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Salandra Singh

Toronto,ON

Summary

Detail-oriented Test Data Specialist and QA professional with over 10 years of experience in software quality assurance, data engineering, and API development. Expertise in Agentic AI, Python, and Machine Learning, supported by a strong background in airline systems, loyalty platforms, and cloud-based tools. Proven ability to manage complex data environments and design scalable APIs while consistently delivering high-quality software solutions that meet rigorous industry standards. Committed to leveraging technical skills and industry knowledge to drive innovation and enhance operational efficiency.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

TEST DATA MANAGER (Airline Company)

HCLTECH
01.2021 - Current
  • Test data profiling which includes defining test data management policies, processes and procedures and strategy.
  • Defining consistent processes for planning, scheduling, and delivery of data into all the test environments as well as providing guidelines for the handling of classified data.
  • Implementing test data mining, test data coverage, test data sharing and archiving.
  • Documenting all applicable configuration management policies, directives or procedures and creating catalogues having a single, centralized source of accurate and up to date configuration management information.
  • Data generation was achieved by using APIs (Json & XML), Applications UI, Batch files, Selenium Scripts.
  • Expertise on Airlines loyalty features like Enrolments, Membership Management, Accrual and Redemption processes Air and Non-air, Membership benefits (Bonus points, Flight-related benefits, Vouchers and passes), Customer service (Exchanges, Cancellations, Refunds, IRROPS), Co-Brands Enrolment, Acquisition, Benefits, Points exchange, Pooling, Reporting, Finance (Reconciliation, Billing, Invoicing).
  • Expertise on Amadeus products ALTEA Reservation Desktop (ARD) which is a reservation system.
  • Expertise on Amadeus loyalty platform i.e. ECMS.
  • Expertise on Amadeus flight management system this comprises Checking, Boarding, Re-accommodating, Standby and Flight Capacity updating.
  • Expertise on Sabre Global Distribution System which is used by travel agents and companies around the world to search, price, book, and ticket travel services provided by airlines.

QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (Airline Company)

HCLTECH
09.2018 - 12.2021
  • Reporting QA execution status including daily reports, Exit reports and test sign-off.
  • Creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, and performing test execution.
  • Regular client communication to understand requirements, create test data, providing suggestions for improving.
  • Maintaining Test Reports, Test evidence, Defect Tracking.
  • Attending Defect triage calls to coordinate with developers.
  • Reporting to test lead, Manager with testing progress.

API DEVELOPER (Retail)

HCLTECH
07.2017 - 09.2018
  • Datapower was used to integrate various payment systems & writing e-SQL to fetch the information from the database related to Maximo EAM and ARM applications.
  • Designing and implementing exception handling, logging, Security as common reusable components across multiple services
  • Performed Unit testing and wrote Unit Test Cases.
  • Providing 24
  • 7 support so that all the RIA and Money Transfer systems are integrated with real time and batch integration is working smoothly in a live environment.
  • Responsibilities include analyzing the functional requirements for gaps, high level and low-level designs, development of interfaces, unit testing of interfaces, supporting integration testing & user acceptance testing.

RELEASE/DEPLOYMENT LEAD (Banking)

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2015 - 07.2017
  • Primarily responsible for overall Quality of Change Management and verifying the changes are communicated.
  • Make use of ITSM tools (Service Now & Remedy) to manage/track overall life cycle of the Change & Release Mgmt.
  • Review all types of changes (Normal, Emergency & Expedited) before it is presented to CAB ensuring on the implementation dates, no conflicts with other changes scheduled during the same window of implementation, Risk based on impact, urgency and the nature of the change is properly assessed.
  • Identify the Standard Changes having low risk associated, repeatable steps and successful implementation history to streamline and allow the Change Advisory Board to focus on higher risk change and expedited delivery for business (maintain customer satisfaction).
  • Reviews failed and cancelled changes to verify that the Change Owner identifies the cause for the failure or cancellation

IIB & MQ & DATAPOWER API DEVELOPER (Banking)

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
03.2013 - 12.2015
  • Engineered and implemented new services powered by Multi-Protocol Gateways on DataPower XI50 and XI52 for the purpose of integration.
  • Responsible for setting up and maintaining the policies, configuring rules and actions over DataPower services like MPGW, XML Firewall and Web Service Proxy.
  • Responsible for implementing features such as - XSLT Programming, Crypto Tools, SSL Authentication, Cert Management, Logging, and Monitoring.
  • Configured the http, https and MQ client and back-end protocol communication using DataPower to integrate web services.
  • Expertise in SSL protocol, key exchange (public and private), digital signatures, cryptographic algorithms, and certificate authorities, XML, XML StyleSheet Language Transformation (XSLT), X-Path, and XML Schema Definition (XSD) SOAP and Web Services

Education

Bachelor's - Information Technology

RTU
India
01.2012

Skills

  • Programming - Python (Primary), Java, C, CSS, HTML, eqsl
  • Python Frameworks - NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Gradio,Tkinter
  • ML Frameworks - PyTorch, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Huggingface
  • Agentic AI - LlamaIndex, CrewAI, LangGraph, LangChain, Microsoft AutoGen, phidata
  • DB - Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant (Vector DB), MongoDB
  • Tools - Dockers, Google Colab, JupyterNotebook, VS studio, Anaconda, Azure AI Studio, Azure ML,Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, Dockers, GITHUB, Many Microsoft apps, Cloud Applications
  • Software’s - Amadeus Reservation System, Amadeus Departure Control system, Amadeus Inventory System, Sabre GDS platform, Amadeus & IBS loyalty system
  • Data quality assurance

Certification

AI for Software Testers

Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning

Agile Foundations

Deep Learning and Neural Networks

AI & Gen AI Fundamentals

AI-Native Vector Databases

Machine Learning Foundations: Linear Algebra

Timeline

TEST DATA MANAGER (Airline Company)

HCLTECH
01.2021 - Current

QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (Airline Company)

HCLTECH
09.2018 - 12.2021

API DEVELOPER (Retail)

HCLTECH
07.2017 - 09.2018

RELEASE/DEPLOYMENT LEAD (Banking)

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2015 - 07.2017

IIB & MQ & DATAPOWER API DEVELOPER (Banking)

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
03.2013 - 12.2015

Bachelor's - Information Technology

RTU
Salandra Singh