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Sugandha Tilwalia

Senior Technical Lead/Senior QA Advisory
New Delhi

Summary

Results-driven Senior Technical Lead with Certified Scrum Master, Results-driven Technical Lead and Functional Test Engineer with 10 years of experience across banking, BFSI, e-learning, and logistics supply chain management domains. Proven ability to implement Scrum and Agile principles, leading teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Skilled in managing projects, enhancing team performance, and ensuring effective collaboration. Committed to continuous improvement and leveraging technology to optimize processes.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technical Lead

Pitney Bowes
Noida
7 2021 - Current

Involved in E2E testing along with monitored and analyzed production processes to identify quality issues, implementing corrective measures that enhanced product reliability. Collaborated with design and manufacturing teams to ensure quality considerations were integrated throughout the product lifecycle.

Senior Functional Test Engineer

FIS Global
Noida
10.2015 - 07.2021
  • Working as a senior functional test engineer in SWIFT and SEPA payment method testing.
  • Mentored junior testers, sharing expertise in best practices for functional testing methodologies.
  • Maintained clear documentation of test results, facilitating seamless communication between teams and stakeholders.

Functional Test Engineer

Bureau Veritas
Noida
07.2014 - 10.2015
  • Improved software quality by designing and executing functional test plans and cases.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology
New Delhi
08.2010 - 05.2014

Skills

Experience in Functional and SWIFT and SEPA payment methods

Experience of Scrum and Agile Methodologies

Experience in performance testing with JMeter

Experience in API testing using SOAPUI, Postman tool and Swagger

Experience in Test Tools like Cucumber

Experience in CI/CD deployment and Package Repository tools like Jenkins and Octopus

Experience in GitLab- Version control and Team City

Experience in Kubernetes

Experience to record functional testing at various levels as Integration Testing, Smoke, UAT, Interface Testing / Usability, Testing Performance Testing and Regression Testing, Having knowledge of cucumber-based Automation Framework, Strong experience of understanding and analyzing requirement specification documents, Well acquainted with the test case planning, test case scenarios, test case creation and test case execution, Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Agile Methods and Scrum

Experience in bug reporting and managing bugs through JIRA

Experience in Zephyr test management tool

Experience in MongoDB (Non-relational DB)

Experience in AWS-Lambda testing

Experience in verifying logs through Sumo-Logic

Experience in Apache Kafka offset Explorer, Agile Methodologies, Sprint Planning and Execution, Agile Ceremonies Facilitation (Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews), Team Empowerment and Coaching, Stakeholder Management and Communication, Agile Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Trello), Continuous Improvement and Adaptation, Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving

Team Mentoring

Requirements Analysis

Projects

Pitney Bowes 

FDR (Fulfillment Delivery & Returns), FDR is part of GEC (Global eCommerce) which was responsible to track the packages from coming into our facility (Warehouse) till it successfully delivers to USPS (US Postal Services).

Led cross-functional teams in root cause analysis Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance protocols and procedures. 

Conduct quality audits and assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.Analyze quality data to identify trends, root causes, and areas for improvement. 

Collaborate with product development, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to address quality issues. Lead quality improvement projects using methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, or FMEA. 

Train and mentor team members on quality standards and best practices. Prepare and present reports on quality metrics, findings, and recommendations to management. Participate in the design and development of new products, ensuring quality considerations are integrated from the start. 


FIS Global -PaaS (Payments as a service)

Implemented UK-compliant PaaS functionality for Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS, and SWIFT.

Responsible to perform End to End testing with SWIFT and SEPA payment methods.

Conducted functional testing: integration, smoke, user acceptance, system, API, regression. 

Applied agile, DevOps, lean methodologies. 

Written and executed automation test scripts via TFK-Framework. 

Reported bugs using ALM-Jira, analyzed requirements. Executed SQL queries with SQL Developer. 


Mizuho Bank

Japan's second Retail and Corporate bank HQ in Tokyo, Japan, London: Head office for European Corporate Bank operations 6 branches in Europe

Experience in functional testing at various levels such as: Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Interface Testing / Usability Testing, System Testing, API Testing, and Regression Testing Experience with approaches and/or methodologies such as agile, DevOps, and lean development Functional, Acceptance and Smoke testing have been applied on this project Involved in writing and executing Automation Test Script through Eclipse on TFK- Framework Bug reporting has been in ALM-Jira Involved in understanding and analyzing requirement specification documents Involved in writing SQL queries using SQL developer Automation testing has been performed through TFK-Framework (In-house tool)

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Awards

7 Times Star Award

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)

Interests

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Mentoring and Training

Testing Tools and Technologies

Continuous Improvement

Timeline

Certified Scrum Master
01-2022

Senior Functional Test Engineer

FIS Global
10.2015 - 07.2021

Functional Test Engineer

Bureau Veritas
07.2014 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology
08.2010 - 05.2014

Senior Technical Lead

Pitney Bowes
7 2021 - Current
Sugandha TilwaliaSenior Technical Lead/Senior QA Advisory