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Nayana Raj Cheluvaraju

Toronto,Canada

Summary

9+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering across banking, wealth management, e-commerce, Healthcare and HR servicing. Certified SAFE 5 Practitioner (scaled agile framework) and progressing on Azure certifications. Expertise in test strategy development, defect management, End to End, integration, Database, manual and automation testing. Hands on experience in vendor management, working with API UI(web) automation and agile tools. Acted as BSA multiple times by taking the responsibilities of gathering requirements, answering questions and supporting vendors and internal teams. Acted as scrum master by hosted agile ceremonies standup, backlog refinement and 3 amigos meetings. Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal. Excellent interpersonal skills, proven ability to apply new concepts, grasp complex issues quickly and effectively.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QE Lead/ Senior IT Consultant

CGI
04.2021 - Current

Client: TD bank


Projects:

  • Personal Banking Investment Journey: Investment account opening, transactions, customer Statement, and reporting.
  • Annual Taxes Reporting: FHSA and NREG investment plan types.
  • CFR Goals Engine: Goals planning tool.
  • Personal banking account overview API's (PBACC): Retrieval of customer detail, TDIS account list, account information and individual invest profile.


Responsibilities:

  • Developed test strategies and test plan, did POC's for opting the best solution and approach for automation.
  • Coordinated multi-vendor collaboration and integration testing.
  • Coordinated UAT testing for multiple projects.
  • Good understanding and handson experience working with Broadridge/wealth application(SSUI).
  • Handled many complex banking calculations.
  • Automated RESTful APIs using REST Assured library with Java and selenium
  • Automated Banking UI application(web) using Java and selenium
  • Involved in automating mainframe/host application functionalities/flow using IBM HACL at the 3270 data stream level with Java and selenium
  • Developed CT testing with GitHub actions, WEnix and Docker.
  • Coordinated with various inter and vendor teams during the End-End testing cycle
  • Coached and mentored multiple testers.
  • Demonstrated multiple automation functionalities.
  • Have received many APPLAUDs celebrating CGI’s values certificate for living the value of partnership and quality.
  • Acted as Scrum Master and BSA when required and performed all Agile ceremonies.

QA Analyst

Diff Agency
01.2020 - 04.2021

Client: Gymshark (E-commerce)


  • Work within the software development team and closely with system team to ensure quality is delivered across integrations and system process.
  • Behavior driven development(BDD) scenarios are implemented using Java framework with Selenium Webdriver and Java- Junit.
  • Created and executed automated and manual tests with cross browser. Used tools like testrail and browserstack.
  • Exhibit experience in framing test plans, prepared KT/handover document and trained client team on E2E working of automation suite.
  • Performed accessibility testing using automated tools like sort site and Axe-Pro.
  • Executed accessibility manual tests using JAWS for Windows, Voiceover and Axe for MAC OS.(WCAG A, AA, AAA)
  • Involved in user interface testing, visual testing, smoke, Regression, Functional and E2E testing.
  • Good hands-on operating and customizing shopify Admin and partner portal functionalities.
  • Working with a distributed team in different time zones such as PST(CA) and BST(UK), inclusive of direct interaction with client Team on an everyday basis.

QA and Business Analyst

Workland Inc.
03.2019 - 12.2019

Projects:

  • ATLAS: recruitment software
  • Workland website: Improvisation


Responsibilities:


  • Manual testing the Web application and verifying the requirements are developed.
  • Initiated automating regression test cases using selenium Webdriver in combination with Python
  • Analyzing the product, its features and functionalities to develop test strategy and to define Scope.
  • Prepared requirement document to document the use, functionality, creation and architecture of the product.
  • Used process modelling methods- ERD( entity relationship diagram), use cases, UML, decision tables and communication diagram, to convert microservices and its components into models
  • Finding software defects and tracking them through the test lifecycle using the Jira bug tracking system.

Freelance Tester

Freelancers Union
01.2018 - 03.2019
  • Manual tested eCommerce application before Golive, was on demand basis
  • Developed UI automation flow for few functionality for eCommerce and healthcare companies

Associate Software Engineer

Arisglobal Software Pvt. Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016

Clients: Johnson & Johnson, Health Canada, Biogene, Celgene, abbott


Responbilities:

  • Performed back end testing on oracle Database by writing SQL queries
  • Extensively worked on Configuration,Upgrade and Data migration projects with huge volumes of data, analyzed record sets for data quality.
  • Handled DBA jobs which include Creation of Oracle instances, schemas, tablespaces, data files, directories, imports, exports of all database objects and user privileges
  • SDLC with experience in various testing activities such as test case/test scenarios/test conditions creation, test case execution,test data preparation, test environment setup, defect logging & verification, test design and verification of requirement specification
  • Involved in functionality testing,Database/compatibility Testing,regression testing, performance, validation Testing and End tos End Testing linking multiple applications
  • Deployed various web based applications on Linux and Windows using IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic
  • Used defect management tools such as HP ALM and Bugzilla
  • Followed AGILE and Waterfall methodologies
  • Hold a good knowledge on Drug development life cycle and Health regulatory authorities
  • Worked with various regulatory authorities across various countries including FDA(US), EMA (Europe), Health Canada (HC) etc…

Education

Master of Engineering - Software Engineering

Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
12.2019

Skills

  • Programming Languages : Java, Python
  • Automation Tools/Libraries : Selenium, Mainframe(Pcomm-IBM HACL), RestAssured, Cucumber, parasoft SOATest
  • Unit Testing tools : JUnit, TestNG Cyprus
  • Accessibility Tools : Sortsite (Automation tools)JAWS, Voiceover, Axe Pro
  • Container Technology : Docker (minimal knowledge)
  • CI/CD : Git/bitbucket, git/Github, SVN and Jenkins
  • Test Management Tool : TestRail, JIRA JTMF, HP ALM
  • Database : Oracle SQL and Mysql
  • Operating systems : MAC, Linux and Windows
  • Defect Tracking Tools : Bugzilla, Jira
  • Design Tools : Umlet, papyrus (UML design tool)

Certification

SAFE 5 Practitioner, scaled agile

Languages

English
Hindi
kannada

Timeline

QE Lead/ Senior IT Consultant

CGI
04.2021 - Current

QA Analyst

Diff Agency
01.2020 - 04.2021

QA and Business Analyst

Workland Inc.
03.2019 - 12.2019

Freelance Tester

Freelancers Union
01.2018 - 03.2019

Associate Software Engineer

Arisglobal Software Pvt. Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016

Master of Engineering - Software Engineering

Concordia University
Nayana Raj Cheluvaraju