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VIGNESHWAR BABU

VIGNESHWAR BABU

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced QA professional with 9 years of expertise in Functional & Non-functional testing spanning Web Applications, API, Mobile App, and Automation testing across diverse industries such as Ride Hailing, Fintech, Banking (ALM), & Auction. Strong track record in Functional, Technical, and Test management aspects. Skilled in project and release management, initiating QA processes from scratch. Versatile experience in working with varied work cultures from startups to unicorns and utilizing methodologies like Agile & Waterfall Model. Proficient in developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Automation Suites, Test Cases, and Test Metrics. Also excels in bug tracking, defect analysis, and reviewing test cases. Notably organized, efficient, and precise with robust liaison skills, as well as proficient in verbal, written, and interpersonal communication. Possesses strong analytical thinking complemented by solid business acumen.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Assurance Lead

Triffy Digital Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
10.2023 - Current
  • Single-handedly tested Triffy's entire product line for quality assurance during initial phase. Subsequently formed a competent team, provided comprehensive training on all products, and consistently monitored their work to uphold high-quality standards.
  • Developed and implemented quality assurance processes to ensure product compliance with industry standards.
  • Developed QA procedures and formed teams from the ground up for different Triffy offerings like Yaary Ride Hailing, Metro ticket booking, Recon & Settlement Dashboards.
  • Utilized effective collaboration skills with both product managers and developers to understand the project requirements, resulting in the successful development of a high-quality product from ground zero.
  • Owned releases and managed product roadmap, while leading QA team by reviewing test cases and automation suites prepared by the team.
  • Conducted comprehensive testing of Android and iOS apps, BE APIs (REST & gRPC), Dashboards, Kafka topics, and databases for optimal functionality.
  • Collaborated with devops and implemented production alerts. Ensured quick resolution of prod issues by actively monitoring and responding to it.
  • Collaborated with third party clients to provide B2B services, ensuring smooth business transitions through onboarding and testing integration.
  • Facilitated standup calls to gather essential information from colleagues for effective release management.
  • Documented, triaged, and managed defects in software and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.
  • Created and optimized automated testing tools for repetitive tasks.
  • Understood the product to the base level which helped to test the product to the core and brought its maximum quality, also it helps in debugging every bug and finding RCA.

QA Engineer III

Divisions Maintenance Group
Bangalore
09.2022 - 10.2023
  • Managed various individual services within the core system and conducted end-to-end testing.
  • Analyzed business requirements, technical specifications, user documentation, and other project documents to create detailed test scenarios.
  • Conducted tests to evaluate the functionality of web application, grpc, and rest APIs during integration testing.
  • Assisted developers in debugging application errors by providing reproducible steps.
  • Reviewed product design documents to provide feedback on usability and functionality.
  • Collaborated with development teams to resolve complex application problems.
  • Monitored production systems in order to detect any anomalies or unexpected behaviors.
  • Utilized tools such as JIRA for defect tracking, Jenkins for CI and CD pipelines, GitLab for source code management.
  • Provided guidance and mentorship for junior QA engineers on best practices for software testing processes.
  • Conducted manual testing of applications including functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
  • Participated in product development meetings, providing input on quality considerations.

LEAD QA ENGINEER

MATCHMOVE PAY INDIA PVT LTD
BANGALORE
10.2019 - 08.2022
  • Leading QA team, consisting of both manual and automation testers, tasked with all facets of quality assurance and testing including functional, performance, regression, and UAT testing
  • Handling projects on my own as well as with a testing team
  • Collaborating with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features, and testing demands
  • Creating test cases and test scripts to maintain a cohesive test approach to product development
  • Creating automation test scripts using Selenium and utilizing it for regression testing
  • Adhere to the deliverable on time with the best quality of the product by meeting client demands
  • Ensures proper testing methodologies are followed
  • Collaborate with dev-ops and dev team for production deployment and support after every release to production by doing post-production sanity
  • Tracking of all the releases and maintaining release notes
  • Training junior QA's, providing KT about the project, and leading them towards better quality product deliverables
  • Ensures automation and performance testing coverages are on track and maintained properly by collaborating with SDET's
  • Understanding requirement and ensuring everyone in the team get to know about all the items which would go in upcoming releases
  • Fill the gaps in requirement by raising proper queries to the product owner or BSA
  • Contributed to root cause analysis to determine the core reason for failures and errors
  • Built strong rapport with team members, management, and clients to facilitate efficiency and productivity
  • Involving in hiring new QA to the team as part of the interview panel and providing training
  • Involving in daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, bug triage, product requirement analysis, and leads meetings.

