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Sebastian Stanley Raj R

Test Lead
Chennai,TN

Summary

  • 11+ years of experience in quality engineering and assurance, engineering complex test automation framework design, implementing industry best practices.
  • 9+ years of test automation experience developing automation framework for large enterprise applications(Desktop, Web and Mobile)
  • Led a team of 15 QA Analysts and QA Automation Engineers, ensuring best practice execution and light-weight governance within the QA Practice.
  • Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Delivery Lead and BA Leads to champion excellence in QA and delivery
  • Created goal-driven and proactive estimations and plans for functional and automation testing
  • Exceptional knowledge in Agile Development environment.
  • Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills.

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Test Automation Engineer III

PDI Software
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2020 - Current
  • Responsible for QA Team Chennai and Hyderabad
  • Maintained the old automation suite design in Test Complete and also newly designed & built test harnesses for Automation Testing using Selenium Java and Appium
  • Solely developed Test Automation Roadmap, created schedule, resources and cost plans
  • Performed test scenario and automation code reviews of team members
  • Participated in project meetings to understand functional and non-functional requirements and create test strategy
  • Complete ownership of tool analysis, proof of concepts, and tool selection decisions
  • Collected and analyzed test metrics to apply appropriate corrective actions
  • Participated in testing deployment prep and production rolls
  • Determined the automation testing strategies and guided the work of less experienced team members
  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
03.2015 - 06.2020

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Automation Test Lead – Chennai | Dec 2019 to June 2020

· Responsible for Functional and Automation Team

· Handled 15 testers, negotiate scope, develop estimates, plans, monitoring metrics, and provide daily guidance to the team and the client. Provide daily metrics to the project leadership

· Designed & built test harnesses for Automation Testing using Selenium

· Designed & executed Regression Test Pack using Automation test

· Designed and Developed the Automated solution for Sanity Testing for various repeatable tests

· Assisted with test plan articulation, planning, and management of individual testing events

· Test Environment set-up/management, monitoring and streamline release management to QA Environments

· Participated in multiple meetings with IT owners, business owners and product or team members

· To describe existing automation architecture, participate in design and architecture meetings

· Participated in testing deployment prep and production rolls

· Determined the automation testing strategies and guided the work of less experienced team members

· Vast knowledge of automation testing techniques to cover all possible corner cases for automation testing, verification and validation techniques

Lloyds Banking Group, UK

Onsite Automation Lead (London, UK) | June 2019 to Oct 2019

· Served as a Automation Lead for the Digital Mobile Team and took full ownership on mobile (iOS and Android)

· Responsible for coordinating with business team to understand requirements and share knowledge with other associates located in different locations

· Responsible for analyzing requirement to define test strategy and test scope

· Responsible for estimation of the project from UAT side and align required associates accordingly

· Creating test strategy and test plan documents and getting these documents signed off by relevant stakeholders

· Working closely with Project team and implementation for Smooth delivery of projects through regular business releases

· Coordinating with UAT team members located in different locations to track and control the progress of projects for smoother delivery and work on the mitigation of the issue faced

· Reviewing the End of test report for the projects and ensuring the test completion and risk assessment before go-live

· Responsible to support and streamline the go live implementation from UAT prospective

· Helping business team to articulate defects found during UAT testing and provide recommendation from UAT side.

Royal Bank of Scotland, UK

Automation Lead | May 2018 to May 2019

· Been part of the project from the Scratch or Pilot phase of transition

· Designed and Developed Automation test scripts using Selenium

· Monitor Failed Automation test scripts and stabilizing the test scripts

· Own the maintenance and extension of an entire automation development test suites and framework and serve as a Automation lead within RBS Operations and test team

· Key person for driving operational services such as Problem Management and Change Management for improving the automation stability and functionality

· Updating/Adding Automation Framework functions, libraries when needed for developing automation scripts logged and labeled with Automation finding bugs using JIRA Dashboard and monitor their resolution

