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XAVIER MANO DURAIRAJ

XAVIER MANO DURAIRAJ

Chennai

Summary

Experienced in providing Automation Test Solutions with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Experienced in building automation test frameworks and reviewing test designs for the project teams. Experienced in Functional testing, Integration testing and System testing with Excellent knowledge in Agile processes, Software Development and Test Life Cycles and DevOps processes. Experienced in collaborating on cross-functional and globally located teams including other testers, developers, solution architects, product owners and business partners.

Experienced in working in Customer onsite locations such as USA, Japan, Denmark and Africa.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Automation Test Lead

Tryg, Demark
05.2019 - Current

The project is to provide testing solutions for migrating from legacy Mainframe based Insurance Claim System to Guidewire’s Claim Centre Product. The project executed as per SAFe agile methodology. The migration involved line of businesses such as Travel, Health, Accident, Dental, Auto etc., I am working in this project as a Test Automation Team Lead for providing automation solutions for Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing and Integration Testing.

  • Worked with RTE, Product Owners, Business analysts and Dev CoP, Test CoP, System Architect etc.,
  • Contributed for feature refinement, User story slicing, writing Acceptance criteria.
  • Contributed to measure the size, impact to business to measure the WSJF.
  • Participated in Program Increment planning, Sprint Planning and other SAFe agile ceremonies.
  • Created Test strategy, Test cases for a feature/user story implementation.
  • Built an Automation Test Framework using Data Driven and Keyword driven styles.
  • Developed automation test scripts using selenium WebDriver, Java, Maven, TestNG etc.,
  • Created different test suits such as smoke tests, regression tests and End to End tests.
  • Implemented Selenium Grid setup in Azure Cloud Machines to run tests in in parallel.
  • Integrated automation test suites in CI/CD pipelines using GitLab to schedule the test jobs.
  • Performed Cross browser testing in Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers.
  • Performed mobile Web browser testing using Sauce Lab based cloud devices.
  • Supported to validate the multiple Test Environments (Ex: UAT)
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
  • Presented Weekly Status Report to System Architect with Test Metrices, improvement initiatives etc.,



Automation Test Lead

AXA Life, Japan
05.2019 - Current

AXA Life is an insurance company. The project purpose is to migrate the legacy system to Guidewire Policy Center. The project goal is to provide automation solutions for Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and End to End Testing covering the Customer Web Portal and Guidewire Policy Centre application.

  • Provided automation test solution for Auto Insurance covering Customer Portal, Guidewire, Payment systems.
  • Analyzed the Test cases and identify the automation feasibility.
  • Estimated the efforts and create a plan for delivery.
  • Implemented Automation framework using Keyword Driven Framework.
  • Created Automation test scripts for regression testing using Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver and Java.
  • Executed tests in parallel using remote machines leveraging Selenium WebDriver.
  • Performed Regression Testing as part of every build and analyze the failures.
  • Organized weekly meetings with offshore and onsite managers to discuss the health of the overall project status.
  • Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Freddie Mac, USA
07.2015 - 11.2018

In Secondary Mortgage Business, credit analytics plays an important role in deciding the quality of loans traded, fraud detection, Income verification, identifying the key areas to improve in business to achieve the customer profitability goals. The project involves developing web applications which helps underwriters to generate reports by connecting emulator and passing different set of data by changing the attributes like LTV, TLTV Income, Debt etc., This report will help to analyze the loans traded, customer quality, customer’s eligibility for different benefits etc., As a functional tester in the team, my role is to ensure that the delivered application is in line with Customer’s requirement by both Manual and Automation Testing.

  • Worked as per Agile project methodology.
  • Analyzed the acceptance criteria given in user stories.
  • Discussed the requirements with Product owner and scrum team during iteration planning.
  • Estimated the complexity of requirements and efforts needed for testing.
  • Wrote functional test cases in HP QC tool.
  • Created and reviewed - Test scenarios, Test suite preparation, Test Data creation, Test case execution and Defect logging.
  • Identified opportunities and scope for test automation solutions.
  • Built automation test framework with utilities, base functions, reporting, cross browsers, remote execution etc.,
  • Developed automation scripts for web applications for regression testing using Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver, Java.
  • Enhanced the Automation scripts as per the changes in current iteration.
  • Executed Regression Testing as part of every build in SIT / UAT environment.
  • Performed Failure Analysis for the regression failed cases.
  • Logged defects in HP QC for development team with test results.
  • Documented the Requirement Traceability Matrix reports by mapping each acceptance criteria with test cases using HP QC.
  • Conducted defect triage meetings and share the Minutes of Meeting Report to the stakeholders.
  • Generated daily, weekly, monthly status reports and share with management.
  • Participated in project review meetings and discuss the status, roadblocks etc.,

Software QA Engineer

Leading Credit Union Bank
11.2011 - 06.2015

The customer is a leading Credit Union Bank based out of USA. The project is for providing System Testing to migrate Customer’s legacy Banking application to T24 Banking Product. As a System tester, I have played an important role of testing different modules of T24 to make sure that delivered application is bug free in real time scenarios for production.

  • Worked in Agile methodology.
  • Worked with IT and Business users of the Bank to identify all business scenarios and use cases.
  • Coordinated on-site and offshore development teams in various phases of the project.
  • Identified the test scenarios, write test cases and get approval from SMEs.
  • Performed In-Sprint testing, Regression testing.
  • Identified, analyzed and documented problems, deviations from expected results and functionality variance, broken functional or technical flows, Negative results in user interfaces or databases.
  • Documented UAT test results and shared with business users for approval.
  • Utilized SQL for querying the database.
  • Reported the bugs TEMENOS.
  • Prepared status reports with relevant metrics and shared with stakeholders to track the project health effectively.

Test Analyst

Temenos
09.2008 - 09.2011

The project is for providing System Testing to migrate Customer’s legacy Banking application to T24 Banking Product

  • Worked with IT and Business users of the Bank to identify all business scenarios and use cases
  • Coordinated on-site and offshore development teams in various phases of the project
  • Identified the test scenarios, write test cases and get approval from SMEs
  • Performed Regression testing.
  • Identified, analyzed, and documented problems, deviations from expected results and functionality variance, broken functional or technical flows, Negative results in user interfaces or databases
  • Documented the UAT test results and share with clients for approval
  • Wrote SQL queries for database testings
  • Reported the issues/ defects to TEMENOS
  • Retested the application with provided Bug fixes.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College (Anna University)
01.2003 - 04.2007

Skills

Automation Test Framework Design and Implementation

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Timeline

Automation Test Lead

Tryg, Demark
05.2019 - Current

Automation Test Lead

AXA Life, Japan
05.2019 - Current

Software Development Engineer in Test

Freddie Mac, USA
07.2015 - 11.2018

Software QA Engineer

Leading Credit Union Bank
11.2011 - 06.2015

Test Analyst

Temenos
09.2008 - 09.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College (Anna University)
01.2003 - 04.2007
XAVIER MANO DURAIRAJ