Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Additional Information
Timeline
Generic
SanthaLakshmi D

SanthaLakshmi D

Senior QA Engineer/QA Lead
Chennai

Summary

Designation: Senior QA Engineer/ Team Lead

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior QA Engineer

Saama Technologies PVT LTD
Chennai
10.2022 - Current
  • Project Name : AbbVie Implementation (SDQ Product)
  • Role : Study Lead
  • Team size :5
  • Duration : October 2022 to Current
  • Tools used : JIRA, DBeaver
  • Project Objective
  • The Primary objective of this project is to validate the Predictions which is generated as per the Discrepancies in the Source system. Query and No Query Data will be entered in the EDC system like Rave, Veeva and once the ingestion is successful , data is validated in the DB . The main objective is to check the Query Subjects are generated in the SDQ predictions and no Query Subject are not generated in the SDQ predictions once the data is available in DB.
  • Role and Responsibilities Role and Responsibilities
  • MDD analysis
  • Test Scenario creation
  • Test data creation in EDC system like Rave, Veeva systems
  • Test data creation in External file
  • Test data verification in DB using SQL
  • Supporting in consolidating the External file and checking for duplicates using Business keys before sharing the File for Ingestion
  • Supporting in New members of the Team with KT on the EDC and SDQ product
  • Resolving the Queries within the Team for MDD logic and EDC Related Queries
  • SDQ Execution
  • Defect Tracking and Management

QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
01.2021 - 09.2022
  • Project Name : Argus Infra Upgrade
  • Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
  • Role : Functional Tester
  • Team size : 3
  • Duration : Jan 2021 to Current
  • Tools used : HP ALM ,SQL, Winscp,JIRA
  • Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
  • The Primary objective of this project to perform the regression testing and ensure that the integrated application with the Argus is Working fine .As a part of Argus infraupgrade, configuration changes was done where Integration server(shared Database) is changed to dedicated servers .
  • Role and Responsibilities Role and Responsibilities
  • User Story Analysis
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases.
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Involved in the UAT support.
  • Involved with the Business for the UAT Design and Execution
  • Involved in Getting data using SQL Queries
  • Involved in the Sprint Dry Run and Formal Testing

Senior QA Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • Project Name : GSK CH NA ClinicalDataInsight
    Role : Functional Tester
    Team size: 5
    Duration : June 2020 to January 2021
    Tools used : HP ALM ,SQL, Winscp,JIRA
    Account : GSK
    Project Objective
    Clinical Data Insight Project consists of testing of Migration of Data from various Sources like eTrack, LSC, Trials and Veeva CTMS into a Single application for checking the data according to Business needs. In Clinical Data Insights application we can see the data in Graph , Table format in Reports So can it is convenient for business Users for see the data according to their Needs.
    Role and Responsibilities Role and Responsibilities
    • User Story Analysis
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking
    • Involved in the UAT support
    • Involved with the Business for the UAT Design and Execution
    • Involved in Getting data using SQL Queries
    • Involved in testing the Migration of Data from Source Systems to CRH applicable
    • Involved in the Sprint Dry Run

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
05.2019 - 09.2020
  • Project Name : GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20
    Role : Test Lead
    Team size :2
    Duration : May 2019 to August 2019
    Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
    Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
    GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20: HEART application is the application where it is integrated with the etrack, MDM and DISH application for implementing the Clinical module which is used for registering, processing, tracking and destruction processes of Human Biological Samples. The main objective of this project is to test the integration of all the mentioned applications.
  • Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
09.2019 - 08.2020
  • Project Name : GSK RnD RS BioReg Enhancements
    Role : Test Lead
    Team size : 2
    Duration : September 2019 to August 2020
    Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
    Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
    GSK RnD RS BioReg Enhancements : Bioreg(Bioreg registration) is the application under the vendor Biovia which helps scientists to register the biological substances(Protiens/DNA etc..,). The objective of the project is to test the following entities :
    • CellandGene therapy(CGT) – Engineered Primary Cell and Trangene Delivery Vector
    • Functional Genomics(FxG) – Single Guided RNA and Pooled RNA
  • Role and Responsibilities Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking
    • Involved in the Sprint meetings

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Project Name : GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20
    Role : Test Lead
    Team size : 2
    Duration : May 2019 to August 2019
    Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
    Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
    GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20: HEART application is the application where it is integrated with the etrack, MDM and DISH application for implementing the Clinical module which is used for registering, processing, tracking and destruction processes of Human Biological Samples. The main objective of this project is to test the integration of all the mentioned applications.
  • Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
10.2018 - 04.2019
  • Project Name : GSK RnD DDL Hanwell Upgrade
    Role : Functional Tester
    Team size: 2
    Duration : October 2018 to April 2019
    Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
    Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
    GSK RnD DDL Hanwell Upgrade : Hanwell upgrade is also called as Synergy where the application is developed for the Triggering alarm when there is an environmental change in the laboratory where the samples are kept. The objective of the project is to test whether the Alarms are triggered successday when there is an abnormality in the Environments.
  • Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.Ltd
Chennai
04.2018 - 09.2018
  • Project Name : GSK RnD AVM Steady State Sup
    Role : Functional Tester
    Team size :8
    Duration : April 2018 to September 2018
    Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
  • Project Objective
    In GSK RnD AVM Steady State Sup, we have tested all the GSK application in Windows 10 so that the Applications can be used in Windows 10 after the Upgrade. We have tested the 30+ applications in the Windows 10 and made it feasible to work in Windows 10 effectively
  • Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking
    • Prepared KT documents after getting KT from Support team for each applications

