Steffe A.X
Hyderabad
Summary
A seasoned professional with 12 years of experience in Quality Assurance.Excellent team leader with a unique blend of Managerial, Technical, Functional and Qualitative skills backed by strong record of facilitating cross-functional coordination.Strong Experienced in Proven track record of leading teams to deliver high-quality software products through strategic test planning, execution, and optimization. Adept at leveraging industry best practices and methodologies to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness. Skilled in both manual and automated testing approaches with a strong background in Insurance, Banking, Hospitality, HealthCare, Retail and Automotive domain.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Architect Specialist
Accenture/BMW UK TNR
09.2021 - Current
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define the overall testing strategy for the project organization, considering factors such as project goals, risks, and constraints.
- Define clear test objectives based on project requirements, risks, and priorities for all phases of testing like SIT,Regression,E2E & UAT.
- Develop comprehensive test plans that outline the testing approach, scope, objectives and resources required for each testing phase
- Traveled to onshore location (UK) to understand the transition of TNR Project, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer from all the SME's on different workstreams, process alignment and stakeholder engagement.
Associate
Cognizant/Royal Bank Of Canada
05.2018 - 08.2021
- Involved in end to end QA testing
- Deliverables include creating Understanding Document, Clarification Tracker, Test Scenarios preparation, Test Case preparation, and Test Data preparation, Test Execution and Test Summary & Result reports
- Running test scripts using Selenium for QA regression testing and enhancing the test scripts for any regression gaps.supported successful product launches by coordinating end-to-end testing efforts from planning through execution phases.
- Hold regular working sessions and discussions with the business analysts from RBC to understand the requirement completely and design the test plan accordingly; walk the team members through the test plan and suggest logical and functional test cases.
Senior QA Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions/Loblaw
05.2016 - 04.2018
- Coordinated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
- Excellent hands on experience in managing the E2E based testing by coordinating multiple teams
- Release plan maintenance including the planning, deploying, and managing the testing effort for any given engagement/release
- Resource planning and projection on a timely interval to contain the onsite and offshore ratio
- Involved in preparing test plan, test strategy and scenarios for every sprint,design test cases for the scenarios identified,Perform test execution and log the results for the test cases,identify and log defects in ALM for the issues encountered during test execution.
QA Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions/chubb Insurance
07.2012 - 04.2016
- Developed and executed comprehensive test cases for various software applications, ensuring alignment with project requirements and identifying critical defects.
- Conducted manual and automated testing of web applications, using tools like Selenium and Mainframe to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy.
- Documented and reported defects in a detailed manner, working closely with the development team to ensure timely resolution and retesting of fixes.
- Managed test data and environments, setting up testing conditions to closely mirror production and ensuring effective test execution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers and business analysts, to understand requirements and provide feedback on test scenarios and results.
- Prepared and delivered test reports, summarizing findings, defect metrics, and overall software quality to stakeholders and project teams.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
DMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING / ANNA UNIVERSITY
Chennai, India05.2011
Skills
- Test strategy development
- Quality Assurance & Control
- Automated Testing Tools
- Team Leadership & Mentoring
- Risk Management
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- Defect Tracking & Resolution
- Test Estimation
- Stakeholder Communication
- Defect Tracking and Reporting
- Test Coverage Analysis
- JIRA & Confluence
Certification
- ISTQB Certified in foundation Level
- Oracle Certified Java professional (OCJP)
- Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
- Microsoft SQL Certified
- Cognizant Certified Professional in Software Testing
Accomplishments
- Winner - On the spot award
- Winner - Bug Catcher award - for identifying and document most bugs
- Received appreciation from client users on successful delivery of PAR project
- Recently won the Star performer Award in TNR Project for completing the transition successfully.
Softandinterpersonalskills
- Highly effective communicating with internal and external clients at all levels
- Quick learner, flexible with change
- Accountable, dependable, and committed
- Invites the opportunity to teach, coach or train others
- Function as a team player, as well as demonstrate a proven ability to work well independently
Languages
English
Tamil
Telugu
Academicchronicle
- Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from DMI College of Engineering (Anna University) in 2011
- SSC from SVGHSS School, Chennai in 2007
- HSC from SVGHSS School, Chennai in 2005
Businessandtechnicalskills
- Selenium,Mainframe testing & API Testing
- Jira & Confluence
- Core Java,Microsoft SQL
- Expertise in Manual testing techniques(Functional,integration,regression,E2E and UAT)
- Test Design techniques(boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and decision table testing)
- Requirement & client Need analysis
- Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking
- Project Management
- Documentation and knowledge sharing
- Tosca Certified AS1,AS2 and TDS1
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 12/01/89
www.linkedin.com/in/steffe-a-x-8322901a
LinkedIn profile
Timeline
Test Architect Specialist
Accenture/BMW UK TNR
09.2021 - Current
Associate
Cognizant/Royal Bank Of Canada
05.2018 - 08.2021
Senior QA Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions/Loblaw
05.2016 - 04.2018
QA Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions/chubb Insurance
07.2012 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
DMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING / ANNA UNIVERSITY
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