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Santhosh Babu G

Bengaluru

Summary

  • QA Lead with 9 years of experience in Software Testing in Manual and Automation.
  • Good exposure in Health Care Domain, Social Care Domain & Dynamics 365 platforms, system validation 21CFR Part11 regulatory testing in Life Science and Insurance Domain with various roles & responsibilities.
  • Proficiency with Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life cycle.
  • Testing UI and functionality of new features for enterprise-level software, bug verification and triage for quality assurance.
  • Basic Knowledge in querying using SQL for updating records and validating database records.
  • Have knowledge in basic API Testing concepts.
  • Good knowledge in Card Payments, Policy Renewals entities in the product as similar to Insurance Domain.
  • Documenting test plan and Delivery Reports and specification of test environment to ensure test coverage.
  • Interacted with developers and other team members in Scrum calls to ensure high quality software & played a key role in timely delivery of the product.
  • Quick ability to act as an SME by understanding the requirements.
  • Experience in writing Test Cases, analyzing the results, and interaction with team members in fixing the errors.
  • Followed Agile Methodology in most of the projects where used to be part of Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and recorded DSR, Sprint Feedbacks, Sprint completion report in tool called Confluence.
  • Functions as a team leader, leading project team by providing direction to around 6 team members, keeping team on track to complete projects and assigning tasks to team members and reviews the work of team members.
  • Worked in System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Web based Testing, & UAT Testing.
  • Testing performed under Waterfall Model and Agile Methodology.
  • Supported during Product Implementation, Production Issues handling & UAT RCA processes.
  • Gained good hands-on knowledge on HP ALM tool and JIRA -Zephyr.
  • Generate high-level QA goals/objectives for each team members with action plans and benchmarks to measure progress.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Test Engineer

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2015 - 10.2022
  • Monitored daily progress against plans to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
  • Prepared comprehensive Test Plans, Test Strategies, Risk Assessment Plans, and validation designs.
  • Executed black box and integration testing on cloud-based storage at client sites.
  • Compiled verification of system functions against specifications to ensure data integrity.
  • Conducted compliance testing for 21CFR part 11 related to cGXP processes.
  • Facilitated defect triages among development, test, and business teams to prioritize critical defects.
  • Created Test Closure documents and distributed them to all stakeholders.

QA Lead

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2015 - 10.2022
  • Led functional team to define and maintain client-related data project functionalities.
  • Established high-level QA goals with actionable plans and benchmarks for team progress.
  • Ensured complete test coverage during UAT phase based on designated scope.
  • Coordinated onshore and offshore resources, collaborating with internal departments for solution delivery.
  • Facilitated regular defect triages among development, testing, and business teams, prioritizing defects by criticality.
  • Conducted root cause analyses on production defect leakages to prevent future occurrences.
  • Reviewed test progress and reports regularly, providing updates to Release Test Manager.
  • Supported production releases after hours or on weekends as required.

Test Associate

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2015 - 10.2022
  • Conducted compatibility testing across various devices and browsers to ensure seamless functionality.
  • Participated in status review meetings with project leaders to discuss project progress.
  • Executed system, integration, and web service testing to validate application performance.
  • Prepared and organized knowledge transfer documents for legacy and new integration systems.
  • Developed test execution plans and QA reports to track quality metrics.
  • Logged defects in ALM and monitored issue resolution for accountability.

Senior Test Engineer

One Advanced
Bengaluru, karnataka
10.2022 - Current
  • Ensured the payments of the products was completed according to business specifications and requirements ensuring data were accurately tested.
  • Preparing Test Plans, Scenarios and Test Cases.
  • RAIDS are identified and communicated to project team and maintained regularly and mitigated.
  • Regular Meeting with project team and constantly review the test progress and reports to the Test Manager.
  • Involved in pre and Post Migration comparison and account servicing scenarios post Migration.
  • Manage defect process for the program ensuring the process is followed and correct priorities / severities are assigned.
  • Test execution and defect logging.
  • Status reporting and test metrics skills.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - ECE

Jaya Engineering College
Chennai
08-2014

Skills

  • Generative AI and automation tools
  • SQL database management
  • API testing with Postman and Rest Assured
  • Swagger documentation
  • Java programming with Selenium
  • HP ALM management
  • JIRA issue tracking
  • TFS project management
  • Azure DevOps integration

Certification

  • Certified in Gen AI and developing automated tools using LLM
  • Certified in Selenium with Java

Projects

PROJECT 1:  Health Care and Social Care, QA Lead,

The above application is based on Customer Relationship Management (CRM - 365), we perform Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing by managing the entire customer life-cycle, streamline operations and improve customer satisfaction.