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technology Pvt.ltd
Chennai
02.2018 - 04.2018
  • Project Name : GSK RnD USP Modern TS G2-4
    Role : Functional Tester
    Team size: 2
    Duration : February 2018 to April 2018
    Tools used : HP ALM
    Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
    Modern TS is a Teamsite which is developed for organizing the GSK Teamsites and meeting Sites . Objective of this project is to enhance the Teamsite according to the GSK standards and use it internally
  • Role and Responsibilities
    • Requirement Analysis
    • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
    • Involved in Test Data Preparation
    • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
    • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
    • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
    • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
    • Defect tracking
    • Prepared KT documents.
    • Involved in UAT Support
  • Mastered technical aspects of complex and highly integrated networked computers

Functional QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Pvt.ltd
Chennai
12.2015 - 01.2018

Project Name : Health Net_Production Support
Role : Functional QA lead
Team size: 3
Duration : December 2015 to Jan 2018
Tools used : HP ALM, SQL , SOAPUI
Account : Healthnet


Project Objective
Health Net is one amongst the United States of America's largest publicly traded Managed Health Care Companies. Health Net Insurance offers health insurance plans for individuals and families, groups/companies, and Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington HN.COM Portal is used by users (Shopper/Consumer, Member, Broker, Employer, Provider and Admin/Support) of CA (California), AZ (Arizona) and OR (Oregon) regions, to access their own or their clients/employees benefits information online.
Objective of this project is validation the WEB enhancements and Production Tickets. Thorough regression to find any breakage in UI flow due to other Project changes for whole HN Application using Selenium regression scripts in testing and Production environment.


Role and Responsibilities
• Worked on the assessments for Minor Enhancements
• Prepared Test cases and Test Results for the Minor Enhancements
• Maintained and executed the Regression test scripts and Developed Production checkout scripts.
• Managed the regression testing phase in every release single handed from offshore.
• Identification of test scenarios based on the Design document provided by Client for Web Enhancements.
• Participated in Calls with BA for requirements discussion.
• Execution of System test cases in Test management tool (ALM).
• Identifying defects, submitting defects and retesting of defects
• Participating in Defect Triage Calls.
• Preparing DSR and WSR and sending it to the Onsite Coordinators.

Functional QA Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
08.2014 - 11.2015

Project Name : HN WCoE Commercial Open Enroll
Role : Functional Tester
Team size: 3
Duration : August 2014 to November 2015
Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
Account : Healthnet


Project Objective
WCoE (Web Centre of Excellence) is the web based application for the Health Net. Open enrollment is the period where member will enroll into the new plans for the upcoming year. The objective of the project is to validate the enrollment of the application with the new plans for the upcoming year.
This project involves working with the client directly. Received client appreciation for the successful completion of the project


Role and Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis
• Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
• Involved in Test Data Preparation
• Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
• Setting up the test cases in the test lab in QC
• Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
• Logging and Retesting the defects in QC
• Defect tracking
• Prepared KT documents.
• Involved in UAT Defect Triaging.
• Participated in Calls with client for requirement Discussion

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
Chennai
08.2013 - 07.2014

Name : HNFS MMS ICD 10
Role : Functional Tester
Team size :3
Duration : Feb 2014 to July 2014
Tools used : HP ALM, UFT
Account : Healthnet


Project Objective
HNFS (Health Net Federal Service) is the application which is used for the federal employees. Through HNFS, federal employees can enroll a plan and become a member. MMS is a care radius application which is used for the submission of the authorization. The objective of the project is to test all the flows with ICD 10 codes. Through regression all the authorization flows are covered and the application went live with zero UAT and Production defects. Regression was done using the maintained script in the UFT for the care radius application.


Role and Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis
• Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
• Involved in Test Data Preparation
• Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
• Setting up the test cases in the test lab in QC
• Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
• Logging and Retesting the defects in QC
• Defect tracking
• Prepared KT documents.
• Involved in UAT Defect Triaging.

