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Vishakha Kalyankar

Software Quality Engineer Senior II
Hyderabad

Summary

Seasoned Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 10 years in QA and software testing across product-based companies. Expertise in automation testing with Selenium (Java) and Mocha (TypeScript). Skilled in crafting robust testing frameworks, enhancing processes, and driving quality improvements to ensure product excellence.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Quality Engineer Senior II

FedEx
01.2024 - Current
  • Project Management: Took over address processing applications from a previous vendor, ensuring a seamless transition and continuity in operations.
  • Problem-Solving: Implemented effective solutions to address and rectify critical issues, enhancing system reliability and performance.
  • Testing and Validation: Conducted comprehensive testing to verify and validate fixes, ensuring that all solutions met high-quality standards and did not introduce new issues.
  • Collaboration: Worked closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analysts, and project managers, to ensure that solutions were aligned with business requirements.
  • Documentation: Maintained detailed records of all issues, fixes, and testing procedures to ensure transparency and facilitate future troubleshooting.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle Pvt. Ltd.
8 2021 - 12.2023
  • Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies and procedures
  • Supported product managers and development teams across phases of testing from planning to execution, troubleshooting and reporting within high-volume, agile environment
  • Created test cases and test scripts to maintain cohesive team approach to product development
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members
  • Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

HighRadius
02.2021 - 08.2021
  • Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders
  • Collaborated with team members to understand the automation testing need of existing manual test suite
  • Supported team to build robust automation test suite for better quality of product
  • Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge
  • Executed automated test suites and evaluated performance and functionality of product.

Senior Software Engineer

Pegasystems
10.2017 - 02.2021
  • Worked as team member of CoE team for automation framework development for internal functional teams
  • Practiced and encouraged respectful and transparent communication in interactions
  • Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming in java
  • Provided technical support using knowledge of selenium webdriver to cross functional teams
  • Analyzed data to coordinate installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2014 - 07.2017
  • Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance
  • Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality prior to release
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Government College of Engineering
01.2010 - 04.2014

Higher Secondary Education - Electronics

Shri Shivaji Science College
01.2008 - 04.2010

Senior Secondary Education - undefined

G.R. Kabra High School
01.2008 - 04.2010

Skills

Automation leadership

Scrum and Agile proficiency

Automated testing

Pre-Release Test Scheduling

Manual test case preparation

Defect monitoring

Test implementation

Certified SAFe 6 Practitioner

Additional Information

I volunteered with the Make A Difference organization for three years and subsequently became the Shelter Operations Fellow for one of the shelters in Hyderabad. In this capacity, I successfully led a team of 15 members, providing guidance and mentorship to help them thrive., I assumed the role of the convenor for Persona, the annual cultural event of my college. In this capacity, I managed a team of 8 members alongside 2 co-conveners. Together, we organized the event in 4 phases, namely the Scrutiny test, Group Discussion, Personal Interview, and Stage round.

Technical Profile

  • SQL
  • Java
  • Git
  • JIRA
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • GitHub
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • Eclipse
  • Postman
  • SOAP UI

Certification

SAFe 6 Practitioner

Timeline

SAFe 6 Practitioner

05-2024

Software Quality Engineer Senior II

FedEx
01.2024 - Current

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

HighRadius
02.2021 - 08.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Pegasystems
10.2017 - 02.2021

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2014 - 07.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Government College of Engineering
01.2010 - 04.2014

Higher Secondary Education - Electronics

Shri Shivaji Science College
01.2008 - 04.2010

Senior Secondary Education - undefined

G.R. Kabra High School
01.2008 - 04.2010

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle Pvt. Ltd.
8 2021 - 12.2023
Vishakha KalyankarSoftware Quality Engineer Senior II