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Anju Muralidharan Nair

Halifax,Canada

Summary

Senior Quality Analyst with 9 years of progressive experience identifying and solving quality issues at early stages. Dedicated to team-focused problem-solving resulting in proven, consistent product launches that satisfy quality-focused customers. Accomplished technical and interpersonal leader and communicator with sound judgment and decision making skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Lead. Quality Engineering and Assurance

CGI,Canada
, Canada
05.2024 - Current
  • Collaboration with Business Team and Stakeholders: Work closely with the business team and stakeholders to thoroughly understand project requirements
  • Effective communication and active listening are key here
  • Automation Regression Suites Management: Take charge of maintaining and enhancing automation regression suites
  • These suites ensure that existing functionality remains stable as new features are added or changes are made
  • Automation Code Refactoring: Continuously improve the quality of automation code
  • Refactor existing code to align with best practices and accommodate any recent changes in the application
  • End-to-End Script Creation for Enhancement Projects: Develop comprehensive end-to-end test scripts for enhancement projects
  • These scripts cover the entire flow of the application, from start to finish
  • Test Execution: Execute test cases diligently
  • This involves running the scripts, verifying functionality, and identifying any defects
  • Reporting to Project Leadership: Provide regular updates and reports to project leadership
  • These reports may include test execution status, defect metrics, and overall project health.

Quality Lead

UST Global Technology Services, India
, India
11.2021 - 01.2024
  • Experience in working on Agile project, collaborates closely with Product Owners and participates in various rituals such as Sprint grooming and planning meetings, scrum, Sprint review and retrospective
  • Creates and maintains organized, efficient and successful functional test cases against user stories in each sprints
  • Creates efficient test scripts in Java (Selenium) to manage automated testing of features in BDD framework for both sanity and regression suite and improved the code coverage to 25 percent
  • Handled 50 percent of code refactoring efforts in existing regression suite thereby improved the regression test script quality
  • Responsible for maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
  • Identify and implement process improvements to streamline testing processes and enhance overall efficiency
  • Mentor team and newcomers to help them develop into productive testing resources by preparing KT plans, application understanding documents and providing guidance on testing methodologies, tools, and best practices
  • Gained knowledge in Cucumber and understanding BDD framework as part of the project need and learnt Cucumber.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
, India
06.2015 - 11.2021
  • Gained professional experience in Software Testing with solid knowledge on Quality Engineering and Assurance concepts in the Insurance industry
  • Involved in the entire Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC) process Analysis, Estimation, Design, Testing Process oriented activities of the project life cycle
  • Possess good knowledge on Manual Testing(functional,web application) and Automation Testing
  • Competent mentor and team player who can also work and perform on their own
  • Exposure in Software Test Management tools like Jira & HP Quality Centre/ALM (User Stories/Test case/Defect management)
  • Maintained good rapport with the team/business which helped to understand the project requirements, resulting in on-time deliverables.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Coimbatore
05.2015

Skills

  • Testing
  • HP ALM
  • Jira
  • Selenium
  • YouTrack
  • TestRail
  • Cucumber
  • Git
  • SQL
  • Jenkins
  • Python

Awards

  • UST Certified Rising Star Award
  • Professional Selenium Automation Issued by Obsqura Zone
  • Cognizant certified in Level 1 Software Testing

Timeline

Quality Lead. Quality Engineering and Assurance

CGI,Canada
05.2024 - Current

Quality Lead

UST Global Technology Services, India
11.2021 - 01.2024

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
06.2015 - 11.2021

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Coimbatore
Anju Muralidharan Nair