• Prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Testing the application and logging the defects in the bug tracking tool Baganizer.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to priorities bug resolution.

Project: GCases (GOOGLE)

• Company Overview: GCases is basically a tool for Case Management where Googlers can raise the ticket through Email or MyHR Tool or through GUTS.
• Worked with Business Analysts to define testing requirements to satisfy the business objectives.
• Analyzed Application Specific design requirements, Functional requirement specifications.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to priorities bug resolution.
• Acted as sole SFDC functional tester, completed all tasks and managed project from start to finish.
• Written Acceptance Criteria in Gherkin Language and also great knowledge in writing High level Test Cases.

Project: IRVINE

• Understand the Requirements thoroughly and can build all Test Cases for different types of scenarios and based on business logic.
• Involved in Smoke testing, Functional, Integration, Positive, Negative, End to End testing and Risk based testing of the application.
• Providing estimates for specific Business Change Management (BCM) or Change Request (CR).
• Prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Performed testing on force.com (Lightning experience).
• Attend daily scrum calls and has good communication skill to update status to client and proactive in nature.
• Understand design, test and deliver high-quality applications to customers.

Project: BOA (Bank Of America)

• Understanding New/Change requirements & technical specifications, assess system in order to identify test cases with regression impacts.
• Mapping requirement Traceability matrix with respect to Configuration Specification Document.
• Involved in Smoke testing, Functional, Integration, Positive, Negative, End to End testing and Risk based testing of the application.
• Framing test scenarios in cucumber framework & creating feature files based on Tandem Document.
• Effective communicator that works well in a collaborative team setting.
• Testing the application and logging the defects in the bug tracking tools-ALM.

Project: Thames Water

• Company Overview: Thames Water is the UK's biggest water and sewerage company.
• Joined a QA team of 5 members on a live project as part of my first professional testing assignment, contributing to real-time product quality assurance
• Quickly ramped up on project requirements and Agile practices, participating actively in sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups.
• Prepared test cases based on user stories and acceptance criteria, reviewed test plans with senior QA members, and performed functional and regression testing using tool ALM
• Maintained testing documentation, including test execution reports and defect logs etc.