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Madhurima Palit

Madhurima Palit

Toronto,ON

Summary

  • A strong experience starting from Automation Developer and Lead, Product Management and Product Ownership
  • 12 years of experience in handling Scrum/Agile Projects, specializing in automation frameworks, test strategy development and team leadership
  • Systematic Product Owner with a detailed-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications, and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. A good planner and problem-solver with an in-depth understanding of e-commerce, insurance and design products
  • Expertise in handling the Stakeholders and providing bug-free products to client
  • Expertise in handling Scrum team
  • Expertise in all levels of testing viz Automation, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Cross Browser and Platform, UAT

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst and Product Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
02.2022 - Current
  • Collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
  • Created and achieved product quality objectives and met product specifications.
  • Creating and managing the product backlog and prioritizing based on changing requirements.
  • Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints
  • Developed user stories and define acceptance criteria
  • Monitor and evaluated product progress at each stage of the process
  • Fixed identified issues to improve workflows.
  • Maintained knowledge of regulatory requirements from accrediting bodies and federal, state and local requirements.
  • Worked with internal and external stakeholders to communicate on product plan and gather feedback
  • Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
  • Setting the Sprint goals and Planning the release goals and schedules.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Senior Quality Assurance Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
09.2019 - 12.2021
  • Managed a team of 14 Team members
  • Implemented automation frameworks and best practices to optimize test script reusability, modularity, and maintainability, resulting in increased efficiency and scalability of test automation efforts.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into executable Gherkin scenarios, ensuring alignment between business objectives and test automation efforts.
  • Thorough API testing using RESTful web services
  • Implemented robust risk management strategies to identify potential issues early on, mitigating potential negative impacts on project timelines and budgets.
  • Perform Quality Assurance (QA): This includes Core and ‘End to End’ testing including testing with other boundary applications
  • Optimized resource allocation by accurately forecasting project requirements and effectively managing available personnel and equipment resources.
  • Conduct Unit testing, End to End testing, User Acceptance Testing, Business Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies and tools related to QA processes, recommending strategic investments that improved operational efficiency without compromising product excellence.
  • Streamlined QA processes for increased efficiency, resulting in reduced product defects and faster release times.
  • Integrated automated test scripts into continuous integration (CI) pipelines using Jenkins tool, facilitating automated execution and reporting of test results as part of the software delivery process.
  • Managed and administered Git repositories for software projects, ensuring proper branching, merging, and version control practices were followed.
  • Updating and Creating bug tickets using JIRA
  • Mentored junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the department.

QA Automation Lead

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2016 - 09.2019
  • Led a team of automation developers in utilizing Selenium WebDriver and Java to develop and maintain automated test scripts for web applications in a BDD approach, leveraging Gherkin feature file to define test scenarios
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve critical software issues, ensuring a seamless user experience
  • Proactively identified potential bottlenecks in software workflows by conducting root cause analyses on recurring defects.
  • Understanding the business requirements and Preparing Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data as per business requirements
  • Streamlined QA processes by developing and maintaining automation scripts, contributing to faster release cycles.
  • API Testing through POSTMAN, REST
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to team members on automation tools, technologies, and methodologies, facilitating knowledge sharing and skill development within the automation team.
  • Testing the functionality of the web application by Agile methodology
  • Conducted code reviews, performed quality assurance checks, and provided feedback to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes.
  • Integrated automated test scripts into continuous integration (CI) pipelines using Jenkins tool, facilitating automated execution and reporting of test results as part of the software delivery process.
  • Defect tracking and follow up with Developers
  • Performing Regression Testing in each release
  • Evaluated and documented actual test results against expected results
  • Sharing and reporting project progress to Project Team

Software QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2012 - 07.2016
  • Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
  • Resolved technical issues and forecasted troubleshooting complications during software trials.
  • Preparing Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data as per business requirements
  • Testing the functionality of the web application.
  • Defect tracking and follow up with Developers.
  • Helping Developers by making necessary changes from back-office to reduce bugs.
  • Performing Regression Testing in each release
  • Performing Database testing.
  • Performing Regression testing.
  • API Testing through POSTMAN, REST & SOAP.
  • Evaluated and documented actual test results against expected results.
  • Sharing and reporting project progress to Project Team
  • Managing failure analysis, Identifying potential Defect Prevention mechanism, breakdown reports for minimizing downtimes by providing quick turnaround responses & efficient solutions

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
Sikkim
05.2012

Skills

  • Product and Project management
  • User Story Creation
  • Functional and Business Requirements
  • Agile and Waterfall Framework
  • Java and Python language
  • Identifying Backlogs
  • API Testing
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber
  • Jenkins
  • GIT and GITHub
  • Requirements Specifications

Certification

  • Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • Simplilearn - Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • PCEP_30-02 – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
  • PCEP_30-01 – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
  • Selenium Training Certification from Intellipaat
  • Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate

Timeline

Business Analyst and Product Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
02.2022 - Current

Senior Quality Assurance Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
09.2019 - 12.2021

QA Automation Lead

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2016 - 09.2019

Software QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2012 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology

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