Vidhya Balakumar
Chennai
Summary
Systematic QA professional with 12+ years of experience highly skilled in manual and automation testing. Partners successfully with project management and development team members to put out high-quality software for customers. Decisive in identifying problems at any stage of production.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Safeway Inc./Albertsons Companies
Chennai
07.2018 - Current
- Developed and enhanced automated test scripts for functional testing of web applications, APIs and Backend.
- Created, maintained and executed automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java and Cucumber framework.
- Maintained existing automation frameworks by refactoring code, adding new features or updating existing features.
- Performed on-demand ad-hoc testing to spot-check automated java scripts diagnostic performance metrics.
- Implemented a continuous integration process to run the automation tests on Jenkins server.
- Identified areas for improvement in existing automated tests and implemented necessary changes to the selenium suite.
- Analyzed system performance metrics such as response time, throughput rate, memory utilization to ensure quality standards are met.
- Implemented test automation procedures for both regression and progression scenarios, powering future implementation of repeatable diagnostics.
- Generated detailed cucumber reports about encountered anomalies in builds and raised appropriate jira bugs
- Gathered feedback from internal and external customers throughout planning, test phases and prod support activities
Test Automation Engineer
Macy’s Inc
Chennai
02.2020 - 04.2020
- Performed cross browser compatibility testing with different versions of Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge browsers.
- Developed, tested and maintained REST APIs for web applications using Selenium
- Developed and enhanced webdriver scripts to automate web UI functionalities
- Debugged issues related to API requests and responses in a timely manner.
- Reported defects found through manual or automated testing process to the development team.
- Documented and reported on defects in testing environments, aiding in final resolution of discovered faults.
ETL Informatica Developer
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
10.2013 - 06.2018
- Developed ETL process to extract, transform and load data from Oracle database into the Data Warehouse using Informatica PowerCenter.
- Created mappings, sessions and workflows to move data from source systems to target systems using Informatica PowerCenter.
- Tested and validated the loaded data in the target system for accuracy and completeness.
- Optimized existing ETL processes by analyzing performance bottlenecks and implementing best practices in Informatica PowerCenter.
- Documented all ETL processes created using Informatica PowerCenter.
- Provided production support for all ETL related issues involving Informatica PowerCenter.
Developer
CenturyLink Inc.
Chennai
11.2011 - 09.2013
- Analyzed customer requirements and translated them into software specifications.
- Developed user stories, use cases, workflow diagrams, and other artifacts for documenting requirements.
- Developed ETL packages to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into a data warehouse.
- Created SQL Server Integration Services packages for incremental and full loads of data from various sources.
- Designed and developed stored procedures, functions, views and triggers for efficient data transformation.
- Developed, tested and debugged COBOL programs for mainframe applications.
- Created and maintained JCLs to execute batch jobs on the mainframe system.
- Performed unit testing of all developed programs and documented results.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication engineering
PSG College of Technology, Anna University
01.2011
Skills
- Java, JavaScript, C, C
- UNIX (Shell Scripting), Perl
- SQL/PLSQL, mongoDB, Teradata
- Gherkin
- Cucumber, TestNG, Karate frameworks
- Kafka
- Gradle, Maven
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- JCL, COBOL
- HTML
- Linux, Windows XP, Windows 10
- SOAP,POSTMAN
- Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence
Certification
- Oracle Certification in 809 - Java SE 8 Programmer II
- Certified Professional - Selenium Automation Testing
- IBM DB2 Fundamentals Certification
- Property and Casualty Insurance Certification
- Rational Technical Concert and Rational Requirement Composer Certification
- Retail Industry Fundamentals Certification
Projects
- Digital Order Management System - Safeway Inc.
- Tangerine Order management - Safeway Inc.
- BLM Return Policy Automation - Macys Inc.
- Personal Lines Transformations - Downstream Integration - Nationwide
- Personal Lines Transformations - Data Migration Billing - Nationwide
- CRIS Development - CTL BSS CRIS DEV CHN - CenturyLink
Timeline
Test Automation Engineer
Macy’s Inc
02.2020 - 04.2020
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Safeway Inc./Albertsons Companies
07.2018 - Current
ETL Informatica Developer
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
10.2013 - 06.2018
Developer
CenturyLink Inc.
11.2011 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication engineering
PSG College of Technology, Anna University
- Oracle Certification in 809 - Java SE 8 Programmer II
- Certified Professional - Selenium Automation Testing
- IBM DB2 Fundamentals Certification
- Property and Casualty Insurance Certification
- Rational Technical Concert and Rational Requirement Composer Certification
- Retail Industry Fundamentals Certification