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Vasanth Balasubramanian

Chennai

Summary

7 Years of experience in Testing (Manual and Automation) designated as Lead and 7 Years of experience in IT Operations performing Foreign Exchange trade reconciliation. Performed Smoke, Functional, Ad-hoc, Usability and Regression Testing. Experience in creating Test Cases and also performing Manual Testing. Good knowledge on API testing through Postman, HTTP request/response and status codes and REST API. Experience in developing Test Cases based on the requirements in JIRA. Hands-on Experience in JIRA on raising stories, defects, sprint bugs. Participated in scrum call with business & development team to discuss about the defects. Having knowledge on running query in SQL to fetch data from DB. Actively contributed in making the Technical/Functional specification, Release note, check-out plan, Test plan. Coordinated with several teams for the release of each part of application. Understanding on SDLC and STLC and basic knowledge in API testing. Excellent in understanding the technical Architect needs to provide clean and optimized solution. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management. Utilizing various core java concepts such as Multi-threading, Exception Handling, Collection, Garbage collections for dynamic memory allocation to implement various features and enhancements. Experience in functional and non-functional testing, Alpha testing, Exploratory and Integration testing. Experience in using locators such as X-path to identify web-element. Participated in Agile ceremonies. Involved in Bug fixing for the defects raised during UAT. Implemented different automation frameworks like POM, TestNG, Cucumber.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior QA

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2020 - Current
  • Working with Agile (Kanban) concepts in a Team consisting of 3 Developers
  • Hands-on experience in Azure DevOps
  • Handling the ADO tickets and making sure to validate the changes happened
  • Collaborating with developers to build a deep understanding of features and architecture prior to testing
  • Developed 200+ test plans and test cases, including performance test plans
  • Created and maintained 20 Regression suits
  • Responsible for reviewing the changes happening on the application 'Load Manager (LM)'
  • Automated about 700 manual test cases resulting in 5% save on manual testing
  • Raised 350 bugs and had them resolved on time
  • Successfully handling the deployment and had only about 3% prod issues
  • Regularly updating the DSR and making sure everything are documented
  • Involved in the Automation calls to and automated critical scenarios reducing the cost.

Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2017 - 12.2020
  • Excellent understanding on Agile (Scrum) concepts
  • Good knowledge on all phases of STLC
  • Involved in design and development of data-driven automation framework using Selenium Web-driver
  • Participating in Requirement Gathering, Sprint planning, JIRA grooming & story pointing calls
  • Monitoring the JIRA board to analyze the progress of testing, making sure all the people are sufficiently allocated and not over-allocated
  • Making sure all the blocks, impediments are raised on time in stand-up calls
  • Validates the defects and bugs identified raised and allocated to the respective person
  • Preparation of test script and present them to the business to get opinion prior to begin the testing
  • Provide sufficient demo to the End user (business) on the functional changes implemented in existing tool
  • Preparing POJO class to reduce memory wastage
  • Feature files and Step definition preparation in Cucumber
  • Expertise in building tools like Maven and managing Java automation projects.
  • Managed a team of 10 people and have created around 200+ Automation Test Scrips

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2010 - 08.2017
  • Performed cash and stock reconciliation by means of identifying, analyzing and correcting transaction to position breaks
  • Responsible for data flow management and quality control to ensure all data was processed properly into downstream systems
  • Prepared quarterly and monthly performance reports to be produced in front of client and Internal senior management
  • Escalating significant funding discrepancies or missing settlement payments to the Settlement Operations management team for research and resolution
  • Ensuring that suspense items do not exceed the established timeline designated for each type of exception
  • Reviewing process documents and making necessary changes on it with client approval
  • Expertise in using INTELLIMATCH
  • HALO table - IM database, Account set-up, data for ABN rule set-up
  • SAFE - View settlement details of any Trade
  • AQUA - Application related to Client money and helps to lockup client/firm money basis on the information provided.
  • Managed all the Escalations if any from the client

Education

MBA-Finance -

International School of Business And Research
Chennai
01.2010

B. Com -

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai
01.2008

Skills

  • Selenium Web-driver, GIT, Maven, Eclipse, JIRA, Postman API, APPIUM
  • Java programming
  • Scrum Framework
  • Usability Testing
  • Defect tracking
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Core Java
  • TestNG, Cucumber, Data Driven, POM, J-unit
  • SQL
  • Agile (Scrum), Waterfall

Certification

  • PMI- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified - February 2022
  • Business Analytics for Managers
  • Selenium
  • Core Java
  • Azure DevOps certified
  • Launchdarkly Bronze certificate

Projects

Automatic Break Notification - Email has to be triggered for all cost centers assigned to the outstanding exceptions. Cost center data based to be maintained in Halo table - team mail groups & officer names. Email to be triggered to the specific team and officer as per escalation matrix along with exception details from Reconciliation tool. Subject of the email should carry the term LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH or CRITICAL based on the matrix. Mails to be triggered on the specified time for a day (10 AM, 01 PM & 03 PM) 

Fraud Operation - To make sure all firm's fraud monitoring rules & systems are working as expected. Real time testing related to brokerage and online trading accounts. Transactions entered by client will flow in to fraud tool. The fraud control parameter will run and provide risk score. If the risk scores are high the rule engine will trip and block the transaction. Testing is performed by simulating it in QA environment and review all parameters are working as expected 

Insurance and Annuities - Working on applications within 3D platform - Annuity pro, DAT, ITS. Part of annuity squad and responsible for taking up all the upgrade testing in Annuities (AP & DAT). Testing will be in different sprints, each ranging for two weeks of time. Involving in JIRA grooming calls, Sprint planning and Standup calls. Hovering around Agile board and understand the sprint status through reports. Story pointing JIRA based on the team capacity and velocity. Worked on implementing E-signature on DAT & AP and make sure the functionalities are good. Created story on improvisation of application from end-user perspective.

Timeline

Senior QA

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2020 - Current

Test Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2017 - 12.2020

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2010 - 08.2017

MBA-Finance -

International School of Business And Research

B. Com -

Madurai Kamaraj University
Vasanth Balasubramanian