There will be many migration activities in CRM and at every stage of migration we must be sure enough about the quality of the features and the latest enhancements.

Leading a functional team of 12 members to define project functionality for creating the client related data's and its maintenance, Providing Test Estimates to Onsite/Manager.

Generate high-level QA goals/objectives for each team members with action plans and benchmarks to measure progress.

Accountable for ensuring complete test coverage across the program during the UAT phase, based on designated scope.

Coordinate on and offshore resources and collaborate across internal departments on delivering solutions., Facilitate regular defect triages between development, test and business teams and ensure all defects are prioritized based on their criticality.

Perform RCAs on events of production defect leakages., Constantly review the test progress and reports to the Release Test Manager.

Support after-hours or weekend production releases., Participate in QA process improvement initiatives and cross-team activities.

Manage change requests and ensure that processes are in place and followed to manage change requests as per the defined standards.

PROJECT 2: Insurance Domain, QA Lead,

The above application Is used for the purpose of generating the Quotes and policies and generating Premium Memberships with the Ratings of the Forms.

Leading a functional team to define project functionality for creating the client related data's and its maintenance.

Maintaining the bugs and test cases in Azure Devops in Test plan.

Participate in QA process improvement initiatives and cross-team activities.

Managing a Team of Manual Testers in Offshore, Regression Testing team, Functional Testing team (5+).

Perform Testing in UAT environment to bind the forms before and after migration of data.

PROJECT 3: Finance Graduation Tooling, Senior Test Engineer,

The purpose of this application is we are converting the existing data of certain set of products to our own finance graduations where the data is being migrated and as a senior QA we took the responsibility of verifying the database using DBeaver and oracle SQL database.

Postman API and conversion of Postman API collections into REST ASSURED API scripts using SWAGGER


Writing SQL Queries based on the requirement to fetch the data in Database.

PROJECT 4: Health Care, Senior Test Engineer,

The purpose of this application is to make sure the transaction between the users to buy a health related medicines and products based on the tenants and renewal of a plans as similar to the insurance domain.

Database testing is performed along with API testing to make sure there is no data breach.

Ensured the payments of the products was completed according to business specifications and requirements ensuring data were accurately tested., Preparing Test Plans, Scenarios and Test Cases.

RAIDS are identified and communicated to project team and maintained regularly and mitigated., Regular Meeting with project team and constantly review the test progress and reports to the Test Manager.

Involved in pre and Post Migration comparison and account servicing scenarios post Migration.
Manage the defect process for the program, ensuring the process is followed and correct priorities and severities are assigned, test execution and defect logging, and status reporting and test metrics skills

PROJECT 5, Life Science, Test Associate and Test Engineer,

This project aims to upgrade all the client and partner facing applications with new gen technologies. As part of the application, four critical applications are being migrated to provide end users with an enhanced user experience

Monitoring and tracking of daily progress against the plan and ensure all deliverables are completed within the estimated time., Preparing detailed Test Plan, Test Strategy, Risk Assessment Plan, Master Validation Plan and IQ, OQ and PQ designs.
It's a cloud-based storage solution, and I performed black box testing and integration testing at the client site

Performed process of compiling verification of all system functions and the performance of those functions to system specifications, as well as data integrity and system maintenance.
We ensure to check the compliance of the product by testing 21 CFR Part 11 that governs any cGXP process, including Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs), and Good Clinical Practices (GCPs). Facilitate regular defect triages between development, test, and business teams, and ensure all defects are prioritized based on their criticality. Preparing test closure documents and sharing the same with all stakeholders

PROJECT 6: Health Care, Test Engineer,

The application is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry, we perform compatibility testing, to ensure compatibility of the system/application/website built with various other objects such as other web browsers, hardware platforms and in devices also., Understanding requirements, design specifications to perform compatibility testing across various devices and in various browsers and to Perform cross browser testing., Participation in the status review meetings with project leader/manager/onsite.
Carrying out system integration and web service testing, prepare, review, and organize proper KT documents to ensure knowledge sharing on all the legacy and new integration systems is provided to the team

Preparing Test Execution and other QA reports., Logging the defects & tracking in the ALM.

Timeline

Senior Test Engineer

One Advanced
10.2022 - Current

Test Engineer

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 10.2022

QA Lead

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 10.2022

Test Associate

Indium Software Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 10.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - ECE

Jaya Engineering College
Santhosh Babu G