Vikkram Sasidharan
Bengaluru
Summary
14+ years of experience in IT industry Senior QA Analyst/QA Lead/Test Specialist with proven track record of implementing effective testing strategies and leveraging data to improve product quality. Successfully reduced error rates by over 30% in previous roles. Strong expertise in test plan and strategy creation, functional and automation test case design, test data management, test execution, defect management, QA coordination, regression test suite preparation, identifying automation opportunities, UAT coordination, requirements gathering, use case development, collaboration with key stakeholders/internal clients, as well as documentation and reporting.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Analyst
Department of Work and Pensions
07.2022 - 06.2024
- Responsible for Behavioral Driven Development BDD testing
- Analyzing, estimating, and sizing the User Stories which will help Product Owners to prioritize the Story Cards
- Developed and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation.
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Reviewed, evaluated, and identified requirements for testability.
Senior QA Analyst
Scottish Government
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
- Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
QA Lead
Sprint/T-Mobile Corporation
01.2017 - 12.2020
- The overall planning, management and oversight of execution of the entire testing & end to end Business Post Implementation Verification phases
- Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
QA Specialist/QA Lead
Client: Express Scripts/
06.2010 - 12.2016
- Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Developed and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation.
- Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
- Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
- Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
- Educated employees on specific QA standards and confirmed maintenance of standards.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Anna University
Chennai07.2009
Skills
- Selenium Webdriver
- TestNG
- Core Java
- Maven
- Rest Assured
- Postman
- Jenkins
- GIT
- Cucumber
- BDD
Awards
- Spark award winner for the year 2012
- Service Excellence award winner for the year 2011,2021
- Eminence and Excellence Award winner for the year 2012
- IBM CIC Rolemodel Award 2023
Training
- Undergone training on Health Insurance business and HIPAA from IBM India Pvt Ltd
- Undergone training on Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SDSF at an authorized training center.
- Holding DB2 v9 family fundamentals (IBM 000-730) certification.
- Certified on healthcare management (AHM-250) from Academy of healthcare Management and achieved Professional, Academy for Healthcare Management Designation.
- Training on Selenium Webdriver, REST Assured API
- Certified on Azure AZ900.
Timeline
Senior QA Analyst
Department of Work and Pensions
07.2022 - 06.2024
Senior QA Analyst
Scottish Government
01.2021 - 06.2022
QA Lead
Sprint/T-Mobile Corporation
01.2017 - 12.2020
QA Specialist/QA Lead
Client: Express Scripts/
06.2010 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Anna University
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