SENIOR QA ENGINEER

XOME SERVICES INDIA PVT LTD
CHENNAI
12.2017 - 10.2019
  • Requirement gathering from user stories and raising queries in Jira for the respective stories to business in order to ensure we met the business requirement appropriately
  • Requirement analysis or story discussion among the team and with business in the early stage
  • Involving in functional or design discussion within the team or with cross-functional teams to ensure all the systems are in sync
  • Prepare test cases, review them and upload them to Jira
  • Preparing test suites for features as well as regression test cases in each sprint
  • Test data preparation, test case execution, and bug tracking to its closure
  • Testing the API of our system
  • Support to UAT to get signoff from business and ensure the requirements were met
  • Tracking all the QA queries and requirement communications done with business in every story within Jira and the functionalities are documented in Confluence
  • Automating the regression test cases via Selenium and adding them to the automation regression test suite
  • Doing peer review of automated test cases (automation code) in Bitbucket and providing approval
  • After code changes or getting fix from dev, taking build in Jenkins and deploying the code to lower environments via Octopus
  • In case of a new API added to the system, ensure that it is added to the performance testing along with SDET using Locust
  • Ensures all the deliverables are on time in every sprint and provides signoff or approval for release from the QA side
  • Support DevOps during deployment of code to Production and perform sanity to ensure the deliverables are good and the system is stable
  • Actively participates in daily scrum, monthly retrospective, providing KT to a new team member or to other cross-functional teams and businesses
  • Being a Senior QA, having experience in managing a small team
  • Worked as a standalone QA for a while and lead the application to its best quality.

TEST ENGINEER

LTI - A LARSON & TOUBRO GROUP OF COMPANY
CHENNAI
06.2015 - 12.2017
  • Requirement gathering from BRD & FRD's from business and query tracking
  • Preparing test cases, test case review, and uploading it to ALM or having it in test case repository
  • Test data preparation, test case execution, and sharing the reports over to business via either DSR or WSR
  • Maintaining test suite for regression
  • Communicate with Business and cross-functional as well as onshore teams for requirement analysis and providing KT to UAT teams
  • Bug tracking and root cause analysis
  • Utilizing automation knowledge for test data preparation
  • Providing signoff/QA release approval after testing and ensuring there is no defect leakage
  • Documenting the functionalities if any business requirement does not have the FRD.

Education

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

RMK ENGINEERING COLLEGE
CHENNAI, INDIA
01.2015

Skills

  • Functional & Non Functional Testing
  • API Testing (REST & gRPC APIs)
  • Web Application Testing
  • Mobile App Testing (Android & iOS)
  • Automation Testing
  • SQL/PSQL Database
  • Java
  • Team Handling
  • Project Management
  • Release Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • QA Training
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Cross Platform Testing
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Documentation skills

Certification

  • ISTQB -Indian Testing Board Certified Tester
  • CP-BAT -Basic Agile Testing Certified Tester
  • CP-SAT - Selenium automation Testing Certified Tester
  • NCFM - Financial Markets (Beginners Module)

LANGUAGE

  • ENGLISH
  • TAMIL

Timeline

Quality Assurance Lead

Triffy Digital Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - Current

QA Engineer III

Divisions Maintenance Group
09.2022 - 10.2023

LEAD QA ENGINEER

MATCHMOVE PAY INDIA PVT LTD
10.2019 - 08.2022

SENIOR QA ENGINEER

XOME SERVICES INDIA PVT LTD
12.2017 - 10.2019

TEST ENGINEER

LTI - A LARSON & TOUBRO GROUP OF COMPANY
06.2015 - 12.2017

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

RMK ENGINEERING COLLEGE

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