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Sivanandhini Chandrasekaran

Sivanandhini Chandrasekaran

Software Development Engineer In Test
Chennai,TN

Summary

Enthusiastic automation test engineer proficient in quality assurance, equipment management and resource utilization. with more than 6 years of experience and expertise necessary to take on dynamic and complex software systems. Strong background in both manual and automation testing ( Cypress - Component & E2E testing; Selenium - Java, Python ). Successful at leading both internal and external teams to accomplish challenging objectives.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Technical Lead

Ernst & Young
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2022 - Current

PROJECT - Nexus for Banking, USA

Domain - Banking & Financial services

  • Lead of QA team of 5 members
  • Advised management, business and technical staff on solutions using specific domains or technology
  • Worked with design system's mono-repository and integration of cypress automation framework within it
  • Developed Cypress Component test framework with Angular , when there was no official support.
  • Integrated Accessibility and multi reporting mechanism for Cypress Angular and React test frameworks
  • Learned Go-lang and developed a POC for most suited test frameworks in it.
  • Lead QA guild team to share innovative automation ideas


Given " SPOT Award " for doing various innovation test automation tasks

Senior Software Developer

Ernst & Young
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2021 - 09.2022

PROJECT - Nexus for Banking, USA

Domain - Banking & Financial services

  • Automation frameworks developed - in python for CLI automation
  • Worked extensively in design system - component testing and it's automation
  • Developed react test framework for the design system components using cypress component test runner when it was in beta
  • Worked on hot fixes for the Design system component issues
  • Greatly exposed to Micro-services testing
  • Project management tools - Azure DevOps and JIIRA
  • CI-CD pipeline - Azure DevOps
  • Version control tool - GitHub


Received the "Star of the quarter" award for Developing standalone component test frameworks

SDET Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2020 - 07.2021

PROJECT - Discover Financial Services, USA

Domain - Banking

  • Developed automation test scripts in Selenium using Java and Python.
  • Performed API testing using Postman and API automation - REST assured
  • Worked in Agile methodology and Scrum frameworks
  • Performed Usability, Integration and Functional tests on modules and full software implementations for more than 10 applications per year
  • CI-CD jobs - Jenkins
  • Version control tools - GitHub .


Awarded " Outstanding Performer " for creating automation suites from scratch

Automation Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
8 2017 - 08.2020

PROJECT - Discover Financial Services, USA

Domain - Banking

  • Automation test tool - Selenium Java
  • Project management methodology - Agile and Scrum frameworks
  • Test cases management - Rally and ALM
  • Defect management tools - ALM, Rally, JIIRA and TFS .
  • Automated jobs - Jenkins
  • Version control tools - GitHub .
  • Good exposure working under core banking sector


Appreciated by Client team Manager and was given a a whole agile tower to run by myself

Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12 2016 - 7 2017

PROJECT: Computershare - GEMS Testing

Domain - Financial Services


  • Created test suites for insurance based application
  • Maintained regression automation test suite
  • Worked under Agile methodology
  • Exposure to defect management in tools like QC-ALM and TFS
  • Good exposure to Financial services domain

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Instrumentation Engineering

St.Joseph's College of Engineering
Chennai
08.2012 - 06.2016

Skills

Automation Testing tools - Selenium, Cypress and UFT

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Certification

Oracle cloud and Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Associate certification

Timeline

Technical Lead

Ernst & Young
10.2022 - Current

Oracle cloud and Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Associate certification

12-2021

Agile SAFE

11-2021

Senior Software Developer

Ernst & Young
08.2021 - 09.2022

Cypress Modern Automation Testing

08-2021

Python Data structures - University of Michigan

12-2020

Python For Everybody - University of Michigan

11-2020

SDET Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2020 - 07.2021

Business English Certificate Vantage - Council of Europe level B2.

07-2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Instrumentation Engineering

St.Joseph's College of Engineering
08.2012 - 06.2016

Automation Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
8 2017 - 08.2020

Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12 2016 - 7 2017
Sivanandhini ChandrasekaranSoftware Development Engineer In Test