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Arunima Ganguly

Waterloo,Canada

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality Engineer

Google
09.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Conducted testing of Google AR/VR devices, evaluating hardware and software performance, identifying issues, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance functionality and user experience
  • Instrumental in analyzing test requirements and designing comprehensive test cases, significantly improving product quality
  • Assisted in reviewing new AR devices, ensuring functionality and quality by identifying hardware and software issues and collaborating with engineering teams for resolution
  • Prepared AR devices for research studies, demos, and events by installing software, configuring settings, and ensuring user readiness
  • Developed and executed Test Strategies for large-scale projects, leading SIT, UAT, and Regression Testing
  • Directed Test Planning (scoping, resource planning, scripting) while aligning with project managers and leads
  • Collaborating with SMEs and IT leads to designing Workforce and Integration Test Scenarios and creating traceability matrices
  • Developed automation scripts for Android testing environments to streamline testing processes, resulting in faster software updates and patch validation
  • Automated routine tasks such as device configuration and app testing, significantly reducing manual intervention and improving overall testing efficiency
  • Coordinated test scenarios in ALM and aligned user training with testing schedules
  • Identified risks early, proposed mitigations, and maintained execution targets to keep projects on track
  • Proven ability to lead testing phases of large projects, driving results with hands-on, detail-oriented management
  • Conducted testing of Google AR/VR devices, evaluating hardware and software performance, identifying issues, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance functionality and user experience

UAT Analyst

Concentrix
03.2024 - 08.2024
  • Developed and executed comprehensive UAT strategies, including test plans and schedules, ensuring alignment with project objectives
  • Hosted daily triage meetings, resolving defects effectively and maintaining progress visibility
  • Created trackers and detailed daily defect reports for monitoring and communication
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders, development, and delivery teams to align UAT efforts with business goals
  • Oversaw test case creation and execution, ensuring consistency with business requirements
  • Provided regular progress updates to directors, addressing challenges with actionable insights

Software Quality Analyst Intern

Blackberry Ltd
05.2023 - 12.2023
  • Company Overview: An alert system project is designed to monitor specific conditions or triggers and send real-time notifications or warnings to users through various communication channels, ensuring timely responses to critical events
  • Reviewing project documentation (business requirements, technical design, flow diagrams, etc.) to provide risk analysis
  • Estimating QA testing scope and work effort based on project documentation
  • Creating test plans, strategies, scenarios, cases, conditions, and scripts adhering to UAT policies
  • Executing Manual, functional, regression, integration, and other UAT test cases assessed results
  • Experience with testing Android devices for hardware and software functionality, including compatibility testing across multiple versions of Android OS
  • Proficient in remote device management and support tools, providing troubleshooting and technical support for Android systems in various environments
  • Knowledge of mobile device testing frameworks and tools, such as Appium and Espresso, for automated Android testing
  • Experience with Python scripting to automate testing and create custom tools for test execution and result reporting in Android environments
  • Interfaced with cross-functional teams to plan QA activities and coordinate test strategies
  • Developed and implemented bug-tracking workflows using Jira, ensuring timely defect resolution
  • An alert system project is designed to monitor specific conditions or triggers and send real-time notifications or warnings to users through various communication channels, ensuring timely responses to critical events

Lead Quality Analyst (Mobile & Web)

Ivy Comptech (Entain)
01.2021 - 08.2022
  • Company Overview: Entain provides a mobile app that can be integrated into the Kiosk machine or can be solely used for placing bets in various sports (In the USA)
  • Led testing activities, including QA calls and stakeholder management
  • Utilize standard and non-standard troubleshooting techniques to remediate technical issues
  • Evaluate, test, and implement patches for operating systems and related software
  • Worked on R&D KiosK lab for device testing
  • Maintain and oversee standard office equipment and supplies, including mail distribution and FedEx processing
  • Document issues and resolutions for future reference and support
  • Train and assist junior associates with complex technical issues
  • Maintain proactive and effective communication with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clarity in testing goals, outcomes, and progress
  • Entain provides a mobile app that can be integrated into the Kiosk machine or can be solely used for placing bets in various sports (In the USA)

