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Diwakar Kotteeswaran Kasiviswanathan

Diwakar Kotteeswaran Kasiviswanathan

Toronto,Canada

Summary

Detail oriented QA Lead with 11+ Years of Experience in Testing techniques like Functional Testing, Continuous Integration Testing , Service Testing and Automation testing. Equipped with strong understanding of quality assurance processes and Concepts of Insurance, Claims, Simple IRA, Retirement plan Annuity, Target Date funds and Mutual funds .Brings strong problem solving skills and hands-on experience in test planning and defect tracking. Adaptable to changing project needs based on Agile or Waterfall methodology.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Lead

Cognizant
04.2023 - Current
  • Streamlined QA processes for improved efficiency, reducing project completion time and led cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration in achieving project goals.
  • Optimized test coverage by defining clear test objectives and prioritizing scenarios based on risk assessment maintaining in Azure dev ops(ADO) and JIRA.
  • Validation and Verification in Kafka messages(AKHQ) and sending data to peripheral systems
  • Knowledge on Mule soft API layers and testing on all 3 layers SAPI,PAPI and XAPI
  • Responsible for scripting java Script postman automated assertions and schedule daily runs that triggers daily reports of test results.

Automation Lead

Cognizant
07.2019 - 03.2023
  • Experience on Annuity IRA, GRA and GSRA contracts and Enrollments into various retirement plans and validating the contracts established.
  • Allocation, Rebalance and Transfer concepts into Retirement Funds
  • Hands on Experience in the Online Enrollment process of the Retirement plans, online pension enrollment flows along with the Individual Web center application.
  • Loans, Vesting and Brokerage functionalities validated on the various plans.
  • Enhanced testing efficiency by identifying and implementing appropriate automation tools and frameworks.
  • Script Feature Files Step Definitions in Cucumber
  • Scripted REST API tests using Katalon Tool
  • Maintenance of the Regression Suite using Selenium + JAVA
  • Reduced manual testing efforts with the development of reusable automated test scripts.

Hybrid Quality Analyst

Cognizant
08.2016 - 07.2019
  • Provided detailed reports on quality metrics to senior management, enabling informed decision-making regarding process improvements.
  • In charge of Daily Status Reporting and Scrum updates and task allocation for Offshore team, review, and mentor Timely completion of milestones
  • Test Strategy, test plan, test outline document, test summary preparation and walkthrough with stakeholders gathered approval
  • Experience on API Testing and validation of GET, POST and PATCH service responses for 100+ cases
  • Testing alongside UAT team for Production Checkouts

Quality Analyst

Cognizant
01.2014 - 08.2016
  • Strong functional testing background, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, and execution.
  • Application testing and logging defects in HP ALM & JIRA
  • Test data creation and data mining SQL Queries
  • Maintenance of regression suite of 200+ cases when a CR deployed .
  • Conducted thorough root cause analyses on recurring defects, resulting in the implementation of effective corrective actions.

Education

BE - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Hindustan College of Engineering And Technology
Coimbatore, India

Skills

  • Manual Testing
  • Test Management Tools
  • JIRA
  • SPLUNK
  • HPALM
  • Case Manager
  • Rest API
  • Azure DevOps
  • Kafka
  • Postman
  • Selenium
  • Katalon
  • Oracle/Siebel
  • Java

Websites

Certification

Embedded C, Vector India, Bangalore

Accomplishments

  • Achieved Employee of the year by introducing Innovation for user management
    tools and Organization team building activities.
  • Created learning content and certifications for domain and testing tools.

Awards Recognition

  • Employee of the Year
  • Extra Miler
  • Pat On the back for exceptional project performance

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Limited Working

Timeline

QA Lead

Cognizant
04.2023 - Current

Automation Lead

Cognizant
07.2019 - 03.2023

Hybrid Quality Analyst

Cognizant
08.2016 - 07.2019

Quality Analyst

Cognizant
01.2014 - 08.2016

BE - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Hindustan College of Engineering And Technology

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