Sathya Mohan
Pune
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with 13.5 years of experience in manual and automation maintenance testing, focusing on insurance and retirement products across various web applications. Proven ability to develop effective test strategies and ensure defect-free project deployments. Expertise in agile methodologies, leading cross-functional teams to meet project objectives efficiently. Dedicated to enhancing team performance through targeted training and continuous improvement initiatives.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Testing Specialist, SM, PO
TIAA Global Capabilities
06.2017 - Current
- Preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Test Scope, Test Cases and Test execution for the JIRAS of the particular release
- Features walkthrough, running scrum calls and working on creating stories, story pointing the features
- Debugging, enhancing the Test Cases in accordance to the changes in functionality
- Involved in smoke testing, integration testing and regression testing for every release.
- Creating template for WSR, DSR and test strategies
- Working on DSR and WSR documents for projects working on and sharing with the management.
- Pulling test case in ALM and generating the execution report
- Working on Prod issues been observed, RCS and strategies to mitigate the issue.
- Logging defects and tracking defects in ALM, sending defect status report and running defect triage calls with business and team
- Prioritize the tasks to be delivered for the day and coordinating with the team on the same
- Learning new technologies and helping team to implement the same in order to achieve targets in an effective way
- Being Certified Scrum Master helping team on understanding the agile process, practices, rules and values, creating stories for each iteration, capacity panning, creating pointers for stories, creating test acceptance. Running stand up calls during offshore time and collating everyday status.
- Being the SME of Omni, helping team on mining data as scenario specific and giving sessions on how to mine data /data setup in Omni
- Being SME in OIPA helping team on understanding the process involved in policy creation and the process based on the annuity type
- Have created the OIPA test suite through automation from scratch being the single repository to run smoke tests. This was later used by the other scrum teams and has guided teams on the same.
- Being part of End to End testing team which delivers to production, have shared the knowledge with team about the applications being integrated and how to validate the downstream applications.
- Providing demo/presentation to the QA COE team, business teams regarding the projects being worked upon
- On boarding new team members and planning KT sessions to be delivered
Test Specialist
Mindtree Ltd
12.2015 - 03.2017
- Preparing Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Test Scope, Test Cases and Test execution for the JIRAS of the particular release
- Debugging, enhancing the Test Cases in accordance to the changes in functionality
- Involved in smoke testing, integration testing and regression testing for every release.
- Working on DSR and WSR documents for projects working on and sending to the onsite counterparts.
- Working on the big releases of Web Services testing using SOAP UI tool.
Associate – Quality Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2015 - 11.2015
- Freezing out the requirements from the base-lined client’s document and writing down the Use Cases
- Involving in Planning phase to prepare Master Test Plan and Detailed Test Plan for the project
- Working in Estimation phase, Resource allocation for different projects within the team
- Handled project on attending client status calls, test plan walkthrough and team meetings.
- Responsible for Executing test cases, documenting results and defect testing and fault finding finished systems in accordance with company procedures.
- Reporting to the Test Manager with any Criticality blocking issues or potential prioritizing conflicts scuttling delivery.
- Identifying regression test cases and working with the automation team to automate the cases
Functional Tester, Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2012 - 06.2015
- Involving in test case design and execution phases
- Test Execution & validating scenarios that manifests Integration functionalities
- Bug reporting using QC
- Participated in test design analysis of all the projects and involved in piloting ADPART, a Cognizant developed tool for test design and presented the results to the client successfully.
- Freezing out the requirements from the base-lined client’s document and writing down the Use Cases
- Handled project on attending client status calls, test plan walkthrough and team meetings.
Education
M. B. A - International Business
Loyola College – Pondicherry University Twinning Program
Chennai01-2016
B. E - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Sakthi Mariamman Engineering College
Chennai01-2010
Skills
- Quality assurance and testing
- Test planning and strategy
- Defect management
- Agile methodology
- Requirements analysis
- Team collaboration
- Stakeholder communication
- Manual and automated testing
- Test case development
- Presentation and mentoring
- Problem solving
- Test documentation
- Scrum facilitation
- Certified Scrum Master
- User story creation
Certification
- ISTQB Foundation Level
- Cognizant certified professional in Software testing
- Cognizant certified professional in Banking & Financial Services – Level 0
- Cognizant certified professional in OMNI for Learners
- External Certification in ISTQB
- External Certification in NCFM (Financial Markets)
- CSM – Certified Scrum Master
Technology Competencies
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- JIRA
- JIRA Align
- SAFE Agile
- Manual Testing
- Web Services Testing
- Postman
- Product Testing
- Functional Testing
- OMNI
- OIPA
- Selenium
- Java
Projects
IA – Immediate Annuity System Replatform, TIAA GC, Retirement Services, 06/2017 - Current, SAFE Agile, Senior Testing Specialist, SM, PO, Windows 10, Remote Machines, Web-based, Functional, System Integration, Automation, Omni, OIPA, SOAP UI, Oracle SQL server, ALM, JIRA, POSTMAN Aaspire System Integration, Mindtree Ltd, BFSI, LINK, 12/2015 - 03/2017, Waterfall, Test Specialist, Windows 7, Remote Machines, Web-based, Functional, System Integration, SOAP UI, Oracle SQL server, ALM, JIRA Omni Station Enhancements, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Insurance, VOYA Financial, 06/2015 - 11/2015, Waterfall, Associate – Quality Analyst, Windows XP, Remote Machines, Product based application, Functional, System Integration, OMNI Insurance application, HP Quick Test Professional, ALM, Putty, JQuery TIAA-CREF Banking Program, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Insurance, TIAA - CREF, 03/2012 - 06/2015, V-Model, Waterfall, Functional Tester, Programmer Analyst, Windows XP, Remote Machines, Product based application, OMNI Insurance application, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, ALM, SOAP UI
Timeline
Senior Testing Specialist, SM, PO
TIAA Global Capabilities
06.2017 - Current
Test Specialist
Mindtree Ltd
12.2015 - 03.2017
Associate – Quality Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2015 - 11.2015
Functional Tester, Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2012 - 06.2015
M. B. A - International Business
Loyola College – Pondicherry University Twinning Program
B. E - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Sakthi Mariamman Engineering College
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