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
Automation tools -Selenium Web Driver, Appium, Eclipse, PyCharm, JMeter
Project Framework Engineering
Building Automation Systems
Automation understanding
Language/Script - Java, Python
SOA Technologies - Postman, SOAP UI
Methodologies - SDLC, STLC, Agile, Waterfall
Bug Tracking/Management usingHP ALM QC, BUGZILLA, CA AGILE CENTRAL
CI/CD using JENKINS
Code Maintenance using GITHUB
Parallel testing using SAUCELABS
Documentation using MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, MS-POWERPOINT
SQL
Cider, Critique, Buganizer, Guitar, Test tracker, Plx, Cider-V
Automation design
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