Sangeetha Prasath
Summary
Dedicated and seasoned Test Lead with over 15 years of experience in leading and managing comprehensive software testing initiatives. Proven expertise in designing test plans, strategies, and executing test cases across diverse domains, including the U.S. Healthcare claim payments, healthcare safety risk management, and commodity trading, education domain. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products within established timelines.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Lead
CES
03.2024 - Current
- Manage a high-volume workload with client-focused delivery, and maintain a track record of releasing high-quality products within the proposed schedule.
- Ensure seamless collaboration between developers and testers throughout testing iterations.
- Created and optimized automated testing tools for repetitive tasks in the Cypress tool.
- Performed different types of testing, like Sanity Testing, System Regression, System Integration Testing, and Database Testing.
- Involved in all Agile ceremonies, like sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and retro meetings.
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2022 - 11.2023
- Involved in the estimation discussion for features, and agreed on the estimation points with the PO.
- Creating user stories for the features for all team members.
- Involved in test planning activities, such as creating a strategy document, resource planning, and scenario walkthroughs with the PO and Dev team.
- Ensure the daily task has been accomplished by the team.
- Track team KPIs to ensure the team's progress.
- Involved in exploratory testing for the sprint stories and assigning daily tasks to team members.
- Performed different types of testing, like Sanity Testing, System Regression, System Integration Testing, and Database Testing.
Test Lead
Cognizant
03.2013 - 01.2022
- Managed a team size of 15 and simultaneously handled 10 or more projects.
- Keeping management and clients informed of project schedules, status, and issues through weekly and daily status reports.
- Understanding business requirements and processes to create clear test strategies. Identifying gaps in user stories or business requirements and tracking the same until the raised ambiguity is closed.
- Providing estimates for testing efforts to project managers.
- Conducting all meetings related to the testing, and involved in the design, review, and execution of test cases to validate the functionality of the application.
- Defect tracking and reporting. Conduct the defect triage call with the project team, BA, and technical team on the open defects.
- Worked with the Project Management, Business team, Development team, and vendor to ensure that the testing strategy is understood, in use, test prerequisites are completed, and that test outputs are analyzed.
Test Lead
Sphata Systems Pvt Ltd (Formerly, iRADcle Solutions Pvt Ltd)
06.2012 - 02.2013
- Validated the mapping between two applications.
- Created the test script in HP UFT API to validate the request and response.
- Generated the result summary of all the web service calls.
- Verified the price availability for all the days in the destination application.
- Compared the prices between the source and destination applications.
- Coordinated with the vendor and got the price for missing days. Created a test closure report for every release.
Test Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
12.2011 - 06.2012
- Worked in inhouse product testing
- Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases.
- Maintained detailed recordkeeping and updated project documentation to compile reports.
Test Lead
iRADcle Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 12.2011
- Manage a high-volume workload with client-focused delivery, and maintain a track record of releasing high-quality products within the proposed schedule.
- Act as a single point of contact between the development team and testers for iteration testing and deployment activities.
- Proactively manage the test environment and configure WebLogic for the test environment. Deploy the build in the test environment, and coordinate to resolve any issues.
- Test Case Designing and Execution.
- Update reports on the project status to the client or project manager.
- Actively involved in team, client, and management meetings. Identify and find the root cause of the issues by effect analysis on the log report.
- Review test cases, and maintain the versions of the test case documents in SVN.
- Managing workload and allocating/scheduling resources for upcoming projects, and engaging resources effectively.
Education
Master of Technology - Leather Technology
Alagappa College of Technology
Tamil Nadu, India05.2005
Bachelor of Technology - Leather Technology
University of Madras
Tamil Nādu, India05.2003
Skills
- Functional Testing, Database/ETL Testing
- API testing using Postman
- Cypress automation
- Team management and testing process
- Window, Mainframe, desktop application
- SQL Server, Oracle, DB2
- AWS DynamoDB
- Task Scheduler
- JIRA project management tool
- Confluence
- Splunk log
Certification
- Scrum master Certification, Knowledge Academy, 44762
- Certified SAFe 6 Agilist, 18063732-7595
Professional Highlights
- Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Database Testing, API testing, QlikView reports Validation, Mainframe testing, Mainframe job validations, AWS DB Validations and with good understanding of Data warehouse concepts and testing.
- Expertise in querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, MS SQL Server using SQL and analyzing PL/SQL packages for any errors.
- Successfully led and motivated testing teams, fostering a collaborative and results-driven environment.
- Demonstrated ability to guide teams through complex testing projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards and project milestones.
- Proficient in formulating effective test strategies based on project requirements, risk assessments, and industry best practices.
- Skilled at creating comprehensive test plans to maximize test coverage and minimize risks.
- As SME, I have helped the Automation team to identify functional cases to be automated and ensure QE team execute the automation script wherever required and maintained the script with new changes.
- Effectively Oversee the python robot framework project and successfully completed in the given timeline.
- Ensuring the delivery of high-quality software.
- Strong understanding in both Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and the role of testing within each phase.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, facilitating effective collaboration with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
- Experienced in presenting test results and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adept at identifying and resolving complex issues during the testing process, with a focus on root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Proactively address challenges to ensure the delivery of reliable and defect-free software.
- Thrive in dynamic and fast-paced environments, adapting quickly to changing project requirements and priorities.
- Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
Timeline
Test Lead
CES
03.2024 - Current
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2022 - 11.2023
Test Lead
Cognizant
03.2013 - 01.2022
Test Lead
Sphata Systems Pvt Ltd (Formerly, iRADcle Solutions Pvt Ltd)
06.2012 - 02.2013
Test Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
12.2011 - 06.2012
Test Lead
iRADcle Solutions Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 12.2011
Master of Technology - Leather Technology
Alagappa College of Technology
Bachelor of Technology - Leather Technology
University of Madras
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