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Saritha Nair
Manager, Software QA
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly skilled and experienced Software QA Professional with 13+ years of experience in developing and implementing quality assurance strategies, methodologies, and processes. Demonstrated expertise in managing and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high quality software products with timelines and budgets. Adept at identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks, developing test plans, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Proven ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, build strong relationships, and drive continuous improvement. Proficient in using various testing tools, including automated testing, to optimize QA processes and ensure product quality.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Mgr., Software QA
IQVIA
Bangalore
05.2022 - Current
- Project: - Multiple projects in Clinical Operations:
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Drives testing efforts of a team of 12 Software QAs spread across 3 projects, collaborates with other teams to implement mature test integration strategies
- Prepares test documents such as Risk based Test plans, Validation Reports with traceability matrix & execution summary reports for GxP compliant products; reviews User guide, Design documents and approves Implementation plans for production deployments
- Drives defect triage meetings for all projects, co-ordinates with performance and security testing teams to get the NFRs validated for each release
- Works closely with Product owners for requirement gathering, data analysts to identify date related test scenarios, development team for timely deliveries and CloudOps team for deployment
- Works with multiple teams for various integration testing, participates in Scrum of Scrums to identify challenges/dependencies and ensures any risks to the planned releases are identified and mitigated
- Participates in project resource allocation, budgeting, and vendor management
- Drives various test initiatives like Bugathons and Agile process improvements across teams
- Reports results and project metrics to the senior leadership team
Technical Lead/Technical Manager
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd
Bangalore
02.2022 - 05.2022
- Zee5 application (PWA):
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ownership of delivering Zee5 OTT web application as per scope of each sprint
- Leading a team of more than 10 people (functional & automation) and managing the work between functional verification and automation tasks
- Devising Automation roadmap for the project as well as subsequent planning & resource allocation
- Collaborating with different scrum pods and multiple teams to assess impact areas.
QA Lead/Engineer Software Test III
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Bangalore
11.2017 - 02.2022
- HID One application (On-premises):
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ownership of verification of all modules as per scope and schedule with high quality
- Devised testing strategies and leads QA team in terms of manual and automation testing activities
- Designed and developed POM based TestNG framework using Java & Selenium
- Contributed to deployment of automation jobs using Jenkins CI tool
- Project 2: - Gene editing application (Cloud app):
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Single QA for automation responsible for validating results outcome from REST assured API with output produced by algorithm developed independently
- Designed and developed API automation framework from scratch using TestNG and REST assured
- Reduced time needed for end-to-end manual validation which took more than a week to complete for multiple datasets to 2 hours
- Integrated automation framework with Jenkins CI pipeline.
QA Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2016 - 10.2017
- Project: - Cross border Connect (Web Application):
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Individual contributor for end-to-end verification and defect management of the application
- Developed Page Object Model automation framework using Node.js and Protractor
- Developed API automation suite using FitNesse tool
- Devised testing strategy and design involving selection of tools for UI and Service automation.
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Bangalore
09.2010 - 03.2016
- Project: - ISDevWhitebox, Apple Inc
- IOS Applications):
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Led Sanity, System, Integration and Regression testing
- UI automation of regression test cases of iOS apps using Appium for Cucumber framework.
Education
B Tech - Civil Engineering
College of Engineering, CET
10.2006 - 03.2010
XII -
Holy Angels' ISC School
06.2005 - 03.2006
Skills
Leadership skills and Mentoring
undefinedAdditional Information
- Awards & Certifications , Received Bronze Award of IQVIA Impact Program for commitment/leadership for successful deliverables. Received Spot Awards multiple times for remarkable contributions towards automation in various projects (Thermofisher Scientific). Winner of Best Marketeer Award for the idea presented in LEAP 2020 Hackathon held globally (Thermofisher Scientific). Arete of the month award from client and senior management for timely completion of the project ahead of the stipulated timeline for multiple releases (Infosys) ISTQB foundation Level certified
Certification
ISTQB
Interests
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Quote
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison
Timeline
Mgr., Software QA
IQVIA
05.2022 - Current
Technical Lead/Technical Manager
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd
02.2022 - 05.2022
QA Lead/Engineer Software Test III
Thermo Fisher Scientific
11.2017 - 02.2022
QA Analyst
JP Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
09.2010 - 03.2016
B Tech - Civil Engineering
College of Engineering, CET
10.2006 - 03.2010
XII -
Holy Angels' ISC School
06.2005 - 03.2006
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