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Vandana Bandla

Waterloo,ON

Summary

Around 8+ Years of professional IT experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer and Lead. Experienced in testing Angular Applications, Mobile Apps, Desktop applications on various domains like Banking, Healthcare , Infrastructure Management Services and Retail.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Engineer

TD Bank
09.2022 - Current

Project: Digital On-Boarding and Salesforce BAU

Project Description: Digitalizing the Manual process to onboard new institutional clients


  • Learned and adapted quickly to new technology (Salesforce)and software applications.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
  • Participating in daily standup meetings with regular status updates during agile development sprints.
  • Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team in JTMF.
  • Expedited issue resolution by effectively prioritizing, tracking, and managing defects in bug tracking systems such as JIRA.
  • Designed, executed and maintained automated test scripts for in-project deployment using Cucumber BDD framework with Java.
  • Participated in post-release support activities to ensure smooth transitions from development to production environments.
  • Worked efficiently in testing application in French version with zero defects identified in production

QA Lead, Current Remote

Hyper Thread Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - 08.2022

Project: Emerson Locus Traxx.
Project Description: Locus Traxx ensures food Freshness, and Security by continuously monitoring and reporting shipment temperature, security, and location. Intelligent Alerts are issued if any incoming shipment data violates a pre-set rule.
Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Developing Automation Framework for Angular Application using
    Protractor as a tool with BDD framework Jasmine.
  • Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment
  • Good understanding of Agile software development life cycle (incremental)
  • Developing Automation framework for Android and IOS Apps using Appium as a server and protractor tool for scripting.
  • Used Android Studio for hosting Emulators and real devices.
  • Develop Automation Scripts as per client requirements and
    scheduling on Jenkins for multi-browser.
  • Hands-on experience with real devices for testing using Go NFC(near
    field communicator) and Go BT(Bluetooth) applications.
  • Active participation in the continuous improvement of the automation strategy and framework Create/execute/maintain automation scripts
  • Work directly with software developers, test engineers, product owners, business analysts, project leaders
  • Work with development team to design and develop automated test suites for the website using typescript
  • Measure system performance on multi-user platforms through test scenarios using automated testing software, providing analysis results and recommendations
  • Provide reports and status dashboards to management on the
    automation sprint backlog, timing, schedule and results
  • Followed quality standards and procedures to minimize errors and maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Improved quality processes for increased efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Updated quality control standards, methods and procedures to meet compliance requirements.
  • Increased customer satisfaction through adherence to quality standards and customer requirements.

Sr. Automation Engineer

Genuine IT LLC, USA
03.2016 - 05.2018

Project: State Disability Insurance (SDI) Online.
Client: State of California – Employment Development Department.
Location: Sacramento, CA
Duration: 11/2014 till 06/2015 and 03/2016 till 05/2018 (Total: 2 Years
10 Months)
Project Description: SDI Online was developed to significantly expand access to claimants, physician practitioners, employers, and voluntary plan administrators; accelerate the delivery of benefits to claimants, and improve the state’s ability to detect and prevent fraud.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Application testing for multiple build cycles and across desktop,tablet, and mobile devices (Android and iOS)
● Review and analyse the design documentation to determine the testing scope and provide estimates of the testing effort required.
● Write detailed test scenarios and test scripts to align with the design documentation and requirements for both positive and negative scenario coverage and to create test data as required.
● Develop a hybrid automation framework that integrates between QTP(UFT), QC (ALM), and external data-sheet the driven keywords and data inputs.
● Implement a new automation modular framework to handle checkpoints from functional libraries instead of hardcode checkpoints for script robustness and ease of maintenance.
● Experience in writing scripts in selenium using Java and integrated with Nunit framework and executed on multi browser using BrowserStack tool.
● Converted existing selenium scripts to python using pycharm tool.
● Experience of implementing automated tests using gherkin

Sr. Automation Engineer,

Genuine IT LLC, USA
07.2015 - 02.2016

Project: People Safe, Enterprise Drug File, Clinical Online Services
Client: CVS Health
Project Description: The CVS system is a large management information application that includes: Web solution with over 300 screens.Custom-developed, web-based user interface front-end supporting more
than 1 million registered end-users and processing over 10 million database transactions per day. Multi-tiered architecture with over 1 million lines of code and more than 50 interfaces that integrate with multiple products and technologies.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Developed Automation Test Plans, Test Scripts design using Hp Quality Center.
● Developed hybrid automation framework that integrates between QTP (UFT), QC (ALM), and external data-sheet
● Created an Automation Execution Strategy that laid out a work plan and engagement model for both the manual and automation team during automation executions.
● Implemented new automation modular framework to handle checkpoints from functional libraries instead of hard coded checkpoints for script robustness and ease of maintenance
● Designed the VU-Gen scripts using Load Runner VU-generator
● Generated the Application Performance reports and reported them to the analysis group of Performance Testing for fine-tuning the application Performance.
● Developed and executed Test plan and Test cases for functional,integration, and regression testing.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2010 - 10.2014

Joined Cognizant as a Test Analyst and progressed my journey to a Lead position focusing on Automation and Performance Testing. I worked on different projects while my roles and responsibilities are mentioned
below:

Project: ServiceNow
Client: UBS,American Express
● Provided key information on progress and status of testing to team leadership.
● Review and analyse the design documentation to determine the testing scope and providing estimates of the testing effort required
● Write detailed test scenarios and test scripts to align with the design documentation and requirements for both positive and negative scenario coverage.
● Create test data required for the execution of test scenarios, execute testing, and report progression of testing and expected results.
● Prepared SQL Queries to create and retrieve data from the database.
● Creation, execution, and maintenance of functional automation scripts.
● Led defect triaging and status meetings.
● Coordinating with Stakeholders the Automation related tasks on daily basis.
● Understanding the existing Automation Framework and created new functions required for new automation scripts. Involved in review of Automation scripts developed by other team members. Performing
automation regression suite execution during test cycles.
● Creating Load runner scripts, Parameterize and Correlate dynamic values. Creation and validation of Test Data
● Executing Performance, Scalability, and Reliability tests and preparing the consolidated test reports.

Education

Bachelors in Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad,India

Skills

  • Java
  • Cucumber BDD
  • Typescript
  • Protractor
  • Jasmine BDD
  • Agile
  • JIRA
  • Jenkins
  • BitBucket
  • GIT
  • VB Script
  • UFT

Timeline

Quality Engineer

TD Bank
09.2022 - Current

QA Lead, Current Remote

Hyper Thread Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - 08.2022

Sr. Automation Engineer

Genuine IT LLC, USA
03.2016 - 05.2018

Sr. Automation Engineer,

Genuine IT LLC, USA
07.2015 - 02.2016

Quality Assurance Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2010 - 10.2014

Bachelors in Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Vandana Bandla