Vijay K

• Developing automated testcases using test automation tools such as Cypress.io, Cucumber, GITHub to Develop and implement automated test solutions using Capillary standards
• Design a comprehensive test strategy tailored for a white-labeling project, considering brand-specific variations.
• Establish test automation frameworks and workflows using Cypress and Cucumber.
• Ensure test coverage for core and customizable components.
• Develop and maintain end-to-end, integration tests using Cypress for web applications (UI and API Testing).
• Create feature files in Gherkin syntax for behavior-driven development (BDD) with Cucumber.
• Implement reusable test scripts to handle variations across different brands in the monorepo
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines in GIT Hub Actions.
• Followed N+1 strategy for an automation plan which is a structured approach that ensures automation efforts evolve incrementally and address current needs while preparing for future scalability
• Includes overseeing the planning, coordination, review, testing and reporting of all QA activities for assigned areas
• Working with the development teams, candidate will be an advocate for quality and testability - ensuring that the team is kept informed of test progress and overall quality of deliverables - escalating test blockers through the appropriate channels
• Work with product owners on defining acceptance criteria and ensuring that these are accurately and efficiently included in automation
• Maintain metrics relating to test coverage and defects, seek paths to increase the former and decrease the latter
• Provide supervision and guidance to the rest of the testing team.

Project Details: Rally (2024)

Client : OPTUM

Health engagement platform (herein referred to as 'product') as an activity is any action that a user can do on / off the app that can be tracked or listed by Rally and can be configured to be rewarded

• They are a core construct on which the rest of the functionality is built on

Role

Responsible for overseeing the quality of products or services provided by an organization, ensuring that they meet the required standards and customer expectations.To ensure that the processes followed during production are efficient, effective, and compliant with relevant regulations and standards.

Responsibilites

• Establish quality metrics and performance indicators to ensure consistent product quality
• Develop quality assurance plans for new projects, outlining the scope, methods, and timelines for testing and validation
• Oversee and manage the QA team, ensuring proper allocation of tasks and adherence to schedules
• Recruit, train, and mentor QA team members, helping them develop the necessary skills to improve testing practices and processes
• Conduct regular performance evaluations of QA team members and provide feedback for improvement
• Ensure comprehensive testing (manual, automated, functional, non-functional) across all phases of product development or production
• Designing, Developing and Executing Product application Test cases and scripts through analysis of application specifications and test requirements
• Key participant and contributor during meeting with Client during critical situations on Defects Support
• Prepared and implemented test scripts for Sanity, Regression and New functionality tests
• Automation Traceability document with Feasible and Not Feasible tracking with ETA
• Created POC on new project by identifying the compatble automatio tool(Cypress) required for project regression cycle
• Automation test scripts creation as per system functionality requirements using BDD in cypress tool
• Implemented assertions using using Chai, jQuery, and custom assertion libraries.
• Included network requests validation using cy.intercept() for stubbing and mocking api calls.
• Created custom commands for reusability and maintainability.
• Test data creation for easy management of static data (JSON files) for data-driven testing.
• Completed the regression and smoke tests across all the modules with 95% success rate in execution.

Project Details: Concepto Clinic (2023-2024)

Concepto Diagnostics is to server the preventative healthcare needs of customers across Diagnostics, Wellness, Genomics and Nutrition

Responsibilites

• Establish a quality assurance strategy, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Mentor and manage QA team members, assigning tasks based on skill and experience.
• Plan resources for manual and automated testing efforts across multiple projects.
• Develop test plans and test cases for manual and automated testing.
• Define the scope, goals, and timeline for testing activities in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks using Ranorex and Selenium webdriver.
• Separate concerns into layers for feature files, step definitions, and Selenium utilities.
• Implement Page Object Model (POM) for reusability and maintainability.
• Use hooks in the BDD framework for setup and teardown tasks.
• Focus on writing user stories and scenarios in Gherkin syntax.
• Create and maintain automated test scripts for web, desktop using both tools.
• Use data-driven and parameterized testing techniques to handle various input scenarios.
• Implement cross-browser testing to ensure compatibility with various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.).
• Enable data-driven testing by integrating with external data sources (e.g., Excel)
• Leveraged BDD hooks (@Before, @After) to manage test preconditions and cleanup.
• Integrate the BDD framework with reporting tools (e.g., Extent Reports) for detailed and actionable reports.
• Utilized their record-and-playback capabilities and enhance them with custom scripting where necessary.
• Tracking of Sprint Items for automating new change request in same sprint timeline for regression test run after manual execution is completed to ensure no impacts before sprint release.
• Produced Postgres script to create database schema and schema objects using SQL Server script.
• Provided white paper document to show the Database migration process developed for the migration of CI Project - PROTRACK from MS SQL to Postgres.

