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Shyam N

Software QA Architect

Summary

Close to 9 years of experience in Software testing Good exposure in web application testing Experience in Smoke, Retesting, Functionality and Regression testing.

Experience in testing mobile applications and API testing

Experience in Test automation Configured continuous integration tool (Jenkins) to trigger batch execution and generate email reports

Integrated ANT for Selenium Automation framework Having good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) & Automation Testing Life Cycle (ATLC) Experience in Backend Testing Using SQL Queries

Proficient in identifying Test Scenarios while preparing detailed Test Cases Experience in functional requirement analysis, test case writing, and test execution Involvement in Test Plan and Traceability Matrix in different projects

Experience in working with Agile methodology

Experience in functional requirement analysis, test case writing, and test execution

Proficiency in identifying Test Scenarios while preparing detailed Test Cases

Managing end to end QA activities for multiple projects

Experience in training and mentoring new recruits on application and testing tools

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

QA Architect/Customer Support Manager

Yelhow
Paris(Remote)
02.2022 - Current
  • Heading the testing department and act as a single point of contact for the management for QA activities.
  • Lay down the entire testing framework and strategy for testing.
  • Leading the creation of the test artifacts and reviewing them for optimal coverage.
  • Optimize the sprint delivery as the scrum master.
  • Having discussions with the clients to get feedback from them to include the features they require and also to strategize on how to enhance the product
  • Feedback discussions with the client to evaluate the deployed features and also conduct UAT.
  • Ensure customer issues are addressed and a maintain a system to ensure they get acknowledged as soon as possible.
  • Employed comprehensive benchmarks to establish and monitor customer service standards.
  • Elevated customer satisfaction and loyalty by taking ownership of customer issues and following through to resolution.

Senior Consultant

Deloitte
Banglore
01.2021 - 02.2022
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Lead multiple teams with a goal oriented approach.
  • Evaluate the test coverage and perform reviews of the test artifacts
  • Liaison with Onsite counterparts to enure streamlined delivery process
  • Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
  • Streamlined processes to cut downtime and optimize employee productivity.
  • Exceeded customer requirements with accurate and deliverable solutions.
  • Adopted a new tool to automate regression testing due to the licensing utilization of the client - Ranorex
  • Perform appraisals of the team members and provide feedback.

Lead Engineer

QBurst
Trivandrum
12.2017 - 01.2021

Roles and Responsibility:

  • Test the complete functional flow of the web application
  • Design and develop automated regression test suites to cover all the important user flows for multiple clients using NetSCORE - conference cast platform
  • Defect reporting in Jira, maintenance of the regression suites to enhance test coverage as per the new features included for clients
  • Setup nightly jobs in Jenkins that would run and send detailed reports to all the stakeholders
  • Coordinating with another service provider and ensuring maximum test coverage
  • Weekly stand-up meetings, scrum calls and status reports to client
  • Tools Used: Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, TestNG, ANT, RestAssured, Postman

Test Engineer

Infosys
Trivandrum
06.2014 - 12.2017

Project 1:

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Engaged in the functional study of the application, requirement gathering, test planning, test execution and defect logging
  • Involved in test data preparation for the entire test process which required coordination with the client and third party companies frequently
  • Designing, reviewing & executing test cases; developing test scenarios from functional specifications
  • Automating the test cases added to the regression suite to reduce manual effort and also to develop scripts to create test data
  • Participating in regular project status meetings related to testing
  • Tools Used: HP ALM, Selenium WebDriver, RFHutil, MQ Visual Edit


Project 2:

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Test the web application and its interactions with the driver's android app
  • Designing, reviewing & executing test cases; developing test scenarios from functional specifications
  • Creating the regression suite after analysing the critical business flows across modules
  • Automating the test cases in the regression suite
  • Daily stand-up meetings, scrum calls and status reports to client Tools Used: JIRA, POSTMAN, SoapUI, UFT

Education

B-tech - Computer Science And Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering
04.2010 - 05.2014

Skills

Java, SQL,

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Timeline

QA Architect/Customer Support Manager

Yelhow
02.2022 - Current

Senior Consultant

Deloitte
01.2021 - 02.2022

Lead Engineer

QBurst
12.2017 - 01.2021

Test Engineer

Infosys
06.2014 - 12.2017

B-tech - Computer Science And Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering
04.2010 - 05.2014
Shyam NSoftware QA Architect