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Shashikala N

Associate Test Manager
Mysore
Shashikala N

Summary

Seeking career enrichment opportunities in the field of Information Technology as Test lead or Test architect with a growth-oriented IT based organization and a challenging position in the field of Verification and Validation.

Overall 12.5 years of experience in testing primarily on manual and handling the automation testing team in health care and retail domain. Certified Scrum Master. Safe Agile Certified. ISTQB Certified Tester for Foundation Level. SAP testing in Retail domain. Medical Device Testing. AHM 250 Certified( Health care Domain certification). Associate test manager and leading SAP testing team for Retail domain. Experiences in the SIT, UAT, SVT, DB testing, Security testing feature(user restrictions). Experienced in Black Box testing methodologies. Experience in developing Test Scenarios, Test cases, Use Cases, Test scripts and traceability matrix. Working knowledge on the Citrix Server. Possess excellent communication skills along with verbal and written skills. Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment. Handled the small team in the CT as Lead and SME. Experience in agile methodology. Experience in Mainframe testing. Exerience in Leading of SAP Testing team across the Europe team. I had been onsite for short term(Israel) from philips.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
2
Certifications

Work History

Accenture

Associate test manager
12.2022

Job overview

  • Co-ordinating with 6 functional streams and providing the approach and defining testing process for the Functional, SIT and UAT testing.

L & T technology services

Tech lead
01.2021

Philips

Software technologists -1
05.2015 - 12.2020

UST Global Pvt Ltd

Test Engineer
11.2013 - 05.2015

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Associate System Engineer
07.2011 - 10.2013

Education

SJCE Mysore, Visveswaraya Technological University, Belgaum

B.E in Computer Science

Skills

Health Care domain over 10 years of experience

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Nanjunda
  • Date of Birth: 10/28/1989

Projects

Retails Project, Accenture services pvt ltd, Aldi Nord, Dec 2021 to Till, Jira, Confluence, 50 (Direct reporting to me 7 members), Retail application development and testing with SAP S4/HANA, Leading Test team and mentoring of 7 members team and coordinating with around 6 functional streams of around 50+ resources. Coordinating with clients and understanding their requirements. Coordinating with Development of different streams. Expertise in Test Management which includes Test Planning, Resource management, Testing tool analysis and co-ordination with multiple agile teams on testing activities. Working on the defect management and presenting the status report of both defects and executions to the client. In the defect management, using Jira tool to monitor the defects, taking care of assignments, retest, working towards closure of the defects. Working with 6 development streams for the defects. Co-ordination for the Test data with stake holders in the project and supporting senior management/leadership for various central level management tasks. Publishing weekly status report with all the stake holders. Experience in presenting the overall live status in the Jira Tool and confluence for all the Scrum teams for the functional testing, cross functional testing, SIT and UAT. Worked on Test closure report or Closure memo.

Cell counter and Drager Ventilator devices, L and T technology services, Fukuda Denshi, IVD device, Drager, Jan 2021 to December 2021, Jira, TFS, Scrum team size is 8, Design & Development of Cell Counter product (Three-part Hematology Analyzer) used for counting RBC/WBC/Platelet cells as well as HGB in each sample of blood., Leading Test team and mentoring. Coordinating with clients and understanding their requirements. Coordinating with Development, mechanical and hardware team. Preparing Verification plan, Test protocol and Status report. Maintained traceability matrix. Assigning task to team and also involving in writing Test Cases. Involving in test cases executions and defect management. Reported and tracked the bugs using Quality Center. Identify the common tasks across all test cases and implemented the same as modules for reusability purpose. Involving in review meetings. Involving Sanity Testing. Preparing Verification report and releasing of the document. Involved in internal and external audits ISO 13485. Test execution, Defect report and summary report delivery.

CT Host verification, Philips India Ltd, Philips Innovation Campus, May 2015 to till date, ALM, IBM Doors, Agile tool, TFS, Scrum team size is 7, The CT/NM group at PIC Bangalore forms an integral part of Global CT/NM R&D organization. Since the re-organization from a functional structure to a sub-system structure in 2010, the team @ PIC has complete responsibility for 2 product sub-systems: STPS [Service Tools & Platforms and Security] and S&A [Simulators & Automation]. We also work collaboratively with our counterparts in Cleveland and Haifa around deliverables for Console & SW Applications Sub-System and Global Systems which comprises Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, Systems Verification and Systems Analysis & Peripherals. Additionally we have team members who are functionally part of Engineering Quality and Process & Best Practices Group in R&D and DHF Audit team in Q&R. Working in 3 operational programs: Iqon, Bigbore and iCT scanners., Test cases design and maintenance of Console system and STPS tools. Worked on the connectivity of HIS/RIS, PACS. Co-ordinated with developers to get more information technically. Involving in the Requirement review, peer review, post execution reviews and pre execution review. Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing for Various Modules. Review of Technical artifacts i.e., SRS document and SDD document. Test execution, Defect report and summary report delivery. Reported and tracked the bugs using Quality Center. Maintained traceability matrix.