Senior QA Consultant

HCL Technologies
06.2020 - 11.2021
  • Instrumental in analyzing test requirements and designing comprehensive test cases, significantly improving product quality
  • Authored detailed test plans based on an in-depth understanding of business requirements, leading to a streamlined testing process
  • Ensured rigorous peer review of test cases, resulting in effectively less rework and enhancing team productivity
  • Proactively involved in UAT, setting testing criteria and scope, and ensuring alignment with customer expectations and SLAs
  • Collaborated with development and engineering teams to identify bugs and performance bottlenecks on Android devices, ensuring a smooth and optimized user experience
  • Worked with cross-functional teams, including product managers and software developers, to align testing strategies with hardware performance metrics
  • Coordinated with QA and IT teams to improve test plans for Android devices, ensuring test cases covered integration and system functionality
  • Supported end users with technical issues related to software, hardware, and network connectivity
  • Assisted with the installation and configuration of computers and peripheral devices

Mobile Consultant QA

Google
10.2018 - 05.2020
  • Company Overview: Project: Google Assistant
  • Regular interaction with the managers, Business Analysts, and developers, mentored junior team members, and organized knowledge-sharing sessions to promote quality best practices
  • Experienced in working in Device labs with a set of Android & Apple devices
  • Deep understanding of the full testing SDLC, capable of conceptualizing and executing comprehensive test strategies
  • Proficient in utilizing mobile accessibility testing tools such as Voiceover and Talkback, and familiar with a range of assistive
  • Designed and executed detailed test plans and cases for multiple platforms (web, mobile, backend)
  • Led the maintenance and execution of the mobile accessibility regression test suite, ensuring consistent application
  • Experience in providing QAT time and effort estimation based on business requirements
  • Work with senior management on weekly and monthly forecasts and project financial reports
  • Project: Google Assistant

Software Engineer

Qapitol QA
01.2016 - 10.2018
  • Company Overview: Multiple Ecommerce Products (Ola, Amazon, Flipkart)
  • Joined as an entry-level Test Engineer, creating test cases from the requirement specification document
  • Actively participating in Test planning, designing test case studies & analyzing the requirement documents (both functional & Business)
  • Testing both web & mobile applications, and supporting multiple projects simultaneously
  • Sharing of experience and learning across team members and management
  • Managed a robust defect tracking process, prioritizing, and reporting issues effectively to ensure timely resolutions
  • Utilized a variety of mobile accessibility testing tools, including Voiceover for iOS and Talkback for Android, to ensure applications are accessible to all users
  • Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
  • Multiple Ecommerce Products (Ola, Amazon, Flipkart)

Education

Postgraduate - mobile solutions development

Conestoga College
01.2023

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
INDIA
08.2014

Skills

  • Tools Proficiency : JIRA ,HP ALM ,Bugzilla, Buganizer, MySQL, Oracle 11g, Android Studio, Testrail, Postman, Swagger, Azure
  • Languages: C#, Java, Swift, Python, JavaScript
  • Development: XCode, Android Studio, HTML5 & CSS, NodeJS, Agile Methodologies, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle),
  • Automation : Appium
  • Leadership : Test Requirement Analysis, Test Case Design & Execution, Model-Based Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Exploratory Testing, Functional Testing, Integration & regression Testing, System Testing Defect Tracking & Management, Test Environment Setup, Agile and waterfall project methodologies,
  • Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Test strategy, Test plan, Test cases, Test acceptance criteria, Test scripts
  • Version Control Expertise: Proficient with code repositories, ieGitHub

Timeline

Senior Quality Engineer

Google
09.2024 - Current

UAT Analyst

Concentrix
03.2024 - 08.2024

Software Quality Analyst Intern

Blackberry Ltd
05.2023 - 12.2023

Lead Quality Analyst (Mobile & Web)

Ivy Comptech (Entain)
01.2021 - 08.2022

Senior QA Consultant

HCL Technologies
06.2020 - 11.2021

Mobile Consultant QA

Google
10.2018 - 05.2020

Software Engineer

Qapitol QA
01.2016 - 10.2018

Postgraduate - mobile solutions development

Conestoga College

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology

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