Project Details: FATitleExpress (2022).

Client : FAI(First American India Pvt Ltd)

SMS TitleExpress fully integrates title and settlement processes. Information flows seamlessly through order entry; HUD-1, Closing Disclosure or Settlement Statement preparation; policy production; check writing; escrow account reconciliation; and management reporting.

Project Details: ProTrack-Migration (2021).

Client: Nielsen IQ.

As per legacy application retirement mandate the application is being migrated to CDAR platform. In the process, the database is to be migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Postgres with all schema objects and data.

Project Details: ProTrack (2018–2021).

Client: Nielsen IQ.

Automate the process of building the cost from the rate cards. Eventually it will also help build the final fee to be charged to the client in proposal indicating Profit/Loss. It Bring consistency in project cost and price estimation following pre-defined rate card across countries. It Serve as a central repository for all costing and pricing information to support systematic analysis on project level cost management and pricing structure.

Responsibilities

• Validate data ingestion from multiple sources into Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• Ensure data is accurately parsed, cleansed, and transformed during the ingestion process.
• Test ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows to ensure transformations are applied correctly.
• Validate map-reduce jobs or Spark processing for data aggregation and computations.
• Validate schemas in Hive tables and ensure proper adherence to metadata standards.
• Verify compliance with data governance and standards.

Project Details : Retail Factory (2017)

Client: Nielsen IQ.

providing RMS Services to the SEANAP Regions.Use the data from retailers, Aggregate, distribute and report the data cross 4 dimensions Market,Fact,Period & Product.

Project Details: Retail Intelligence (2017)

Client: Nielsen IQ.

Product that Extracts data from Retail Factory, Ports the data to NDX Data Lake. Uses the Advanced analytical capabilities of NDX Tools Like NIS to generate and visualize reports. Phase 1 of RI(Live) is performing aggregation inside of RF. NIS is using the aggregated data from RF to present advanced analytics to the user. Phase 2 of RI(Under Development) is in progress- Aggregation and visualization happens in NDX.

Responsibilities

• Designing, Developing and Executing Product application Test cases and scripts through analysis of application specifications and test requirements
• Expertise on RCA, Test Case Design and Use Case analysis
• Expertise on Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to avoid any NC'S (Non Compliance)
• Key participant and contributor during meeting with Client during critical situations on Defects Support (HOT FIX and Patch Releases)
• Involved in Mobile application testing in IoS and Android platforms
• Modified automated test scripts as per system functionality and functional requirements
• Test all the outbound web services from CTMS with data mapped into specific format provided in agreed sample XMLs from Development teams
• Verification of validation on receiving the invalid data from external source
• Check the authentication of data provider and process request
• Acknowledgments to the data provided on success or failure transactions
• DB Level Check: Object Count in Staging- Ensure data set is available in staging
• Record Count Verification from Source to Target
• Verifying the data as per the data mapping document

Project Details: agClinical(2013 - 2016)

agClinical is a scalable, comprehensive clinical trials management solution (CTMS) that enables life science organizations to plan, track, execute and control activities related to the clinical trials process

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains contracts and Purchase Order in TIPP (Tagged Item Performance Protocol)
• Research and reconcile invoice discrepancies and follow up
• Expected to learn and execute one to two processes
• Uses knowledge to expedite workflow and electronically process documents whenever possible
• Respond to client help desk requests within strict level of service requirement; using established resources and decision hierarchy

Project Details: IMN DATA RETROFIT(2012-2013)

Client : Target Corporation Pvt Ltd

Retrofitted over 75000 apparel items to improve the accuracy and enhance guests browsing experience in target.com