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Stalin Sathyapalan

Trivandrum

Summary

Experienced QA Automation Consultant with 7+ years of progressive experience in Software Testing, Requirement gathering and analysis, Test Planning, Test Case design, Test Execution, and Test Reporting. Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium, and REST-assured.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Quality Consultant (Contract)

Anchako Consultancy Services
2 2020 - Current
  • Reviewing requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
  • Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
  • Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating testing activities
  • Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
  • Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
  • Monitor debugging process results.

Quality Analyst consultant

02.2018 - 01.2020
  • Involved in writing Test Plans and defining the Test Cases
  • Led a team in the development and execution of automation test scripts by following policies and standards
  • Interpreted and converted manual test cases into automation smoke and regression suites
  • Performed Code Review of the automation scripts developed by other QA members and provided demos to the customer at the end of each sprint
  • After Test Execution, provide QA sign-off and prepare Test metrics and Closure report
  • Mentored junior test engineers and guided automation testing best practices.

QA Intern

Appiness Interactive
02.2016 - 03.2017
  • Find, record, and track software defects throughout their lifecycle
  • Work closely with program management, product management, developers and testers
  • Collaborate with others in researching new trends in Information Technology and QA and report findings to IT Leadership
  • Design, develop, document, execute, and maintain test cases for a variety of applications and technologies
  • Identify testable statements contained in requirements and specification documents and design and implement manual and automated test cases.

Operations Readiness Consultant

NGA Human Resources
11.2012 - 11.2015
  • Lead end-to-end global HR operations transition projects, managing readiness activities, client relations, process documentation, UAT monitoring, and producing management reports for US, UK, and APAC regions.

Senior Executive - HR

iGATE Global Solutions
11.2009 - 11.2012
  • HR operations expert with PeopleSoft HCM skills, training, audit reports and providing data-driven inputs for company policy creation.

Senior Officer

Wipro
04.2008 - 08.2009
  • Perform HR Operations and Coordination with Legal Team for escalation and for garnishments, ensuring accurate resolution thorough research adhering to federal compliance.

Senior Associate

Fidelity Investments
06.2006 - 04.2008
  • Perform HR Operations and Manage quality assurance processes for garnishment and VOE transactions
  • This includes handling client escalations, root cause analysis, quality checks, and training.

Education

MBA (Executive MBA) - Human Resource

Vinayaka Mission, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu

Bachelor of Science - Zoology

Kerala University
Kerala

Skills

  • Automation Tools: Selenium, REST-assured, Robot Framework
  • Automation Frameworks: Hybrid (Combination of Data driven and Keyword driven), TestNG, Cucumber
  • Programming Language: Java
  • Other skills and tools: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, Postman, Apache POI, qTest, Git, Bitbucket, SQL

Timeline

Quality Analyst consultant

02.2018 - 01.2020

QA Intern

Appiness Interactive
02.2016 - 03.2017

Operations Readiness Consultant

NGA Human Resources
11.2012 - 11.2015

Senior Executive - HR

iGATE Global Solutions
11.2009 - 11.2012

Senior Officer

Wipro
04.2008 - 08.2009

Senior Associate

Fidelity Investments
06.2006 - 04.2008

Lead Quality Consultant (Contract)

Anchako Consultancy Services
2 2020 - Current

MBA (Executive MBA) - Human Resource

Vinayaka Mission, Tamil Nadu

Bachelor of Science - Zoology

Kerala University
Stalin Sathyapalan