Lifecycle Oracle Argus 7.0.3, UST Global Pvt Ltd, Quintiles Technologies India Pvt Ltd., Nov 2013 to May 2015, ALM, SQL Developer, Top Team, 16, Oracle Argus offers an integrated, highly scalable end-to-end safety platform. It models virtually any business process, supporting case management. It provides comprehensive visibility into reporting metrics and compliance. It supports worldwide operations with single global database including Japan. It Leverages a common code base and regular release schedule. It makes faster, better safety decisions with scientific querying and analytics. It improves quality and efficiency through safety integration and automation. It enhance compliance with E2B exchange and periodic reporting. It conducts global case processing that scales easily to millions of cases. It speeds case review through integration with Oracle Health Sciences InForm. Data migration testing validating the migrated cases and workflow of Argus safety application in backend and frontend. Report validation. OBIEE report generation and validation. OBIEE security testing., Test cases design and maintenance of various modules. Involving in the Requirement review, Peer review, Post execution reviews and pre execution review. Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing for Various Modules. Review of Technical artifacts i.e., RD and FSD documents. Test execution, Defect report and summary report delivery. Reported and tracked the bugs using Quality Center. Maintained traceability matrix. WGS – Capitation, IBM India Pvt Ltd, WellPoint, USA, Jan 2013 to 30th Oct 2013, Capitation is a system developed completely using mainframe technology and its function is to compute the Monthly Capitation amount to the Capitated Providers. It has all the data stored in DB2 system which will used during CAP amount computation. Testing includes both Online and Batch Validation. The Business Application is subdivided in to modules like Membership, Claims. Data is being maintained by both Online & batch Jobs. I am involved in handling the complete system testing of Capitation system. Capitation system deals with the below interfaces. Membership system, Provider system, Contract Profile, Cap online Screen Entry., Test cases design and maintenance of various modules. Involving in the Requirement review, Peer review, Post execution reviews and pre execution review. Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing for Various Modules. Review of Technical artifacts i.e., SRS document and SDD document. Test execution, Defect report and summary report delivery. Reported and tracked the bugs using Quality Center. Maintained traceability matrix. WGS – Products, IBM India Pvt Ltd, WellPoint, USA, Sept 2012 to Jan 2013, Involves UI testing, where in all the contracts and benefits are created and sent to Downstream for keying claims and further validation, Test cases design and maintenance of various modules. Involving in the Requirement review, Peer review, Post execution reviews and pre execution review. Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing for Various Modules. Review of Technical artifacts i.e., RD and FSD documents. Test execution, Defect report and summary report delivery. Reported and tracked the bugs using Quality Center. Maintained traceability matrix.

WGS Claim Processing ICD10, IBM India Pvt Ltd, WellPoint, USA, Oct 2011 to Aug 2012, The department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a regulation on August 15, 2008 notifying the industry that it will replace the ICD-9CM code sets with the ICD-10 code sets effective 12:00am October 1, 2013 for real-time claim adjudication. WellPoint faces considerable impacts across business processes including claims, pricing, training, service, medical policy, provider contracting and relations, trading partners, medical management, vendors, subsidiaries and actuarial to name a few. In addition, IT has over 85 critical applications impacted. This includes all core systems not scheduled for sun setting before October 1, 2013 but also many other key systems as well such as data repositories, reporting systems and workflow routines., Understanding Business Requirements. Getting clarification from stake holder. Leading team and mentoring the team. Preparing Test plan and protocol. Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Business Requirements. Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs. Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Design Components, Test Cases and Defects. Test Data Preparation, Test execution and Defect reporting. Documentation and Management of Test Deliverables for each Project Release. Preparing verification report. Involve in internal and external audits.

Testing Skills

  • Safe Agile methodology
  • Test management of SAP testing teams with different streams
  • Drager Ventilator UI testing
  • Health care CT domain and worked on the console module
  • Healthcare Insurance Domain - Claims Processing, Capitation System and WGS Products.
  • Exposure to software development methodologies such as waterfall and Agile Methodology
  • Strong skills in performing System, Integration, Regression, Front End and Back End Testing.
  • Expertise in handling Test Management Tools like Jira Xray, Confluence, HP ALM, IBM Rational Quality Manager, Top Team, Requisite Pro, IBM Doors, Agile tool for version control, TFS
  • Expertise in Defect Tracking Tools like IBM Rational Clear Quest, ALM, Jira Xray
  • Expertise in Health care Product Domain (Life science Domain ) – Web Application testing - Oracle Argus Application, Oracle Developer, OBIEE Application

Disclaimer

I here by declare that all the above furnished details are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Certification

Scrum master

Timeline

Associate test manager

Accenture
12.2022

Scrum master

04-2022

Tech lead

L & T technology services
01.2021

Software technologists -1

Philips
05.2015 - 12.2020

Test Engineer

UST Global Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 05.2015

ISTQB foundation

10-2013

Associate System Engineer

IBM India Pvt Ltd
07.2011 - 10.2013

SJCE Mysore, Visveswaraya Technological University, Belgaum

B.E in Computer Science
Shashikala NAssociate Test Manager