Trizetto (A Cognizant company)

Sr. Product Testing Specialist | March 2015 to April 2018

· Lead the QA Team and guided others in creating Automation scripts using BDD methodology

· Develop automation test strategy and approach

· Coordinating QA activities with Onshore team

· Handled sprint calls for QA,

· Triaging the Defects

· Test coverage and status reporting

· Test Summary reports for final QA sign off

Test Analyst

Dun & Bradstreet
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2014 - 02.2015

· Develop, maintain and execute automated test scripts using Selenium with Java

· Experience in developing Selenium automation from scratch

· Requirement Analysis & Test Case design

· Performed Documentation Testing and API Testing

· Defect Review /Disposition for every Release

· Responsible for creating, maintaining and updating all test cases

· Creates dashboard reports and updates with automation test cases, test results

· Maintains and executes smoke and regression scripts by adding new features and updating/fixing existing features due to requirements/environmental changes

· Automation planning and coordination

· Automation Traceability Report management

· Participate in the user stories review meeting, project sync up meeting and other meetings as required

· Provided automation demo to client and stakeholders

Senior Test Engineer

Openwave Computing Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2013 - 04.2014

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· Responsible for creating and enhancing Test scripts to test functionality using QTP

· Developed Descriptive Programming using VB Script and Maintained Local and Global Object Repository in QTP

· Involved in Smoke testing, System testing, Regression testing, Retesting, Database Testing, Browser Compatibility

· Testing and Device Compatibility Testing

· Preparation of Test Status Report, Analysis of Test Result and Prepare Test Metrics

· Designed Functions Library, Functions, Subroutine's, Common functions, Utilities functions, and Regular Expressions using QTP in VB scripts

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
01.2010 - 10.2013

Van Lanschot Bankiers

Senior Software Engineer | Oct 2010- Oct 2013

· Regression testing after fixing bugs and verified that the fixes didn’t create problems elsewhere and used QTP for the same

· Identified and Developed Test Case Design from complex Business rules defined in Use case document

· Used Clear Quest for Defect Tracking

· Generated and Tracked Traceability Matrix for Requirements, Test cases and test execution for Requirements coverage

Nokia Siemens Networks

Software Engineer | Jan 2010 - Oct 2010 | Contractor: Pyramid Consulting

· Converted Functional requirements into detailed scenarios and test cases

· Enhanced QTP script using recovery scenarios for error handling

Used descriptive programming to code the operation of objects that appear in dynamic data frames, Incident and Service Request Management using IBM Maximo and Expert Desk Tool

Developer

Satyam Computers Private Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
11.2007 - 02.2009
  • Maintain and update Lotus Notes databases inclusive of functionality and testing verification
  • Created several utilities to address issues in existing Lotus Notes database when Lotus Notes Client software was upgraded to Release 8.5
  • Develop test data and execute tests to determine and resolve errors
  • Identified bugs and monitored defect tracking systems
  • Supported senior functional tester in developing formal acceptance functional test procedures to meet customer requirements
  • Translate in-depth design into Lotus Notes on basis of solutions

Education

MBA - Systems Management

University of Madras (Distance Education)
Chennai
01.2008 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Loyola College
Chennai
06.2004 - 04.2007

Skills

    Test Automation

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Software

Selenium

Appium

Test Complete

UFT

Jira

Xamarin

ALM

AGM

SoapUI

ADO

Jenkins

Git

TFS

Timeline

Test Automation Engineer III

PDI Software
09.2020 - Current

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2015 - 06.2020

Test Analyst

Dun & Bradstreet
05.2014 - 02.2015

Senior Test Engineer

Openwave Computing Services Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 04.2014

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
01.2010 - 10.2013

MBA - Systems Management

University of Madras (Distance Education)
01.2008 - 12.2009

Developer

Satyam Computers Private Ltd
11.2007 - 02.2009

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Loyola College
06.2004 - 04.2007
Sebastian Stanley Raj RTest Lead