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VINAY VENUGOPAL MENON

QA AUTOMATION LEAD
COCHIN

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

QA Automation Developer/Lead Engineer

TechFireFly
Hyderabad
09.2020 - Current
  • Test web application, web services and mobile applications.
  • Understanding application architecture, analyzing use cases and preparing test strategies which help team to validate applications effectively.
  • Assessed scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
  • Delivered presentations to provide plans and updates on projects.
  • Building automation framework for project and to automate application.
  • Developed work plans for various personnel roles based on strengths and talents.
  • Interacted with subject matter experts to develop training material and tools for personnel.
  • Building automated tests for validating Web applications
  • Setup environment to execute automation script on multiple devices and operating systems.
  • Creating Production certification plan and validating business and functional scenarios after pre-production and production release, and also involved in User Acceptance Testing.
  • Daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, modification requests and blocker issues.
  • Helping in resolving issues and unblocking roadblocks faced by team.
  • Training junior test engineers, giving inputs to planning team and management on business systems, procedures and working with management team.

QA Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Kochi
11.2015 - 06.2020
  • Lead testing efforts using agile methodology ,requirement validation and acceptance criteria definition
  • Design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations
  • Contribute to and promote teamwork in multi-vendor environment developing complex multi-layered enterprise applications
  • Management of Defect Triage sessions and reporting on status
  • Defect Documentation and manage resolution
  • Support for implementations; warranty period and production support
  • Scheduled and handled calls with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements
  • Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests
  • Created workflow diagrams and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines
  • Manage and mentor Quality Assurance team.
  • Test integration points between internal applications and external services
  • Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, UAT, Accessibility Testing and Sanity Testing.
  • Verifying and Validating Web based applications.
  • Formulate Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Approach and set up testing environment.

QA Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
01.2011 - 11.2015
  • Design efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features
  • Knowledge of software and test management and automation tools
  • Understand software defects and issues
  • Identified and tracked defects with JIRA and supported in resolving problems by completing additional tests
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
  • Created detailed test cases for use on diverse projects.
  • Automation of functional and regression test suites.
  • Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review
  • Updated and maintained project documentation for detailed recordkeeping
  • Trained team members in automation programs and processes
  • Validated results to assess accuracy of data.

QA Tester

NIIT Technologies Limited
Bengaluru
01.2010 - 10.2010
  • Implementation of product at client site
  • Testing stability of product after implementation
  • Knowledge transition to clients about product
  • Support, Maintenance and Analysis during PILOT phase of product
  • Performance Optimization, Customer satisfaction.
  • Reported problems and concerns to management.
  • Documented and executed detailed test plans and test cases and summarized and logged audit findings for reporting purposes.
  • Recorded and organized test data for report generation and analysis.
  • Monitored testing procedures and verified performance of tests according to established item specifications and protocol.
  • Determined root cause of deviations and non-conforming results and implemented appropriate corrective and preventive actions throughout product development process.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

Anna University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
01.2005 - 04.2009

Skills

QA Automation

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Additional Information

  • Employee of the month - Tech Firefly February 2021
  • STAR award for Delivery Excellence - Cognizant -2013.
  • Global project of the year Cognizant - 2014.
  • Stripes award for Organizational Excellence - Cognizant - 2015.

Timeline

QA Automation Developer/Lead Engineer

TechFireFly
09.2020 - Current

QA Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2015 - 06.2020

QA Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2011 - 11.2015

QA Tester

NIIT Technologies Limited
01.2010 - 10.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

Anna University
01.2005 - 04.2009

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