Shyamala AL
QA LEAD
Chennai
Summary
QA Lead cum Scrum Master with over 10.4 years of testing/Scrum Master and Project Manager experience in IT industry, committed to deliver quality products and maintain a good customer relationship
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
QA Lead
Algonomy Software Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current
- Project Worked - 1: Vendor Link
- Domain: Retail
- Description: A product that helps in supplier and vendor engagement with multiple customizable features
- Responsibilities:
- As a QA lead for multiple customer projects, managing resources for multiple end customers of the product
- Testing in the applications involves – Web application testing, Mobile app testing
- Evaluating the scope and providing delivery timeline and customer communication
- Introduced and guided QA team to efficient and productive methods of testing according to the customer requirements and timeline
- Trained QA team for better use of exploratory testing concept to reduce cost and timeline and enhance faster and efficient delivery
- Co-ordinating between DEV/Platform and QA teams for organized patch movements
- Post the application Go-LIVE, also acting as the customer Delivery Manager for a customer project (CPLotus)
- As Delivery Manager, coordinating with the customer and business team for requirement gathering, pitching in new CR prospects
- Post requirement gathering, involving in effort estimation, cost estimation and delivery timeline
- Facilitating budget meetings, cost negotiation, provide alternate solution
- Efficiently helping customer get the best solution for any request put forth
- Additionally, acted a Scrum Master, to run the second phase of the project.
Test Consultant
Apexon, Technosoft Corporation
03.2019 - 10.2021
- IQVIA
- Project Worked - 1: Data migration (ACS, AHA registries)
- Domain: Healthcare
- Description: End to end migration of old system to new system for multipleregistries such as Bariatric, HeartFailure, Cancer, etc
- Responsibilities:
- Guided ETL testing team of 8 testers in, coaching the team to maintain best-in-class testing
- Issue debugging to find RCA and provide deeper level of inputs for any defects raised
- Scope identification, Mapping sheet understanding, Test cycle management,
- Test plan review, Test report preparation, Validation plan,Defect Management
- Test Strategy/MVP/MRVP document preparation
- Risk Assessment for all major and minor releases, Co-ordination between the team handling old and new system
- Big data testing, Source vs target query validation, Transformation rule implementation, data validation in multiple layers (Source to Hadoop,
- Hadoop to Target) with multiple layers within Hadoop (HIVE/Impala)
- JSON validation and validation of data in the Front-end application
- File delivery for multiple clients through customized configuration using common platform
- Identified and tracked defects with SynpaseRT and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests
Application Engineer analyst
Adecco India Pvt Ltd, India Pvt Ltd
07.2017 - 02.2019
- Project worked: SENTRI - Safety Event Notification for TRIals
- Domain: Life Science (Healthcare)
- Description: Event management tool used in Conduct phase of Clinical Development business process to handle large amount of data
- Responsibilities:
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual softwaretesting with consistent, thorough approaches
- Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork
- Worked closely with stakeholders to maintain optimum levels of communication to effectively and efficiently complete projects
- Scope identification/Test cycle management, Test plan review, Test report preparation, Validation plan
- Requirement analysis, organizing 3 amigo meeting, Acceptance Criteriawriting,
- Zephyr testcase writing using JIRA
- Test Approach preparation using XMind, Scripted/Exploratory testing
- Test data preparation for various environments using iMedidata (RAVE)
- Functional, Database (PostgreSQL and MongoDB), Regression and E2Etesting,
- ETL run through REST Client and file validation in Putty(Unix)
- Study configuration testing using GIT repository (IntelliJ)
- Deployment activities for TEST environment using Jenkins.
IT Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
12.2012 - 05.2017
- Nielsen
- Project Worked: Nielsen (US) - Answers On Demand
- Domain: Retail
- Description: Effective shopper marketing relies on understanding shoppers to influence their purchase decisions and drive growth for manufacturers and retailers
- Nielsen provides the most complete understanding of what consumersbuy and watch
- Responsibilities:
- Scrum Master for Offshore Agile team (8 months)
- Team leader of a 5-member team (Front End); simultaneously handling another module (Extracts) in an agile team
- Worked under different modules in AOD that involved GUI testing, ETL testing,
- Database testing (MySQL) and file validation through UNIX
- Designing of automation framework, input sheets preparation, test run, regression suite run and issue fixing for Front End module using QTP
- Defects and Test case review in QC/ALM
- Documented procedures and business processes and shared informationwith appropriate stakeholders
- Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes
- Rewards and Recognitions
- Team award for the best delivery team in IQVIA
- KUDOS award for highest percentage of defects found in a module(75%)
- CLIENT APPRECIATION for excellence in covering business use cases
- SPOT AWARD for initiating automation& presenting POC to stakeholders
- Most consistent and reliable resource award.
Education
BE - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Anna University, SRM Valliammai Engineering College
01.2008 - 04.2012
MBA - Business Analytics
SRM University
01.2022 - 04.2024
Skills
Certified Agile Scrum Master, QA Lead, Project Managerundefined
Timeline
MBA - Business Analytics
SRM University
01.2022 - 04.2024
QA Lead
Algonomy Software Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current
Test Consultant
Apexon, Technosoft Corporation
03.2019 - 10.2021
Application Engineer analyst
Adecco India Pvt Ltd, India Pvt Ltd
07.2017 - 02.2019
IT Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
12.2012 - 05.2017
BE - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Anna University, SRM Valliammai Engineering College
01.2008 - 04.2012
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