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Uthej KS

Bangalore

Summary

Seasoned Senior QA Engineer with demonstrated success in leading comprehensive software testing processes. Skilled in managing cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and functionality meets stringent industry standards. Known for effective problem-solving capabilities and ability to translate complex requirements into successful solutions. Significant contributions made in previous roles include enhanced testing methodologies that led to improved product reliability and customer satisfaction.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. QA Engineer

Carelon Global Solutions
Bangalore
07.2022 - Current
  • Oversee the automation process and lead a team of two engineers in an Agile environment.
  • Drive web and API automation using Selenium and RestAssured with Java.
  • Merge and enhance test cases for automation.
  • Work with the manual testing team to understand workloads and discuss automation scope.
  • Identify and prioritize automation tasks with stakeholders.
  • Track stories, tasks, and progress using Jira.
  • Maintain records of test cases received, automated, pending, and executed.
  • Execute regression and smoke tests to ensure software stability.

QA Engineer

Cognizant
Bangalore
05.2021 - 07.2022
  • Develop/Maintain Automation test cases using the internal Data Driven framework
  • Contribute to the enhancement of framework to include new functionalities
  • Scheduling and running the scripts through Bamboo, analysing the test reports and debugging the scripts for errors
  • Handling Sprint Planning meetings
  • Providing support to Manual Testing whenever required
  • Responsible for maintaining test cases and defects in qTest and JIRA
  • Responsible for identifying test cases for manual and automation testing
  • Performing Sprint closure activities by gathering required information from team and preparing the reports.

Quality Analyst

Capgemini
Bangalore
08.2017 - 04.2021
  • Automating test cases using internal data driven framework called CafeNxt
  • Analysed Business Requirements and prepared Test Plan
  • Developing, executing and maintaining the manual test cases based on the Business Requirement document
  • Preparing Traceability Matrix document
  • Preparing Test data and managing it
  • Performing Functional, Regression, Adhoc, Smoke testing, End to End testing
  • Connected to database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation
  • Uploaded test cases executed test cases and logged defects in HP ALM
  • Preparing and maintaining the Weekly Status Report, Monthly Status Report
  • Modelling the application UI in Model based testing tool called Conformiq and generating test cases
  • Used GitHub for source code management
  • Integrated Jenkins with GitHub and built a pipeline to automate smoke test execution which happens on daily basis
  • Analysing the Jenkins reports and working on fixing failed scripts
  • API testing using postman.

Education

B.Sc. - Electronics -

Sri Venkateswara University
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

Skills

  • Selenium Webdriver
  • Rest Assured
  • Postman
  • TestNG
  • UiPath
  • Process Automation
  • Cucumber
  • Cafenext (Keyword driven - internal framework)
  • Core Java
  • Python
  • JIRA
  • QTest

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Sr. QA Engineer

Carelon Global Solutions
07.2022 - Current

QA Engineer

Cognizant
05.2021 - 07.2022

Quality Analyst

Capgemini
08.2017 - 04.2021

B.Sc. - Electronics -

Sri Venkateswara University
Uthej KS