Education

Master of Science - IT

Madras University
Chennai
06.2013 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Science - CSC

Women’s Christian College
Chennai
06.2010 - 05.2013

H.S.C - Computer Science

St. Joseph’s Girls Higher Secondary School
Chennai
06.2009 - 05.2010

S.S.C -

St. Joseph’s Girls Higher Secondary School
06.2007 - 05.2008

Skills

Senior QA Engineer

undefined

Accomplishments

  • Project 9
  • Project Name : GSK RnD RS BioReg Enhancements
  • Role : Test Lead
  • Team size 2
  • Duration : September 2019 to Current
  • Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
  • Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
  • GSK RnD RS BioReg Enhancements : Bioreg(Bioreg registration) is the application under the vendor
  • Biovia which helps scientists to register the biological substances(Protiens/DNA etc..,)
  • The objective of the project is to test the following entities :
  • CellandGene therapy(CGT) – Engineered Primary Cell and Trangene Delivery Vector
  • Functional Genomics(FxG) – Single Guided RNA and Pooled RNA
  • Role and Responsibilities Role and Responsibilities
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Involved in the Sprint meetings
  • Project 8
  • Project Name : GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20
  • Role : Test Lead
  • Team size 2
  • Duration : May 2019 to August 2019
  • Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
  • Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
  • GSK RnD MTS HEART PH 2-NOV 20: HEART application is the application where it is integrated with the etrack, MDM and DISH application for implementing the Clinical module which is used for registering, processing, tracking and destruction processes of Human Biological Samples
  • The main objective of this project is to test the integration of all the mentioned applications
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Project 7
  • Project Name : GSK RnD DDL Hanwell Upgrade
  • Role : Functional Tester
  • Team size 2
  • Duration : October 2018 to April 2019
  • Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
  • Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
  • GSK RnD DDL Hanwell Upgrade : Hanwell upgrade is also called as Synergy where the application is developed for the Triggering alarm when there is an environmental change in the laboratory where the samples are kept
  • The objective of the project is to test whether the Alarms are triggered successday when there is an abnormality in the Environments
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Project 6
  • Project Name : GSK RnD AVM Steady State Sup
  • Role : Functional Tester
  • Team size 8
  • Duration : April 2018 to September 2018
  • Tools used : HP ALM, SQL
  • Project Objective
  • In GSK RnD AVM Steady State Sup, we have tested all the GSK application in Windows 10 so that the
  • Applications can be used in Windows 10 after the Upgrade
  • We have tested the 30+ applications in the
  • Windows 10 and made it feasible to work in Windows 10 effectively
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Prepared KT documents after getting KT from Support team for each applications
  • Project 5
  • Project Name : GSK RnD USP Modern TS G2-4
  • Role : Functional Tester
  • Team size 2
  • Duration : February 2018 to April 2018
  • Tools used : HP ALM
  • Account : GSK
  • Project Objective
  • Modern TS is a Teamsite which is developed for organizing the GSK Teamsites and meeting Sites
  • Objective of this project is to enhance the Teamsite according to the GSK standards and use it internally
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Involved in Test Conditions and Test Cases Preparation
  • Involved in Test Data Preparation
  • Involved in Test cases and Test conditions review
  • Setting up the test cases in the test lab in ALM
  • Involved in Test Cases Execution (System Testing and Regression testing)
  • Logging and Retesting the defects in ALM
  • Defect tracking
  • Prepared KT documents
  • Involved in UAT Support
  • Project 4
  • Project Name : Health Net_Production Support
  • Role : Functional Tester
  • Team size 3

Additional Information

  • AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS :
  • Cognizant Internal certification for Software Testing, AGILE, and Healthcare Domain.
  • Received Client Appreciations for successful release check outs without any production defects.
  • Awarded Pillar of the month for successful release


PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Date of Birth: 03-JULY-1992
• Residential Address: No. 10, 10th Street, Thai Nagar, Kodungaiyur, Chennai- 600118
• Personal Interest: Drawing and Painting
• Holder of Valid Indian Passport


I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Santhalakshmi D

Timeline

Senior QA Engineer

Saama Technologies PVT LTD
10.2022 - Current

QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - 09.2022

Senior QA Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
06.2020 - 01.2021

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
09.2019 - 08.2020

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
05.2019 - 09.2020

Test Lead

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
05.2019 - 08.2019

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
10.2018 - 04.2019

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.Ltd
04.2018 - 09.2018

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technology Pvt.ltd
02.2018 - 04.2018

Functional QA Lead

Cognizant Technology Pvt.ltd
12.2015 - 01.2018

Functional QA Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
08.2014 - 11.2015

Functional Tester

Cognizant Technologies Pvt.ltd
08.2013 - 07.2014

Master of Science - IT

Madras University
06.2013 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Science - CSC

Women’s Christian College
06.2010 - 05.2013

H.S.C - Computer Science

St. Joseph’s Girls Higher Secondary School
06.2009 - 05.2010

S.S.C -

St. Joseph’s Girls Higher Secondary School
06.2007 - 05.2008
SanthaLakshmi DSenior QA Engineer/QA Lead