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Shruti Gunasekar

Bangalore

Summary

Proactive and versatile professional with a dedication to quickly adapting to new challenges. Strong problem-solving abilities and a proven track record of fostering strong relationships with clients and team members. Focused on supporting team success and achieving positive results.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Delivery Professional

British Telecom
BANGALORE
04.2024 - Current

  • Project Management & Agile Delivery: Led project planning, task tracking, and sprint management using JIRA, ensuring timely delivery of all technical deliverables.
    Facilitated documentation of project milestones, decisions, and architecture in Confluence for cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  • Team Collaboration & Communication: Coordinated cross-functional teams through Slack for seamless communication across development, QA, and operations.
    Fostered transparency and effective teamwork by maintaining up-to-date project documentation in Confluence.
  • Version Control & CI/CD Pipeline Management: Managed source control and code reviews via GitLab, ensuring adherence to best practices in branching, merging, and pull requests.
    Orchestrated automated CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, enabling continuous integration, testing, and deployment.
  • Secrets Management & Security: Administered secure management of secrets, tokens, and environment variables using HashiCorp Vault to ensure compliance with security best practices.
  • Artifact & Dependency Management: Supervised build artifact storage in Nexus Repository, ensuring consistent and reliable access to versioned dependencies.
    Conducted vulnerability scanning and license compliance checks using Nexus IQ, maintaining security and legal compliance across open-source dependencies.
  • Process Improvement & Automation: Continuously optimized project workflows by integrating automation in deployment processes and leveraging tools like JIRA, GitLab, and Vault for efficiency improvements.
  • Risk Management & Reporting: Monitored project risks, managed blockers, and ensured on-time delivery by generating and analyzing metrics and reports from JIRA, GitLab, and Nexus IQ.
  • Driving the project by expediting the architectural, security approval befor ethe intitiation og any migration

Quality Assurance Specialist

Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd
09.2018 - Current
  • Quality Assurance Specialist working on functional testing of multiple projects for the fuel and gas industry for almost 4.5 years
  • Functional Tester, worked for Financial Services (Banking and Payments Industry) with experience in Mainframe testing and Automation scripting and execution for almost 4.5 years
  • Worked on end-to-end testing of the SITE SYSTEM Replacements markets (Retail Outlets) for Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Bulgaria
  • Piloted close to 360 sites in a single release single-handedly
  • The SITE SYSTEM markets included working on POS machines, Internal and External Payment terminals
  • As a part of testing there were HHD (Hand Held Devices) used as well
  • Testing included individual component testing and API Testing
  • The individual component testing consisted of encrypting and decrypting data coming in and exiting each component
  • Usage of Azure DevOps for defect logging and PBI tracking during the Sprints
  • Functional Testing of the application E2E
  • Testing included UI and Integration testing
  • Collaboration with close to 5 teams for the testing carried
  • SME of 3 major functionalities in the application
  • As a part of API testing there was Postman used to run queries for verification

Accenture
  • Projects related to Credit card and Debit card applications in Mainframe environment
  • Handling Merchant Acquiring (Merchant creation, Merchant fees, Merchant side acquiring transactions and screens, statements and reports validation side applications solely, its projects, regression testing
  • Cardholder side issuing applications (Cardholder creation, Cardholder Embossing, Cardholder side issuing transactions, cardholder screens, statements and reports validation)
  • Trained in SELENIUM tool used in automation testing
  • Experience in Regression Testing and expertise in the Automation tool- Rational Functional Tester Execution using RFT, Tracking defects in scripts/application and resolution
  • Test requirement analysis, Test Estimation reports and also uploading Test Scripts, Test Plans and Test /Execution records Results on Rational Quality Manager
  • Dealt with the development and production support of the banking applications in Mainframes environment (Mainly dealing with COBOL and JCL)
  • Experienced in System Integration testing and Automation based Regression testing
  • Well exposed to STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)
  • Solely responsible for Manual Testing of projects (Requirement Analysis, Preparing Test Approach for the business project requirements, Effort- Estimation, Test Planning, Test Scenarios Identification, Test Case Design, Test Case execution and Defect Reporting)
  • Documenting, tracking, and communicating software bugs - Defect reporting and management thus ensuring quality delivery of artifacts
  • Also involved in performing Root Cause Analysis of the defects
  • Direct Interaction with the clients for resolving issues and requirement analysis and understanding

Project Management

  • RESOURCE ENABLEMENT - Coordinating for background check of resources
  • Conducting roll on and roll off
  • ADMIN MANAGEMENT - Capacity Planning, bay enablement, asset management and project communications
  • TOOLS - Configuring reports in Service Management Suite, Clarity and Report Builder
  • Addition of projects, tasks and resources in MSPS and Service Management Suite

Professional Achievements

  • Several regular appreciations from the leadership for timely delivery and no defects leakage
  • Was awarded the CATALYST award twice by the Client in Accenture
  • Appreciations from Accenture IDC Leads for the effort towards delivering high performance
  • Constant appreciation from the Client with respect to the task and timely delivery

Education

Bachelor Of Engineering (BE) - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

The Oxford College Of Engineering

Skills

  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Azure DevOps
  • Postman
  • IBM Rational Functional Tester
  • Service Management Suite (HP)

Certification

  • ISTQB certification
  • Certified in Spark using SCALA
  • Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy (ASDA) certified Tester.

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil
  • Kannada
  • Hindi

Accomplishments

  • Regular appreciations from leadership for timely delivery across organizations.
  • Awarded the CATALYST award twice by the client in Accenture.
  • Appreciations from Leads for high performance.

Specialachievements

  • Won medals at The National Athletic Meet for 5 consecutive years.
  • Broke the National record for TRIPLE JUMP event.
  • Won the BEST SPEAKER award in THE NATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT competition.
  • Participated in many State level SCIENCE OLYMPIAD and SPELLING BEE.
  • Won an inter school painting competition.

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Mr. B Gunasekar
  • Mother's Name: Mrs. Gomathy G
  • Husband's Name: Mr. R Arvind
  • Date of Birth: 07/15/90

Timeline

Technical Delivery Professional

British Telecom
04.2024 - Current

Quality Assurance Specialist

Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd
09.2018 - Current

Accenture

Project Management

Professional Achievements

Bachelor Of Engineering (BE) - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

The Oxford College Of Engineering

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